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From TechRepublic: If you happen to find yourself looking to remake your leftover Altoids tins, the company that makes the mints says the creative bar is a whole lot higher than an ashtray or a trinket box. Earlier this year, Altoids invited customers to enter its Tin Million Uses competition. The idea? Challenge people to …
From MSNBC: France leads the rest of Europe in the numbers of hours spent online by Internet users, followed by Britain and Spain, a study revealed on Tuesday. The study by European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) showed that the French user now spends 13 hours a week online, compared with 11 each for Britain and …
From CNN: The jukebox at the bar Brian Toro manages isn’t gathering dust just yet — but it may only be a matter of time. The popular nightspot is among a growing number of places across the country where people can bring their iPods and other portable music players and, for as long as the …
From eWeek: Keylogging programs are the epitome of online stealth, and they’re also a mushrooming problem on the Internet, where identity and intellectual property thefts are fueling an explosion of key-capture tools. Reports of new keylogging programs soared higher this year, as part of a wave of multifunction malware with integrated keylogging features, according to …
From the New York Times: When Michelle Dubé, a golf instructor in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., finishes a lesson, she whips out her BlackBerry wireless device – to schedule the next appointment, sure, but also to swipe the student’s credit card for payment right there on the driving range. It takes only a few seconds, …
From the New York Times: Everywhere you look, the electronics industry seems to be playing its own mutant variations of limbo. But the question isn’t “How low can you go?” At Dell, it’s “How cheap can you go?” At Apple, it’s “How cool can you go?” And at Microsoft’s Windows division, it’s “How slow can …
From MSNBC: In a deal aimed at reducing illegal Internet traffic in pirated films, Hollywood reached an agreement Tuesday with the creator of the popular file-sharing software BitTorrent. The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies, effectively frustrating people who search for …
From TechRepublic: Ever since Edward R. Murrow and Ed Sullivan were doing their thing in black and white, the living room television has been the centerpiece of home entertainment. Then, somewhere along the way, a lot of folks in the high-tech industry got it into their heads that families should gather around the PC to …
From the New York Times: “So you have these four basic types that occupy the environment: the Achiever, the Explorer, the Socializer and the Killer.” Nick Fortugno, the 30-year-old teacher, turned away from the whiteboard and faced the 14 undergraduate and master’s-level students in his Thursday seminar. “Killers act like predators, and like any ecosystem, …
From CNN: When CNN.com asked readers how the Internet has changed their lives, the e-mail inbox filled with stories from people who have used technology to keep in touch or find new ways to do business. Some of these tales are by now very familiar: Millions of people use the Internet to e-mail family photos …