E-mails between a client and attorney are no longer considered privileged and confidential if the client writes the messages from a work e-mail account, a California court of appeals has ruled — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it nitially.
Yahoo’s massive engineering effort to support IPv6 — the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol — could at first shut out potential www.yahoo.com users due to what the company and others call IPv6 brokenness
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
FotoFrame makes the process of resizing your photos extremely straightforward. Tell it where your photos are, where you want to copy the resized versions and the resolution of your frame, and it does the job automatically. You can tweak settings such as image types included and the quality of the resulting JPG files, but for most uses the defaults will be just fine.
FotoFrame is a free download for Windows
I encountered a problem recently where Word would not save, and Photoshop and other applications would not launch after an upgrade to 10.6 from 10.4.
Essentially what I needed to do was reset the printing system. While this was easily achieved in 10.5/10.4 it’s not so easy in 10.6 especially when CUPS would not launch — via Mac OS X Hints
The Australian National University in Canberra could soon house artefacts from Washington’s Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after a landmark agreement between the two institutions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internal US government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to US interests abroad, despite the Obama administration’s public statements to the contrary — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hewlett-Packard has received approval to build a multimillion-dollar data centre in western Sydney — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julia Gillard is standing by an exemption from freedom of information laws for NBN Co – the publicly-owned company building Australia’s biggest infrastructure project.
As an incorporated company, NBN Co will avoid FOI scrutiny, unlike Australia Post, the ABC, SBS and Telstra before it was privatised — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Interesting things are close at hand for iPhone and iPad owners.
Due soon is a new version of Apple’s iOS operating software that will, among other things, enable most iPhones to operate as mobile WiFi hotspots.
Users will be able to connect up to five devices — PCs, Macs, iPads, other smartphones and tablets — to the internet with not a cable in sight. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The vast majority of hi-tech attacks described as acts of cyber war do not deserve the name, says a report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Online dating company Gotham Dating Partners has announced plans to create profiles for non-registered individuals based on publicly available information on social networking sites.
The company operates several dating sites, including: Dons and Divas, Faithful Lover, Marry Me First, Prison Hookup, and Ugly People Date. Incorporated in New York in January 2010 by Aaron Fraser, it is the parent of online footwear startup LeBron Jordan, which came under fire from Nike this month for potential trademark infringement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a move that could herald a new level of danger for Facebook users, third party application developers are now able to access your home address and mobile phone number — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s lights out at busy intersections – the work of criminals who targeted particular components in the city’s high-tech traffic lights — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man who broke into Sarah Palin’s e-mail has been imprisoned – despite being told he might be spared jail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The first recognisably modern computer is to be rebuilt at the UK’s former code-cracking centre Bletchley Park — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with WikiLeaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.
He experienced a similar incident last year at Newark airport — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Laying down some vocals? Starting your own podcast? Here’s how to remove noise from a messy audio track in Audacity quickly and easily.
This is the second part in our series covering how to edit audio and create music using your PC. Be sure to check out the first part in the series, where we covered the basics of using Audacity, and then check out how to add MP3 format support as well — via How-To Geek
Google began turning Android smartphones into interpreters with experimental software that lets the handsets translate conversations in real time — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German firm is poised to launch software allowing users to have photos uploaded to websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Flickr erased automatically after a certain time — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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