During the attack on Tuesday and Wednesday, hackers left behind half a dozen files, damaged one CERN file, and displayed a Web page with the headline “GST: Greek Security Team,” signing off: “We are 2600–don’t mess with us,” (sic) CERN scientists told the newspaper.
The system that was breached monitors the Compact Muon Solenoid [...]
• New “Insourcing Markets Tax Credit” to spur business investment communities facing global competition
• In the first three months of 2008, the number of VC-backed mergers and acquisitions f
ell to an all-time quarterly low for the decade
• An increase in the existing R&D credit by 50% and the creation of a new 40% [...]
“Today I’ve got my privileged hands on a brand spanking new Asus Centrino 2 (”Montevina” for us nerds) system,” according to a pre-Computex Intel blog.
But he quickly qualifies the euphoria with: “Oh Montevina…You broke our hearts with the launch delay.”
He cites one of the best features as testing “World of Warcraft over the [...]
In 2004, Miami wired the first of its city parks for Internet access. The city had planned to add parks methodically, but the demand proved tremendous and it connected more than 20 parks that first year with anywhere from a single PC to labs with a dozen or more computers. As of January, the city [...]
The Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand Media also owns several domain naming services, a handful of knowledge sites like Answerbag.com and eHow, as well as health and fitness sites like Trails.com, Run The Planet, and entertainment sites like Cracked and a number of online gaming titles.
It’s a for-profit spinoff of Armstrong’s non-profit Lance Armstrong Foundation, or [...]
Gaming is one of the greatest uses of Flash technology. There are tons of places to get your Flash gaming on, and one of my new favorites is Nonoba. I found my way there earlier this morning from a link on Download Squad for a particularly fun game called Comboll that’s a cross between Breakout [...]
The County Recorder, which archives real estate records online, requires that death certificates be recorded when a property owner terminates a joint-tenancy deed after another owner has died.
Digital copies of death certificates have been removed from the Web site of Maricopa County in Arizona because they could be used for identity fraud, The [...]
Noam Rimon, Sony Entertainment of America’s senior development manager of R&D, provides a walk through the updated service in the video below.
Sony’s
PlayStation 3 got a small update early Thursday morning that added a new channel called Life with PlayStation. It merges news feeds, weather forecasts, and live Web cams on a giant world map.
It’s [...]
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If you’re a Gmail user, and looking to get that same level of integration in Office documents and elsewhere on your system check out gAttach (download). This simple program will append all your mail extensions, getting them to open up in Gmail instead.
Once installed you've got [...]
Google on Monday announced the launch of FreetheAirWaves.com, a site promoting the unlicensed use of “white space” spectrum.
With the Federal Communications Commission expected to rule in the coming months on how to allocate unused bandwidth, Google is working with other technology companies like Dell and Microsoft to lobby for unlicensed white space, and the Web [...]
