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- Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?
- Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base and therefore content beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". by Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?
- Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email
- The Department of Justice has indicted David C. Kernell, the 20-year-old son of a Democratic Tennessee state representative, for "intentionally accessing without authorization" Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, the Justice Department announced today. Kernell turned himself in for arrest and will be arraigned today. According to the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack
- The U.S. Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tennessee has indicted the 20-year-old son of a state lawmaker in connection with the compromise of Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. David Kernell left, who was identified for a while as the alleged hacker,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Does the Semantic Web matter?
- Does the Semantic Web matter?Semantic Web does matter, but ...Hi Paul,I agree to your post, Semantic Web does matter. Unquestionably, the Web is moving towards a stage that machines may understand our humans better and better. It is the future. In order to reach the future, one thing we must...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- iPhone sales: 10 million yet?
- When it comes to product inventory, there's a clear distinction between what's been manufactured and what's been sold. And sales figures also need to take into consideration other factors, such as returns, exchanges and retail inventory. That's why I'm raising an eyebrow at headlines today that suggest Apple has sold...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Polk Audio RM95
- Polk Audio engineers and designers are hip to the fact that everybody wants the smallest possible speakers. Big displays and small speakers are where it's at, and Polk's RM95 home theater five pack comes with four tiny satellites and a very compact center speaker for $600. You add your choice...
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Salesforce.com: Worries emerge
- Salesforce.com on Friday was downgraded from a buy to a sell by UBS analyst Heather Bellini because software as a service companies are likely to face the same headwinds as larger applications vendors. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com is targeting larger enterprises and that means it faces a slower buying cycle. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave
- Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal waveStallman sounds panicIf FOSS folks believe they can compete with proprietary software, why not build their own FOSS cloud and then take the battle right to the other proprietary cloud platforms?Ever been in a restaurant kitchen ?How old is the food ? Where have...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Winegard RCDT09A
- Earlier in the spring we published a blog entry titled, "Don't buy a portable TV this year" highlighting the fact that the vast majority of portable TVs use analog tuners that won't pull in TV signals after the analog-to-digital TV transition February 17, 2009. At the time, our advice was...
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- First reviews of Toshiba Qosmio with SpursEngine
- More than three months after Toshiba launched its first desktop replacement that makes use of the Cell processor in Japan, the Toshiba Qosmio G55-Q802 has reached U.S. shores and received its first hands-on reviews from PCMag.com and ComputerShopper.com. The Qosmio G55 series is part of a new...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?So what is the source of the issue?It's one thing to make such a spectacular claim it's another to provide some real evidence. Why would they be emitting a toxic smell? Might this be the case with other computers too?No wonder MBP fans love...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solutionMissing Facts...You're missing several key facts about our current mess...1) The banks were forced into making high risk loans by our delightful government. Based on a study later determined to be flawed showing bias in lending, the Clinton administration passed laws requiring banks...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Pre-university jitters: join a student social network
- I remember when I was about to start at university. It was a strange, perplexing time and wasn't sure if I'd make friends, know people, know what to do or where to go. Having said that, it made life that little bit easier having a unique medical condition - Tourette's...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Modelmaker Lite (zip)
- A software for creating 3d models. Export/import DXF, Obj file formats. Includes pre-made shapes library for easy modeling. Create your own shapes by revolve, extrude, height field, mesh, tessellation, import, edit --then export to your creations to your favorite rendering program. Intuitive modeling features. Real world XYZ points/triangle faces info...
- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- Jack-o-Lanterns screensaver (pd)
- In this free Halloween screensaver from American Greetings, various jack-o-lanterns are carved as you watch. Eyes, nose, and mouth all pop out to create several goofy and memorable pumpkin faces.Note: The screensavers from American Greetings require site registration with a valid e-mail address. The Download Now link above will take...
- Software downloads 2008-09-22
- Celio Redfly - access virtualization using smartphones
- Celio Corp has a different take on how to offer mobile staff access to applications and data, one that is based upon making use of the power of Windows Mobile-based Smartphones. This way mobile staff members can access pocket office (Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint) using a much larger screen...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack
- Norway's largest BitTorrent tracker Norbits (norbits.net) with approximately 10,000 users, is currently under a DDoS attack launched from a group known as MORRADi, which is also speculating that it has managed to compromise the tracker and is threatening to release personal details of its users including IPs, until the tracker...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- News to know: Palin's email hacked; Seinfeld-Microsoft; Tech meltdown; Visual Studio
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Sarah Palin's Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online Adam O'Donnell: Don't be the next Sarah Palin (security victim, not VP candidate) Wikileaks: Sarah Palin...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop market
- OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop marketamazingNot one bit of reference or substantiation to the main source's claim that thing's are getting cutthroat in his field. Poor journalism.What is important is the results of the research for using computers ineducation. Hopefully, there will be vibrant competition to sell $100 rugged...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
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