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The dark side of digital ?love?
Despite many upbeat tales of online matchups or romantic reunions through Facebook or e-mail, there are plenty of cautionary tales. They don't have the high-profile, TMZ-appeal of Tiger Woods' case, but are more devastating to the victims.
Facebook - Online Communities - Social Networking - Arts - Twitter
9 Mar 2010 at 7:43am
Professors banish laptops from classrooms
Professors have banned laptops from their classrooms at George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, among many others.
College of William & Mary - George Washington University - University of Virginia - United States - Education
9 Mar 2010 at 4:47pm
'Nobel of computing' goes to early PC designer A Microsoft Corp. researcher won the $250,000 Turing Award, one of technology's most coveted prizes, on Tuesday for his work helping design and build what is widely considered the first modern personal computer.
Microsoft - Turing Award - Personal computer - Technology - $250 000 Turing Award
9 Mar 2010 at 3:13pm
Cisco says new router 12x faster than rivals' Cisco Systems Inc, introduced a new router that it says will handle Internet traffic 12 times faster than rival products, as it looks to compete with rivals such as Juniper Networks Inc.
Cisco Systems - Router - Juniper Networks - Data Communications - Vendors
9 Mar 2010 at 3:39pm
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U.S. sits on rare supply of tech-crucial minerals Untapped reserves include deposits of both "light" and "heavy" rare earths ? families of minerals that help make everything from TV displays to magnets in hybrid electric motors.
Electric motor - Rare earth element - United States - Television - Business
9 Mar 2010 at 2:31pm
Microsoft rolls out new MSN site design Microsoft is rolling out the new design for its MSN Web portal in the U.S.
Microsoft - MSN - Yahoo - United States - MSN Web
9 Mar 2010 at 1:30pm
112 best free downloads, sites and services
Want to correct Windows problems, make your PC or mobile phone more capable, and get things done faster online ? all without opening your wallet? Check out these 112 incredibly useful, incredibly free downloads, sites, and services.
Uploading and downloading - Microsoft Windows - Windows - Mobile phone - Mobile
9 Mar 2010 at 7:43am
Samsung, Panasonic to start selling 3-D TVs Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week, inaugurating what TV makers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room.
Television - Panasonic Corporation - Samsung Group - Sony - Consumer electronics
9 Mar 2010 at 10:42am
White House tweets spread president's message
In tandem with their quick bursts of information on Twitter, the online White House routinely turns to its blog, Facebook page or YouTube channel where President Barack Obama now posts his weekly address.
Barack Obama - Facebook - YouTube - United States - Twitter
8 Mar 2010 at 1:46pm
TechWeb
Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
by How-To Wiki
9 Mar 2010 at 4:30pm
Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block It?s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can?t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn?t about real estate — it?s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
by John C Abell
9 Mar 2010 at 4:10pm
Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
by Mario Aguilar
9 Mar 2010 at 3:46pm
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
by Brandon Keim
9 Mar 2010 at 3:40pm
Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
by Dylan F. Tweney
9 Mar 2010 at 3:39pm
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
by Kim Zetter
9 Mar 2010 at 2:34pm
Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
by David Kravets
9 Mar 2010 at 2:15pm
Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
by Brian X. Chen
9 Mar 2010 at 1:00pm
Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
by Alexis Madrigal
9 Mar 2010 at 12:30pm
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000 For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we?ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
by Charlie Sorrel
9 Mar 2010 at 10:10am
MacWorld News
WSJ: Google working on Android-based set-top box
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has teamed up with Dish Network to offer a set-top box based on the Android operating system.
by Daniel Ionescu
9 Mar 2010 at 3:44pm
Verizon-AT&T battle over LTE heats up
The simmering marketing battle between Verizon Wireless and AT&T over whose LTE network is first and best promises to explode in the coming months.
by Matt Hamblen
9 Mar 2010 at 2:40pm
Parallels Desktop update adds support for Chrome OS
Parallels has just issued an update for Parallels Desktop 5.0 which adds support for Google's Chrome OS, according to the developer.
by Nicholas Bonsack
9 Mar 2010 at 2:06pm
Panda discovers malware on HTC Magic phone
Security vendor Panda came across a new HTC Magic phone that had three malware programs already on it.
by Jeremy Kirk
9 Mar 2010 at 1:34pm
Office updates patch Excel security flaw
Minor updates to the 2004 and 2008 editions of Microsoft Office released Tuesday patch an Excel security vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to overwrite the contents of your computer?s memory with malicious code.
