Monthly archives: June, 2006

Computer books based on pictures, not text. Free.

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Amazon starts selling groceries

From Reuters: Internet retailer Amazon.com (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has started selling groceries on its Web site, a cautious step into a business that was one of the biggest casualties of the dot-com collapse. The service is limited to non-perishable goods such as cereal, pasta and canned soup, but Amazon can ship those items to …

Passwords still not taken seriously

From Vnunet: The majority of administrative passwords in some of the world’s largest corporations are stored in the heads of one or two IT staff or kept on paper, according to a survey by Cyber-Ark Software. Of the 200 IT security professionals questioned at the Infosecurity event in London, 28 per cent revealed that they …

Bill Gates’ Legacy: Microsoft’s Top 10 Flops

From eWeek: The Chairman isn’t always right. While Microsoft’s outgoing Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has been ahead of the curve in predicting many technology trends, he also has backed some notorious flops. Now that Gates officially has announced plans to relinquish his day-to-day company responsibilities by July 2008, we thought it would be a …

The iPod’s Incredible Journey

From MacNewsWorld: It has come to define a generation. In just five years, Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple iPod has become one of the most popular and iconic gadgets around. More than two million people in Britain own one, and last year alone 22.5 million were bought worldwide: a phenomenal 61,644 a day. …

Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 for Mac

This following press release arrived in my Inbox today: Lightroom Public Beta 3.0 for Mac Now Available Adobe Incorporates Early Testers’ Feedback and Additional Raw File Support in Updated Beta SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 13, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced an update to the public beta of Adobe Lightroom, an all-new …

Backdoors, Bots Biggest Threats To Windows

From TechWeb: Backdoor Trojans are a clear and present danger to Windows machines, Microsoft said Monday as it released the first-ever analysis of data collected by the 15-month run of its Malicious Software Removal Tool, a utility that seeks out and destroys over five-dozen malware families. According to Microsoft’s anti-malware engineering team, Trojans that, once …

Time to crack down on tech at work?

From TechRepublic: There is no doubt that new technological means of communicating and entertaining are invading the workplace. The question thus arises: Should employers take steps to potentially control employee blogging, instant messaging and their use of iPods and camera phones?

RssReader

I’ve been having problems with Newsgator lately. Once I’ve had it running for a few hours, it seems to stop retrieving posts. There are some posts that I can’t subscribe to as well, even though I know others who can and they use Newsgator. So I decided to look for an alternative. The one and …

How We Use the Web Today

From BusinessWeek: Just how do Americans get their news and entertainment over the Web? And how does the Web stack up against TV, newspapers, and other media when it comes to media consumption? Those are questions that advertisers have long wrestled to answer, with mixed results. Sure, you can give people a survey. But that …