'05 RTC Annual Conference
The Rural Telecommunications Congress and Connect Kentucky, the host of Rural Telecon â€˜05â€™, are pleased to announce that on-line registration for the conference is now open. The Rural Telecommunications Congress (RTC) is a national membership org...
300GB disc set to challenge DVD
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A Betwixt and Between Nikon: 10.2 Megapixels for $1,700
While Nikon's D200 camera is missing some top-end features, it also has some abilities that deluxe models do not....
A Daddy Techbucks Makes a Village a Hot Spot
Fed up with a low-tech phone company, Andreas Gerdes turned a village into a rural Wi-Fi zone....
A Laptop That Can Travel as Baggage
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A Microsoft Microkernel Is Born
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A Moody Robotic Chimp With Eyes That Can Track Your Every Move
Animatronics are primed to invade the living room in the form of a hairy, interactive digital toy: the Alive Chimpanzee by the toy robotics maker WowWee....
A Novel Repair Concept: Replace Battery, Not iPod
A line of high-capacity batteries from Sonnet Technologies offers a solution to the iPod's Achilles' heel: its battery....
A Party Girl Leads China's Online Revolution
Chinese Web logs are giving flesh to the kind of free-spoken civil society the government is determined to prevent....
A T-Shirt-and-Dagger Operation
The Open Source Center is a new American intelligence unit that keeps an eye on the global flood of nonsecret information....
A chat with the brains behind Myst.
MacCentral: A chat with the brains behind Myst. "And rather than using live-action movies to show actors, the actors’ faces have actually been mapped onto 3D characters. The r...
A party girl leads Chinas online revolution
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AOL Joins Start-Up Company to Offer Web Video Distribution
America Online reached an unusual arrangement that will allow almost any producer of video content to distribute programming on its service....
AOL leverages P2P with new high quality streaming video format.
Ars Technica: AOL leverages P2P with new high quality streaming video format. Just don't use it in the server closet....
Aaron Swartz thinks I lost my pundit license.
Aaron Swartz thinks I lost my pundit license....
Advertising: CBS to Acquire CSTV for $325 Million in Stock
Viacom announced that the new CBS Corporation would acquire CSTV Networks, a cable channel and confederation of Web sites that focus entirely on college sports....
Advertising: Celebrities Taking a Gamble
Online casinos are signing endorsement deals with celebrities, but the stars could be putting themselves in legal jeopardy....
Advertising: Pitching a New Cellphone as a Reason to Live
Upstart cellphone companies are using wireless Internet access, video clips and MP3's to lure a small but lucrative audience: technologically astute young adults....
Advertising: Placing Ads in Some Surprising Spaces
Once-conservative mainstay marketers are looking to nontraditional media as they seek to reach bombarded consumers....
Amazon Offering Refund For Sony CDs
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Amazon looks to solve problems that stump computers
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Amazon to Join S.& P. 500 Index
Standard & Poor's said that Amazon.com, the Internet retailer, would join its flagship 500-stock index after the close of trading on Friday....
Analysts Urge Caution on Windows Vista
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And The First BluRay Title Will Be
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And the Emmy for Best Actor on iPods Goes to ...
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences plans to recognize original video content for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices....
Another Windows Defender Beta Refresh Is Out
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Apple update fixes Mac OS X flaws
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Are U.S. Innovators Losing Their Competitive Edge?
James E. West, a lifelong tinkerer who holds many patents, and others fear that America's tradition of invention is fading....
As Corporate Ad Money Flows Their Way, Bloggers Risk Their Rebel Reputation
After beginning as a vehicle for anti-establishment, noncommercial writers, many Web logs have laid out welcome mats for corporate America in the last couple of years....
Attack of the quantum worms.
New Scientist: Attack of the quantum worms. Silly ambulance-chasers....
Attack targets Sony rootkit fix
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Autodesk OpenSources Web Mapping Software
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Basics: CD/DVD Burners With Extra Oomph
For discerning mediaphiles, aftermarket drives offer faster recordings and higher quality....
Basics: Deleted but Not Gone
Maintaining privacy in the era of digital information requires work on a number of fronts, but one basic measure is easily overlooked: proper data destruction....
Basics: The Set-Top Sage Knows All, Sees All
Television set-top boxes, which began as simple cable descramblers, are evolving into tools of the digital future....
Basics: The Small Screen, Redefined
Sales for portable devices that play video have been disappointing so far, but that isn't keeping several companies from trying to create a market for them....
Beyond Gasoline: Taking the Future for a Drive
A California family is the first in the world to drive a car powered by hydrogen fuel cells, the technology that many automakers see as a solution to energy woes....
Big Blue dives into podcast waters
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BlackBerry Maker Lowers Subscriber Forecast
By Bloomberg News....
Blue Coat to cleanse encrypted traffic
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Books for Lending, Data for Taking
Several libraries are borrowing techniques from Internet companies that keep information about their customers' preferences so they can cater to their needs....
Bringing the Arcade Home on a Video Game Machine
Buyers of the Xbox 360 will be able to play both big budget, deeply immersive games and small arcade-style video games....
Burton Smith leaves Cray for Microsoft.
Burton Smith leaves Cray for Microsoft. Wow....
