Also Try Child Safety and Filtering Software Current Events Archives Windows Vista News -05-14-08 How Our Virtual World Influences Our Real World (Time.com) "I didn't realize how instructive my sister's question was until recently, when I discovered research being done at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL). Jeremy Bailenson, head of the lab and an assistant professor of communication at Stanford, studies the way self-perception affects behavior. No surprise that what we think about ourselves affects the confidence with which we approach the world. What is a surprise is that this applies in the virtual world too. With my plain Jane avatar and my inexperience in Second Life, I did what most people would want to do in an uncomfortable social situation: run away." 05-08 -01-01-07 Intel Introduces Core 2 Quad Chip (PCWorld.com) "Quad-core chips can handle complex tasks faster than single-core chips by using multithreaded software to break each job into smaller pieces, then computing them simultaneously. The chips are most popular with users of servers and workstations running programs like digital media creation and high-end gaming." 01-07 -01-06-07 Verizon to Offer Cellphone TV (USA Today) "Prime time is coming to the really small screen." 01-07 -01-06-09 Apple Announces New Notebook and iTune Changes (CNN News) "Apple Vice President Philip Schiller took the stage here Tuesday for the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo to unveil software upgrades, introduce an ultralight notebook and announce iTunes pricing changes." 01-09 -01-09-07 Apple Reveals iPhone (Time Magazine) "pple's new iPhone could do to the cell phone market what the iPod did to the portable music player market: crush it pitilessly beneath the weight of its own superiority. This is unfortunate for anybody else who makes cell phones, but it's good news for those of us who use them." 01-07 -01-09-09 Microsoft Announces Windows 7 (CNN News) "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday with an impassioned endorsement of PCs and a sneak peek at the company's future Windows 7 operating system." 01-09 -01-10-08 Gadgets for Tomorrow (Christian Science Monitor) "As the new year begins, a host of companies is unveiling products to help consumers find the right work-life balance in 2008. Here are a few entries featured in our new product catalog." 01-08 -01-30-06 Blackworm Countdown (TimesOnline.co.uk) "The clock is ticking on a dangerous computer virus programmed to delete millions of Word files stored on PCs when it reaches the end of its countdown on Friday." 01-06 -01-30-07 Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft (PBS News) "Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates announced Thursday he would give up his day-to-day role in the company to focus on philanthropy. David Kirkpatrick, senior editor of Fortune magazine and Stacy Palmer, editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy discuss Bill Gate's move to philanthropy." 01-07 -01-30-07 Windows Vista Review (BBC News) "The BBC's Technology team have put Vista through its paces and sampled reaction of those using it." 01-07 -011-04-09 Cuomo Files Federal Antitrust Suit Against Intel (New York Times) "Following the lead of foreign regulators, New York’s attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel, the world’s largest chip maker." 11-09 -02-02-07 Interview With Bill Gates on Vista (MSNBC News) "Bill Gates explains why you should buy his new operating system, what he’s doing next and why John Hodgeman bugs him." 01-07 -02-02-07 Viacom Orders YouTube.com to Remove Videos (MSNBC News) "Media company Viacom Inc., which owns the cable networks MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and the Paramount Pictures movie studio, asked YouTube on Friday to remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips from its hugely popular video-sharing site." 01-07 -02-17-09 Universal Cell Phone Chargers Planned (CNN News) "Cell phone makers Tuesday pledged to end one of modern life's chief frustrations --- and introduce a universal charger for handsets by 2012." "Under the scheme, phone makers have pledged that a majority of new handset models will include the universal charger by January 1 2012. The planned device will use a micro USB plug." 02-09 -02-21-08 Sony's Blu-ray Beats Toshiba's HD DVD (US News) "In the fast-changing world of video tech, two years seems an eternity. The question is whether it's a fatal delay for high-definition movies on disk." "Toshiba announced Tuesday that it was abandoning the high-def disk battle, giving the victory to Sony and its Blu-ray format." 2-08 -02-25-09 Bartz Named CEO for Yahoo (ABC News) "IYahoo Inc named Autodesk Inc Chairman Carol Bartz as CEO, but Wall Street questioned whether the software executive has the experience needed to turn around the Internet media company." 