Saturday - September 6, 2008
With less than a week to go before a state-of-the-art European particle collider makes the one in Batavia, Ill., a relic, scientists at Fermilab are testing ways of using the new facility from half a world away. Fermilab researchers on Thursday showed off the Chicago-area lab's high-tech communications links to the new Switzerland-based Large Hadron Collider, which is set to begin test operations Sept. 10. The remote operations center, the only one of its kind in the U.S., is a major part of the American lab's strategy to ride an expected wave of discoveries from the European device.
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Friday - September 5, 2008
In the last two years, American households that use the Internet have doubled their online television viewing. Now, nearly 20 percent use the Internet to watch television broadcasts online, and no, it's not all on YouTube. Based on a survey of 10,000 households, The Conference Board and TNS report that 72 percent of online households have family members who log on for entertainment purposes on a daily basis.
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Friday - September 5, 2008
The final countdown to Sunday's North American release of Electronic Arts' long-delayed and highly anticipated "Spore" has begun. Fans in Europe will get their first crack at it on Friday. The baby of Will Wright, creator of "The Sims" -- the best-selling video game in history -- "Spore" will have gamers spawning their own creatures and societies for many hours.
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Friday - September 5, 2008
Inspired by Neil Young and Radiohead, Michael Moore will release his new film online and for free. The film, "Slacker Uprising," follows Moore's 62-city tour during the 2004 election to rally young voters. It will be available for three weeks as a free download to North American residents, beginning Sept. 23.
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Friday - September 5, 2008
I can hear the complaints already: If you read one more geeky media type going on about how Web 2.0 is helping transform the news from a lecture into a conversation, you'll fire off an angry e-mail or toxic, troll-worthy comment accusing me of trafficking in trendy new media cliches.
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Thursday - September 4, 2008
Google's newly released Chrome browser is facing a backlash over its data collection and privacy practices. The company has already revised its end user license agreement following widespread concerns. Now, new worries are being raised about the browser's all-purpose Omnibox and how closely Google may be monitoring what is typed into it.
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Thursday - September 4, 2008
Funny how quickly perceptions change. Rivals used to chase after Palm and its Treo smartphones. Now it seems Palm is the one doing the chasing. Consider the new $549 Treo Pro smartphone I've been testing. The business-focused device is Palm's latest attempt to lure customers wooed by Apple's iPhone, Research In Motion's BlackBerry and others.
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Thursday - September 4, 2008
HP announced a slew of new products on Wednesday designed to make the deployment of a virtualized solution a greater value for businesses. HP's virtualization push focuses on getting rid of the impediments that reduce a virtual deployment's positive effect on a business.
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Thursday - September 4, 2008
By allowing a computer to run approved applications only, Faronics' Anti-Executable 3.0 is one of the most comprehensive ways available to improve worker and student productivity. Anti-Executable disables all unwanted, unlicensed or unnecessary applications; it simply blocks them from executing.
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Wednesday - September 3, 2008
The digital video recorder has become a must-have appliance, according to a survey released by NDS, a digital pay TV technology solution provider. More than 70 percent of consumers who currently own a DVR told surveyors that they could not live without it. Researchers queried more than 1,000 DVR owners in the U.S., UK, Australia and Italy in July 2008.
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Wednesday - September 3, 2008
IBM is increasing its arsenal against hackers with a new beefed-up blade server. The IBM BladeCenter PN41, announced this week, combines Deep Packet Inspection technology from CloudShield with IBM's other protection platforms to create a powerhouse against attacks. The system is designed specifically to better protect against denial-of-service attacks, one of the most difficult types to detect and prevent.
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Wednesday - September 3, 2008
Just days before the release of the much delayed and long-anticipated "Spore" -- the latest endeavor of "The Sims" creator Will Wright -- gaming publisher Electronic Arts has enlisted the help of some Hollywood and technology heavyweights. In addition to adding the celebrity critters to the Sporepedia, a catalog of all the creatures users have created and published on the game's Web site.
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