PC World - More Options With Tomorrow’s Cell Phones
If you don’t like the way the e-mail program on your PC works, you can replace it with one you like better. And when you need to add a new capability to Firefox, you can simply install an extension. But such flexibility doesn’t apply to […]
Redeye VC: Why Kindle is a hit…
When Amazon announced their Kindle last year, I bought one. I wasn’t too optimistic, as I had read a lot of bad reviews.However, to my surprise, I’ve really enjoyed my Kindle experience.
On Jan. 22, Apple reported that it sold 3.7 million units of its smartphones worldwide through the end of 2007. But AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone reseller and by far the largest buyer of the devices, reported that its subscribers activated fewer than 2 million units last year. The big question on the minds of […]
Steve Bass at PCWorld writes:
Steve Bass’s Tips & Tweaks WinPatrol Adds Keylogger Detection
I don’t always jump when I hear about an updated software version. I’ll wait and see what others have to say, especially with antivirus, anti-spyware, and firewall apps.
I consider WinPatrol one of those critical apps I depend on, and don’t want […]
Tech Beat FCC’s Auction: Not Going According to Plan? - BusinessWeek
Right now, bidders don’t seem to be overly excited about chunks of spectrum with the FCC-mandated open provisions. Networks built on this spectrum would have to allow all software and devices to connect to them.
In his message for the Catholic Church’s World Communications Day, Benedict said that while the media did much good, it was also often used for ideological reasons and tried to create reality rather than report it.
“When communication loses its ethical underpinning and eludes society’s control, it ends up no longer taking into account the centrality […]
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Essays on writing by some heavy hitters who apparently got bored during the writer’s strike. Why We Write
A thousand souls populate McMurdo during the Austral summer fromNovember to February – not just scientists, but also pilots, plumbers,burger flippers, and everyone else needed to keep a small city ticking.Down here, even a job like plumbing can transform into a survival epicin the blink of an eye. Just a few days before our mid-November […]
Silicon Alley Insider offers the following guide:
Who’s In, Who’s Out?There are 214 approved bidders. The ones you care about include wireless companies like AT&T (T), Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD), Leap (LEAP), and Metro PCS (PCS); cable firms Advance/Newhouse, Cox, and Cablevision (CV); satellite provider EchoStar (DISH), chip maker Qualcomm (QCOM), and Google (GOOG). On the […]
For those of you who’ve been wondering where you could put a free blog that will accept all those photographs from your vacation in Patagonia — and Antarctica — and Africa — and China — and… — you need look no further. As of Monday, WordPress is offering 3 Gigabytes of free storage for all […]
Neil McAllister, at InfoWorld, gives us his take on the biggest flops in CyberHistory:
For all the amazing advances that the computing industry has brought us over the years, some of its most pivotal moments are memorable for all the wrong reasons. Not every idea can be a winner, and not even Microsoft can avoid every […]
High Dynamic Range photography is the rage. You use a tripod, and expose the same scene at least 3 times: once normally, once for the highlights, and once for the shadows. Combining them creates an image with detail in all areas.
Obviously, this lends itself better to landscapes than to sports photography. It used to […]
From WIRED Listening Post:
As I left the Imax theater after seeing U2 3D, a manasked me, “So, what did you think?” Using my best Larry Davidimpression, I responded, “Pretty good. Pretty… pretty good.”
I was lying. The film I had just seen — the world’s firstthree-dimensional live-action concert film — was astounding. I justdidn’t want to […]
Alex Madrigal at Wired Science reports that
Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. Wired Science from Wired.com
The report, sponsored by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee, tries to get beyond the stereotypes to find out just how good young people are with information technology, and what the implications are for schools and libraries. Based on log analysis from British Library web sites and search tools, along with a […]
Computer software can distinguish individual dogs by their barks, and also suggests that certain barks act as a “universal language”, carrying information about the dog’s mind-set that is readily understood by their fellow pooches.
Computer decodes dog communication - tech - 17 January 2008 - New Scientist Tech
Can a handheld dogspeak translator be far behind? Do […]
The new iPhone update will automatically enable IMAP on all iPhones, meaning that mail handling will be different. Anyone who uses Gmail on an iP needs to be aware of the changes and what they mean.
PC World - Google Warns of iPhone 1.1.3 IMAP Switch
I ran across this article from back in August of ‘07 while browsing the archives of Forbes.com. It’s fairly chilling, although not especially surprising.
The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant’s owners claimed, that their critical components […]
