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From TechRepublic: Given the cult-film status of 1971’s THX 1138 in the George Lucas universe, it should come as little surprise that the total capacity of Lucasfilm’s giant data center is 11.38 petabits per second. Granted, that number–which represents the value one would get by adding up the bandwidth capacity of all the company’s 1 …
From eWeek: Despite employer policies, threats and monitoring, the vast majority of workers still use company technology for personal use, according to a survey commissioned by Lawyers.com, released Jan. 24. Though nearly one-half (45 percent) of respondents reported that they been explicitly informed by superiors that their technology usage at work is monitored, most still …
From BBC News: Criminals controlling millions of personal computers are threatening the internet’s future, experts have warned. Up to a quarter of computers on the net may be used by cyber criminals in so-called botnets, said Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet. Technology writer John Markoff said: “It’s as bad as you …
From eWeek: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country’s sprawling, unruly online population. Hu made the comments as the ruling party’s Politburo—its 24-member leading council—was studying China’s Internet, which claimed 137 million registered users …
From InformationWeek: The United States again led the world as a spam producing, malware hosting country last year, a security vendor said Monday, but China took top dishonor as the nation that generated the most malicious code in 2006. Sophos, which published its annual threat roundup Monday, said U.S.-based computers were responsible for sending 22% …
From Wired News: The Apple Macintosh personal computer is introduced to the world in a now-legendary TV commercial aired during Super Bowl XVIII. The 60-second spot featured a female athlete running through a dystopian landscape inspired by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, to throw a sledgehammer at a TV image of Big Brother, meant, in this …
From TechRepublic: Retailers are gearing up for next week’s Vista launch, but it appears the “midnight madness” will be kept to a minimum. CompUSA plans to keep its stores open past midnight on Tuesday, January 30, so shoppers can get the new operating system as soon as it goes on sale. Best Buy and Circuit …
From the Globe and Mail: Ryan Vending, a Victoria-based company that fills and services vending machines throughout Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, wanted to know whether its drivers were receiving fair compensation for the hours and kilometres they logged on their delivery routes. So last fall, the company installed GPS devices into a portion …
From Forbes: The iPhone may be Apple’s future. But investors will listen attentively to its past today as Chief Executive Steve Jobs reveals how well the company’s existing products, notably its iPod and MacBook laptops, have been doing. Apple will report first-quarter earnings, which include holiday sales, after the market closes. Analysts expect the company …
From the International Herald Tribute: Moixa Energy’s latest innovation is one of those slap- your-forehead, why-didn’t- I-think-of-that ideas that simultaneously makes sense and makes us feel good to use: a traditional AA battery that recharges itself while plugged into a personal computer’s USB port. Moixa, a British company, began offering its USBCell in September and, …