Technology Today

• Students and the browser war

  Note: I just want to quickly apologise for the lack of posts recently; moved into a new house and broadband won't be set up for a while, so had to ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Zack Whittaker, Web, Web Browser, Firefox Library, Internet, Mozilla Firefox

  Jul 06, 2008 5:14 PM PDT

• Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?

  UK researchers have developed a prototype of a future giant rubber tube which could catch energy from sea waves. The device, dubbed Anaconda, uses 'long sea waves to excite bulge ...

  Tags: Anaconda, U.K., Turbine, Roland Piquepaille, Sea Wave, Telecom & Utilities, Environment

  Jul 06, 2008 9:27 AM PDT

• Texas Instruments pulls power management efforts under new division

  Quick update on Texas Instruments TI, which looks at power management from the guts of the chip level. Here's the blog I wrote last week describing some of those efforts. ...

  Tags: Power Management, Texas Instruments Inc., Heather Clancy

  Jul 05, 2008 7:02 PM PDT

• Google trying to take privacy seriously

  This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary the same on that affected CNET earlier last month was confirmed to have ...

  Tags: Privacy, Garett Rogers, Social Security, Government, Security, Google Inc.

  Jul 05, 2008 4:47 PM PDT

• Your computer as your singing coach

  Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could ...

  Tags: Researcher, Management, Roland Piquepaille, Team Management, TAU, Productivity, Teacher, Quality, Computer

  Jul 05, 2008 9:42 AM PDT

• When microblogging keeps you cozy (aka "My holiday with Plurk and Kwippy")

  A quick holiday evaluation of microblogging services Plurk, Kwippy and even Identi.ca. Invites for the Kwippy closed beta are available via TalkBack. by Jennifer Leggio

  Tags: Jennifer Leggio, Twitter, Conversation, Plurk, Online Communications, Open Source, E-mail, Microblogging, Internet, Blogging

  Jul 05, 2008 9:00 AM PDT

• What could Open Office do with a business model?

  You can say Microsoft has found a way to crush open source. Or you can say open source has been shown a business model it can use to crack the ...

  Tags: Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Software-as-a-service, Emerging Technologies, Software, Business Model, Office Suites

  Jul 05, 2008 7:50 AM PDT

• Internet abuse and Cloud Computing

  A recent uproar in the right wing blogosphere about the shutdown of anti-Obama sites on blogger.com has some serious implications for those considering cloud computing. What seems to have happened ...

  Tags: Blog, Cloud Computing, Paul Murphy, Internet, Blogging, Google Inc.

  Jul 05, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Happy 4th of July

  For all of my blasting of the TSA and the US Government for our strange, inappropriate, inadequate, and sometimes unacceptable security practices, I am damn proud to be an American. ...

  Tags: Nathan McFeters, Blog, Internet, Blogging

  Jul 04, 2008 9:23 PM PDT

• Post? What post?

  I've just had to take a post down, which a lot of you have probably already read. My bad, my bad a lot. Without going into too much detail, just ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Apology

  Jul 04, 2008 4:09 PM PDT

• Runescape graphic glitches

  Spending the American July 4th holiday with friends and family is a wonderful break from the daily routine. Imagine my surprise when a lively 12-year old proudly showed me the ...

  Tags: Graphics, Michael Krigsman

  Jul 04, 2008 3:47 PM PDT

• Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea

  Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a ...

  Tags: Subsidy, Finance, Natural Gas, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Denmark, Harry Fuller, Free Trade

  Jul 04, 2008 1:55 PM PDT

• MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search

  The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Contextual Advertising, MSFT, Acquisition, Tom Foremski, Search

  Jul 04, 2008 12:44 PM PDT

• July 4th, 2008: A trip down memory lane

  A 1 question civics quiz Today American's celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the legal foundation of the USA and, after the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of ...

  Tags: President, U.S., Hardware, Robin Harris, Storage

  Jul 04, 2008 11:29 AM PDT

• Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump

  Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignited ...

  Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Roland Piquepaille, Engine, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Jul 04, 2008 9:09 AM PDT

• Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign

  A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what ...

  Tags: Exploit, Worm, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Day Vulnerability, Dancho Danchev, Storm Worm, Software, Viruses And Worms, Malware, Security

  Jul 04, 2008 8:44 AM PDT

• TechForward advocates the cause of temporary ownership

  I have been MEANING to write about the Los Angeles-based start-up TechForward for weeks now, but felt like I didn't have enough time to write the truly thoughtful post that ...

  Tags: Electronics, Retail, Heather Clancy, Lebovitz, Apple iPhone, TechForward

  Jul 04, 2008 3:54 AM PDT

• As you sow...

  Not quite off topic but something that cuts Oracle a break and shows us here at ZDN to be as capable as anyone of getting things messed up. Check this ...

  Tags: Dennis Howlett, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Internet, Blogging, Finger

  Jul 04, 2008 1:42 AM PDT

• Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from Networkcar

  OK, I admit it. When I bought my car a year-and-a-half ago, comparing the fuel consumption metrics among the different models WAS part of the equation, but not the most ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Performance, Performance Management, GPS, Heather Clancy, Monitor, Technology, Consumer Electronics

  Jul 03, 2008 5:15 PM PDT

• Stolen: Google employees' personal data

  Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Privacy & data protection, Social Security, Government, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, ZDNet Australia, Google Inc.

  Jul 03, 2008 4:52 PM PDT

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