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Pacific May Be Seeing New El Nino (AP)
AP - Warming water temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific last month may indicate the start of a new El Nino. | 6 |
Cassini Spacecraft Sees Saturn Lightning (AP)
AP - The Cassini spacecraft's mission to Saturn has revealed a new radiation belt around the ringed planet and found that lightning in its atmosphere is occurring in different patterns than it did when NASA's Voyagers flew by in the early 1980s, scientists said. | 6 |
Poachers Putting Endangered Rhinos at Risk (AP)
AP - Gangs of poachers in Congo have been slaughtering the world's minuscule population of northern white rhinos, reducing the population by about one-half in just more than a year, a key conservation organization said Friday. | 6 |
Experts Downplay Texas Shark Attacks (AP)
AP - Three shark attacks off the Texas coast in the past two months are unusual but don't mean there are more sharks than normal along the beach or that they are getting bolder, marine biologists and other experts say. | 6 |
Study Says Birds Feed Other Birds' Young (AP)
AP - It's a lesson many little humans could learn from baby birds: Sometimes, being nice to other youngsters pays off. Brown-headed cowbirds, like several other bird species, leave their eggs in the nests of other birds, who then feed and raise the cowbird chicks. | 6 |
Canadian Team Joins Rocket Launch Contest (AP)
AP - The $10 million competition to send a private manned rocket into space started looking more like a race Thursday, when a Canadian team announced plans to launch its rocket three days after an American group intends to begin qualifying for the Ansari X prize. | 6 |
Universities to Build Largest Telescope (AP)
AP - The University of Texas and Texas A&M University are planning to construct what they call the world's largest telescope with the help of a Houston businessman's $1.25 million gift. | 6 |
Mauritanian Capital Battles Locust Swarm (AP)
AP - Residents burned tires and trash in the streets Thursday trying to drive off swarms of locusts descending on the region in what a U.N. agency called the worst sub-Saharan invasion in more than a decade. | 6 |
Customers of Telco Companies Face Privacy Breach
A security advisory posted on Bugtraq demonstrates how hackers can compromise customers of T-mobile wireless and Verizon (landline) voicemail boxes. The advisory talks about the use of Caller-ID spoofing the customers number, allowing a bypass of the PIN code since the voicemail thinks that the customer is calling to check their own voicemail. According to Secure Science Corporation, there has been no response from the vendors. Comments have been posted that T-Mobile has optional PIN code protection off by default. Better turn it on. | 6 |
Mozilla To Add Support For XForms, World Yawns
It's ironic that Microsoft could help further cement its dominance in the browser market by joining its largest rival in an effort to support web standards. At the same time, that act would go a long way towards improving the web in general for developers and users alike. | 6 |
Banishing the demons of stupidity from a system that has been owned
Occasionally a computer will become so significantly compromised with viruses, trojans, backdoors, hacked, spyware or malware that it becomes irrecoverable with normal means. Occasionally said computer will belong to a client, family member, friend or otherwise very important person who needs said computer back with data. In most business envrionments user data should be on the server and the following process is not typically appropriate. This process is Windows specific, and will help you deal with Windows less than graceful failures when taken over by viruses, trojans, spyware or has been hacked. If you do not have data to recover, or an substantial operational need to keep that exact install, then just wipe the drive and reinstall the Operating System. There are times however when you really need to recover a system and format c:\\ is not an option. This process is not intended to be all inclusive, but to give you a starting point so that you can start doing other needed system repairs and or recover files safely. Fundamentally a recovered system that has been owned can be recovered, but never again should be considered known or trusted. It is always better to wipe and reinstall, but it is not always an option. | 6 |
Junk faxes to be legalized as "opt-out?"
The Register ran a story on August 6th called 'Phone spam misery looms stateside.' It seems that there's legislative nastiness underway in Washington, DC to essentially gut the existing junk fax law, and replace it with a marketer's wet dream. | 6 |
Biased Against Whom?
Liberal bias versus right-wing conspiracy is a wonderful distraction. There is evidence enough on both sides. How can opposite claims be true? Confront a physicist with evidence supporting contradictory hypotheses and she will go looking for a more basic cause. Let's try that. | 6 |
The Visual World of Michel Gondry
A month ago I was introduced to the works of Michel Gondry. In short, I was amazed and tantalized by his short films and music videos. Even if you haven't heard of him, you've probably seen his many works in Gap commercials, various music videos, and the recent movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Many of his works explode with visual elements that, when taken alone, are simple and mundane. However, under his masterful guidance, these elements come together to form a highly mesmerizing visual experience. He never ceases to push visual technologies and challenge our ideas about the visual medium. | 6 |
The Austral-Asian Strike Fighter
The Australian Defence Force must defend and project across an air-sea gap. This requires long range autonomous strike weaponry. The Joint Strike Fighter does not solve this issue and detrimentally places added pressure on Australia's limited force of aerial refuelling assets. The world's defence manufacturers are not creating strike platforms that solve Australian needs. For this reason, Australia needs to look to other nations with similar defence needs. In this case, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all face defending an air-sea gap. Australia should enter a partnership with these nations to create a strike fighter that satisfies the strategic needs of defending an air-sea gap. The benefits of such a partnership will be many. | 6 |
Insecurity: (Or Why Americans Aren't Feeling The Recovery)
The New Republic's website is currently carrying an interesting piece which tries to explain the anomaly that although the US economy is growing, a lot of its citizens are still feeling worse off. The article explains the results of a 40 year panel study which has shown that although mean incomes have increased, income variability has increased massively, causing many Americans to feel less well off, despite the growing economy. | 6 |
Open Letter Against British Copyright Indoctrination in Schools
The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area. | 6 |
The Great K5 Limerick Contest
Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration. Mod up your favorites. I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood: There was a young woman named Bright, Who traveled much faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. I'm afraid I don't remember the author. | 6 |
RuntimeProperties... Reflection from System Properties
Java developers often load system properties to customize the runtime behavior
of their applications.
For example a develoepr could define a 'max_connections' system property to
define the maximum number of TCP connections that their application server can
support. While nice, this prevents all other applications from using this
variable name.
The first reaction to this would be to namespace your variable names. Instead
of using max_connections you would now use
'my.application.Server.MAX_CONNECTIONS' as your property name. This works of
course but now you have to load this property on startup.
public static int MAX_CONNECTIONS = Integer.parseInt( System.getProperty(
"my.application.Se ...
| 6 |
Thank You IBM!
I just wanted to say thanks to IBM for Open Sourcing Cloudscape .
You guys really have your act together. Keep up the good work!
| 6 |
LinuxWorld, IDs, and Privacy
Today Jonathan Moore and I headed over to LinuxWorld after lunch to see what
kind of cool hardware and Linux hacks they had on the expo floor.
Only $15 to get in the door so I figure why not.
I'm a bit of a privacy freak. When you're trading some security for liberty
there are situations where it *might* be worth it. In situations of extreme
violence having the police by your side might be a good idea.
I think we can all agree that trading liberty for *nothing* isn't worth it.
This country was *founded* on liberty after the British were abusing their
colonial powers. Every true American should cherish their liberty and think
long and hard about just turning them over for no reason.
...
| 6 |
My Blog as a Time Machine
I'm starting to realize that my blog is a bit of a time machine. For example I
can create a blog entry to warn myself about something that WILL happen in the
future.
My current NTP blog entry is a good example. I wrote this for myself as
much as for the people who read my blog (or find me via Google).
I know for sure that NTP on Debian is going to bite me sometime in the future
and I'm going to forget WHY. Then I'm going to (of course) go to Google or my
aggregator and search for NTP and then find my blog post.
I've done this about a dozen times now and its saved me a TON of time!
| 6 |
NTP in Debian
The Network Time Daemon (NTP Daemon) implementation within Debian leaves a
lot to be desired.
First off they don't include it with a working config. You have to create your
own /etc/ntpd.conf. To make matters worse the configuration doesn't accept DNS
names so you have to manually enter IPs. Fun. I can understand that they might
not want to provide ONE configuration and overwhelm one or two NTP servers but
they can provide a dynamic config that balances load among all available
servers. There is of course the public serves list but you have to Google
for it.