by Philip Michaels
9 Mar 2010 at 1:07pm
Play.com and Expansys to stock iPad in UK
Online retailers Play.com and Expansys will both stock Apple's iPad when it hits the UK.
by Carrie-Ann Skinner
9 Mar 2010 at 12:40pm
Elgato releases smaller EyeTV Hybrid, adds PC support
Elgato on Tuesday released the newest version of its EyeTV Hybrid, reducing the size of the device and adding support for Windows 7 users.
by Serenity Caldwell
9 Mar 2010 at 12:14pm
EFF publishes iPhone developer agreement
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has legally obtained and published a copy of the license agreement that governs the terms of developing for the iPhone.
by Dan Moren
9 Mar 2010 at 12:12pm
Are Macs really cheaper to manage than PCs?
Does "I'm a Mac" mean "I'm less expensive to manage?" An Enterprise Desktop Alliance survey says Macs cost a lot less than PCs to manage.
by Tom Kaneshige
9 Mar 2010 at 9:35am
Chinese companies plan tablets amid iPad hype
Several Chinese companies have jumped on the tablet PC bandwagon as buyers await the sale of the iPad, possibly presaging wide imitation of the Apple device.
by Owen Fletcher
9 Mar 2010 at 9:18am
Mac Rumors
Apple Reportedly Disrupting iPhone Competitors With Legal Threats Backed Up b...
9 Mar 2010 at 3:42pm
iPhone Developer Agreement Revealed by Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday announced that it had obtained a copy of Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement and published it for public consumption. While the contents of the license agreement, which govern...
9 Mar 2010 at 1:57pm
Apple Releases iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 for iPad
Apple today released iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 via the iPhone Dev Center, offering developers updated tools for building applications for the iPad. The last update to the SDK was issued two weeks ago, continuing a trend of biweekly revisions.
MacHeist nanoBundle: 8 Mac Apps for $19.95 [Updated]
A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least eight Mac applications for $19.95 (over $280 value if all purchased separately) including:
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9 Mar 2010 at 9:30am
FileMaker Pro 11 Brings Streamlined Database Creation With New Reporting and ... Apple subsidiary FileMaker today announced the release of FileMaker Pro 11, the latest version of its popular database application. The updated version brings several new features, as well as streamlined...
9 Mar 2010 at 9:15am
Gruber: No 'Widget Mode' for Minor Applications on iPad Last month, speculation that a number of minor iPhone applications such as Stocks, Weather, Voice Memo, Clock, and Calculator "missing" from the iPad could reappear in some sort of "widget mode" similar t...
9 Mar 2010 at 8:47am
Valve Officially Announces Steam and Game Library Coming to Mac in April
Valve Software today officially announced that it is bringing its Steam game distribution platform, as well as its own library of games, to Mac OS X next month.
Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team ...
8 Mar 2010 at 12:39pm
Apple Cracking Down on "Cookie Cutter" App Store Applications? TechCrunch discusses a picture that is being pieced together from reports from App Store developers suggesting that Apple is looking to crack down on "cookie cutter" iPhone applications that offer little...
8 Mar 2010 at 9:38am
Apple Airs First iPad Commercial During Oscars, Steve Jobs at Event [Ad Video... Apple just aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. A description of the ad by Doju:
The commercial was just on, depicted a person using the iPad on their lap, going through the various features (iBook...
7 Mar 2010 at 7:58pm
Valve's Portal 2 Confirmed for Mac
After Valve's series of teaser images, it's now been revealed that their upcoming sequel Portal 2 will also be coming to the Mac. The above image comes from a series of scans from the latest issue of Gameinformer magazine which carries a cov...
7 Mar 2010 at 10:15am
Boston Globe Tech News
Tracking your gadgets
Perhaps the worst thing about portable devices is that they’re so easy to carry around, we can barely hang on to them. Asurion, a Kansas City company that insures portable devices, says Americans lose about 60 million cellphones every year. Our laptop computers don’t fare much better. A 2008 study by Ponemon Institute LLC, a research outfit in Traverse City, ...
by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff
3 Mar 2010 at 8:26pm
Wireless peel-and-stick devices for feeling safe
Home security It took years, but I’ve finally persuaded my wife, Lisa, to save a few dollars by killing our landline phone service. Some things can keep you tethered to landline service, however, such as your home’s security system. Not so with SimpliSafe Inc. (www.simplisafe.com).
by Mark Baard
7 Mar 2010 at 10:07pm
All-in-one, evolved
Some would say we have hit a plateau in the realm of personal computing. Lately, it’s not so much about what you can do with a PC, but how you can do it. Interaction and creativity have overshadowed raw power and specifications.
