HowToWeb.com

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released its new spam report that indicates about 95% of emails are spam. The survey found that 95% of all email is spam. 70% of the respondents consider spam extremely significant or significant for their security operations. Permalink | Recent Headlines...

Read more

Amazon has the launch of the Kindle Development Kit. The Kit gives developers access to programming interfaces, tools and documentation to build active content for Kindle. Some of the Kindle apps Amazon.com says can be developed include travel books that suggest activities based on real-time weather and current events, cookbooks...

Read more

Intel displayed its Infoscape at CES 2010. The technology using Intel's new Intel Core processor allows people to interact in real-time with numerous data sources at once on one giant touch screen. The display is pulling from hundreds of different data sources at once. You can read more about the...

Read more

Elizabeth Palmer reports for CBS News that U.S. Predator drones were hacked in Iraq. The report says the insurgents were able to use $26 software to hack our drones and watch the surveillance video. This does not sound good. However, the video was unencrypted so if the video was just...

Read more

OfficeMax has some good deals on Cyber Monday. The special product offers and deals will be live on the OfficeMax.com website starting at 12am on Monday, November 30th. There will be limited quantities so be sure to shop early. Here is a list of the offers. Save 25% on all Refurbished...

Read more

Boing Boing says this unusual trilobite-shaped DIY vehicle was created by "Oilpunk" enthusiasts Kyrsten Mate and Jon Sarriugarte, with help from Amy Jenkins and Tansy Brooks. A prehistoric bug isn't really the first thing you think of when you think of personal transport but it seems to work fine. Take...

Read more

There have been plenty of lame iPod costumes made out of cardboard. Reko Rivera and John Savio went the extra mile and made impressive iPhone costumes that have 42" displays that actually work. Take a look: Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds ...

Read more

Physorg.com has an interesting article about what technology will follow hard drives. The article cites a study that has hard drive storage costing as little as $40 for a 14 TB drive in 2020. According to a new study, if HDDs continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020...

Read more

Ecofont is a free font designed to be more eco-friendly. The font has holes in it so that less ink will be used when the font is printed. CNET reports that Ecofont claims to use 20% less ink than regular fonts. They also say it is basically "Arial with holes."...

Read more

Internet News reports that Verisign reported that the number of registered domains climbed to 184 million in the second quarter of 2009. 9 million new domains were registered in the second quarter - this was a 15% plunge from the second quarter in 2008. VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) said in its report...

Read more

Computerworld reports that a network of Russian malware writers have been paying hackers 43 cents for each Mac computer they infect with malware. A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become...

Read more

iTwinge is a real QWERTY physical keyboard that appears to fit on the iPhone like a sleeve. For $30 it might be a nifty addition for those who want to use a real keyboard instead of the touchscreen. Gadgetwise says the keyboard was originally developed by Mobile Mechatronics founder Mike...

Read more

The BBC reports that Research in Motion (RIM) - the company behind the popular Blackberry device - has topped Fortune's list of the fastest growing companies. Canada-based RIM has come top of the magazine's latest annual guide to the 100 fastest-growing businesses. In second place was US chipmaker Sigma Designs, with Chinese...

Read more

A car was used to create a new font in this clever campaign for a car company. You can see the website at IQ Font. (via Boing Boing) Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds ...

Read more

The long awaited Microsoft Yahoo deal has happened. Microsoft's recently launched Bing search engine will power the Yahoo search engine in a long term 10-year deal. The BBC reports that Yahoo will keep 88% of the revenues for search ad sales on Yahoo.com for the first five years. In return for...

Read more

Wired reports that Google's Vic Gundotra believes the future of the mobile industry is web-based application not mobile apps like those in the iTunes stores. Vic Gundotra, Google's engineering vice president and developer evangelist, said on Friday at the Mobilebeat conference in San Francisco that the future of the mobile industry...

Read more

Pingdom reports that the number of domain names registered continues to grow despite this ongoing Great Recession we are in. Pingdom cites a quarterly report from Verisign that says the number of registere domains climbed to 183 million, an increase of 12% from last year. The report also found that...

Read more

Cube Me reports on a very strange sounding gel remote that is soft when not in use but hard when it is activated. It's unclear why a remote needs to go soft and squishy when not being used. Constructed of a soft, flesh-like gel, the remote appears cold when off. Once...

Read more

Daily Intel reports that several AOL offices - including the downtown NYC office - are on alert for swine flu after an employee was diagnosed with a suspected case. We all got a memo yesterday saying someone in the downtown NYC office has a suspected case of swine flu," an AOL...