02-09 -03-10-07 Poll: Character More Important Than Policies for Voters (ABC News) "For all the policy blueprints churned out by presidential campaigns, there is this indisputable fact: People care less about issues than they do about a candidate's character." 03-07 -03-12-07 "No EMail" Fridays (ABC News) " 'I'm announcing a ban on e-mail every Friday,' Ellison's memo read. 'Get out to meet your teams face-to-face. Pick up the phone and give someone a call. … I look forward to not hearing from any of you, but stop by as often as you like.' " "The no-e-mail-Friday idea landed with a thud." 03-07 -03-16-07 Communications Companies Bid for Biggest U.S. Government Communications Contract Ever (Bloomberg.com) "AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and competing phone companies will find out this month whether they can bid for the biggest U.S. government communications contract ever or get shut out of most federal work for a decade." "Carriers must win the right to bid on projects valued at more than $20 billion over 10 years, for work ranging from Internet-based telephone and video services to data-network security upgrades. As many as 135 agencies will pick providers from the list, limiting work for companies that are left out." 03-07 -03-17-07 Viacom Files $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Google (ABC News) "Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday that it was suing Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion over unauthorized use of its programming online." 03-07 -03-23-07 Yahoo Ad Software Improves Sales (Bloomberg.com) "In its first six weeks, the results lit up both Yahoo's darkened operations room and its prospects for gaining ground on Google Inc. The rate of clicks on Yahoo ads rose about 10 percent compared with the old software, according to AQuantive Inc., the biggest U.S. online ad agency." 03-07 -03-24-09 Dangerous Computer Worm Expected on April 1st (CNN News) "A computer-science detective story is playing out on the Internet as security experts try to hunt down a worm called Conficker C and prevent it from damaging millions of computers on April Fool's Day." "The anti-worm researchers have banded together in a group they call the Conficker Cabal. Members are searching for the malicious software program's author and for ways to do damage control if he or she can't be stopped." 03-09 -03-30-06 Avoiding Tech Hassles (MSNBC Technology) "After more than five years of writing about the numerous pitfalls that plague technology consumers, one can't help but pick up some pointers. So here's my compendium of tips to help you avoid persistent tech problems and maybe even save a few bucks, too." 03-06 -04-03-09 Top 5 Notorious Computer Hackers (ABC News) "So here are some of the most famous -- or, perhaps, infamous -- hackers, compiled with the help of Symantec, the Justice Department, the National White Collar Crime Center, and several technology consultants. Please feel free to suggest others, or argue with our choices, in our comments section." 04-09 -04-05-08 New Websites for Kids Growing Fast (US News) "Maybe it's the desire to protect our children from the ravages of unfettered Web surfing. Or maybe it's the $350 million that Disney paid last year to buy Club Penguin, a site popular with the preteen set. Whatever the motive, online sites and services aimed at tweens and younger are bouncing up faster than a 6-year-old on a sugar high." 04-08 -04-09-09 Conficker Wakes Up (CNN News) "The Conficker worm is finally doing something--updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday." 04-09 -04-15-07 What's Wrong With the Web (MSNBC News) "Government and university researchers have been exploring ways to redesign the Internet from scratch." 04-07 -04-19-07 How Smart Mobs Coped With a Massacre (MSNBC News) "College’s response to tragedy illustrated how wired world now works." "The way students and teachers passed along information during the Virginia Tech massacre — via cellphone videos and campus-watching Webcams, via text messages and Web bulletin boards — demonstrates how the wired world has changed in the 21st century, one of the prophets of the new age says." 04-07 -04-20-09 Oracle to Buy Sun (CBS News) "The all-cash acquisition agreement - announced Monday, costing Oracle $5.6 billion with Sun's cash factored in, and expected to close this summer - puts the innovative but financially bumbling Sun out of its misery after IBM's move to buy it fell apart earlier in April. The way to fit Sun's technology into Oracle's business model goes back to a project called Raw Iron that's more than a decade old." "Raw Iron ideas placed application software front and center while demoting the server hardware itself and the operating system to a subordinate role. The customer who needs some database software need hardly know what's going on under the covers." 