US Emergency Text Message System in the Works

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via BetaNews
The FCC has begun the process of establishing a nationwide emergency SMS alert system, laying down the foundations yesterday of technical standards that participating cell phone carriers must observe.
The system is currently planned to be in place sometime around 2010.

AMD to lay off employees

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“Industry insiders have suggested that the cuts are mainly about poor performance relative to competitors, and do not imply a broader tech weakening,” said The Economist.
Several analysts said that A.M.D., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., was facing problems largely because of a resurgent Intel, the world’s largest chip maker. A.M.D. lost market share to Intel last [...]

Life Stuffs found on Distant Planet

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Scientists have recently reported the discovery of the first organic molecule, methane, to be discovered within the atmosphere of a planet outside of our solar system and additionally confirming the presence of water on that planet. This clears the way for a bright future of invading that planet with all our hostile robotics and scanning [...]

Wordpress 2.5 Sneak Peek


On the official Wordpress Site, you can now see a sneak peek into the future of Wordpress, version 2.5 including the new admin dashboard layout and other key features. Additionally, they have put up a download for release-candindate #1. Click here to download it.
I’m probably going to install RC1 on the PCS Products blog and [...]

Should Macs run antivirus software?

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Via Slashdot comes an interesting article from TidBits discussing whether Macs should run antivirus software, and coming to the conclusion that they probably do not need to.
The reality is that today the Mac platform is relatively safe. There are hundreds of thousands of viruses and other malicious software programs floating around for Windows, but less [...]

WORKING - How to Disable Quick-Find in Firefox

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Because we were getting reports that our previous method of disabling quickfind in Mozilla Firefox didn’t quite work, I decided to try it out myself… and it didn’t work. (Dallon wrote that one guys, so kill him, not me)
So I ran onto the internet in search for a working fix and finally found one! It’s [...]

Canada’s RL Punkbuster Does Some Kicking

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Quebec police won a crazy round of search and destroy Wednesday, arresting sixteen people on raids against a hacker ring spread throughout a dozen cities within the province.
The uber hackers gained control of thousands of computers from a distance and were able to control them to commit crimes such as stealing communications, personal IDs and [...]

HD DVD Surrenders to Blu-Ray

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Toshiba has decided it will abandon the HD DVD format; a rival blue-laser optical disc technology also used by the Blu-Ray discs. HD DVD’s had been locked in a battle with the Blu-Ray discs to become the next-generation heir to the DVD since 2002 when both companies revealed their plans to use this blue-laser technology.

iPhone users Google more than other Mobile Handsets

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via SmartPhoneBlast
Google reported that iPhone users perform 50 times the amount of Google searches than the combined population of all other mobile devices.
Google’s head of mobile operations told the Financial Times, “we thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again.”
This is great news for Google. If more mobile handset [...]

Doodle 4 Google

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An entry on Google’s Official Blog on February 13th announced a new “Doodle 4 Google” competition Google is holding to encourage students in K-12 schools to design a doodle Google that will be put up on the Google homepage for a day.
Doodle 4 Google gives U.S. students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design a [...]

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