All you really need to do here is enter a list of servers:
server time.nist.gov
server 192.43.244.18
Note that it will comp ...
| 6 |
Loosing the War on Terrorism
"Sven Jaschan, self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser viruses, is
responsible for 70 percent of virus infections in 2004, according to a six-month
virus roundup published Wednesday by antivirus company Sophos."
"The 18-year-old Jaschan was taken into custody in Germany in May by police who
said he had admitted programming both the Netsky and Sasser worms, something
experts at Microsoft confirmed. (A Microsoft antivirus reward program led to the
teenager's arrest.) During the five months preceding Jaschan's capture, there
were at least 25 variants of Netsky and one of the port-scanning network worm
Sasser."
"Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said it was staggeri ...
| 6 |
Pretty Log4J
I've been a big fan of Log4J for a while now but haven't migrated any code
over for one central reason. The following line of code:
final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( "some.name" );
... is amazingly ugly and difficult to work with.
Most people use Log4J with a logger based on the classname:
So we would probably see:
static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( "org.apache.commons.feedparser.locate.FeedLocator" );
Which is amazingly verbose. A lot of developers shorten this to:
static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( FeedLocator.class );
But this still leaves us with cut and paste errors.
What if we could just reduce it to:
static Logger logger = Logger.g ...
| 6 |
Saudis: Bin Laden associate surrenders
"(CNN) -- A longtime associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden surrendered to
Saudi Arabian officials Tuesday, a Saudi Interior Ministry official said."
"But it is unclear what role, if any, Khaled al-Harbi may have had in any terror
attacks because no public charges have been filed against him."
"The Saudi government -- in a statement released by its embassy in Washington --
called al-Harbi's surrender "the latest direct result" of its limited, one-month
offer of leniency to terror suspects."
This is great! I hope this really starts to pay off. Creative solutions to
terrorism that don't involve violence.
How refreshing!
Are you paying attention Bush administration?
| 6 |
FOAFKey: FOAF, PGP, Key Distribution, and Bloom Filters
FOAF/LOAF and bloom filters have a lot of interesting properties for social
network and whitelist distribution.
I think we can go one level higher though and include GPG/OpenPGP key
fingerpring distribution in the FOAF file for simple web-of-trust based key
distribution.
What if we used FOAF and included the PGP key fingerprint(s) for identities?
This could mean a lot. You include the PGP key fingerprints within the FOAF
file of your direct friends and then include a bloom filter of the PGP key
fingerprints of your entire whitelist (the source FOAF file would of course need
to be encrypted ).
Your whitelist would be populated from the social network as your client
discovered new identit ...
| 6 |
Mozilla Exceptions (mexception)
For some reason I never released this code.
I developed it while working on NewsMonster and just forgot I think
It's an extension for Mozilla that allows you to see all runtime exceptions
(with full stack traces) that are unhandled by Mozilla.
Just install it and if your code generates an unhandled exception it will show
up in the logs and on the console.
Very handy for doing any hardcore Mozilla development.
| 6 |
Ron Regan Jr is My Kinda Guy
"Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting
that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United
States?"
"I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something
people won't accept."
"What would you do if Senator Kerry asked you to be his vice president?"
"I would question his sanity."
"Do you ever go to church?"
"No. I visit my wife's sangha."
"So you sometimes practice Buddhism?"
"I don't claim anything. But my sympathies would be in that direction. I admire
the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and
loving kindness and compassion."
So lets get this straight. He's an a ...
| 6 |
Al Qaeda member surrenders
"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- One of Saudi Arabia's most wanted militants has
turned himself into the authorities, the first senior suspect to surrender under
a one-month government amnesty announced last week."
"Othman Al-Omari, number 19 on Saudi Arabia's most wanted list of 26, accepted
King Fahd's offer of amnesty, which was made last week, according to Saudi
sources Monday."
"Al-Omari, who turned himself in on Sunday night, was a business partner of
Shaban Al Shihri -- the first al Qaeda member to accept the offer when he turned
himself in Friday."
