Forge.mil enables Defense Department employees to collaborate on open-source software, a major shift in government adoption of open source.
Entries from January 2009
Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
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‘Human error’ hits Google search
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
Google says a “human error” left users temporarily being told that all search results were potentially harmful.
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Too much Facebook makes teenage girls depressed
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
Research from Stony Brook University suggests that talking too much about your problems on social-networking sites causes depression.
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Google warns entire Internet is malware
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
For about an hour Saturday morning, Google listed every site on the Internet as potentially harmful to your computer. At first, Google blamed the problem on StopBadware.org but later had to eat crow.
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Cybercrime threat rising sharply
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
The threat of cybercrime is rising rapidly and attacks can threaten whole economies, warn experts at the World Economic Forum.
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Google taking security a little too seriously?
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
An apparent problem with Googles malware detector leads to mayhem on a Saturday morning.
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This week in Crave, the XLIII edition
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
Too busy making plans to watch–or ignore–Sunday’s Super Bowl to keep up to the minute on Crave? Here’s a quick rundown of some of the weird, wonderful, and otherwise Crave-worthy stories we had our eye on this week.
• Rock-a-Bye Baby BlackBerry…
A smartphone for tots. …
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Dell’s rumored smartphone: Look out RIM
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
OK, so Dell and Apple have been locked in a marketing war for years. Dell has long been considered the default PC for enterprise, while Apple has positioned itself as the most influential consumer computer brand in the world. But Apple has branched out from computing with the iPod and, …
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Taking Back Sunday, ‘Bonus Mosh pt. II’: Free MP3 of the Day
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off

*From the Free MP3 archive* On tracks like “Liar (It Takes One To Know One),” the punk/pop heroes continue to evolve their means of crossing alternative leanings with arena-ready hooks. Here, their slight–and welcome–subversions include moodier prod on guitars and genuinely achy vocals.
Originally posted at Crossfade
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OpenTable files for IPO, finally
January 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
Innovative online-reservation system registers for public market. Is it too late for this Bubble 1.0 company? Or still too early?
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