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3D Dancing Uncle Sam
Downloads Cute as a button Uncle Sam dances to quaint marching music as stars float past. Contains 3D rendered animated gif images with original art stylized flag background jpg image. Music is a MIDI file.Sound can be muted.
[July 13, 2002, 3:01]
Uncle Sam Approves Radical Radio
News The Federal Communications Commission, the American radio regulator, has approved the use of ultra-wideband (UWB) radio in the US. This radical new technology promises higher speeds and lower power consumption for wireless LANs, as well as cheap...
[February 15, 2002, 13:58]
Hackers: Uncle Sam Wants You!
News Department of Defence and military officials turned a hacker conference into a recruiting drive Friday, trying to woo the best and the brightest into becoming security experts. If you are extremely talented, and you are wondering what you'd like to...
[July 31, 2000, 10:28]
If You Can't Trust FBI-issue Software...
News Would you like Uncle Sam inside your PC? And, not surprisingly, some security specialists are not quite convinced that Uncle Sam software is a good thing. Last December, the National Infrastructure Protection Centre -- a joint effort between the...
[February 14, 2000, 10:29]
US Government To Allow Mass Email Spam
News Uncle Sam could become "Uncle Spam" if the government follows through with plans for creating an "official US email box" for every address in America, say industry executives briefed on the proposal. The ruckus began earlier this week, when the US...
[August 2, 2000, 10:06]
The Presidential Profiles
Downloads Take this guided, educational tour with Uncle Sam through American presidential history to learn about our leaders. Presidential Profiles includes these feature games: The Hall of Presidents (fun tour of all presidents), Seekin' with Lincoln (word...
[December 15, 2005, 11:31]
US Army Expands Recruitment Video Game
News Forget the posters with a stern-faced Uncle Sam beckoning -- the US Army has gone high-tech to recruit the next generations of soldiers. The Army kicked off a new kind of recruiting effort a year ago with the introduction of "America's Army", a...
[May 15, 2003, 8:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now it's the terror two thousands and Uncle Sam's thoughts are more about Total Spectrum Domination, which as you may gather is slightly less inclusive. Friday 6/2/2004Our intrepid Insight editor, Andrew Donoghue, has been out and about talking to...
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
US Immigration System: Bordering On The Ridiculous
Blog It doesn't know where it's going, but it's not going there very well - so why should Uncle Sam buy it new toys? If you've been to the US recently, you'll have encountered US-VISIT. This is the charming system that takes your photograph and...
[February 26, 2007, 11:43]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog There are lots of shops that do couture for the portly over here, and thanks to Uncle Sam's enlightened policy of revaluing the dollar at tuppence ha'penny I can refresh my wardrobe with minimal pain.
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I didn't know there were that many in the world, but there are and Uncle Sam's using all of them. Monday 21/10/2002There are days when it seems that all al-Qaida has to do to is stay in bed, and the great experiment of the Enlightenment will grind...
[October 25, 2002, 18:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Wonder if Uncle Sam's got any money left? Thursday 15/03/2001 There are three things that man may never know", said the wise old sage to his wide-eyed disciple. From where the wind cometh, the mind of a woman and the year that Bluetooth finally...
[March 16, 2001, 14:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's long been known among the cognoscenti that US military radio relay satellites are an absolute piece of cake to piggyback one's transatlantic calls upon, and a thriving community exists to make grateful use of spare bandwidth provided by...
[March 16, 2001, 14:06]
The Instant Messaging Farce
News Steve Case wants Uncle Sam to open up the cable to other Internet service providers -- like AOL. This is truly one of the summer's most entertaining events -- right up there with mobster Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano's recent decision to come out of the...
[July 29, 1999, 10:17]
New US Bill Takes A Shot At Stock Options
News These tax provisions incomprehensibly and indefensibly allow companies to tell Uncle Sam one thing and their stockholders something else. A Congressional bill introduced Wednesday could dampen the technology industry's widespread reliance on stock...
[February 14, 2002, 16:03]
Jane Wakefield: Say Hello Yanks, Wave Goodbye BT
News Oh yes, the Yanks are coming to the rescue of the beleaguered Brits as AltaVista blasts onto the UK Internet scene with a welcoming present straight from the pocket of Uncle Sam. Just as courtiers in the days of powerful kings tried to make the...
[March 6, 2000, 12:25]
Charles Cooper "IT's Like This..."
News District Court to face all of Uncle Sam's righteous wrath, Microsoft enjoys a higher price-to-sales ratio today than at any time in its history. By now, a couple of things about the Microsoft antitrust trial are becoming increasingly clear:
[November 12, 1998, 15:12]
IBM Regatta Sails Into Missile Defence
News Uncle Sam is calling on IBM to help prevent enemy missiles from ever reaching US soil. IBM plans to announce on Monday that it has won a deal to supply the Defense Department with 66 high-end p690 "Regatta" Unix servers to be used as part of the...
[August 19, 2002, 8:24]
US Praises DeCSS Non-publication Decision
News Uncle Sam is siding with the movie industry in a case that prevents a magazine from posting and linking to software that makes it possible to decrypt DVD security. In a filing submitted to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, the...
[February 23, 2001, 8:39]
US Report: Mastercard, Visa In Trouble Over Smart Cards
News Uncle Sam thinks so. In a wide-ranging antitrust lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice claims the two credit card giants conspired to delay smart cards for about a decade. Smart cards are credit-card look-alikes that use an...
[October 8, 1998, 9:20]
