The BBC reports on the cost of not shutting computers off when not in use – “”Most people could easily save “£100 a year and a small-to-medium sized company should easily cut “£5,000 off its bills just by following our… Read More »Power-hungry PCs cost users
News.com reports on the HP lawsuits against Rhinotek and InkCycle. Looks like now HP is just using it’s patent arsenal to force refillers to list their cartridges as “used” and “refilled” – which only seems fair, as it allows consumers… Read More »HP sues ink refillers
Interesting story about a refrigerator-sized machine that would make “household items and gadgets, including kitchenware, cameras and even small musical instruments” out of metal or plastic. The cool thing, is that it would be able to make copies of itself… Read More »self-replicating rapid prototyper with a twist
Network World has an interesting article on Software Streaming that caught my interest. It sounds like they are describing a product similar to Apple’s NetBoot, which I’ve Seen in action at CCC. The article however is very sparse on details… Read More »Software Streaming
Scientists have discovered that Plasmons can be used to make very small items invisible. From the article: The proposal involves using plasmons — tiny electronic excitations on the surfaces of some metals — to cancel out the visible light or… Read More »Invisibility?
I found this device interesting, as I just bought an external dual-layer DVD burner for about $100 less than this and a standalone DVD recorder for about $300… so if I had picked this up instead, I would have saved… Read More »Sony DVD Direct burns DVDs without a computer
Frank Hayes has a great article in this week’s ComputerWorld on how the Paris Hilton hack should get IT thinking about the use of state-of-ther art cell phones. Once again, do you really want your sensitive information out of your… Read More »Paris Hilton & You
Wired reports that the method Nicolas Jacobsen used to gain access to T-Mobile accounts was through a known hole in their WebLogic server – for which BEA had a patch available. This however didn’t make Jacobsen a ‘script kiddie’ –… Read More »T-Mobile Hack Used Known Hole
It caught my eye that there were two different articles about major IT companies aiming to bring girls into IT this week. eSchool News reports on Cisco’s efforts to make IT, and in particular, their Tech Academy more appealing to… Read More »Microsoft and Cisco aiming to bring more girls to IT
There must be something in the water cooler over at Information Week, because I think this week’s Secret CIO column is right on the money, and I usually disagree with him, or skip the column because it’s just whining about… Read More »Password Complexity