by John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff
6 Mar 2010 at 11:36pm
Making clean tech cheap, as well as green
It’s called clean technology’s “competitive conundrum’’: how to get people to pay for cleaner energy when electricity produced from traditional sources like nuclear power, coal, or natural gas costs less.
by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff
8 Mar 2010 at 10:30pm
W3C getting a new chief executive
The World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet standards group at MIT, is expected to announce today that Jeffrey Jaffe has been named chief executive.
by D.C. Denison, Globe Staff
7 Mar 2010 at 9:45pm
After errors, global warming gets a cold shoulder
A series of highly publicized errors in a landmark report about manmade global warming - and lingering controversy over hacked e-mails between climate scientists - is eroding public confidence in the research and could further stall efforts in Congress to pass climate legislation.
by Beth Daley, Globe Staff
7 Mar 2010 at 11:39pm
MIT lab helps designers reimagine video games
Don’t bother asking Abe Stein whether he believes video games qualify as art. “The answer,’’ he said, “is an obvious ‘yes.’ ’’
by Mark Baard, Globe Correspondent
7 Mar 2010 at 9:35pm
A stimulating vision
HANSON - As the recession battered his machine shop last year, Jack McGrail cut hours, put off bills, and borrowed all he could to keep from laying off workers. By late fall, with business down sharply and few signs of a rebound, he prepared to do what he had tried so hard to avoid.
by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff
7 Mar 2010 at 12:00am
Ray Ozzie at Microsoft
March 2005 Ray Ozzie sells his Beverly start-up, Groove Networks Inc., to Microsoft Corp. Microsoft had been a significant financial backer of Groove, which developed Internet collaboration software for businesses. Ozzie joins Microsoft as one of three chief technology officers.
6 Mar 2010 at 11:37pm
Summary Box: Real strings on new guitar game
THE NEXT LEVEL: The small studio behind "Power Gig: Rise of the SixString" hopes to compete with the bigwigs behind "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" by having players strum real string, not buttons, to play.
by The Associated Press
9 Mar 2010 at 3:44pm
Slashdot
Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C
blozza2070 notes the news that Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasn't come up very often in this community, he is one of the architects of the Novell-Microsoft patent deal. A reading of Jaffe's blog while at Novell tenda to paint him as a software patent supporter, Microsoft apologist, and no fan of the FSF. This strongly worded page at Boycott Novell features copious links to support the above characterization.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by kdawson
9 Mar 2010 at 4:58pm
NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s adeelarshad82 writes "After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its relationship with IPEX, the supplier of the phony lot. The retailer said that it has already contacted affected customers and would continue to reach out and replace the counterfeit parts. We discussed the fake Core i7s over the weekend."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by kdawson
9 Mar 2010 at 4:12pm
Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week netbuzz writes "When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. A year later it was below 2000. Gone were such poster children of the era as Pets.com, Kozmo, and — who could forget? — Whoopi Goldberg's Flooz. Here's a look back."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
by kdawson
9 Mar 2010 at 3:22pm
Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications? bjb writes "While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called 'PDF Suite.' Never having heard of it, I Googled it with 'malware' and other key words, but nothing turned up, though my suspicion remained (and was somewhat confirmed by WOT.) So my question is, where can you go to find out if something is legitimate? Because the person I'm helping is on a dial-up connection, downloading malware detection applications (and updates) is too heavy consider. And I don't maintain a USB stick with such app...
by kdawson
9 Mar 2010 at 2:30pm
Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router CWmike writes "Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. 'The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,' Cisco's John Chambers said while announcing the product. At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322Tbit/sec., roughly three times that of the CRS-1, introduced in 2004. It also has more than 12 times the capacity of its nearest competitor, Chambers said. The CRS-3 will help the Internet evolve from a messaging to an entertainment and media platform, with video emerging as the 'killer app,' Chambers said. Using a CRS-3, ...
by kdawson
9 Mar 2010 at 1:45pm
US CERT Cyber Alert
TA10-068A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
SB10-067: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 1, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 1, 2010
SB10-060: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 22, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 22, 2010
TA10-055A: Malicious Activity Associated with "Aurora" Internet Explorer Expl...
Malicious Activity Associated with "Aurora" Internet Explorer Exploit
SB10-053: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 15, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 15, 2010
SB10-046: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 8, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 8, 2010
TA10-040A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
SB10-040: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 1, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 1, 2010
TA10-021A: Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
SB10-018: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 11, 2010
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 11, 2010
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