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.
I just set a cool API Map with Frappr. Click on Frappr! Cand3la to add your location on the map!
This is so cool!
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.
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I will like to apologize for my delay in posting. As you all might know I have been busy with clean up from Hurricane Wilma.
I’ll like to report that my electricity came back on last night. I did not have structural damage to my home. All I got from Wilma was two day with no electricity and phone. Also I got a broken water pipe which was fixed the next morning. I even got my cable at the same time as I got my electricity.
It was a little scary while we were under the Wilma but everything was ok right after. I don’t remember ever seen such shiny stars as the night before, maybe because the whole city was in the darkness due to the lack of electricity. It was beautiful!
One funny thing did happen to me while sitting at my house with no electricity; I was on my laptop’s battery writing my book when my computer said that I was connected to a low linksys network. I try opening my browser and there I was, online. I have no idea who could it be since there was absolutely no electricity. It was kind of freaky!
I open my AIM and started talking my favorite author Meghan Marco (Click here to view IM Conversation). Been online did not last but It was fun while it lasted.
I will like to thank all of my friends for your concern emails. My family and I are ok.
Thanks…
Here is a High Resolution Satellite Image of Hurricane Wilma over the Caribbean Sea. The image was taken from Satellite Terra on October 29, 2005. (Image Size = ~6MB)