Read more

The Google Trike is going around Britain taking multiple images of national tourist treasures. These images will help Google Britain's famous landmarks on Google's Street View map. The bike carries the same 3-D camera that Street View cars carry. It's good exercise for whoever is riding the Google Trike. A...

Read more

Venture Beat reports that Facebook has nearly finished raising $150 million. They say part of the money is being used to buy out employees' shares in the company. Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.'s employees have now toiled at the company for more than two years, and many have worked three...

Read more

InformationWeek reports that Internet traffic fell by 5% on Thursday morning because of Google's outage. People did notice and complained loudly. Blog posts proclaimed Google's failure. Twitter jittered with tweets. Lattes languished undrunk on office desks as workers muddled through life without Gmail. As a consequence of Google's problems, business Web sites...

Read more

Here's a look at some cool, cutting edge displays that were shown at the th International Display 2009 and Touch Panel Japan's 1st International Touch Panel Technology Expo. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds ...

Read more

Two giant spiders from La Machine crawl through Yohohama's Bayside area in the clip from The Japan Times. Pink Tentacle has some photos of the huge spiders. Posted in Robots Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds ...

Read more

Google has launched a Google Labs feature called Similar Images. As the name suggests the technology shows you images that are similar to the one you select. It can be useful in helping you focus on specific images when there are two very different items you are looking for that...

Read more

A Swedish court has jailed four defendants in a copyright test case involving The Pirate Bay, one of the biggest file-sharing websites. TorrentFreak says the four defendants will each get 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000. One of the defendants is calling the verdict an "epic win"...

Read more

Jefferson Graham from USA Today has an article about online stock websites like iStockPhoto.com. Jefferson Graham says that you have to get approvals if you are going to submit a photograph with a person or a corporate logo. Graham interviewed Nick Monu, a Rhode Island medical student, who makes six...

Read more

Reuters reports that actress and singer Jennifer Lopez has won her cybersquatting complaint. Jennifer Lopez argued that a man in Phoenix, Arizona had registered two domains that used her names primarily as a way to make money from pay-per-click advertising. The World Intellectual Property Organiztion (WIPO), a UN agency, ordered...

Read more

Dvice reports that experts at Intel and Carnegie Mellon University have create Claytronics, a type of programmable play-doh. Claytronics is technically a programmable matter made up of millions of 200-micrometer-diameter spheres that can be programmed to form shapes and change color. The cool looking technology could have many uses. In...

Read more

eWeek's Security Watch blog is discussing a novel malware attempt that involved a malware url that was placed on faking parking tickets. Anyhow, SANS Institute researcher Lenny Zeltser recently uncovered the two-part parking ticket/malware scam, through which someone placed phony tickets on the windshields of a number of vehicles in a...

Read more

The Wall Steet Journal's Digits blog reports that a Verisign report indicates that domain registrations fell 17% in the fourth quarter compared to the 4th quarter fo 2008. There were also slightly less new domains registered in 2008 compared to 2007. Domain registrar VeriSign's latest report on the state of the...

Read more

Microsoft has announced plans to cut 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. 1,400 of the layoffs will occur immediately. They are the first major layoffs for the software giant. The layoffs, 1,400 of which come immediately, appear to be a first for Microsoft, which was founded in 1975, aside from...

Read more

A Robot inventor and farmer named Wu Yulu once accidentally burnt down his house and plunged his family into debt when he was trying to build one of his robots. Now Reuters says Wu Yulu has turned things around and his robot inventions are starting to garner him some attention....

Read more

Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, talked to the Associated Press at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Microsoft plans for 2009. Ballmer says he still thinks people are plenty interest in PCs. Ballmer also sounds excited about mobile search. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds ...

Read more

The recent Zune meltdown had many 30GB Zune owners in a panicked state. The problem had to do with the clock drive in the 30GB Zune. The glitch has passed but the news of the glitch probably won't do Microsoft any good in its battle against the Apple iPod. On the...

Read more

A new study is out linking cell phone use to heart disease and kidney stones. The European Research Institute for Electronic Components in Bucharest found that cell phones may lead to heart disease and kidney stones, according to Switched.com. How is this possible? The study found that cell phones emit radiation,...

Read more

Fractalius is a funky plugin for Photoshop. Redfield Plugins says the the effects are based on extraction of so-called hidden fractal texture of an image. You can see some more images created with Fractalius here on Flickr. (via Boing Boing) Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds ...

Read more

When web companies make a mistake like forgetting to renew a domain it can often be very costly. The AP reports that domain grabbers capitalized on the mistake of a web company that worked for the George W. Bush Presidential Library. The Bush Library web firm forgot to renew the...

