CNS STORY: Vatican Radio employees present pope with specially loaded iPod nano

A group of Vatican Radio employees gave Pope Benedict XVI a brand new iPod nano loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music.

To honor the pope’s first visit to the radio’s broadcasting headquarters, the radio’s technical staff decided the pencil-thin, state-of-the-art audio player [...]

Telecommunications giants scored a victory over Net Neutrality advocates in the U.S. legislature yesterday as the proposed “Markey Amendment,” a provision to prevent Internet providers from creating access chokepoints was voted down in the House of Representatives.

The amendment’s defeat has caused a firestorm of accusations against the telecom industry and the legislators [...]

Posted by Dan Farber

Technorati’s Dave Sifry published the latest blogosphere stats based on his logs. The blogsphere is growing like a weed, over 86,000 blogs per day on average, according to Technorati data. However, the mechanisms to aggregate and filter the blogosphere are not doubling in improvements every six months–not [...]

Many millions of words have been written and said on this topic. I have a couple of pictures. The basic argument goes like this. In its long evolution, Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure. [...]

Source: Samsung launches Flash Disk for Mobile PCs

Samsung Launches Flash Disk for Mobile PCs

Samsung Electronics announced at the Mobile Solution Forum that it has begun offering a 32-Gigabyte NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD) for mobile computing applications.

The 32GB Flash-SSD, which serves the same purpose as a hard disk drive. It uses instantly-accessible, non-moving NAND [...]

“If you were surprised to see that Microsoft’s Windows Performance Rating tool—which ranks PCs on how well they can run Vista—gives even some fairly high-end current model PCs relatively low rankings, here’s another number to wrap your brain around: $370 million. That’s how much Samsung estimates [...]