Computer Updates and Site Info

New Apple Products Underwhelm Wall Street 
Piper Jaffray maintained an “outperform” rating and $103 price target on the computer company.

Apple unveils iPod Hi-Fi system 
Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs smiles next to the new Apple iPod Hi-Fi speaker system for its iPod player at an unveiling at Apple headquarters. Photo: AP

Durable’s computer clean-up 
27 February 2006 Wimborne (UK): Durable UK has begun the build-up to Computer Cleaning Week, commencing on 18 September 2006.

Washable Computer Mice Stop The Spread Of Infection 
A waterproof computer mouse that can be fully immersed in a sink or basin could be a major breakthrough in the spread of infection in hospitals, offices and homes. The ScrollSeal optical mouse is a fully-sealed, moulded unit with a unique scroll wheel that ‘clicks’ out before washing and then just as easily, ‘clicks’ back in… click link for more info.

Five Nasdaq Stars 
Our computer screens yield some promising Nasdaq growth stocks.

Apple releases new stuff, new blog search engine 
Some guy named Steve Jobs was on stage this morning announcing stuff for some computer company in Cupertino.

Mercury Computer Systems and Texas Instruments Announce a WiMAX AMC for Next- Generation Mobile Broadband Market 
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. and Texas Instruments today announced their collaboration on the development of the Mercury MTI-203 AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) for WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) wireless infrastructure digital base band applications.

Lab Assistants Offer Computer Training 
BYU computer labs are making it easy for students to become computer whizzes by offering them free half-hour tutoring on any of their computer software.

New computer model could help fight against cancer 
Drawing on lab experiments and computer studies, Johns Hopkins researchers have learned how a common protein delivers a warning message to cells when an infectious agent invades the body.

Mercury Computer, TI tout WiMAX base station module
iT News, Australia - 20 hours agoMercury Computer Systems will utilise Texas Instruments (TI) components to produce an advanced mezzanine card (AMC) for WiMAXbase stations. …

IBM techs lead workshop at Smith center
TMCnet - 13 hours ago… According to figures based on a 2004 study and released by the US Department of Commerce, computer use among blacks trails whites by 14 percent. …

Revenue Growth And Profitability Elude Sun
InformationWeek, NY - 21 hours ago… suit in a company that relied on sales of high-priced servers during its dot-com heyday, and convince more customers to switch from computer systems sold by …

Computer power on by itself!
CNET Reviews - 8 hours agoI have a Pentium 4 desktop computer with Intel motherboard. It’s 3+ years old and have not given me problems. … Otherwise the computer behaves like normal. …

Criminal cases filed against magazine, computer shop owners
INQ7.net, Philippines - 5 hours agoCRIMINAL cases have been filed against a magazine and several computer shop owners, following a police and Optical Media Board (OMB)-led raids that confiscated …

Computer-on-module upgrades ETX baseboards
Electronics Talk, UK - Feb 27, 2006A new computer-on-module allows OEMs to access the latest chipset technology without a complete redesign of their ETX baseboard. …

iLoad-c Delivers Music Wirelessly to the iPod Nano
Digital Silence, PA - 38 minutes ago… c, a gadget that utilizes the music stores proliferating on cell phone networks, to download music directly to the Apple iPod Nano, without using a computer. …

Tech-savvy Shahrukh Khan
Sify, India - 7 hours agoActor Shahrukh Khan is one talented actor of Bollywood but very few know that the actor is so much addicted to his computer that he uses his laptop more than …

iPod News: Wingspan Announces iLoad-c for iPod nano
MobileTechReview.com, CA - 3 hours ago… c, a gadget that utilizes the music stores proliferating on cell phone networks, to download music directly to the Apple iPod Nano, without using a computer. …

DIY Experimental computer controlled home lighting system
MakeZine.com - 5 hours agoSiLight writes - “SI-Light is a experimental computer controlled home lighting system. It started with the goal of individually …

CBC puts Alice the computer in charge
Globe and Mail, Canada - Feb 27, 2006… Alice, you see, is a computer-generated viewer. … (A face that, presumably, looks like the computer I’m using to write this column.) Alice can be mean. …

Multi-Function Steering Wheel, On Board Computer, Parking Sensors …
Times Online, UK - 4 hours agoTimes Online and the vehicle supplier make every effort to ensure that the information contained on the Website (”the Information”) is accurate and complete. …

Patni bags Kitcoff-APSI deal
Economic Times, India - 12 hours agoMUMBAI: Patni Computer Systems Ltd on Tuesday said Kitcoff-APSI, a retirement plan consulting and administration firm, has selected its Defined Contribution …

The company’s latest product rollouts highlight its focus on the
Street.Com - CUPERTINO, Calif. — For those used to big announcements from Apple ( AAPL :Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer’s Take ), the company’s media event at its headquarters here on Tuesday might have been a disappointment. Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised some

