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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Windows XP's Afterlife

More than 200,000 demand Microsoft save XP InfoWorld's petition to keep the popular Windows version on the market has passed a new milestone

Reality Check: What does Gartner really DO?


Friday, May 16, 2008

Philadelphia's WiFi Network Shutting Down


Thursday, May 15, 2008

Rensselaer Student Invents Alternative To Silicon Chip

Microsoft Patches Six Security Holes

Archaeologist Uses Satellite Imagery To Explore Ancient Mexico


Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Microsoft’s plan to block Linux on laptops

Microsoft: June 30 Windows XP cut-off set in stone

Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?

FBI: Counterfeit Cisco routers risk “IT subversion”

Poorly walker in Highlands saved by sat-nav message.. via Texas

Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off Note: It requires a seriously powerful computer with a fast broadband connection in order to run it and it's a very disapointing beta product.

MS whips lens cap off WorldWide Telescope To reveal? The inexorable blackness of space

Study finds Vista more vulnerable than Windows 2000

Four Vulnerabilities, Three Critical, Patched By Microsoft

The new rules for buying a Mac We bust the most common Mac shopping myths


Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Windows Vista 37% Less Vulnerable Than Windows XP: Study

A sailing robot to cross the Atlantic

Wi-Fi Warning: That Person Next To You May Be A Hacker

Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XP

Microsoft faults OEMs for some XP SP3 endless reboots Microsoft document claims the fault for endless reboots lies in the Windows XP image originally installed on the PC by the computer manufacturer

DriveSavers breathes life into a dead drive

Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices

NASA's next boondoggle always best


Monday, May 12, 2008

Adobe Plugs 8 Security Holes in Reader

NASA launches 50 years of space history in high-definition documentary

Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3?


Sunday, May 11, 2008

Windows XP Service Pack 3

Circuit City Gives Up the Fight The electronics chain puts out the "For Sale" sign, hiring Goldman Sachs to assist on a deal, most likely with Blockbuster

Microsoft Telescope Will Bring Universe to the Desktop Microsoft's free WorldWide Telescope software will let a home PC explore the galaxies using images taken by telescopes and spacecraft. WWT was developed with Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates described it as "an observatory on your desktop." WorldWide Telescope includes commentaries.

New Evidence From Earliest Known Human Settlement In The Americas

Microsoft U-turn to stop Linux dominating ultra low cost PCs

Anatomy of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)


Saturday, May 10, 2008

Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain The problems with XP SP3 range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes.

XP SP3 crashes AMD machines

XP SP3 cripples some PCs with endless reboots Windows blogger has tentatively identified XP SP3's endless reboot problem as involving only machines using processors from AMD

What is your stolen data worth?

Wimpy: Why is Yahoo so afraid of Microsoft?

Dupont targets OLED display mass production


Friday, May 9, 2008

China Satellite Navigation System Planned for 2010

Microsoft is Still Here, Dammit!


Thursday, May 8, 2008

THE SCIENCE OF CYCLONES

May 7, 1895: Calculator Learns to Multiply

Microsoft Releases Windows XP Service Pack 3

Windows XP SP3 leaps into the tubes Second verse, same as the first

External Hard Drives Buyer's Guide

Is the earth getting warmer, or cooler? A tale of two thermometers

Data recovered from Seagate drive in Columbia shuttle disaster

Comcast mulling metered access, 250GB monthly bandwidth caps


Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Microsoft to Yahoo: Fine, Be That Way!

Comcast gets nominated for worst ToS

Riding the Autorenewal Express

Yahoo faces shareholder ire over failed Microsoft bid General class-action lawsuit accuses Yahoo of failing to act in the best interest of shareholders in rejecting Microsoft's bid

Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera


Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Returning To Sender: A Cable Conundrum

Boomerang in zero gravity

Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared

From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—Part II

US senator: China wants hotels to filter Internet US Senator Sam Brownback contends China is requiring US-owned hotels there to filter Internet service during the Olympic Games


Monday, May 5, 2008

HP discovery may end need to boot computers Researchers have found a fourth basic type of electrical circuit, which may remove the need to boot computers.

The Camera That Wears a Badge

Space shuttle takes its place on the pad Discovery rolls out for May 31 launch to space station with Japanese lab


Sunday, May 4, 2008

Digital Deception With a test, Web sites let people in and keep out computers set to unleash spam attacks. Now, computers are cracking the code.

$100 Laptop Program's New President Charles Kane thinks industry partnerships will boost the laptop's marketability.

Stepped Up Cyber Role for Spy Agencies

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo

Cuba lifts ban on home computers

Plan To Send A Probe To The Sun


Saturday, May 3, 2008

Aquarid meteor shower to peak on moonless night

Thwart malware attacks by locking out bad sites

Novell Says SCO Group Owes It $20M; SCO Begs To Differ In opening arguments Tuesday before Judge Dale Kimball in the bench trial for the lawsuit against Novell, the two sides seemed to agree that SCOsource included licensing of Novell-owned technology, which is several versions of Unix System V collectively called "SVRX," and of SCO-controlled technology, which is UnixWare and OpenServer.

Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: "Linux is a copy of UNIX"

Oxygen Depletion Zones In Tropical Oceans Expanding, Maybe Due To Global Warming

Study: US Needs Stronger Broadband Policy

Telescope could focus light without a mirror or lens

Top 10 Early Contenders for the Automotive X Prize

U.S. gas: So cheap it hurts Relatively low taxes have kept pump prices far below most other developed nations, which some say is precisely why the current runup is so painful.

Sneaky Safari Update Triples the Browser's Windows Market Share

Iron Man: Steve Jobs is even tougher than you think.

Moving 2.0: More than 30 services to help you relocate

Exclusive Video: Babbage's Mechanical Calculator Comes to Life


Friday, May 2, 2008

Paring Your Plug-Ins

May 1, 1964: First Basic Program Runs


Thursday, May 1, 2008

Windows XP SP3 Delayed as Death Nears -- or Maybe Not Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been delayed even as Microsoft says it will stop sales of Windows XP on June 30. SP3 includes some Windows Vista features along with bug fixes. Meanwhile, computer makers Dell, HP and Lenovo plan to use license loopholes to keep selling Microsoft Windows XP through a "downgrade option."


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