IT News Digest

Archive: 05-2007

• OMG IF U CN RD THS U R BSTD

  Washington’s governor has signed the first state explicit ban on using SMS while driving, and other states are not far behind in banning DWT (Driving While Texting/Talking). A legislator...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | May 31, 2007, 4:22 AM PDT

• Hardware roundup

  Call it passion, or call it an occupational addiction, but I have always kept a firm eye on the movements in the hardware arena. I have found that the IT field, despite being an industry where...

  Posted by Paul Mah | May 31, 2007, 12:50 AM PDT

• Milan make me buy more, me like Microsoft's Milan?

  In addition to Palm’s Folēo foray into uncharted waters today, Microsoft pulled another card from its sleeve by introducing, not desktop… not laptop… not palmtop… but...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | May 30, 2007, 5:43 PM PDT

• Does Palm see the Vision Thing? Let's see with the Foleo.

  Palm’s announced a new accessory, an instant-on ‘companion product’ for Treos and other smartphones to ship this summer. This is basically a sound approach; King Gillette demonstrated it’s easier...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | May 30, 2007, 12:02 PM PDT

• Florida universities see income from technology grow

  Income from technology licensing from research universities in Florida increased to over $47 million from 2005 to 2006, according to a survey of those institutions. The majority of those licenses...

  Posted by Andy Moon | May 30, 2007, 10:25 AM PDT

• Yet another vector for malware

  According to Vinoo Thomas of McAfee Avert Labs, there were numerous submissions of late consisting of executable files embedded within Rich Text Files as OLE objects. In Rich Text Malware, Thomas...

  Posted by Paul Mah | May 30, 2007, 12:15 AM PDT

• The growing irrelevance of hardware reliability

  Network World has an article about how Google builds its own servers that caught my attention. Essentially, the article talks about how Google, in its desire to achieve the best possible value on...

  Posted by Paul Mah | May 29, 2007, 6:23 PM PDT

• $100 laptop debuts in Uruguay

  The Laptop Project has delivered their first XO machines, the famed “$100 laptops”, faster than previously expected, to a school in Uruguay, after Brazilian beta testing. XOs are...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | May 29, 2007, 12:35 PM PDT

• Can you hear me now (from 5.5 miles high)?

  On the 54th anniversary of climbing Mt. Everest, it’s fitting to recognize another altitudinous accomplishment; the first cell phone call from that very summit eight days before the anniversary,...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | May 29, 2007, 10:29 AM PDT

• MySpace labels innocent woman as sex offender

  Sex offenders and the databases that track them are big business these days, but there are downsides. MySpace’s recent purge of people erroneously identified by Sentinel Tech Holding...

  Posted by Andy Moon | May 28, 2007, 7:32 PM PDT

• Facebook F8: A one-stop-shop for all your social networking apps

  Facebook, the popular social networking site and the main competitor to News Corp.’s MySpace, announced the opening up of its platform to third-party developers for creating full-scale...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | May 28, 2007, 1:16 PM PDT

• Joost Internet TV: Enough boost to take on YouTube?

  Early this month , the Web community witnessed the launch of “Joost,” touted as the broadcast-quality Internet television service. A brainchild of Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis ,...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | May 27, 2007, 9:41 AM PDT

• Sony faces yet more legal issues

  Sony’s lawyers have been earning their paychecks lately as the embattled giant received another patent infringement lawsuit, this time from Target Technology Company, who alleges that...

  Posted by Andy Moon | May 26, 2007, 3:33 PM PDT

• Dell plans to sell computers at Wal-Mart

  It seems that Dell is making a foray into higher retail availability of its computers and it could end up being a big deal for the world’s number one computer manufacturer. On April 24th,...

  Posted by Andy Moon | May 26, 2007, 2:49 PM PDT

• Internet censorship: Violation of right to information?

  A recent PC World | IDG News service article reports that bloggers in China have been exempted from mandatory registration of their real names. It isn’t just the Chinese government that...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | May 24, 2007, 11:06 AM PDT

• You be the judge: What's your verdict for the SlaveSpace Webmaster?

  I frequently keep tabs on News.com’s Police Blotter, not because I am really into all that legal mumbo jumbo, but mostly because there are some really bizarro stories out there that involve...

  Posted by Sonja Thompson | May 24, 2007, 9:55 AM PDT

• A quick shout out to Fargo, a city where Microsoft expands

  I was born in Fargo, North Dakota, don’t ‘cha know, and raised across the Red River in an even smaller town called Moorhead, Minnesota. When I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, I thought...

  Posted by Sonja Thompson | May 24, 2007, 7:44 AM PDT

• AdSense ad-heavy sites swept away in Google late spring cleaning

  Blogosphere rumors percolated earlier this month of Google’s eighty-sixing alleged news sites which were really ad farms. Criteria for continued news source indexing were revealed as: Offer...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | May 23, 2007, 3:57 PM PDT

• Google - Salesforce pact: Is this the making of a MS Office killer?

  Speculations are rife that Salesforce.com, the leader in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) segment is teaming up with Google to offer a combined Web Applications solution for enterprises. The...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | May 23, 2007, 12:03 PM PDT

• Anti-spyware bill sent to Senate, passes House

  Ars Technica reports the U. S. House of Representatives today passed legislation by voice vote to criminalize spyware and other scams stealing personal information from users. If the Senate and...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | May 23, 2007, 11:49 AM PDT