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Meet Chrome, Google's Shiny New Browser
The search giant makes its long-awaited foray into Web browsers, but just how far can it ride its online dominance?
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IBM Aims $400 Million at Cloud Computing
Who knew cloud computing could also clean the air?
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Review: MacBook Air
Laptop design has always been about compromise. Though they’ve come a long way in the past few years, laptops have never been able to offer the features available in desktop computers, and certainly not at comparable prices.
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Vista SP1: Release Candidate test
build goes to 15,000 testers
Microsoft has delivered yet another test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 to testers.
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New Yahoo Mail Exits Beta,
Rolls Out Improvements
Yahoo will close an almost two-year public test for its new version of Yahoo Mail on Monday with several new enhancements, as the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet giant boosts this webmail service that is key to both its usage and advertising growth..
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The 411 on Radio Frequency Interference
Your brand new Apple iPhone is sitting next to the PC on your desk at work as you're typing away, listening to some music from your computer's speakers, when all of a sudden you hear it...
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Review: Apple iPhone
Groundbreaking wireless communicator really lives up to the hype.
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Flash Memory Drives Now Available from Intel
Flash memory isn't just for cell phones anymore. Flash drives are moving up into PCs and servers, and Intel wants to get in on the action with a new drive.
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Pluggd: A Google for Podcasts
As far as most search engines are concerned, audio files are black boxes. Even with advancements in metadata tags and audio-recognition technology, it's still much more difficult for a search engine to catalog the content of an audio file than that of a web page. A new startup is hoping to change that..For entire article, click here
The Wired Test 300
You wanted the best. Here it is: Wired Test, the definitive guide to gear and gadgets for 2006. For the first time, we're making these reviews available online in their entirety -- that's more than 300 products for the clicking.
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How To Tweak Firefox 2
The release of Firefox 2 brought a fistful of cool, new features to the open-source browser...along with some interface changes that didn't please everyone. Learn how to take advantage of the new features in Firefox 2, or change your configuration and use extensions to make it look and work more like older versions.
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LEDs Could Start Replacing Lightbulbs Soon
Light-emitting diodes will become economically attractive as replacements for conventional lightbulbs in about two years, a shift that could pave the way for massive electricity conservation, according to a researcher.
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Intel to Launch Quad-Core Chips on Nov. 13
In a race with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel will bring its quad-core chips to market in a new line of Hewlett-Packard workstations due to be introduced on November 13.
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Google Makes Video Play with YouTube Buy
Google has agreed to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the companies announced Monday.
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Microsoft to Lock Pirates Out of Vista PCs
Windows Vista will have new antipiracy technology that locks people out of their PCs if the operating system isn't activated within 30 days after installation.
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ntel Develops Silicon Hybrid Laser Chip
High performance light-based computers in the horizon.
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Search Comes to Mobile Phones
Mobile phones offer plenty more than just voice these days. They can provide news, video clips, local weather and even restaurant recommendations.
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Vista RC1 Appears Stable
Microsoft seems to be on track to release the next version of Windows on schedule.
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Microsoft Announces
Vista Hardware Requirements
Microsoft announces requirements for Windows Vista Capable" and "Windows Vista Premium Ready" PCs.
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Gates to Demonstrate New Search Software
Microsoft is hoping that social networking techniques will help win a few friends for its enterprise search technology.
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XP and Vista to Get New Media Player
Microsoft plans to jazz up its music player in Windows Vista, the company's next operating system. But at least some of the new features will debut much sooner.
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Windows On Mac, Simultaneously
Apple Computer's surprise software release allowing the company's newest Intel-based Macs to run Windows has put "virtualization" -- an alternative, and arguably superior, method of achieving the same result -in the spotlight..
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The Secret of Phishers' Success
Three U.S. academics have published research into why phishing scams are still finding success, years after widespread public warnings first appeared.
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Networked Storage Heads for Homes
Storage companies are betting a technology once reserved for businesses will appeal to consumers dealing with large files shared by multiple PCs and a need for data protection.
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Google Deal Highlights Web 2.0 Boom
Google's acquisition of a tiny Web word processing maker turns the spotlight on a growing number of so-called Web 2.0 companies struggling to survive--or angling to be Google's next purchase.
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Faster Chips, Kill, Kill, Kill
PCs with blazing-fast 5-GHz CPUs are not only feasible, they should soon be on store shelves, according to chipmakers at a conference in Silicon Valley this week.
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Blazing Wi-Fi Zips Toward Reality
Blazing-fast Wi-Fi speeds with the kind of stability and range that will let audio and video (even HDTV signals) cut through the air like butter.
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iMac Core Duo: What you need to know
Do people really have burning questions about something as familiar as Apple’s iMac? They do when that iMac ships with an Intel-built processor inside.
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Photoshop TV Launches to Immediate Success
Hosted by the “Photoshop Guys” (Scott Kelby, Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski), Photoshop TV immediately began climbing the charts of Apple’s iTunes podcasts to hit number 2 on October 28, leaving heavyweights such as NPR, Al Franken and ESPN in their dust. The cast saw over 6,200 subscribers in its first 72 hours.
The free cast is a half-hour guide to Adobe® Photoshop®, digital photography and imaging. Photoshop TV offers viewers tutorials and quick tips for mastering Photoshop, presented as well as creative industry news and interviews.
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New Browser Gives Taste of Web 2.0
A small team of developers in California on Friday launched a cutting-edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed Flock, which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing.
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Wireless industry comes together for faster Wi-Fi
802.11n would enable high-quality wireless video transmission.
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Google in San Francisco: 'Wireless overlord'?
While some people worried about privacy issues, others on Saturday praised Google's proposal to blanket San Francisco with free wireless high-speed Internet access, saying it will help bring fast Web connections to more people in more places for less money than they are paying now.
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Microsoft's Nightmare Inches Closer to Reality
As early as May 1995, three months before Netscape Communications' initial public offering sparked the dot-com boom, Microsoft executives were worried that the nascent World Wide Web could one day become a significant threat to the Windows franchise.
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Getting the Gulf Back on the Grid
During calmer times, the ad-hoc culture of open-source wireless, mesh networking and free municipal Wi-Fi is often seen as outside of the industry mainstream. But those alternative approaches are perfect in crises where conventional infrastructure is damaged...
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Business Notebooks to Offer a Wider View
Widescreen notebooks aren't just for watching Lord of the Rings on DVD anymore, PC makers say.
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Electronic U.S. passports Coming in December
The U.S. government plans to begin issuing electronic passports in December that feature a built-in chip that contains information about the passport holder and facial-recognition capabilities.
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Putting Vista in the Fast Lane
Microsoft hopes to tackle an age-old problem with the next version of Windows: How to keep PCs running like new.
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Faster Wi-Fi Approach Wins Broader Support
Vendors to merge rival proposals for 802.11n spec
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Microsoft's Longhorn Becomes Windows Vista
Microsoft Corp. has announced the official name for its upcoming operating system, previously known under the code name Longhorn. The operating system, now due out in 2006, will be called Windows Vista, with the tag line "Bringing clarity to your world."
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Intel, Studio Form Movie Download Venture
Intel and actor Morgan Freeman's movie production company, Revelations Entertainment, said Wednesday that they have formed a new venture aimed at distributing first-run movies over the Internet.
