Computer Updates and Site Info

In Pictures: Killer Games For Your PC
Forbes - Be not afraid. If you just shelled out more than a grand for a mainstream PC, the latest videogame probably will not destroy your computer. But to look their best, cutting-edge games demand much more than the $200 econo-box being pushed this week at

Book me a holiday and then find me a date outsourcing is getting
Times Online - Meanwhile, amid myriad specialist sites, RentACoder.com , based in Florida, and GetAFreelancer.com , in Sweden, specialise in accessing cheap computer programmers. Online tutoring services, such as Transtutors and Tutor Vista, offer virtual teachers

Just right, yet wrong
Daily Pilot - All of this has to play in a complex computer contrapuntal melody with the transmission, battery and motor controls. And all of it does. So isn’t this champagne-popping territory? Yes, no. . . . Could I ask some inconvenient questions? First, what

Letter Writer for Mumbai s Unlettered
New York Times - It used to be hard to obtain your own computer or telephone line in India; the country now has more software engineers and call-center operators than just about anywhere else. G. P. Sawant entered the letter-writing trade in 1982 when he won a

Intellectual Property Rights
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - audio, and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium and (2) no Associated Press materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer

Breaking News And Weather From News4Jax
News4Jax.com - about big stories, then Desktop Alert could be just what you’ve always wanted. Once downloaded, Desktop Alert sits in your task bar at the bottom of your computer screen and will blink and make a sound when there is national or local breaking news

OrlandoSentinel.com Newsfeeds
Orlando Sentinel - Here are step-by-step instructions to get OrlandoSentinel.com delivered to you. v 1) Get newsfeed reader A newsfeed reader monitors RSS feeds from Web sites and blogs, then displays them in a window on your computer. Some require you to

Networking: The Essential Buying Guide
PC Magazine - In networking, the size of the facility matters, but not as much as you might think. A 3-computer network attached to the Internet has exactly the same fundamental pieces and parts as a 1,000-computer enterprise network. The differences become

Upstart exchange shocks CME stock
Chicago Tribune - Both McMillin and Hamada said there are still real obstacles to establishing a new exchange in an era when blinking numbers on computer monitors have displaced cavernous trading pits. This latest venture will need to hire executives, pick a board

Robots to control oil drilling platforms
ZDNet Blogs - The measurement curve drawn on the computer screen will enable the shore-based operator to check that all is well. For more information about this project, you can read several pages available from this Robotics for oil & gas platforms link at SINTEF

Job openings
Deseret News - Prerequisites: ability to follow instructions and work quickly while still paying attention to detail; general knowledge of sports, including preps; basic computer, keyboarding and mouse skills; courteous telephone manners; and ability to do basic

Killings in L.A. sharply decline
Los Angeles Times - Data from each crime are plugged into a computer system that allows officials to look for patterns and study the department’s effectiveness. Cops now call gang intervention workers, often former gang members, to work the scene at a homicide and help

SPEAKEASIES THEN AND NOW
San Francisco Gate - It’s all computer-generated nowadays, rotating between 50 words or so from the 1920s,” Smith says. “And sometimes the day’s password will pop up and we’ll say, ‘What the hell does that mean?’ ” While the main room offers plush booths and elbow room

LONG ISLAND BRIEFS
MSNBC - The approved proposal, passed Wednesday by a vote of 644 to 578, will pay for construction or replacement of more than 35 classrooms, labs and art rooms, along with improved computer and security systems. The other proposal, defeated 604 to 564

Job seekers: Set a routine, but save time for yourself
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Start checking off the goals from the class you always wanted to take, the ailing aunt you’ve wanted to visit, the volunteer hours you’ve been meaning to contribute, to the new computer program you’ve been hoping to learn. These activities not

Our son is innocent, say parents of school shooting accused
Hindustan Times - He was interested in computer games and cricket. He used to tell me and his elder sister about everything,” she said. The mother claimed that she sent the boy’s uncles to the police station to enquire about the case as the father was away in Rajasthan

Week in review: Google’s DoubleClick deletion dilemma
ZDNet - Putting aside the race to build tomorrow’s killer tech for a night, many in the tech community gathered to celebrate what may be the best-selling computer of all time, the Commodore 64. Hundreds of Silicon Valley’s best and brightest came out to the

Not just for coffee tables
CNN - Digest, there are a number of oversized books that succeed in function as well as form. Indeed, with the rise of CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and other technology, the book doesn’t even stop at the coffee table, but is right at home on your computer.