04-09 -04-23-07 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' Wins $25,000 (CNN News) "Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pennsylvania, was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' from 'Mary Poppins' in 15 seconds." 04-07 -04-25-09 Google Unveils "Google Profile" (Time.com) "To give people a bit more control over search results, Google introduced a new feature this week it calls a "Google profile" that users can create so that a thumbnail of personal information appears at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. Once users create a Google profile, their name, occupation, location (and photo if they choose), appears in a box on the first page of the search results for their name. Next to the thumbnail info, there's a link to a full Google profile page that in many ways resembles a Facebook page." 04-09 -04-30-09 Time: The World's Most Influential Person Is...moot (Time.com) "In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World's Most Influential Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey." 04-09 -05-07-09 Amazon Announces Big-Screen Kindle (CBS News) "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Wednesday the much-anticipated large-screen Kindle e-reader in a lecture hall at the downtown Pace University. Called the Kindle DX, the new device is geared toward readers of personal and professional documents, newpapers and magazines--and textbooks, a potentially huge target market." 05-09 -05-08-07 Comcast CEO Shows a Much Faster Download Technology (MSNBC News) "Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems." 05-07 -05-09-08 Facebook Safeguards Added (CNN News) "Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday." 05-08 -05-11-07 New Domains in 2008? (MSNBC News) "INew Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday." 05-07 -05-12-06 High Tech May Replace Some Caregivers (ABC News) "Across town, Louise — who uses a walker to get around — shows us how the system works. Her apartment is rigged with a series of motion detectors that track her movements and then transmit that information over the Internet to her family members." 05-06 -05-20-08 Why Microsoft Needs Yahoo (Time.com) "Microsoft is under assault in every direction, and losing the battle on any number of fronts. That's why it's so desperate to come to terms — any terms — with Yahoo." 05-08 -05-20-09 Microsoft to Introduce Kumo Search Engine (Time.com) "Microsoft says that if its search engine brings more relevant results than Google or Yahoo!, then people will eventually migrate to the "best" product. That may not be true. Google has become a habit for more than two-thirds of the people who use search engines in the U.S." 05-09 -05-29-09 Microsoft's New Search Engine Bing (ABC News) "Advertising Age reported earlier this week that Microsoft was planning a $80 million to $100 million ad campaign to promote Bing. Microsoft declined to comment on the report." 05-09 -05-30-07 "Surface:" A Revolutionary New Interface for Computers? (MSNBC News) "In an industry whose bold pronouncements about the future have taught me the benefits of skepticism, Surface took my breath away. If the Surface project rollout goes as planned in November, it could alter the way everyday Americans control the technology that currently overwhelms many of us." 05-07 -05-30-09 Bing Downloads (DiscoverBing.com) Provides downloads for programs related to Microsoft's new Bing search engine, such as a mobile version. "Use a variety of toolbars, gadgets and applications to access Bing directly from your mobile device or computer desktop. Download these tools and the product guide to help you tap into Bing’s potential through your daily activities." 05-09 -05-31-07 A Top Spammer Caught (MSNBC News) "A 27-year-old man described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail." 05-07 -06-04-07 China Expected to Become the Largest Internet Population (MSNBC News) "China has the world's second-largest population of Internet users, with 137 million people online, and is on track to surpass the United States as the largest online population in two years." 06-07 -06-09-08 Computer Speed Reaches 1,000 Trillion Operations per Second (ABC News) "Scientists at the Los Alamos government weapons lab have built the world's fastest computer, capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second." 