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cscgal in a Nutshell
Hi everyone. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Dani. I live on Long Island, about 20 minutes outside Manhattan, have my B.S. in Computer Science, and currently run DaniWeb fulltime. (Read Blog)
This is rather belated news, but I figured it was worth posting anyways. Apple has recently unveiled larger capacity versions of the iTouch and iPhone. The iTouch, originally only available in 8 gig and 16 gig versions, now boasts a whopping 32 gig version with a $500 pricetag. The iPhone began...
Read More | Mar 16th, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Mar 17th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 77 | Views: 117,571 | Last Entry: May 12th, 2008 | Overall Rating: Rating: 31 votes, 4.06 average
happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK. Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist... (Read Blog)
Ever wondered just how smart a smartcard is, from the security perspective? Obviously there are problems as detailed in a DaniWeb blog posting last month which described how hackers can exploit hardware RFID weaknesses to access credit card account data for example. But now a former member of the...
Read More | Mar 16th, 2008
Anyone with an interest in the history of computing will know that the first mechanical computer was invented by one Charles Babbage, British mathematician and visionary. If you happen to be in the vicinity of the Science Museum in London you can even see a working difference engine, something...
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008
Scientists at IBM have finally managed to get around the problem of electrical interference that prevented signals from working correctly while using the carbon mesh material of grapheme. It means that they can now get on with the job in hand of building nanoscale transistors according to this...
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008
The New York Times ran an interesting story yesterday with the title of Another DVD Format, but This One Says It's Cheaper. Essentially, a London based company has come up with an alternative to Blu-Ray just when you thought that particularly bloody consumer battle had been laid to rest. The HD...
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Mar 11th, 2008
Think of where your spam comes from and the usual suspects, according to most surveys of such things by the security and messaging experts, turn out to be the good old US of A, Russia and China which between them accounted for 33.8 percent of all spam in the last quarter of 2007. However, in a new...
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Mar 11th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 472 | Views: 1,399,722 | Last Entry: 9 Hours Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 707 votes, 4.78 average
newsguy in a Nutshell
I live and breathe technology news, it is what turns me on. Sad, but hey I am a news nerd, what can I say? (Read Blog)
Speaking to the Northern Virginia Technology Council this week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates made the distinctly predictable prediction that during the next ten years there will be even greater technological advances than during the previous decade. Amongst the advances that Gates suggests are...
Read More | Mar 15th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Mar 15th, 2008
Security researchers at McAfee have uncovered one of the biggest attacks of its kind to date, with some 10,000 web pages which had been rigged to entrap unsuspecting visitors. Although the infected web pages look the same as they always did, under the hood the cyber-crooks had added some...
Read More | Mar 13th, 2008
According to a PC Pro news story the rapid growth of mobile broadband across Europe could make Wireless hotspots extinct. Mind you, it is an executive from a mobile telephone company that is making the prediction…
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 11th, 2008
Do you remember the MPMan F10 which was launched way back in March 1998? Probably not, which is a shame as it was a hugely important, and rather huge, device in the overall scheme of things. The first MP3 player, 10 years old this month, is fondly remembered in detail here.
Read More | Mar 11th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 166 | Views: 323,689 | Last Entry: 2 Days Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 318 votes, 4.82 average
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