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From eWeek: Google’s continuously raked over the coals regarding the massive amounts of PII (personally identifiable information) it collects, what it does with it, how long it retains that data and what the company might do with it if its merger with DoubleClick goes ahead. That’s all been ratcheted up to fever pitch over the …
From Yahoo! News: Eastman Kodak Co. said on Thursday it has developed digital camera technology that nearly eliminates the need for flash photography, part of the company’s effort to make money from its deep patent portfolio. The world’s biggest maker of photographic film says its proprietary sensor technology significantly increases sensitivity to light. Image sensors …
From Yahoo! News: When Will Nickelson and his daughter want to spend some quality time together, they fire up Nintendo Co.’s Wii and play a few rounds of “Wii Sports” or “Mario Party 8.” “It’s kind of difficult picking a game for a 7-year-old girl, but she really likes to beat her dad at bowling,” …
Paragon Software (the makers of Partition Manager) have released a new hard drive defragmentation utility called Total Defrag 2007. I received a press release with some of the details: Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announced the release of Paragon Total Defrag 2007, the most advanced hard …
I received this press release the other day from Moleskinsoft: Moleskinsoft today announces the release of version 2.3 of Moleskinsoft Clone Remover – an efficient utility designed to search for various duplicate files in your PC and delete unnecessary file copies. Moleskinsoft Clone Remover 2.3 finds duplicate files of different types, including music (mp3), image …
If you have a web site, then you want to be listed high in a search engine. Google uses a formula called PageRank that determines the quality of a page (and thus its ranking) based on the quality of the links that point to it. The formula seemed to be remarkable effective, and that’s why …
From ZDNet News: One lazy afternoon, Maer Israel and a colleague ducked out of work to have a double espresso at a nearby cafe in San Francisco. Several weeks later, the information technology manager at the French American International School was alerted that a picture of him sitting at the cafe could be found on …
I heard about this on Download Squad… The nightmare scenario: your computer won’t boot. The drive seems healthy otherwise; you can access it when booting from another drive, but for some reason your drive absolutely refuses to boot. Take heart, it’s possible that it can be fixed by TestDisk, a very powerful cross-platform partition recovery …
From BBC News: Internet video site YouTube is to test a new video fingerprinting technology to address copyright concerns. The software will identify unique attributes in video clips and could be used to prevent copyrighted clips from being uploaded without permission. YouTube executive Chris Maxcy told news agency Reuters that the tool would be tested …
From the New York Times: Presleigh Montemayor often gets home after a long day and spends some time with her family. Then she logs onto the Internet, leaving the real world and joining a virtual one. But the digital utopia of Second Life is not for her. Presleigh, who is 9 years old, prefers a …