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From ABC News: From on-demand video services that were overly demanding, to underwhelming operating-system updates, 2007 was full of disappointments. We surveyed the landscape and polled some old friends to come up with the 15 products, companies, and industries that left the most sour taste in our mouths. From last to first, here’s our list …
From the New York Times: Netscape Navigator, the world’s first commercial Web browser and the starting point of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run. Its current caretakers, Time Warner’s AOL, decided to end further development and technical support to focus on developing the company as an …
From itWorldCanada: Information technology is keeping pace with all the frantic action happening on the court in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In a game where play is fast and furious, the league is leveraging an array of technologies, including portable touch-screen computing, wireless sensing and quick-reacting statisticians to following the bouncing ball as its …
In year’s past, I’ve seen lots of postings and links to various year-end lists. For some reason this year I haven’t seen so many. In fact, the only highly publicized one I’ve seen is the Google Zeitgeist 2007. They have a section of their site where they show stats throughout the year, but then they …
From the Globe and Mail: Britain’s 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, launched her own special Royal Channel on YouTube Sunday. The Queen will use the popular video-sharing Web site to send out her 50th annual televised Christmas message, which she first delivered live to the nation and its colonies on Dec. …
From ars technica: Younger gamers looking to con a Wii out of parents this year by selling them on the physical benefits of “active” gaming, it’s time to dream up a new strategy. A UK study entitled “Energy expenditure in adolescents playing new generation computer games” reveals that a round of Wii Sports doesn’t work …
From CNN: First-year medical students are some of the biggest hypochondriacs around. Bombarded with information about every disease under the sun, they start to imagine they have them all. In their minds, every mole is skin cancer. A nosebleed is surely a sign of a tumor. Headache? Must be skyrocketing blood pressure. “People get terribly …
From USA Today: Thieves are systematically pilfering sensitive personal data from companies, government agencies, colleges and hospitals like never before. More than 162 million records have been reported lost or stolen in 2007, triple the 49.7 million that went missing in 2006, according to USA TODAY’s analysis of data losses reported over the past two …
From NetworkWorld: IT managers want to tell end users one thing: We are not the enemy. “IT has a reputation for being aloof, geeky and non-communicative. I don’t want to do anything to make that any worse,” says Kerry Miller, network engineer at First Victoria National Bank in Victoria, Texas. Miller says he carefully weighs …
From the New York Times: Google is testing a new Web service intended to become a repository of knowledge from experts on various topics, one that could turn into a competitor to Wikipedia and other sites. If it attracts a following, the service could accelerate Google’s transformation from a search engine into a company that …