John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his six-year-old grandson, Zackary.
What do you want your cellphone to be able to do? A Massachusetts Industry of Technology professor put that question to about 20 computer-science students this semester when he gave them one assignment: design a software program for cellphones that use Google’s upcoming Android mobile operating system.
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/ 20 February 2007
"Patch Tuesday", when Microsoft releases repairs for problems in its software, came and went last week with six critical fixes — including the first one that touches Vista, the new operating system billed as the most secure Windows version yet. This isn’t to say that Vista had previously appeared clean.
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/ 25 January 2007
Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse on Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web encyclopedia site. "We were very disappointed to hear that Microsoft was taking that approach," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said.