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Editor's NOTE : This selection of recent computer news and
technically focused articles, is organized in reverse-chronological order, (most
recent first), and provides direct links to articles, from several popular
technical news sources including: AbcNews, Businessweek, CNET, CNN, ComputerWorld, EWeek,
Forbes, Harvard Business School, IDG, InternetWeek, ITWorld, LATimes, WNBC, NetworkWorld,
News.com, NY Times, Reuters, TechNewsWorld, TechRepublic, Wharton, Webware, and Zdnet.
March 2008
Vista SP1 availability
Vanguard Satellite turns 50 in orbit
Clouds over tech sector
Securing your laptop when traveling
Trace amounts of some OTC drugs found in drinking water
Office updates and patches - 4 critical ones for various office versions 2002...2007
Vinegar an ingredient for biofuels?
NSA shifts away from microwaves and into web for data mining
iPhone opens up for business
MS bid for Yahoo articles and podcasts
Gates explains why he needs Yahoo
Color SUDOKU game adds new twist
February 2008
NASA baffled by unknown force acting on space probes
Windows and Europe
MS emails reveal Intel pressure over Vista (915 vs 945 cs AeroGlass, read on)
Start up fixes focus AFTER snapping the shutter
Firefox - 500 million downloads and counting
Comcast on the hot seat
Comcast vs BiyTorrent focus of FCC hearing
Disk encryption has limits
Navy Missile hits the wayward satellite as intended
Microsoft embraces open source...
Microsoft pulls back Vista SP1 update
Related: MS KnowledgeBase article 937287
MySpace doing a number on web site traffic
Podcast: Why software sucks
Electronic nose - knows quality coffee
Hi-def battle ends as Toshiba quits HD DVD
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 released
Hopes rise for finding alien earths
Going back to school on security
Intel vs Montalvo chips
Cracking open the BlackBerry photos
Social network invites can be a plague
Smile you are on a bar/restaurant web cam
Mobile World GSMA Congress
Vista SP1
The morning after the blackberry outage
Ubuntu picks KVM over Xen for virtualization
FTC pledges not to drop numbers from DoNotCall registry
With tech, nowhere to hide
ISPs tangled web of hidden fees
TiVo newbie nightmare
Real ID - how will it affect you...
Paperless electronic voting and over the internet - bad ideas
How popular is Vista?
Microsoft - Yahoo
What's next in the HD video fracas?
5 reasons not to buy Blu-ray player, yet...
January 2008
Airwaves auction digital move - UHF channels 52 - 69.
Disabled spy satellite threatens earth
CES 2008 total coverage
CES 2008 Coverage Continued
700 Mhz Spectrum Bidding
Wireless spectrum auction
Most Americans in cell phone jail
What is wanted in HDTV
Waiting for the open social hammer to drop
World Wide Web Consortium releases HTML 5 draft
Web Standards Project
AT&Ts proposed filtering policy
If Elvis was a digital entrepreneur
Laptops move towards flash based drives
P2P the bad rap...
$200 Linux PC
Open Architecture Network
The business end of Cisco
Blu-ray vs HD DVD - Wiat for the winnr to emerge
The end of wireless walled gardens
AT&T monitoring the internet for pirated content ?
Google style philanthropy
Apple Mac shines at CES in LV
Refurbishing is a classic approach to PC recycling
Macworld 08 hilites
Is GPX liability next?
Airplane recycling 'takes off'
10 things you should know about spam
Tech support is broken
Tech support getting worse ??
The candidates and technology
Can new CEO Jim Whitehurst recharge Red Hat?
Court TV goes dark and is replaced by TruTv
Tech solutions your small biz can not use
2007 - MS tried to find its 'wow'
2007 - Dell's metamorphisis
Consumers still spending on tech gadgets
MBR rootkit targets windows users
Acts of stupidity can lead to ID theft
OneCare upgrade brings headaches
Comcast introduces open cable - Tru2way
Comcast 3.0 at CES - Tru2Way
CES 2008
Long power outage is a wake up call
Homeland Security proposes delayed Real ID rollout
Netscape had security problems
Plasma tv, back from the dead
Linux gets a taste of Windows and Mac
CES: Comcast talks wideband - DOCSIS 3.0, 100 Mbit/s net access
The best tech support award goes to...
Is tech support getting worse?
20th annual reader satisfaction survey
December 2007
MS IE 8 Beta is due out in mid 2008
Security Suites 2008 Review
The google monopoly begins...
Some HP laptops spring another leak
Will Microsoft be your next phone company?
WiMAX vs 3G cellular networks
SKYNET - fictional eveil computer
HAL 9000 fictional evil computer
NOMAD - fictional evil computer
Vista adoption in 2007
Don't buy Vista just for security reasons
WSJ sabotage businesses with 'who needs IT' tips
10 things IT will not tell you
HD DVD vs Blu-Ray
Record number of data breaches in 2007 - TJMaxx and more
Better TV is coming in FEB 2009
Marketeers slowly but surely going after cell phones
Aspiring radio talkers take to the Web (Blog Talk Radio)
Onstar network shutdown affects some car drivers - in FEB 2008
Big screen tvs high on wish list
Can social networking co-exist in the workplace?
Sound Off Vista annoyances
Securing MS - next generation of security threats P1 - pain to progress
Securing MS - next generation of security threats P2 - Inviting the hacker inside
Securing MS - next generation of security threats P3 - Next generation
MS IE vs Firefox safety study
New challenges for chip makers
The art of printer cartridge refill
Celebrating 60 years of transistors
Year in Review
John Trammel the man behind the Commodore 64
The shape of tech things to come
Why do Apple customers care so much?
Google calls for users to report malicious sites
Vista pircacy rate half that of XP
The kinder gentler MS RE Vista piracy software
HP's software expansion quest continues
MS tries to stop Vista piracy
Spending Googls' money on good causes
Next GEN of security threats
Dell - not the pc compmay you usef to know
Comp USA closes shop
Why PC's are not pricey any more
Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25 years
Transistor turns 60
Public test for Vista SP1 next week
Nellis AFB - 14 MegaWatt solar array
Canon vs Nikon in SLRs
MS IE vs Firefox
Problems with the MAC promised land...
November 2007
The XP alternative to Vista
XP outshines Vista in benchmarks
Online library offers 1.5 million works
The decline of Black Friday
Facebook ad program draws complaints - violated privacy
Facebook: Marketeers are your 'friends'
Dot Com fraudster arrested
Google vs Telecoms
Shorter URLs used by phishers hook more victims
MS and Security flaws history
Firefox releases 2.0.0.11
Facebook limits purchase tracking after users protest
October 2007
419 scams explained and take a new turn
MS Watch - Who switched browser to google?
Why did MS set IE 7 free ?
The best 5 VOIP services to consider
Attacks aimed at personal info soar...
Storm worm botnet lobotomizing AV programs
IT skills triumph over certs
XP SP3 coming early 2008
20 things you should know about open source
Trouble for white box pc makers
Scott McNealy (Sun) far from retired
Zombie storm rising
Balance sheet on Vista
Google unveils cell phone software
Red wine headache cure?
ID structure is broken
At Walmart Black Friday came early
Fix online privacy
The Great Tech Worker Divide
The iPhone, a security hellhole ?
Reports cite increase in phishing attacks and sophistication
The 'Gap' loses job applicants personal data - nice going...
Acer buys more of Gateway
OnStar - Big Brother or Big Help?
