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Edinburgh Learns to Worry about Wi-Fi

Edinburgh Learns to Worry about Wi-Fi 02/11/2004 10:56 AM
Another entry in an endless series of "Wi-Fi security risk" articles, this time from Edinburgh, Scotland: This article is only slightly sensational, which might result from the reporter having heard these claims for the first time about the risks of a wireless network. But they're not too far off the mark. The biggest problem in articles that cite the number of "open" access points, as a reader recently pointed out to me, is that unless you connect to the point and probe, you can't tell whether the gateway is inside or outside a firewall or has other restrictions....

Transforming the Way the World Learns

Transforming the Way the World Learns 07/02/2004 05:20 AM
Karishma Kiri was born in India, but her family moved to the United States before she was 6 years old, part of the "brain drain" that began when the emerging knowledge-based global economy started to create exciting new opportunities for scientists, engineers and other professionals from developing countries.

OpenOffice.org learns Welsh

OpenOffice.org learns Welsh 07/22/2004 11:40 AM
Mewngofnodi!

Hitachi learns to spell NAS

Hitachi learns to spell NAS 04/04/2005 08:26 AM
Computer Business Review Apr 4 2005 12:33PM GMT

Humanoid robot learns how to run

Humanoid robot learns how to run 03/17/2005 04:20 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Wed Mar 16, 09:28 am GMT

Loic learns from mistakes...

Loic learns from mistakes... 07/27/2004 02:27 AM

Loic blogs about his experience with his customers and the French blogging community. This reminds me of when I got my bumps from the Japanese diary community about two years ago for trying to push blogging in Japan. We now have a very good relationship with the Japanese Net community, but it took a lot of work on the part of my team and the delivery on a lot of promises.

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The Media Business Learns A New Song

The Media Business Learns A New Song 04/13/2004 11:26 AM
Apple faces the tricky proposition of persuading people to buy songs from its catalogue of 500,000 tracks where there are 900m tracks available illegally on file-sharing sites. By Tim Burt, Financial Times (via MyAppleMenu)

Walking robot by Sony learns how to jog

Walking robot by Sony learns how to jog 12/25/2003 08:06 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 25 2003 7:45AM ET

Stanford Learns a Software Lesson

Stanford Learns a Software Lesson 06/12/2004 05:03 PM

Microsoft learns to speak Vietnamese

Microsoft learns to speak Vietnamese 04/01/2005 09:39 AM
CNET Asia Apr 1 2005 1:32PM GMT

NYC Learns lessons from Boston
Convention

NYC Learns lessons from Boston
Convention 07/30/2004 03:54 PM

Higher ed learns notebook PC lessons

Higher ed learns notebook PC lessons 04/13/2005 04:35 AM
More colleges and universities are requiring students to have notebook computers. And the notebook growth is sparking far-ranging changes in the way these institutions do computing.

An Educator Learns the Hard Way
(washingtonpost.com)

An Educator Learns the Hard Way
(washingtonpost.com) 06/20/2004 10:12 PM
washingtonpost.com - Second of three articles

Column: Apple learns from its past

Column: Apple learns from its past 04/22/2004 11:53 AM
Forget the success of iTunes or even the iPod. The lesson to take from Apple is all about an organization and leader that can learn from its past, says Rene Carayol in a "Boardroom Dispatches" column at Silicon.com...

Sony's humanoid robot learns how to jog

Sony's humanoid robot learns how to jog 12/18/2003 09:20 AM
Boston Globe Dec 18 2003 8:26AM ET

Teen Learns Mom Accused of His Abduction
(AP)

Teen Learns Mom Accused of His Abduction
(AP) 02/18/2004 12:03 PM
AP - Authorities arrested the mother of a 17-year-old boy after her son saw his picture on a missing children's Web site and discovered that she was accused of abducting him from his father 14 years ago.

