Apple may be getting ready to overhaul its .Mac service–or at least change the name.
New code within Mac OS X could mean the end of the .Mac name for Apple's Internet service.
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A Russian site called Deep Apple noted that code within the Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 software update contains placeholders for the .Mac […]
Star Trek lovers drooled earlier this week when Telstra, the Australian phone company, used a hologram to beam its chief technology officer from Melbourne to a business meeting about 460 miles away in Adelaide.
Hugh Bradlow, Telstra’s CTO, was filmed in Melbourne by a high-definition video camera. The video …
Original post by Marguerite Reardon and software […]
Good things happen to software publishers that listen to their users.
Fring, an aggressively growing company that builds a chat and cheap calling application for Symbian, iPhone, and Windows Mobile platforms, heeded a swell of feedback from iPod Touch users who had been using the pre-release iPhone version for jailbroken …
Original post by Jessica Dolcourt and […]
A DJ mixed music on stage.
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OK, all you coders toiling in obscurity, are you wondering how the other half lives? The programmers who live the glam rich Internet application lifestyle, ditching Win32 and C++ for Web-based APIs and Python?
A few hundred of …
Original post by Stephen Shankland and software by Elliott Back
The U.S. Congress may soon vote on a new “compromise” spy law that would still likely derail pending suits against AT&T and other companies accused of opening their networks to the government in violation of wiretap law.
Democratic leaders, facing intense election-year pressure from Republicans and more conservative “…
Original post by Anne Broache and software by […]
The U.S. Congress may soon vote on a new “compromise” spy law that would still likely derail pending suits against AT&T and other companies accused of opening their networks to the government in violation of wiretap law.
Democratic leaders, facing intense election year pressure from Republicans and …
Original post by Anne Broache and software by Elliott […]
Are Twitter’s performance problems due to flimsy engineering or the choice of Ruby on Rails to build the application?
In the Twitter developer blog on Thursday, an engineer said that Ruby on Rails still rocks as a Web development platform. The service’s woes are due more to a …
Original post by Martin LaMonica and software by […]
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Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are using low-cost titanium powders to develop lightweight, corrosion-resistant, bulletproof alloys for military vehicles and what they hope to be other military and commercial applications.
The latest project is a titanium door for the next-generation Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, …
Original post by Mark Rutherford […]
SAN FRANCISCO–The inner workings of Google just became a little less secret.
The search colossus has shed only occasional light on its data center operations, but on Wednesday, Google fellow Jeff Dean turned a spotlight on some parts of the operation. Speaking to an overflowing crowd at the Google I/O conference …
Original post by Stephen Shankland […]
SAN FRANCISCO–The inner workings of Google just became a little less secret.
The search colossus has shed only occasional light on its data center operations, but on Wednesday, Google fellow Jeff Dean turned a spotlight on some parts of the operation. Speaking to an overflowing crowd at the Google I/O conference …
Original post by Stephen Shankland […]
If you are interested in computer hacking, then 2600 is for you. They publish a quarterly magazine,
have a weekly radio show on WBAI in New York City and are having a conference in July, also in New York City.
Their conferences go by the name HOPE, for Hackers On …
Original post by Michael Horowitz […]
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a new plan that would require winners of an upcoming spectrum auction to provide free wireless Internet services.
The FCC could soon vote on a plan to auction off 25 megahertz of spectrum in the 2155MHz band of spectrum. As part of its plan, …
Original post by Marguerite Reardon and […]
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a new plan that would require winners of an upcoming spectrum auction to provide free wireless Internet services.
The FCC could soon vote on a plan to auction off 25 megahertz of spectrum in the 2155MHz band of spectrum. As part of its plan, …
Original post by Marguerite Reardon and […]
The U.S. government is looking into allegations that Chinese officials snagged a laptop left unattended by a top U.S. official there, copied the data and then used it to try to hack into U.S. government computers, according to a report by The Associated Press.
The incident is …
Original post by Elinor Mills and software by […]
A company that legitimately distributes its video programming via peer-to-peer is shut down for three days last weekend after being pummeled with traffic. The likely culprit: a company paid by the major movie studios and record labels to fight piracy. What’s wrong with this picture?
It was Memorial Day …
Original post by Elinor Mills and software […]
I’m not kidding when I say Penzu is the most realistic re-creation of paper I’ve seen on the Web. The service has a serious leg up on its pulp-born competition with a slick looking college-rule that holds all your thoughts (intelligent or not) and saves them to the cloud. When it comes time to print […]
China and the U.S. lead the world as the two biggest sources of Internet attack traffic, according to a report published by the content distribution company Akamai.
Akamai, which operates a global server network that helps distribute and accelerate rich media across the Internet , released its first quarterly “State of the Internet” …
Original […]
I didn’t pay much attention to VirtualBox when Sun Microsystems first acquired Innotek, but RedMonk’s Michael Coté just posted an interview and demo of the software, and it’s very cool.
In a few clicks, you can see VirtualBox create a Vista instance and run it on …
Original post by Dave Rosenberg and software by Elliott Back
I didn’t pay much attention to VirtualBox when Sun first acquired it but RedMonk’s Cote just posted an interview and demo of the software and it’s very cool. In a few clicks you can see VirtualBox create a Vista instance and run it on the Mac. There …
Original post by Dave Rosenberg and software by […]
L to R: Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, Kevin Martin, Lowell McAdam
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The D6 conference wrapped up on Thursday with a session on broadband access: Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interviewed Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Wireless, and Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC.
Walt started by …
Original post by Rafe Needleman and […]
