I wrote previously about a great music source called Pandora and now you can listen to it with out firing up a browser (at least not directly) as the new Media Library in Winamp can load web pages and therefore can load the Pandora Flash application.

The guys over at Google Operating System posted a simple […]

A growing number of colleges and universities are questioning their ongoing investments in providing landline phone services to students.
Indeed, some institutions have decided to discontinue landlines altogether. Morrisville State College, for example, no longer offers landline service in dorms. While some universities rely on students to provide their own cell phones, the University of Cincinnati […]

Carnegie Mellon University has launched a new facility that researchers hope will shed light on questions of power consumption in data centers.
The Data Center Observatory, which is itself a functioning data center, will let researchers study ways to improve the efficiency of computers in data centers, helping institutions cut costs for energy consumption.
Greg Ganger, professor […]

The theft of personal data on U.S. veterans has caused an uproar after federal officials learned that the Veterans Affairs (VA) Department did not disclose the incident until two weeks after it happened. A VA employee took a number of computer disks home, against agency policy, and they were stolen from his home. The disks […]

The XBMC Fox Firefox extension adds an entry to the right-click menu that lets you send an internet video to your Xbox Media Center.
This is a really cool way to keep media playing on your TV rather than having to switch over to the computer screen every time you want to watch an internet video.

Xbmc […]

A new program supported by Microsoft aims to provide developing countries with low-cost access to computer technology through a subscription service. Under the FlexGo program, consumers pay a reduced price for a PC and then pay for usage of the computer until it is paid off. After buying a computer for about half of its […]

The Internet registrar that had pushed for a domain for adult content has asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to reconsider its decision to turn down the domain, saying that the group was misled by U.S. officials. ICM Registry has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the U.S. State Department […]

New data reveal that college and university Web sites are the second most important component of recruiting efforts, behind campus visits by prospective students. Specifically, online tools such as blogs are attracting growing numbers of high school students to help them decide what institution to attend. Other institutions offer different kinds of online resources. North […]

Based on concerns raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) about “prior art,” the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced it will conduct a reevaluation of a patent granted in 2003 for online testing. The notion of prior art covers whether the subject of a patent is indeed original–and patentable–or whether another […]

The U.S. State Department will reportedly not use any of the computers it recently purchased from Lenovo for classified information due to concerns over the company’s connection with the Chinese government.
Last year, Chinese computer maker Lenovo bought IBM’s PC business, and in March of this year, the State Department ordered 16,000 Lenovo computers valued at […]