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• Games to make computers smarter

  The Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who gave us Peekaboom and worked on the "distorted letter" tests called CAPTCHAs, is back with several new games. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille, Artificial Intelligence, Games, Computer

  May 18, 2008 9:22 AM PDT

• Mobius Seattle 2008: Windows Mobile devices in hand, Zune, and more

  One of the best parts of Mobius is getting the chance to touch and feel Windows Mobile devices from around the world that most of use don't see anywhere else. ...

  Tags: Mobius, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Matthew Miller, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Hardware, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Software

  May 17, 2008 8:28 PM PDT

• Only 87% of Hispanic teens go online

  All teens 94% Gender Girls 95 Boys 93 Age 12-14 92 15-17 96 Race/EthnicityWhite White 96 Black 92 Hispanic 87 Annual Household Income ...

  Tags: NB, Teen, Internet

  May 17, 2008 8:15 PM PDT

• Mobile phone shipments down 11.6% in Q1 2008

  The worldwide mobile phone market experienced an expected sequential downturn in shipments following a busy holiday quarter. According to IDC vendors shipped a total of 291.6 mln units during the ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, NB, Phone, Cellular Phones, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Shipment, Consumer Electronics

  May 17, 2008 7:40 PM PDT

• Buying from the enemy

  Last week zdnet bloggers Richard Koman and Michael Krigsman independently responded to the news that the FBI has been pursuing a major criminal investigation into the sale of counterfeit IT ...

  Tags: Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy, FBI

  May 17, 2008 3:22 PM PDT

• Analyst: vendor issues still dog Service Component Architecture

  Web services guru and consultant David Chappell, who has been somewhat skeptical about Service Component Architecture SCA, says the specification is starting to gain traction. However, there are still nagging ...

  Tags: Service Component Architecture, Joe McKendrick

  May 17, 2008 1:10 PM PDT

• Disaster averted: But (sob) my next notebook might not be an Apple one

  I'm thinking I owe GreenTech Pastures readers an update on the state of my Apple PowerBook G4, which now is resting comfortably on the desk behind me, although it's in ...

  Tags: Toshiba Tecra, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Heather Clancy, Notebooks & Tablets

  May 17, 2008 12:17 PM PDT

• Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer

  The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add ...

  Tags: Roland Piquepaille, Details, Emerging Technologies, Robots

  May 17, 2008 9:58 AM PDT

• iPhoneDevCamp 2 announced

  iPhoneDevCamp 2 will be held 1-3 August 2008 at Adobe Systems headquarters in San Francisco (601 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103). iPhoneDevCamp 2 is a not-for-profit gathering to develop ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, iPhoneDevCamp 2, Internet, Digital Media, RSS, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, San Francisco, Quality, Business Operations

  May 17, 2008 9:41 AM PDT

• Review: CardIris 3.0 scanning software

  I've been using the tiny IRIS Business Card Reader II for about two years and love it. A colleague, Ryan Kaplan, recently shared his experience with CardIris scanning software: Having ...

  Tags: Scanners, Peripherals, Hardware, Business Card, Software, Card, Jason D. O\'Grady

  May 17, 2008 9:05 AM PDT

• Leading US search engines in April 2008

  Rank Search Engine Volume 1. www.google.com 67.90% 2. search.yahoo.com 20.28% 3. search.msn.com 4.52% 4. www.ask.com 4.17% Source: Hitwise by NB

  Tags: NB, Search Engine, Search

  May 17, 2008 7:14 AM PDT

• Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight

  Something has always bothered me about Novell's Mono project. Those feelings came together this week with the release of Moonlight, Novell's implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux. It wasn't Miguel ...

  Tags: .Net, Dana Blankenhorn, Software Development, UNIX, Development Tools, Novell Inc., Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software/Web Development

  May 17, 2008 6:02 AM PDT

• Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is released - complete with sneaky change

  Many of you will know that I've been following the progress of the Firefox 3.0 browser carefully over the past few months. Yesterday the browser entered an important phase of ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Web Browser, Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1, Internet, Mozilla Firefox, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  May 17, 2008 5:35 AM PDT

• Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect

  A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being ...

  Tags: Web Site, Web Site Development, Garett Rogers, Web Technology, Internet, Facebook, Google Inc.

  May 16, 2008 9:07 PM PDT

• 80% of Internet users to have avatars by 2011

  Gartner Media estimates that by 2011, 80% of Internet users worldwide will have an avatar, making animated online personas as common as screen names. by AM

  Tags: Internet User, AM, Avatar, Internet

  May 16, 2008 3:55 PM PDT

• Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists

  Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware ...

  Tags: SQL Injection, F**k, Data Management, Software Development, Redmond, Enterprise Software, Mal/Badsrc-A, SQL, Databases, Dancho Danchev

  May 16, 2008 3:10 PM PDT

• Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?

  Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the ...

  Tags: Management, Anshu Sharma, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Wall, Software As A Service (SaaS), Yahoo! Inc., Shareholder

  May 16, 2008 2:49 PM PDT

• The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities

  I've been remiss in following up some admirable community sustainability awards that are being sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with the Business Civic Leadership Center and the U.S. Chamber of ...

  Tags: Community, Heather Clancy, Green Technology, Siemens AG

  May 16, 2008 2:01 PM PDT

• Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF

  Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social ...

  Tags: Spam, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Paul Miller, QDOS, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Tom Ilube

  May 16, 2008 1:56 PM PDT

• Most popular US URLs in April 2008

  Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.67% 2. mail.yahoo.com 5.13% 3. www.myspace.com 4.65% 4. www.yahoo.com 3.9% 5. mail.live.com 2.36% 6. www.ebay.com 1.81% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.64% 8. www.msn.com 1.25% 9....

  Tags: NB, Hitwise, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

  May 16, 2008 1:34 PM PDT

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