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From the Globe and Mail: In the back offices of the software firm Mailworkz, programmers are hard at work developing technology to battle the fraudsters that plague Internet advertising. The invisible enemy is known as “click fraud,” where a malicious competitor or a bogus website operator is clicking on “pay-per-click” advertisements and listings without any …
From USA Today: New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet’s key oversight agency announced Thursday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers invited public comment on procedures for creating new names, the first expansion for general use since 2000. Names added since …
From CNN: Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. The 42-year-old chairman and …
From BusinessWeek: True believers made the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley on May 10, as both Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) held their annual meetings. The companies’ fervent supporters turned out en masse. It took Google CEO Eric Schmidt a mere five seconds to get a round of applause as he opened his shareholder meeting—and all …
From TechRepublic: Great work is being done to narrow the gap between the technical haves and the have-nots across the planet. At MIT, Professor Nicholas Negroponte seeks to equip every child in the developing world with a laptop. In Kenya, the government is supporting assembly of inexpensive PCs as part of university curricula, ultimately designating …
From Reuters: From apples to zebras, all 1.8 million known plant and animal species will be listed in an Internet-based “Encyclopedia of Life” under a $100 million project, scientists said on Tuesday. The 10-year scheme, launched with initial grants of $12.5 million from two U.S.-based foundations, could aid everyone from children with biology homework to …
From TechRepublic: The nonprofit One Laptop per Child project said on Thursday it might sell versions of its kid-friendly laptops in the United States, reversing its previous position of distributing them to only the poorest nations. “We can’t ignore the United States. … We are looking at it very seriously,” Nicholas Negroponte, a Massachusetts Institute …
From ComputerWeekly.com: A survey of 1,500 UK office workers by market research firm Tickbox.net, on behalf of ergonomic monitor firm ViewSonic, shows a link between poor ergonomics knowledge and ailments such as headaches, eye fatigue and backache. The study reveals that 46% of office workers spend six or more hours in front of their computer …
From NewsFactor: The Internet superhighway has broken another speed limit — twice in as many days. The Internet2 Consortium announced Tuesday that an international team led by the University of Tokyo transmitted data at speeds of 7.67 Gbps late last year, and then at 9.08 Gbps the very next day. The first record-breaking transmission took …
From USA Today: Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007 in a recently published brand ranking. It’s the second year in a row a tech brand has beaten household names such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro and Toyota. In the ranking, which factored in financial performance …