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From TechRepublic: Hotel chain Marriott admitted last Tuesday that backup computer tapes containing data on approximately 206,000 customers were missing from a company office in Florida. The data, which relates to customers of its time-share division, Marriott Vacation Club International, included personal information such as the credit card details, Social Security numbers and, in a …
From CNN: Five years ago, Apple Computer Inc. was barely an afterthought in the halls of electronics companies. Not anymore. With its best-selling iPods and landmark licensing deals with music and television moguls propelling new ways of consuming digital media, Apple now is the pacesetter.
From MSNBC: Arcane PCs, printers, monitors and other obsolete gizmos are stacked high along the walls of the dusty suburban Atlanta warehouse, awaiting reincarnation before a line of grisly industrial shredders. “To us, they’re plastic, copper, aluminum and steel,” said Nader Nejad, who runs Molam International, Georgia’s largest electronics recycling depot.
From CNN: South Koreans may look at their mobile phones with some trepidation in the new year because prosecutors will start telling people they have been indicted via text messages, an official said on Monday. In a country where about 75 percent of the population carries mobile phones, prosecutors felt it was time to move …
From Wired News: 2005 has been a banner year for gearheads, with more hot gadget launches than you could shake a USB cable at. But there’s a great chasm separating pre-launch buzz from real-world performance, and not all gizmos live up to the hype. Here’s a look back at the most anticipated product launches of …
From the New York Times: In the beginning, personal computers were for loners. You sat at the desk and stared at the screen. To involve anyone else in what you were doing, you had to pull up an extra chair at that same desk, or carry a printout or floppy disk containing your work to …
From CNet News: China is winning the war on Internet pornography but it will be hard to eradicate entirely as many Web sites are based outside of the country, a senior police official said Thursday. China routinely blocks access to Internet sites on sensitive subjects such as self-ruled Taiwan, which China regards as its own, …
From InternetNews: Technology companies ranked among the highest rated brands in a survey of consumers nationwide released this week. The 2005 ImagePower Newsmaker Brands Survey, by branding and design consultancy Landor Associates, and research firm Penn, Schoen & Berland, was conducted earlier this month. “This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects …
From the New York Times: Intel, the world’s biggest chip maker, is breaking away from its longstanding love affair with pure computing power to remake itself as a consumer-friendly brand that will seek to dominate the digital home. Intel’s strategy, based on a new generation of multimedia platforms and chips, will be unveiled next week …
From ExtremeTech: We’re guilty of hype. But so is everyone else who writes about technology… So in the spirit of fun and mea culpa, we look at some trends that seemed very real a year ago. Note that these aren’t all trends we predicted, but they were all written about by starry-eyed technology writers like …