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- David Pogue's column in the New York Times today, STATE OF THE ART: Software for... |
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- [Peter, Michael, and Samir around copier] Peter Gibbons: Our high school guidance counselor used to ask us what you'd do if you had a million dollars and you didn't have to work. And invariably what you'd say was supposed to be your career. So, if you wanted to fix old cars you're supposed to be an auto mechanic. Samir: |
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- A series of serious attacks leads the company to focus on the "perimeter." |
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- The OpenSSL Project releases a patch to fix several vulnerabilities that were found during a security test by the U.K. government. |
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- update The software company expands its battle over Linux by pledging to revoke the Unix contract held by high-end computer maker Silicon Graphics Inc |
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- As large companies clamp down on their tech spending, smaller firms are spending more. And the software giant--along with many other companies--wants a piece of the action. |
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- Srivats Sampath is set to launch a song download company that's part iTunes and part Friendster in its mix of digital music sales and community recommendations. |
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- Though the PDA market is sluggish, Dell and Sony Electronics are updating their product lines with new units that range from simple and sleek to advanced with wireless capabilities. |
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- IBM leads the pack in the $68.5 billion information technology outsourcing market, but Hewlett-Packard and a handful of overseas companies are gunning to catch up, IDC says. |
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- The University of Massachusetts is leading a $40 million research effort to see if a grid of low-cost radar sensors can forecast severe weather better than more expensive equipment and methods. |
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- Online vandals are quickly exploiting flaws, leaving companies with little time to patch their computer systems, according to data analysis by Symantec. |
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- A group representing cell phone operators says nothing has been proved by a study suggesting that radio signals for the next generation of wireless phones can cause headaches and nausea. |
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- The online market for computer games is expanding, but fee-based downloads are what will bring in revenue for game companies, says market research firm IDC. |
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- update The PC maker has an alternative in mind for those who choose not to pay extra for Microsoft's Media Center operating system |
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- Mark Morford has published an editorial that takes a satirical look at Apple's product packaging, design and marketing. Mr. Morford concludes that Apple genuinely cares about the presentation of its products: "This is what Apple does. This is what they are known for and why their design team is so famous and why they win so many awards and why they engender such passionate devotion from their adherents and why Macs are still far, far superior to PCs and always will be. |
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- October 1, 2003 Bomb-sniffing dogs may be next in line to lose their job to machines. Researchers have developed a miniature mechanical "nose" capable of detecting TNT vapor. The device, which can detect less than a billionth of a gram of explosive vapor, may surpass the ability of dogs |
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- Category: Digital Cameras PC Magazine review of the Dimage A1 from Minolta, another one of those prosumer digital cameras that straddles the line between the worlds of professional and consumer cameras. The Dimage A1 has a five megapixel sensor, an excellent 7x optical zoom, and a few other nice features, like special "Anti-Shake" technology for reducing blurriness in pictures taken at slow shutter speeds. |
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- Who is George Masters? Aside from being one of the newest members of the TMO forums, he's someone who makes animated movies. Mr. Masters pointed us to a new "iMac commercial" he has made to explore the idea of colored flat-panel iMacs |
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- Alex Salkever has penned a new Byte of the Apple column for BusinessWeek, and according to that column, Apple has new opportunity in the IT market |
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- Judging from reports of falling P2P site usage, the recording industry's legal tactics are working. Since this spring, when the record industry began suing college students who were high volume file-sharers, traffic at leading P2P site Kazaa has fallen 41 percent, according to Nielsen/NetRatings |
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- MTV- 12hoursago Rappers LL Cool J and Public Enemy's Chuck D rolled up on opposite sides of Capitol Hill Tuesday for a Senate hearing on the hotly debated topic of file-sharing. |
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- Guardian- 7hoursago Animals that roam far and wide in the wild fare worst in zoos, British scientists have found. They called on zoos either to radically improve their animal enclosures or phase out the keeping of certain species altogether. |
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- The Register- 40minutesago The SCO Group is extending its royalty campaign to encompass Silicon Graphics Inc. The company says it will revoke SGI's Irix license on October 14. It's no surprise, as SCO CEO Darl McBride has explicitly mentioned SGI over a month ago. SGI signed the ... |
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- Raleigh - Oct 02, 2003 DirecTV, Inc. and EchoStar Satellite Corporation and its DISH Network, the nation's largest providers of satellite TV services, have filed a lawsuit against North Carolina as part of a nationwide campaign to challenge unfair taxing policies that discriminate against satellite TV providers while benefiting cable. |
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- Paris (ESA) Oct 01, 2003 SMART-1's revolutionary propulsion system was successfully fired at 12:25 UT on 30 September, 2003, in orbit around the Earth. Engineers at ESOC, the European Space Agency's control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, sent a command to begin the firing test, which lasted for one hour. This was similar to a trial performed on Earth before SMART-1 was launched. |
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- The bigger the distance a carnivore covers in the wild, the more likely it is to suffer stress symptoms in a zoo, say scientists. |
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- Phone masts for the high-tech third generation mobile phones cause headaches and nausea, researchers have claimed. |
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- About 160,000 people die every year from side-effects of global warming ranging from malaria to malnutrition and the numbers could almost double by 2020, a group of scientists said |
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- By Charles Piller and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The government is working to better screen airline travelers. But human motivation can frustrate even the most elaborate systems. |
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- Open source initiative offers logging, deployment tools |
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- Doug Humphrey founded Internet data-transmission company Cidera Inc., which once won $137 million from venture capitalists. It was sold for less than $500 in June. |
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- By DOUGLAS HEINGARTNER With many people facing an increasing number of recorded messages each day, machines are letting listeners zip through audio by speeding it up. |
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- By PETER WAYNER Putting a price tag on future events, online marketplaces help distill hunches into numbers. |
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- By MATTHEW L. WALD A Dutch company plans to unveil a bus in which motor and wheel are one, a refinement that promises more miles per charge. |
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- If clinical trials are successful, the drug could routinely be used to prevent scarring after surgery or following serious accidents |
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- The Marsh Arabs are trying to restore wetlands drained by Saddam Hussein's regime for themselves - but experts warn this could backfire |
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- The identity of the Universe's mysterious dark matter may be revealed in gamma rays coming from the centre of our galaxy |
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- The Road To Surfdom has more on my favorite Vice Presidential Chief of Staff. He also makes a good point as to why "reading entrails" as I did in this post is a fairly sensible approach: "some journos know the... |
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- My brain wants to leave my head It wants to crawl back into bed I 'd let it, but then I'd be dead So I'll just suck caffeine instead. [headline haiku / dot-communist] |
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- My brain wants to leave my head It wants to crawl back into bed I 'd let it, but then I'd be dead So I'll just suck caffeine instead. [headline haiku / dot-communist] |
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- Resisting French calls for a quick end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday a hasty transition to civilian rule could produce a "failed state." |
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- After my post of dismay about Fox Sports NOT having the Cubs game on Saturday, I did see that they did a lot of switching over to the Astros and the Cubs games. I just wonder, |
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- El pasado mes de julio, saltaba la noticia a los medios de "la mayor operación en Europa contra la piratería".... |
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