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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
Finding ARPANET: The First (Physical) Site of the Internet
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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
More than half of the women in science, engineering and IT leave the field at midcareer. Here’s the reason.
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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
I have new respect for this magazine.
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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
Organised crime has identified the web as a goldmine – providing opportunities to launch cyber attacks that will earn large amounts of money at a relatively low risk. Learn more.
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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
The Dream Home is a modern-day sequel to the Monsanto House of the Future, a Disneyland attraction from 1957 to 1967. The new Dream Home project, in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, includes some futuristic technology concepts, like its predecessor. Microsoft Surface computers are currently being deployed in commercial settings, so that scenario is
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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases). The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it
’s time for Vista to sink or swim. Ina Fried has a good overview of where Windows XP will stand with PC manufacturers. And Matt Asay highlights a report from Evans Data
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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
Bill Gates, we’ll miss you. Not just because you’re the ultimate geek-villain-pioneer-entrepreneur-monopolist.But because you’ve always been there for us.To love. To hate. To envy. To pick on. So this month, your last as a full-time Microsoft employee, we realized it was only right and proper to look back on your storied career.
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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
Firefox 3 — available for download at 10am PDT Tuesday — is the culmination of a two-year quest to build the best browser ever. And while it’s not perfect, it comes pretty close.
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June 17, 2008 by Brad.
It appears that a mounted member of the United States Park Police briefly detained a Google Maps camera car for some sort of driving infraction this morning.
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