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Computer World - September 22, 2009 : They aren't selling personal supercomputers at Best Buy just yet.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top executive at France's biggest telecommunications company, which is dealing with a spate of suicides, warned that the barrage of emails from smartphones and personal computers was stressing out employees.

When l was an astronomy teaching assistant in grad school, some of my students would look through the telescope eyepiece at Saturn, pull back as if they didn't know what to make of it, look again, and ask: “That’s really Saturn? It’s not a picture? A projection?” Some insisted on looking down the telescope tube from the other end to convince themselves they really were peering across millions of miles of open space. I had sympathy for them. Eight hours a day of staring at a computer screen makes it harder to apprehend the world when we see it for real.We all complain about our ambivalence with modern technology. I’ve think I’ve given myself acquired attention deficit disorder by staying connected all the time. But it’s hard to scale back without giving up many of my relationships (not to mention my job). “You can easily find yourself sucked into the vortex of spending hours a day starting at a computer screen,” says Jonathan Most

Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, will be speaking at the Macintosh Computer Expo on Saturday, October 3rd. Jeff will be sharing tips and tricks for getting more out of your iphone or iPod touch.

...by consumers and critics, PopCap's games are played on the Web, desktop computers, myriad mobile devices (cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod, iphone and more), popular game consoles (such as Xbox and DS), and in-flight entertainment systems. PopCap ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ali Jahanshahi, a young, tech-savvy British-Iranian, quit his job selling computers to come to New York with the ambitious goal of ousting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

...Six Questions to Ask Before You Buy an Annuity. It can be viewed on a computer or downloaded to a PDA for easy reference before meeting with an agent or financial advisor. The podcast can also be downloaded from iTunes. Type ...

New User Survey Shows 46% of Respondents Consider Workplaces More Productive Than Five Years Ago, Citing Notebook Computers, Universal Docking Stations, Dual Computer Screens and Adjustable Keyboard T...

Behind the reports of rogue antivirus scams is a multi-million dollar business lining the pockets of cyber-thieves. The threats arent new, but they have been growing in prevalence, according to malware researchers. Seven of the top 25 malware or unwanted software families from the second half of 2008 had a connection to rogue software, according to microsoft experts. Two in particular Win32/FakeXPA and Win32/FakeSecSen were detected by Microsoft on more than 1.5 million computers. The prevalence of the scams is driven by the profits. In a report in March, Finjan uncovered a rogueware affiliate network that hauled in an average of $10,800 a day. Such schemes are successful in part because attackers do a good job of mimicking the look of the Windows Security Center and other legitimate screens in Windows to give their phony scams an air of authenticity. Successfully fighting rogue antivirus schemes must involve teaching users about social engineering. With all this in mind, eWEEK is g

...not only for personal computers but also for lots security equipments, such as embedded equipment, set-top boxes, 3G products, PDA, and consumer electronics, said the chief engineer. A number of organizations pushed the local production of reliable computing products and ...