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HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless
Reviews HP's Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless is a suitable inkjet for offices with high-volume print requirements. With a touch-screen, multiple networking options and very fast print speeds, this workhorse gets an Editors' Choice award.
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Scanner, Wireless, Optical Character Recognition, photograph, printer, fax, built-In
Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
Your face is easy to fake, says security company
News During a demonstration, the Vietnamese company shows that face recognition-based authentication in laptops may not be an effective security measure.
Tags: Biometrics, PC security, Authentication, Security, Vietnam, Vulnerability, Password, face recognition, Computer, ASUS
Kaspersky impressed by botnet slickness
News Cybersecurity expert Eugene Kaspersky says Conficker would have been nastier if the botnet had been motivated by more than just money.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Malware, Domain Name, Conference, Worm, Domain, AusCERT, Algorithm, ICANN, Ukraine
Use cryptographic hashes for validation
Techguide You can use cryptographic hash functions to provide a little more security when exchanging files.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Ruby, Security, C, Algorithm, SHA-1, Unix, Password, word-processor
Google Toolbar adds comments with Sidewiki
News Moderation may be tricky, but Google Toolbar users will be able to read and write comments on any Web page with a new feature called Sidewiki.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web browsers, Web Page, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, API, Google Toolbar, Facebook, toolbar
Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
News Newsy searches won't just produce links to stories now on Yahoo. Searchers will be able to see photos, videos, and tweets from main search results page.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Yahoo Launch, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Video, photograph, API, Search Result
IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019
News Leading scientist, working with colleagues from several top universities, has pioneered computational analysis that rivals that of a cat's cortex. Human brain could be just a decade away.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Computer, DARPA, financial system, financial
Google brewing new architecture with 'Caffeine'
News Developers and "power searchers" are being invited to test out the new search architecture, which Google hopes will be faster, more comprehensive and more accurate.
Tags: Search, Web browsers, Google Search, blog, spokesman, Search, Web, team, Web browsers, Webmaster
Setting up a dynamic DNS service
Techguide Vincent Danen shows you how to configure the BIND side of a dynamic DNS service.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Network administration/implementation, IP, DHCP, BIND, DHCP Server, Server, DNS, dynamic DNS
Google social-tech evangelist leaving company
News Kevin Marks, one of Google's leading public voices on social-networking standards and technology is leaving the company.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Apple Inc., Google OpenSocial, Google Inc., social networking, TechCrunch, network, blog
Google open sources Wave components
News The company has released some of the underlying code for its upcoming Wave collaboration and communications platform, as a way of sparking developer interest.
Tags: Open source, Apache Software Foundation, Google Inc., API, client-server, IM, network, Web Site, collaboration, Open source
IBM makes the world its lab
News Convincing countries and companies around the world of need to innovate during the economic downturn, has resulted in new cutting-edge partnerships for Big Blue.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., University, Chip, Samuel J. Palmisano, intellectual property, Switzerland, China Telecom, China, strategy
Google readying microblog search?
News Google might soon add a way to search microblogging sites like Twitter, as the amount of content generated by those services explodes.
Tags: Search, Web services, Twitter, Google Inc., Search Result, Google Search, Search Technology, search tool, shareholder, Marissa Mayer
Does Microsoft's Bing have Google running scared?
News Microsoft's rival search engine made Google co-founder Sergey Brin so upset that he has top engineers working on "urgent upgrades", according to New York Post report.
Tags: Search, Sergey Brin, Google Inc., Search Engine, New York Post, Advertisement, co-founder, CEO, Eric Schmidt, Search