Buying: Stores Look for a Niche as Gadgets Grow Up
If the prices for high-tech gadgets are slightly out of reach for the average Wal-Mart shopper, that is fine by the company. In fact, it is by design....
CD's Recalled for Posing Risk to PC's
Sony BMG plans to recall millions of CD's because they contain copy restriction software that poses risks to the computers of consumers....
CHEOPS RPMs available
SuSE source and binary RPMs are now available for CHEOPS. CHEOPS (CHEss OPponent Simulator) is a fully-functional AI chess program capable of human vs. human, human vs. computer, and computer vs. computer play....
CableCARD HDTV in Microsoft's Media Center Coming in 2006.
CableCARD HDTV in Microsoft's Media Center Coming in 2006. If an industry giant like Microsoft has to negotiate in a smoky room for two years to get the entertainme...
Cablevision to Offer Faster Net Service
In another sign of the growing competition between cable and phone companies, Cablevision plans to announce that it will offer its residential customers some of the fastest Internet connections available....
Call of Duty 2
IBM's gaming processor strategy paid unanticipated dividends today, when I discovered the Mambo team performing "hardware validation" with Call of Duty 2....
Calling Out the Cable Guy
Telephone companies are muscling their way into the turf of cable companies....
Can Open Source Defeat Microsoft
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Carriers Adopt Content Rating for Cellphones
Major cellular phone carriers adopted a content rating system, a move that could pave the way for them to begin selling sex-oriented content on mobile devices....
Cell SDK
The Cell SDK, including the simulator, Linux, libraries, and compilers is available from IBM....
Check Point to offer corporate antispyware
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Cisco Agrees to Acquire TV Set-Top Box Maker
Cisco's deal for Scientific-Atlanta highlights the growing convergence of Internet technology, telecommunications and entertainment....
Cisco Moves Linksys into Small Business Market
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Ciscos IP vision becomes reality
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Client Behavior and Feed Characteristics of RSS, A Publish-Subscribe System for Web Micronews.
Hongzhou Liu, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gun Sirer: Client Behavior and Feed Characteristics of RSS, A Publish-Subscribe System for Web Micronews....
ClosestNode
Cornell's ClosestNode is a DNS redirection service for distributed Internet services. I could see this being useful for supernode selection in a P2P system....
Cognos and FileNet Agree to Integrate Products
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Computer Associates to Reduce Role in Unit
Computer Associates said that it would divest itself of a majority stake in its Ingres open-source database unit to focus on growth areas like security and storage....
Connections: If Books Are on Google, Who Gains and Who Loses?
Technology continues to unsettle the categories of copyright with Google Print....
Control the Internet? A Futile Pursuit, Some Say
As the Internet's reach has extended worldwide, an international political battle over its control has arisen....
CorONA
And the same team has CorONA (similar to FeedTree) to solve the RSS bandwidth problem and ping crisis....
Coral
Cornell also built a distributed CDN (aka Coral clone) called CobWeb. Using ClosestNode, it correctly redirects me to planetlab2.csres.utexas.ed...
Critical Windows Patch Fights Takeover Attacks
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Critics Press Companies on Internet Rights Issues
A statement urging freedom of expression was an indication of tensions between human rights advocates and companies doing business in countries with repressive regimes....
Crooks turn to online card fraud
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CyberCrimes Becoming More Profitable
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Danger level rises for Perl flaws
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David Pogue: 10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers
Dear electronics makers, you should worship at the altar of good design and make customer satisfaction your religion. These should be your commandments....
David Pogue: A Tiny Windows Laptop With a Sense of Fashion
In a world of smaller and smaller laptops, the Flybook attempts to find a balance somewhere on the spectrum between miracle and torture device....
David Pogue: At Last, Phone Some Tunes to Yourself
Sprint's phone-based online music store allows anytime, anywhere wireless downloading of songs for listening - no computer necessary....
David Pogue: Corporate Tool, Yes, but Bright and Handy
The new BlackBerry 8700c is a thoroughly modernized version of a gizmo whose technologies were rock-solid but a tad behind the times....
David Pogue: The Pen Gets a Whole Lot Mightier
An educational gadget called the Fly Pentop Computer is already appearing high on the "hottest toys" lists for this holiday season....
Deadline Passes for Internet Phone Service
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Dealbook: How to Balance the Scales Between Bankers and Clients
There is often a huge disconnect between the success and failure of mergers and the enormous fees that banks get for making them happen....
Design: Style Meets Function, and Technology Gets a Human Touch
Like many new technologies, dongles - the tiny sticks that attach to computer ports and transport files from one computer to another, have been designed in many guises....
Designer of Supercomputers Leaves Cray to Join Microsoft
Burton Smith, a longtime supercomputer designer and chief scientist at Cray, has resigned to take a position at Microsoft....
Digital Domain: How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web
Without intending to do so, Google set in motion multilateral disarmament by telling its first advertisers in 2000: text only....
Digital River down on Microsoft plan to deploy software
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Directions: Anime to Go
Tiny, big-eyed creatures find a new home — in the back pockets of fans....
Dirty Downloads Ready to Go on IPods
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Drilling Down: Great for Craigslist but Not for Newspapers
The number of users of online classified advertising services increased 80 percent this year, according to a report....
