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From USA Today: The FBI’s failure to roll out an expanded computer system that would help agents investigate criminals and terrorists is the latest in a series of costly technology blunders by government over more than a decade. Experts blame poor planning, rapid industry advances and the massive scope of some complex projects whose price …
From CNet: Google has become accredited to register and sell Web addresses under the governing body of domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit based in Los Angeles, has deemed Google a domain name registrar, according to the search company. However, it has no plans to sell Web addressees …
From VNU Network: Google has launched a service designed to search TV content from US broadcasters including PBS, NBA, Fox News and C-SPAN. The Google Video beta enables users to search across the closed captioning content of a growing number of TV programmes that the firm began indexing in December 2004. Entering a query will …
From Windows IT Pro: When Microsoft issued an unprecedented $32.6 billion stock dividend payout to its shareholders in December, the company had a huge effect on the US economy, the US Department of Commerce said this week. According to the agency, the payout raised the average income of US citizens and will likely worsen the …
From Yahoo! News Australia: Excessive text messaging may be bad for you, or at least for your fingers. That’s what some Italian doctors think. They are telling people, particularly the young, that furious typing on mobile phones could lead to acute tendonitis.
From eWeek: Internet Explorer is continuing to lose share to the open-source Firefox Web browser. In the past month, use of Microsoft Corp.’s dominant browser fell another 1.5 percentage points to 90.3 percent. Meanwhile, the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser rose 0.9 percentage points to reach 5 percent, Web analytics provider WebSideStory Inc. confirmed Thursday. The …
From CNet: Dell Chief Executive Kevin Rollins is dismissing the iPod as a ‘fad’ and a ‘one-product wonder’ and claiming the new Mac Mini won’t dent the PC market. In an interview with Silicon.com at Dell’s headquarters here last week, Rollins said that the number of headlines Apple grabs does not worry him and that …
From CNet: An Amish PC might sound like a contradiction in terms, but Truvia can make one for you–provided you have $55,000 to spare. The Redmond, Wash.-based start-up specializes in building high-end PCs into handcrafted furniture, everything from simple Amish and Shaker cabinets to ornate Louis XV creations.
From SecurityFocus: A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor U.S. Secret Service e-mail, obtain customers’ passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned. Whoa! This person had unbelievable access …
From C|Net News: Police do not need a search warrant to examine an employee’s computer for incriminating files, a Washington state appeals court has ruled. All that is necessary is the permission of the business that owns the computer, the appeals court said in a 3-0 decision last week.