British military staff data drive lost: ministry October 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
A computer hard drive with personal details of some 100,000 serving military personnel, over half the total armed forces, has gone missing, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Friday. | |
Nobel prize laureate finds winning news on internet October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
US scientist Martin Chalfie went on the internet to find out he was one of three co-winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry, he said, after he ignored a telephone ring early Wednesday he thought came from next door. ... | |
 Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers October 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. | |
You too can be on the Forbes 400 list. OK, no you can't October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Every year I look, and every year my name's not on the list. Yeah, the Forbes 400 Richest People in America. I'm not one and you're not one, either. Unless, of course, someone is reading this to you. | |
Switching e-mail addresses doesn't have to hurt October 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
| User comments: 3
In many ways, changing your e-mail address is harder than changing your mailing address. There's no post office to make sure that your mail gets forwarded and senders are notified of the switch. Plus, you have to deal with ... | |
Copyright board leaves royalty rate unchanged October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The federal Copyright Royalty Board left the rate for royalties paid to songwriters for CDs and digital downloads unchanged. | |
Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the ... | |
Allstate testing whether games can improve driving October 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Could playing computer games enhance mental agility enough to turn people over 50 into better drivers? Allstate Corp. wants to find out, and if the answer is yes, it might offer insurance discounts to people who ... | |
Low-cost fix may put end to lines on screen October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Q. I have a 3-year-old Apple iMac G5 desktop computer. In August, the screen started displaying a series of small, randomly distributed vertical lines. By late September, the number of lines had increased to 33. | |
Gamers play against type: Avid online role-players do not fit gamer stereotypes, survey finds September 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Participants in the role-playing game EverQuest II defy the stereotype of the overweight male teenager, researchers reported this month in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. | |
Pop-up ad scam led to no laptop, but lots of spam September 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Question: I foolishly responded to a pop-up ad that promised I had won a free laptop. But after I gave away my e-mail address, I discovered there was no laptop. For a few months I just deleted the few dozen unwanted messages ... | |
Immerse yourself in Spanish September 18, 2008 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
| User comments: 8
I've just returned from my 90-minute commute on the parking lot known as the 405 Freeway. If traffic wasn't exactly flying, time was and instead of hearing about how bad traffic was on my car radio, I was learning a language ... | |
IBM Accelerates Virtual Desktop With Breakthrough Solution September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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IBM today announced a powerful new solution to help organizations slash virtual desktop infrastructure storage requirements by up to 80 percent, allowing them to take advantage of new cloud computing models at significantly ... | |
 Hackers 'find black hole in atom smasher computers' September 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Hackers claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos, British newspapers reported on Saturday. | |
 Eyes turn to dawn of 'visual computing' August 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
| User comments: 4
Lifelike graphics are breaking free of elite computer games and spreading throughout society in what industry insiders proclaim is the dawning of a "visual computing era." | |
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