Dualcore Xeons show thirst for power
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EBay Expected to End Fees for Third-Party Developers
EBay is expected to announce Monday that it is ending the fees it charges software developers who build Web sites and software programs that channel buyers and sellers its way....
E-Commerce Report: The Online Travel Landscape Is Getting Crowded
Travel sites like Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz already have their hands full with airlines and hoteliers luring customers away. Now, here come Yahoo and AOL, and maybe even Google....
E-Commerce Report: This Year, Discounts Pop Up Almost Anywhere You Click
Internet retailers are flooding the pipeline with promotional e-mail messages in hopes of catching the early wave of shoppers....
E-Commerce Report: Where Is Wal-Mart's Fancy Stuff? Try Online
Walmart.com sells goods designed to appeal more to the Tiffany crowd than to the bargain hunters who browse the company's terrestrial stores....
E.D.S. Shifts to a Profit
The Electronic Data Systems Corporation reported a third-quarter profit after it worked out differences with the federal government on a huge Naval contract....
Electronic Arts Slashes Prices On Video Games
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Enlisting Cellphone Signals to Fight Road Gridlock
Maryland and Virginia are testing technology that allows them to monitor traffic by tracking cellphone signals and mapping them against road grids....
Enterprises wont upgrade to Vista until 2008
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Experience with some Principles for Building an Internet-Scale Reliable System.
Mike Afergan, Joel Wein, and Amy LaMeyer: Experience with some Principles for Building an Internet-Scale Reliable System. "We discuss the design methodology used to achieve commercial-qual...
Experts Say Runway Is Clearing for WiFi Takeoff
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Fabric7 banks on high-end x86 servers.
CNet: Fabric7 banks on high-end x86 servers. It's a router! No, it's a server! No, it's a, er......
Filesharing crackdown rages worldwide
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Findings: Seeing Mountains in Starry Clouds of Creation
Astronomers operating NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have captured an image that shows star-forming pillars in the constellation Cassiopeia....
Firefox fanbase reaches new high
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Firefox turned one year old Wednesday marking yet another milestone for the p
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First Look Apples Updated iMac
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Flaw puts secure Cisco WiFi networks at risk
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For 'CSI,' Press A1
CBS hustles to create new revenue streams with video-on-demand....
For the Children
by Francis Cullooyah "For the Children". The Kalispel Tribe has taken this message to heart. The Kalispel Tribe located in Usk Washington has a long history of community. ... Half way through the last year of our Technology Opportunities......
Four Indicted in Case of Technology Smuggling
The four were indicted on charges of stealing secret documents on American Navy warship technology and trying to smuggle them to China, prosecutors said....
French Police Fear That Blogs Have Helped Incite Rioting
The banners and bullhorns of protest are being replaced in volatile French neighborhoods by cellphone messages and Skyblog....
From the Desk of David Pogue: Sony BMG's Copy-Protecting Watchdog
My In box usually bursts to the seams with reader reaction to stuff I’ve written, but what was unusual this week was the amount of mail that came in on a topic that I’ve never even mentioned: the Sony BMG rootkit tactic....
GNU/Linux on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX801
I have posted a brief article describing my experiences installing GNU/Linux on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX801 laptop. This article is pursuant to my previous one on ...
GPP RPMs available
SuSE source and binary RPMs are now available for GPP. GPP is a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax, suitable for a wide range of preproces...
GPP ports for FreeBSD and Mac OS X available
A web search has revealed some third-party ports of GPP to FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Links to these ports are now available on GPP's home page. (GPP is a general-purpose Game Theory | Video Games: Fighting Crime and Saving Lives With the Xbox 360
Dragon proves that, while the 360 is a beautiful machine whose elegant design and raw power easily best the competition, you don't really need it....
Gear Test With Marcy Brown-Marsden, Ornithologist: Like Climbing Into Their Nests
Bird-watching made easy: makers of binoculars have added features that appeal to birders, including image stabilizers and built-in digital cameras....
Getting People to Pay for Radio
XM Satellite Radio's president and chief executive, Hugh Panero, spoke recently about the company's growth, its channels and its plans....
Google Base launched with security hole
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Google Gift to Digital Library
Google plans to make a $3 million gift to the Library of Congress for a project that aims to digitize significant primary materials from national libraries....
Google Resumes Work On Digital Library
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Google Sitemaps flaw fixed
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Google Talk Gets Video
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Google Wants Easier Use on Mobile Phones
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Google blankets down with free WiFi
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Google gives away analytic tools
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Google lets Web sites sign up advertisers directly
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Google phishing scam promises a 400 windfall
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Google's Shopping Service to List User's Local Stores
Google plans to move quickly to capitalize on its new Google Base database service, adding a feature that lets merchants provide local shopping information....
Googles corporateswitch offer
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Googling Literature: The Debate Goes Public
Publishers, authors and Google debated the Web company's plan to digitize the collections of major libraries at the New York Public Library on Thursday....
Got 2 Extra Hours for Your E-Mail?
The overwhelming traffic of e-mail is driving an increasing number of employers to find ways to control the load....