When I first saw this I was really upset. I thought that it would certainly
lead to more violence if they just let terrorists off the ...
| 6 |
Mission Accomplished!
"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Members of Iraq's interim government took an oath of
office Monday just hours after the United States returned the nation's
sovereignty, two days ahead of schedule."
"Led by Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, each member of the new
government placed a hand on the Koran and promised to serve with sincerity and
impartiality. Iraqi flags lined the wall behind them."
Iraq! Now with 100% less Coalition Provisional Authority! Act now and get a
free Weapon of Mass Destruction (offer only available in Syria, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Iran).
Also check out our new Puppet Government! Keeps the kids occupied for hours!
| 6 |
Java3D - Half Right
SUN has announced that Java3D will be released in a different manner than any
other SUN project in existence.
"We announce the availability of the source code for the Java 3D API on
java.net. We are involving developers in the evolution of the Java 3D API.
Come join the Java 3D projects on java.net, and download the source code for
the core Java 3D API, vecmath, the Java 3D core utilities, and the Java 3D
program examples."
The key thing here is that they have provided the core utils under a BSD license
and even have the CVS available .
Good job SUN! You're headed in the right direction!
Here's the only problem:
"We are releasing the source code for the j3d-core and vecmath projects u ...
| 6 |
Reverse Psychology
I really hope SUN doesn't Open Source Java at JavaOne this year. It would be a
terrible decision and seriously hurt the tech industry. Also, it would hurt SUN
and I'm sure their responsible enough to realize this.
(Lets hope that works!)
| 6 |
Kerry's Disgusting Ad
A few days ago Kerry sent around this ad:
"Yesterday, the Bush-Cheney campaign, losing any last sense of decency, placed
a disgusting ad called "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party" as the
main feature on its website. Bizarrely, and without explanation, the ad places
Adolf Hitler among those faces."
"The Bush-Cheney campaign must pull this ad off of its website. The use of
Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong."
Which of course is a mistake. I went and downloaded the video (which is just
stupid btw. Not a masterpiece by any means.) and there are shots of Hitler in
there, but only from the MoveOn contest from a few months back.
Here's the problem. The ...
| 6 |
What would Baby Jesus Think?
"On Tuesday, Cheney, serving in his role as president of the Senate, appeared in
the chamber for a photo session. A chance meeting with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy
(Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, became an argument about
Cheney's ties to Halliburton Co., an international energy services corporation,
and President Bush's judicial nominees. The exchange ended when Cheney offered
some crass advice.
'Fuck yourself,' said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency."
Wonder what the moral majority has to say about this?
It isn't profanity! Its a freedom praise!
| 6 |
Americans and Freedom
"When we Americans first began, our biggest danger was clearly in view: we knew
from the bitter experience with King George III that the most serious threat to
democracy is usually the accumulation of too much power in the hands of an
Executive, whether he be a King or a president. Our ingrained American distrust
of concentrated power has very little to do with the character or persona of the
individual who wields that power. It is the power itself that must be
constrained, checked, dispersed and carefully balanced, in order to ensure the
survival of freedom. In addition, our founders taught us that public fear is the
most dangerous enemy of democracy because under the right circumstances it ...
| 6 |
Why Windows isn't Unix
"I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who
told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right
after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not
work under Windows where memory that is freed is likely to be snatched up by
another running application right away. The testers on the Windows team were
going through various popular applications, testing them to make sure they
worked OK, but SimCity kept crashing. They reported this to the Windows
developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found
the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it
did ...
| 6 |
Microsoft, IE and Bloat
Zawodny threads off of Scoble on the IE issue:
"I have to say, when I first read that I nearly fell off my chair laughing. I was
thinking "how stupid ARE these IE guys?!?!?!" But we all know that Microsoft is
full of smart people who care about what they're doing. So something really
doesn't compute here."
"Last time I checked, IE wasn't even close to feature parity with Mozilla's
browsers. No popup blocking, no tabbed browsing, etc."
"Does the IE team really not know what their product is missing?"
Perhaps. It's highly likely that they just don't know.
