The chipmaker is working on hardware-based security protection that will tell people when a rootkit is being downloaded to their PC, according to a report in ITObserver. The . . .
December 9, 2005 5:23 PM PST
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Security
, Processors
We know that Friendster hired a boutique investment firm earlier this year to shop the social networking site around to a buyer, according to a report here. The move made . . .
December 9, 2005 4:24 PM PST
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Media
Having a stressful day at the office? Japanese medical equipment maker Nipro has come up with a new handheld device that instantly lets you know just how frazzled you are. . . .
December 9, 2005 3:01 PM PST
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Gadgets
At around 9 a.m. Friday, a nondescript white van pulled over and parked on Second Street in San Francisco. To anyone outside, it just looked like something a young couple might . . .
December 9, 2005 12:59 PM PST
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Gaming
Scientists have discovered that your brain responds emotionally and illogically when faced with making a decision from little information, according to a report from LiveScience. . . .
December 9, 2005 10:48 AM PST
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Science
Ever wanted to be a fly on the uber-mansion walls of Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs or Michael Dell?
Forbes.com has published a little article (plus a slide . . .
December 8, 2005 6:41 PM PST
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Missing Links
When Sun launched OpenSolaris, its open-source version of the Solaris operating system, it unleashed a gaggle of bloggers to give tours of the software project. Now that Sun . . .
December 8, 2005 5:07 PM PST
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Processors
, Sun Microsystems
Internet Security Systems is holding back details on serious flaws in Cisco Systems products, according to Michael Lynn, the security researcher at the Black Hat security confab . . .
December 8, 2005 4:42 PM PST
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Security
Over on eBay, a seller using the name "fearwall" has put up for auction "one (1) brand new vulnerability in the Microsoft Excel application." The bidding started Wednesday . . .
December 8, 2005 3:30 PM PST
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Security
Today's headliner about the suspension of 20 San Francisco police officers for their alleged roles in making "sexist" and "racists" videos is intriguing on many levels; it's . . .
December 8, 2005 2:26 PM PST
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Missing Links
ECMA International has approved the creation of a technical committee to standardize Microsoft's Office Open XML document formats, according to a representative at IBM, which . . .
December 8, 2005 12:21 PM PST
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Open source
, Enterprise software
Kiyaan Vazirzadeh, a 10-year-old from Simi Valley, Calif., is the exception. . . .
December 8, 2005 11:49 AM PST
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Microsoft
As a professional game designer, Heather Kelley is no doubt used to facing difficult challenges put to her by her bosses. But, according to Boing Boing, one she recently undertook . . .
December 8, 2005 11:45 AM PST
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Gaming
Google's quest for high-end programming talent continues unabated. The latest catch is Danny Thorpe, the chief scientist in Borland Software's developer tools group and a . . .
December 8, 2005 7:25 AM PST
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Enterprise software
, Google
Software baron Dave Duffield has significantly scaled down his plan for a massive mansion in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a report in the Contra Costa Times on . . .
December 7, 2005 5:50 PM PST
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Enterprise software
If you've got a video iPod--and if you do, you're the TV networks' new best friend--a start-up called Grouper would like to have a chat with you.
Well, maybe not . . .
December 7, 2005 4:13 PM PST
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Media
In the inspired silliness category, Microsoft is attempting a little humor to market its otherwise serious server and developer tools, Sequel Server and Visual Studio 2005. . . .
December 7, 2005 2:54 PM PST
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Microsoft
Click fraud is the search industry's dirty secret. But if two class action lawsuits against Google, Yahoo and others continue in the courts, industry executives may get more . . .
December 7, 2005 2:53 PM PST
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Google
RSA Security is frozen in time no more. This week, the company went out and acquired Cyota, an authentication and threat prevention sevice provider for the financial services . . .
December 7, 2005 2:31 PM PST
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Security and the enterprise