Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Ashes2Art: Modeling the Past in 3D (Camput Technology)

A collaboration between two universities called Ashes2Art has students themselves using three-dimensional modeling software to create exact renderings of ancient structures and study ancient ruins.

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Multifunction Printers: The Forgotten Security Risk

That networked multifunction printer sitting innocently in the corner of your office just might be the most significant entry point for hackers to hijack sensitive data from your business. Are you paying attention?

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Comcast FCC filing shows gap between hype, bandwidth reality (Ars Technica)

In a lengthy FCC filing, Comcast offers its fullest explanation yet of how it "delays" certain P2P traffic. If you thought that your 6Mbps connection entitled you to actually use 6Mbps of bandwidth all the time, Comcast begs to differ.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Is it time to consider PDF a threat? (Ars Technica)

The 8.12 patch for Adobe Reader that Adobe released last week fixed a number of security holes—but not before malware capable of exploiting them had been on the market for weeks. The end result is tough questions on whether it is time to consider PDF a security threat.

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Hands on With the GooglePhone, aka Android Phone (Wired Gadget Lab)

Several companies at GSMA are showing prototypes running the Google-backed open-source Android operating system (aka the "GooglePhone"), and judging by the crowd reaction, these "phones" are the hit of the show.

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Friday, February 8, 2008

EarthLink's citywide Wi-Fi biz for sale (CNET News.com)

EarthLink is selling off its municipal Wi-Fi business, the company's CEO said Thursday night during its fourth-quarter 2007 conference call. The move won't make it any easier to finish Philly's big wireless project, but don't write off muni Wi-Fi altogether just yet.

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