The bigger issue here is that Microsoft products can't fail and they can't
succeed. Microsoft has 40-50 billion in the bank. There ...
| 6 |
Customers of Telco Companies Face Privacy Breach
A security advisory posted on Bugtraq demonstrates how hackers can compromise customers of T-mobile wireless and Verizon (landline) voicemail boxes. The advisory talks about the use of Caller-ID spoofing the customers number, allowing a bypass of the PIN code since the voicemail thinks that the customer is calling to check their own voicemail. According to Secure Science Corporation, there has been no response from the vendors. Comments have been posted that T-Mobile has optional PIN code protection off by default. Better turn it on. | 6 |
Mozilla To Add Support For XForms, World Yawns
It's ironic that Microsoft could help further cement its dominance in the browser market by joining its largest rival in an effort to support web standards. At the same time, that act would go a long way towards improving the web in general for developers and users alike. | 6 |
Banishing the demons of stupidity from a system that has been owned
Occasionally a computer will become so significantly compromised with viruses, trojans, backdoors, hacked, spyware or malware that it becomes irrecoverable with normal means. Occasionally said computer will belong to a client, family member, friend or otherwise very important person who needs said computer back with data. In most business envrionments user data should be on the server and the following process is not typically appropriate. This process is Windows specific, and will help you deal with Windows less than graceful failures when taken over by viruses, trojans, spyware or has been hacked. If you do not have data to recover, or an substantial operational need to keep that exact install, then just wipe the drive and reinstall the Operating System. There are times however when you really need to recover a system and format c:\\ is not an option. This process is not intended to be all inclusive, but to give you a starting point so that you can start doing other needed system repairs and or recover files safely. Fundamentally a recovered system that has been owned can be recovered, but never again should be considered known or trusted. It is always better to wipe and reinstall, but it is not always an option. | 6 |
Junk faxes to be legalized as "opt-out?"
The Register ran a story on August 6th called 'Phone spam misery looms stateside.' It seems that there's legislative nastiness underway in Washington, DC to essentially gut the existing junk fax law, and replace it with a marketer's wet dream. | 6 |
Biased Against Whom?
Liberal bias versus right-wing conspiracy is a wonderful distraction. There is evidence enough on both sides. How can opposite claims be true? Confront a physicist with evidence supporting contradictory hypotheses and she will go looking for a more basic cause. Let's try that. | 6 |
The Visual World of Michel Gondry
A month ago I was introduced to the works of Michel Gondry. In short, I was amazed and tantalized by his short films and music videos. Even if you haven't heard of him, you've probably seen his many works in Gap commercials, various music videos, and the recent movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Many of his works explode with visual elements that, when taken alone, are simple and mundane. However, under his masterful guidance, these elements come together to form a highly mesmerizing visual experience. He never ceases to push visual technologies and challenge our ideas about the visual medium. | 6 |
The Austral-Asian Strike Fighter
The Australian Defence Force must defend and project across an air-sea gap. This requires long range autonomous strike weaponry. The Joint Strike Fighter does not solve this issue and detrimentally places added pressure on Australia's limited force of aerial refuelling assets. The world's defence manufacturers are not creating strike platforms that solve Australian needs. For this reason, Australia needs to look to other nations with similar defence needs. In this case, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all face defending an air-sea gap. Australia should enter a partnership with these nations to create a strike fighter that satisfies the strategic needs of defending an air-sea gap. The benefits of such a partnership will be many. | 6 |
Insecurity: (Or Why Americans Aren't Feeling The Recovery)
The New Republic's website is currently carrying an interesting piece which tries to explain the anomaly that although the US economy is growing, a lot of its citizens are still feeling worse off. The article explains the results of a 40 year panel study which has shown that although mean incomes have increased, income variability has increased massively, causing many Americans to feel less well off, despite the growing economy. | 6 |
Open Letter Against British Copyright Indoctrination in Schools
The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area. | 6 |
The Great K5 Limerick Contest
Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration. Mod up your favorites. I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood: There was a young woman named Bright, Who traveled much faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. I'm afraid I don't remember the author. | 6 |
DRM is doubleplus good for business, Congress advised
The Budget Office and the case of the disappearing public interest | 6 |
eBay answers craigslist's investor request
Auction site seeks eligible portal | 6 |
HP: The Adaptive Enterprise that can't adapt
<strong>Opinion</strong> SAP hardly to blame | 6 |
Nanotech aids green hydrogen production
British company splits water | 6 |
Outsourcing Human Resources: cause for celebration?