Grant awarded for solar hydrogen cells
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Grokster Calls It Quits on Sharing Music Files
The developer of file-swapping software said that it would halt distribution as part of a landmark settlement with the recording industry and Hollywood studios....
Grokster Downloading Service to Shut Down
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Grokster dies but debate lives on
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HP Attempts to Flatten the Bumps on the Road to Virtualization
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Hacker Develops Oracle Worm
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Hackers hijack Sony DRM technology
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Hello this is Google your operator speaking
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How to go from office equipment to WISP in a few easy steps
Marlon K. SchaferOwner Odessa Office Equipment(509) 982-2181 Well, I've FINALLY had time to sit still and write the story of how I started my WISP. Back in '96 while I was working on copiers and other assorted office machinery I......
IBM Journal of Research and Development published an issue about BladeCenter
If you're feeling bored over the holidays, the IBM Journal of Research and Development published an issue about BladeCenter. There are a few easter eggs in here, but I don't want to spoil ...
ICANN and Legalities.
Paul Hoffman: ICANN and Legalities. "The proposed [ICANN/VeriSign] contract is absurd... The real issue is that ICANN has completely blown it as a non-profit corporation." After readin...
ICTs in Rural Community Development
by Corry Bregendahl, Research Associate, NCRCRC-Iowa State University While the notion of rural often conjures up singular images of remote places with small and scattered populations, rural areas are anything but homogenous. Some are racially and cu...
IM threats zooming up
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IRiver Readies WiBro Game Player
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IT security weakened by compliance issues
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Imeem
Imeem (not to be confused with Ineen) is some sort of private group-oriented communication (i.e. IM, blogging, photo sharing) service reminiscent of In Oregon, Brushing Up Their Shakespeare, Helped Along by Software
With the help of software from Microsoft, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has become the envy of other regional theaters around the country....
In Short Order, Oracle Loses One of Three Co-Presidents
Gregory B. Maffei, the chief financial officer and a co-president of the Oracle Corporation, resigned less than five months after he joined the company....
India Concern to Design I.B.M. Chips
The Indian company will be the first design center outside I.B.M.'s own walls to make its Power Architecture chips....
India and China Take On the World and Each Other
Companies in the two largest emerging economies in the world are beginning to hunt intensively for business in each other's markets....
Intel Brings Virtualization to Desktop PCs
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Intel Goes Global with WiMax
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Intel Unveils FourWay Processor
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Intel and Micron Plan Flash-Memory Venture
The companies announced a joint venture to manufacture NAND flash-memory chips in an effort to tap into one of the chip industry's fastest-growing segments....
Intel juggles Cedar Mill P4 model numbers
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InterActive Profit Off
IAC/InterActiveCorp, the television and Internet-services company, said that third-quarter profit fell 25 percent on costs of spinning off the Expedia travel business....
Internet Service to Put Classic TV on Home Computer
Warner Brothers is preparing a major new Internet service starting early next year that will let fans watch full episodes from more than 100 old television series....
Internet Services Crucial, Microsoft Memos Say
Microsoft must alter its business or face being at a competitive disadvantage to a growing array of companies, according to memorandums written by company executives....
Is Friendster up for sale
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Jon Johansen is too busy to crack iTunes 6 DRM
Jon Johansen is too busy to crack iTunes 6 DRM and nobody else has stepped up to do it. I guess this doesn't bode well for AACS fair...
Judge gives Kazaa deadline to end pirate fileshare
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Jumpy Enough to Chew a Chair? Try DogCatRadio
A new Internet radio station for pets aims to keep the loneliness at bay while owners are out....
Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies
As Google increasingly becomes the starting point for finding information, companies are beginning to view the company with some angst, mixed with admiration....
Justices Agree to Consider EBay Appeal in Patent Case
The Supreme Court agreed to revisit the rules under which courts grant injunctions against a company found to be infringing another's patent....
Kazaa gets stay industry sees changes
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Kazaa to install antipiracy tool
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LMI Team Assesses Central Asian Republics
by by Steve Rynecki, Senior Program Officer dot-ORG/RITI Access Project Academy for Educational Development www.aed.org www.dot-com-alliance.org In April 2005, Last Mile Coordinators Michael Tetelman and Steve Rynecki of AED's dot-ORG team conducted ...
Link By Link: Beware Your Trail of Digital Fingerprints
Metadata is sort of the DNA of documents created with modern word-processing software and can hint at things that might be better left unseen by the wider world....
Live Networks
I see Microsoft bought the live.com domain from Live Networks but didn't bother to redirect the old links....
Lycos Ordered to Tell Web Client Identity
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Macromedia fixes Flash Player flaw
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Making Artists: Video Games Are Their Major, So Don't Call Them Slackers
In recent years a small but growing cadre of well-known universities have started formal programs in video game design....
Man Is Sentenced in Phishing Fraud
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Manufacturer loads Trojans onto HDDs
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Many Suitors, and Many Pitfalls, as AOL Seeks a Partner
Despite a flurry of interest in AOL from Microsoft, Google and others, finding a deal has been harder than Time Warner may have hoped....
Market growing for refurbished used iPods
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MashBoxx to Drive Grokster Legal
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Maxtors External Drives Hit 1 Terabyte
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Media Deals Expected for Intel
Intel is expected to announce partnerships with movie, music and game providers to introduce content that would work with its Viiv technology for home media centers....
