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Sex offenders must turn over Internet passwords

Brad Sams — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:03:42 +0000

Sex offenders who live in the state of Georgia have lost a lot more privacy. A new law that went into effect today requires all offenders not only give authorities their Internet email address... Read more...

Google Labs: Turn your email into a Google Doc

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:20:12 +0000

Google has released another experimental feature from their Google Labs offerings, that allows you to turn an email into a Google Doc. Quite often we might have lengthy email conversations that become tougher... Read more...

Net blamed as 10,000 kids turn to crime

James Hall — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:24:58 +0000

ABOUT 10,000 Victorian children aged 10 to 14 have been cautioned by police, arrested or ordered to appear in court in the past year, as a surge in youth crime continues. Victoria Police say the... Read more...

Windows users: Patch now or turn off Bluetooth

Steven Parker — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:54:20 +0000

Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday release included a critical fix affecting all Windows Vista and XP systems, which could allow attackers to wirelessly steal confidential information from laptops by exploiting a flaw in the Bluetooth stack.... Read more...

As WinXP Deadline Looms, OEMs Turn To Vista Downgrade Rights

Steven Parker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:53:17 +0000

Microsoft may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant's June 30 deadline. In yet another sign of the market's resistance to Windows... Read more...

Hackers Turn Off Lights, Demand Cash

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:01:30 +0000

Hackers literally turned out the lights in "several regions outside the United States" after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue told utility engineers at... Read more...

Electronic Billboards Turn into Digital Wanted Posters

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:31:16 +0000

Orwell, eat your heart out: between ads for hamburgers and liposuction, several giant digital billboards on the street flashed an image of Oscar Finch's face taken by a surveillance camera. However, the young man wasn't... Read more...

Printer Manufacturers Turn to Cryptography

Christopher Vendemio — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:36:49 +0000

It's no secret that printer manufacturers such as HP, Canon, Lexmark, and the rest of the crowd sell their printers for little to no profit in order to attract initial buyers. The real profit comes... Read more...

Malware doubles as hackers turn to web: report

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:08:04 +0000

In the first quarter of 2007, security firm Sophos PLC identified 23,864 new malware threats, more than double the 9,450 the company found in the same period last year. The company's report said this growth... Read more...

Turn any web widget into a Vista Gadget

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:59:45 +0000

The Amnesty Generator for Windows is designed to easily convert any embeddable web site widget (including Google Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar Gadget. Compared to Vista's Gadget library's relatively meager 275 gadgets, Google Gadgets for... Read more...

Dolby to Turn Volume Down on Loud Commercials

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:00:01 +0000

Dolby. That's all I have to say and you think of "audio" and "surround sound". What's that company up to recently? Dolby Volume: a technology that equalizes the volume across all audio coming out of... Read more...

European rivals turn wary eye on Microsoft

Steven Parker — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:15:34 +0000

European security software makers are closely, but quietly, watching as Microsoft enters their turf. Companies such as F-Secure, Panda Software and Sophos are taking a low-key approach, unlike their U.S. counterparts. Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec, in... Read more...

New Cordless Phones Let Skype Users Turn Off PC

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:59:01 +0000

Skype on Thursday announced cordless phones that do not require a running computer to use its Voice over Internet Protocol services. The new class of phones lets users make and receive Skype calls over... Read more...

Guide: How to turn a paper clip into a house

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:39:01 +0000

It sounds crazy, but one Canadian net-junky has managed to swap his way to owning his own house, starting out with a simple red paper clip. Kyle MacDonald, 26, took a year to swap 16... Read more...

Move Over Hyperthreading, it's Anti-Hyperthreadings Turn

Joe Cashman — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:25:36 +0000

AMD are reportedly working on a sort of 'Anti-Hyperthreading', which could allow multiple physical CPU cores to emulate one physical core. The problem with dual (and soon quad) core processors like the AMD X2 range... Read more...

Intel to turn tables on AMD on desktop front

Steven Parker — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:16:04 +0000

2006 WILL BE quite the interesting year on the desktop CPU front, with the year starting out firmly in AMD's grasp, and ending in Intel's. If both sides execute on their CPU roadmaps, and that... Read more...