Read more

CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on a human and robot love story. Many science fiction authors have predicted that human-robot love will eventually happen. Aiko is a companion robot project. She has the ability to recognize objects put in front of "her" and has the "ability to talk and interact with...

Read more

PC Magazine reports that data from ComScore shows a 15% improvement in Cyber Monday sales for 2008 when compared to 2007. Web cash registers recorded $846 million in sales, a solid jump from the $733 million generated in 2007. Websites like Shop.org's CyberMonday.com led the sales charge with categorized deals...

Read more

The Sniper Twins show you how to stack the memory to the sky in this geeky rap video. TechCrunch says it's part of a Seagate campaign. It's a bit remeniscient of Weird Al Yankovic's "It's All About The Pentiums" classic. The official website is stackthememory.com. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News...

Read more

The Wall Street Journal says CEO Jerry Yang's resignation is giving some investors hope that a Microsoft deal will follow. The question is will Microsoft still be interested in acquiring Yahoo. Maybe not. They are more likely to just want Yahoo's search businesst. WSJ's Julia Angwin speaks to S&P analyst...

Read more

Here's a scary robot head animation threatening to wipe out mankind. The robot face pleads for a chance to destroy some humans while making human-like expressions. It has been the plot of many science fiction novels that the day will come when the robot turns on us. Hopefully, it won't...

Read more

Is branding of big brands like Apple similar to the way people come to believe in a religion? Martin Lindstorm - the author of Buyology - says it is similar to a religion. "Apple is (as we've proven using neuroscience)...a religion," Lindstrom said in the interview. "Not only that--it is a...

Read more

TechFlash reports (via ReadWriteWeb) that Bill Gates haas created a mysterious new company called bgC3 LLC. It's described as a sort of "think tank" that will focus on science and technology. That's the company's logo on the right. Public documents describe the new Gates entity -- bgC3 LLC -- as a...

Read more

Mr. Asahi is a $200,000 robot that tends bar. You can see Asahi in action in the video below. He can serve around of drinks in under two minutes. Bar tenders in the clip are not yet threatened by the robotic bartender. There's a video of Asahi here as...

Read more

The AP reports that the owner of a stolen laptop was able to track down the person who stole his laptop by logging into a remote desktop application he had installed on the laptop. It took about a month of frustrated watching before the latop-thief finally entered his name and...

Read more

Murata's Little Seiko is a robot than can ride a unicycle. Not only can Little Seiko ride a unicycle but it can avoid obstacles while doing it. This robot has some impressive balance. (via Gizmodo) Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds ...

Read more

Geeks and app developers are excited about the launched of T-Mobile's Google Android powered phone. Information Week cites one analyst's forecasts for the new Android phone in the 4th quarter as 400,000 units. Strategy Analytics has been doing some number crunching. According to its computations, Android will grab 4% of the...

Read more

Web Monkey reports that the final proposed recommendation for HTML 5 won't be released until 2022. If you're a web developer looking forward to the new tools in HTML 5, the next generation of the language that powers the web, we have some bad news for you - you're going to...

Read more

Shoppingblog.com reports that Sony is recalling over 400,000 Vaio laptops. You can see the recall note from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission here. Hazard: Irregularly positioned wires near the computer's hinge and/or a dislodged screw inside the hinge can cause a short circuit and overheating. This poses a burn hazard...

Read more

The iPhone hologram or iHologram by animator David O'Reilly was a fake but maybe it will be possible someday. It seems a lot closer to what an iPhone hologram might someday look like than the fake holographic text message video made a couple months ago. (via Cult of Mac) Permalink |...

Read more

Fortune is reporting that Apple has quickly sold 3 million of the new iPhones. They had sold 1 million just three days after the July 11th debut. The blistering sales pace of Apple's new gadget defies the otherwise downward trends in consumer spending, employment levels and overall economic health. The 3...

Read more

This is new product from Microsoft Research. The Sphere uses the Microsoft Surface technology that was first introduced in Octoboer of 2007. Using Microsoft Surface on a spherical surface looks like it works best for the globe of the Earth they show in the video clip. Beyond that a...

Read more

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article about webflippers - people who buy websites with the hope of improving them and then selling them for a higher price. One webflipper bought bird-cage.com for $1,800 and then sold it three years later for $173,000. Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a...

Read more

Instead of a solitary super-intelligent robot how about a swarm of fairly mindless robots cooperating with other swarm-bots to solve tasks? The BBC reports that swarm robots may someday be used for dangerous Mars missions or dangerous jobs here on Earth. The swarm-bots were recently featured at the Artificial Life...

Read more