 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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. ... | |
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. | |
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. | |
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 ... | |
Sound Advice: Technology Q&A October 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Q. Some time ago you said in your column you paid $29 for a SanDisk 4GB high speed SD card, including a card reader. Where did you find the $29 bargain? | |
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 ... | |
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 ... | |
Digital TV coupons now available to more users September 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
If you make a big enough stink, the agency that hands out those $40 coupons for digital converter boxes will, apparently, change the rules. | |
 Google offers cash for world-changing ideas September 24, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Google is marking its 10th anniversary by offering 10 million dollars to back world changing ideas. | |
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. | |
'Can you reset the Internet for me?' September 24, 2008 | User rating: 1.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Computer help desks are used to fielding oddball requests but sometimes the questions leave even the best of them stumped. | |
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