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Microsoft pledges interoperability - again
Microsoft's big announcement turned out to be a bust. It's promising - yet again - that it will share all the protocols and programming interfaces needed to allow interoperability between its products and others.
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Will you trust your medical information to Google?
The Cleveland Clinic has announced a partnership with Google that will essentially be a soft launch of the long-awaited Google Health personal health record service. Privacy concerns may not be too far behind.
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George Ou Zero Day
Design flaw in wireless VoIP handsets endanger the enterprise
Security conscious organizations using 802.1x/EAP authentication are at risk with certain implementations of wireless LAN handsets. Until these design flaws are solved, there are temporary workarounds.
Black Hat: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs
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- Microsoft: 'We try to reproduce every vulnerability that comes in'
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Apple's cookie monster: Safari CRS
Apple rushed the latest version of OS X to market because of Steve Job’s promise to the Mac faithful. And we’ve been paying for it ever since.
Ed Bott Microsoft Report
How do you benchmark real-world work?
Most of the technical reviews of Windows Vista I've read recently focus on speeds and feeds. But does that granular approach miss the real point of owning and using a PC?
Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks
David Morgenstern The Apple Core
Revealed: The mysteries of Apple's logo and other high-tech brands
Like other high-tech companies, Apple sometimes changes its logo to better express its brand and its current corporate personality. However, few of the logos from its silicon-era peers has undergone such a vast transformation as Apple.
Paul Murphy Managing L'unix
Internet forecast: scattered clouds, no rain
Cloud computing isn’t going to become
a widespread phenomenon because owning the resource
will continue be both individually preferred and
financially preferable to renting for most businesses
and most applications.
What happens when the cloud doesn’t work?
- Gallery: Cracking open a Toshiba HD DVD player
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Since the Toshiba HD-A30 is the pinnacle of HD DVD set-top boxes and might be the last production HD DVD drive ever, let's crack it open and take a look inside.
- MacBook Air Diary–Day 5: Battery observations
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Jason D. O'Grady: Apple quotes the MacBook Air as having a 5 hour battery, but we know most company claims are usually overstated. I did some informal battery tests and came up with the following results. Read more
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- A Vista SP1 FAQ
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Questions abound about Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Here are the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about this long-awaited update. Read more
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- Climate change talks: EU says U.S. is the problem now
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The European Union says it' the U.S. that's stalling chances for U.N. members to get moving on climate change. Read more
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- The good: Extremely thin and light laptop; includes solid-state hard drive. The bad: Fixed configuration; no mobile broadband; expensive external optical drive option; ULV CPU limits performance without seeming to do all that much to extend battery life. The bottom line: Toshiba's SSD version of the Portege R500 may be the best ultraportable laptop available right now, and it packs in much of what the MacBook Air lacks while weighing nearly half as much.
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