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The Benefits Of Location Tracking

The Benefits Of Location Tracking

Having big companies track our locations is awesome. It improves our lives in ways big and small with services that are only possible because tech companies know where we are. The benefits of location tracking outweigh the risks. Location tracking improves the world...

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SBC CUTS DSL PRICES AGAIN

SBC has reduced the price of its basic DSL service to $26.95 for new customers signing up online. The service requires a one-year commitment, with a prepayment penalty. That's...

MUSICMATCH DOWNLOADS

MusicMatch Jukebox is the most popular program available for playing and organizing mp3 music files. Personally, I find it confusing and difficult to use, but millions of people...

BUGGY SOFTWARE

Even though Windows XP is solid and stable, it's still possible to write bad programs - and sometimes it seems that buggy software is on the rise. The Register has an article...

DELL MOVES INTO HOME ELECTRONICS

Here's an interesting article about Dell's move into home entertainment. Dell is conservative and only goes into new areas that it intends to dominate, so expect a big marketing...

SONIC DSL SALE

Sonic is passing along reduced prices on DSL to match SBC's recent promotions. Basic DSL service is $34.95/month from Sonic - similar to SBC's price, but with none of the hassles...

HAVE YOU DONE A BACKUP LATELY?

Hard drives stop working sometimes. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. Sometimes a system can’t be started because files are damaged that Windows relies on. That can be...

KAISER AND YOUR HEART

This has nothing to do with technology, but these statistics are too extraordinary to miss. Kaiser Permanente shed its poor reputation decades ago and is now well known for the...

AFFORDABLE COLOR LASERJETS

HP has an overlooked line of business color inkjet printers - here's the 1100 series, and here's the 2230 series, for example. There are more expensive models as well. They're...

ORSON SCOTT CARD ON MP3s

Popular SF/fantasy author Orson Scott Card has written a nice article deflating the recording industry rhetoric and explaining why mp3s are not necessarily to blame for the...

ANOTHER WINDOWS CRITICAL UPDATE

Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and install Critical Updates. There is another important security update. Another vulnerability has been discovered, very similar to the...

OPUS RETURNS!

Life is worth living again! Opus the penguin is returning to the comics pages! Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County and Outland, will...

TOYNBEE TILES

I love stuff like this. For years, a reporter for the Kansas City Star had noticed an odd tile embedded in the street near a favorite restaurant. Made of a rock-hard material,...

SUBPOENAS AND COMPUTER CRIME

Here’s a fascinating – and chilling – article by a former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit describing a recent decision by a federal appeals court in...

GOOGLE TRICKS

You know how valuable Google is for web searches, but take a look at this page for other equally valuable Google services - among others, a price comparison service, an index of...

MICROSOFT SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2003

Microsoft will release Small Business Server 2003 in October. It is a huge release. It will transform computing for small offices. The reason? It’s simple and it’s cheap. A new...