Here are some interesting links from today:
- OQO turned into world’s smallest Mac
A poster on the OQO Talk forums appears to have turned his Vista-operating OQO e2 UMPC into a something capable of running Leopard. Upon making his bold claim, TRF was initially ridiculed and charged with merely layering Vista with a set of Leopard skins.
- Comcast: How To Get $90 Off Your Comcast Bill
Reader Matthew just cut his Comcast bill in half with a single phone call. He received a flier from one of Comcast's competitors that boasted a much better price than the $175 per month he was paying. When he called Comcast and told them about the better
- Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
"Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that "may have been used in crimes." It basically bypasses all of the Windows security (decrypting passwords, etc.) in order to elim
Here are some interesting links from today:
- How Live Mesh Will Reinvent Microsoft
Live Mesh represents a sea change for Microsoft, writes columnist Rob Enderle. The technology will enable the transition from the current computing environment to a cloud-based ecosystem and redefine Microsoft's place in the market at the same time.
- Bluetooth implants: Why not?
I see more and more people walking around with Bluetooth headsets lodged behind their ears every day. Most states are passing hands-free laws for drivers. Even my technophobe wife wants one. I could be wrong, but I think it's only a matter of time before
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Microsoft’s piracy problem could grow
In the newly released Service Pack 1, however, Microsoft is softening its stance somewhat. The reduced functionality mode is gone, and in its place, a series of warnings and visual indications that a computer is not running a genuine copy of Windows. I wo
- Global Warming, Financial Crisis, etc.
Let me throw out a few facts. In 1900, the average life expectancy for an American was 47 years. In 2004, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, it was 78. In 1900, Americans devoted 50 percent of their incomes to putting food on the tabl
- GPS market at turning point with sliding prices, demand off
The experience of Netherlands-based TomTom NV — which saw earnings fall 83 percent in the first quarter — suggests the market for stand-alone global-positioning systems is at a turning point. "What we saw for the first time is that selling prices fell
- Happy spamiversary! Spam reaches 30!
Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam em
- FBI wants to move hunt for criminals into Internet backbone
give us the ability to preempt that illegal activity where it comes through a choke point as opposed to the point where it is diffuse on the Internet
- AT&T Charges $2 to pay bill with cash!
Rhonda Payne went to an AT&T Wireless store in Calhoun, Ga., recently to pay her phone bill in cash. When she arrived at the store, she was in for a surprise. Paying in person, she was told, costs extra — $2 extra. Payne objected to the "administrative c
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Tax rebates to start arriving Monday
800,000 tax filers daily will get rebates on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. No rebates will be distributed on Thursday, and 5 million payments will be made on Friday. The payments will go out ahead of schedule because of a new computer program that update
- 2010: D-day for the Internet as it hits “full capacity”?
Doom-filled warnings arrive from AT&T this week. The company says that without substantial investment in network infrastructure, the Internet will essentially run out of bandwidth in just two short years. Blame broadband, says AT&T. Decades of dealing wit
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Sony EL display is paper thin
There's thin. Then there's paper thin. Sony showed an electroluminescent (EL) display that's print-paper thin at the Display2008 conference in Tokyo. The Sony EL display is based on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology that uses electroluminesce
- Paypal to block ‘unsafe browsers’
Customers will first be warned that a browser is unsafe but could then be blocked if they continue using it. Paypal said it was "an alarming fact that there is a significant set of users who use very old and vulnerable browsers such as Internet Explorer 4
- NBC to Create Programs Centered on Sponsors
It sounds farcical when you first hear it, but NBC has teamed up with an ad agency to produce actual feature programs that are centered around promoting the products of the network's sponsors. The network has already began production on one sci-fi program
- How to make a Sawed-off USB Key
Holy crap– somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!!
- Why the U.S. cellphone system is un-American
Any TV you buy will work with any cable or satellite TV service you have. Any PC you buy, even a Mac, will work with any Internet service provider you use. Any landline phone, wired or cordless, will work any phone company's landline service. Duh, duh and