Meet the experts: The Mambo team on the IBM Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine processor.
IBM developerWorks: Meet the experts: The Mambo team on the IBM Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine processor. The Microsoft Acquires VOIP Provider
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Microsoft Adds PC Security Tools to Windows Live
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Microsoft Adds a P2P Star to the Live Lineup
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Microsoft Enters the High-Performance Computing Fray
Microsoft is planning to unveil its first entry into the market for high-performance scientific and technical computing....
Microsoft Introduces Web Services, Competing With Google and Yahoo
Microsoft is offering two new advertising-supported Web services, Windows Live and Office Live, as a direct response to competitors' challenges....
Microsoft Looks Beyond Launch of Visual Studio 2005
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Microsoft Offers BusinessClass Desktop Search
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Microsoft Patches Break Some Sites
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Microsoft Plans to Ease Format Rules
Microsoft is seeking approval to make the software formats behind its Office programs an "open standard" that it would license free to competitors, partners and developers....
Microsoft Reports Isolated Xbox Glitches
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Microsoft Revamps Vista Preview System
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Microsoft Sees the Future and Its Google
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Microsoft Settles Antitrust Suit Over Windows in South Korea
Microsoft will pay the South Korean Internet portal operator Daum Communications $30 million to settle an antitrust suit over its Windows software....
Microsoft Testing Its Own Google Base
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Microsoft To Make 100000 Books Online
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Microsoft Updates Business Database Program
Microsoft released the first of a series of major updates to its core technologies that it plans to introduce in the next year....
Microsoft and Associated Press to Join in News Video Distribution
Microsoft said Wednesday that it would develop a news video distribution network for The Associated Press and share in the advertising revenue that it generated....
Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free
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Microsoft makes fresh move to Web challenging Google Yahoo
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Microsoft seeks standards recognition of Office format
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Microsoft to Unveil New Software Version
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Microsoft to remove Sony CD code
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Microsoft warns of latest flaws
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Microsofts AntiSpyware Rebranded Windows Defender
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Microsofts Other OS
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Microsofts Secret Bug Squasher
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Money Is There to Aid Rural Internet, but Loans Are Hard to Get
Across rural America, people say they are frustrated with a loan program created by Congress to extend Internet service....
Mongolia: Last Mile Initiative
by Darrell Owen The focus of this Mongolia LMI Assessment was to identify and evaluate potential opportunities for expanding rural telecommunications access in Mongolia. This assessment took into account the USAID Mission's programmatic components as...
More teTeX RPMs available
My directory of teTeX RPMs has been significantly expanded and updated. All packages are now built by hand rather than using an automated p...
Music Players and Game Consoles Are Topping Lists
Two of the most-coveted items this holiday season are the iPod music player and the Xbox 360....
MySQL AB to counter Oracle buy of Innobase.
InfoWorld: MySQL AB to counter Oracle buy of Innobase. This looks like genius on Oracle's part; now they don't even have to do anything. It's NBC to air Nightly News online
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Navigazione Satellitare: La Vita Is Dolce, but Where Am I?
Mounting a Global Positioning System navigator on a scooter is exactly the ridiculous sort of thing Italians expect foreigners to get up to....
Near-Instant Pay Reruns Set for Shows on NBC and CBS
The networks said they would sell reruns of their top new shows within hours of their broadcast for 99 cents an episode through video-on-demand services....
Net pioneers awarded top honour
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Netgear to ship wireless LAN router
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New Dispute in Technology for Next Generation of DVD's
The Blu-ray Disc group said that it would not adopt technology requested by one of its leading members, the Hewlett-Packard Company....
New Ogg Vorbis music files available
Full-length, high-quality Ogg Vorbis files of my "Theme from M.U.L.E." and "Eleanor Rigby" remixes are now available for download....
New Pentiums Support Split PCs
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New Sun Grid Storage Services Promise Flexible Power
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New Technology Breaking Ground With Earthquake Analysis
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Nextgeneration weather satellite fleet faces delays overruns
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Nikon recalls melting batteries
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Nokia Launches OpenSource Browser
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Nokia delivers digital TV phone
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Nokia goes mega on multimedia
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Off the Shelf: The Story of the Search, Applause Included
In a new book about Google, there are occasional hints that the extraordinary success of the search-engine phenom has begun to go to its head....
Office 12 to Save Docs in Metro Format
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Online, Not in Line, for Holiday Treats
Even if you have to make a follow-up call, each product described here is quite special....
Online Shopper : For Sake's Sweet Sake
A sweet sake called nigori that has been steadily growing in popularity is a small percentage of the sake market, so the best way to find it may be online....
Online Shopper : Last-Minute Family Trip: We'll Take Paris
Travel Web sites like Orbitz.com can help when planning a holiday trip for the family....
Online Shopper: Board Games to Put Families Back in Play
Board games from around the world that are good family fun and also make great gifts are available on the Internet....
Online Shopper: Overcoming Fears of Miró and Picasso
The trick to buying art online is to find a trustworthy seller who will guarantee authenticity and allow you to return a piece....
