Passwords that are Simple--and Safe

07-26-2010 • Simson Garfinkel via Technology Review

A new approach does away with the need for long strings of letters and numbers.

bar codes

05-03-2010 • design barcode label

Professional edition barcode maker tool creates printable and useful barcode tags for all barcode application.

Early Version of Firefox Lands on Android Phones

04-29-2010 • Webmonkey

The mobile version of Firefox, known by code-name Fennec, is now available for testing on the Android mobile platform.

Program or Be Programmed

03-31-2010 • Douglas Rushkoff

"If we don't create a society that at least knows there's a thing called programming, then we become not the programmers, but the users, or worse, the used."

112 Best Free Downloads, Sites, and Services

03-01-2010 • PC World

Want to correct Windows problems, make your PC or mobile phone more capable, and get things done faster online--all without opening your wallet? Check out these 112 incredibly useful, incredibly free downloads, sites, and services.

Microsoft Spy Doc

03-01-2010 • Wikileaks

Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, 24 Feb 2010

George Soros Invests In a People Tracking Company

02-21-2010 • EconomicPolicyJournal.com

The first stop may be Ghana, but when a billionaire global interventionist invests in a tiny company that seems bent on developing more and more people tracking systems starting when a kid grabs his kindergarten lunch, I get real nervous.

Google's Liquid Galaxy Machine Sends Users on Immersive Tour of Earth, Moon, and Mars

02-15-2010 • PopSci.com

Jason Holt used his 20 percent project time to create a wraparound view of a modified Google Earth engine, and splashed it across 8 LCD screens in an immersive viewing booth.

Google Chrome 4.0 stable version released for Windows

01-27-2010 • Phys.org

The extensions (around 1,500 of them) were released for users of the Chrome 4.0 browser beta version last December, but the gallery is now available for all users running Windows.

Hacker Breaks Kindle's Proprietary E-Book Protection

12-24-2009 • NewsFactor Network

Amazon's dominance of the e-book market with a proprietary format has been challenged by a copyright hack that allows its content to be shared. Breaking digital-rights management could force Amazon to follow Apple, Inc.'s lead and offer DRM-free cont

Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix

12-22-2009 • AP

A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court. But people looking to buy Word or Micros

Office 2003 Rights Management Bug Locks up Files

12-14-2009 • technologizer.com

The bug affects Office 2003 products including Excel 2003, Outlook 2003, PowerPoint 2003, and Word 2003. It does not affect Office 2007 or Office 2010 Beta, according to Microsoft.

Google Introduces Go Programming Language

11-12-2009 • NewsFactor Network

Google has introduced a new computer language called Go that is designed to address key trends and problems with other languages like Java and C++. The Go computer language supports multiprocessing and fast compiling. An analyst noted that roadblocks

Android Army Pumped for All-Out Attack on iPhone

10-31-2009 • Wired

Soon, you’ll need more than two hands to count the number of Android phones on the market. At this rate, it seems inevitable that the number of phones running Google’s open source operating system will eventually outnumber the number of iPhones, whic

Review: Ubuntu 9.10 v Windows 7

10-27-2009 •

Canonical will release the latest version of the open-source operating system Ubuntu this Thursday, and we look at how it stacks up against Windows 7

VISTA SUCKS

10-19-2009 • BLIMPTV.NET

From Microsoft comes VISTA---the most torturous computing experience ever devised.

Touchable Hologram Becomes Reality (w/ Video) (Publisher: WOW!)

08/06/2009 • PhysOrg.com

In this demonstration of the touchable hologram, ultrasound is radiated from above and the user feels as if a rain drop hits his palm.Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed 3D holograms that can be touched with bare hands. Generally,

US Weighs Risks of Civilian Harm in Cyberwarfare

8/1/09 • Common Dreams

"We knew we could pull it off - we had the tools," said one senior official who worked at the Pentagon when the highly classified plan was developed. But the attack never got the green light. Bush administration officials worried that the effects would not be limited to Iraq but instead create worldwide financial havoc, spreading across the Middle East to Europe and perhaps to the United States

WARNING: Fake Twitter Invites Carry Malicious Worm

6/20/09 • Mashable

The emails carry the subject line “Your friend invited you to twitter!”, while the sender’s address is spoofed as “invitations@twitter.com”. Unlike a typical Twitter invite, however, the email contains no invitation link: instead it carries the attached file Invitation Card.zip, tempting the receiver to download it. The attachment, of course, contains W32.Ackantta.B@mm – a nasty, email address-harvesting worm.

Tapping Your Cellphone

06-17-2009 • 13 Investigates

13 Investigates explains how your cell phone can be secretly hijacked and used against you – and how to protect yourself. VIDEO

China deploys secure computer operating system

05-12-2009 • AFP

China has installed a secure operating system known as "Kylin" on government and military computers designed to be impenetrable to US military and intelligence agencies. [Hacker Challenge 2009]

PGP Complaint Forces ElcomSoft to Change Booth Decor

04-29-2009 • PC World

It isn't the best marketing proposition to sell encryption products next door to a fellow exhibitor who promises they can crack them. That's what happened at a conference, with encryption company PGP positioned 10 feet away from a Russian com

Windows 7 to ship this Sept.

02-26-2009 • eLectronista

Microsoft could have Windows 7 on shipping PCs by September, Compal president Ray Chen said today at an investor's conference. The PC contractor executive understands from plans that the software should be available in either late September or ea

Vista the Least Popular Windows OS Ever

2-9-2009 • PC World

Once upon a time, Microsoft crowed that Windows Vista would be twice as popular as XP. Research firm Ovum, predicted a more modest 15% switchover in the first year, but gushed that Vista would be "the fastest-moving operating system ever."

How to track friends with Google

2-07-09 • news.BBC.co.uk

You will have to make up your own mind as to whether this is creepy or a wonderful technological tool for finding your friends.

Nasty worm wriggles into millions of computers

1-20-2009 • AFP

A nasty worm has wriggled into millions of computers and continues to spread, leaving security experts wondering whether the attack is a harbinger of evil deeds to come. A computer worm known as "Conficker" or "Downadup" had infec

Windows 7 Beta Free Download

1-13-2009 • PC World

So far people are reporting MS' new operating system is working pretty well. It is a Beta, meaning there will almost certainly be serious bugs. I recommend not putting this on any computer you care about.