While it is illegal to use a hand held cellular phone while driving in some states, and experts agree that holding a cellular conversation while driving is a contributing cause to driver distraction, it seems that some states may have found a way to take advantage of the popularity of road-bound cellular phones.
Don’t Say Anything: We Still Know Where You Are
Posted by geeknews at 9:25 PM on November 13, 2005Posted in Dave's Muse
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New York Suburb To Require Secure Wireless Networks
Posted by geeknews at 7:14 AM on November 6, 2005Westchester County, New York, a suburb of New York City, may become the first area in the country to require wireless networks to be secured. Wi-Fi hot spots, such as those found in coffee shops, book stores, and recreational areas are popular not only with average citizens, but also with crackers seeking to collect credit card data and other personal information.
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Almost Two-Thirds of U.S. Homes Have An Online Computer
Posted by geeknews at 6:33 PM on October 28, 2005According to the most recent U.S. Census data, 62 million households in the United States have an Internet-connected computer. That means just over half, 55 percent of homes have relatively easy access to the net, including e-mail and web resources. This data, current as of 2003, shows a five percent increase in connected computers, compared to the 2001 data, and more than triple the 18 percent connectivity rate reported in 1997.
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U.S. Broadband Market Shrinking
Posted by geeknews at 11:00 PM on September 25, 2005The Pew Internet & American Life Project reported in a paper dated September 24th, but released earlier in the week, that residential broadband adoption grew quickly in recent years; however, the speed of adoption is now slowing.
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Google Print Faces Legal Challenges
Posted by geeknews at 3:35 AM on September 24, 2005The Authors Guild, Inc. has sued Google, Inc. on behalf of over 8,000 authors. The Authors Guild claims to be the nation’s largest and oldest society of published authors and the leading writers advocate for fair compensation, effective copyright protection, and free expression. Google Print’s stated mission is to organize the world’s information, but much of that information isn’t yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily right in your Google search results.
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Simple Path to Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade
Posted by geeknews at 3:06 PM on September 18, 2005Hitachi Global Storage Technologies now has a hard drive upgrade alternative for notebook computers that is so simple, most users will be able to increase their notebook hard disk capacity and restore their operating system, applications, and data. The upgrade includes a replacement internal hard drive, a case to convert allow the existing hard drive to be used as an external USB drive, cables, tools, and step-by-step instructions.
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Sprechen Sie Google?
Posted by geeknews at 10:54 AM on September 18, 2005A new worm, named P2Load.A, is in the wild. Once infected, users of Google’s search engine are redirected to a spoofed site in Germany that looks just like the powerhouse search engine’s main page. Spoofed search results include new, top-of-list links to advertisers who are not a member of Google’s desired advertiser list.
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Google That Blog
Posted by geeknews at 8:19 AM on September 15, 2005Google, Inc., the search engine (and everything else) company has released a beta version of a blog search site that offers similar features to its most-popular web search engine. The new search engine scans blogs, the popular online journals that offer both professional journalists and citizen pundits simple access to online publication. Google Blog Search should give a bit of much-wanted visibility and authority to the burgeoning blogosphere.
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Massachusetts Disses Microsoft and Proprietary Data Formats
Posted by geeknews at 9:09 AM on September 4, 2005Massachusetts Disses Microsoft and Proprietary Data Formats
Microsoft’s anger knows no bounds in the wake of an announcement from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that state offices will phase out Microsoft Office in favor of a software application suite(s) that store files in an open-document format, rather than the proprietary format currently implemented by Microsoft.
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Total Cost of Ownership for Microsoft Windows Exceeds Linux
Posted by geeknews at 8:41 AM on September 2, 2005The total cost of ownership (TCO) of Microsoft Windows for network administrators is widely acknowledged to exceed that of Unix-based systems, such as Linux and Solaris. System administrators with experience in multiple operating systems often recognize that Linux is less expensive to maintain, over the lifetime of the information system.
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