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From CNN: A report from the University of Utah says that when motorists between 18 and 25 talk on cell phones, they drive like elderly people — moving and reacting more slowly and increasing their risk of accidents. ‘If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the wheel with a cell phone, his reaction times are …
From CNN: The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will rob their children of privacy. The badges introduced at Brittan Elementary School on January 18 rely on the same radio frequency and scanner …
From MS PressPass: Gates announced Internet Explorer 7.0, designed to add new levels of security to Windows XP SP2 while maintaining the level of extensibility and compatibility that customers have come to expect. Internet Explorer 7.0 will also provide even stronger defenses against phishing, malicious software and spyware. The beta release is scheduled to be …
If you are looking for a Gmail invite, then you’ve probably already seen this site: http://isnoop.net/gmail/ They currently have over 100,000 invites. I just recently noticed that I had 50 invites to send, and donated 10. Once they are claimed, then I’ll donate some more.
I’ve installed b2evolution and am just starting to test it. It looks promising. I don’t want to rely on Blogger anymore as their sites is slow.
From NYT: First, a confession. Since starting to write this article two hours ago, I have left my chair only once. But I have not been entirely present, either. Each time I have encountered a thorny sentence construction or a tough transition, I have heard the siren call of distraction. Shouldn’t I fiddle with my …
From TechRepublic: Microsoft’s idea to purchase Sybari Software came from a place where many of its ideas are born–its labs. Late last year, the software giant wanted to build on an important technology–the RAV antivirus software that it acquired from Romania-based GeCad–to take it beyond a desktop virus scanner to a security product for businesses. …
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 …