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Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr. [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online Last August we featured a post with more than 230 online apps for running your business. Since there are hundreds of new apps coming on the market every year, we figured it was time for an update. This year we came up with more than 270 additional apps. Some are completely new since last year, others might have been overlooked, and still others made significant improvements that gained them a spot on the list. [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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Robot wheelchair finds its own way MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command. [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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MIT OpenCourseWare Free Online Course Materials [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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How to Be Outstanding “If you do what you love to do, then you won’t do it in an average way.” [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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Brad Pitt Tops Charts For Most Celebrity Malware Sites Hollywood actor Brad Pitt has bumped Paris Hilton off the top of the list as the most dangerous celebrity to search for on the Web, according to McAfee researchers. [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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Google phone will be priced at $199 There is no official confirmation for this information yet, but if we believe the usually well-informed Wall Street Journal, then the HTC Dream will be priced at $199 with a service plan. It is unclear which service plans will be offered alongside the Dream, but if T-Mobile will tie the device to plans similar to what the company offers for its Blackberrys, then the overall cost of the HTC Dream over a 2-year period would be comparable to an Apple iPhone on AT&T’s network. [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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'Demystifying Google' - Search efficiently Google is the most advanced internet search engine of our time. How many of us know that google search has more than that we think it can offer ? [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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10 Greatest Hacks of All Time We reached back into the early days of computing and dredged up the most inspiring examples of hacker brilliance we could find [Read more] [ Read the rest ... ]
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Western Digital's 2.5-inch to hit 1TB by early 2010 Western Digital (WD) and Fujitsu will likely have 1TB 2.5-inch disk drives available by early 2010 according to industry sources.[Read more] [ Read the rest ... ] Copyright © 2005-2010 Malaysia University of Science and Technology. All Rights Reserved. | Date / Time Articles Featured Article Open Source Licensing Source: IBM developerWorks The phrase "open source license" refers to a large number of agreements that license the copyrights inherent in software widely, fairly, and with the fewest restrictions possible. Part 1 -- the first of two -- describes the tenets of copyright and explains the intents of an open source license. Part 2 of this series explores individual licenses, such as the GNU Public License and the Apache License. More... Featured Article What makes a rootkit? Source: IBM developerWorks The Sony BMG copy protection debacle has pulled "rootkit" out of the hacker underground and into the wider world of regular computer users. But while those PC owners may now recognize the term, that doesn't necessarily mean they know what kind of threat it describes. And in the Sony case, not even the experts can agree on whether the record label's antipiracy technology meets the technical definition of a rootkit. Joris Evers of CNET News.com explores this topic which has caught much of the media's attention of late. More... Featured Article Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) Source: APWG Web Site Phishing attacks use 'spoofed' e-mails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers, etc. By hijacking the trusted brands of well-known banks, online retailers and credit card companies, phishers are able to convince up to 5% of recipients to respond to them. Anti-Phishing Working Group The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is an industry association focused on eliminating the identity theft and fraud that result from the growing problem of phishing and email spoofing. More... | |||
