Canadian Press - NEW YORK - A small South Carolina company says it has a cure for the modern plague of budget-busting cellphone charges racked up by teenagers: a gadget for text-messaging that isn’t a cellphone.
Archive for December 17th, 2007
Dec17
Zipit Wi-Fi messaging device adds cellphone text-messaging (Canadian Press)
Filed in: Cell Phones
Dec17
Confusion as Office 2007 SP1 arrives via Windows Update for some
Some users have received the massive Office 2007 SP1 download — which was released just last week, via Windows Update. This is despite what Microsoft said about SP1 being a separate download until a latter date at least several months from now. It has understandably…
Filed in: Software
Dec17
Apple releases bumper pack of security updates for Mac OS X
Apple has released 31 new security-related fixes for both the Mac OS X operating system on Monday. The bulk of the the security patches are geared towards Mac OS X 10.4, known as Tiger, though a number of them are for version 10.5, known as Leopard. As…
Filed in: Security
Dec17
Are Mac users more honest than Windows users?
Details of new research on Mac OS X Leopard show that Mac users are buying family pack licenses, even though they aren’t forced to. On the other hand, Microsoft goes to great lengths to validate every Windows installation. So does this mean that Apple customers are more honest than Windows users?
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Dec17
Treating Leopard’s Finder not-fully-loading bug
Since the release of Mac OS X Leopard, a number of users have reported that a video codec can stop the Finder from fully loading. An Apple technical note suggests a fix via the Terminal; however, there are other more-GUI ways to apply the fix.
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Dec17
ACI, Big Blue Deposit SOA Into Financial Services
IBM has teamed with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment software company, to develop a payment system powered by IBM’s open standards based System Z platform. The new offering will include IBM’s DB2 database, WebSphere middleware and Tivoli management software as well as its Crypto-chip technology. It will also run a specially optimized version of AIC’s payment processing software.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec17
Ribbit Offers Way to Leapfrog the Phone Company
A Silicon Valley startup with an unlikely name announced Monday a new platform designed to enable telephony in a wide variety of applications. Using an open platform to facilitate connections between telephony and the Web, Ribbit is working with a community of more than 600 developers to help voice-enable a raft of new applications.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec17
REEM-B, New Humanoid Robot Announced
Davide writes “There is a quite an interesting human size robot that comes from UAE, REEM-A. It has some interesting skills as dynamic walking (of course), object recognition, voice recognition, self localization and mapping, long battery life and face recognition. Recently, the development team announced that the second prototype, REEM-B, will be presented in February 2008. The second prototype has many improvements: a fingered hand with 12 motors, the ability to go up and down stairs, additional force sensors on the arms, ultrasonic range finders to avoid obstacles and a completely new look.” Or, if you prefer something a bit cheaper, you could go with the $30 DIY Android.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Filed in: Hardware
Dec17
Security Update 2007-009 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.1
Apple has issued security updates for Mac OS X 10.5.1, 10.4.11 (PPC), and 10.4.1 (Universal) today. The individual packages affected are listed:
Mac OS X 10.5.1: Core Foundation, CUPS, Flash Player Plug-in, Launch Services, perl, py…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Dec17
Security Update 2007-009 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.1 [Updated]
Apple has issued security updates for Mac OS X 10.5.1, 10.4.11 (PPC), and 10.4.1 (Universal) today. The individual packages affected are listed:
Mac OS X 10.5.1: Core Foundation, CUPS, Flash Player Plug-in, Launch Services, perl, py…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
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