Convergys workers in Ariz. due back pay
Cincinnati Enquirer - Convergys Corp. will pay $352,376 in back wages to about 1,400 past and present employees of a call center in Tucson, Ariz. after a federal investigation found they were not paid for time spent preparing for work. Convergys, the Cincinnati–based

Ex-Carroll authority worker faces trial for alleged thefts
Pittsburgh Valley Independent - MONONGAHELA - A longtime former secretary who allegedly took $212,713.17 from the Carroll Township Authority was ordered Monday to stand trial. Olga Martini, 51, of 100 Baywood Drive, Carroll Township, was charged Feb. 6 with theft by unlawful taking

Game theory
Bergen Record - Watching a pair of disembodied hands play piano may sound like a scene from a hokey horror movie, but to some New Jersey scientists, hands like these may lead to medical breakthroughs. That is because the hands are part of a series of computer games

One missing step can add great confusion to music burning
Olympian - Q: I read your very interesting recent answer on converting music from records, tapes, etc. to digital. I was not aware of the ADS InstantMusic device that you cited as an example of available products and I will investigate it further. However, I

Schools To Check Visitors Against Sex Offender Lists
WBAL Channel - ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Anne Arundel County educators will ask for $300,000 to buy a computer system that will let them check visitors against state and federal sex offender lists. The school system will ask for the money in next year’s budget from the

Quantum-based computer made
Science Daily - CHICAGO, Feb. 24 (UPI) — University of Illinois physics researchers have built a quantum-based computer that can be awake and asleep at the same time. The computer can spit out answers even if its program is never triggered, reported the Chicago

Microsoft pursues handheld prototype
Alameda Times-Star - Microsoft Corp., whose Windows operating system runs almost 95 percent of the world’s personal computers, is working with PC makers on a hand-held, touch-screen device that functions as a full computer. Microsoft plans to share details of the project

Vertex Computer Industry Co., a leading supplier of PC peripherals
Press Trust - Vertex Computer Industry Co., a leading supplier of PC peripherals, has announced that it recently surpassed the $10 million mark in sales. Vertex has a 5,000-square-meter factory that produces over 300,000 PC peripheral products monthly, in a 10-day

Apple unveils mini computer with dual Intel chip
PhysOrg - Apple founder Steve Jobes showed off the new-generation “Mac Mini” during a press conference at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. “Now, the performance just goes into the stratosphere,” Jobs said before showing how the new product

Computer laboratory provides service for disabled 
On first impression, the computer lab at 102 Pomerene Hall does not look much different than any other lab on the Ohio State campus.

Criminal cases filed against magazine, computer shop owners 
CRIMINAL cases have been filed against a magazine and several computer shop owners, following a police and Optical Media Board (OMB)-led raids that confiscated pirated and pornographic materials in January 2006.

The Computer, an illustrated history 
Coffee table book for computer geeks?

College Student Uses Brute Force PASSWD on School Computer to Change Grade 
SALT LAKE CITY You Li, age 21, a Chinese national living in Utah while pursuing an undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of Utah, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for hacking into a University of Utah computer in an attempt to change a grade in a math class.

Schaeffer’s Midday Options Update Features Apple Computer, Walt Disney, Lowe’s Companies, Stewart & Stevenson Services,  
CINCINNATI—-Feb. 27, 2006–Today’s Schaeffer’s Midday Options Update features Apple Computer , Walt Disney , Lowe’s Companies , Stewart & Stevenson Services , and Vodafone . The Midday Options Update contains a brief commentary on the day’s most notable activity and a table listing the most-active calls and puts for the day.

Research and Markets: A Look at the Spending of US Businesses on …
Black Enterprise, NY - 21 hours agoThis Excel-based Data-rich Deliverable (DRD) includes market intelligence on business expenditures on the IT Computer Hardware market by size of business. …

Paperless Hospitals
International News Service, Australia - 15 hours ago… The move is to chart information electronically by computer. … All the (paper) records will be scanned and placed in a computer file,” she said. …

Multi-Function Steering Wheel, On Board Computer, Parking Sensors …
Times Online, UK - 1 hour agoTimes Online and the vehicle supplier make every effort to ensure that the information contained on the Website (”the Information”) is accurate and complete. …

Sony admits PS3 launch delay ‘possible’
nForcersHQ.com - 1 hour ago… specs. An unnamed spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan admitted that PlayStation 3 launch could be delayed. Most …

iPod News: Wingspan Announces iLoad-c for iPod nano
MobileTechReview.com, CA - 55 minutes ago… c, a gadget that utilizes the music stores proliferating on cell phone networks, to download music directly to the Apple iPod Nano, without using a computer. …

A 170 thousand sets computer factory to inaugurate
News Yemen, Yemen - 7 hours ago… and Information Technology City in Sana a. Its building is dictated by expansion of local using of computers and rise in number of computer users in recent …

Microsoft unveils new computer operating systems 
SAN FRANCISCO : US-based computer software giant Microsoft Corp. on Monday touted a new line-up of computer operating systems to become available later this year.

