Uneasy normal life follows Tibet riots
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XIAHE, China — The five-table restaurant is empty except for two men slurping noodles. In the tiny kitchen, the Tibetan owner is steaming dumplings, one of the few things readily available on the menu.”Not many people come in anymore,” says the owner’s 19-year-old daughter, apologizing for [...]
Web 2.0 experts share startup lessons
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It’s possible to launch a successful Web startup with little money, especially if you shift your attention away from the business plan and focus on building a great Web application.
That was one of the many tips that attendees at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami heard on Friday for how to succeed as [...]
Microsoft Smarter IDs needed for Net gains
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Microsoft’s chief security strategists are asking for help.
The massive software vendor is working harder than ever to do its part to improve online security, but the company cannot solve all the electronic world’s ills alone and must have broader support from across the IT and Internet communities to speed up progress, Microsoft officials said at [...]
OS Smackdown Linux vs. Mac OS X vs. Vista vs. XP
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Since the dawn of time — or, at least, the dawn of personal computers — the holy wars over desktop operating systems have raged, with each faction proclaiming the unrivaled superiority of its chosen OS and the vile loathsomeness of all others.
No matter how fierce the language or convincing the arguments, however, these battles began [...]
Microsoft calls for talks on Internet trust safety
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Microsoft called for broad discussions about the safety of the Internet, and initiative it dubbed “End to End Trust” in a white paper released during the RSA Conference that opened this week in San Francisco.
In a keynote address at the security conference, Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, talked up the company’s [...]
iPhone is already the top mobile browser
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It’s been on the market for just six months, and already the iPhone (plus its Wi-Fi-only variant, the iPod Touch) is the most used mobile browser for Internet access in the US, according to Irish researcher StatCounter. At No. 2 is the Symbian OS used in Nokia’s devices. Globally, the two positions are reversed. In [...]
Computer simulation proves unkind to Leafs
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TORONTO - Near the end of a telephone conversation early yesterday afternoon, Armann Ingolfsson, a hockey fan and business professor at the University of Alberta, was asked if there was any reason for optimism as the Toronto Maple Leafs continued to chase a berth in the National Hockey League playoffs.”Well, I mean, stranger things have [...]
Why does a person need so many electronic identities
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What is the solution to the growing number and risks of the identities that are now connected with us all? Will a simple identity trust framework be part of such a solution? How will users be able to reduce the number of passwords they have to handle? This article will attempt to explore these questions.
Problem
One [...]
Computer simulation proves unkind to Leafs
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TORONTO - Near the end of a telephone conversation early yesterday afternoon, Armann Ingolfsson, a hockey fan and business professor at the University of Alberta, was asked if there was any reason for optimism as the Toronto Maple Leafs continued to chase a berth in the National Hockey League playoffs.”Well, I mean, stranger things have [...]
Apple’s Time Capsule makes backing up a snap
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One of the biggest selling points in last fall’s release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was the inclusion of Time Machine, a nifty new app aimed at making that most onerous of tasks — backing up data — not only easy to do, but fun.
For laptop users, however, Time Machine offered something of a [...]