Sadly not | 6 |
Why aren't more women in ICT?
Equal Opportunities Commission wants to know | 6 |
SEC to examine Playboy for boobs
Larry, Sergey grace the glossy | 6 |
Cheat on me and the sex vid goes live
Revenge is a dish best served online | 6 |
UK police issue 'vicious' Trojan alert
Keystroke-logging 'Swiss army knife' | 6 |
Buffy the Censor Slayer
<strong>Letters</strong> Readers drive stake through parents' group | 6 |
Ashlee Vance: the readers have spoken
<strong>Poll results</strong> Bright news for resident <em>Reg</em> ladyboy | 6 |
<em>El Reg</em> pledges to name BSA antipiracy weasel
<strong>Competition</strong> Get those suggestions in | 6 |
Euro filing reveals Apple 'handheld computer'
More wireless tablet than PDA, we'd say | 6 |
Small.biz unprepared for disaster
Planning? We've heard of it... | 6 |
Office phones filthier than toilet seat
And as for your PC... | 6 |
Wireless net to get speed boost
Wireless computer networks could soon be running 10 times faster than they do now. | 6 |
Watchdog rules over broadband
The UK's ad watchdog rules over which net connections can be described as full speed broadband. | 6 |
GameBoy mini-games win prize
A set of GameBoy micro-games is named as the most innovative game of the year at a festival in Scotland. | 6 |
Microsoft takes down SP2 sharers
Microsoft is stopping people getting hold of a key security update via net-based file- sharing systems. | 6 |
Long-awaited Doom 3 hits the UK
Doom 3 goes on sale in the UK at a time of renewed concerns over violence in video games. | 6 |
Google IPO faces Playboy slip-up
The bidding gets underway for Google's public offering, despite last-minute worries over an interview with its bosses in Playboy magazine. | 6 |
Britons embrace digital lifestyle
People in the UK are spending more time and money going digital, says communications watchdog Ofcom. | 6 |
PlayStation potential to learning
The PlayStation games console could be developed into a learning tool for children, says a Northumberland head teacher. | 6 |
E-mail scam targets police chief
Wiltshire Police warns about "phishing" after its fraud squad chief was targeted. | 6 |
'Invisible' technology for Olympics
Getting the technology in place for Athens 2004 is an Olympic task in itself. | 6 |
Satellite boosts Olympic security
An enhanced satellite location system aims to help Olympic security guards react more quickly to emergencies. | 6 |
3D holograms to crack forgeries
A 3D hologram technique could transform how experts spot forged signatures and other handwritten documents. | 6 |
Card fraud unit nets 36,000 cards
In its first two years, the UK's dedicated card fraud unit, has recovered 36,000 stolen cards and 171 arrests - and estimates it saved £65m. | 6 |
Google auction begins on Friday
An auction of shares in Google, the web search engine which could be floated for as much as $36bn, takes place on Friday. | 6 |
HP shares tumble on profit news
Hewlett-Packard shares fall after disappointing third-quarter profits, while the firm warns the final quarter will also fall short of expectations. | 6 |
Video games 'good for children'
Computer games can promote problem-solving and team-building in children, say games industry experts. | 6 |
Fake goods tempting young adults
Young people are increasingly happy to buy pirated goods or illegal download content from the net, a survey shows. | 6 |
BloodRayne set for the big screen
Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. | 6 |
Catwoman far from perfect
The Catwoman game is a major disappointment that feels like a pointless tie-in with the film. | 6 |
'Madden,' 'ESPN' Football Score in Different Ways
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) - Was absenteeism a little high on Tuesday among the guys at the office? EA Sports would like to think it was because "Madden NFL 2005" came out that day, and some fans of the football simulation are rabid enough to take a sick day to play it. | 6 |
Group to Propose New High-Speed Wireless Format
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of technology companies including Texas Instruments Inc. <TXN.N>, STMicroelectronics <STM.PA> and Broadcom Corp. <BRCM.O>, on Thursday said they will propose a new wireless networking standard up to 10 times the speed of the current generation. | 6 |
AOL to Sell Cheap PCs to Minorities and Seniors
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online on Thursday said it plans to sell a low-priced PC targeting low-income and minority households who agree to sign up for a year of dialup Internet service. | 6 |