Microsoft Developers Turn to Linux

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:47:25 +0000

Developers using Microsoft's Latest News about Microsoft popular Visual Studio .Net software engineering suite were today offered a plug-in that allows them to code Web applications forLinux Latest News about Linux. Referred to as... Read more...

Microsoft VP: Smaller Xbox 2 will turn on Japanese consumers

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:57:23 +0000

Microsoft's Peter Moore says his company's slimmed-down next-gen console will feature a software lineup more in line with the country's tastes. In an interview with Nikkei Business Express, Peter Moore, Microsoft's corporate... Read more...

Turn your GBA into a TV

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:23:26 +0000

Wouldn't it be nice if you could watch TV on your GBA? Now you can at a pretty low price of Â£10.99. For this price you also get an AV in/out so you... Read more...

Lasers turn beam on TV recycling

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:32:25 +0000

Recycling a TV or PC monitor has always been somewhat expensive. Mainly due to the long and tedious process involved (separation of recyclable goods). Now a laser technique that can separate materials in... Read more...

Intel to Turn Off Wireless Tech in Grantsdale Chipset

Wed, 19 May 2004 15:53:26 +0000

Intel will ship its Grantsdale chipset this summer with the wireless features turned off by default in an attempt to prevent the spread of unsecured access points. One of the features of Grantsdale is its... Read more...

SMBs turn to the Penguin

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:23:06 +0000

One in four UK small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use Linux, and more than than half think it robust enough for mission-critical applications, according to a new study. Two in five of the 200... Read more...

Pickpockets turn to technology

Tom Warren — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:06:14 +0000

Now geeks can get girls numbers by hacking them :D - ed A potential loophole in security for Bluetooth phones, which could see strangers hacking into your address books, has been... Read more...

Turn Your GBA into a Game Console

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:27:31 +0000

This is a mod of all mods for the GameBoy Advance. Essentially converting it into a game console with an ability to attach a joystick, output video to a TV or an RGB monitor, and... Read more...

Web News turn into profit...

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:21:54 +0000

Superb- when do we get the cheques! "After the bubble years in which Internet publications burned through a phenomenal amount of other people's money, web journalism is starting to take off. It may... Read more...

Turn Your RADEON 9500 into 9700 Using Software

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:56:48 +0000

Thanks xStainDx...Well, although not all RADEONs are mod-friendly and we can do nothing about it, we can try to reduce the risks to damage a graphics card when trying to turn the RADEON 9500 into... Read more...

Turn your Radeon 9500 into a Radeon 9700

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:31:52 +0000

IXBT REPORTS, based on overclockers.ru, that it's possible to perform modifications to the Radeon 9500 to turn it into a Radeon 9700. There's Russian text and some diagrams about this claim, here . ... Read more...

TURN THE F***iNG NOISE DOWN!

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:44:05 +0000

Ever wanted to really really really annoy the neighbours? Good! Heres how. Slashdot posted this nice article on how to build your own sub-woofer - and boy does it look cool! Definatly worth a look:... Read more...

Hackers turn tables on file-swapping firms

Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:28:30 +0000

For the past several weeks, the pseudonymous programmer, who says he's a male college student and declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and... Read more...

Turn your SBLive! into an Audigy?

Steven Parker — Thu, 07 Mar 2002 19:04:11 +0000

Warp2search (Thanks Bob) are running a follow up to the story that kind of re-surfaced again this week "Creative Soundblaster Audigy a fake?". They have managed to find a chinese site and translate the main... Read more...

Xerox to turn PARC loose

Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:32:27 +0000

From the people who started the graphical user interface revolution, invented the mouse, heck you may as well say the "whole ball of wax", comes news that Xerox will finally turn its famed Palo Alto... Read more...

Study: Teens Turn to Web for Health-Related Issues

Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:31:52 +0000

Teens and young adults are flocking to the Web for health-related information as much as they are downloading music and playing games online and more often than shopping online, according to a national survey from... Read more...