NASA reports that computer viruses got aboard an International Space Station mission by sneaking a ride on some laptops. They didn't get into the ISS but NASA is worried that they may have been transferred to the laptops via memory sticks.

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Microsoft has announced that the new version of Internet Explorer (version 8) will have privacy features which will allow "InPrivate Browsing."

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The IQLeadership Business Group reports that 47% of employees rated as "high performers" by their employers are looking for other jobs while only 18 percent rated as "low performers" were. Does this mean that low performers like to stick around while high performers are looking for new challenges?

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The IQLeadership Business Group reports that 47% of employees rated as "high performers" by their employers are looking for other jobs while only 18 percent rated as "low performers" were. Does this mean that low performers like to stick around while high performers are looking for new challenges?

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This article from Forbes magazine tells of a 20-year-old college student who won the "fastest texting" contest and took home $50,000 for his efforts.

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Workers these days don't want as much increased responsibilities as workers have in the past. This article describes a report from the Families and Work Institute survey that says people don't look to more responsibility in a job as positively as they used to.

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In this article, users are warned that spell check used without human intervention can lead to errors.

A computerized spell-checker run amok christened several Dauphin County high school students with new last names in their yearbooks.

Middletown Area High School's yearbook listed Max Zupanovic as "Max Supernova," Kathy Carbaugh as "Kathy Airbag," and Alessandra Ippolito as "Alexandria Impolite," just to name a few.

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Just when you thought things were safe and secure on your computer, this article shows how it might not be the case. The encription used to keep data secure might itself be flawed enough to let intruders in.

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With the availability of MP3 files so readily available for downloading, people are being tricked into thinking they're getting something for free, when really, they're just downloading a program that fills their computer with adware.

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This article includes a prediction that there may be a time when people won't need computer keyboards

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AOL announces the end of an era with Netscape Navigator. The software which had been purchased by the company in 1998 has been given it's last date of update as February 1, 2008.

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Employers are rethinking the value of "facetime" when looking at whether a job is eligible for telecommuting. One author is exploring the phenomenon further and expects the trends to become more important in the near future.

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This article mentions how many companies are weighing the trade-offs between employees wasting time on the Internet and the value of happy employees. It includes some thought provoking ideas about "mental vacations" improving productivity.

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On October 16th, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to continue the ban on Internet sales tax. The ban will be for 4 years, instead of the permanent ban some had hoped for.

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The 2007 Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg for work on magnetoelectronics (also known as Sprintronics), which advanced the capacity of electronic devices to store information. This discovery allowed everything from computers to cell phones to iPods to keep a lot more information and run more sophisticated programs.

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Twenty-five years ago on September 18th, a college professor used the first smiley or "emoticon" to express emotion in his e-mail. Thus, the smiley was born. :-)

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Last month, the Internet hit another milestone when it added its 100 millionth website, according to Netcraft, a company that keeps count by using the ICANN domain name system as its guide.  It took almost 10 years for the Internet to reach 50 million websites but then only 2 years to double that.

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www.modbee.comThis article fromt he Modesto Bee points out that PowerPoint is being used more and more. Community Business College specializes in PowerPoint and the development of "slideware." It's being used for college admissions and other endeavors where creativity can be expressed.

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The winner of the "Dark and Stormy Night..." contest (also known as the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest) has been announced.

Click HERE to see bad writing at its best!

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Are teens keeping their information safe? This article gives a synopsis of a new study from  on Pew Internet & American Life Project that looked at just that issue.

Kids are pretty savvy about keeping private information secret, but as this article shows, there's still more to keeping them safe on the Internet.

Click HERE to read the whole article.

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This study by McAfee Site Advisor rates search engines such as Google and Yahoo. It describes the dangers in some of the addresses the search engines find and what the searchers are doing to combat them. Other search engines like MSN, AOL and Ask are included in the data.

Click HERE for the full study.

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This article  from Great Britain explores the explosion in laptop computer sales and the increase in back problems caused by poor posture. What's the answer? Like mom always said, sit up straight.

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This umbrella has it all for the person who just can't stand to be away from the Internet.  It has a digital camera which allows you to take pictures and upload them to Flickr. Then you can look at the pictures as the underside of the umbrella turns into a display.  The umbrella also comes with a Global Positioning System system and a link to Google Earth.  Just be careful about getting it wet.

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This article describes the Internet phemenon which started just 25 years ago at the National Science Foundation. From the founding of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee  to MySpace, this article gives 25 advances that made the Internet the tool it is today.

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If you had it to do all over again, would you do it differently? That's what Internet scientists are thinking today. The original concept of the Internet didn't include anything near what it's used for today. The possiblity of redoing the hardware and software to help it accomplish more is being discussed today.

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In this LiveScience article, the science of saving computer data as artificial DNA in the bacteria bacillus subtillus (a commonly found soil bacteria) is explored.

