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From TechRepublic: Ten years ago, Jon von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsoy were researchers at Norway’s largest telecom when management shut down their project. But the two programmers successfully negotiated the rights to the browsing software they had developed at the company and then struck out on their own. And so it was that Opera Software …
From New York Times: I was having commitment problems. Not with a relationship. This was more serious – this was with my computer. Annoying pop-up advertisements kept asking if I wanted to continue antivirus or antispyware trial programs. I wavered. Should I buy? Would it help or destroy my computer? Was it a scam? Chickening …
From TechRepublic: A young girl has become the first swimmer in the U.K. saved from drowning by a computerized pool-monitoring system. The accident happened on Aug. 24 when a 10-year-old girl in a swimming pool in Bangor, North Wales, sank to the bottom of the deep end. A Poseidon monitoring system installed in the pool …
From TechRepublic: The first thing any visitor to Robert McKeown’s home notices is the toy collection. Vintage Barbies dominate one wall of the living room, with several rows of dolls showing her evolution from the mid-1960s. Action figures from the ’60s television show “Man From UNCLE” stare patronizingly at the suburban icon. A Shadow Crime …
From VNUnet: A couple in Scotland who claimed to be addicted to computer gaming have been jailed for three months after admitting that they neglected their four children. The father, 28, claimed to have become addicted to online gaming, and that his wife had also been affected. Arbroath Sheriff Court was told that the case …
From TechRepublic: General Motors is expected to announce a new laptop next week that’s styled after its popular Hummer multi-terrain vehicles. The carmaker has signed an exclusive three-year licensing agreement with Spokane, Wash.-based Itronix to make a portable computer designed for people who work outdoors: police officers, firefighters, claims adjusters and construction workers, for example, …
From TechRepublic: A new Web site aims to help determine whether a specific computer has been sending legitimate e-mail or spam. The TrustedSource Web site uses data from reputation filters, which are billed as the next big thing in e-mail security. Makers of spam-fighting tools collect data on e-mail senders and use that to assign …
From New York Times: Kyle Lewis, 25, missed going to church one Sunday last month. But he did not miss the sermon. Mr. Lewis, who regularly attends services of the National Community Church in Alexandria, Va., listened to the sermon while he was at the gym, through a recording he had downloaded to his iPod. …
From USA Today: Matthew Szulik, CEO of open-source software company Red Hat, wants to show me his company’s new video. It rolls through evangelical sequences about how the underdog open-source movement is going to prove wrong its doubters. To bolster this point, the video flashes quotes by people through history who had experienced some sort …
From eWeek: Step aside, Six Flags. Move over, Magic Mountain. For sheer, gut-wrenching highs and lows, even the world’s tallest, fastest, most technologically advanced fly-by-wire roller coaster can’t compare with the last 10 years of highs and lows at Microsoft. Whether you’re a shareholder, an employee, a customer or a competitor, you’ve experienced the thrill …