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Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week
netbuzz writes 'When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. A year later it was

Cisco Unveils Faster Internet Router to Lure Carriers (Update3)
(Adds FCCs comment in ninth paragraph.) March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Systems Inc., seeking to boost sales to phone carriers, introduced an Internet router that will let Web users download movies, songs and data faster to computers and mobile devices. The

Summary Box: Samsung, Panasonic Releasing 3-D TVs
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Using Computing Might, Google Improves Translation Tool
Franz Och, with a copy of the Rosetta Stone, said Google’s translation tool "can make the language barrier go away." MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in

Microsoft researcher wins Turing Award
Computing industry pioneer Chuck Thacker was honored Tuesday with the industry's highest prize--the A. M. Turing Award. Thacker, who these days works in Microsoft's Silicon Valley research lab, helped create personal computing at Xerox's famed Palo Alto

Microsoft warns of zero-day IE hole on Patch Tuesday
Microsoft's Adrian Stone and Jerry Bryant explain the security bulletins in a video on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog. (Credit: Microsoft ) Microsoft warned of a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and IE 7 that has been targeted in

Microsoft tweaks browser ballot code
Microsoft's latest tweak to its browser ballot screen seems to have fixed a key programming flaw. In response to , the company recently unveiled its to give European users a choice of browsers to install. But the company was criticized for using sloppy

Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications?
bjb writes 'While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called 'PDF Suite.' Never having heard of it, I

Cisco 'forever changes internet' with...a router
How will Cisco " (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/cisco_announcement/)"? With a new router. Which raises the question: What the hell is wrong with technology companies? When networking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems sent word that today

Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
The first rule of the iPhone developer program is: You do not talk about the iPhone developer program. Before you create software for the iPhone, Apple demands that you sign away a laundry list of rights, including the ability to sell rejected apps

Can IBM Help You Write a Better Blog Post?
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My new phone's got worms!
Just when you thought you have taken care of all the possible malware infection vectors, flawed quality assurance procedures once again demonstrate the need for a transparent and systematic approach of ensuring that digital devices are shipped

Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells
kkleiner writes 'For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans. Now, in an exciting

The Secret Origin of Windows
harrymcc writes 'Windows has been so dominant for so long that it's easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft and that its immediate successors were considered stopgaps until OS/2 was everywhere. Tandy Trower,

Intel Fosters Apps for Netbooks
BY JERRY A. DICOLO Apple Inc.'s online application store dominates the smart-phone space, but Intel Corp. sees a chance to use a similar software store to defend an important new marketnetbooks. With its AppUp Center, announced earlier this year and set

Cisco Unveils $90,000 Network Router to Lure Carriers (Update2)
Cisco Systems Inc., seeking to boost sales to phone carriers, will start selling an Internet router that lets Web users download video, songs and other data faster.

Cisco's big announcement? A new router
Cisco Systems, which is often referred to as the plumber of the Internet, announced Tuesday a next-generation Internet router for the world's largest Internet service providers, the CRS-3. Cisco may have overhyped the announcement just a tad. After weeks

Open Data Needs Open Source Tools
macslocum writes 'Nat Torkington begins sketching out an open data process that borrows liberally from open source tools: 'Open source discourages laziness (because everyone can see the corners you've cut), it can get bugs fixed or at least identified

Cisco Unveils Faster Web Router
Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled a heavy-duty router for managing Internet traffic, as it seeks to regain market share it has lost in the arms race to manage telecommunications networks. Cisco said Tuesday its new CRS-3 router has 12 times the capacity of

Cisco to Introduce New Heavy-Duty Internet Router
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Cisco Unveils Faster Internet Router
BY ROGER CHENG Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled a heavy-duty router for managing Internet traffic, as it seeks to regain market share it has lost in the arms race to manage telecommunications networks. Cisco said Tuesday its new CRS-3 router has 12 times the

Cisco Introduces Faster Router to Lure Carriers (Update1)
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s biggest network-equipment maker, will start selling a router that it says will accelerate the speed of data and video downloads on the Internet. The router starts at $90,000, the San Jose,

HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed
Trailrunner7 writes 'Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the world's larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, HTC's Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system,

Stock Picks: Apple, Intel, Aetna, H&R Block
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The 7 Attractions of Gnome and KDE
Despite all the talk about the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop, somewhere in the last few years, free software passed a milestone without anyone noticing. At some point, after years of struggling to rival proprietary desktops, both GNOME and KDE have

Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses
foursquare.com Foursquare’s new statistics page will share information about users with business owners. Foursquare, a location-based social network, plans to distribute a new analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business

Games quiz: The Final Fantasy series
Final Fantasy XIII is released today. But how well do you know the rest of the series? guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 9 March 2010 14.49 GMT For bonus points - can you name all these characters? 1. The first Final Fantasy game was released on the Nintendo

Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09
krebsonsecurity writes 'Organized cyber-criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported last week. In contrast, traditional bank robbers hauled

European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA
An anonymous reader writes 'The European Parliament is preparing to take on ACTA. A joint resolution (DOC) has been tabled by the major EP parties that threatens to go to court unless things change. The EP is calling for public access to negotiation

Cisco promises to 'forever change the internet'
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