PCWorld.com – Industry Group Tackles Spyware
A new coalition of technology companies and public interest organizations has hit some early milestones in its effort to combat spyware. On Thursday, the Anti-Spyware Coalition published two documents that the group hopes will take the computer security industry a step closer toward setting best practices for stopping this type of annoying and invasive software.
PCWorld.com – Microsoft Stalks Super Spammers
Microsoft announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against groups that use zombie computers. The software giant took the action after learning through a company experiment that use of infected PCs to thwart spam blockers and pass along immense quantities of junk e-mail is more widespread and disruptive than Microsoft expected.
PCWorld.com – Canon Tests Hydrogen Fuel Cell
TOKYO — Canon has unveiled a prototype hydrogen fuel cell it has developed to power portable electronics products such as digital still cameras.
PCWorld.com – Motorola, Intel Team on Mobile WiMax
With the IEEE 802.16e specification for mobile WiMax slowly moving toward approval, Motorola and Intel are now teaming up to help lay the groundwork for the next phase of standardization: establishing WiMax Forum profiles for implementing the mobile version of the wireless broadband technology.
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Star Reporter: Venus, Mars will glow brightly on Halloween – PittsburghLIVE.com
It’s unlikely that many children will dress up as Galileo or Copernicus for Halloween, but that doesn’t mean that adults can’t play the parts this year.
For those who have a little bit of astronomer in them, there will be plenty to look at in Armstrong County skies on Halloween night.
Mars is set for a close encounter with Earth, approaching to within 69.4 million km (43.1 million miles) of our planet in the early hours of Sunday.
