“There will be other people beating down the doors,” she said.
The U.S. departments of Commerce and Agriculture have been directed to disperse the broadband funding, which is supposed to help bring high-speed Internet services to underserved areas.
Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, argued at Monday’s hearing that the government program is not meant to [...]

Because Fusion-io targets businesses, reliability is important. Its Flashback protection, for example, is a self-healing technology that is capable of instantaneously restoring lost data and uses an extra dedicated chip to repair failed devices.
Targeted primarily at business applications such as database servers, capacities range from 160 gigabytes to 640 gigabytes. And by the second [...]

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Every once in a while, you read something on Twitter that’s just pitch-perfect, despite (or maybe because of) the microblogging service’s 140-character limit.

Today’s honor is bestowed upon numbers guru and “Web Analytics: An Hour A Day” author Avinash Kaushik, currently employed as Google’s analytics evangelist.

On [...]

Price matters EarthLink planned to blanket cities with Wi-Fi and compete directly with cable and DSL providers. It offered its service for about $20 a month, slightly less than services from cable and phone companies. But consumers didn’t see the value in the service, and subscription uptake was dismally low. Within three years of hatching [...]

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I use two tests: The SunSpider benchmark from the WebKit project, and the V8 benchmark suite from Google, both of which run a variety of computing tasks rather than real-world applications. Such synthetic benchmarks are always tricky business, often not aging well as technology improves, but these two are widely used.

I’m using [...]

Matt decided to create a proximity detector using an ultrasonic sensor and a Make Controller board. The solution offered the best path of least resistance, since Max/MSP includes a whole suite of programming tools for the Make controller board, and its USB compatibility made it easy to set up with our MacBook.

I weaved all [...]

RIM also advises BlackBerry users to open PDF attachments only from “trusted sources.” The company notes in its security advisory:

Such security flaws will do little to bolster President-elect Barack Obama’s hopes for keeping his BlackBerry while in the White House.

Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the PDF distiller of some released versions of the BlackBerry Attachment Service. These vulnerabilities could enable a malicious individual to send an email mess

Best Buy’s fourth quarter was better than anticipated even though profits were down from a year ago amid an economic downturn. The company also noted that the quarter ended stronger than it began, indicating that consumer spending stabilized. And the Circuit City liquidation certainly didn’t hurt Best Buy’s cause.

Same store sales, however, fell 4.8 percent in the quarter, which ended Feb. 28. Best Buy had cut its outlook, revised it, and restructured to prepare for the downtu