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Don't weep now, but Cambridge University's famous Trojan Room coffee pot webcam is going offline. The university's computer laboratory is moving to a new building to the west of Cambridge later this year. The webcam will no longer be needed to tell s...

immediately? Why as an electronic book downloaded as a PDF file off the Internet of course. Living in France and being able to find a lot of books in English by a wide variety of authors is reassuring to me, even though, well, I just don't have time ...

Here's a game I know some people in Bermuda -- especially those of my scuba diving friends who can always find the sunken ship -- will thoroughly enjoy. It's called `Geocaching', and requires a pretty accurate global positioning satellite (GPS) devic...

In the computing world, 2001 began in a rather chaotic manner -- with the four-day outage of key Microsoft servers last week, which shut down important Microsoft sites, including Hotmail. It didn't help matters that after that problem was fixed, anot...

Reading the trade magazines on computers and the Internet sometimes involves learning a whole set of new words to describe various activities. `IRC Attack Linked to DoS Threat' a Wired magazine story on January 12 proclaimed. In the story a techie --...

going for scams on the Internet. Two in particular are astounding for how long they ran before being exposed. And they are still running as can be attested by their web sites. What amazes me is how could people believe that the offshore jurisdictions...

I spent New Year's Eve in Barcelona, Spain and visited the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and it was interesting to see how computers and software technology are being used by the museums and by artists. The interactive exhibitions seemed to ...

Gary Kremen finally got his www.sex.com domain name back, at least according to a US district court judge who ruled last month that Stephen Cohen had fradulently transferred the lucrative name over to him in 1995. The decision is under appeal, but mo...

sneak an electronic goodie for themselves out of the gift kitty. Read some of the reviews about all the high-tech gear before you make that quick purchase. The reviews may give you a better perspective on what's right for your recipient -- or yoursel...

The Dutch hacker going by the name Dimitri who cracked into a Microsoft's computer in November through a well-known security hole sent a wake-up notice to system administrators, small businesses and home computer users everywhere. He exposed one of t...