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      • What the data miners are digging up about you
        11/30/08
        In today's technological world we leave electronic traces wherever we go, whether shopping online or on the high street, at work or at play. That data is the raw material for a new industry of number crunchers trying to explain and influence human behaviour, as Stephen Baker explains in his new

      • Test Driving PCLinuxOS
        11/28/08
        PCLinuxOS (also known as PCLOS) is an installable Live CD distribution based on the Mandriva Linux operating system. While PCLinuxOS tries to be a very elegant Linux desktop, on the other hand its main aim is to be easy to use by everyone who dares to try a Linux distribution. Looking back in time (

      • Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability
        11/28/08
        Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability
        Posted by Elinor Mills

        A worm dubbed Win32/Conficker.A is making the rounds on Windows machines, exploiting a security hole that Microsoft released a patch for in October, Microsoft said on Wednesday.

        The number of attacks have

      • New Visa Card Features Keypad, Generates Random Security Codes
        11/20/08
        n response to popular concerns with online credit card fraud, Visa Europe has announced a newly designed credit card, complete with a keypad and digital number display, according to the Daily Mail.

        While the credit card is of the usual size and features a credit card number and magnetic s

      • Intel’s Wireless Power Technology Demonstrated
        11/16/08
        Intel claims it has improved the efficiency of a method for powering devices wirelessly. Intel's "Wireless Energy Resonant Link" (WREL), technology was demonstrated by transmitting electricity wirelessly to a lamp on stage and lighting a 60 watt bulb, which consumes more power than an

      • The White House has gone YouTube.
        11/14/08
        The YouTube Presidency

        By Jose Antonio Vargas
        The White House has gone YouTube.

        Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube vi

      • Taiwanese Researchers Introduce Blink of the Eye Transmission Speed System On A Chip
        11/12/08
        (PhysOrg.com) -- A world-wide expert on wireless communications, Professor Jri Lee of the National Taiwan University (NTU) and UCLA PhD conferred has created a system on a chip (SOC) with transmission speeds 100 times faster than WiFi and 350 times faster than 3.5G cell phones. Professor Jri Lee

      • Twitter, Digg, YouTube, Times smash records on election day
        11/06/08
        It was a high-voltage day for the Internet. I only have stats for a few sites, but rest assured that records were broken all over the place. Personally, I can't remember more than a few minutes (when I went to vote, e.g.) when I didn't have my laptop open, the better to surf around furious

      • Google turns on OCR for scanned PDFs
        11/02/08
        By David Chartier | Published: October 31, 2008 - 01:50PM CT

        Google has covered quite a lot of turf during the march toward its goal of making every last bit of the world's information searchable. But considering all the ground that has yet to be covered—especially in the realms of o

      • Are design issues to blame for vote 'flipping' in touch-screen machines?
        11/01/08
        Vendors say no, but critics say e-voting devices aren't designed for most voters
        October 30, 2008 (Computerworld) Are some touch-screen voting machines really "flipping" votes from one candidate to another, or are the voters who claim their votes are being changed just wrong?
      • 1988 TV News report on the Morris Worm
        11/01/08


        The What, Why, and How of the 1988 Internet Worm

        There may be a virus loose on the internet.
        Andy Sudduth of Harvard, 34 minutes after midnight, Nov. 3, 1988

        The above may be the computer understatement of the year. As of the time that Sudduth posted his messag

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