Computer Updates and Site Info

UPDATE 2-Google unveils personal medical record service
Forbes - We don’t know how to suck it out of the brains of doctors, but we know how to suck it out of the computer systems of doctors,” Schmidt said in an interview after his speech.

SIA plane reports trouble, lands safely in Japan
Straits Times - Officials initially said the aircraft suffered engine problems, but later said a computer glitch involving the right engine appeared to be the cause of the trouble, adding investigations were continuing.

Badger ticket prices will not increase, board decides
Badger Herald - The NCAA states universities can only use presentation software when giving computer recruiting presentations to possible recruits, Hulick added.

Experts Raise Privacy, Security Concerns About Online PHR Program
Medical News Today - Patients will have the ability to access their Google health profiles, which will have password protection, through any computer connected to the Internet.

Plenty to sing about Canary’s hot-spot finder
Seattle Times - The only option you really had to locate a Wi-Fi signal was to pull out your notebook computer and turn it on. The Digital Hotspotter from Canary Wireless was a godsend because you could press its little button and see if there was Wi-Fi available.

Prepaying your mortgage is a sound investment decision
Everett Herald - There are several home-loan acceleration computer programs that show you the cost-effectiveness of various options in the mortgage market. Guttentag’s site at www.mtgprofessor.com offers several excellent calculators, as does www.smartmoney.com

Long-term planning same as it ever was
St. Petersburg Times - State government certainly could be more efficient (consolidating computer systems, for example) and spend tax dollars more wisely (investing more in drug treatment to reduce the need for additional prisons, as Crist proposes)

U.S., Europe seize phony computer parts
USA Today - WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. and European customs officers seized more than 360,000 counterfeit computer chips and network components in a joint operation late last year, officials said Friday. “Operation Infrastructure” seized counterfeit goods bearing

Cryogenic cryptanalysis breaks all disk encryption methods
ZDNet Blogs - Computer encryption technologies have all relied on one key assumption; that RAM (Random Access Memory) is volatile and that all content is lost when power is lost. That key assumption is now being fundamentally challenged with a $7 can of

Charity effort draws deluge
Kane County Chronicle - DeKALB Within the empty halls of Northern Illinois University, Cary native Justin Oltz has been busy. Since the Feb. 14 shooting on campus, the freshman computer science major has been working around the clock on a fundraising project in support

Shock over Facebook jail term
News.com.au - The court in Casablanca sentenced 27-year-old computer engineer Fouad Mourtada yesterday and fined him 10,000 dinar ($1400) for “the use of false information and usurping the identity of the prince”

Texas Tuesday
Wichita Falls Times Record News - That time, a Times Record News article reported, election workers pointed to a glitch that occurred when a computer that was in use was turned off early.

Proposed Net law has plenty of holes
Sun and Press - Many people insult each other in ways that they wouldn’t face to face, some are scammers and cheats, and the worst ones approach children with offers of sex from behind the shield of a computer screen.

Shock over Facebook jail term
News.com.au - The court in Casablanca sentenced 27-year-old computer engineer Fouad Mourtada yesterday and fined him 10,000 dinar ($1400) for “the use of false information and usurping the identity of the prince”

Civilian-to-soldier transition is difficult on several levels
Courier-Post - Others, like the booming explosions of an improvised explosive device on an interactive computer training program, were jarring. But one reminder, the last of the day, will likely stay with all of them long after their employees travel to Fort Bliss

Computer Sciences IDR, senior unsecured debt, bank credit cut to ‘BBB
Forbes - BANGALORE (Thomson Financial) - Fitch Ratings said it has cut its issuer default, senior unsecured debt and bank credit facility ratings on Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) to ‘BBB+’ from ‘A-’. Fitch said the rating downgrades primarily reflect CSC’s

Computer crime cops unveil $1m web scam
News.com.au - POLICE have uncovered a $1 million internet scam with links to Nigeria during a raid at a home in Perth’s southern suburbs. Western Australia Police Computer Crime Squad detectives arrested a Nigerian citizen after raiding the house in Treasure Road

Federal agencies lag on identity theft protection, GAO reports
Boston Globe - The recommendations were among those issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget following the 2006 VA incident, when a computer hard drive containing millions of names, Social Security numbers, and birth dates was stolen from a VA

Creative thinking in the classroom
Boston Globe - John Langton of Waltham said, “I’m a computer scientist and work in R & D. Many of the skills necessary in the workforce require the ability to think creatively and constructively.

United Way looks for shirt designs
Beloit Daily News - three colors, can be geometric, abstract, realistic or any other style; must include the words 2008 and Day of Caring; can be created using the medium of choice such as chalk, pencil, paint or ink; should be hand-drawn and not computer

‘I Am Legend’ (starring Will Smith) — 3 stars
Chicago Tribune - A few stray computer-generated deer have survived the plague, along with the odd computer-generated lion. Plus, Neville has “the dark seekers” to mess with:

Big plans for I-95 service plaza
Delaware Online - Truck parking along the access road will be eliminated, and instead a 50-space anti-idling parking lot will allow truckers to turn off their engines and plug their vehicles into heat, air conditioning, television, even computer access.

