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• My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

  Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Verizon Communications Inc., Consumer Electronics, Text Messaging, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Online Communications

  Oct 10, 2008 11:58 AM PDT

• Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

  I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Tablet PC, Notebooks & Tablets

  Oct 10, 2008 11:38 AM PDT

• Are there really 750 million mentally ill?

  Chan said "these are not insurmountable problems" and "the way forward is bright and solidly paved." A "scaling up" of the professions will cost just 20 cents per person per ...

  Tags: Depression, Worker, Dana Blankenhorn

  Oct 10, 2008 11:13 AM PDT

• Making the giant health database work for you

  It's these medical records experts whose function has been lost in the translation from paper to magnetic ink, Damianakis concluded, and unless that is recovered digital systems will never work ...

  Tags: Vertical Industries, Dana Blankenhorn, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Storage, Human Resources, Healthcare, Health Care, Databases

  Oct 10, 2008 10:27 AM PDT

• Are there really too many Windows editions?

  Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott, Software, Edition, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 10, 2008 10:23 AM PDT

• NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

  Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. ...

  Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman

  Oct 10, 2008 10:22 AM PDT

• Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro

  Apple has now joined the ranks of Dell and HP and admitted that some if its MacBook Pro notebooks have been shipped with defective NVIDIA GPUs. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Apple MacBook Pro, NVidia Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Oct 10, 2008 10:18 AM PDT

• The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy

  We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we ...

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Joe McKendrick, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Oct 10, 2008 9:59 AM PDT

• A robot to destroy breast cancer cells

  Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, ...

  Tags: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Roland Piquepaille, Rod, Emerging Technologies, Breast Cancer, Cell, Robots

  Oct 10, 2008 9:57 AM PDT

• US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures

  The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and ...

  Tags: ICANN, Richard Koman, Networking, Internet, Security, Digital Signatures, Digital Signature, Authentication/Encryption, DNS, Domain Names

  Oct 10, 2008 9:45 AM PDT

• Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it

  There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright ...

  Tags: President, Network Technology, Richard Koman, Justice Dept, Networking, IP, Bill

  Oct 10, 2008 9:35 AM PDT

• Apple kicks off Ultracompact USB adapter exchange program

  Back in September Apple announced a recall of the Ultracompact USB power adapter for the iPhone 3G following claims that the metal prongs might break off in the power outlet ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Swap, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Oct 10, 2008 9:13 AM PDT

• America's airways ready for NextGen

  It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction ...

  Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Richard Koman, Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gas, Air Traffic Control, FAA

  Oct 10, 2008 9:08 AM PDT

• 'A device that will blow the roof off all previous Blackberrys'

  At least that's what BoyGeniusReport is saying today. Apparently, Blackberry addicts should reconsider waiting and salivating over the Pearl Flip 8220, Curve 8900, Bold or Storm because BGR has "confirmed ...

  Tags: Andrew Nusca, Handhelds, Hardware, RIM BlackBerry, Device

  Oct 10, 2008 8:53 AM PDT

• Will HTC be the first to launch a WiMAX-enabled mobile phone?

  Fellow Mobile Tech Roundup podcast co-host Kevin Tofel went to the Sprint/XOHM WiMAX launch event in Baltimore this week and wrote up his thoughts. The event was focused mainly on ...

  Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., WiMAX, Phone, Cell Phone, Matthew Miller, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Nokia N810, Radio, Wireless

  Oct 10, 2008 8:26 AM PDT

• ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market

  The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world ...

  Tags: Privacy, Government, Richard Koman, Internet Service Provider, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Security, Adzilla

  Oct 10, 2008 8:20 AM PDT

• On the Linux laptop the bundle is all

  In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Linux, Laptop Computer, OpenOffice, Operating Systems, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Linux Laptop, Software, Office Suites, UNIX

  Oct 10, 2008 8:16 AM PDT

• An interview with Scott Brinker

  It's clearly a week for publishing podcasts. As well as David Provost, whom I mentioned yesterday, I've also just released a podcast with ion interactive's Scott Brinker. Scott has been ...

  Tags: Podcasts, Internet, Scott Brinker, Paul Miller

  Oct 10, 2008 8:10 AM PDT

• Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake

  Today I am launching a new series, "Microsoft Big Brains." Over the course of the coming weeks, I'll be profiling Microsoft's Technical Fellows -- the 22 or so individuals who ...

  Tags: Management, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Strategy, Mary Jo Foley, Search

  Oct 10, 2008 8:08 AM PDT

• Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC

  Security company Symantec has released a tool that helps to make Vista's UAC User Account Control feature clearer and less of a pain to use. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Norton Co., UAC, Productivity, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Oct 10, 2008 7:59 AM PDT

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