Open Text To Work With Microsoft on Content Management
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Opera browser to take flight
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Opera issues security patch for Unix users
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Opera issues security patch
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Oracle Chief to Pay Millions in Legal Fees
Lawrence J. Ellison has agreed to pay $22 million as part of a settlement of a shareholders' lawsuit that already included a $100 million donation to charities....
Other Nations Hope to Loosen U.S. Grip on Internet
The crucial issue for many people at a United Nations summit meeting on the information age is that control of the Internet is mainly in the hands of the U.S....
Overhaul of Linux License Could Have Broad Impact
The rules governing the use of most free software programs will be revised for the first time in 15 years, in an open process that begins Wednesday....
Pardon Me, but the Art Is Mouthing Off
Technology finally catches up to Lynn Hershman Leeson's imagination. But her cyborg is mum about Iraq....
Patch for Critical Microsoft Flaw Coming Tuesday
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Photographer Turned Business Manâ€”Washington Assistive Technology Foundation's Telework Fund at Work
By, Hillary Rossi Don Schluter is the founder of a digital imaging / photography / teaching / web design business called Natural Settings Digital Imaging and Design. http://www2.localaccess.com/naturalsettings/ Don has a great story to tell about how...
Pieces Fall into Place for IntelApple
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Plan to Put Company Reports on the Web
Corporations would be allowed to post proxy statements and annual reports on Web sites under a plan proposed by federal regulators....
Practical Traveler: Wishyouwerehere.com: Blogs From the Road
Travelers armed with digital cameras are finding that keeping a blog on the road can be a compelling and viable way of maintaining contact with friends and family....
Profit Declines 28% at Dell as Sales Growth Slows
Dell Inc. said that third-quarter profit fell 28 percent, a slowdown its chief executive said was likely to worsen this quarter....
Putting the Napster Genie Back in the Bottle
The spotlight is back on Shawn Fanning, the creator of Napster, this time as a symbol of how big business and the disruptive force of the Internet just might find a way to get along....
Q. & A.: Avoiding Life on the Pharm
What is pharming? It is a method used to steal personal information from unsuspecting people over the Internet....
Q. & A.: Leaving It On or Shutting It Off
Is it better to turn off the computer or can I just keep it on all the time?...
Q. & A.: Page Numbers in Microsoft Word
I am writing a book using Microsoft Word and would like to skip numbering on chapter-division pages but resume numbering on the following page. How do I do this?...
Q. & A.: Taking TiVo Shows on the Road
What do I need to do to copy shows recorded on my TiVo to my Windows laptop so I can watch them when I travel?...
Qualcomm Sues Nokia Over Patents
Qualcomm accused Nokia of infringing a dozen patents related to G.S.M., a cellphone standard that is used in two out of three handsets worldwide....
Qwest Loss Narrows in Quarter
Qwest Communications reported a smaller loss for the third quarter and announced a tentative $400 million settlement of shareholder lawsuits....
REVIEW Video Projectors Break New Ground
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RealNetworks Promotes Wireless Streaming
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RealNetworks Unveils Streaming Media Server
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Recipe for a Camcorder: One Part Toy, One Part Technology
The VCamNow from Tiger Electronics has the essential ingredients for a successful children's camcorder....
Renewed Warning of Bandwidth Hoarding
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Researchers Develop Translation Technology
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Retailers Prepare to Greet Xbox Faithful
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Review: Linux-based TVisto Series 3.5" Multimedia HDD Enclosure.
OSNews: Review: Linux-based TVisto Series 3.5" Multimedia HDD Enclosure. This review makes me want an Mvisto if only I could fin...
Review Nero 7 Ultra Edition
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S.E.C. Settles ImClone Insider Trading Suit
Two friends of Samuel Waksal, the former chief executive of ImClone Systems, have agreed to pay a total of $2.77 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of insider trading in the company's shares....
SQL Server 2005 May Tempt Many to Jump Platform Study Says
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Sales Climb at Retailers on Internet
Shoppers, intent on skipping crowded stores, spent 26 percent more money online over the Thanksgiving weekend than they did in 2004....
Samsung Boosts Size of Flexible LCD
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Samsung shows off fuel cell for notebooks
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Save the Date
When:October 19, 2005 from 10a to 4:30p Where:Ellensburg, Washington - Kittitas County Fairgrounds This all-day meeting will be the first Communities Connect meeting to which all persons in Washington State who are interested in Community Technology ...
Search Now No 2 Among Web Tasks
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Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds
Computer security experts said technology used to wiretap telephones has a security flaw that could be exploited with off-the-shelf equipment....
Services Microsoft Should Could and Just Might Develop
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Setback in Court for BlackBerry Maker
A federal judge in Virginia said that it was "highly unlikely" he would delay a patent case against the maker of the BlackBerry device....
Shop-Till-You-Drop Specials, Revealed Here First
At least three Web sites are dedicated to digging up sale secrets well in advance of the biggest shopping day of the year....
So Whats In the Office 12 Beta 1 Bits
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Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton FBI
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Solaris 10 to Get PostgreSQL
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Sony Adds RSS Windows Media Audio to PSP
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Sony Apologizes For Antipiracy CDs
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Sony BMG Offers MP3 Files and Disks for Unsafe CDs
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Sony BMG Sued Over CD's With Anti-Piracy Software
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Texas attorney general filed lawsuits against Sony BMG for violating consumers' rights and trading in malicious software....