Keep rocker from squeaking with solvent, rugs
Detroit News - When you’re ready to print images stored on the card, simply remove the card, slip it into the adapter, and insert the adapter into a store kiosk, your home printer or the card reader on your computer.

Philip van Doorn
Street.Com - National Bank in Fort Pierce, Florida, and as a credit analyst at the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, where he monitored banks in New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico. Mr. van Doorn has additional experience in the mutual fund and computer

PDSi Completes Acquisition of Aspan
Forbes - Pinnacle Data Systems Inc. (PDSi) (AMEX: PNS) today announced it completed the acquisition of Aspan Computer Repair Laboratories B.V. (Aspan) in The Netherlands. Since 2006, Aspan has provided repair services to PDSi’s customers in Europe from their

The ‘Made in Italy’ label: Read the fine print
Los Angeles Times - In his workshop during a recent visit, women (and they are mostly women) in crisp white lab coats were attaching gilded bows to pink satin clutches for Roberto Cavalli, while a computer-guided laser sliced thin sheets of soft leather for designs by

Leave the sponsors alone
Sports Illustrated - Other major sponsors include Johnson & Johnson, Volkswagen, General Electric, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola, as well as computer maker Lenovo and other Chinese companies. China’s government has said repeatedly the Olympics should be kept separate from

Encysive, KeyCorp, Kindred, Texas Roadhouse: U.S. Equity Movers
Bloomberg - The world’s largest personal-computer maker posted first-quarter profit that beat estimates and raised its annual forecast on demand overseas. Excluding some costs, first-quarter profit was 86 cents, exceeding the 81-cent average of projections

Surveillance: Later, Vader!
New York Daily News - CNN fired me, and did it without even a thought to the power that I might wield as an average person with a brain, a computer and an audience,” rants “American Morning” producer Chez Pazienza in the Huffington Post. Pazienza, who was fired for having

Stocks fall across world as inflation fears grow
USA Today - In good news, Hewlett-Packard late Tuesday posted a 38% surge in fiscal first-quarter profit thanks to an increase in computer sales. The dollar was higher against most major currencies as gold prices fell. Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei stock average

TN Games Unveils the 3RD Space(TM) Effects Driver at the Game
Forbes - Based in Redmond, WA, TN Games develops computer hardware and software products that enhance the realism of game playing through advanced sensory experiences. The mission of TN Games is to develop visionary products and technologies that blur the

TJX Profit Jumps 47 Pct on Cost Controls
Seattle Times - TJX recorded the 2 cents-per-share gain after reducing its legal reserve for the computer hack by $19 million. The company cited insurance payments it has received to help cover costs, and a reduction in estimated fees after TJX recently resolved

Learn about Postproduction Services and Other Motion Picture and Video
Forbes - in providing postproduction services and other services to the motion picture industry, including specialized motion picture or video postproduction services, such as editing, film/tape transfers, subtitling, credits, closed captioning, and computer

Meredith Suspect Gets Degree In Jail
Sky.com - Italian Raffaele Sollecito was awarded a degree in computer science. The 23-year-old defended his thesis on genetic programming in front of a panel of professors who came to the prison where he is being held. In November, Sollecito and his 20-year

Gilbert and George’s art might make you squirm
San Francisco Gate - The latter work embeds portraits of the duo, each given an unearthly symmetry by computer, in a forest of handwritten tabloid seller’s placards. They tweak fears of terrorism, creating “a landscape of London,” as Gilbert said. Gilbert and George

Satellite Shootdown Won’t Affect Station
Forbes - It lost power and its central computer failed almost immediately afterward, leaving it uncontrollable. It carried a sophisticated and secret imaging sensor. The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex focused their attention Saturday on

UW’s Computer Science Building Explores The Future Of Social
Medical News Today - If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you’re hunting down a person or a thing, a computer’s not much help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what some call the “Internet of things,” in which

Facing up to the future
News.com.au - When people grow up and settle down, they realise that making friends is not about turning on the computer: it requires real effort,” Prof Pahl, of Britain’s Essex University, said. Late last year, St Kilda cafe owner Daniel Mrocki put up a sign

Official resigns in wake of probe
Baltimore Sun - He divulged that his home was searched and that his computer had been seized, “including images that are available on the Internet.” He said he has instructed his attorney - former Del. Timothy F. Maloney - to cooperate with law enforcement officials

Ideas rolling in on ways to cut schools’ costs
San Diego Union-Tribune - SAN DIEGO Want music teachers to survive the budget ax? Hoping the school nurse won’t get the boot? Worried the computer labs might get unplugged? The solution to the San Diego Unified School District’s financial troubles could be as easy as

Former San Jose intern arrested for hacking city e-mail system
San Francisco Gate - Prosecutors say he could be sentenced to three years in prison if convicted of the felony charge of unlawfully taking, copying and using computer data. Hernandez was being held at the county jail in San Jose. ___ Information from: San Jose Mercury News

