Category: Technology

The idea of mobile lawyering is so enticing: Where do you want to work today? But the price of convenience is security. Protecting your laptop from the various online threats out there — not to mention good old thieves — is serious business. Even an innocent mistake can cost you your license to practice law.… Read more →

A9 switches sides in the search wars Amazon has ended its relationship with Google and is now using MSN to provide search results on its site.… Originally by The Register – Software, 10:46 AM Read more Read more →

Falling out Microsoft and Gartner are squabbling again, this time after the analyst predicted yet another delay to Microsoft’s already late-running Windows Vista operating system.… Originally by The Register – Software, 10:46 AM Read more Read more →

Microsoft officially launches adCenter, a program that allows advertisers to purchase space across the whole line of Microsoft properties. Will it prove as lucrative as adWords? Originally by Ars Technica, 10:45 AM Read more Read more →

VeriSign said many major Web sites were temporarily blocked by a mysterious flood of bogus messages in January and February, raising questions about the Internet’s defenses against one potent form of attack. Though the attacks have abated, VeriSign said it may need to sharply increase spending on additional computing and communications capacity to keep operating… Read more →

‘Rumors have been swirling for a while that Google is preparing an online calendaring and scheduling service. Many blogs and news outlets predicted it would hit last week, but several search related industry events that were thought to be launchpads came and went without a Google announcement. More buzz is hitting this week, so I’m… Read more →

A new poll of questionable methodology and magnitude reports that internet users engage, on average, in email-related activities more frequently than web searching. However, web searching occupies a higher proportion of users’ time than in previous editions of the survey. The manner in which these polls are hyped by PR-hungry research groups and journalists is… Read more →

‘More than one out of 10 surfers use Firefox as a browser, according to a study by web analytics firm OneStat.com. Although Mozilla-based browsers have a total global usage share of 11.51 percent — an increase of 2.82 per cent since April 2005 — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a… Read more →

‘If the Walt Disney Company has its way, McDonald’s Happy Meal toys could be replaced with portable media players that hold Disney movies, music, games or photos.’ Originally by NYT > Technology, 2:29 PM Read more Read more →

‘Potential computer users in the developing world will not want a basic $US100 ($A133) hand-cranked laptop that is due to be rolled out to millions, chip-maker Intel said.’ Originally by ABC News: Science and Technology, 2:28 PM Read more Read more →