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InstaBook. Introducing InstaBook. Turn a digital file (e-mail, CD, floppy) into a bound paperback book. You even get a customized cover & you can (if you want) register the book with an ISBN. This takes on-demand publishing to a whole new level. Anyone know of one in the Bay Area? Thanks to Scott Bauer from… Continue reading InstaBook

My hobby: studying how people use technology. Brian Bailey (the guy who invited me to take a tour of the church) has been “all-Scoble-all-the-time” this week. But, he added comments, and I like his writing style. He has a ton of interesting stuff he's learned from his work. I can't wait to see if he… Continue reading My hobby: studying how people use technology

zdnet.com.au – Russia and China 'behind current spam deluge'. As hardcore criminals step up their spamming, experts believe that nine out of 10 of all e-mails may soon be unsolicited junk. Organised criminals based in Russia are fuelling the rise in the amount of spam sent over the Internet, according to a leading opponent of… Continue reading Russia and China 'behind current spam deluge'

The vanishing IT department. Karl Nelson commented on my recent column and follow-up blog post about outsourcing basic IT services. Karl pointed to “The Vanishing IT Department,” an interesting read from Jerry Gregoire, the former CIO of Dell and Pepsico. (Some of Jerry Gregoire's other writing is here and there's an older piece about him… Continue reading The vanishing IT department

WDS: confusing, powerful, and waiting for a champion. After quite a bit of WiFi wrangling, around a month ago I begrudgingly admitted to myself that there was really no good way to boost the signal from my 802.11g router enough to provide any access worth a damn in the back of our apartment. And given… Continue reading WDS: confusing, powerful, and waiting for a champion

Apple rebuked for ad claims by UK watchdog Apple has been rebuked for its G5 speed claims again by the UK's advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority, who received two complaints about Apple's ads, both “challenging not only the Mac maker's speed claim but its insistence that the G5 was 'the first [computer] with a 64-bit… Continue reading Apple rebuked for ad claims by UK watchdog

MSR Roadshows. Tomorrow (Wednesday) Microsoft Research is doing open house events in both our Silicon Valley and Cambridge labs. One of the things that people tend not to appreciate is that good research labs reflect the local and regional tendencies toward particular approaches and domains of research. Computer science research is not the same all over… Continue reading MSR Roadshows

The Register (UK) – Oops! Firm accidentally eBays customer database. A customer database and the current access codes to the supposedly secure Intranet of one of Europe's largest financial services group was left on a hard disk offered for sale on eBay. The disk was subsequently purchased for just £5 by mobile security outfit Pointsec… Continue reading The Register (UK)

New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV. The new technology will allow users to download movies and music from the Internet to a TiVo video recorder's hard drive. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]

Rover Unearths More Evidence of Water on Mars, Scientists Say. Residue of sulfur and magnesium in a trench in concentrations that suggest the minerals are combined as magnesium sulfate, or Epsom salt, may mean that water percolated through the soil. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology]