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1. 25 laziest cities in America unveiled

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Mobile is immobile Business Insider has published a list of what it considers are the 25 laziest cities in the USA. Number one is Mobile, AL. A third of its citizens don't exercise, nearly a third watch ...

2. Why Apple should license Windows 7

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Let's start out by saying that hell would likely freeze over before this happened... Let's start out by saying that hell would likely freeze over before this happened but then I can recall just a few years ...

3. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   Column - I think the saying goes that those that don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it. Column - I think the saying goes that those that don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it. ...

4. WikiReader puts Wikipedia in your pocket

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... Wikipedia (about 3.5 million articles).If you ever wanted to carry an entire encyclopedia with you, then this might be your opportunity. Openmoko has begun selling a wallet-sized portable device that includes ...

5. Keep on blogging in the free world

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Opinion: Google or Bing "corporate blogs." Just below the ubiquitous Wikipedia entry, in the number two slot, is: "Ten Corporate Blogs Worth Reading." Click on it. Listed at number 5 is: "Check Out ...

6. Captchas show machines just don't have warped minds

   (Security/Security Features)

     Those annoying little Captcha images look set to be around a while longer, following a study examining whether they really do prevent automated network attacks. Those annoying little Captcha images ...

7. IFA and 3D Wars: Blu-Ray is Once Again Obsolete

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Column IFA is the big consumer electronics conference in Europe and it is vastly better timed than CES coming before the holiday season so you can get excited about stuff to buy rather than right after ...

8. Wikipedia turns iffy entries orange

   (Software/Software Features)

     Wikipedia has come up with a solution to the unreliability of some of its entries: color code the dodgy ones. Wikipedia has come up with a solution to the unreliability of some of its entries: ...

9. Wikipedia to concentrate on dead people

   (Software/Software Features)

   In a bid to prevent famous people from shuffling off this mortal coil ahead of their time, online repository of questionable facts, Wikipedia, is to block changes to articles on the living. New York ...

10. Wikipedia blots its copybook

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Online repository of questionable facts, Wikipedia, is in trouble with psychologists after publishing the 'answers' to the Rorschach inkblot tests. Online repository of questionable facts, Wikipedia, ...

11. Google, Bing Wars - don't do as I do, do as I say

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Answers.com, Chambers, Creative Commons, eBay and Wikipedia. And there's a screen showing numerous addons, including - wonder of wonders - Bing. Firefox also managed to copy the home page tab set from ...

12. AMD releases a processor you can’t buy

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD has released the mysterious Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR processor, which is, according to the company, the most capable processor desktop CPU offered by the company. In fact, the CPU is so special ...

13. Wikipedia protected reporter by holding page back

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Rohde, his driver and his interpreter were kidnapped by the Taliban on November 10th and management at the New York Times got agreement from the press they contacted to keep the kidnapping quiet.But Wikipedia ...

14. Top 100 bosses just don't blog

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... proportion of the laggards have Wikipedia entries, Uberco discovered that 30 percent of the 76 Wikipedia entries have out of date or inadequate information.Uberco concludes: "The country's leading CEOs ...

15. Twitter isn't a two-way thing

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... researchers say this puts Twitter in the same category as Wikipedia, where 15 percent of contributors account for 90 percent of all Wikipedia edits. They conclude that this shows that Twitter is more ...

16. Wikipedia shuts out Church of Scientology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wikipedia has taken a rather dramatic step to end four year dispute over the Scientology page and more than 430 related articles. The entire IP range of the Church of Scientology as well as the accounts ...

17. Mother finds porn in Wikipedia entry on childrens' book

    (Software/Software Features)

    Parents are being warned not to let children use Wikipedia unsupervised after an Australian mother got a nasty surprise. Sydney, Australia - Parents are being warned not to let children use Wikipedia ...

18. Waze showcases real time traffic map app

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... approach to map and road information can provide both the functionality and the free-to-consumer cost structure to serve as the map for the mobile generation, just as Wikipedia serves as the Encyclopedia ...

19. Dateline 2600 - one of our civilizations is missing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... called IBM? I think not. (Picture on front page courtesy of Wikipedia).    ...

20. Speakers scream out loud at 150 kilohertz

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... So we're a bit worried that the bats might be deafened by this solid state gizmo. The nikkei.net story is here (subscription needed).  Picture of bat on front page courtesy of Wikipedia.  ...

21. Barclays Bank wants you to pay for identity theft

    (Security/Security Features)

    I got my renewed credit card last week. It had a number on it so you could verify that you were the actual person that had got it - it wouldn't start working until you called the 0800 number. And then ...

22. Plasma on the wane as demand weakens

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Plasma TVs look set to enter the history books and perhaps remain as a footnote to displays when Wikipedia 2050 comes out.Plasma TVs look set to enter the history books and perhaps remain as a footnote ...

23. Wikipedia signs pact with phone company

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Sprawling online encyclopedia Wikipedia said it has forged a relationship with Orange. Sprawling online encyclopedia Wikipedia said it has forged a relationship with Orange. Orange and Wikipedia will ...

24. Emerging battlefield: Browser installers

    (Software/Software Features)

    Mozilla was surprised to discover that, every day, 50,000 people do not install Firefox after a successful software download. At the same time, Safari and Chrome leverage installers to their own advantage ...

25. Confrontational Computing: Empowering all users via the Web

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Wikipedia for the whole web. Chicago (IL) - Yesterday, Intel Research Berkeley held its 2009 open house with some truly amazing people on hand to demonstrate their latest ideas and wares. Some of the presentations ...

