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Programs keep drivers off cell phones

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:45:04 +0000

Software and services that keep people from phoning while driving are becoming more popular as statistics grow that all phone usage in the car, including hands-free, is dangerous.

Concern is growing among insurers (and certainly among [...]

Firefox admits CPU heat problems

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:44:05 +0000

The Mozilla support pages are now admitting what many of us have known for some time: the popular Firefox browser has a tendency to over-utilize the CPU and cause heat build-upproblems, especially in ultra-portable laptops.

The support pages [...]

Comcast hackers charged

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:45:38 +0000

Although it seems that few hackers are caught and brought to trial, the members of the Kryogeniks hacker “gang” have been charged with a Website hacking stunt that was costly to Comcast.

The Comcast exploit was not all that complicated, but it [...]

Tesla to go public

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:50:14 +0000

The owner of electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors is making plans to take the company public, a historic move for the company which could take place very soon, perhaps within days.

A milder climate for green business ventures has lured [...]

Windows Mobile bleeds market share

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:42:10 +0000

The Gartner Group reported last week that the almost meteoric rise of the iPhone and the longer steady rise of the RIM Blackberry have been largely at the expense of Microsoft and their Windows Mobile platform.

Both the [...]

Nvidia complains about Intel tactics

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:30:33 +0000

Nvidia has joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in complaining loudly about the tactics Intel uses to sell its products, especially the strong-arm bundling of video chips with CPUs.

Intel dominates the PC CPU market, which is the area [...]

Madoff programmers arrested

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:37:51 +0000

Two computer programmers that worked for Bernie Madoff’s firm have been charged with helping the convicted white collar criminal to defraud investors out of billions of dollars.

Jerome O’Hara of Malvern, N.Y., and George Perez of East Brunswick, N.J. Were arrested Friday, [...]

Google Books restrictions grow

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:11:00 +0000

The noose continues to tighten around Google Book Search as legal actions from all quarters restrict the source material that can be digitized and the uses that Google can make of them.

Google Book Search is a service from Google [...]

Japan plans for solar energy from space

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:26:01 +0000

In what could be seen as a nod to science fiction, Japanese scientists are making detailed plans to gather solar energy in space where it is abundant and then beam that energy down [...]

Does technology isolate us – or not?

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:20:32 +0000

We have been hearing for years that technology tends to make people less social, replacing personal and non-virtual interaction with much less personal activities, but a new Pew poll says that may not [...]