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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 …
I’m quite a bit behind in reading my news, so I’m sure I’ll have lots to post today…
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There are only two newsletters that I read from beginning to end issue. The best one is Windows Secrets newsletter which is edited by Brian Livingston and Paul Thurott. Brian has written many books and writes for several magazines. Paul has also written some books, and is well know from his Supersite for Windows web …
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 …
A while back we mentioned Yetisports.org, a site featuring online flash games featuring Yeti, an abominable snowman. The site was relaunched yesterday with a few new games, a multiuser game and tournament featuring the first 5 games. They also have the games available for purchase for use on your mobile phone.