Modernomics* – Daily Writings on Technology
a site by Erik T. Kaiser, Design Technologist
Homeowners this fall will be able to buy a wind turbine at hardware stores that tackles the small wind industry’s bete noire: slow wind. WindTronics, based in Muskegon, Mich., has developed a wind turbine sized for individual homes that it says can operate at speeds as low as 2 miles an hour. It will be [...]
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Sun Microsystems has scheduled a special shareholders meeting for July 16 for a vote on whether to accept Oracle’s US$7.4 billion proposal to buy the company. Sun’s board has unanimously recommended the transaction go through. The industry has been abuzz with speculation about how Oracle, which made its bid in April, will handle Sun’s assets [...]
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The Obama administration is embracing the dark side to help it fight cyberattacks. On Friday, a well-known hacker was one of 16 people named to the Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council (HSAC). Jeff Moss, aka “Dark Tangent,” started out as a high-school “phone phreak” making free long-distance calls and later founded the DefCon and Black Hat [...]
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T-Mobile is investigating a claim that a massive amount of internal data has been stolen from the telecommunication operator’s servers, a company spokesman said Monday. On Saturday, a message about T-Mobile was posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list by people who wrote they’d unsuccessfully tried to sell the data to T-Mobile’s competitors. They wrote [...]
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BEIJING — China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet. Called “Green Dam” — green being a foil to the yellow smut of pornography — the software is designed to filter out sexually [...]
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