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ClickZ News - By Enid Burns, ClickZ, Dec 15, 2008 In the future, mobile will become the more dominant means to connect to information, and advertising will evolve to other models. Predictions for 2020: Vanishing keyboards and demise of copy … Study: Most will use cell phone for Internet by 2020 |
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PC World – Apple has released a major set of security patches for its Mac OS X operating system, fixing a number of critical flaws in the software.
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A security researcher reports that Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari browsers have the most insecure browser password managers.
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AP – Users of all current versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser might be vulnerable to having their computers hijacked because of a serious security hole in the software that had yet to be fixed Monday.
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FCC kills Puritanical wireless vote
Register - The US Federal Communications Commission has canceled the December meeting where it was scheduled to vote on chairman Kevin Martin's plan for free US-wide puritanical wireless broadband. Free Wireless Broadband on Hold, for Now With Mounting Pressure from Bush, FCC Backs Off AWS-3 Plan |
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BobB-nw writes “Underground botnet markets and high-profile spam cases headlined the year in tech crime. One of the most disturbing cybercrime trends in 2008, many security analysts say, has been the emergence of a full-blown underground economy where credit card information, identity theft information, and spam and phishing software are all available for relatively low prices. 2008 also saw major developments in the cases against three major spammers in the United States.”
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AP – For the past three years, a startup called M2Z Networks has been figuring out a way to blanket the nation with a free wireless broadband network to ensure all Americans have access to basic high-speed Internet connections.
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Startled Hippo writes “Safari and Chrome are tied for the worst password manager built into a major Web browser according to a new study on the issue produced by Chapin Information Services. One problem is that some password managers can be tricked into submitting different password credentials to different parts of the same Web site. The bug has been fixed in Firefox, but Chrome and Safari are still vulnerable to this kind of attack.”
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McCain Campaign BlackBerry Yields Sensitive Data
Washington Post - If reports that President-Elect Barack Obama might have to give up his BlackBerry for reasons of national security sound paranoid, think again. Oops! McCain Camp Sells Loaded BlackBerry Reporter finds private campaign info on McCain Blackberry … |
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IBM Lotus Strategist Sees Linux on Netbooks Making Inroads Vs …
eWeek - By Clint Boulton Linux and open source will start to chip away at Microsoft Windows desktop software thanks to their popularity on netbooks, those ultralight, low-cost laptops. Budget-friendly netbooks are primed to give Linux a mainstream boost Netbooks Aim To Capture Share Of PC Market |
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AP – Google Inc. denied that it had reversed its stance on the issue of “Net neutrality” and dismissed a story in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal on the subject as “confused.”
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Alcatel-Lucent is naming enterprises as one of three markets it will focus on as it lays off 1,000 more workers and makes cuts in other areas in an attempt to turn the company around.
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PC World – A middle school student I know asked me to explain the difference between Vista, XP, Linux and Mac OS. Here’s the gist of our conversation:
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Science Daily reports that researchers have conducted the first detailed analysis of deaths during expeditions to the summit of Mt. Everest. They found that most deaths occur during descents from the summit in the so-called “death zone” above 8,000 meters, and also identified factors that appear to be associated with a greater risk of death, particularly symptoms of high-altitude cerebral edema. The big surprise that the data indicate those deaths aren’t primarily from avalanches or falling ice, as had long been believed.
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Two applications, both running parts of their code on the GPU are now available for end users to transcode video. As of Catalyst 8.12, all AMD Radeon HD 4800 and 4600 owners get access to a free GPU accelerated video transcoder designed to compete with Elemental’s Badaboom, the world’s first video transcoder developed in CUDA. Here’s a hint: only one of them…
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Internet or sex, which would you choose?
CNET News - Nearly half of the women surveyed by Harris Interactive said they'd be willing to forgo sex for two weeks, rather than give up their Internet access, according to a survey released Monday by Intel, which commissioned the survey. Internet popularity rivals sex, TV US Adults Want Internet More than Sex |
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An anonymous reader writes “DRAM makers are facing one of the worst downturns in their history and governments around the world are lining up to help companies through the mess. Taiwan, Germany and South Korea all appear poised to offer some assistance to their DRAM chip makers. The chip makers’ problems are indicative of global woes. Easy lending terms and a bright view of the future prompted them to build too many new DRAM factories. Much of the new output was aimed at Microsoft’s Windows Vista, which has higher memory requirements than XP.”
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CNET – Correction, 12:07 p.m. PST: This story misstated the number of companies on the “most trusted” list. It is a top 20 list.
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CATONSVILLE, MD—”What’s a man that age doing near a well to begin with?” said Janice Peters, who spent the day not praying for the safety of the trapped 38-year-old.
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mjasay writes “Craigslist’s Jeremy Zawodny reviews the progress of MySQL as a project, and discovers that through third-party forks and enhancements like Drizzle and OurDelta ‘you can get a “better” MySQL than the one Sun/MySQL gives you today. For free.’ Is this a good thing? On one hand it demonstrates the strong community around MySQL, but on the other, it could make it harder for Sun to fund core development on MySQL by diverting potential revenue from the core database project. Is this the fate of successful open-source companies? To become so successful as a community that they can’t eke out a return as a company? If so, could anyone blame MySQL/Sun for creating its own proprietary fork in order to afford further core development?”