Lonely guy shocked to get $83,000 phone bill
Reuters - of international media attention this week when his father went to the press to complain about the size of his son’s bill. Staniaszek’s father, also named Piotr Staniaszek, said his son thought he could use his new phone as a modem for his computer as

Amazon.com, EBay Shares Fall as Online Shopping Slows (Update1)
Bloomberg - CompUSA, the 23-year-old computer retailer, said Dec. 7 it will shut down after the holidays. Office Depot Inc., the world’s second-largest office- supplies chain, forecast “continued erosion'’ of sales and earnings in the fourth quarter

Brothers accused of theft, burglary to help cover legal costs
Newsday - Authorities say the brothers then stole several hundred dollars’ worth of computer and electronic equipment this fall from Murphy Elementary School in Montville to help cover Christopher Lamotte’s legal fees from the stolen truck case. Police who

Not Quite A Living ‘Legend’
Washington Post - When it comes to playing the hero in computer-generated sci-fi movies — good, medium or hokey — Will Smith is our designated human. He has always seemed uncannily comfortable in any artificial realm. Who else conveys such goodwill and swagger as he

Computer knowledge ‘undervalued’
BBC News - “In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.” Yet in an article written for the BBC News website, he added that team work was also a core requisite for success in

Second Life’s CTO Resigns
ABC News - This computer-generated image provided Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 by the office of U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., shows Rep. Markey as an online “avatar” standing in front of a computerized image of the United Nations climate change summit conference

To Re-Gift Or Resell?
Forbes - EBay’s online widget will upload the picture automatically from your computer. –Write a descriptive title. EBay gives a seller only 55 characters for the title. Make your title count. Use only keywords that describe your item–brand name, size

Gadgets of the Week: Laptops, alarm clocks and games for holiday
International Herald Tribune - Are you the computer-savvy member of your family - the one who goes home for the holidays only to find yourself in front of multiple computers, troubleshooting instead of celebrating? Then maybe the Zonbu Notebook should be on your gift list. The

Focus Enhancements Demonstrates Industry-Leading, High Frequency UWB
MSN MoneyCentral - Focus Enhancements is currently developing a wireless IC chip set based on the WiMedia UWB standard and designed to be compatible with Wireless USB, and used in personal computer (PC), consumer electronics (CE), and mobile electronics applications

Rangers 0-3 Lyon
Guardian Unlimited - 76 mins: A Rangers player (who must remain anonymous because I momentarily looked at my computer screen and didn’t see who it was) fires a 20-yard shot straight at Vercoutre, who almost collapses in panic as he attempts to push it away. A normal

On the Internet, no one knows if you’re 7 years old
International Herald Tribune - I already put the computer in plain sight, not in the privacy of her bedroom, to make it easy to cast an eye over the screen. (For the 17-year-old, that tactic also makes it slightly harder for her to conceal communications I wouldn’t approve of.) I

Yiwen Pan jailed for murder Juan Zhang
News.com.au - A COMPUTER geek who stabbed his colleague in a botched robbery then left her to die in a car boot has been sentenced to at least 14 years’ jail. Yiwen Pan, 26, lay in wait outside the West Melbourne computer shop and attacked Juan Zhang, 35, as she

Councils praised in British Computer SocietyIT Industry Awards
PublicTechnology.net - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Leeds City Council and the National Assembly for Wales were amongst the winners at the British Computer Society IT Industry Awards announced on 6th December at a gala dinner for fourteen hundred guests. The

News feeds from the BBC
BBC News - Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it

Lonely killer gets 14 years
News.com.au - A COMPUTER geek who stabbed his colleague in a botched robbery then left her to die in a car boot has been sentenced to at least 14 years’ jail. Yiwen Pan, 26, lay in wait outside the West Melbourne computer shop and attacked Juan Zhang, 35, as she

What You May Not Know About Mitt Romney
Washington Post - The equity firm recently attracted attention by joining with a Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, to buy U.S. computer manufacturer 3Com . Because 3Com supplies equipment to sensitive government agencies, the deal has raised national security

