Archive for April, 2007

Whither Microsoft’s ‘Big Bang’?

Monday, April 30th, 2007

"The April 25 release of a feature-complete Windows Server "Longhorn" beta is a monumental milestone for Microsoft, perhaps more important than the launch of Windows Vista. As the nucleus of Microsoft's enterprise product strategy, Longhorn will likely pull deployments of other products, including Vista."

Cannabis ‘disrupts brain centre’

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Scientists have shown how cannabis may trigger psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia.

How to keep your wi-fi network safe

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Researchers can now break WEP security in less than a minute - and are strongly recomending that people switch their Wi-Fi over to WPA.

New York Times Confirms Google Phone

Monday, April 30th, 2007

The NYTimes has a boilerplate article about Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google going after the cellphone. This line is interesting, though: Google has gone so far as to build a prototype phone with its own software inside, according to one person who has seen it.

The 20 Jobs With the Fastest Growing Salaries

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Business 2.0 Magazine identifies popular job categories in which wages are growing the fastest.