Not only would a huge amount of data be stored, but every time the bacteria replicates itself, it makes a "backup" of the data which is stored in its offspring.

It could make today's miniature thumb drives seem gargantuan by comparison.

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According to scientists in this article, people in the know predict that new computer hard drives will store a terabyte of data. That's enough space to have a single song play continuously for two years without stopping. It's also enough space to store 100,000,000 reams of data (that's 50,000,000 pages) or 16 continuous hours of high-quality DVD movies. Looked at yet another way, it could store 1 million photos.

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Will the change in Daylight Saving Time throw computers for a loop? This article explores the problems with the new law that changed the start of Dayling Saving Time to March 11, 2007 and ending November 4, 2007, due to the changes in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Because most computers don't know about the change, many will have the wrong date until somebody fixes them. Will people end up going to school and work and coming home at the wrong time?

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According to a new British survey, people in their 60's and above now use the Internet for entertainment more than any other form of entertainment, with the most popular activity sending and receiving e-mail.

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Happy New Year! While ringing in 2007 we also rang in some new state laws.

Car manufacturers have to give the owners the codes to their keyless locking devices which means you don't have to go to the dealer to get a new key beeper. The minimum wage is now $7.50 an hour. Dogs cannot be tied to an unmovable object for more than 3 hours a day. Oh, and you can't ride in the trunk of a car anymore.

Click HERE to read an article about the new laws.

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Can Blackberry and other handheld devices hurt your hands? Apparently so, if you use them too much. This article describes the problems and suggests how to take some preventative measures.

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Thinking about buying something through the Internet? This article from the Modesto Bee describes what to expect and provides some tips for the beginning Internet shoppers.

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Click Here for the tips.

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A device found on May 17, 1902, in an ancient sunken ship, might be the world's first "computer." The Antikythera mechanism has been discovered to be a mechanical computer of an accuracy thought impossible when it was built in 80 BC. The ship carrying the mechanism was sunk around that time.  Its wheels and gears create a portable orrery of the sky that predicted star and planet locations as well as lunar and solar eclipses. The Antikythera mechanism,  is 33 centimeters high and similar in size to a large book.

Click HERE to see NASA's picture of the Antikythera mechanism and read more.

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This article from the local Modesto Bee takes a look at getting overloaded by e-mail and what to do about it.  The article takes data from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and offers suggestions about managing e-mail.

Click HERE for the full details of the article

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Use the computer and the Internet to help you find the best shopping deals.  This article from the Modesto Bee lists some of the more popular price comparison websites. 

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Wonder what this Internet might look like next year? How about in 5 years? Ten years?

A group of thinkers has been surveyed by the Pew Internet  and American Life project have given their thoughts.

The results are certainly thought provokers. Questions like "Will English be the dominant language on the Internet," "Will more people choose to live 'off the grid,'" "Will virtual reality trump 'real' reality?" "Will autonomous machines leave humans out of the loop?" "Will national boundaries be displaced by new groupings?"

Read the survey online to find out what 742 Internet "stakeholders" came up with.

Click HERE for the full survey.

This article stresses the importance of customer service to businesses. A bad customer service incident and seriously damage a company's reputation. It reinforces that old cliche': the customer is always right - even when the customer is wrong, the customer is right.

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Spammers are trying to get people to reveal their passwords and user names by sending fake layoff notices. They spoof a companies e-mail address and attempt to make it look like a real e-mail layoff notice. Once an employee clicks on the e-mail and "logs in," they're stuck and the perpetrators now have access to the company's computer system.

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Many Internet savvy employers are now using their skills to check out future employees by doing background checks on the web. The article suggests that when you start your job search, look at your MySpace or other publicly available information and make sure it helps you make your best impression with your future boss.

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Click here to download Windows Defender 

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Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer Version 7. It is designed to have more protections against intruders and a "friendlier" interface. This is the first big release for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 2001 when Version 6 was released.

Click here for a description and review

Click here to download Microsoft Internet Explorer (Requires XP operating system or higher)

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A new study suggests that some people are using the Internet in ways that might be classified as an addiction.

Click here for the story.

This article explores the idea of spreading cold and flu germs by using computers and what some people are doing about it. From anti-bacterial keyboards to the germ-free mouse, at least some people are trying to slow down the cold and flu season.

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A group of technology companies in the Netherlands believes they can speed up home and business Internet connections by using the copper wire already leading into most buildings and avoiding the need to install more expensive fiber optic cables.

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Imagine this scenario: You turned down one job and took what you thought was a better offer from another company. It didn't work out and you wished you would have taken the other offer. Can you go back? This article from Career Journal offers a suggestion.

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This article looks at the growth of jobs in Stanislaus County and Modesto in particular. According to the Modesto Bee, the bottom line is future jobs will require at least basic computer skills.

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