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Technology Review: Picking the Browser's PadlockPicking the Browser's Padlock A new tool interferes with a website's secure connections. Most websites use an encrypted connection to transfer sensitive information, including usernames, passwords, and credit-card numbers, over the Internet. In a presentation given this week at Black Hat DC, ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: Reading Thoughts with Brain ImagingReading Thoughts with Brain Imaging Researchers use fMRI to determine the contents of short-term memory. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) looks more and more like a window into the mind. In a study published online today in Nature , researchers at Vanderbilt University report ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: A Big Stimulus Boost for Electronic Health RecordsA Big Stimulus Boost for Electronic Health Records Wiring up physicians from small practices will be one of the biggest hurdles. Physicians and information specialists across the country are feverishly figuring out how to best prepare for the impending availability of $19 billion designated ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: Web Applications On CallWeb Applications On Call New software lets cell-phone users search the Web and hear messages during a call. When working online, it's a simple matter to open a new browser tab and quickly look something up, or to send an instant message to a friend. Ditech Networks , based in Mountain View, ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: NASA's Carbon Observatory Set for BlastoffNASA's Carbon Observatory Set for Blastoff A satellite will launch tomorrow to help scientists account for missing carbon-dioxide emissions. Early Tuesday morning, a Taurus XL rocket will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, bearing NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: Microsoft: Laid-off can keep extra pay after allMicrosoft: Laid-off can keep extra pay after all SEATTLE (AP) -- A few weeks after launching the first wide-scale layoffs in its history, Microsoft Corp. admits it screwed up a key part of the plan. First Microsoft realized that an administrative glitch caused it to pay more severance than ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: Popularity Poll Ranks StartupsPopularity Poll Ranks Startups Measuring online buzz could help investors, a company claims. The buzz surrounding a startup might not guarantee success, but it can help when it's time to find funding. Now a company that offers tools for monitoring the startup scene has released a ranking of ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: Skepticism arises over rural broadband stimulusSkepticism arises over rural broadband stimulus WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the first concerted federal program to subsidize high-speed Internet services in rural areas, the new economic stimulus package will create some jobs and could get hundreds of thousands of households online. Yet there's ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: Cable companies want a way to win with online TVCable companies want a way to win with online TV PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- HBO on your PC? It could happen sooner than you think. Wary of the growing number of consumers watching TV shows online for free -- and yet reluctant to upset viewers by yanking shows from the Internet -- the nation's ...X X added 9 months ago
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Technology Review: Google pays for e-mail outage with 15-day creditGoogle pays for e-mail outage with 15-day credit MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc. is making amends for an e-mail outage by giving 15 days of free service to businesses, government agencies and other subscribers who pay for an expanded version of the product. The concession is meant ...X X added 9 months ago