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The status of Latin and COBOL are quite similar. Neither is really dead, both are deeply ingrained, intertwined and embedded in our contemporary world. The former in many of our written and spoken languages, and the latter is the underpinning of much of the world's existing data systems. If you igno...
Customers looking to buy new PCs this holiday season can enjoy a special gift from Microsoft -- discounted or free copies of the Vista operating system and Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suite. Microsoft on Tuesday announced programs to provide holiday shoppers with low-cost upgrades with the pu...
The once-controversial BitTorrent has inked deals with several hardware manufacturers to embed its software in consumer products. BitTorrent makes a peer-to-peer digital content delivery platform known by the same name. The platform, along with others like it, has come under fire in the past for hos...
As we approach the end of the year, thoughts traditionally turn to the future. I thought I'd get an early start. Near term we have the widely rumored launch of the new Apple Newton, uh, I mean iPhone. A little further out we have the emergence of true telepresence -- which brings the possibility tha...
With the launch of the PlayStation 3 game console less than one month away, Sony on Thursday revealed additional details on the device as well as which game titles will be available first for the next-generation machine. Sony unveiled 22 titles for the PS3 that will be available when it launches on ...
North Korea's detonation of a nuclear bomb has made Silicon Valley, Calif., leaders even more eager to offer their expertise to help spread freedom and peace. Technology can jumpstart this quest at home and abroad, but not alone. A human element has to be present as well. Technology is often viewed...
Researchers at Stanford University have discovered what they say is more evidence that compulsive use of the Internet may be more than just a bad habit. "Potential markers of problematic Internet use seem present in a sizable proportion of adults," the researchers concluded in an article published i...
U.S. and Russian scientists on Monday announced they have created the newest super-heavy element, element 118. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from Dubna, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia, discovered the element during experim...
Search engines have made a boodle for outfits like Google, but when it comes to online entertainment -- especially entertainment on demand -- they may find their relevance waning. "Search engine algorithms are based on text, information and links," Daren Gill, vice president for business development...
Cutting-edge voice, speech and translation technology from IBM is getting a critical test from U.S. military personnel who are using the system to speak with Iraqi locals in their own language. The Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator, or "MASTOR," is activated by speaking and translat...
A circuit court judge in Florida's Miami-Dade County has decided not to ban the sale of a controversial video game to minors. Judge Ronald Friedman previewed "Bully," a game scheduled to be released for Sony's PlayStation 2 on Tuesday. After watching a live demonstration of the game, he decided that...
Last week's happenings foreshadowed potential changes in the wind. With the stock option backdating scandal widening, it appears that Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have been caught in the net. Meanwhile, with the realization that gaming has been driving a lot of the PC industry, and some powerful recent ...
In the recent movie "Thank You for Smoking," a tobacco lobbyist comes under fire for working to protect people's right to smoke. A similar movie could be made about gambling and the villain would be Representative Bob Goodlatte. The Virginia Republican has been fighting to enact legislation on Inter...
A large part of the appeal of blogging is its simplicity. Setting up an account at one of the large blogging services like Blogger.com is as untaxing as filling in a few fields in an online form. As uncomplicated as blogging can be, however, once the bloom fades on its novelty, it can become a chore...
Winter slowly drifted into Silicon Valley last week. In the aftermath of what appeared to many of us to be a largely politically motivated "scandal" surrounding HP, not only was HP's business largely unaffected but federal laws regarding the practice of pretexting were left in limbo. Meanwhile, I wa...
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