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From Reuters: Japan’s Canon Inc. said on Tuesday it has developed tiny fuel cells that it hopes will start replacing conventional batteries to power some of its digital cameras and printers in three years. Canon will join a small army of companies, including Toshiba Corp., NEC Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., that are working on the …
Another press release I received: I’ve just found your e-mail – and since, as far as I remember, you are the network manager, I wanted to tell you about our newest program – Axence NetTools 2.0. NetTools is a host monitoring solution with alerting and a set of several IP tools (it comes in two …
I recently received this press release: Winter Wolves Studio Announces Quizland update for PC/MACWinter Wolves has released an updated version of their popular trivia game Quizland, adding more than 1000 new questions and two new languages: italian and spanish. Now you’ll be able to play the game with questions in those two new languages (useful …
About 2 years ago my father bought me an Interactive Media Sales, LLC (IMS) Ink Refill System. It sounds sophisticated, but it was just a simple set of squeeze bottles with ink to refill my ink cartridges. The first couple of times I used it, it was a little messy, but I quickly got used …
From MSNBC: A quiet revolution is transforming life on the Internet: New, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail. Such tools make computing less of a chore because they sit on distant Web servers and run over standard browsers. Users thus …
From the Houston Chronicle: The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications. The action, which the government says is intended to …
Chris has an auxiliary input jack on his car CD player, so he can plug his MP3 player, Axim, or whatever else he can into it and hear it over his car stereo. I don’t have such a thing, so I had to resort to the FM Transmitter route. These are devices that plug into …
From the New York Times: Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental problems in some of the world’s poorest places, according to a report to be issued today by an environmental organization.
From TechRepublic: Gretchen Hayes was understandably concerned when she received a letter warning that she could be at risk of identity theft. A laptop had been stolen from the University of California at Berkeley in March, and stored on it was personal information on 98,369 graduate students or graduate-school applicants, including Hayes. The breach–which exposed …
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