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Apple’s iPad Tablet Could Slay eBooks and Netbooks
Jobs may be ready to step away from Apple, but not before completing a tablet as his magnum opus.
On smartphones, Apple was late to the market, but if there is another vendor doing a better job of currently defining what a smartphone is, I don’t know who they are. With smartbooks, a new class of product based on smartphone technology that looks like a netbook computer, the market hasn’t even really launched, and already Apple appears to be moving to define it. Continue Reading
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Apple’s iPad Tablet Could Slay eBooks and NetbooksKaspersky tool detects malware in Twitter links
Kaspersky unveiled a new tool on Thursday called “Krab Krawler” that analyzes the millions of tweets posted on Twitter every day and blocks any malware associated with them.
The tool looks at every public post as it appears on Twitter, extracts any URLs in them and analyzes the Web page they lead to, expanding any URLS that have been shortened, Costin Raiu, a senior malware analyst at Kaspersky, said in an interview. Continue Reading
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Kaspersky tool detects malware in Twitter linksIntel seeks new ‘microserver’ standard
SAN FRANCISCO–In September, Intel introduced its back-to-the-future idea of tiny “microservers.” Now the company wants to make the design into a standard others can use, too.
The chipmaker will offer its design specification to the Server System Infrastructure Forum by the end of the year, said Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel’s high-density computing group. If the group’s board votes its approval for the specification, group members may use the designs royalty-free, he said in a meeting with reporters here.
“Before the end of the year, it will happen,” Waxman said.
An Intel 'microserver'
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Intel seeks new ‘microserver’ standardMicrosoft puts its ’signature’ on PCs
The “Microsoft Signature” PCs that are being sold at Microsoft’s retail and online stores contain a bunch of extra Windows Live software, but also feature something rarely found on a PC–a clean desktop.
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Microsoft puts its ’signature’ on PCs
Slim, warm superconductors promise faster electronics
The thinnest superconductor yet is a layer of copper oxide material less than a nanometre thick. The feat suggests a new possible route to faster electronic components.
Making superconductors super-skinny raises the prospect of being able to switch them on and off using electric fields, says Ivan Bozovic at Brookhaven National Laboratories in Upton, New York. That could allow them to be used in electronics, not just for carrying current from place to place.
“Static electric fields cannot penetrate more than 1 nanometre into good conductors,” explains Bozovic, whose team carried out the new study. So a very thin superconductor indeed is needed to use electric fields in this way.
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Slim, warm superconductors promise faster electronicsPass, retweet or fail whale? Teacher tweets tell tales
STUDENTS who “tweet” during class might not be ignoring the lecturers’ untold wisdom – they might be assessing the quality of the teaching. The micro-blogging website Twitter turns out to be a useful, hassle-free way for academic institutions to gather course data as a term progresses.
Stefan Stieger and Christoph Burger at the University of Vienna in Austria wondered whether there was a better way to assess teaching quality than end-of-term polls. So they recruited 26 students and polled their views weekly via tweets, marking the course on a scale of 1 to 9.
The immediacy of the poll provided fresh insight into the quality of teaching, without the heavy administrative effort normally needed to collate the data.
(CyberPsychology & Behavior, DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2009.0128)
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Pass, retweet or fail whale? Teacher tweets tell talesFlu-Related Telecommuting Could Clog Web Traffic, Feds Warn
Fears that the H1N1 flu pandemic could bring down the Internet may be overblown, but it’s quite possible that some ISPs could succumb. Internet traffic patterns would be drastically altered if a huge number of people were to start working from home all at once, and there’s no easy and obvious way for ISPs to manage those shifting loads.
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Flu-Related Telecommuting Could Clog Web Traffic, Feds Warn
What’s Behind the Shadow
Key Card Hotel by Byran Berg
It Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums
Discussion forums are magnets for some of the jerkiest people on the “Interwebs.” We profile a dozen of the most common and annoying forum jerks — from “The Antagonist” to “The Conspiracy Theorist.”
Who ARE these people?
Online comment forums create ample opportunity for behavior of such extreme jerkitude that it can drive even the most patient Netizens batty. You know what I’m talking about: the know-it-alls, fight-starters and doctrinaire zealots who seem to frequent every message board on the entire “Interwebs,” using any and every topic as a springboard for their sociopathic gratification. We’ve sifted through pages of forum messages to find the most absolutely asinine tactics. So get ready to cringe: On the pages that follow you’ll meet our nominees for the 12 biggest jerks of the Web’s online forums. Continue Reading
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It Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums