Open Systems Journal

AP - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.,Microsoft co-founder Allen treated for lymphoma
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Readers offer their best tips for switching browsers with a hotkey, scheduling work time with rotating wallpapers, and using Gmail quicklinks as a to-do list.
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Math wizard Arthur Benjamin shares three secrets to how to multiply big numbers — without a calculator and faster than even if you had one.

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Opponents of Google Books settlement say the search giant will still have exclusive rights to digitize orphaned out-of-print works.
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AP - Ralph Roberts knew he was onto something big when people ran after his cable TV trucks in Tupelo, Miss., asking for a visit to their homes.
,Comcast’s NBC talks cap its decades-long rise
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The PASS Summit (or any conference like SQL Connections, TechEd, etc.) gives you the opportunity for learning, but I’d hope that it would do more and really inspire you to try something new in your job. And if you get excited, you might inspire the others you work with to try something new as [...]

Datacolor’s simple and inexpensive multisided SpyderCube improves upon the gray-card concept by light-years, solving one of the most frustrating picture-taking problems: color balancing.

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Data mining could help, but users also need to maintain control.

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Putting the mega in Mega-D
Herders behind the Mega-D botnet may have corralled nearly a quarter million infected machines into their spam-churning enterprise before it was recently crippled by white hat hackers.…
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Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 977544 in regard to public reports of a possible denial of service vulnerability in the company’s implementation of the Server Message Block 2 (SMB2) protocol that only affects Windows 7 [...]