Monthly Archives: October 2007

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are: 1. coffee, n. the person upon whom one coughs. 2. flabbergasted, … Continue reading →

It’s damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead for Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S)’s WiMax rollout, according to the firm’s vice president of technology development, Ali Tabassi. In an interview Wednesday at the VON show in Boston, Tabassi said the company is … Continue reading →

American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan may soon be playing cards with the ace of artifacts or the king of archaeological digs. Nearly 50,000 decks of cards meant to help troops avoid unnecessary damage to ancient sites and curb the … Continue reading →

An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and human diseases. The report adds cats to the roughly … Continue reading →

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, the world’s top memory chip maker, said on Wednesday it bought an Israeli chip design firm with an eye to expanding its market share in the non-memory chip market. “We are aiming to enhance our presence … Continue reading →

Thanks to the rapid-fire growth of broadband network connectivity, video voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services now give callers around the world the ability to gab away for no more than the cost of their monthly Internet service provider fee. … Continue reading →

Ever since it unanimously overturned the Communications Decency Act a decade ago, the Supreme Court has pushed back against Congressional efforts to regulate Internet content. Five years ago, for example, the court struck down the Child Pornography Prevention Act, which … Continue reading →

A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois. Instead, the committee of the Internet Corporation … Continue reading →

Nine privacy and consumer organizations asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to create a “do not track” list for Internet users who don’t want their online activities tracked, stored and used by advertising networks. Such a list would function … Continue reading →

Mission managers at NASA have chosen among their troubles, and have put off a spacewalk scheduled for Thursday in order to focus on repairing a torn solar panel on the International Space Station — “solar-array wing stuff,” as astronauts on … Continue reading →

In a move that was anticipated for weeks, Google has unveiled a set of application program interfaces (APIs) that allow third-party programmers to build widgets that take advantage of personal data and profile connections on a social-networking site. But instead … Continue reading →

It’s a small thing, but Sony got some good news today related to its troubled PlayStation 3 video game console. In fact, the system helped set a new Guinness World Record. The record was set by Stanford University’s Folding@home project, … Continue reading →

A new trojan horse designed specifically for Mac OS X systems has been discovered on several pornography websites that can hijack Web traffic, according to security firm Intego. Affected systems are used to hijack some Web requests that lead users … Continue reading →

Panasonic said Tuesday that it had introduced the first Blu-ray player to be based on the Final Standard Profile, which adds new functionality that so far has been missing from Sony’s format. For example, picture-in-picture will be available for the … Continue reading →

Like the Razer Tarantula and Microsoft Reclusa, the Warboard features a series of recordable macro buttons on both sides of the keyboard. This gives it a more balanced typing area, unlike Logitech’s original G15 and G11 gaming keyboards that include … Continue reading →