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Sprint Launches BlackBerry Curve 8350i for Customers Wanting the …
FOXBusiness - OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS and WATERLOO, ONTARIO, Dec 15, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) —-Responding to the requests of Nextel Direct Connect customers, Sprint (NYSE:S) today launched the BlackBerry(R) Curve(TM) 8350i smartphone. Sprint launches first push-to-talk BlackBerry Sprint now offering BlackBerry 8350i smartphone |
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AP – Worried your daughter’s new boyfriend might have a nefarious past? Want to know whether the job applicant in front of you has a rap sheet?
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Palm To Reveal 'Nova' OS Next Month
InformationWeek - With tanking stock and market share waning, Palm is hoping a new operating system will help it mount a comeback. By Marin Perez Palm will reportedly unveil its new operating system and the mobile handsets that will use it at next month's Consumer … Report: Palm to battle iPhone, BlackBerry with new OS at CES Palm to preview Nova OS and first device at CES |
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WASHINGTON—With his departure from office only months away, President George W. Bush told reporters Monday that he is “fed up” with the way…
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Bitterly cold air hits much of nation
The Associated Press - Temperatures crashed to record lows well below zero Monday as a huge mass of arctic air blustered southward across the Midwest and West, keeping people indoors and leading some cities to open shelters. Video: Raw Video: a Blizzard Blows Through North Dakota Bitter cold grips northern Plains |
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Is the PlayStation 3 Dying?
PC Magazine - by Garnett Lee Fallout from the November sales data continues to mount for Sony and its PlayStation family. CNNMoney's Silicon Alley Insider column pulled no punches in its assessment of the numbers calling the PS3 "A sinking ship" in light of its … Key facts, history for video game maker Nintendo In-Depth: NPD Analysis Reveals Sony's Catch-Up Challenge |
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NewsFactor – There’s a Nova in Palm’s future. In January, the famed-but-faded mobile-device maker will unveil a new operating system with that code name at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Microsoft will present in February 2009 the new phone made in partnership with Nvidia
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stoolpigeon writes “Many manga titles that are popular in Japan are being translated into English and published in the United States. This trend continues with a book that puts a slightly different spin on manga. The Manga Guide to Statistics, part of a series already popular in Japan, seeks to entertain while it informs. There are many elements here that can be found in any manga; a young love-struck girl, giant eyes, small noses and exaggerated emotional responses. What many may not have seen in manga before are things like calculating the mean, median and deviation of bowling scores. And that is just the start.” Read below for the rest of JR’s review.
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Newsweek has an interesting report on Thomas M. Tamm, the individual who blew the whistle on the Federal Government’s warrantless wiretaps. The piece takes a look at some of the circumstances leading up to the disclosure and what has happened since. “After the raid, Justice Department prosecutors encouraged Tamm to plead guilty to a felony for disclosing classified information — an offer he refused. More recently, Agent Lawless, a former prosecutor from Tennessee, has been methodically tracking down Tamm’s friends and former colleagues. The agent and a partner have asked questions about Tamm’s associates and political meetings he might have attended, apparently looking for clues about his motivations for going to the press, according to three of those interviewed.”
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G3ckoG33k writes “Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a popular way to run Windows programs on Linux, and it has an impressive compatibility list. After 15 years of development it reached version 1.0 a few months ago. Now, Wine developer Maarten Lankhorst has succeeded in running ‘Hello World’ in 64-bit, natively! The 64-bit variety is unexpectedly named Wine64.”
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Need For Speed Series Might Die Soon
Techtree.com - Electric Playground has reported that Electronic Arts has cancelled development of future titles of Need for Speed series. In response, EA spokesperson gave a generic response of not commenting on market rumors. Need for Speed series canned? Salvaging Need for Speed |
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NewsFactor – A startup in Utah has found a way to stop drivers from using cell phones to talk and text while driving. Key2safedriving has developed a jamming feature for the car key that stops a cell phone when the car is in drive mode.
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DigitalDame2 writes “In 2009, touch computing will go mainstream. More and more devices will be legitimately touch-enabled with gesture controls for browsing through photos, tossing objects around the screen, flicking to turn the page of a book, and even playing video games and watching movies. In fact, Gartner analyst Steve Prentice told the BBC recently that the mouse will be dead in three to five years. PCMag has a full look at touch computing — the past, the present, and the future — including an interview with Sabrina Boler, touch UI designer.”
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TRNick writes “Jeremy Allison talks Ubuntu, why he loves Gnome, and the trials and tribulations of open source development in a wide-ranging interview on TechRadar.”
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An anonymous reader writes “Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but Australian scientists are using it to diagnose dementia, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of New South Wales, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic.”
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An anonymous reader writes “Australia’s largest telco and ISP, Telstra, has been kicked out of the bidding process to build a national broadband network (NBN) estimated to be worth $15 billion. The Aussie government had earlier given assurances that the proposal would be considered, however it now won’t even be evaluated by the expert panel, which will make the recommendations to the Senator for Broadband and Communications. The government may now take steps to legislate so that Telstra can’t build a network that competes with the NBN — leaving the incumbent to focus on wireless HSPA+ technology instead.”
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The FCC cancelled a Dec. 18 meeting after two lawmakers warned the agency it should focus on the digital TV transition.
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Smart key would disable teens’ phones while driving
Christian Science Monitor - By Andrew Heining | 12.15.08 Besides being a good candidate for 2009’s version of “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up,” that line from a promotional YouTube video for Key2SafeDriving sums up the idea behind a new device aimed at curbing in-car cell … Bluetooth Tech to Keep Drivers Off Phones Car-Key Jammer Stops Phone Use While Driving |
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