MSN adds new feature to take Internet’s pulse

Posted on 16 February 2012

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft is hooking up MSN.com with a hipper sidekick to broaden its appeal and stay on top of the Internet’s hottest topics.
The trend-tracking service, called “msnNOW,” tunes into the buzz by sifting through millions of Internet searches and links circulating among the hordes on Facebook and Twitter. The chatter is then distilled [...]

EU court: Web sites need not check for IP breaches

Posted on 16 February 2012

BRUSSELS – An EU court is ruling that social networking sites can’t be compelled to install general filters to prevent illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material.
The EU Court of Justice ruled Thursday that requiring such filters, covering all the site’s users, would not sufficiently protect personal data or the freedom to receive and [...]

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Comcast’s Data Cap Hike: Good News, Bad News

Posted on 18 May 2012

Comcast plans to fiddle with its longstanding 250 GB data cap for broadband subscribers.
The company will run two trials in several markets, and both will bump the cap to at least 300 GB for all users. In one test, subscribers to higher-speed Internet will get more data, and in the other, everyone will get 300 [...]

Security

DOD Prohibits Removable Storage Devices To Stop Worm

Posted on 03 July 2009

“Lockdown” must be the Department of Defense’s middle name. As a worm seems to be making its way through the military’s computers, the DOD has responded by banning flash drives, CDs, and just about everything else that can store data and be moved from one machine to another.
DOD Prohibits Removable Storage Devices To Stop [...]

Software & Applications

Coder, your days are numbered

Posted on 03 July 2009

Programmers care about languages. Opinion on the topic is generally divided into two schools of thought. One holds that a good programmer will be versed in a selection of different languages, to be better equipped to handle a variety of coding styles and challenges. The other school maintains that the best way to remain marketable [...]

Storage

Back Up Those Digital Photos Dad

Posted on 03 July 2009

Earlier today I received an email from a good photographer friend of mine. She was asking me about a new online back up service that I was not familiar with after having almost lost a hard drive at 4am this morning.
As a photogeek, but even more as a geek dad, the importance of photo [...]

Wireless

Aruba invents virtualised remote access

Posted on 03 July 2009

Aruba Networks has announced a new family of branch office wireless access points it says can be used to build a cheap but powerful remote access system based on virtual principles.
Dubbed the ‘virtual branch office’, the system uses software-upgraded versions of the company’s current range of data centre-based hardware controllers connected to one of [...]