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New Ubuntu 9.04 installed - not many dead
Blog My standard Ubuntu system at home is a beginning-to-show-its-age Samsung laptop, with a once-was-whizzy ATI graphics chip and a few mild quirks around the audio. There is no hot news. And the hot news?
[April 20, 2009, 11:36]
2000 Roundups: The year that was
News Money, illness and governments would be abolished, space stations would orbit the Earth and a new age of peace and contentment would be well under way. Roundup: August is hot for health Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum.
[December 28, 2000, 12:31]
Microsoft's death knell for Windows Mobile
Blog In an age where a gigabyte of Flash costs about the same as a packet of washing powder, 25 MB is plenty small enough. Over on news.com, there's a story about a rare insight into Microsoft's ongoing Windows development.
[October 22, 2007, 13:45]
ISPs off the hook in swapping suit
News The RIAA, a trade group representing major music labels, has become increasingly aggressive in its efforts to stop piracy and maintain control over distribution of its music in the digital age. The site offered music from artists including Bruce...
[August 22, 2002, 7:28]
Securicor to offer anonymous shopping online
News Privacy has become a particularly hot potato for retailers in the digital age. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. UK Net shoppers are to be offered a high-security anonymous shopping service courtesy of Securicor, a...
[November 28, 2000, 12:40]
Yahoo to compare prices for shoppers
News The company said the name change reflects the fact that the business is coming of age as well as its integration with recently acquired Epinions, a product-review engine. The move highlights a hot sector of the already profitable Web search market...
[September 23, 2003, 10:55]
Friday
Blog Space and ground technology has given us a golden age of astronomy, where seemingly every day more miraculous pictures and awe-inspiring data give us greater insight into the beauty and strangeness of the universe.
[December 13, 2002, 16:39]
HP looks good, but could attract worrywarts
News The stock split worry is basically information age whining, but can hurt stock performance. Always a hot topic on the message boards, investors want a stock split for HP. A lot of good news has been priced into HP shares.
[August 17, 1999, 12:57]
Older, wiser CIOs will be in demand
News As member discussions on TechRepublic attest, the term "old" is extremely relative when it comes to the technology industry, as members state that some hiring managers consider age 35 to be old. There also has been a long, and raging, industry...
[March 8, 2002, 15:34]
Many UK citizens still clueless about Wi-Fi
News The use of Wi-Fi hot spots is becoming increasingly mainstream, particularly among the younger age group," said Chris Panayis, managing director of Freedom2Surf. The report, which surveyed 1,000 people, found 40 percent of regular Wi-Fi users spent...
[April 14, 2005, 18:05]
IT pay: Women get short end of stick
News Women and men who work in the technology industry earn about the same when they are starting their careers, but the salary gap widens as they age. The survey also found that the red-hot tech sector, which is struggling to fill positions even as the...
[January 17, 2001, 10:13]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
News Wasted energy is a hidden cost for consumers and in this day and age that is unacceptable. With energy prices having soared in recent months, plus growing concerns over climate change, the amount of power used by PCs is a hot topic.
[October 24, 2005, 14:30]
13-year old to address Linux conference
News According to her bio on the conference speaker’s list, her installation of Debian GNU/Linux on a server before she had reached 10 years of age "proves that installing Debian really isn't very hard", although it should be noted that "Dad is around...
[February 2, 2005, 11:25]
Web of Porn: The Business of Porn - Part 1
News You can put up pretty graphic material on the net providing [the participants] are adults over the age of 18. That porn magazines are still stacked on the news agent's top shelf is a bizarre pre-Internet era hang-up.
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
Wireless 'piggybacking' threatens remote workers
News AOL's survey reported that half of those questioned would most like to surf wirelessly from their gardens, with a quarter opting instead for the bedroom (although this figure is significantly higher in the 18-24 age bracket, at 41 percent) and 15...
[August 29, 2006, 12:50]
IBM brrr-ings Net to air conditioners
News The company is contributing its eServer hardware and applications including WebSphere Everyplace Suite Enterprise Edition, WebSphere Application Server and Visual Age Micro Edition J9 Virtual Machine software.
[April 9, 2001, 14:32]
Six big trends of Comdex '01
News Comdex advisor D'Auria believes this year's Comdex will mark VoIP's coming of age. After chatting with top Comdex planners and their chief conference advisors, perusing its conference schedule, and scouring the shows product listings, here's our...
[November 8, 2001, 10:42]
MP3 use goes BOOM - part 1
News But MP3s, one of the fastest-growing phenomena in the history of the Web, are moving rapidly down the age ladder. While doing his homework, Brendan has MP3 versions of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz and many others to keep...
[June 15, 1999, 12:57]
Steam age tech takes heat off chips
News Claiming a maximum heat removal capacity of 1000 watts per square centimetre -- the existing limit is around 250 watts for passive systems -- Cooligy says that the system is particularly good at cooling hot spots on the chip, which will get...
[October 8, 2003, 16:25]
The Week in Review: The joy of text
News Feussner, an ex-Microsoft manager, had been accused of stealing millions of pounds' worth of software from the company and using the money to fuel a high-flying lifestyle, but he died of multiple organ failure at the age of 32.
[February 14, 2003, 16:27]
