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 advice,” said Mr Ross.” For those of us in the US, that’s $9170. Our Middle [...]
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 to make an educated comparison. I just hope it’s not foreshadowing of bigger and more [...]
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 – making it self replicating, and enable to original purchasers to defray the cost of [...]
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 – a lot of theory, but no actual how-to’s or off the shelf software to [...]
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 other radiation coming from an object. “A proper design … may induce a dramatic drop [...]
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 $200….. and gotten the same functionality. Tweet
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 hands – or better yet, as the article asks: “you don’t realy want to end [...]
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’ – he ended up writing his own custom interface to their customer database. Another good example [...]
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 girls. One of the interesting points of the article is that research shows girls are [...]
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 corporate politics. He talks about the commons sense that short password expiration times, combined with [...]