Channel9 has an interview posted with Otto Berkes, General Manager of the Ultra-Mobile PC team at Microsoft. He talks about the “Origami” project. It’s basically a mini tablet PC. It still runs full-blown Windows. To get an idea of what it might be used for, watch a video of Intel’s version. [...]
According to a post on Broadbandreports.com, Comcast has begun to rollout speed increases for its gold package to 16Mbit down / 1Mbit up. Finally!
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Apparently, I’m not the only one who reported potential fraud with their Citibank card. Why is it that the largest and most profitable financial services company in the world has so many security issues? Apparently the problem not only affects ATM card use in Canada, UK, and Russia, but people are reporting problems [...]
I have mixed feelings about this one…
AT&T, Verizon and other telcos have been warning that they’re going to demand money from Google and other sites if those sites want adequate bandwidth. But now a senator is proposing to ban the practice, and is standing up to the telcos, who are acting more like a [...]
Ohhh Detroit. After all the positive press surrounding the SuperBowl, this had to happen. The Detroit Free Press reports:
A shooting following a fight early Saturday in downtown near the site of Super Bowl weekend festivities left a woman dead and a man hospitalized, police said.
It looks like all the talk-show hosts were right [...]
If you have a gmail account, you should definitely check out Google Trends. Google has been watching what you’re doing. Of course, you can simply logout before searching. If you remain logged in, Google tracks what searches you perform, and what links you click after you’ve performed your searches. [...]
With all the recent hoopla about Wikipedia, this artical is very interesting.via digg:
The scientific magazine “Nature” has compared 42 articles in both the encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Experts in their field were given the task to check for factual errors. To the surprise of nature, both encyclopedias were containing similar amounts of errors.
According [...]
via techdirt:
Michigan’s state board of education is thinking about requiring high-school students to take at least one course online to graduate. The thinking behind the proposal is that it will help ensure kids are up to speed on computers before entering the workforce or going to college, but it’s hard to see one online course [...]
Mozilla has officially launched Firefox 1.5 at mozilla.com. Get it while it’s hot!
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There really isn’t anything that’s theoretically hack proof, but the Xbox 360 from Microsoft comes about as close as you can get. What makes the 360 so secure? Check this out (via Engadget):
The flash is encrypted with a per-box key
The key is stored inside the CPU
The boot ROM is stored inside the CPU
Also [...]