Weihnachtsfeiern haben es in sich. Sie beginnen besinnlich und enden ausgelassen. Löst der Alkohol die Zunge, sollte man auf der Hut sein, wie Götz Klingenburg aus Bonn erfahren musste. …mehr
takes many of the standard drawing tools in programs like Microsoft Paint and puts them in a simple, colorful interface that is easy and fun for kids to use. It includes a pencil, marker, crayon, and fill-in paint can, and you can adjust the width of the line of each tool. In addition to creating their own drawings on a blank canvas, kids can color in pictures that PhotoStudio provides. …mehr
Oracle wants SAP to pay it US$212 million in interest on top of the $1.3 billion awarded to it last month by a jury in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, court papers show. …mehr
For a brief period this week, cybercriminals managed to infect Google's and Microsoft's online ad networks with malicious advertisements that attacked users' PCs, according to security consultancy Armorize. …mehr
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced in 2004 that the problem of e-mail spam would be "solved" within two years. …mehr
Verizon Wireless said on Friday that laptop users with USB modems on its may experience up to a two minute delay when switching over from a 3G coverage zone. …mehr
The aspires to compete with the big kids in the arena. This iteration represents a marked improvement over its predecessor, offering higher contrast, a sharper E Ink display, and better performance. Unfortunately, the Wireless eReader still lacks the polish and finesse of the leaders. And at $139 (as of December 13, 2010), it's the same price as an . …mehr
McDonald's is working with law enforcement authorities after malicious hackers broke into another company's databases and stole information about an undetermined number of the fast food chain's customers. …mehr
The Federal Government has upped the pressure on holdout WA Attorney-General, Christian Porter, to support changes to classification laws to allow the introduction of an R18+ rating for games. …mehr
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Rumor has it the iPad 2 will continue the FaceTime trend in 2011; the iPad 1 had its fair share of trendiness in 2010; and BlackBerry sales are trending downwards from 2009. Which, I guess makes the remainders for Friday, December 10, 2010 a trend of trends--a metatrend, if you will. …mehr
It's not an exaggeration to say that the recent Wikileaks scandal has . Regardless of where you stand on the debate, various services have simply refused to handle Wikileaks' business--everything from domain-name providers --and this has led to many questioning how robust the Internet actually is. …mehr