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From InfoWorld: Employees are using the Web more and more for personal reasons and that is setting U.S. companies back $178 billion annually, a cost of $5,000 per employee, said a study released Tuesday by Websense, Inc. The San Diego-based Internet management company reported that 50 percent of the surveyed workers admitted to using the …
From MSNBC: Pop quiz: Which schools produced the most degrees in computer science in 2001? MIT? Carnegie Mellon? Georgia Tech? If you guessed any of these, you’re wrong: try Strayer University and DeVry Institute of Technology. And what kind of student is most likely to take up computer science at Strayer or DeVry? If you …
I’ve previously mentioned the Norton Removal Tool. Well, a couple of weeks ago I uninstalled a copy of Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition from a computer. Everything went fine. I then proceeded to test a competing product. I wasn’t pleased with the product, so today I tried to put SAVCE back on the computer. I couldn’t. …
From TechRepublic: A Pakistani girl has qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of 9. Arfa Karim of Multan has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan, and one of the youngest in the world. Karim, now 10, met with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates last week–an experience she later described as second only …
In recognition of the anniversary of the first manned moon landing which occured on July 20, 1969, Google has released a new product: Google Moon. Similiar to Google Earth and Google Maps, Google Moon lets you view the surface of the moon and the locations of the six US landings. You can see a great …
I can’t remember where I found this, but Planarity is a very addicting line/dot game. You have to drag the dots around (the dots are at the end of the lines) so that none of the lines overlap. I can get past the first 3 levels, and then give up on the 4th. The number …
From the New York Times: Add personal computers to the list of throwaways in the disposable society. On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker’s Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware – stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user’s machine – he did not simply …
I first read about this in a post at Google Blogoscoped From the Gear Live blog: In January of this year, I was pulled over by a traffic officer for “disobeying a steady red”, a.k.a. running a red light. I pleaded “Not Guilty” to the charge, and today – nearly six months later – I …
I found a link to these instructions in the latest issue of Windows Secrets newsletter. It’s a great newsletter. There is a free version, as well as a paid version. There is no set price for the paid version. You pay what you think it is worth. It is worth far more than I pay …
I just got this feed posting from NewsGator: There is now a service release of NewsGator Outlook edition 2.5 available, which fixes a few common problems folks have been having with the original 2.5 release. Some highlights: Now works with .NET 2.0 ISA server problems fixed NNTP problems fixed Most activation problems have been addressed …