Sony Unit to Distribute Software Patch
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Sony to patch copyprotected CD
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Spam And Consumer Awareness On Rise
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SpamMimic
SpamMimic is a steganography tool that hides information in spam....
Spies in the Server Closet.
CIO: Spies in the Server Closet. "Cole defines a darknet as a group of individuals who have a covert, dispersed communication channel." Hey, it's Groove! Ray Ozzie was ahead of the c...
Sports Media and Business: ESPN the Ring Tone: In the Zone on a Cellphone
ESPN has crammed everything it has learned about television into the guts of a black Sanyo cellphone with red keys and a 2.1-inch screen....
Sprint to Acquire an Affiliate for $3.4 Billion
The Sprint Nextel Corporation said that it would acquire Alamosa Holdings Inc., its largest Sprint-branded wireless affiliate, for $3.4 billion....
Staying Connected on Long Stays Abroad
If you want to mix one part travel, one part technology and two parts gainful employment, you had better be a stickler for technical details....
Study Pits Windows Versus Linux
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SuSE RPMs for sam2p and tif22pnm
RPMs for sam2p, a bitmap to PostScript/PDF converter, and tif22pnm, a TIFF/PNG to PNM converter, have just been posted. The ...
SuSE pledges to rectify GPP dependency problem
It has been reported that the SuSE RPMs for GPP may cause dependency errors for those who also have the GNU Compiler Collection installed. This ...
Sun Launches New UltraSparc Chip
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Sun Microsystems Will Offer New Generation of Processors
Sun Microsystems is set to announce the first of a new generation of processors for computer servers....
Sun goes storage mad with upcoming Opteron kit.
The Register: Sun goes storage mad with upcoming Opteron kit....
Sun launches halfterabyte drive
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Tech firms assail proposed broadband rules
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Technical hitch delays Ariane 5
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Techno Files: A Journey to the Center of Yahoo
Yahoo is ever conscious of Google and determined to match it, but in the long run its plans for search seem quite different....
Technology Lets High-End Hotels Anticipate Guests' Whims
Hotels are keeping track of guests' preferences and changing the room conditions automatically - from temperature to what's in the minibar....
The FBI isnt after you at least not via email
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The Goods: A Flash Drive With a Back Story
Mimobots are a line of miniature plastic creatures that double as U.S.B. flash drives...
The Laptop: Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims
American intelligence officials have shown documents of Iranian atomic experiments to a number of countries to convince them that Iran is designing a nuclear warhead....
The Trac project management system now has a Mercurial plugin.
The Trac project management system now has a Mercurial plugin....
The Trail of a Clicked-On Ad, Brought to You by Google
Google plans to introduce free analytical tools for online publishers and marketers, a move that would help the company's clients get a better sense of Web site traffic patterns and advertising campaigns....
The Washington CONNEVyT Portal: An Educational Bridge to Economic Opportunity
by Bill Gillis Immigrants have always played a crucial role in contributing the US economy both in starting new entrepreneurial businesses and meeting critical labor force needs. Today, particularly as our agriculture and broader economy faces pressu...
The Web page for Nokia's new WebCore browser
The Web page for Nokia's new WebCore browser crashes Safari and OmniWeb (but not for everyone)....
These supercomputers could be yours.
The Register: These supercomputers could be yours. A photographic review of the Supercomputing conference....
Thriving Online: Small-Town Shops Bulk Up on the Web
The Internet is allowing small stores all around the country to develop the niche products that shield them against big-box retailers....
Tickling the Ivories and the Keyboard in One Device
The Creative Prodikeys PC-MIDI multifunction keyboard lets you play music as you type, or vice versa....
Tiny sensors tracked
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To Help Tune the TV, a High-Tech Arachnid
Datacolor's SpyderTV unit is the high-tech route to adjusting color, brightness and contrast....
Tokyo man arrested for allegedly posting bogus invasion story
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Trend Micro RSS Is Worm Bots Next Target
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Understanding BitTorrent: An Experimental Perspective.
Arnaud Legout, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Pietro Michiardi: Understanding BitTorrent: An Experimental Perspective. "To gain a better understanding of the key algorithms of the protocol, we have instrum...
Urban Tactics: Thread Counts, Yo
A batch of new video games portrays both the crime-ridden New York City that was and the latte-sipping city that is....
Use the Internet dont fear it newspaper editors told
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Using PlanetLab for Network Research: Myths, Realities, and Best Practices.
Larry Peterson, Vivek Pai, Neil Spring, and Andy Bavier: Using PlanetLab for Network Research: Myths, Realities, and Best Practices....
VC Nation: Excited and Wary, Investors Look at China
Silicon Valley's views of investment in China have tended to swing between wild optimism and deep anxiety - with the anxiety going beyond a fear of losing money....
VOIP No Longer for the Underdog
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VPN flaw threatens Internet traffic
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VXA: A Virtual Architecture for Durable Compressed Archives.