06-08 -06-09-09 Apple Introduces a New, Faster iPhone (CNN News) "...Philip Schiller, the company's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, demonstrated the new iPhone 3G S, which can perform tasks up to 3.6 times faster than the previous second-generation iPhone, the iPhone 3G." 06-09 -06-09-09 Apple Lowers Price on iPhone (CNN News) "The big knock on Apple -- whether or not it's always been accurate -- is that its products are more expensive than most of its competitors." "But in the keynote speech Monday that opened Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, it became clear the company is tackling the price question head on." "The best example of this new attitude is the decision to keep the 8GB iPhone 3G, but sell it at $99. That was the most aggressive price move it made Monday." 06-09 -06-17-07 Online Sales Growth Rate Peaking (New York Times) "Since the inception of the Web, online commerce has enjoyed hypergrowth, with annual sales increasing more than 25 percent over all, and far more rapidly in many categories. But in the last year, growth has slowed sharply in major sectors like books, tickets and office supplies." "In response, a so-called clicks-and-bricks hybrid model is emerging, said Dan Whaley, the founder of GetThere, which became one of the largest Internet travel businesses after it was acquired by Sabre Holdings." "John Morgan, an economics professor from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, said he expected online commerce to continue to increase, partly because it remains less than 1 percent of the overall economy. 'There’s still a lot of head room for people to grow,' he said.' 06-07 -06-17-09 iPhone's New Operating System (Time.com) "The upgrade does a comprehensive job of closing what few holes there were in the popular smartphone while extending its reputation for being the most cutting-edge gadget in the gizmosphere." 06-09 -06-18-07 Blockbuster to Focus on Blu-ray for High Definition (BBC News) "Film rental firm Blockbuster is to rent high-definition DVDs only in the Blu-ray format at 1,450 US stores." 06-07 -06-18-07 Touch Screens Start to Take Over (Time Magazine) "People are ready to break the fourth wall of computing and put their fingers directly on the data. This is manual-free computing, instinctive and intuitive, with zero learning curve." 06-07 -06-18-07 Yahoo Boss Steps Down (BBC News) "The chief executive of internet search firm Yahoo, Terry Semel, has quit his position and has been replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang." 06-07 -06-22-07 Court Gives Email Privacy Protection (Time Magazine) "In a startling decision this week, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati ordered the feds to keep their mitts off e-mail stored with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) like Yahoo! unless they notify the sender first or show that he doesn't consider the e-mail private. The ruling was based on the conclusion that most people think e-mail, like letters or phone conversations, is private, and protected under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable government searches and seizures." "That seems a pretty fair conclusion, but the amazing thing is that no court has ever reached it before. In other words, we've been living under a legal regime that essentially assumes we don't much care if, say, Alberto Gonzales sees our e-mails after they leave our outbox. So for a federal appeals court to upend that regime is a big deal, as experts like Professor Orin Kerr at George Washington University Law School will tell you." " 'If this case sticks around,' says Kerr, 'it's the most important decision involving the Fourth Amendment in a long time for new technologies.' " 06-07 -06-30-06 Partnership Proposed to Combine GM, Nissan, and Renault (Bloomberg.com) "Kirk Kerkorian, General Motors Corp.'s biggest individual shareholder, urged the struggling carmarker to ally with Carlos Ghosn's Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA.'' 06-06 -06-30-07 25 Web Sites to Watch (MSNBC News) "To keep you ahead of the curve, we've rounded up 25 innovative Web sites and services that are well worth watching. Some of them help you design your own personalized Web site mashups; others enable you to create video mixes, build wikis, share personal obsessions, and more. But take note: A number of these sites are works in progress, and user-generated sites depend on developing a critical mass of content, which doesn't happen right away. With that in mind, check out the following dot-com destinations. One of them may become the next big Web hit." 06-07 -06-30-07 AT&T Nearly Out of iPhones (MSNBC News) "AT&T Inc. sold almost all its initial stock of Apple Inc.’s iPhone within hours of the device going on sale, an AT&T spokesman said on Saturday." "The combination cell phone, media player and Web browser went on sale at AT&T and Apple stores on Friday at 6 p.m. in each U.S. time zone in the most anticipated gadget launch of the year." 06-07 -06-30-07 iPhones: Are They Worth It? (CBS