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From CNet: While Apple is riding high on the sales of the iPod, the iconic music player is morphing into a business tool for radiologists at the University of California, Los Angeles. They are teaming the devices with an open-source platform to help the medical community cut costs. In addition to using the iPod for …
From NYT: On a hot summer trip to Cape Cod, the Mills family minivan did a peculiar thing. After an hour on the road, it began to bake the children. Mom and Dad were cool and comfortable up front, but heat was blasting into the rear of the van and it could not be turned …
From Vnu Network: The global junk mail plague is to get dramatically worse as criminal spammers take control of victims’ PCs and use them as anonymous proxies to send email via their ISPs’ mail relay. According to anti-spam organisation Spamhaus the recent increase in this proxy-spam activity is caused by newly engineered versions of stealth …
From C|Net: Microsoft’s MSN Music on Monday announced it would offer free downloads of some songs in the running for Grammy awards this year. From Tuesday through Saturday, the company will offer one song download per day. The songs will be selected by the editorial team at MSN Music, which will pick the tracks they …
From NYT: Homaro Canbtu’s maki look a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy. But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto …
From eWeek: You probably think you’re pretty safe from phishing attacks, right? After all, how difficult is it to ignore a “security warning” from a bank you don’t do business with? Or a non-grammatical message purportedly from PayPal that says your account is about to be turned off? I’ve avoided those scams and even bogus …
From CNet: The European Commission on Friday held out the possibility that Microsoft may be fined up to 5 percent of its average daily turnover unless it complies soon with a European Union antitrust decision. Last month, Microsoft lost a months-long court bid to suspend sanctions for breaking the law and said it would offer …
From Wired News: When he reads the glowing stories detailing the wonders of the fledgling Firefox web browser, Jon von Tetzchner can’t help but wonder why his own baby is so often ignored. Von Tetzchner is the CEO of Opera Software, maker of the Opera web browser. In the sort of grand comedic tragedy that …
From TechRepublic: A federal judge on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old Minnesota man to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm. Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, of Minnesota was ordered to serve his time in a minimum security prison and participate in 10 months of community service. FBI agents arrested Parson at …
From Yahoo! News/Reuters: Apple, whose iPod has replaced Sony’s Walkman as the personal media player to be seen with, topped both the global and North American rankings in the poll, displacing Google despite the splash caused by the search engine’s $1.7 billion auction-style initial public offering last year. See complete results at http://www.brandchannel.com/start1.asp?fa_id=248