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From CNet: In a move that could rankle privacy advocates, Microsoft said Monday that it is adding the PC equivalent of a flight data recorder to the next version of Windows, in an effort to better understand and prevent computer crashes. The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will …
Follow-up to Intel posts $10K reward for Moore’s Law mag From TechRepublic: In a philosophical victory for pack rats everywhere, an Englishman gets top dollar for a magazine he’s been storing under his floorboards. The chip giant, which had been searching high and low for a 1965 copy of Electronics Magazine that featured Intel co-founder …
From SourcingMag.com: Roger Green and David Cook seem like your run-of-the-mill high tech execs — well dressed, well spoken, bright guys. That is, until they tell you their business plan. (I heard it at a party last night here at the Gartner conference, then did a quick interview with them.) And then you have to …
From TechRepublic: After nearly a decade, Microsoft’s vision for how to protect especially sensitive information within Windows remains largely that–a vision. For years, the software giant has promised to deliver a secure way to shuttle around key bits of information. Once known as Palladium and more recently dubbed the Next Generation Secure Computing Base, or …
From USA Today: Got a prayer or a problem for the new pope? Now you can e-mail him. Showing that Pope Benedict XVI intends to follow in the footsteps of John Paul II’s multimedia ministry, the Vatican on Thursday modified its Web site so that users who click on an icon on the home page …
From VNUnet: Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry have found that the constant distractions of email and texting are more harmful to performance than cannabis. Those distracted by incoming email, phone calls and text messages saw a 10-point fall in their IQ, more than twice that found in studies of the impact …
From WiredWired: If the newly elected pope wants his own website, he’ll have to talk to Rogers Cadenhead first. The Jacksonville, Florida-based writer purchased the rights to BenedictXVI.comBenedictXVI.com on April 1 — more than two-and-a-half weeks before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger announced that he would assume the papacy under the name of Benedict XVI. In an …
From TechRepublic: Desktop publishing specialist Adobe Systems is buying multimedia applications maker Macromedia in a $3.4 billion deal geared toward building a software powerhouse. The all-stock deal, announced Monday, is designed to create a better-stocked source of tools for building and distributing multimedia content across a range of operating systems and devices, the companies said. …
From New York Times: here are about 10 million blogs out there, give or take, including one belonging to Niall Kennedy, an employee at Technorati, a small San Francisco-based company that, yes, tracks blogs. Like many employees at many companies, Mr. Kennedy has opinions, even when he is not working. One evening last month, he …
From eWeek: As Apple Computer Inc. prepares to release its latest operating system at the end of the month, the same Web sites that the company is suing for publishing details of its products are continuing to reveal more of its upcoming product plans. The company is currently embroiled in two cases against several Mac …