Here are some interesting links from today:
- Solar Prius reportedly in the works
The problem with hybrid and electric car technology has always been that you still have to get the energy to charge the battery from somewhere. Even a plug-in electric car may use no gasoline, but it still requires electrical power, and the vast majority
- Gmail’s Mysterious Grey Box
There’s a small grey box rendered in an iFrame in the top left hand corner of Gmail, and TechCrunchIT is trying to figure out what it is. The icon is a ten by ten pixel graphic with a diagonal line across it, with one half in black and the other in gray
- More reasons to switch to Firefox?
With Firefox, you can actually see how much work is done finding and fixing flaws. You really can't say that about any of the other vendors — Microsoft, Apple, and Opera only disclose the flaws found by third-party security researchers so you really have
- Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay
University of Minnesota student Max P. Sanders, 19, was charged with a felony Thursday in Hennepin County District Court after allegedly asking for a minimum of $10 in exchange for voting for the bidder's preferred candidate.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Icahn, Microsoft team up for action on Yahoo
Steve made it clear to me that if a new board were elected, he would be interested in discussing a major transaction with Yahoo!, such as either a transaction to purchase the "Search" function with large financial guarantees or, in the alternative, purcha
- The Law and Your Privacy
We'll continue to fight for your right to share and broadcast your work. The court did impose some encouraging limits — they agreed with us that Viacom should not have access to private videos or our search technology. Also, the information we provide wi
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Naked DSL – finally catching on
It's basically a DSL broadband service – but without a standard phone line and the expensive line rental that goes with it. It's an increasingly attractive option around the world -
- Back to the Future McFly Sneakers on sale
The limited edition Back to the Future's Nike sneakers are available now. You can get yours now on eBay, where prices are going from $600 to $2,000. That is serious dollar gigawattage for a pair of sneakers, even it they look great out of the box.
Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
- Mozilla sets Guinness World Record
Mozilla today announced it set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. The record-setting 8,002,530 downloads coincided with the launch of Firefox® 3, Mozilla’s major update to its popular and acclaimed fr
- Set Gmail as your default email client in Firefox 3
Now you can configure Firefox to launch Gmail when you click on email address links and avoid the hassle. The folks over at Lifehacker published these tips on how to set it up:
- Dangerous and Ridiculous Things You Can Still Do While Driving
The big day has now passed for California drivers and cellphones are effectively banned on the road. At least not without a hands-free device…which Californians will inevitably forget to charge or lose.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Internet Explorer 8 Security Preview
From a security perspective, IE 7 is already an excellent product, especially on Windows Vista, where you can take advantage of Protected Mode. But with online threats evolving, Microsoft is taking steps to address new types of attacks in IE 8. Here’s wha
- Google learns to crawl Flash
Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by inte
- Intel says to prepare for ‘thousands of cores’
Intel currently offers quad-core processors and is expected to bring out a Nehalem processor in the fourth quarter that uses as many as eight cores. But the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server.
- Windows SteadyState now supports Windows Vista
Set it and forget it – You can share the computer and rest easy. Any changes a user might make to the configuration or hard disk can be undone by simply restarting the machine.Windows SteadyState Version 2.5 is now available with Windows Vista Support
