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A five-ton computing engine comes to life
The Computer History Museum debuted Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2., and we got a front row seat. View slideshow
Four Microsoft security patches due next week
Microsoft plans to fix critical bugs in its Word, Publisher and Jet database software next week.
Google grilled on human rights
Google's shareholders, following the advice of the board, voted down two proposals on Thursday that would have compelled the
search giant to change its human rights policies, but the issue dominated the company's annual ...
Microsoft to appeal $1.3 billion EU fine
Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004
antitrust agreement, the company said Friday.
Tech company CEO compensation raises ire
Executive compensation has been a hot-button issue for several years, and the final crop of fiscal year 2007 proxy statements
filed throughout March and April did little to quell the cry for reform from industry ...
Microsoft talks up using printers to make drugs
In the not-too-distant future, people could use computer printers to make simple medicines as part of a do-it-yourself model
of healthcare, a top Microsoft executive said Friday.
Toshiba eyes fuel cells, Cell-based TV by 2009
Toshiba plans to begin mass production of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells by March next year and to have a television based on
the powerful Cell microprocessor on sale before the end of the same year, it said Thursday.
IT didn't fail Myanmar during cyclone, people did
The growing disaster in Myanmar caused by Cyclone Nargis could have been at least party avoided had people living in the path
of the storm been warned, the head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said ...
Microsoft's answer to Google Sky to launch at end of May
Microsoft will launch Worldwide Telescope, a tool for exploring images of the night sky, by the end of May, free to anyone
who wants to use it, Microsoft's chairman said Friday.
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Wireless dangers at airports
How safe is your data when traveling through the nation's airports? Not very, according to a study by AirTight Networks, which
not only found wireless vulnerabilities at hot spots for mobile workers, but also found some security holes at so-called "private"
networks that handled tasks such as luggage handling and retail transactions. Keith Shaw talks with Jason Merrick from AirTight
Networks about the study, and how IT can minimize risks for their mobile workers (16:34).
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