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Microsoft Confirms RSS Plans
The software maker said on Friday that it will build support for RSS into the next version of Internet Explorer, as well as into Longhorn, the Windows update scheduled to arrive next year.
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Sagging Radio Plays Digital Card
High-definition radio -- touted as the most exciting thing to happen to the AM and FM dials since they were invented -- is finally gaining some traction in the United States..
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The New Chips on the Block
We have embarked upon a new era in x86 PC computing -- so say chip giants AMD and Intel following their launches of dual-core PC processors. So how will dual-core processing change your PC computing experience? Our FAQ should help you decide whether or when you should make the leap.
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Jobs Drops Da Intel Bomb
As expected, Steve Jobs said today Apple is ending its 11-year partnership with IBM to standardize on a new generation of microprocessors from Intel.
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Longhorn Photo Support Comes Into Focus
The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will feature support for uncompressed digital camera images--which could change the way people view and edit photos.
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Apple May Use Intel Chips
Apple Computer has been in talks that could lead to a decision soon to use Intel chips in its Macintosh line, according to a report published Monday.
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Dashboard Leaves Macs Vulnerable
A security hole in Dashboard could expose users of Apple Computer's new Tiger operating system to attack, and may put personal information like passwords and credit card data at risk.
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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Field Guide
To help you navigate these interesting times, we’ve assembled this Tiger Field Guide, a collection of stories about the new features of Tiger. We’ve also got information for anyone who’s about to run the upgrade, so you can make sure you’re not bitten by this Tiger before you get a chance to really use it.
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Microsoft Launches 64-bit Windows
The software maker, which has been tooling around with the 64-bit version of Windows for the better part of two years, is announcing the general availability of the long-awaited product later on Monday. The company will start selling 64-bit editions of both Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional.
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In Apple, Microsoft OSes, Search is On
Do you have any idea where you saved your last file?
Both Microsoft and Apple Computer are betting the answer is no. And as a result their newest operating systems bear uncannily like-minded search tools.
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Intel to Release Dual Cores This Month
Intel plans to release dual-core desktop chips for computers later this month in a move that seems calculated to prevent rival Advanced Micro Devices from claiming a first.
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Amazon Knows Who You Are
Amazon.com has one potentially big advantage over its rival online retailers: It knows things about you that you may not know yourself.
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Yahoo Bolsters E-mail Storage to 1GB
Yahoo on Tuesday said it plans to once again boost its free e-mail storage limit--this time to 1GB, the same amount offered by archrival Google.
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SanDisk Flashes Biometric Storage Gizmo
SanDisk on Thursday unveiled a tiny flash memory storage drive that deploys fingerprint identification for security.
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Library Shuffles Its Collection
Checking out a new iPod now applies to more than shopping trips or web browsing. This week the South Huntington Public Library on Long Island, New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles.
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Google Toolbar Move Raises Online Ire
Google's browser toolbar is raising eyebrows over a feature that inserts new hyperlinks in Web pages, giving the Internet search provider a powerful tool to funnel traffic to destinations of its choice.
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Cell Phones Get Surround Sound
Are those tinny ring tones making you jumpy? How about a new kind of phone that can make it sound like you're literally in the middle of a soothing forest stream?
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Hold the Phone, VOIP Isn't Safe
In recognition of the fact that new technologies are just as valuable to wrongdoers as to those in the right, a new industry group has formed to look at the security threats inherent in voice over internet protocol.
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The Firefox Explosion
It's fast, secure, open source - and super popular. The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. (Watch your back, Bill Gates.)
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Spyware: IT's public enemy No. 1
What's the biggest threat to business networks in 2005? Front-line IT managers and security firms increasingly peg spyware as public enemy No. 1.
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Photo Sites Share and Share Alike
These days, nearly everyone has a digital camera or camera phone. And many new online services offer varying features for people who want to share their pictures, post them to blogs, or tag or comment on others' photos. Here's a roundup of four of the best of these services.
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Products at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show Can Aid You
It's that time of year again. Early January means it is time for the annual tech-fest, the gathering of Gizmos, Gadgets and Geeks Galore!
Las Vegas is the only town that could host such an event, and it holds a lot of new innovative technologies that can help you in your business.
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TiVo Untethered and Ready to Go
TiVo pioneered digital video recording as a new way of watching television -- when you want it. Now it could be TV where you want it, too. The long-awaited service feature called TiVoToGo, set to launch Monday, will give users their first taste of TiVo untethered.
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Phones in Flight: The Story is Data, Not Chatter
Conventional wisdom has it that once federal authorities approve the use of cell phones on commercial flights, an airplane cabin will quickly resemble an Amtrak train car, simmering with hostility between those who want peace and quiet and those who bray their way from Penn Station in New York to Union Station in Washington.
Here are three little words to consider on the subject: not so fast.
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Google Adds Major Libraries to its Database
Google will expand its ability for searching books by working with Stanford and Harvard Universities, among others, to digitize out-of-print and copyrighted works.
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Mozilla Previews e-Mail Program
Weeks after the successful launch of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released an e-mail application in another salvo on Microsoft's home turf.
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Search and Enjoy: 7 Search Toolbars Reviewed
Want to research something fast? Install a search engine toolbar within your browser. Some even block pop-ups and spam and can securely remember your credit card number for future purchases. Best of all, they're free.
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Google Treads on Microsoft's Turf
Not too long ago, Google seemed little more than a pesky insect to Microsoft's 800-pound gorilla. No more. As Google rapidly rolls out new products, the company best known for its wildly popular search engine is muscling into the software giant's turf, including its stronghold: the computer desktop.
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Free E-Mail Inboxes Get Fatter
Users of Microsoft's Hotmail, most of whom are accustomed to getting regular sales pitches for premium e-mail accounts, got a pleasant surprise in their inboxes this week: extra storage for free. The upgrade, extended to users in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Italy and Australia, increased inbox size from 2 MB to 250 MB.
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Big Brother's Passport to Pry
Privacy advocates are appalled by the ongoing plan to equip all U.S. passports with RFID chips that can be read surreptitiously from a distance.
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Smart Web Changes World
A smarter internet and a host of cheap, web-enabled mobile devices will allow access to a whole range of services on the move, research group Gartner Dataquest said on Sunday, ahead of its ITXpo symposium.
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Mozilla Burns to Prove Firefox Worthy
The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox Web browser, an open-source alternative to Microsoft's market-dominating Internet Explorer, has been attracting new users at a breakneck pace. Even before reaching its 1.0 milestone, it has doubled its downloads every four months for the past eight. The last two months alone saw nearly 5 million downloads of software
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Homeland Security---
Throwing Money at Technology
As part of California's effort in the war on terror, state legislators this year proposed that trucks hauling hazardous materials be fitted with technologies that would allow authorities to seize control of hijacked vehicles--a law that supporters said should be passed "on an emergency basis."
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Mobile-Phone Ban May Be Near End
You're on the red-eye from Los Angeles to New York, soaring over the Nevada desert and preparing for an uncomfortable, partial night's sleep in your aisle seat. All of a sudden, the passenger on the other side of the armrest whips out her cell phone and begins yakking away. According to purveyors of wireless communications technology for the airplane industry, such a scenario is probably less than two years away, as airlines and telecom service providers press federal regulators to lift a 13-year-old ban on the use of most personal wireless devices during flights.
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Major Graphics Flaw Threatens Windows PCs
Microsoft published on Tuesday a patch for a major security flaw in its software's handling of the JPEG graphics format and urged customers to use a new tool to locate the many applications that are vulnerable.
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Tweak Windows XP SP2 Security
to Your Advantage
Fine-tune the settings in Microsoft's recently released Windows XP Service Pack 2.
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Tech Boosts the Fraudsters
If the newly released 32-year-old National Guard memos regarding George W. Bush were written on a computer with Microsoft Word, as experts suspect, they're some of the most inept high-profile forgeries in modern history. This week, document examiners quickly uncovered a variety of seeming anachronisms, from an apparent Times New Roman font to superscript characters. But it might be a very different story if the documents were supposed to be products of the 21st century instead of the early 1970s.
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Great Expectations
Think your business technology is all that and a bag of microchips? Well, it's not. Chances are, you need an upgrade. Here's a preview of the technologies that will change the way your company works.
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Trade Your Wallet for Wireless
People fed up with the proliferation of credit cards, IDs and key cards that fill their wallets to bulging may soon have an alternative. New technology could bundle such functions into just one item: your cell phone.
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Reporting to Work Mid-Flight
Business travelers will be able to surf the web securely on long-distance flights by combining services from Boeing and iPass, the companies plan to announce on Monday. California company iPass, based in Redwood Shores, makes software that connects travelers to their offices from remote locations. It said corporate customers will be able to connect to the web on planes within six months using wireless links from Boeing.
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When Free Software Isn't
There's an old proverb that says you can't get anything for free, and more often than not, it's true.
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Mac Keeps Lead on Linux
With the release of its first Linux laptop last week, Hewlett-Packard predicts this year the free operating system will unseat the Mac as the No. 2 desktop operating system behind Windows.
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Movie, TV Fans Ogle Video to Go
The wait at the airport or the train ride downtown may soon seem a whole lot shorter. New portable video players that let you watch TV shows, movies or ballgames anywhere aspire to be digital entertainment's next big thing. Experts predict a rosy future for the devices -- provided worthwhile content is available.
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Attention, Shoppers:
You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines!
Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future.
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Forget Radio, Tune In to Net
Web music broadcasting is the best thing to happen to radio since FM.The concept has many names: Web radio, webcasting, streaming jukeboxes, Internet broadcasts. But the idea is much the same. Music fans "tune in" to various services through their Net-connected PC, where they can hear music from a huge range of genres. And not just the same 20 songs over and over again, like commercial radio. With Internet radio, listeners can tap libraries of millions of songs that would never be broadcast on the airwaves.
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House Panel Passes Spyware Permission Bill
A U.S. House subcommittee approved a bill on Thursday that would regulate computer "spyware," forcing software makers to notify consumers before installing some kinds of monitoring programs on their PCs.
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SBC Told to Unhook Phone from Broadband
SBC Communications must sell local phone and broadband services separately in California, state regulators have ruled, forcing a showdown with the telecom giant over forced bundling practices in its largest market.
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Little Brothers Like IP Cameras
Big Brother is getting a whole lot of little siblings. New surveillance cameras allow anyone with a broadband internet connection to keep a 24-hour watch on nearly anything from anywhere.
Want to monitor your house from the office? Connect one of the cameras to an Ethernet or wireless computer network at home, then navigate your browser to a website linked to an internet address assigned to the camera.
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Microsoft Pledges Longer Support for Products
SAN DIEGO--Microsoft revealed a new long-term support policy on Tuesday, along with upcoming technologies to boost security and reduce spam. Speaking at TechEd, the software giant's annual conference for information technology administrators, Andy Lees, vice president of the company's server and tools business, said Microsoft will now guarantee a minimum of 10 years of support for all business and developer products.
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Internet Phones
Your next telephone may not actually be a telephone. It may look and work like a phone, but it will connect to the Internet, not a telephone line, and it will cost less than today's phones. You’ll also get better features and ease of use. Over the next few years, more products using Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, will be coming online. But there's no need to wait--today's batch of Internet phone products have useful features and can save you money, starting now.
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Stop Direct Marketers From Spying On You
If spam is your personal nightmare, consider the havoc adware or spyware may wreak. These tiny applications either feed advertising to software already running on your computer or, worse, collect data about your Internet surfing habits, then broadcast that data to marketers worldwide. Often, you don't even realize that you've installed these apps because they either piggyback on free software that serves another purpose (say, the ad-serving app Cydoor, which is included with the Kazaa file-sharing program) or, often, download and install via nefarious Web sites (notice a new default home page or search engine for your Internet Explorer?). The end result is that your browser may default to unusual search-engine sites or produce odd search results, and you may see exponential growth in the number of pop-up ads that litter your desktop while you surf. How can you find out whether your machine is infected? We look at five antispyware apps that will scan your PC and remove these pests.
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Intel's Dothan Sets Sail
Intel on Monday formally launched three new laptop chips and outlined a push to equip more consumer-oriented notebooks with wireless networking.
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Worm Warning Intensifies
Security companies urged clients to patch their Windows systems, as concerns heightened that an MSBlast-like worm would be released soon--perhaps even as early as this weekend, according to one firm.
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Netflix Plans to Deliver Films Via Web in 2005
Movie rental service Netflix plans to do next year what its name has always promised: deliver a movie via the Internet.
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Sensors Everywhere, Computers Invisible
Ten years from now, the computer as we know it today will be an anachronism, a device consigned to museums, dumpsters and garages. Instead, according to Gartner analysts, the digital information and services once delivered via conventional computers will be available through almost everything we touch-kiosks, airplane seats, newspapers and a broad array of new devices.
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Answering Call for Phone Tickets
Can you hear me now? RepeatSeat hopes so, as it introduces cell-phone tickets to U.S. event-goers this year.
Teaming up with fellow ticketing firm U.K.-based Mobiqa, RepeatSeat will be the first company to offer the service to North American patrons, as early as May. The 4-year-old, Alberta, Canada-based RepeatSeat is hoping the alliance will attract more venues to its ticketing services.
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Gates: Hardware Will Be Free
Hardware costs will fall sharply within a decade to the point where widespread computing with speech and handwriting won't be limited by expensive technology, Bill Gates said Monday.
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Next Net Moves Forward
The next generation of the Internet, known as Internet Protocol version 6, took another big step toward commercialization, as its second phase of testing in North America wrapped up last week.
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In-Flight Net Set to Take Off
The days of boring airline flights are about to come to an end. Boeing is set to launch what it says is the world's first broadband in-flight Internet service, said Connexion by Boeing President Scott Carson. The service will start sometime during the last two weeks of April.
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Intel Chips Take a New Number
Intel plans to assign a new numbering system to its Pentium and Celeron processors in order to better illustrate their performance to consumers, according to a source familiar with the company's plans.
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LCD Panel Shortage Easing Up
A long-standing supply crunch for liquid-crystal display panels is starting to lift, providing hope that prices for flat-panel monitors will begin falling again later this year.
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Store Anything: Hard Facts on Hard Drives
With music, photos, and home videos now digital, you can't afford to scrimp on PC disk capacity. Here's how to keep ahead of the tidal wave.
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Adware Spreads Quickly on AOL IM
A surreptitious program spreading Wednesday morning is turning AOL Instant Messenger users into advertising spammers.
The problem starts when users receive an instant message that appears to come from someone on their Buddy List (a list of friends and co-workers who also use the AOL Instant Messenger service). The message reads "check this out" and includes a link that contains a reference to "osama capture.php."
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Search Wars Are About to Get Personal
Web surfers are anything but loyal when it comes to their favorite search engines, according to new research that could give hope to Net titans Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN as they seek to wrest the search crown from Google.
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TiVo Watchers Uneasy
After Post-Super Bowl Reports
Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash dance was shocking in more ways than one: Some TiVo users say the event brought home the realization that their beloved digital video recorders are watching them, too
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Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware
The CueCat -- that pesky bar-code scanner from Digital Convergence -- may be dead, but its spirit is finding new life in the form of a camera phone. During the past six months, no fewer than four software firms have released applications to help consumers turn their camera-equipped mobile phones into personal bar-code scanners.
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The Mac Turns 20
Despite Apple's marketing of the G4 "supercomputer on a chip" and Virginia Tech's supercomputer built from 1,100 Power Mac G5s, the Mac will always be remembered for its influence on communication, not on number crunching.
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Wireless in San Diego
For a view of how wireless telecom will change the way we work and live, head to San Diego--where everyone from pharmacists to real-estate brokers is now coming unplugged.
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Kazaa Delivers More Than Tunes
Forty-five percent of the executable files downloaded through Kazaa, the most popular file-sharing program, contain malicious code like viruses and Trojan horses, according to a new study.
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Beyond Google: Narrow the Search
As wonderful as Internet search engines are, they have a pretty big flaw. They often deliver too much information, and a lot of it isn't quite what we're looking for. Who really bothers to read the dozens of pages of results that Google generates?
Some intriguing technologies are getting better at bringing order to all that chaos, and could revolutionize how people mine the Internet for information.
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Can Spam? Or New Can of Worms?
On New Year's Day, Americans will wake up to more than a crushing hangover; they will have a new federal antispam law and, according to one commercial group, a new definition of spam.
Representatives of the Direct Marketing Association said the CAN-SPAM Act, which President Bush signed into law Tuesday, settles any argument about the difference between spammers and legitimate e-mail marketers.
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How Mac OS X Can Shed Its Skin
A small community of desktop "skinners" has sprung up around Unsanity's ShapeShifter, a utility for Mac OS X that allows the desktop interface to be customized in highly personal and sometimes strikingly beautiful ways.
ShapeShifter, released earlier this month, is a $20 utility that can alter all the elements of the Mac OS X interface, including menus, windows, buttons and boxes.
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BlackBerry Aims to go Wi-Fi
Research In Motion is working to allow its BlackBerry devices to connect to Wi-Fi wireless networks, anticipating demand for the feature from its target corporate customers.
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Decades After Creation, Viruses Defy Cure
Of all the accomplishments in the annals of technology, Fred Cohen's contribution is undeniably unique: He introduced the term "virus" to the lexicon of computers.
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Moving Cell Numbers: Wait a Sec
Despite having already waited years for the freedom to switch mobile phone companies without losing their numbers, cell users might want to wait a bit longer before lining up for "wireless emancipation" when it takes effect on Monday.
Critics say wireless companies spent so much time and effort fighting to delay the new rules that their preparations may prove inadequate for the expected torrent of customers wanting to bring their cell numbers to a different carrier.
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Microsoft Windows Longhorn
By all accounts, the next version of Windows will be a long time coming. Code-named Longhorn, the OS isn't due until sometime in 2006. Bits and pieces of the embryonic operating system have been leaking onto the Internet since the beginning of the year, however, and recently, Microsoft has started to divulge details of its "biggest bet" since Windows 95.
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Panther by the Numbers
40 Mac OS X 10.3 Features, Tips, and Tricks
Trying to add up the new features and enhancements you'll find in Panther? Prepare for a long count. For every feature Apple has highlighted since it unveiled OS X 10.3 this summer, there are even more additions and improvements that have escaped much attention.
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Digital Networks: PC to Stereo
Home-burned CDs and portable players like Apple Computer's iPod, costing $300 to $500, offer one way out. But electronics makers are coming out with a new class of device that can pipe digital music through the living-room stereo or other speakers throughout the house. Linked to the computer through a wireless connection, Ethernet computer-networking cable or a power line network, many of these "digital audio receivers" can also stream Internet radio and display video or digital photos on the living-room TV.
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Take a Peek at Panther
See What Apple's Latest OS Can Do For You
Panther's many additions and enhancements include a brand-new Finder, which has improved save dialog boxes and search features, and new contextual menus. Apple has given more power to its Mail application, integrated faxing into the OS, and added font management. And that's just the start.
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Apple Unveils iTunes, Music Store for Windows
At a special event held on October 16th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited iTunes software for Windows. The service provides not only digital music playback features for Windows users, but also offers them access to the iTunes Music Store. Both iTunes and the iTunes Music Store have hitherto been limited for use by Macintosh users.
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Waiting for DVDs, the Sequel
Now that DVDs have become fully accepted by the masses, and even progressive-scan players can be found for under $70, what's a videophile got to do to stay ahead of the pack? Or perhaps the better question is: Now that DVDs are almost 7 years old, which is an eternity in the consumer electronics world, what comes next?
The answer is high-definition DVD.
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Broadband: Pick Cheap or Speedy
Millions of broadband subscribers are getting a boost in speed -- without a concurrent rate increase -- as cable operators contend with intensified DSL competition from local phone companies by increasing service instead of decreasing price.
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Adobe Announces Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe today unveiled the Adobe Creative Suite, a new software product that combines new full-version upgrades of Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, and Adobe GoLive CS, incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and introduces its new innovative Version Cue file version manager.
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Can Microsoft Finally Kill All The Bugs?
Viruses, flaws, and worms, oh my! With PCs crashing and the Internet wheezing, Gates & Co. are on the quality hot seat. We'll take you inside Microsoft's effort to get its software right, right from the start.
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Adobe to Drop OS 9 in Next Photoshop Release
Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop, will abandon Mac OS 9 support in its next major version, sources close to Adobe told MacCentral. While no final date has been set for the release of the next revision of Photoshop, Adobe is expected to introduce the product this fall."
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Adobe Preps New Graphics Suites
Adobe Systems Inc. this fall will roll out a Creative Suite collection that integrates a slew of upgrades to its professional graphics applications. Sources said the Creative Suite will ship in two versions, both comprising a number of major application upgrades. The Standard version will include Photoshop 8, Illustrator 11 and InDesign 3; the Premium edition will also feature Acrobat 6 Professional and GoLive 7. Both versions will ship with the initial release of an Adobe technology code-named Bauhaus that will provide cross-application integration and other services ."
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Will Microsoft Tweak IE?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued a statement Thursday that indicates that Microsoft is mulling its options after a federal court earlier this month found that plug-ins and applets in Internet Explorer (IE) infringed on patents held by Eolas Technologies and the University of California. The software giant was ordered to pay $521 million to the Web technology company and the university.
"In the near term, Microsoft has indicated to the W3C that they will very soon be making changes to its Internet Explorer browser software in response to this ruling," Steven R. Bratt, chief operating officer of the W3C, said in a statement. "These changes may affect a large number of existing Web pages."
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PC Protection for Procrastinators
Congratulations if you're among the 99 percent of personal computer users who weren't hit with the Blaster worm last week or the SoBig virus this week. You now have a chance to make your PC safe before the next threat emerges.
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Looking at the Next Generation of Macintosh
There's plenty of hubbub surrounding the performance claims of the forthcoming Power Macintosh G5 models. David Morgenstern considers the current state of knowledge and runs down the technologies in Apple's new workstations.
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Want To Get Into Wi-Fi?
Some say the wireless technology is doomed; others swear by it. Before you jump into this market, know what you're getting into--and where we're headed.
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Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE
Microsoft's Internet Explorer might have trounced the likes of Netscape Navigator, but the folks at Mozilla.org insist the browser wars aren't over.
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Why do-not-spam lists are a bad idea
Following the success of do-not-call anti-telemarketing lists, the idea of do-not-spam lists has suddenly caught on with politicians.
Big mistake...."
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Under the Desktop: Finding the Feline,
Apple's Forthcoming Panther OS X
Attendees at this month's Macworld CreativePro conference and expo will get the first public look at the forthcoming Power Macintosh G5 workstation. Version 10.3 of Mac OS X, aka Panther, may be given somewhat less exposure to the public, on the other hand. Yet with a powerful imaging technology under the hood, along with a variety of new interface elements, Panther may tip the balance for creative professionals still debating about Generation X...."
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New Memory That Doesn't Forget
With both Motorola and IBM firmly lined up behind a single contender, the five-year search for a "universal RAM" technology offering a combination of non-volatility and high-speed random access appears to be all but over. According to Motorola, samples of the new magnetoresistive random access memory, or MRAM, chips will be distributed to developers by the end of 2003, and cell phones and PDAs incorporating MRAM should be on sale by mid-2004.
Unlike conventional high-speed memory devices, MRAM uses magnetism instead of electrical charges to store data -- making it, in a sense, a back-to-the-future technology based on the same laws of physics that enabled the creation of audio and videotape recorders as well as hard drives...."
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QuarkXPress, Acrobat, InDesign:
Crunch Time For Prepress Users
The question of how to create PDFs from QuarkXPress files in prepress workflows just got a lot more complicated: Before last month, a lot of users were content to run both Acrobat 5 and some version of XPress, which couldn't generate PDFs on its own. In the last 30 days, however, Acrobat has moved into version 6...."
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Apple Says New G5s Will Scream
For the past couple of years, Mac users have been burdened with a shameful secret few would admit, even to themselves. Their machines were slower than Windows PCs. Now the mantle of shame can be thrown off. A new line of high-end desktop Power Macs, available in August, will be the fastest personal computers on the planet...."
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Apple Leaks Power Mac G5 Details
Apple Computer is expected to debut a new line of high-end G5 Power Macs on Monday that promises to put the company at the head of the performance race with Windows PCs...." for entire article, click here"
MS Mac Browser: Fuhgeddaboutit
Microsoft says it will no longer develop versions of its popular Web-browsing software for Apple Computer's Macintosh system, saying Apple's own browsing software is a logical choice for Mac users.
Except for two minor upgrades, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 is the last version it will develop for the Mac, said Jessica Sommers, product manager for the software company's Macintosh Business Unit...." for entire article, click here"
Microsoft Plays to Film Industry
Better known for browsers than blockbusters, Microsoft is still angling for a major role in the digital film business. The company is downplaying its ambitions until it finds out whether or not Hollywood will bite...." for entire article, click here"
Microsoft to Abandon Standalone IE
Microsoft is phasing out standalone versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser, according to statements attributed to IE program manager Brian Countryman in an interview posted on the software giant's Web site...." for entire article, click here"
Spam Legislation Likely to Pass; Will It Work?
Amid a chorus of voices calling on the U.S. Congress to do something about spam, lawmakers appear to be ready to pass antispam legislation this year, but consumer advocacy groups say current proposals are likely to lead to more spam, not less...." for entire article, click here"
Intel Gears Up for New Desktop Chip
Intel is on track to come out with a new generation of desktop chips and improve its notebook processors by the end of the year...." for entire article, click here"
Have Phone, Will Not Get Lost
Late for the next appointment? You'll no longer have the excuse of having taken a wrong turn -- if you have a handheld computer with the latest navigation software, that is. Satellite navigation -- once a $3,000 luxury for yachtsmen, big-rig truckers and back-country campers -- has dropped in price and grown in portability, having found its way into Palm and Pocket PC handheld computers. Global positioning systems (GPS), as these location-finding devices are called, are also popping up in the latest generation of mobile phones...." for entire article, click here"
Apple Launches Paid Music Service
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a slick and easy-to-use song download service on Monday that some experts said breaks down the barriers to online music distribution. At a big launch event in downtown San Francisco, Jobs showed off Apple's new iTunes Music Store, which makes more than 200,000 songs from all five major music labels available at 99 cents a download...." for entire article, click here"
Cable Beats DSL in Speed Race
Cable modems are outpacing digital subscriber lines in terms of connection speeds, as household broadband access continues to increase, according to a study released Tuesday...." for entire article, click here"
Want Revamped Search? Just Ask
Ask Jeeves, the question-and-answer site named after a stodgy animated butler, is the latest search engine to jump on the redesign bandwagon. On Monday, Jeeves is launching what executives describe as one of the deepest overhauls of indexing and display in its six-year history. Eighteen months in the making, the revamp includes new features such as a picture-search function, faster page loading and tools to narrow query results...." for entire article, click here"
Tuning Into the Hype About Wi-Fi
From coffee shops to fast-food joints to an exclusive lakeside resort, businesses across the country are building high-speed wireless Internet networks in record numbers to please their current customers and to lure new ones. However, despite a spike in the number of locations, or hot spots, where people can get Wi-Fi Internet access, these businesses aren't attracting record numbers of new customers...." for entire article, click here"
Bye-Bye, Batteries?
Long-Lasting Fuel Cells Favored To (Eventually) Power Portable Devices
Today's digital devices are smaller and more powerful than ever, but a roadblock obstructs further miniaturization: the batteries. Manufacturers can produce smaller notebooks, cell phones, and PDAs, but today's cumbersome power sources make the small packages impractical.
That roadblock may soon be lifted: Over the next year or two, new technologies could bring better batteries and even better fuel cells. Many industry insiders consider fuel cells, which create electricity through a chemical reaction, the power source of the future...." for entire article, click here"
Adobe Takes Aim on DVD Market With New Software
Desktop publishing software maker Adobe Systems Inc. is expanding into the fast-growing DVD market with a new program designed to make it easier to customize the discs on a personal computer. The San Jose-based maker of the popular Acrobat and Photoshop programs plans to announce its bid to profit from the DVD boom Monday. The software, called "Encore," won't be sold until the summer. Adobe isn't selling a version for Apple's Macintosh...." for entire article, click here"
The Real Truth About Centrino
After last week's colossal Centrino launch, Intel may go down as the Al Gore of the wireless Internet. A casual observer might have gotten the impression from the spectacle--which the company declared was its biggest product introduction since Pentium--that Intel had just invented 802.11 networking and wireless hot spots. The mainstream press was happy to play along. "Intel introduced a set of chips yesterday that promises to make wireless Internet access a standard feature on laptops," reported Reuters. "Centrino laptop users who are within 100 yards of access points...will be able to surf the Internet or use corporate networks." Holy hot spots! Get me a Centrino.
A few facts got lost in the Centrino PR shuffle, however...." for entire article, click here"
McDonald’s and Intel Debut High-Speed Wireless Access in Manhattan Restaurants
Selected McDonald’s restaurants in New York City now offer high-speed wireless access for customers who are constantly “on-the-go” and looking for a place to eat, rest and log-on to their laptop computers. The pilot program currently includes 10 McDonald’s restaurants in Manhattan and is scheduled to expand to several hundred restaurants in three major U.S. markets by year’s end...." for entire article, click here"
Next Windows Leaks Onto Net
An early test version of the next major release of Microsoft Windows has been leaked onto the Net, offering a glimpse of the company’s plans for the new software. The leaked version of the upcoming desktop operating system, code-named Longhorn, hints of major changes under the Windows hood, as Microsoft radically improves file management and searching features in Windows and in Yukon, the code-name for the next version of SQL Server, due out later this year...." for entire article, click here"
Ricochet Wireless Rides Again
The resurrection of a bankrupt wireless Internet company isn't just a boon for editors dying to write "Ricochet bounces back" in a headline. It's also a nod to the vulnerability of Wi-Fi, which doesn't offer continuous coverage between so-called hot spots.
If Ricochet's new owners have their way, laptop owners will forget the company's billion-dollar belly-flop and embrace Internet access that's comparatively pokey, but available both at home and on the road. "You get a nice, wide area coverage in a market," said Ricochet Vice President John Dee. "We're hot everywhere, not just in selected spots." ...." for entire article, click here"
Microsoft Makes Documents More Secure
Microsoft said Friday it is developing add-on security technology for its forthcoming Windows Server 2003 operating system software that will allow organizations to implement rights-management protections on corporate documents such as e-mail messages and data files...." for entire article, click here"
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.2.4
Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday issued an update for its Mac OS X operating system . The 10.2.4 update addresses issues related to reliability for built-in applications and services, and more. It's available for download through the Software Update system preference pane...." for entire article, click here"
Linux: News Signs of Energy
Verano, a company that sells software for controlling everything from power plants to factories, is embracing Linux, along with security features that the U.S. National Security Agency added to the operating system. Verano currently sells software based on Windows and on versions of Unix, but believes customers are now moving toward Linux, a sign of the gradual maturing of the operating system...." for entire article, click here"
Wireless Is Star Again at CES
Once again, it's all about wireless at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Last year's CES, one of the world's oldest and largest trade shows, witnessed the birth of a pocket PC that made phone calls and took pictures, along with a digital camera that operated on a wireless local area network. Wireless technology was also the focus of headliner Bill Gates' keynote address...." for entire article, click here"
Brains Gather to Outsmart Spam
If experts here get their way, spam may soon be dead meat.
Unsolicited e-mail messages, or spam, are on track to make up the majority of traffic on the Internet. But a group of researchers and developers gathered here Friday hopes to halt that by coming up with better ways of blocking those messages from consumers' in-boxes...." for entire article, click here"
Safari Beta Updated to v51
If you downloaded Apple's new Web browser Safari when it was first released last week, check the Web site again -- Apple has released a new public beta version, v51. While Apple doesn't provide specific details about what's changed in the new build, it recommends the new version for all Safari users...." for entire article, click here"
Patent creates IM wrinkle
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
The patent (6449344), originally filed in 1997, and granted in September this year, gives AOL instant messaging subsidiary ICQ rights as the inventor of the popular IM Internet application. The patent covers anything resembling a network that lets multiple IM users see when other people are present and then communicate with them...." for entire article, click here"
Gigabit Ethernet Gets Practical
Enterprise IT always wants to do things better, faster, and more efficiently. Gigabit Ethernet can offer us the speed we crave, but do we really need it?...." for entire article, click here"
Tech Specs: Less Geek, More Chic
How's this for a stocking stuffer? A portable DVD player that projects the movie right before your eyes through a device embedded in your glasses. It may sound far-fetched, but Mark Spitzer is already making the technology work in industrial applications and hopes to put it at the top of next year's holiday gift lists...." for entire article, click here"
Tech Companies Ask for Unfiltered Net
A coalition of technology companies warned on Monday that cable companies might try to interpose themselves as gatekeepers between customers and Internet content...." for entire article, click here"
Why it's getting easier to talk to your PC
For most of us, voice is our first user interface. Unfortunately, it's been surprisingly tough to bring that interface to the PC. But a top Microsoft researcher I spoke with last week says that human quality speech recognition good enough to let your computer reliably transcribe a newspaper read out loud is now about a decade away. In the meantime, limited, but still useful, speech-based apps will only become more and more common...." for entire article, click here"
Hard Drives Taking Over From VHS Tapes
There's a replacement for VHS tape coming, say some, and it's called the hard drive. A growing number of hard-drive manufacturers and start-ups are touting a new use for the hoary data vault that's been one of the chief PC components for more than two decades. They want to see it used as a portable storage device for gadgets such as set-top boxes, game consoles and digital stereo receiver...." for entire article, click here"
Intel races to break 3GHz
PC makers will show off systems containing Intel's 3GHz Pentium 4 on Nov. 14, a few days before the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas.
The 3GHz Pentium 4 will likely be the highest-performing desktop chip on the market when it comes out next month. Not only will the chip run at a higher clock speed than other desktop parts, but it will also contain Intel's hyperthreading technology, which lets one chip act almost like two...." for entire article, click here"
RealNetworks Goes Mobile With NEC
RealNetworks on Thursday said that it shipped a mobile version of its multimedia playback software in NEC's MobilePro P300 handheld computers. The partnership will allow NEC MobilePro users to transfer audio and video files from their PCs and play back the media on their handhelds. MobilePro users can also stream songs and videos encoded in RealNetworks' software through a wireless connection...." for entire article, click here"
IBM Promises Muscle for the Mac
Macs are about to get a serious boost. Industry sources say that IBM plans to announce a new 64-bit processor on Monday -- known as the PowerPC 970. It will run a new line of Macintosh products that could be available by the end of next year. The chip promises to goose Macintosh clock speeds, which right now trail Intel's Pentium line significantly. Pete Sampson, IBM senior PowerPC architect, says that the PowerPC 970 will reach clock speeds of 1.8 GHz and will also be able to do a lot more with each processor cycle. Current G4 CPUs can issue three instructions per cycle; the PowerPC 970 will issue eight...." for entire article, click here"
Yahoo heralds corporate messaging
Yahoo has unveiled a version of its Messenger service designed to work with corporate portals and business applications. Instant messaging software has been wildly popular with consumers and, despite some obstacles, has begun to catch on with office workers....." for entire article, click here"
Apple releases iSync beta
Apple Computer released this week a beta, or testing version, of iSync, the company's latest "i" application...." for entire article, click here"
Google search gets newsier
Google unveiled on Monday an expanded test version of its search engine for current events and news, the latest step in the company's move into new markets...." for entire article, click here"
Who's gunning for Game Boy and Google?
The impact of technology on society, economics, business practices and corporate culture has been profound. I state the obvious. While technology is not going to bring peace to the Middle East, ignite tech spending, or replace the dreadful stream of television programming, it has broken through borders and enabled new, powerful forms of communication. But it also has spawned some very bizarre and repressive government policies...." for entire article, click here"
Under the Desktop: Running with the Big Cat, Apple's Jaguar OS X
Has the time finally come for Mac-using content creators to move to OS X? What about important features such as performance and compatibility? These are some of the questions David Morgenstern ponders when examining Jaguar, the latest update to the Mac's Unix-based OS...." for entire article, click here"
Hawaiian Language Advocates Applaud New Mac Operating System
Apple Computer's latest operating system doesn't say ``aloha'' on startup, but it still speaks Hawaiian. Hawaiian language educators and preservationists are applauding the Apple OS 10.2 software because of a feature that allows users to type two characters essential to the Hawaiian written language as it is now taught...." for entire article, click here"
Under the Desktop: Prospecting for Quartz in Mac OS X
Creative professionals are long acquainted with PDF. But how many know that at the heart of Apple's Mac OS X beats PDF? David Morgenstern explains what goes on behind the scenes and on the screen with OS X's PDF-based Quartz imaging model...." for entire article, click here"
Digital Cinema Take 2
Film offers the best color and clarity, but in Hollywood's effects houses, computers rule. Moviemakers must expertly blend both media...." for entire article, click here"
New AOL for Mac OS X arrives
Today America Online is launching a new version of AOL for Mac OS X. The company says it's totally redesigned to look and feel like a true Mac application and offers some features not found on the Windows version...." for entire article, click here"
More Memory on the Way
Researchers from the University of Southern California School of Engineering have developed a new type of memory that actually puts a processor on the DRAM chip, allowing for significantly faster memory performance and eliminating the gap between CPU and memory performance...." for entire article, click here"
A to B, Easy as 1-2-3
Everybody knows the stubborn driver who refuses to stop and ask for directions. Now, thanks to voice recognition technology, he doesn't have to be proud, or lost. IBM said Monday that it will provide a voice recognition system for selected 2003 Honda Accords. The voice-enabled Hondas should be available at dealerships beginning Sept. 9. The feature will help drivers find the nearest pizza place, ATM or gas station, as well as give directions on how to get from point A to point B...." for entire article, click here"
How Microsoft plans to take over your living room
There's yet another new version of Windows on the horizon, this one intended to turn your personal computer into a home entertainment center (or at least a key component of one). Dubbed Windows XP Media Center Edition, the new Windows will initially be available only on special PC hardware, and "initially" won't be until early fall, in time for Christmas but missing back-to-school sales...." for entire article, click here"
Apple Posts Software Update Security Fix
Apple has posted a fix for their Software Update mechansim used in Mac OS X. The update is available from the company's support Web site and will be available via Software Update shortly...." for entire article, click here"
EarthLink Launches ‘EarthLink Email-by-Phone’
EarthLink, one of the nation’s leading Internet service providers (ISPs), today announced the launch of its EarthLink Email-by-Phone service. Email-by-Phone, which provides subscribers with convenient, on-the-go access to their EarthLink email, is the latest addition to EarthLink’s comprehensive suite of value-added online services...." for entire article, click here"
Tech tools give you a competitive advantage
In today's marketplace you need a strong competitive advantage. That competitive advantage requires to you be able to think in terms of being flexible, adaptable and ready for anything...." for entire article, click here"
Broadband users reap the benefits
Broadband Internet users say their high-speed connections have prompted them to spend more time online and less in traffic, at the mall, or on the couch watching television, according to a study released on Sunday...." for entire article, click here"
Notebook roadmap: what's ahead for portable PCs. There's a notebook PC in your future. But what will it be like?
Talks with major notebook vendors revealed several trends. First, there's a strong belief that one of the things currently driving notebook sales is the fact that the "delta"--the difference in price between a desktop PC and a decent notebook--has narrowed to the point that many people are glad to pay a bit more for the added convenience of portability. Where one or two years ago, buyers were paying $1,000 for a desktop with an acceptable level of performance, now they can get a notebook with acceptable performance for about the same price...." for entire article, click here"
Tiny Hard Drives Make MP3 Players an Easy Sell
Five years ago, $400 would get you a ponderous CD jukebox that could store 200 CDs. Today that same $400 buys an MP3 jukebox that holds up to twice as much music -- and fits in the palm of your hand...." for entire article, click here"
PANTONE Color Cue Puts Affordable Color Identification In the Palm of Your Hand
"I Love This Magical Little Machine!" New Handheld Tool Allows Designers to Instantly Identify PANTONE Colors...." for entire article, click here"
Netscape's New Browser
Does Netscape 7 Preview Release 1 outbrowse Netscape 6.x and IE? Read this review for all the details...." for entire article, click here"
A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending?
Open-source software could find itself locked out of a whole industry if the entertainment giants get their way on copyright protection
Forget about Bill Gates, folks. The biggest enemy of free software may be Senator Ernest F. Hollings. Legislation introduced in March, 2002, by the South Carolina Democrat to require that copyright-protection software be embedded in PCs, handheld computers, CD players -- and anything else that can play, record, or manipulate data -- could make open-source software such as the Linux operating system illegal...." for entire article, click here"
Adobe Converts Entire Type Library Into OpenType. First of Three Sets Released; InDesign Users to Benefit from Rich Typographic Capabilities
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE), the leader in network publishing, today announced that more than 650 converted Adobe® Type Library (ATL) fonts are now available in OpenType® format. The converted fonts will provide users with improved cross-platform document portability, simpler font management, and enhanced glyph coverage...." for entire article, click here"
Nanobiotech Makes the Diagnosis
Electronic components the size of molecules could test for diseases and provide personal DNA profiles on demand...." for entire article, click here"
Microsoft to continue Mac support
As a five-year agreement with Apple Computer draws to a close, Microsoft on Wednesday reiterated its support for the Macintosh...." for entire article, click here
Monitor Shopping? Know Your Numbers
Which monitor specs should you pay attention to and which can you ignore? Go behind the numbers to find out...." for entire article, click here
Apple Previews Bluetooth Wireless Connectivity for Mac OSX
Apple® today previewed its Bluetooth technology for Mac® OS X, enabling short-range wireless connectivity between a Mac® and a variety of digital devices, including bluetooth-enabled PDAs and cell phones. Apple is making a preview version of its Bluetooth software for Mac OS X available as a free software download..." for entire article, click here
The Wayback Machine
"Perhaps I wouldn't be so excited about the Wayback Machine if I hadn't been reading a book about lost Atlantis (or a civilization that might have been Atlantis) when I discovered the site..." for entire article, click here
Intel to make optical chips for others
"In a departure from its usual business practices, Intel will design and manufacture optical chips for other companies as it continues its march into the communications business..." for entire article, click here
Click, no film
"A new type of image-processing chip promises to give digital photography a boost. It means the end of film has got a lot closer..." for entire article, click here
Going Beyond Antivirus Software
"You've installed McAfee or Norton software. Is that enough to protect your computer systems and Web site?..." for entire article, click here
An Opening for Apple
"The next frontier for Jobs & Co. will be melding its user-friendly technologies into an emerging generation of consumer electronics ...." for entire article, click here
Wireless E-Mail and Short Text Messages Are Making Businesses More Mobile
"E-mail isn't waiting anymore for users to boot up their PCs, as more companies take advantage of wireless technology to deliver the message straight to their employees' phones, pagers, and PDA devices. As part of an Internet strategy to mobilize their executives and workers with wireless devices...." for entire article, click here
A Flat, Flat, Flat Screen World
"With Apple's sleek new iMac leading the way, flat screen displays are poised to muscle bulky TV-style computer monitors off desks and into dumpsters...." for entire article, click here
So, you've mastered Windows 98, 2000, and Me. Ready to add Windows XP to your resume?
"If you scored a state-of-the-art Dell or Gateway PC for the holidays, chances are that it's running Windows XP. Groovy. But you may find out that XP is a bit more complex than previous Windows incarnations. What know-how do you need to master this new OS?...." for entire article, click here
Face Recognition Needs a Lift "If you've been worried about face-recognition cameras, relax. It seems like the technology -- surveillance cameras melded with face-recognition systems -- is just about as effective as a Ralph Nader presidential campaign...." for entire article, click here
How to Buy a Digital Camera "As the number of digital camera models proliferates, so does the number of decisions that must be made when purchasing one..." for entire article, click here
Metadata is becoming increasingly important in all types of publishing "Documents containing metadata can greatly increase the utility of managed assets in collaborative production workflows..." for entire article, click here
QuickTime Popularity Soars "According to Apple, QuickTime is soaring in popularity. In fact, they say that downloads of QuickTime are steadily increasing..." for entire article, click here
The Digital Dish: QuarkXPress vs. Adobe InDesign "A veteran designer ponders her page-layout preference: Stick with trusty standby QuarkXPress or jump ship to Adobe InDesign..." for entire article, click here
Windows XP: Hard on hardware "After months of careful deliberation, you sit perched on the fence, ready to finally move over to Windows 2000. Still, you have this nagging notion that maybe you should skip a generation and leap straight to Windows XP. After all, it's the next generation, everyone seems to be raving about it, and you really don't want to install Windows 2000 just to find yourself facing yet another upgrade decision in a few months..." for entire article, click here
Macromedia claims patent for Photoshop in lawsuit "Macromedia has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming they own the patent to Adobe's popular image application Photoshop..." for entire article, click here
Under the Desktop: X Will Mark the Spot "The first major update to Mac OS X, Version 10.1 is now in the retail channel. Attendees at the recent Seybold Seminars conference got a firsthand look at the operating system goodies aimed straight at content creation workflows..." for entire article, click here
Attacks put privacy into focus "Companies are scrambling to ensure their online privacy policies do not run afoul of the sprawling investigation into last month's terrorist attacks, a move that could prompt some to rewrite their published statements, privacy experts said..." for entire article, click here
Illustrator 10 sports new tools, OS X support "Adobe Systems Inc. today announced the forthcoming release of Illustrator 10, the latest major upgrade to the company's popular vector graphics software. Adobe is emphasizing Illustrator's 10's new tools for network publishing and enhanced integration with other Adobe graphics programs like Photoshop, GoLive, Premiere, InDesign and others. Look for the software to hit store shelves later this year -- and yes, it's compatible with Mac OS X..." for entire article, click here
Vendors Show Off Their Wireless Wares "SAN DIEGO -- While disrupted by the week's terrorist attacks on the U.S., the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association event held here went on more or less as planned with a variety of companies showing their latest wares..." for entire article, click here
Will Adobe Finally Push OpenType into the Big Time? "Most of today's typefaces come in two major font formats: TrueType and PostScript Type 1. Both formats have limitations, which is why Adobe and Microsoft joined forces in 1997 to introduce the OpenType format. OpenType holds promise for graphic designers concerned with well-crafted typography and cross-platform issues, but the format has languished in obscurity -- until now. Two developments from Adobe may raise its profile and give designers the means to a beautiful end..." for entire article, click here
Digital copyright law under fire; Millennium Act already out of date, critics say "When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was enacted in October 1998, President Clinton hailed it as a law that would protect the work of writers, performers and artists from piracy far into the new digital age. But that was before Napster and CD-ROM burners turned copying digital music into a worldwide consumer pastime; before a team of computer scientists cracked anti-music piracy technology; and before a Russian programmer landed in a U.S. jail for allegedly hacking eBook software..." for entire article, click here
Napster's legacy: P2P poised to rule "The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications will mean a major transformation for the Internet, and a decline in the relative importance of centralized Web applications..." for entire article, click here
Art and Technology Clash Center Stage "When tech-savvy artists meet design-minded geeks, the differences run deeper than who's more adept at running their computers, says creativepro.com editor-in-chief ..." for entire article, click here
Save Java! "Can computer makers and rebel programmers stop Microsoft from cutting off the programming language's air supply?..." for entire article, click here
Is Microsoft secretly using open source? "Microsoft Corp., even while mounting a new campaign against open-source software, has quietly been using such free computer code in several major products, as well as on key portions of a popular Web site -- despite denying last week that it did so..." for entire article, click here
For Position Only: The Brave New World Facing Print "To survive and thrive in this economic slowdown, printers need to adapt and move forward, not retrench and resist change, says Anita Dennis..." for entire article, click here
Intel to unveil its "Internet on a chip" "The new chip, the company said, will give devices such as handheld computers the ability to access the Internet and run applications twice as fast as was previously possible..." for entire article, click here
The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X "The point of the letter isn't to convince you to upgrade; it's to show you how to do so without dropping a stitch or sending your computing life into personal hell. In fact, if you follow my procedure, you'll have the best of both OS worlds..." for entire article, click here
The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X -- Part 2 for entire article, click here
ATM Deluxe Won't Jump to X "Graphic designers and prepress professionals who switch to OS X will have one less font-management tool in their arsenals to organize hundreds of fonts. Adobe confirmed to Macworld that it has no plans to create an OS X-compatible version of its popular Adobe Type Manager (ATM) Deluxe tool..." for entire article, click here
Macromedia Freehand 10 Ships "Macromedia Inc (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced the immediate availability of Macromedia FreeHand 10..." for entire article, click here
Design in the Age of Digital Media "The 'Dream Team' of designers Roger Black, David Carson, and Clement Mok ponders the state of print design, the influence of Web engineers, and why we should be chanting 'embedded fonts'..." for entire article, click here
Mac OS X update arrives "Apple Computer has issued an update to its Mac OS X operating system just three weeks after the software's debut..." for entire article, click here
Animation of the 21st century "Does story take a back seat to technology, much in the same way that action films are often more about showcasing special effects than exploration of character? Do animators' abilities to make their creations more lifelike actually detract from the spirit of animation....." for entire article, click here
Adobe reveals new transparancy technologies used in Adobe InDesign "In a move that has raised eyebrows, the InDesign team has begun revealing technologies that may or may not appear in future versions of Adobe Systems' page layout program InDesign..." for entire article, click here
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