Google SA
Posted on August 8, 2008 - Filed Under General, Google, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Google SA stands for Google Search Appliance, the aptly described box that resides inside an organizations IT structure and provides employees with high speed search of company documents.
It’s the high end version of the site search capability offered
Microsoft Midori
Posted on July 30, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Microsoft is working on a project, codenamed Midori, to create an Internet based OS to replace Windows.
This is said to be Windows’ replacement at some point in the future, as the desktop operating system becomes obsolete in function.
DRAM Glut
Posted on July 27, 2008 - Filed Under General, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Lower prices for memory chips are encouraging PC makers to install more DRAM per box these days, and are prompting DRAM makers to speed-up the introduction of faster, more advanced chips.
A huge decline in prices for the chips is the reason behind more DRAM being used in PCs.
Printer Privacy
Posted on July 14, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, General, Tech News | Leave a Comment
The decreasing cost and growing popularity of color laser printers is causing concerns in some circles that your privacy may not be worth the paper you’re printing on.
More manufacturers are producing laser printers with technology that leaves microscopic yellow dots on each printed page that identify
Huge Drives
Posted on July 10, 2008 - Filed Under General, Tech News | Leave a Comment
My goodness, it seems like only yesterday that drive manufacturers were breaking through to the 1 Terabyte hard drive. Actually, it was in early 2007 when it happened so 18 months have passed and that seems to be the timeline for seeing new advances hit the market.
Read More..>>Who’s Next?
Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under General, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Now that Bill is pretty much history, I wonder, who’s next?
Not the next to leave but the next to arrive. Who’s the next Bill Gates? Who’s in the process of coming up with something really great that will be the next big problem solver?
Tattoo Reader
Posted on June 22, 2008 - Filed Under General, Politics, Tech News | Leave a Comment
With the prevalent problem of identity theft, there is an increasing need to find other ways to identify people. Normal identification such as drivers’ licenses, social security cards, etc. are easily lost or stolen not to mention being forged.
It’s not always easy, especially for the police, to identify their victims or suspects. They spend a […]
Yahoo-less Email
Posted on June 19, 2008 - Filed Under Email, Tech News, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
For the first time, Yahoo has added new email domains to its long-standing Yahoo.com, which with more than 260 million subscribers has forced people to use hard-to-remember names when signing up for an account.
So if you signed up for a Yahoo account and now have the good fortune of being known as TomSmith123_w1@Yahoo.com, there’s […]
Hidden Voices
Posted on June 1, 2008 - Filed Under General, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Steganography is the process of hiding messages by embedding them in ordinary communications. It’s been practiced in history in a number of ways.
It is different from cryptography in which you can see the message but can’t tell what it means. With digital medium, images in particular, it is possible to hide a message in the […]
Clearwire
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Tech News | 1 Comment
Is this the news you dial-up folks have been waiting on?
Sprint and Clearwire on Wednesday formally announced that they are forming a new publicly traded company — to be called Clearwire — with the goal of building a WiMax network across the USA.
WiMax is similar to WiFi in that it offers speedy, wireless Web surfing. […]