News) "The bad part about web browsing is the sometimes agonizingly slow AT&T Edge network that the phone forces you to use unless you happen to have wireless WiFi access." "I give the phone high marks when it comes to email. Although you can use it with virtually any POP3 or IMAP email account (which means it should work with most corporate email systems that don’t have iron-clad firewall requirements), the iPhone works out of the box with Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL and Apple’s own .mac mail service. With each of these services you simply enter your user name and password once and let the iPhone’s software handle the rest. It took me under 2 minutes to start getting and responding to my Gmail." 06-07 -06-30-08 Microsoft to Stop Selling XP (Time.com) "Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista." 06-08 -07-07-07 iPhones Must Be Sent In to Replace Batteries (CBS News) "The iPhone's battery is apparently soldered on inside the device and cannot be swapped out by the owner like most other cell phones." "Users would have to submit their iPhone to Apple for battery service. The service will cost users $79, plus $6.95 for shipping, and will take three business days." 06-07 -07-10-09 Google Voice (U.S. News) "It isn't enough for Google to dominate the world of Web search while also grabbing a huge slice of E-mail and Internet video. The online giant now thinks it can slip past AT&T and Verizon to capture the center of voice communications." 07-09 -07-14-06 YouTube Takes the Stage (ABC News) "Like YouTube's unorthodox Web site, Sling Media's product might have unnerved long-established media a few years ago." 07-06 -07-22-06 Google Fights Click Fraud (ABC News) "Google Inc. appears to be doing reasonably well protecting advertisers from scam artists preying upon the Internet's largest marketing network, but it remains unclear how much the system is being bilked under a ruse known as click fraud, according to an independent report filed in court Friday." 07-06 -07-22-06 Panasonic Releases Largest Plasma TV (ABC News) "Measuring 103 inches diagonally — or roughly the size of 7-foot-tall Shaquille O'Neal — Panasonic's new high-definition plasma TV is the largest available to U.S. consumers." 07-06 -07-22-07 40 Gigabites-per-Second Residential Connection (CNN News) " Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said." "In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit." "The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said." 07-07 -09-01-06 New Skype Phone Doesn't Need Wi-Fi or PC Connection (ABC News) "Skype announced a new cordless phone on Thursday that sends and receives Skype calls just like a landline, but without the need for a computer." 09-06 -09-01-08 Google Chrome Browser (Gears.Google.com) Provides a download for the free Open Source Web browser. 09-08 -09-01-08 Google Chrome Browser (Google.com) Provides a description of the new Open Source Web browser in a comic book format. 09-08 -09-01-08 Google Chrome Browser (Unended.com) Provides a summary of the features of the new Open Source Web browser. 09-08 -09-01-08 Google Releases New Web Browser (MSNBC News) "Google is releasing its own Web browser [named "Chrome"] in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine." 09-08 -09-13-07 Tech Stocks for Tough Times (USNews.com) "Here are five tech stocks worth a look." 09-07 -09-15-07 $100 Computer for Every Child Becomes $188 Computer (CNN News) "Leaders of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child that was spun out of MIT acknowledged Friday that the devices are now slated to cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The last price the nonprofit announced was $176; it described $100 as a long-term goal." 09-07 -09-19-07 AOL to Focus on Advertising (MSNBC News) "AOL stepped up its transformation from Internet access provider into an ad-driven business Monday as it announced plans to move its corporate headquarters and consolidate its advertising operations." 09-07 -09-26-09 Time's 50 Best Websites of 2008 (Time.com) "See how TIME voters ranked the sites." 09-09 -10-03-07 The Worm that Roared (Time Magazine) "Nobody knows who's behind the Storm Worm. F-Secure suspects a group based in Russia, but there's no way to be sure, and recent Storm Worm subject lines referring to Labor Day and the start of the football season suggest that those involved have an American connection. What is certain is that they are very smart--prodigious innovators engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with security firms that so far they're winning." 10-07 -10-07-06 Google May Buy YouTube (MSNBC News) "Internet search leader Google Inc. is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter." 10-06 -10-09-06 Google Buys YouTube.com (BBC News) "Google is buying video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65bn... in shares after a weekend of speculation that a deal was in the offing." 