26. Complexity kills the computer industry

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - AMD brought out Shanghai, their latest part in November, substantially ahead of when it was expected and it arrived in a market hungry for efficient performance but lacking in the ...

27. China tightens grip, orders more Internet control

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Following the recent videos allegedly depicting the beating of Tibetan monks, China's government today has issued a set of newer, tougher rules on Internet etiquette. These severely limit the type of ...

28. HP and Asustek testing Google's Android OS for sub-$500 netbooks

    (Software/Software Features)

    It's being reported that both Hewlett-Packard and Asustek are currently testing Google's Android operating system for use not in smartphones, but in sub-$500 netbooks and notebooks. The operating system ...

29. Microsoft kills Encarta: Is society getting dummer?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Microsoft's Encarta finally lost the battle to Wikipedia and Internet in general. One of the best-known flagship entertainment titles from the Redmond-based software giant will soon be a goner. After ...

30. Conficker worm believed to have originated from China

    (Security/Security Features)

    The Conficker worm has been widely discussed in recent weeks, and the $250,000 bounty has had many on the hunt for the virus's origination. Microsoft offered the $250,000 for anyone who could provide ...

31. First email virus turns 10

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... so far (an estimated $10 billion). A history of computer viruses can be found on Wikipedia.     ...

32. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    It's that time of year again. As we draw nearer to the next iPhone launch that many believe will take place at Apple's developer conference early summer, rumors start spreading like wildfire. While ...

33. NEC to upgrade underwater PanAmerican cable

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... years ago in 1999. Due to rising bandwidth requirements, the upgrade will bring modern 10 Gbps wavelengths to the new cable, increasing . The upgrade will be completed by the end of this year. Wikipedia ...

34. Review: IE8 is no speed demon, but is most secure browser available

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... a map of a copied address in an overlay window. Or, you can define a copied term using an online dictionary, grab Wikipedia content, check for an item on eBay, Amazon, etc. IE8 comes preloaded with ...

35. AT&T converting to natural gas on 8,000 fleet vehicles

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Over the next five years, as part of a project costing $350 million dollars, AT&T will buy and convert 8,000 Ford Motor Company vans and trucks over to natural gas (AT&T currently has 88,000 vehicles ...

36. MIT professors honored with Turing Award and $250,000

    (Software/Software Features)

    The second woman ever to win the award, Dr. Barbara Liskov was honored today for pioneering new designs in the computer languages which make digital appliances secure. Her designs will make computer programs ...

37. Security whiz spells Safari's doom in upcoming hacking contest

    (Software/Software Features)

    When Apple took Safari into the Windows world, it also exposed the browser to the scrutiny of unforgiving security experts whose personal pleasure it is to hack into browsers, even holding contests ...

38. Obama appoints Technology Chief, Vivek Kundra

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... off #391 on page 20.At the time of this writing, Vivek Kundra's Wikipedia biographical page had undergone 18 changes in the past 14 hours, with no other changes dating back to February 22, 2009, and February ...

39. UPDATED: The 100 oldest registered dot com, org, net, edu domains

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Ever wonder what the oldest registered .com domain is on the Internet? After all, they haven't always existed. In fact, it was just 24 years ago this month that the oldest domain was registered. It was ...

40. Researchers tap supercomputers to find interesting language trends

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Researchers have identified the oldest words in the English language to be the words I, we and who, along with the numbers 1, 2 and 3. These are among the oldest words in all Indo-European languages, ...

41. Amazon: One Terabyte of public data now available to developers

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... data can be accessed via Amazon’s cloud computing service. The data is a collection of all publicly available DNA sequences, US census data, the entire English section of Wikipedia in machine ...

42. Citrix and Microsoft working together to take down VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    Expanding on their partnership and aiding businesses in the deployment and simplification of their virtual machines, Citrix and Microsoft have announced Citrix Essentials for Microsoft's Hyper-V technology. ...

43. Palm vs. Apple: Old play, new roles

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Analyst Opinion - Watching this new battle between Apple and Palm almost looks like a remake of an old play or movie but with Apple in Microsoft's role and Palm as Linux.  Not too many years ...

44. Macintosh turns 25

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The venerable Macintosh, first introduced on January 24, 1984 turned a whopping 25 over the weekend. The Macintosh has evolved over time from its original sleek-yet-boxy, plastic integrated form into ...

45. Dr. Craig Barrett leaving Intel after 35 years, retiring in May

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... at Intel. See Intel's press release, Dr. Craig R. Barrett's biography and even his Wikipedia page.  ...

46. Britannica looking to give Wikipedia a run for its money with online editing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      In effort to compete with Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica company is opening up their online version to editing by contributors everywhere. Unlike Wikipedia, however, all changes will be reviewed ...

47. Windows 7 vs. the World: Change is in the Wind

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      As Windows 7 moves through the beta process, you'll see a number of complaints that typically fall into two classes. Those that feel it hasn't changed enough and those that feel it has changed too much. ...

48. Historical image archives making their way to the web

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... month the German national archive uploaded nearly 100,000 historical photos to the Wikimedia Commons, a virtual archive for any material which has been used in Wikipedia articles. The photographs donated ...

49. China planning its own full Earth GPS system by 2015

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      China's state media announced today that it plans to introduce its own set of geostationary orbiting satellites for a Chinese GPS system by the year 2015. The Beidou Navigation System (BNS) will enable ...

50. DRM-free iTunes music embedded with owner's email address

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      Apple's DRM-free iTunes service is proving to be completely DRM-free, meaning any player can play new music downloaded from iTunes in the AAC (.m4a extension) iTunes Plus format. However, the DRM-free ...