New computer model could help fight against cancer 
Drawing on lab experiments and computer studies, Johns Hopkins researchers have learned how a common protein delivers a warning message to cells when an infectious agent invades the body.

Computer virus infection rates drop 
But cyber criminals are getting smarter, says DTI and PWC security report

Projection Screens, TV Mounts and Notebook Computer Re-Charge Security Carts Now Available Online at Newly Expanded  
Newly expanded WIUSA.com (www.wiusa.com) offers a comprehensive site of Projection Screens, TV Mounts and Notebook Computer Re-Charge Carts for the Architectural Specifier, Contractor and Facility Management. [PRWEB Feb 28, 2006]

Experts warn of computer viruses in early March 
Chinese experts on Sunday warn computer users to guard against computer viruses between Feb. 27 to March 5.

Computer-on-module upgrades ETX baseboards
Electronics Talk, UK - Feb 27, 2006A new computer-on-module allows OEMs to access the latest chipset technology without a complete redesign of their ETX baseboard. …

Fight fakes
Business Standard, India - 19 hours ago… orders. The raid led to the recovery of a computer loaded with pirated software ready to be delivered to a customer. Additionally …

AOL files suit against phishers
Inquirer, UK - 54 minutes agoThe firm is using the State of Virginia’s anti phishing statute and also other legislation including the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Lanham Act …

Nasty new computer scam can steal passwords, IDs
Indianapolis Star, United States - 5 hours ago… including Brazil, it has been eclipsed by an even more virulent form of electronic con — keylogging programs that silently copy computer keystrokes and send …

devolo streams HDTV from Computer to Couch Over Household Wiring …
HiddenWires, UK - 18 hours agodevolo will be showcasing its new HomePlug AV standard at CeBIT 2006, its home networking solution offering transfer rates of 200Mbps and ADSL2+ technology for …

Get Gephardt: Repeat Computer Problems
KUTV, UT - 9 hours agoBut when a Salt Lake City man says his lemon computer couldn’t be fixed but wasn t going to be replaced, he decided to Get Gephardt . …

David Carroll’s Teacher Survey Shows Some Encouraging Trends
The Chattanoogan, TN - 15 hours ago… Hunter Middle School teacher Tracy Sodergren has one computer in her classroom, and the Internet has been down three days and counting. …

Zimbabwe continues to finance computer program
People’s Daily Online, China - 14 hours agoZimbabwe’s Education Sport and Culture ministry announced on Monday that the ministry would continue to finance the schools five year computer program. …

Fight bird flu with a computer
myDNA.com, TX - 16 hours ago… By developing new computer programs to track infectious diseases, like the one introduced in Nature, countries can shield themselves from the dangers of an …

Microsoft’s new design for handheld computer
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 11 hours agoMicrosoft has designed a new kind of handheld computer that does a lot more than most handheld gadgets and could cost much less as well. …

CBC puts Alice the computer in charge
Globe and Mail - Today, I’d like to introduce you to the most important honcho in Canadian television. Her name is Alice and she’s based at Fort Dork, headquarters of our noble and esteemed public broadcaster. No, she’s not the new boss-lady arriving from that

Sun Shines With $400M Workstation Deal
InternetNews.com - Sun Microsystems scored a major coup with the sale of over 29,000 Sun Ultra 20 workstations to the Mexican Ministry of Education. The $400 million deal includes five years of service and support. Systems have already begun shipping and are expected

Quantum computer solves problem, without running
PhysOrg - By combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found an exotic way of determining an answer to an algorithm without ever running the algorithm. Using an optical-based

Bill would ban online hunting in Kentucky
Lexington Herald-Leader - FRANKFORT - David Ledford soaks in the sights, sounds and smells of the countryside when on the hunt and enjoys the pursuit of his prey. That’s why the Kentucky outdoorsman frowns on someone sitting at a computer, clicking a mouse and firing a remote

Microsoft unveils new computer operating systems
PhysOrg - US-based computer software giant Microsoft Corp. on Monday touted a new line-up of computer operating systems to become available later this year. Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating systems will come in six versions, two for businesses, three for

Students on fast track to Internet learning
Centre Daily - Picture sitting in a Penns Valley classroom and talking to students in South America. Or a Bellefonte class asking a marine biologist in Miami about dolphins. By this fall, Centre County students could easily do both before lunch. A new high-speed