10-06 -10-09-06 Warner Music and YouTube.com Make a Deal (BBC News) "Video-sharing site YouTube has signed a deal with media giant Warner Music to allow its material to be used legally." 10-06 -10-14-09 Google Wave (Time.com) "Google spokespeople have described Wave as what e-mail would look like if it had been invented now instead of 40 years ago." 10-09 -10-16-06 We Are Losing Our Privacy: Do We Care? (MSNBC News) "Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret." "The key question is: Does that matter?" 10-06 -10-20-07 Apple Introduces the iPod Touch (ABC News) "I've been testing the newest member of the iPod family, the big-screen iPod Touch. It's a close cousin to the iPhone that connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi wireless networking and replaces the famous iPod click wheel with a touch screen." 06-07 -10-22-07 How Many Site Hits? (New York Times) "Online advertising is expected to generate more than $20 billion in revenue this year, more than double the $9.6 billion it represented as recently as 2004. Nobody doubts that the figure will grow — particularly as advertisers hone their techniques for aiming messages to particular consumers — but the question remains how much the clashing traffic figures will hold the market back." 10-07 -10-22-09 Windows 7 Born from Vista Frustration (CNN News) "If consumers like the new Windows 7 operating system, they'll have the much-maligned Windows Vista to thank." 10-09 -10-23-06 Google Gets Political About Having an Open Internet (Guardian Unlimited) " 'We started this NetPAC in order to be able to support office-holders and candidates who share our vision of promoting and preserving the internet as a free and open platform for information, communication and innovation,' he says. 'Google has thrived thanks to the opportunities of the free market so we believe it is important to look at policymakers as they make decisions that impact our users and businesses.' " 10-06 -11-04-07 Budget, Ultralight Laptop Announced (MSNBC News) "Their [Asus] Eee PC also is a small, simple laptop which runs on the Linux operating system and is made to sell for just $300 to $400. Since it went on sale, last month in Taiwan, the Eee has been selling like hotcakes." 11-07 -11-08-09 What Causes Visitors to View Web Ads? (Time.com) "The Internet has cracked open a brave new world for folks whose job it is to spend ad dollars. The ability to track where a Web-user clicks provides a sort of precision intelligence advertisers could have only dreamed of in decades past. But before a click comes a look, and according to new research, advertisers are often wrong about what attracts our attention." "The findings are presented in a chapter of a new book, Eyetracking Web Usability, by Jakob Nielen and Kara Pernice of the consultancy Nielsen Norman Group. Don't let the bland title fool you — what Nielsen and Pernice have done is track the eye movements of hundreds of people as they navigate Web sites, looking up advice on how to deal with heartburn, shopping for baby presents, picking cell-phone features, learning about Mikhail Baryshinkov. By bouncing infrared beams off a person's retinas and recording head movement with a camera, the researchers were able to deduce what sort of ads garner attention in real time — a methodology that runs laps around later asking people to recall what they saw." 11-09 -11-11-09 Ten Technology Must-Have's for College (U.S. News) "The holidays are a great time to load up on new technology. What college student wouldn’t love a special gift selected especially for him or her?" 11-09 -11-16-08 Disconnect on High Tech Repairs (CNN News) "About 38 percent of respondents called customer service, 28 percent fixed the problem themselves and 15 percent got help from friends or relatives." "The rest -- about 15 percent -- gave up." 11-08 -11-20-09 Google Operating System: End of the Hard Drive? (CNN News) " Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers." 11-09 -11-27-06 Copiepresse Sues Google Over Linking to Their Newspapers (Bloomberg.com) "Copiepresse, a group of 17 French- and German-language newspapers, won a Brussels court ruling in September that forced Google to stop providing links to the papers' Web sites. The threat of legal action persuaded Microsoft Corp. to do the same. Now Copiepresse plans to take the fight to the rest of Europe." 11-06 -12-07-07 PC Memory Currently at Discounts (US News) "Now is the time to stuff your computer with DRAM, even if it means yanking out smaller chips that are in the way. Absent holiday discounts, it still can cost less than $50 to install two sticks of 1 gigabyte each. That would keep a PC humming even when shouldering the latest memory hogs: Windows Vista and Macintosh Leopard." 