Microsoft to Introduce Cheaper Version of Windows
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O> said it will begin selling a stripped-down, low-cost version of its Windows XP operating system in the emerging markets of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in order to spread the use of computing and develop technology markets. | 6 |
Companies Approve New High-Capacity Disc Format
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of consumer electronics makers said on Wednesday they approved the format for a new generation of discs that can store five times the data of DVDs at the same cost -- enough to put a full season of "The Sopranos" on one disc. | 6 |
Missing June Deals Slow to Return for Software Cos.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mystery of what went wrong for the software industry in late June when sales stalled at more than 20 brand-name companies is not even close to being solved although the third quarter is nearly halfway over. | 6 |
Apple Launches Graphics Software, Video Bundle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc.<AAPL.O> on Tuesday began shipping a new program designed to let users create real-time motion graphics and unveiled a discount video-editing software bundle featuring its flagship Final Cut Pro software. | 6 |
Dutch Retailer Beats Apple to Local Download Market
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Free Record Shop, a Dutch music retail chain, beat Apple Computer Inc. to market on Tuesday with the launch of a new download service in Europe's latest battleground for digital song services. | 6 |
Microsoft Upgrades Software for Digital Pictures
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O> released on Tuesday the latest version of its software for editing and organizing digital photographs and images to tap into widespread demand for digital cameras and photography. | 6 |
Google to Pay Yahoo to Settle Patent Dispute
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google Inc. <GOOG.O> on Monday again boosted the number of shares it plans to sell in its initial public offering, saying it will issue 2.7 million shares to Yahoo Inc. <YHOO.O> to settle a lawsuit over technology used to display ads. | 6 |
A Digital Doctor Treats Computer Contamination
Unfortunately for users, computer equipment manufacturers and resellers don't adequately inform Windows users of the risks involved in accessing the Internet without proper security measures.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"
color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font> | 6 |
'SP2' a Must With XP Use
Service Pack 2, "SP2" for short, aims to stop viruses, worms, browser hijackings and worse by including security features that people have to add and adjust on their own. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"
color="#666666"><B>-Rob Pegoraro</b></font> | 6 |
Putting Your Own Stamp On All Your Parcels
Fido the Stamp is here. Well, he could be -- all it takes is for one dog owner to snap a digital photo of his beloved pooch, submit it to the Stamps.com Web site and order personalized postage. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"
color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</b></font> | 6 |
Internet Challenges Face-to-Face Mingling
At Bungalow Billiards in Chantilly on Wednesday, about a dozen single parents from Northern Virginia gathered at happy hour to mingle, eat and drink. All were divorced or widowed members of the Fairfax chapter of Parents Without Partners. | 6 |
Forecast: Plenty of Activity On the Weather Blog Front
If it's possible to love something just because it could visit torrents upon the Washington region, fling hail from the skies and swell streams into rivers, then Jason Samenow is smitten. | 6 |
Google Starts Auction
Company launched the biggest electronic auction of stock in Wall Street history Friday but warned that it could face legal liability from a Playboy magazine interview in which some aspects of the Internet search engine's performance were overstated. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"
color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font> | 6 |
Bids Placed Despite Mixed News
Umesh Patel, a 36-year old software engineer from California, debated until the last minute. | 6 |
Antitrust Lawyer Takes Helm at FTC
As Deborah P. Majoras takes over the Federal Trade Commission on Monday, she's expected to build on the broad agenda set by her predecessor, Timothy J. Muris. | 6 |
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