Cyberspace Shapes Up To Be Next Battleground
Congressional computers have been penetrated, probably by the Chinese. The avionics system of the F-22 fighter may be compromised. Computers of our presidential candidates were hacked into — and probably not by teenagers on a lark.
Last year’s advance of Russian tanks into Georgia was accompanied…
China Learns Its Limits in Pullback on Web Filter
When China’s authoritarian leaders are on top of their game, they can invent awesome feats look breathlessly easy, lacing the coasts with bullet trains, throwing up huge airports seemingly overnight, plopping scores of capability plants on the landscape like some giant farmer setting out rice shoots…
Creating Order from Chaos with Evernote
When he parks his car, author Timothy Ferriss snaps a photo of the nearest cross streets with his camera phone. In business meetings, he’ll often take pictures of sketches and notes made on a whiteboard. When he’s out for dinner, he’ll whip out the phone again to capture an image of the label on the…
Google vs. Bing: Bing Holds Its Own in Search-Off
Talk about an iron grip on search. To research that column comparing Google’s venerable search engine with Microsoft’s upstart Bing, I Googled “Bing versus Google.” It didn’t even occur to me to Bing the search.
In a nutshell, that’s Microsoft’s problem. The company recently unveiled a fresh and ap…
PC Makers Voluntarily Supply Web Filter in China
Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to build such a step mandatory.
Beijing’s decision that week to delay the requirement that the filtering software — known as Gre…
Biden Announces Rural Broadband Funding in Pa.
Vice President Joe Biden outlined a $4.7 billion loan and grant program Wednesday to develop the infrastructure needed to deliver broadband, or high-speed, Net access to areas that are underserved or without access.
America lags behind more than a dozen other countries in terms of World Wide Web ac…
Tech Expert: Nagin E-Mails Disappeared
A technology expert said Wednesday that potentially years’ worth of Mayor Ray Nagin’s e-mails have been deleted.
Christopher Reade, a partner in a tech firm who assisted the Louisiana Technology Council in efforts to recover input for the mayor’s office, said the mailbox was removed within June 200…
