The debate between local and long distance phone companies is becoming uglier, while your phone bill isn’t getting any smaller. At the ComNet 97 trade show yesterday, representatives from the local Bell carriers and long-distance companies accused each other of stalling the implementation o ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Prices for entry-level color desktop scanners hit a new low this week when Microtek dropped the price of its ScanMaker E3 scanner to an unprecedented level: just $199.
Until now this low price was seen only in color photo scanners, such as Kodak’s Snapshot Photo Scanner, which don’ ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Toshiba’s research and development center is developing an agent-based database management system that gives you a peek at what the intranet of the near future may look like.
The Toshiba software, announced this week, is designed to help employees easily share and find knowledge that wou ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
The FBI says that more than 90 percent of stolen computer equipment is never recovered. But a thief might think twice about snatching your
notebook PC if it has Port’s Defcon 1 security alarm screaming from it.
Roughly the size of a compact cellular phone, the $49.95 Defcon 1 attac ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Microsoft today released Home Essentials 97, its new software bundle for home PC users.
The $109, 125MB package consists of Word 97, Encarta 97, Works 4.0 (which includes spreadsheet and database tools), Arcade (which includes Asteroids and several other basic games), and Greetings Workshop, ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Despite the mind-numbing hype of Intel’s MMX chip rollout, PCs built around
the technology are hot property. The newest arrivals, from IBM, Sony, and
Polywell, each have something to offer for different users. All three PCs come with
the Pentium MMX-200 processor, 32MB of ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
Apple Computer announced yesterday a restructuring that unifies marketing, development and other operations and focuses sales on its core publishing, education, and consumer markets.
Despite reports anticipating up to 3,000 layoffs, the company did not discuss a workforce reduction yesterday. ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
In a move that recognizes the proliferation and diversity of Internet sites, the system used to specify Internet locations such as Web sites and e-mail addresses will expand to include seven new top-level domain names, an international Internet committee announced.
Seven new generic top-level ... [read more]
July 5th, 2007