12-07 -12-17-07 Ask.com Adds a Search Record Eraser (CNN.com) "Hoping to establish itself as the Internet's least intrusive search engine, Ask.com is empowering people to prevent their search requests from being deposited in data banks." "The new privacy control, called 'AskEraser,' is scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday. When it's turned on, the safeguard purges a user's search requests from Ask.com's computers within a few hours." 12-07 -Editorial: Bill Gates, Genius and Fool (Time.com) "Bill Gates, who for years was the richest man in the world, is also one of the smartest. But even he couldn't figure out how to beat the Internet — how to transition his grand old monopoly software company, Microsoft, into a business that thrives on the Net. And so he begins his retirement today from Microsoft as the PC era's biggest winner, and the Web era's most spectacular casualty." 06-08 25 Gadgets for Travel (Time.com) Describes 25 gadgets recommended by Time's editors. 03-09 Athletic Ability Tests (MSNCNET.com) "Sports Potential, in Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a series of tests and sophisticated software to calculate an individual's aptitude for a wide range of sports--from baseball to bobsledding. After a two-hour test, the company's Web-based software can illustrate a subject's physical traits, such as body composition, power, speed, agility and endurance, and compare the results with people in the same age group." 02-06 MSN's List of Top Technology Products (MSNBC News) Provides overviews of desktops, laptops, cameras, media players, cells phones, and more. 06-07 Technology and Gadgets (MSN.com) Provides news on the latest technology and gadgets. 11-05 Papers -03-30-09 Fighting the Conficker Virus (CNET.com) "Microsoft has partnered with all the major security companies and domain registrars and registries to form the Conficker Coalition Working Group. The parties are collaborating on research, trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together and figure out who is behind the worm and how to stop it." 03-09 -Editorial: What Should Be the New Global Role of the Internet? (MSNBC News) "Clearly the Internet must move beyond its U.S.-centric roots, but it's just as clear that it shouldn't look like the United Nations, or like China, or like a for-profit enterprise. Figuring out the right balance between commerce, culture and connectivity won't be an easy task. But there could be no better use for our global bandwidth right now." 05-06 -Study: Spammers Sourge to Environment (USA Today) "A report being released Wednesday by security company McAfee Inc. finds that spammers are a scourge to your inbox and the environment, generating an astounding 62 trillion junk e-mails in 2008 that wasted enough electricity to power 2.4 million U.S. homes for a year." 04-09 Bio-Fuels From Genetics (MSN.com) "J. Craig Venter, who gained worldwide fame in 2000 when he mapped the human genetic code, is behind a new start-up called Synthetic Genomics, which plans to create new types of organisms that, ideally, would produce hydrogen, secrete nonpolluting heating oil or be able to break down greenhouse gases." 11-05 Brave New World for Television (ABC News) "It's a brave new world of television viewing — so much so that many people are wondering if watching regularly scheduled programs will soon become a thing of the past." 06-06 Editorial: How Apple May Save Blockbuster Video (PBC.org - Cringely) "Poor Blockbuster Video hasn't made a profit in years, the stock is down about 90 percent from its 2002 high, NetFlix is cleaning its clock, and nobody - I mean NOBODY - thinks the future looks in any way rosy for this pioneering video rental chain. Steve Jobs to the rescue? Maybe." "Apple's Blockbuster product strategy is simple. Start with a new iPod that has video- and audio-out capability. This iPod -- which will be just as good at playing songs as any iPod that preceded it - will be more than just a video storage device. It will be a video player. No make that plural - players - a whole family of video-out iPods, some with flash storage and others with little disk drives." "Take your Video-out iPod to Blockbuster, drop it in a kiosk dock then download from the local xServe your choice of 50,000 movies. You can rent the movie or buy it and you can even choose the resolution, which may or may not affect the final price. Take the iPod home, drop it in the dock attached to your TV and watch the movie. H.264 decoding takes place in the iPod in hardware." 