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From NewsFactor: Though I try to keep close tabs on my family, it’s sometimes hard to know exactly where they are when. For example, when my daughter is on a play date or school trip, or my husband is traveling for work. For those who find moments like these unsettling, there are a growing number …
From the Globe and Mail: IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union’s group of data privacy regulators said Monday. Germany’s data protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group preparing a report on how well the privacy policies …
From the New York Times: The economy may be teetering, but the personal computer business is still nimbly running at full speed, according to the tally of sales in the fourth quarter of 2007 from the International Data Corporation. Worldwide, 77.3 million PCs were sold in the quarter, up 15.5 percent from the fourth quarter …
From Fortune Magazine (via CNN Money): Steve Jobs gave it his best, delivering a new must-have gadget called the MacBook Air, deals with a full house of compliant Hollywood studios, and more bells and whistles on his existing products and services in a 90-minute speech than most technology companies do in a year. But Wall …
From InfoWorld: The agency that governs educational technology in the United Kingdom has advised schools in the country to keep Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system and its Office 2007 software out of the classroom and administrative offices. “Upgrading existing ICT systems to Microsoft Vista or Office 2007 is not recommended,” said the British Educational Communications …
From eWeek: A weak dollar may not be all bad news for the tech sector. The value of the U.S. dollar has been sliding for more than 36 months, monitored dolefully by observers who recall the years when the dollar was the rock-solid underpinning of the global economy and are not used to the U.S …
From BusinessWeek: At last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, most of the 140,000 attendees were buzzing about the future of the cell phone—and how Apple Inc. (AAPL) had stolen the spotlight by announcing the iPhone at its own Macworld conference. But this year, the hot topic at CES is the future of video …
From CNN: When you’re not inclined to give your product away for free, make your customers believe they’re getting something for nothing. That’s the thinking behind some of the offerings music fans may see this year as the recording industry scrambles to offset losses from plunging CD sales and find new sources of revenue when …
From Fortune magazine (via CNN Money): Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair – with an Apple computer. ¶ She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working middle-class family. Ray French, Melinda’s dad, stretched their budget to pay for all four children to go to college. An …
From BusinessWeek: With nearly 3,000 technology companies touting their wares at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from Jan. 7 to 10, it’s a challenge to stand out from the crowd—even for an industry giant like Microsoft. So the software behemoth is staging a “fashion show” in which three top style mavens, …