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Google Becomes a Library. Digitizing the World's Books? Google, Inc., flush from a solid IPO, is serving five of the leading libraries by offering to pick up the tab for scanning the hallowed collections and making the resulting texts available online, in many cases, at no charge to the reader. The new project, Google Print, offers an entirely new way
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and International Business Machines (IBM) announced, today, their joint development of an innovative high-speed computer chip that will boost transistor speed by 24 percent, improving the performance and reducing the power consumption of chips used in many products. Using a new process called dual stress liner (DSL) the team improved the performance of both types of
Bought Any Illegal Software From A Spammer, Lately? The offer advertised in that e-mail message is awfully tempting. Microsoft Windows XP Professional for only $39? The entire Microsoft Office Professional suite for less than a few sawbucks? It's real software, isn't it? Well it sure is, and it's a lot more, too. Spammers stay in business because we're buying their
Pennsylvania State University now urges all students to stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer and use an alternative web browser, such as Firefox, Opera, or Safari. This week the university, famous for its Nittany Lion mascot and graduates who seem to never forget their alma mater, took serious notice of the security issues caused by Microsoft's flagship web browser and took
Trojan Keylogger Masquerades as Make Love Not Spam Screensaver Lycos Europe has, temporarily, perhaps, discontinued its controversial Make Love Not Spam screensaver; however, crackers have picked up on the antispam application's popularity and are riding its coattails right onto your computer. Should you invite the crackers in, you'll be installing a keylogging application that will track everything that you type
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN service debuted a free blogging service, this past week. Users can create a new weblog (blog) and be posting to their online journal in less than five minutes. This is proof positive that blogging is a mainstream activity. Blog is one of the most frequently discussed Internet topics; it's an elegant demonstration of personal expression and corporate
Following a major digital brouhaha, Lycos Europe has turned off it's antispam screensaver, named Make Love Not Spam. The service's website urges users to stay tuned; however, it's unclear whether the service will be restarted, after savvy users realized what the service really did. Yesterday, Netcraft, an Internet traffic monitoring company, reported that the service had forced offline two alleged