Facebook Group Honors Kind-Hearted, Disciplinarian Dad, written 2 hours ago, Facebook users have started an online group in honor of Australian father Sam Burt, whose lovingly disciplinarian parenting approach has won him accolades from Australian parents, Reuters reports. Last week, the Australian...

Tech Sector to Release 180,000 Workers Into Wild: The Challenger Release in Full, written 2 weeks ago, Stupefying. The year-end total for tech sector job losses in 2008 is expected to reach 180,000, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That’s the largest annual job loss for the sector s...

Don't Use Office Applications (or GDI+, or System.Drawing, or WinInet) in a Server Application (or ASP.Net), written 4 weeks ago, Johan posted a timely reminder of a long-standing perennial support call generator in his post Office Automation . Adding one more option to the list of possible worka...

Future of Radio Online, According to Lehrer, written 19 hours ago, In a recent interview with the New York Times' City Room Blog, New York City radio talk show host Brian Lehrer spoke about the way that radio will function in the future. He explained that radio is already beginning to...

Boxee On Apple TV 2.3: Some Hoops, But A Bonus, written 11 hours ago, I put off updating my Apple TV to version 2.3 for one key reason: Boxee. Upgrading from Apple TV 2.2 to 2.3 wipes out any hacks.

KML in Research contest extended!, written 20 hours ago, The KML in Research contest deadline has been extended to February 1st, 2009.  We're extending the entry period to give students and researchers an opportunity to finish up their projects during this busy time of year, and to give more peo...

Amazon Reports Strong Growth, Buys Gaming Company, written 1 month ago, The company reported $4.26 billion in revenue, an increase of 31% but just shy of forecasts that the company would bring in $4.48 in revenue.

City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 26-27, 2008, written 1 week ago, Looks like you can go to City Hall Council Chamber (?) or attend the webcast. They have a gigantic speakers list, including Ken Cochrane, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Government of Canada and Peter Cowan, Director of Ent...

HP's many paths to profit, written 1 week ago, HP printer sales are dropping, but high-profit ink sales remain strong. Image: HP Where’s the most expensive popcorn in the universe? At the movie theater, of course. Theaters know you’ll pay because you’re a captive audience. That explains how...

The problem of unreadable CAPTCHAs, written 3 weeks ago, A CAPTCHA is usually a severely contorted image of random characters that you are supposed to key in correctly to be able to get into a website. The idea is to thwart automated scripts/programs - the sort of stuff that spammers (among other ba...

A bullish analyst lowers his Apple price target, written 20 hours ago, For a full 12 months - even as Apple’s (AAPL) share price fell and rose and fell again, from $202 last December to $80 last month - Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster stuck to his price target of $250 share. Until today. Citi...

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Kevin Rose's Top 10 Gifts For Geeks, written 2 hours ago, It's that time of year, all of us are looking for great gift ideas. Here is my top ten gifts for geeks - happy holidays!Image:...

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GITEX 2008, Dubai - Panasonic unviels its 150″ Plasma, written 1 month ago, Last year they brought the largest at 103″ inches. This year they broke it by far and now claims to be the world’s largest plasma at 150″ and that too at super full HD. Even the model of average hieght looks tiny in ...

The VRM GAP, written 1 day ago, It's a long time since I first spoke and wrote about VRM (Vendor Relationship Management), particularly the idea that it could be a key way of delivering truly citizen-centric public services. Enabling people to take control of their own data is critical if we aren't ...

iPhone eBook reader Stanza adds support for eReader content, written 13 hours ago, Stanza, a popular eBook reader for the iPhone, recently received a big feature update when it was announced that the application now supports content protected with eReader DRM. This opens up a substantial catalog of ...

Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2 public betas arrive, written 13 hours ago, Service Pack 2 beta for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has been released to the public. Download links inside. Read More...

S4 Keynote: Dr. Ross Anderson, written 1 day ago, The Economics of Control System Security Many of you will know Dr. Ross Anderson of the University of Cambridge from his book Security Engineering, first published in 2001 and with a 2nd edition this year. What you may not know is Ross is one of the ...

Holograms and Nano-Assemble Devices, written 15 hours ago, Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique that uses a laser and holograms to precisely position numerous tiny particles within seconds, representing a potential new tool to analyze biological samples or create devices using...