The MIT Kerberos Consortium, a security authentication and authorization group, announced Monday that Microsoft has joined its shindig. The consortium, which launched in September with Google, Apple, Sun Microsystems and a collection of universities, noted Microsoft is coming aboard as a founding sponsor. Kerberos aims to offer consumers the same single-sign-on authentication and authorization system [...]
Nowadays, it seems like if there’s a big scientific problem, like how to send explorers back to the moon or build a robotic vehicle, organizations put several million dollars on the line and wait for private industry to invent the solution. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is taking a similar approach to fight global [...]
If like me, you spend a sizable amount of your computer time on a web browser, you can forget about RAM or processor upgrades, its software where the hole was all this time. First let me tell you that Im an avid fan of trying new web browsers, or at least new versions of todays [...]
Livescribe’s Pulse can record notes from a meeting in both ink and sound, as well as perform other tasks, such as translating a handwritten word from English to Spanish. (Credit: Jared Kohler/ CNET News.com) Livescribe plans to start shipping the first preorders for its digital pen on Monday, narrowly hitting the company’s already delayed target [...]
(Credit: DTV2009.gov) The DTV transition is less than a year away and as of January 1, 2008 Americans have been eligible to sign up for a $40 coupon to help purchase DTV converter boxes needed to receive new digital TV signals. While your instincts may tell you to sign up as quickly as possible, there’s [...]
So here we are, one quarter down and recession to go. Recession has become an unfortunate but popular topic in 2008. Some people follow strict definitions of what qualifies technically as a recession while others speak purely from opinion — or maybe they are speaking from the pinch they are feeling in their wallets. For [...]
Social network Hi5, founded in the San Francisco Bay Area but most influential in Latin America, announced Monday that the application program interface (API) for its developer platform is now live. This means that, as with other social networks that have opened up their code, third-party developers can create applications for the site. More than [...]
A quick preview of IDF 2008, Shanghai, China: April 2, 3. Source: CNET News.com – Personal Tech
The link between online mapping services and global positioning devices is growing stronger. Starting Tuesday, people using Google Maps to plan trips will be able to send location data to their Garmin GPS systems, the companies announced on Monday. The feature, called “Send-to-Garmin”, will eliminate the need to re-key route information into GPS devices. Garmin’s [...]
Intel and STMicro are launching joint venture Numonyx today, which will suppose the combination of Intel’s NOR flash memory division with STMicroelectronics NAND business. The result, according to Brian Harrison, Numonyx’s new CEO and former Intel employee, is the world’s largest provider of NOR flash memory and the top flash supplier to the mobile phone [...]