Monthly Archives: September 2009

We all know The Green Hornet has its issues, but this is ridiculous: There was an actual bomb scare on the L.A. set this week. What’s next, an earthquake opens a fissure that swallows producer/star Seth Rogen whole? According to … Continue reading →

So long, immortality. Hello, peace of mind. Consider the technology that a quartet of computer scientists at the University of Washington introduced to the world in July. It’s called Vanish, and it’s designed to make your electronic messages do just … Continue reading →

Database giant Oracle is fined $10,000 and directed to take corrective action after running an ad in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist making a claim without registered proof in relation to a published TPC-C performance result from IBM. … Continue reading →

The Fermi Tesla graphics card that NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was showing off at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. More

On most days it takes the right access badge and a biometric scan to make it inside the doors of Microsoft’s massive data center. But on Wednesday, the company allowed a group of reporters, customers, and partners to tour the … Continue reading →

It’s your birthday. And thanks to your Facebook profile, everybody knows that. Your wall fills up with well wishes from hundreds of “friends.” Sure, it’s nice to be noticed. But security experts are skeptical about whether sharing information, such as … Continue reading →

Though LG’s eye-popping OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display wowed audiences in Berlin last month, it’s best not to get too excited. There’s not going to be more where that came from, at least for a while. The industry is still … Continue reading →

The base Dell Latitude Z package gets going at $1,799 after a $200 instant rebate, and that’ll net you a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo SU9400 CPU, 64GB SSD, Intel’s GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics, 2GB of RAM, a 4-cell battery, 8x … Continue reading →

Now here’s an oddity: Microsoft’s ‘Windows 7 compatible’ sticker, which will be affixed to nearly all PCs around the Windows 7 launch, doesn’t seem to appear on current Atom processor-powered netbooks. The reasoning, according to Microsoft’s Web site and an … Continue reading →

Bringing universal broadband to all Americans is not going to be cheap. The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it could cost more than $350 billion to wire the United States with high-speed Internet access. The FCC has been given the … Continue reading →

The US Dept. of Commerce will no longer have a direct oversight role over the independent corporation responsible for maintaining the Internet’s domain name system (DNS) and top-level domain (TLD) registry. This announcement came from ICANN on the very day … Continue reading →

When Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the word Anthropocene around 10 years ago, he gave birth to a powerful idea: that human activity is now affecting the Earth so profoundly that we are entering a new geological epoch. … Continue reading →

A customer named Manoj Gupta took his iPhone to the local Apple Genius Bar when he became frustrated with its tendency to frequently drop his calls. The Genius Bar gave Mr. Gupta some good news — his iPhone was perfectly … Continue reading →

Following the finalization of the Wireless-N (802.11n) standard, the Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit group that tests and certifies wireless products to ensure they interoperate, launched on Tuesday its new test program that supports the final specs of the standard. This … Continue reading →

Researchers say they have created a special kind of paint which can block out wireless signals. It means security-conscious wireless users could block their neighbors from being able to access their home network – without having to set up encryption. … Continue reading →