Topic: COMPUTER - on January 19, 2004 at 1:09:00 PM CET
Say hello to the Bagle Worm
Sunday evening saw reports of yet another email-borne worm affecting MS Windows. Bagle spreads via email, following the opening of an attachment. Sounds familiar?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 17, 2004 at 11:41:00 AM CET
A network called 'Internet'
Punctuation marks that look like smiley faces express happiness on a new communication tool known as "Internet." The computer network is already being used by 15 million people worldwide — to chat or do important research. Communication may be anonymous and isolated, but there's always someone to talk to about sports, recipes or politics.
"In this world there's a table with a big sign on it saying football," explains a computer expert in this CBC TV clip.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 1:33:00 PM CET
Language tools for fight on terror
Terror babelfish
Software to allow security officials to better search and translate documents in foreign languages, especially Arabic, has been demonstrated at a technology show in Las Vegas, as Clark Boyd reports. There is an old saying in computing - garbage in, garbage out. And never has the world been so awash in digital garbage.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 1:32:00 PM CET
UK launches first digital stamps
The Royal Mail is launching the UK's first digital stamp, a service aimed at small firms.
The system, called SmartStamp, allows users to print stamps straight onto envelopes from their computers.
It means they can ditch the traditional stamp for an image of their choice, such as a company logo.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 1:31:00 PM CET
US illegal downloads on the rise
The number of people illegally downloading copyrighted tracks from the internet has risen after a six-month slump, analysts in the US have said.
The number of US households downloading tracks from sites rise 6% in October and 7% in November, market researchers the NPD Group said on Thursday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 1:24:00 PM CET
Intel and HP find oldest working PC
Dutch company PHI DATA yesterday received a € 18,000 prize from Intel, HP and Dutch IT weekly Computable for still owning and operating a vintage IBM 5160 (Intel 8088) computer from 1983. PHI Data uses the IBM to test matrix printers. It is now officialy the oldest obsolete-yet-active PC in the Low Countries.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 11:17:00 AM CET
Data Glass2
Data Glass2, Data (information and the data) with Glass (the glasses) to keyword to be named, "age the person who precedes when and attaching Data Glass2 where is possible the fact that you look at image and information,", "the personal computer anytime also anywhere" the small-sized stemma head mount display for ウェアラブルパソコン which develops in concept (HMD) is.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 15, 2004 at 11:51:00 PM CET
The Colour of the World Wide Web
The colour of the World Wide Web is: #9C9C9C (rgb: 156,156,156). There is no dominant hue in the Web.
The average web page is depicted on the right (scale 1 : 5). The left hand side and the top of the Web appear to be a slightly darker gray, which might indicate that menus are generally located there and that they are darker.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 15, 2004 at 3:50:00 PM CET
Supercomputing whitepaper, and some thoughts on 64 bits
As I was checking out Wes Felter's blog, I noticed that he posted a link to the final report of the Workshop on the Roadmap for the Revitalization of High-End Computing. What's this workshop, you ask? From the page linked above:
CRA was asked to organize a Workshop on the Road Map for the Revitalization of High End Computing. The Workshop sponsor was the National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD).
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 15, 2004 at 1:34:00 PM CET
Computer's chips turn into potatoes
Staff at a department store in the German city of Kaiserslautern called detectives after an angry customer tried to return a computer stuffed with potatoes to the shop twice on the same day.
The man berated sales assistants in the store, complaining that the computer he had bought only hours before did not work, according to police reports.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 14, 2004 at 3:31:00 AM CET
61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor
Equipped with "Enhanced Split Screen" Ability
NEC Plasma Display Corporation today announced the launch of two 61-inch wide plasma monitors from the PlasmaSync(TM)61XM2+series (a grey bezel model, and a silver bezel model) that are equipped with "Enhanced Split Screen" ability - a high quality, high performance Double Picture function. Sales will commence on February 1st, 2004 to meet various uses mainly in multimedia presentation and public display applications with different release dates for each region. NEC Plasma Display Corporation is targeting 25% of the world commercial market share with its 11 model line up.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 13, 2004 at 1:07:00 PM CET
George Foreman USB iGrill
Cooking For The Web Set
The low-fat, high-bandwidth solution to your networked cooking needs is finally here. The George Foreman USB iGrill conveniently connects to your home or office PC using USB 2.0 technology, and provides a sophisticated web-based cooking interface.
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