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From CNet News: Microsoft has drawn some criticism after confirming that it will not make the next version of Internet Explorer available to users of its Windows 2000 operating system. In a blog posting at the end of last week, a Microsoft employee confirmed that the company would not be releasing IE 7 for Windows …
From New York Times: IN the winter of 1996, back when I was a brunette who wore sensible shoes, a photographer snapped my picture during a rehearsal for a college musical. The production mattered; eating and sleeping did not. The resulting portrait showed a pasty, gaunt girl being swallowed by a XXX-large T-shirt. The only …
From Wired News: British researchers are turning to Linux and embedded processors to build a fleet of tiny, robotic helicopters capable of swarming like angry bees and evaluating their surroundings with a single hive mind. The University of Essex’s UltraSwarm project is an experiment in swarm intelligence and wireless cluster computing that might one day …
From CNet: The chipmaker unveiled the prototype with AOpen on Tuesday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The squarish metallic box, originally code-named Pandora, will be released under AOpen’s XC Cube product line and is similar to one revealed by the chipmaking giant at its Intel Developers Forum in March. Intel often contracts with …
From USA Today: A 2005 version of Monty Python’s famous “Spam” skit: Man: Well, what’ve you got? Waitress: Well, there’s egg and blogs; egg, bacon and blogs; blogs, blogs, egg, blogs, blogs, bacon and blogs; blogs, sausage, blogs, blogs, bacon, blogs, tomato and blogs … Wife: Have you got anything without blogs? These days, the …
From TechRepublic: Computers running Windows XP Service Pack 2 are 15 times less likely than those running XP or XP SP1 to be infected by some of the most dangerous forms of malware, according to a Microsoft security guru. Jason Garms, who heads the company’s anti-malware product team, said Tuesday that this improvement had been …
From USA Today: Never mind that Donald Trump is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He says people need the street smarts and skills to achieve, and they need them fast. On Monday he launched the online Trump University with courses in entrepreneurship, real estate and wealth accumulation that last …
From FCW.com: If you’re getting drenched in a downpour or jostled in a Jeep, consider yourself lucky if you’re using the GoBook III notebook from Itronix. This rugged device meets MIL-STD-810F specification for shocks caused by drops and is built to withstand rain, snow, wind, dust, fire, vibration and chemical exposure. The die-cast magnesium chassis …
From TechNewsWorld: In a move to compete with rival Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft is planning to launch MSN Virtual Earth, a service designed to take local search ePilot Search Engine Advertising – Click here to add your site today. to new depths, according to the …
From TechRepublic: Companies should not ban employees from writing down their passwords because such bans force people to use the same weak term on many systems, according to a Microsoft security guru. Speaking on the opening day of a conference hosted by Australia’s national Computer Emergency Response Team, or AusCERT, Microsoft’s Jesper Johansson said that …