Gmail Learns to Raise Its Hand

Gmail Learns to Raise Its Hand 08/22/2004 03:30 PM

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Gmail delivered to desktops You’ve got Gmail. Subscribers of Google’s free e-mail service who long for those words can now receive them faster, without logging onto the Gmail site. Google’s new Gmail Notifier, a downloadable application introduced Friday in beta, or test version, lets users receive desktop alerts when they have new unread messages. The software, for Microsoft Windows 2000 and above only, shows an icon in the PC system tray and alerts users…

Sony's Humanoid Robot Learns How to Jog

Sony's Humanoid Robot Learns How to Jog 12/18/2003 11:52 AM
AP via Daily Press Dec 18 2003 10:37AM ET

Man Learns He's Dead, Thanks to Blind
Ex-Wife (Reuters)

Man Learns He's Dead, Thanks to Blind
Ex-Wife (Reuters) 07/15/2004 10:14 AM
Reuters - A Russian taxi driver got a rude shock when he discovered his blind ex-wife, who thought he had died in an explosion, had him buried in a Moscow cemetery, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Microsoft Learns the Importance of
Knowing Geography

Microsoft Learns the Importance of
Knowing Geography 08/19/2004 06:40 PM
U.S. companies don't always do so well when it comes to knowing their geography. When Delta Airlines bought Pam Am's famous international route network in the 1990s, they had to hand out atlases so the employees and company executives would know where the airline was flying. Now comes a story in the Guardian about the c ostly blunders Microsoft has made through geographic ignorance. Their gaffs cover not only geography but also political and cultural sensitivity issues. While some of the errors probably couldn't be avoided, what is surprising is that others could have and should have been caught, but Microsoft took a lackadaisical approach. Working worlds away in Redmond, the issues probably seemed trifling compared with the importance of getting the software out the door on time. Microsoft acknowledges that those errors cost real money and more importantly tarnished the company's reputation. Given the arrogant way they acted in the past about such things, it's almost nice to see them publicly admitting to messing up, and agreeing that they need to be more culturally sensitive (even if, yes, it should help them avoid multi-million dollar blunders involving having their own software banned or their own employees tossed in jail).

Red Hat and Novell salivate as Navy
learns to count servers

Red Hat and Novell salivate as Navy
learns to count servers 06/17/2005 04:41 PM
499,997, 499,998, 499,999 . . .

"nbc5i.com - Family - Homeless Dog
Learns To Open Car Doors"

"nbc5i.com - Family - Homeless Dog
Learns To Open Car Doors" 12/04/2003 03:49 AM

LA teen surfing Internet learns he was
allegedly abducted by mother

LA teen surfing Internet learns he was
allegedly abducted by mother 02/18/2004 03:47 AM
AP via New Jersey Online Feb 18 2004 7:40AM GMT

Japanese electronics maker Sony's
dancing humanoid robot learns how to jog

Japanese electronics maker Sony's
dancing humanoid robot learns how to jog 12/18/2003 01:07 PM
SiliconValley.com Dec 18 2003 9:33AM ET

A First-Time Nonfiction Author Learns
That Getting Published Is Not
Necessarily the Hard Part

A First-Time Nonfiction Author Learns
That Getting Published Is Not
Necessarily the Hard Part 09/10/2004 02:36 PM
The Education of Stacy Sullivan

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Taiwan chip giant TSMC upbeat on global
chip industry this year and next

Taiwan chip giant TSMC upbeat on global
chip industry this year and next 06/05/2004 11:44 AM
Canadian Press Jun 5 2004 4:17PM GMT

Good Chip/Bad Chip

Good Chip/Bad Chip 03/19/2005 02:23 AM

Making computer chips is not as easy as it sounds. Manufacturers throw out 20–50% of the chips they make because of defects. According to a USC professor, Melvin Breuer, many of these defects are so minor that the chips could still be used in video cards and audio applications without a problem. He feels that if the manufacturers could identify these chips, they could resell them and drive the cost of electronic devices down to an amount in the billions of dollars each year of savings.

The technique doesn't have to be limited to chips that are consistent in their errors. Chips that make errors only once in a while can also be spared, according to Breuer. They just need to end up in devices where humans can tolerate a glitch in the output from time to time. For instance, a video card could mark one pixel in a million as red instead of blue and an end user probably wouldn't even notice the difference. The same goes for a soundcard in a voicemail application that blurs one word in every thousand. At present, chips failing these tests are usually tossed.

