“We had a case last week where 22 laptops were recovered – a security guard was stealing them.” We’ve heard about headline-making security breaches, such as TJX and CIBC, but the smaller ones often go and unnoticed – and unreported. Source: IT Business Canada
Women’s contributions to technology are often taken for granted, merely rolled up as part of the great tidal wave of innovation surrounding the Computer Age. Women’s Herstory (also spelled “her story”), celebrated each year in March, gives us the opportunity to take a look at significant contributions of women to technology and business, and also [...]
MIT Technology Review describes a new Wi-Fi router from Intel capable of sending a Wi-Fi signal tens of miles with 6-Mbps performance. This is perfect for rural areas without Internet service, and for less developed countries interested in building out their Internet infrastructure but no means to lay expensive cable or fiber optics. The routers [...]
Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90. The author of almost 100 books, Mr. Clarke was an ardent promoter of the idea that humanity’s destiny lay [...]
SAN DIEGO, Calif.–The citizens of Serrana, Brazil, are not waiting around for Intel or Nicholas Negroponte to deliver low-cost PCs to their school children. Instead, they’re taking the matter into their own hands. Starting at the end of this month, the Serrana Digital Desk project will get underway when 200 surface PCs that transform into [...]
Lately, Linux has been receiving quite a bit of notice. Between the ASUS EeePC, the One Laptop Per Child project, Dell’s new Ubuntu line, Intel’s Classmate PC, and Everex’s Green PC, Linux has been getting a lot of attention from computer manufacturers. It seems every new computer in the last year has had Linux, but [...]
Security vendor Trend Micro’s Web site was hacked earlier this week in an attack that spread to hundreds of other sites, according to an InfoWorld report. The malicious code tries to embed software that steals passwords from users as they visit Web sites, according to the report. Trend Micro discovered the attack on Wednesday and [...]
Everybody repeat after me: three point one four one five nine. I’m a humble wordsmith, so I’m stopping there. The rest of you more mathematically inclined types, feel free to keep adding to that list of significant digits, ad infinitum. But if you do, you might miss out on some of the other Pi Day [...]
So … you think you know Linux, the operating system that is as much a product of evolution as invention. Why not take our short History of Linux quiz. We’ll score your results and let you know just how much open source credibility you have. And in the unlikely event you make a mistake, we’ll [...]
Having failed to stop piracy by suing internet users, the music industry is for the first time seriously considering a file sharing surcharge that internet service providers would collect from users. In recent months, some of the major labels have warmed to a pitch by Jim Griffin, one of the idea’s chief proponents, to seek [...]