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From InformationWeek: The United States again led the world as a spam producing, malware hosting country last year, a security vendor said Monday, but China took top dishonor as the nation that generated the most malicious code in 2006. Sophos, which published its annual threat roundup Monday, said U.S.-based computers were responsible for sending 22% …
From Wired News: The Apple Macintosh personal computer is introduced to the world in a now-legendary TV commercial aired during Super Bowl XVIII. The 60-second spot featured a female athlete running through a dystopian landscape inspired by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, to throw a sledgehammer at a TV image of Big Brother, meant, in this …
From TechRepublic: Retailers are gearing up for next week’s Vista launch, but it appears the “midnight madness” will be kept to a minimum. CompUSA plans to keep its stores open past midnight on Tuesday, January 30, so shoppers can get the new operating system as soon as it goes on sale. Best Buy and Circuit …
The latest issue of the Windows Secrets newsletter mentions a handy SendTo extension. When you right-click on a file, there is a menu item called Send To that has a few options (floppy disk, desktop as shortcut, etc). If you’ve used these options, you’ve probably wished for more options. This extension gives you those options. …
From the Globe and Mail: Ryan Vending, a Victoria-based company that fills and services vending machines throughout Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, wanted to know whether its drivers were receiving fair compensation for the hours and kilometres they logged on their delivery routes. So last fall, the company installed GPS devices into a portion …
From Forbes: The iPhone may be Apple’s future. But investors will listen attentively to its past today as Chief Executive Steve Jobs reveals how well the company’s existing products, notably its iPod and MacBook laptops, have been doing. Apple will report first-quarter earnings, which include holiday sales, after the market closes. Analysts expect the company …
Even though I still go out to shoot when winter rolls in (as it finally has in my part of the country), finding subjects to photograph is difficult. Add on to that the extra incentive needed to go out into the cold, sometimes wet and often dark environment, and it becomes all too easy to …
AskNerd.net has a collection of questions that they answer. It Welcome to AskNerd.net, the place to find all the answers to your technical questions. From the basic to the complex, chances are you’ll find a direct, easy to understand answer right here. Overall I wasn’t that impressed with the site, but depending on your level …
From the International Herald Tribute: Moixa Energy’s latest innovation is one of those slap- your-forehead, why-didn’t- I-think-of-that ideas that simultaneously makes sense and makes us feel good to use: a traditional AA battery that recharges itself while plugged into a personal computer’s USB port. Moixa, a British company, began offering its USBCell in September and, …
From USA Today: Yaffa Balsam was mystified. Why did so many other family therapy websites pop to the top of Google (GOOG) search results listings, while her site was nowhere to be found? It’s a question posed by thousands of small-business owners every day as they seek new customers online rather than through traditional Yellow …