"A Chip in Every Pot"

"A Chip in Every Pot" 11/19/2003 02:10 PM
Research firm In-Stat/MDR expects to see chips in almost everything in the home, including pots: The firm predicts that the networking silicon market will grow from $650 million in 2002 to $1.07 billion this year, driven by Wi-Fi and other networking technologies. In fact, wireless LANs will be the biggest revenue opportunity for this market, according to the study....

Techs down with the chip

Techs down with the chip 09/03/2004 02:30 PM
CNN Sep 3 2004 6:13PM GMT

New AMD chip moves away from the PC

New AMD chip moves away from the PC 01/04/2005 12:32 AM
Taipei Times Online Jan 4 2005 3:56AM GMT

AMD chip security

AMD chip security 08/15/2004 01:57 PM
This month’s Cryptogram, a publication on security, technology and much more, has an interesting snip on a problem with the new AMD chips. AMD have recently been shouting about how exciting their No eXecute technology is on the Opterons, and how it will stop nasty code from executing. However, they don't seem to keen to discuss a potentially major security flaw in the chips.

Essentially, the problem lies in the K8 line of chips, which includes the much celebrated 64 bit Athlon and the Opteron chip, and the way they update themselves. A Microcode (or bios updates) update allows chip makers to change code on the chip where it is faulty, saving the hassle of an expensive product recall. Using this technique, AMD patched up a problem discovered recently. A useful feature, one might think. However, AMD chips that do this (K7's don't/didn't after they discovered a problem with it!) don't appear to have any security or validation checks on Microcode updates. As such...

"If one is able to get root access on a machine even once, it is hypothetically possible to install a microcode update specifically to help compromise security from userspace at a later time. Such an update could be flashed into the BIOS to make it persistent across reboots."

Intel has had a problem with this (Microcode validation), but have got around it via implementing encryption and authentication technology; AMD have yet to do this. Real World Tech, the discovers of this issue, also speculate that, in a hypothetical situation, it might be possible also to do serious physical damage to a AMD K8 chip.

All in all, a rather depressing report for users that have shelled out big bucks for these new chips. Certainly not the kind of performance one would expect from AMD, a company that needs a tip top reputation to maintain it's level of high regard from the IT professional community to successfully compete with chip giant Intel.

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Sun talks up another chip

Sun talks up another chip 02/12/2004 11:18 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 12 2004 3:10PM GMT

Service with a chip

Service with a chip 03/29/2005 04:30 AM
CNET Asia Mar 29 2005 8:37AM GMT

Chip Company

Chip Company 08/22/2004 01:19 PM
Game concept overview published

Other News: New G5 Chip

Other News: New G5 Chip 02/13/2004 11:54 AM
IBM is manufacturing a new generation of the "G5" chip, and it looks quite promising. (Apple's apparently using it for the Xserve G5.)

No Chip in Arm, No Shot From Gun

No Chip in Arm, No Shot From Gun 04/15/2004 04:59 AM
A new chip that would be implanted into a gun owner's arm and matched up to a particular gun will make the gun inoperable for anyone else. The chipmaker says it will lead to greater gun safety, while the NRA and police departments are leery.

Chip off the shoulder

Chip off the shoulder 07/09/2004 01:22 AM
Usatoday.com - Thu Jul 8, 08:47 pm GMT

NEC develops 16X DVD+/-R chip set

NEC develops 16X DVD+/-R chip set 06/23/2004 09:16 AM
NEC Electronics Corp. has developed a chip set that will help pave the way towards DVD+/-R drives capable of 16X speed writing, the company said Tuesday. The chip set consists of an analog signal processor, which is used to control the laser and servo systems of the optical pick-up unit, and a digital signal processor with ATAPI interface.

Chip off the block

Chip off the block 05/18/2004 02:56 PM
Cypress Semiconductor's outspoken CEO, T.J. Rodgers, sounds off on everything from stock options to Larry Ellison.
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