Bryan Ford: VXA: A Virtual Architecture for Durable Compressed Archives. "Data compression algorithms change frequently, and obsolete decoders do not always run on new hardware and operating system...
VeriSign and Infineon Collaborate To Increase Usability of Trusted Computing Solutions.
VeriSign and Infineon Collaborate To Increase Usability of Trusted Computing Solutions. Ah, yet another monopoly....
Video Games Are Facing Soft Demand
Electronic Arts became the second major video game maker this week to warn that it was seeing soft demand from retailers as it heads into the holiday season....
Video Gaming Review: Microsoft Ups the Console Ante
The Bill Gates team has delivered a legitimately excellent gaming and home media system with the Xbox 360....
Virtual property market booming
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Viruses exploit Sony CD copyprotection scheme
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Vista November CTP Due Real Soon Now
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Vistas Security Scrutinized
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Walkman Ships at a Discount
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Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time?
Amazon.com and Google are developing systems to allow consumers to purchase online access to parts of books....
What's Online: A Pro-Bug Vote on the Court?
Cnet News.com is considering Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s heft on matters involving technology business, free speech, privacy and copyright....
What's Online: Big Google Becomes Big Target
Long considered the David to Microsoft's Goliath, Google is increasingly being thought of as a Goliath itself....
What's Online: Supersize Comeback for Fast Food
KFC, which once tried to market its food as a healthy alternative to pizza and burgers, seems to be targeting people who spurn health food....
What's Online: The Rootkit of All Evil
Sony BMG can learn two lessons from its recent attempt to fend off piracy: One, bloggers will catch you. And two, it's not the screw-up, it's the cover-up....
Whats inside YOUR Xbox 360
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Will Open XML Really Be Open
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Windward in the Windy City
The National Coalition for Community School's Forum was recently held in Chicago and The Washington Team shared their program with Forum participants from all over the world, such as Canada, the Netherlands, Nepal and the United Kingdom. The theme......
Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun: A Human Computer Keeps Speeding Up Chips
Kazushige Goto is the John Henry of the information age, using hand-tuned code to help solve the toughest supercomputing problems....
XBOX 360 Microsoft Reports Isolated Xbox Glitches
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XBOX 360 Rumors Swirl Around Xbox 360 Shortages
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XBOX 360 Teardowns find Microsoft Inside Xbox 360
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XBOX 360 How to score an Xbox
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Xbox 360 Crashes Defects Reported
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Xbox 360 to launch with 18 titles
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Yahoo Google To Unveil New Wireless Services
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Yahoo Plans to Connect Services With TiVo
Yahoo and TiVo plan announced a deal today that will connect Yahoo's vast online service to TiVo's set-top boxes....
Yahoo Tightens Control in Europe and Asia
Yahoo is buying the remaining shares of its British, German, French and South Korean units to reduce its dependence on the U.S. market....
Young prefer illegal song swaps
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Your Money: How to Tame an Inflated Entertainment Budget
With cable television, Netflix and the Internet, you probably spend more on entertainment than you do on groceries, clothing or gasoline....
Your Money: Location, Location, Location. Research, Research.
Using Web sites to research properties can be beneficial as real estate markets across the United States begin cooling....
Your Money: Wireless Moves the Cash Register Where You Are
Thanks to wireless communications, merchants of all sizes and stripes are beginning to take credit and debit cards in odd places....
ZFS
After years of hype, Sun released ZFS. I'm curious about why mirroring and RAID were implemented at the pool layer instead of the filesystem layer, which would allow different filesystems to ...
a plug-in for Windows Media Center Edition that records from cable boxes over FireWire
Meanwhile Tim Moore developed a plug-in for Windows Media Center Edition that records from cable boxes over FireWire....
dlg2html RPMs available
SuSE source and binary RPMs are now available for dlg2html. dlg2html is a set of Bash shell scripts which help automate the conversion of DLG Pro message bas...
doesn't think the Nexenta/Debian licensing problem is a big deal
Debian founder Ian Murdock doesn't think the Nexenta/Debian licensing problem is a big deal, which resulted in him being flamed by self-righteous licensing pedants. "At best, it seems like you win on a techn...
eEye Spots Unpatched Flaw in QuickTime
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eEye Spots Unpatched iTunes QuickTime Flaws
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eoconv 1.3 released
eoconv is a tool which converts text files to and from various Esperanto text encodings. In this release, support has been added for postfix-H, postfix-X, and LaTeX notation. Many aliases have been added for ISO and UTF encodings...
eoconv RPMs available
SuSE source and binary RPMs are now available for eoconv. eoconv is a tool which converts text files to and from various Esperanto text encodings, including Unicode, ISO-8859-3, HTML, and various ASCII notations....
making a big investment in the LLVM compiler infrastructure
One might expect that Apple would just use Intel's excellent compilers from now on, but apparently they're making a big investment in the LLVM compiler infrastructure....
plenty of good papers
The Second Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS) has plenty of good papers....
state of Texas
The state of Texas and the EFF have joined the lynch mob by suing Sony over their CD DRM. I guess that's one way to get th...
the MPAA are still trying to plug the analog hole
The EFF discovered that the MPAA are still trying to plug the analog hole, apparently undaunted by their broadcast flag smackdown. The mention of business models is particularly unsettlin...