Illinois campus gunman holed up in hotel in days before massacre
New York Daily News - Kazmierczak also left behind a laptop computer, which was seized by investigators, Patel told The Associated Press on Saturday. “It’s scary,” said Patel, adding that he called police when he found the laptop and clothes, but “nobody’s in the room.” The

Tech briefs
Chicago Sun-Times - Dell Inc., working to win back the personal computer market lead, will cut back its online selection of consumer PCs that use chips from Advanced Micro Devices and instead sell the machines through retailers. Dell abandoned its strategy of selling

Citizenship on Hold for Many Immigrants
FOX News - The immigration agency increased fees in July largely to raise about $1.5 billion to pay for modernizing computer equipment, hiring and training more workers, improving field offices and other spending. Becoming a citizen now costs $595, up from $330

A lender’s recipe for downfall
Baltimore Sun - They were trying to keep up with competitors,” said Betty Williams, a former assistant vice president of credit administration at Fieldstone. “Everyone wanted to get into the mortgage industry, just like everyone wanted to get into the computer

Key special session action
Baltimore Sun - the rate from 5 percent to 6 percent and extending the levy to cover real estate management, health club memberships, massage therapy and tanning. Approved the increase in the rate but scrapped the services in O’Malley’s plan and taxed computer

French Court Places Trader in Detention
Seattle Times - Among new evidence in the case is a message sent to Kerviel through the bank’s computer system by the broker now in custody. The message, sent Nov. 30, read, “You have done nothing illegal in terms of the law,” the official said, confirming a report

Panel Votes to End Fla. Election Probe
FOX News - A team of university computer experts who examined the machines suggested the problem was voter confusion over a poorly designed ballot, which had drawn complaints. The District 13 race was listed at the top of the second page of the ballot without

Facing Free Software, Microsoft Looks to Yahoo
New York Times - For his English class last semester, he wrote a term paper about William Blake using Google s free word processing software, even though Microsoft Office had come loaded on his personal computer. The advantage of the Google program, he said, was

2ND TRADER EYED IN SOCGEN
New York Post - 50 billion euros in positions on European stock market indexes and then falsified documents and e-mails to pretend his bets were hedged, the bank said. Kerviel has been charged with breach of trust, falsifying documents and hacking into the computer

Virus warning: The bad Doctor is in
Silicon.com - Anti-virus vendor Panda said the virus, thought to have originated from Israel, extends the infected computer’s .exe. com. and .sys file names to corrupt these files. A spokesman from Panda said the virus is yet to spread widely in the UK but advised

SMEs targeted in computer crime push
Silicon.com - The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is targeting SMEs in a campaign to raise awareness of computer crime. The NHTCU has produced a booklet for small firms advising them of how to protect themselves from the usual security threats, including

GAO: Fla. Undervote Not Due to Machines
Seattle Times - A team of university computer experts who examined the machines after the election suggested the problem was voter confusion over a poorly designed ballot that had drawn complaints from voters. The District 13 race was listed at the top of the second

Viruses could be shaken to death
Times of India - A direct computation of each atom’s movements would take several hundred thousand Gigabytes of computer memory, Sankey added. He and Dykeman have found a method to calculate the resonant frequencies with much less memory. The researchers

Acacia Names Jeffrey Anderson Vice President, Engineering
Forbes - Anderson is a named inventor of issued and pending patents and holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. ABOUT ACACIA RESEARCH CORPORATION Acacia Research’s subsidiaries develop, acquire, and license

Mobiles narrow digital divisions
BBC Technology - A study of Thai manufacturing firms showed that a 10% increase in computer literate staff produced a 3.5% productivity gain. The developing world was also catching up in terms of net availability. In 2002, said UNCTAD, net availability was ten times

Wednesday, January 30
News.com.au - IF YOU’RE reading this article on a computer, chances are it’s using an Intel processor. With a reported market share of more than 75 per cent, Intel is the dominant player in microprocessors and has been integral in driving the IT boom for the past

An Annapolis armada
Baltimore Sun - Everything is computer-designed. Bruce Farr has been designing boats on computers for, I d say, 15 years now. We use particular computer-aided design (CAD) programs that are designed for doing hull design and other sorts of naval architectural things

FARC kidnapped U.S. man, son’s life at home
Miami Herald - Before the sun rose on Feb. 13, 2003, Keith Stansell sat at a computer in Colombia and wrote an e-mail to his son. He was off to the jungle on a routine flight and he’d be back in six days, he said. He told Kyle he loved him. At 38, Stansell was a

Out of death, a life saved
Houston Chronicle - When a nurse took his blood pressure, he grinned and gestured at the computer monitor that was swimming with numbers. Cheryl knew why: Shawn’s blood pressure was 125/53, higher than normal. His nerves were kicking in. The transplant surgeon, Dr

Absolute Software Recovers 5,000th Stolen Computer
CNW Group - Computer security pioneer highlights major corporate milestone and latest recovery stories VANCOUVER, Jan. 15 /CNW/ - Absolute(R) Software Corporation (”Absolute” or the “Company”) (TSX: ABT), the leading provider of firmware-based, patented