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Recovery.gov: Your Tax Dollars at Work

How to you keep track of $797 billion? When the stimulus package was passed last winter, the government promised that citizens would be able to use a new Web site, Recovery.gov, to find out where money was being sent. It...

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September 28, 2009 in Current Affairs, economy, Web/Tech | Permalink | User Comments (12)

Conficker Strikes…Or Does it?

You remember the Conficker worm, don't you? Well? If you don't, or if you're going, "Oh, yeah, that thing," maybe that's good. The Conficker botnet, a devilishly well-written piece of rogue computer code that threatened ominously to do something undefined...

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August 4, 2009 in Web/Tech | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Nonstop

Wednesday, 3:20 p.m. If you live on a raft in the middle of the northern Pacific, you may want to take a look out your window about now. Boeing -- out to promote its new long-range 777-200LR -- is flying...

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November 9, 2005 in Web/Tech | Permalink | User Comments (1)

A Disturbance in the Force

Woe be to Grokster! In case you missed the story late yesterday, the download site is no more. Pummeled by major media companies -- to say nothing of the Supreme Court -- Grokster is paying a $50 million fine, and...

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November 8, 2005 in Web/Tech | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Cool

Wednesday morning. Two quick items from the world of consumer electronics: First, Motorola stock looks to have a promising morning, after the company reported its third-quarter earnings tripled. What did the trick? No one thing, of course, but the business...

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October 19, 2005 in Web/Tech | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Wi-Fi for the Masses?

Monday afternoon. How is this blog reaching you? Are you sitting at a desktop computer with a cable going from your machine to your modem? Or are you using a laptop, with an antenna built in, or a PC card...

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October 3, 2005 in Web/Tech | Permalink | User Comments (1)