The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by June 30, if customers demand that it stick around. So far, they have not. “XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies, we [ Read More ]
Someone exploited a weakness in Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s Web site and redirected visitors to rival Hillary Clinton’s site over the weekend, according to a posting on the blog of security firm NetCraft. Basically, visitors to the community blogs section of Obama’s site on Saturday night were sent to Clinton’s site. Someone using the [ Read More ]
U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet’s current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned that the current systems that constitute the Internet will not [ Read More ]
When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Sherwood, Ark., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. Penn did it to help his mother, Paula, the school librarian who had computer support added to her workload a week before the [ Read More ]
FCC fines retailers over DTV violations
Categories: Digital TVThe Federal Communications Commission slapped heavy fines on several retailers Thursday for failing to properly label analog TVs that will have to be retrofitted next year for digital TV when broadcasters turn off their analog signals in February. In total, the FCC levied fines of $3.9 million on big retailers such as Sears, Wal-Mart, and [ Read More ]
Posted by Ina Fried BOGOTA, Colombia–In one corner of a massive warehouse, workers pick through bins of computers, keyboards, and mice, painstakingly cleaning each part. There’s a special room where peripherals such as mice go for washing and another where they go for drying. Once the hardware is reassembled, often with a few new parts [ Read More ]
