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An Israeli researcher, Dr. Meirav Taieb-Maimon has developed a system that allows folks to search and browse the Internet via voice interface - using only a microphone and speakers so that you can ‘ask’ the computer questions and ‘hear’ the answers. Now if you could remember what really you were looking for? Guys, stopping and [...]

CERN’s IT department bans Skype. This seems to be old stuff, for I remember writing about this last year. via

Yahoo Music service can be hacked by anyone to download all the music they want. Robert Chapin figured out how to do it. In a public press release he says, the flaw was discovered by his company, Chapin Information Services.
CIS initially reported flaws during day-one of the public beta period, but had found only [...]

Thomas, a regular reader emailed me a story in Las Vegas Review Journal about the vulnerabilities of wifi networks. With help of an expert, the news daily picked up 150 networks, with nearly 40 of them unsecured, for anyone to tap into. “Wi-Fi signals have become the 21st century version of the Wild West. [...]

In the past, I have argued that one of the main reasons, Apple’s music platform -iPod + iTunes + iTunes store - works is because it is quite simple. You know which specific device to buy, and you know all songs you purchase from the store for 99 cents are going to work on that [...]

Dean Takahashi: As a new video game console war kicks off, no one is happier than IBM, which is selling ammunition to all sides. It ousted Intel from Microsoft’s Xbox 360, which is set to make its debut in the fall. IBM also will supply chips for the next-generation Sony and Nintendo consoles that go [...]