03-06 Editorial: Microsoft's Great Blunder (ABC News) "I think it can now be safely said, in hindsight, that Microsoft's entry into the browser business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the Windows operating system looks to be the worst decision—and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe—the company ever made. I call it the Great Microsoft Blunder." 04-06 Five Alternatives to iPhones (USNews.com) "The iPhone looks like a great device, but it has its pros and cons and can't be all things to all people, despite the ads suggesting it might be." 06-07 Flash-Based Hard Drives (MSNBC News) "SanDisk Corporation has introduced a 32GB, 1.8-inch solid-state drive (SSD) which is built to be a drop-in replacement for standard mechanical hard disk drives. This means the device has no moving parts." 01-07 Four Search Engines Dominate (Time.com) "If you tallied up the number of searches executed any given week, the top four search engines combined — Google, Yahoo Search, MSN (and its new Live search) and Ask.com — would account for 98.3% of all searches in the U.S. Those top four engines clearly have a hold on the American public. But new search sites, perhaps inspired by the financial gains of Google and Yahoo, are still being introduced; as of last week, a total of 1,592 different search engines were visited by U.S. Internet users." 10-07 Futuristic Home (MSN Technology) "MSN Tech & Gadgets takes you on an exclusive tour of the Microsoft Home. Is this what your home could be like in 2015?" 10-06 Graphite Reveals Quantum Effects (Scientific American) "Geim's team found that they [graphenes] do not slow down, even at very low temperatures. In essence, the electrons act as if they have no mass, or no 'rest mass,' to use the more precise phrase from special relativity. It also means that graphite--at least the two-dimensional variety--never stops conducting. Dubbing these pseudo-relativistic particles 'massless Dirac fermions,' the researchers also proved that they travel far faster than electrons in other semiconductors." 12-05 Hybrid Car Getting 80 Miles per Gallon (CNN News) "It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret -- a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car's high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel." 8-05 Hybrid Plug-in Car to Get Over 100 MPG (CNN News) "The EDrive system replaces the existing Prius NiMH battery and Toyota battery control computer with a larger Valence Saphion lithium-ion battery and a proprietary battery monitoring and control system developed by EnergyCS. The new system allows the Prius to be charged at home using a standard 110/120V home outlet. With the larger battery, the Prius can run in electric only 'EV' mode at lower speeds or when less power is needed. The result is EV driving and electrically boosted gasoline driving for the first 50 to 60 miles with a gasoline efficiency of 100 to 150mpg." 8-05 New Generation of DVD's (CNN News) "The electronics and entertainment industries are shaping up for the biggest format battle since the 'video wars' between VHS and Betamax to decide the future of DVD." 11-04 Science's Best Leaders (CBS News) "Embryonic stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang and the founders of Google, Inc., are among the 50 people named by Scientific American as having made the greatest contributions to science and technology in 2005." 11-05 Skycars (MSNBC News) Describes the current development of cars that can be driven in the air as an alternative form of transportation. 5-03 Technology News and Security Issues (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Provides news related to technology and security related to property rights, government surveillance, and more. 12-02 The Future of Digital Books? (New York Times) "Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and compelling Twitter stream — and then roll them all into a multimedia hybrid that is tailored to the rapidly growing number of digital reading devices." 04-09 Usage of Internet in Homes (CNN) "About 60 percent of 2,000 people surveyed in the Pew Internet and American Life Project study said they used the Web regularly. Two-thirds of those had been online for three or more years." 12-02 Whose Internet Is It? (International Herald Tribune) "Some foreign governments are uncomfortable with the United States' controlling the nuts and bolts of the Internet. That is understandable. So much of the success of the global economy depends on its smooth functioning and the United States has not been a model of receptiveness to other nations' concerns in recent years. There may be a multilateral solution down the road, but right now it is in everyone's best interest to keep control of the Internet where it was founded, in America." 10-05 Wireless Coverage in the U.S. (ABC News) "Acess ABCNEWS.com's interactive Wi-Fi public hotspot map...." 06-06

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