Light provides cool connections for computer chips
Chicago Tribune - As they drive to pack more computing power into chips, designers often find themselves hemmed in by wires. Each tiny processor core, or “brain,” packed onto a chip must communicate with all the other cores via wires carrying electronic signals. Even

Australian arrested for shooting hoax
News.com.au - Detectives from the LAPD’s major crimes division and computer crimes unit launched the global probe into the alleged threat after tracing the poster’s internet provider from a website. The website, 4chan.org, is a series of forums based around adult

Flying doctors bring computer aid to Africa
ZDNet UK - IT charity Computer Aid International is working with the African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) to supply rural hospitals in Kenya with PCs, digital cameras and internet connectivity. By allowing doctors in remote medical centres to connect

Data company uses offline profiles on households to target online ads
Detroit News - And then it will tag your computer with a “cookie” identifying your life stage and match that with the type of site you are visiting to determine which ad to show. Jennifer Barrett, Acxiom’s global privacy officer, said Acxiom clients familiar with

Anti-virus product available, needed for Windows ME
Seattle Times - Q: I have a Dell Dimension 4100 running Windows ME. I cannot upgrade to Windows XP due to the configuration (memory, etc.) of the computer. I am perfectly happy with the computer as it is, but I can’t find virus protection for Windows ME. What do you

Profiling scrutiny may stop in N.J.
Philadelphia Inquirer - to insularity and secrecy.” Fuentes and the panel both said that there was a danger of the progress being undercut, and that it was important to “codify” the changes. Fuentes said many of the changes had been driven by technology, such as a computer

CompUSA is closing for good. Good.
ZDNet Blogs - could see how a business owner or exec would snicker at the notion of using retail-based help rather than the better skilled and frequently certified (Microsoft, Cisco, etc.) solution providers available to them than representatives of a computer

A Crowded Family Enters the Space Age
The Ledger - There are plans to add computer-generated graphics in some of the public spaces, but for now light and greenery provide the art work. Most of the furnishings are from the original house; the family spent about $700,000 on the project, which didn’t

IT leaders lament growing skills shortage
Miami Herald - A storm is brewing in the computer sciences job sector, and local employers, colleges and universities are bracing themselves. Information technology leaders from Barry University, Miami Dade College, IBM, Time-Warner and Miami-Dade County, among

‘The Golden Compass’
Chicago Tribune - Children’s daemons are active, bouncy creatures that change shape easily and often, which gives “Compass” a dynamic, energetically chaotic look; wherever children gather, they’re surrounded by a whirring cloud of shape-changing computer-generated

Glen Burnie man pleads guilty to child pornography charge
Baltimore Sun - According to the statement of facts presented to the court as part of his guilty plea, Corbitt possessed more than 600 images of child pornography in late 2006 on a laptop computer owned by his wife and on compact discs stored at her home. At the

Botnet’ sting nets U.S., New Zealand cyber-criminals
Christian Science Monitor - The FBI this week announced progress on a computer crime initiative aimed at thwarting the use of “botnets” to disrupt Internet communications. The investigation, dubbed Operation Bot Roast II, has netted eight arrests around the US, and, with the

Zimbabwe Prices Jump As Economy Crumbles
Forbes - According to additional independent estimates, inflation last month exceeded 70,000 percent for upper income Zimbabweans who travel, use mobile phones and e-mail and buy scarce gasoline, car spares, computer accessories and luxuries such as liquor

First impressions of the HTC Touch Dual with new finger-optimized
ZDNet Blogs - by Matthew Miller @ 12:25 pm Categories: Windows Mobile , Smartphone , Review , Microsoft , Gadgets , HTC Tags: High Tech Computer I won the Astraware Casino contest the first night of Mobius Amsterdam 2007 and was given an HTC Touch Dual as the grand

Computer system is the key for police
Daily Telegraph - A special computer database that records Labour’s every communication with its benefactors could provide the key to unravelling the donor scandal, detectives believe. The party is understood to use a software system called Raiser’s Edge, which tracks

The sound of Christmas
Daily Telegraph - Then came OK Computer, the globe-bestriding colossus which topped every poll going and would probably have won the British general election if it had been entered as a candidate. Inevitably, given the band’s cerebral nature, its success