Category Archives: Computer

Security center opens to battle computer attacks

By doris | Published: October 31, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The United States is well behind the curve in the fight against computer criminals, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Friday, as Homeland Security officials opened a $9 million operations center to better coordinate the government’s response to cyberattacks. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said [...]

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Google changes to aid music searches

By doris | Published: October 30, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles, California (CNN) — The Internet’s most popular search engine should get smarter about music, as Google updates the algorithms that power its searches this week, a company spokesman said. “You don’t have to know what you’re looking for,” Google’s Jennie Johnson said. “If it looks like they’re looking for [...]

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Say farewell to GeoCities, the vintage Web-hosting site

By doris | Published: October 28, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The flashing banner ads, questionable color schemes and omnipresent “Under Construction” signs of GeoCities are no more. The personal Web-hosting site, launched in 1995 and owned by Yahoo Inc. since 1999, was to be shut down by Tuesday. It’s a move that will scrub from the Web a significant, [...]

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Get ready for non-Latin letter domain names

By doris | Published: October 27, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SEOUL, South Korea – The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names — or addresses — that can be written in non-Latin script, an official said Monday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and [...]

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FCC proposed new rules of the road for the Internet

By doris | Published: October 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Federal Communications Commission took the first step Thursday in a process intended to formalize and further define principles governing management of the Internet’s infrastructure by the nation’s broadband access service providers. The federal agency published two pages of proposed rules which the FCC says are intended “to [...]

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Google to launch music search service

By doris | Published: October 23, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Google will not become a music retailer itself, but will offer enhanced music search with a streaming function — the first of possibly several vertical search offerings. Searching for an artist or song will apparently bring up a box (thus Google’s working title: “One Box”) with a streaming link randomly assigned [...]

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Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch: Deals, deals, deals

By doris | Published: October 22, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com It’s true of the product, which is as notable for its everyday performance as any one new feature. It’s also true of how Microsoft plans to launch the new operating system on Thursday. Rather than go for flash, the company is focused on making sure that all of its partners are [...]

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Apple redesigns iMac, MacBook and reveals Magic Mouse

By doris | Published: October 21, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com New iMacs The biggest news Tuesday will be the new iMacs, which move from aluminum and polycarbon design to aluminum and edge-to-edge glass, mirroring the look of Apple’s line of MacBook Pro laptops. The new iMac will come in 21.5 (1,920×1,080) and 27-inch (2,560×1,440) models, each with a 16:9 aspect ratio. [...]

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‘Mrs. Brady’ turns ‘cybermom’ to help seniors tackle tech

By doris | Published: October 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Now, actress Florence Henderson, otherwise known as Mrs. Brady, has a new mission: Helping older adults learn to use technology. Her new business, Floh Club, is a “telephone-based technical support service” focusing on people who didn’t grow up with computers — especially grandparents who want to stay in touch with family [...]

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Disney debuts do-it-yourself thrill ride

By doris | Published: October 15, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Epcot on Wednesday opened a new attraction called “Sum of All Thrills,” which lets kids use computer tablets to design a virtual roller coaster, bobsled track or plane ride. After inputting their designs, kids climb into a robotic carriage that uses virtual-reality technology to help them experience the ride they’ve created. [...]

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‘Digital dirt’ can haunt your job search

By doris | Published: October 13, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CareerBuilder) — Just like Vegas, what happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet. How that affects your job search is up to you. Gone are the days when all you were concerned with was whether or not your résumé and cover letter were error-free. Now, you’ve got bigger things to [...]

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Doc makes more cash selling clothes on eBay

By doris | Published: October 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Lickteig runs a clothing store on eBay, where she’s a “Gold PowerSeller,” ranking among the top 1½ percent of merchants on the online marketplace. The 35-year-old family practitioner says she earned $120,000 last year on eBay, more than she did practicing medicine. “It’s just kind of this thrill,” she said. “It [...]

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Who’s the better translator: Machines or humans?

By doris | Published: October 8, 2009

Full Story at  CNN.com But, so far, there have been several hitches in that plan. Not everyone has access to a computer and a broadband connection. Some governments still censor the Internet. And of course, we don’t all speak the same language. For the World Wide Web to be truly global, shouldn’t Chinese speakers be [...]

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Google Wave to be released to 100,000 testers Wednesday

By doris | Published: September 30, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The Web application from Google Inc. combines elements of e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs and photo-sharing sites to create a form of Internet communication called a “hosted conversation,” or a “wave.” Google demonstrated Wave at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, California, in May. The closed group of beta [...]

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Microsoft researcher converts his brain into ‘e-memory’

By doris | Published: September 26, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Sure, you could say all of us do this to some extent. We save digital pictures from family events and keep tons of e-mail. But Bell, who is 75 years old, takes the idea of digital memory to a sci-fi-esque extreme. He carries around video equipment, cameras and audio recorders to [...]

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India launches satellite for ocean study

By doris | Published: September 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — India on Wednesday launched a second satellite to study oceans. The cube-shaped Oceansat-2 will monitor the interaction between oceans and the atmosphere, as part of climate studies, according to the country’s main space agency. The satellite, launched from India’s southeast coast, carried six nanosatellites from European [...]

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Justice Department urges court to reject Google book deal

By doris | Published: September 19, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In a highly anticipated announcement, Justice Department attorneys cited “class action, copyright, and antitrust” concerns in asking U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin in New York to reject the currently constructed class action settlement between Google and the Authors Guild, which had sued them. Despite the perceived problems, the federal government [...]

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Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools

By doris | Published: September 17, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Or what if you’re in the market for a new camera? You saw a friend with a credit-card-thin model at a party last weekend. But was that a Canon? A Nikon? A brand you’ve never heard of? If you’re like many people, you’d turn to the Internet for answers. But you [...]

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Can you trust free antivirus software?

By doris | Published: September 4, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Free antivirus programs vary just as much as paid security programs do in the quality of their protection. And frugal computer users on the hunt for no-cost antivirus software — already faced with tons of options — will have even more to choose from when new free offerings from Microsoft and [...]

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$1 million Netflix prize to be awarded soon

By doris | Published: September 3, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com It’s been a long journey, but it’s almost over. Netflix said Tuesday it would announce the winner at an event in New York on Sept. 21 — where details about the Netflix Prize 2 sequel would also be unveiled. As things stand now, nobody outside of Netflix knows which team will [...]

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