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Combustible cell phone burns California man

Combustible cell phone burns California manNot releasing the name of the cel phone? What is the justificaiton for it?Hmm ... don't you suppose people who own that brand of phone want and need to know this? It is negligence and the height of arrogance to suppress this information, when...

Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, battery, cell phone, malfunction

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

Super Bowl advertisers use Net for end run around NFL, Fox

Thanks in part to the a mention in the very popular Scobelizer blog from Microsoft's Robert Scoble, word is spreading 'round the net very quickly that, at the request of the NFL, Fox Television yanked the second scheduled run of GoDaddy.com's commercial based on its content. Clearly, someone at the...

Tags: Go Daddy, NFL

Blog posts 2005-02-07

Lawmaker: E-voting's prospects are dim

Lawmaker: E-voting's prospects are dimfunny lies."As long as there is any question somebody can tamper with the vote it will never happen"yet they implemented voting products without papertrails, built by highly partisan companies, in this years election.Already thier are lots of reports of malfunctions, often in ol dubya's favor. Not...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, malfunction, media, e-voting

Discussion threads 2004-11-08

Additional Resources

Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail

Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key programs were held in memory so that they would be deleted when the network was shut...

Tags: Bail, Administrator, Network, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group

Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupJust wait until Paypal gets hijackedSo far this has just been child's play. Sooner or later there's going to be some serious financial consequences, and not just for the site owners.RE: Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupThat's all very well... but...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Photobucket, Turkish, hacking group, DNS Records, DNS, hacking

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction

SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc.  Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...

Tags: Device, Hacking, Internet, Network, SCADA, Terrorism, Attack, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Odboso PhotoRetrieval Recovery Wizard (exe)

Odboso PhotoRetrieval is a photo recovery tool that restores all corrupted and deleted photographs or the ones that were lost due to hardware malfunction. This utility works even if a memory card was re-formatted, Support JPEG, TIFF, BMP, CRW, NEF, and more file format. You can see recovered images with...

Tags: Recovery, Hardware, Photograph, Odboso, Odboso PhotoRetrieval

Software downloads 2008-06-10

WWDC 2008 live

Live updates and analysis on Steve Job's keynote address at the 2008 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference: 11:50 am: Steve leaves the stage... that's it? What, no Mac announcements other than Snow Leopard? No tablet? No new MacBook? Waaaa. 11:45 am: Available July 11th in...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Steve Job, Enigmo, 3G, Games, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-09

AMA says we all need a blood pressure monitor

AMA says we all need a blood pressure monitorI'm not even 30 yetAnd have high blood pressure. I've cut down drastically on Caffiene and already quit smoking a year ago, so I'm on the right path. I have three young kids so workouts are hard to schedule. That's my...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, High Blood Pressure, blood pressure, blood pressure monitor, AMA, food, workout, health care

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

FBI: Counterfeit Cisco routers risk "IT subversion"

An internal Federal Bureau of Investigation presentation states that counterfeit Cisco routers imported from China may cause unexpected failures in American networks. The equipment could also leave secure systems open to attack through hidden backdoors. The scope of the problem is broad and results from a complicated supply chain originating...

Tags: Cisco Router, Router, Network, Information Technology, FBI, Cisco Systems Inc., Hardware, Federal Government, Routers & Switches, Networking, Government, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Peripherals: This keyboard may outlast you.

Peripherals: This keyboard may outlast you....I dunno... I have an old Compaq PS/2 keyboard that I got in 2000. Still works great! And it's had coffee, tea, baby gack, soup and other stuff spilled and spit up on it (children are wonderful... no?!). It's survived the cats jumping on it...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

Sharp to offer ultra-thin X-Series LCD TVs with wireless HD feed

Like big TVs? (Who doesn't?) How about without tangled up cables hanging out the back? If you've ever seen the Sharp AQUOS X-series -- just 1.35 inches deep and, according to Sharp, the world's thinnest LCD televisions in production -- then you know what...

Tags: IBM xSeries, LCD TV, Sharp Corp., Wireless, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft

As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in...

Tags: NASA, Patent, Unit, Hardware, FPGA, Computer, UA, UA Engineer, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours

Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are YoursArthur C. Clarke : The beacon to the human race is no moreLike the rest of the world I was also very saddened by his death. He lived a full life and was the same shining personality till the end.As a kid whose...

Tags: Robots, Arthur C. Clarke, HAL

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

iPhone 2.0 firmware hacked

iPhone 2.0 firmware hackedHilarious, isn't it? ntntGee . . .That certainly didn't take long . . . .Of course it has been...Did anyone expect anything different?What? Open to Anything? Do Anything? Get Out!Nokia: [url=http://nseries.com/open]Open to Anything[/url]Get an N95 and experience the way things should be--no hacking or jail breaking...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, firmware, Apple Inc., security, Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-03-14

Jane Fonda just used the unbleeped "C" word on Today Show: what's next?

During the Today show, well, today, guest Jane Fonda talked about "The Vagina Monologues" with host Meredith Viera. While referring to the play, Jane let a word slip out that rhymes with what U.S. football teams often do on fourth down. ...

Tags: C, Gender And Diversity, C/C++, Internet, Team Management, Programming Languages, Human Resources, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-15

KeepNI (exe)

Keep an eye on your Web sites functionality. It will make sure your site is up and fully functional at all time. Whenever a malfunction is detected, KeepNI immediately alert you. Many alerts are available, voice message to your phone, cell-phone, fax message, and email. In addition to watch and...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Fax, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-02-13

Bombproof gadgets

OK, I just can't resist linking to CNET's list of bombproof gadgets.  What's the most indestructible gadget that you've owned or still own? This list of bombproof gadgets is odd in that I've not owned a single item off the list - no, not even a GameBoy...

Tags: Gadget, Game Players, Policies And Procedures, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Active@ File Recovery (exe)

Active@ File Recovery for Windows is an effective data recovery software tool. New version is powered by Active@ DiskScan technology to recover files that have been accidentally deleted, formatted or otherwise lost. Active@ File Recovery can recover files from all types of flash media that have been lost due to...

Tags: Data Recovery, Recovery, Media, Battery, Engineering, Storage Management, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-01-08

HDDlife Pro (msi)

Worried about a hard drive failure? HDDLife is a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and...

Tags: Hard Drive, BinarySense, HDDlife

Software downloads 2007-12-25