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From InfoWorld: Google is contemplating various improvements to its popular Blogger Web logging service, including native image uploading and deeper integration with the company’s Gmail Web-mail service, according to a Google executive. Google is also considering the creation of an enterprise Blogger version, as well as letting users limit access to their blogs by creating …
From USA Today: An investigation over the sourcing and accuracy of roughly 160 news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading Internet news site concluded that the existence of more than 40 people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed. Wired News, which publishes some articles from Wired magazine, disclosed results late Monday …
From TechRepublic: Taiwan’s Via Technologies plans to promote PCs that will sell for close to $250 this fall in an attempt to gain ground in the consumer market. The Terra PC is a reference design created by Via that will be licensed to PC makers around the world. The company will show off prototypes at …
From MSNBC: Earlier this year, researchers at Symantec Corp. wanted to see just how bad the spyware epidemic had become. So they took a brand new PC out of the box, connected it to the Internet without any standard protection software and browsed. An hour later, they dissected the machine. The autopsy results weren’t pretty. …
From CNN Money: Red Hat is getting a $99.5 million boost from Michael S. Dell, billionaire founder and chairman of Dell Inc., according a regulatory filing. Through his private investment firm, MSD, Dell bought the largest share of $600 million in debentures offered by the software developer in January 2004, a Securities Exchange Commission filing …
Satellite imaging seems to be a very popular thing these days. I haven’t spent a lot of time viewing images, but when I do, I am always amazed that a camera so far away can take such amazing pictures. Well, Bill Friedrich has developed software that uses the images that Microsoft has and puts it …
From USA Today: Al Gore may have been lampooned for taking credit in the Internet’s development, but organizers of the Webby Awards for online achievements don’t find it funny at all. In part to “set the record straight,” they will give Gore a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet, said …
If you’ve spent even a little time in the tech support biz, you’re bound to have a list of special aggravations that drive you crazy on a semi-regular basis. Like users who deny all responsibility for the ‘mysterious’ appearance of unsupported software on their machines. Or the executive who insists on telling you what’s causing …
From NYT (registration required): A few years ago, a buzz began spreading about Internet telephony, a technology allowing telephone conversations to be made across the Internet rather than exclusively over regular phone lines. Such calls, made at little or no expense to the caller, were portrayed as a threat to the established phone companies. But …
Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google’s global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before. Google Web Accelerator uses …