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From TechRepublic: The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state. The result, says Carl Honore, journalist and author of “In Praise of Slowness,” is …
From PC Magazine: Microsoft Corp. is tightening the noose for those people running illegal or pirated copies of its Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Tablet editions and Windows 2000 software on their systems. Starting Tuesday, it will be mandatory for users of this Windows software to certify that their software is a …
From InfoWorld: Employees are using the Web more and more for personal reasons and that is setting U.S. companies back $178 billion annually, a cost of $5,000 per employee, said a study released Tuesday by Websense, Inc. The San Diego-based Internet management company reported that 50 percent of the surveyed workers admitted to using the …
From MSNBC: Pop quiz: Which schools produced the most degrees in computer science in 2001? MIT? Carnegie Mellon? Georgia Tech? If you guessed any of these, you’re wrong: try Strayer University and DeVry Institute of Technology. And what kind of student is most likely to take up computer science at Strayer or DeVry? If you …
From TechRepublic: A Pakistani girl has qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of 9. Arfa Karim of Multan has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan, and one of the youngest in the world. Karim, now 10, met with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates last week–an experience she later described as second only …
From the New York Times: Add personal computers to the list of throwaways in the disposable society. On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker’s Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware – stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user’s machine – he did not simply …
I first read about this in a post at Google Blogoscoped From the Gear Live blog: In January of this year, I was pulled over by a traffic officer for “disobeying a steady red”, a.k.a. running a red light. I pleaded “Not Guilty” to the charge, and today – nearly six months later – I …
From the July 8, 2005 issue of Network World Canada (I tried to find it online as well, but couldn’t): We’ve all heard of road rage and now comes the new phenomenon of PC rage. A recent survey in the United States found four out of five PC users would swear at their machines with …
From Wired News: It was inevitable: Bloggers who previously wrote endlessly about everything from politics to tech tips to how to fry an egg on a hot sidewalk can now take their commentary, advice and random experiments to the next level by filming and broadcasting their work, thanks to the latest web trend — video …
From CNN: Consumers will soon be able to recognize Web sites specially designed for use by mobile phones by the new “.mobi” suffix, which will be introduced alongside the popular “.com” and other top-level domain names. The new suffix was approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers at a Luxemburg meeting Monday. …