May 27, 2007 / Michael Kanellos
BEIJING--It seemed like a pretty good place for stories.
May 26, 2007 / Stephen Shankland
A group of Carnegie Mellon University programmers has launched a service called "ReCaptcha" that can help cut down on spam while letting people digitise books.
May 25, 2007 / Tim Ferguson
The EU is stepping up the fight against cybercrime, outlining plans to create more meaningful legislation and promote greater, cross-border cooperation.
May 24, 2007 / Ellen Messmer
K-12 IT administrators search for better ways to protect school PCs as they wait for the June 6 sentencing of substitute teacher Julie Amero.
May 22, 2007 / Ina Fried
After gaining ground for a couple months, Microsoft's search business lost market share in April, while Google and Yahoo posted gains, according to statistics released Monday by Nielsen/NetRatings.
May 18, 2007 / Nancy Gohring
The Federal Communications Commission
approved Apple's iPhone, clearing the way for the combined phone and music player to hit the shelves.
May 15, 2007 / Josh Lowensohn
Today
Yahoo has launched two new sites to get people motivated to be environmentally responsible. The sites compliment their previous green offering
18seconds.org, which tracks fluorescent light bulb usage in the continental United States. The sites are information tools, and part of a contest to help the greenest city in the U.S. get greener.
May 5, 2007 / Greg Sandoval
LOS ANGELES--Imagine a site just like YouTube, except that the people posting videos are successful comedians and actors.
May 5, 2007 / Stefanie Olsen
MENLO PARK, Calif.--If you want to pack a room of mechanical engineers in Silicon Valley, just trot out its hottest new symbol of status and geekery, the Tesla Roadster.
May 1, 2007 / Sumner Lemon
Interested in learning Chinese, but don't have the money or time to study in China? Some teachers are turning to Skype for help.
May 1, 2007 / Harry Fuller
We now know a lot about tsunamis that we didn't know a few years ago. There's even been significant research showing how hurricanes and tsunamis can act alike once onshore. Today, we learn a little more about a tsunami that occurred 400 years ago.
May 1, 2007 / Michael Kanellos
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued two dire reports this year on global warming and now the third comes on May 4, and it discusses technologies for adapting to climate change.
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My ICE Plan is Home Inventory & Family Emergency Planning Software. The Lite version is a scaled down version of My ICE Plan. Advance features such as cataloging multiple properties, archiving, treeview & importing are not available in the Lite version. Easily create a home inventory just as in the full version. http://onekit.net
The crime statistics program allows you to look up FBI crime statistics by entering your zipcode. It also displays statistics for surrounding cities and areas. Right from your desktop.
Stuttering and fluency software
Discotheek changes your screen into a night club spotlight. You can use your it to generate multicolor flashes. You can use your screen as stroboscope. You can use your screen as light (all white) or dark (all black). You can vary the speed and add or remove colors. You can also have soft transition where colors fade to the next color. Discotheek supports multiple screens. You can run Discotheek on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and online.
JLearnIt is a multilingual dictionary where words are sorted by categories. Each word has a level of use, so you can begin by learning words often used. The languages included are English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Hebrew and many other languages. You can also find words (even incomplete words), translate sentences, save your score (so the questionnaire won t ask you the words you know), add your vocabulary, and much more...
Two programs in one. One that can Add, Subtract, Divide and Multiply fractions and another that can convert a decimal to a fraction or a fraction to a decimal. It's a breeze with
Lite version converts several units of lenght. Plus version converts length, weight and capacity measures. By typing a number into box provided will instantly display the results without the user having to search through a confusing menu of choices. Great for mathematical problems, science or travel. Many different uses for this program. Small in price and size - you can't go wrong! A nice little download!
Calculate the percentage of any number out of any number.Great little tool to have on anyones desktop.
Interpreting China's high-tech policy--maybe
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