Wednesday - May 7, 2008
Software developers are known to hide all sorts of "Easter eggs" in their code, but code search engine Krugle has revealed just what might be found among the billions of lines of open source code available on the Web. Krugle searches across code repositories and development resources, using contextual search to provide insights to developers working for networks such as IBM Developer Works, CollabNet and SourceForge.net. The application allows developers to use existing code, perform impact analysis and easily learn new code.
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Sunday - May 4, 2008
Online social networks used to be just gathering places for friends and long-lost acquaintances. Then the marketers arrived, followed by politicians and job recruiters -- all looking to tap into a growing mass of young people who are spending much of their time on the Web.
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Saturday - May 3, 2008
"Geeks making the world better one bit at a time." That's the playful slogan for the University of North Carolina's "Maze Day," during which scores of blind and visually impaired children from across the state came out Wednesday morning to test drive computer programs especially designed for them.
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Wednesday - April 30, 2008
It is unusual, but not unheard of, for a murder case to go forward if a body has not been found. It is even rarer for the charge to be first-degree murder -- and less common still for the defendant to be found guilty. Those were the exact circumstances, though, under which Hans Reiser was convicted Tuesday of the murder of his estranged wife, Nina.
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Saturday - April 19, 2008
Some people blame the Internet for a decline in social interaction. They say that even as we use online technology to join groups and communicate with others around the globe, we isolate ourselves and ignore the personal and social rewards derived only from face-to-face interaction.
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Sunday - April 13, 2008
It must be tough to be 34 and already see your children overshadow you. That's what's happened to "Dungeons & Dragons," the roleplaying game that for decades has drawn geeks to roll dice and pretend to be elves, sorcerers and other fantasy heroes. It has never quite become mainstream entertainment, but it has inspired roleplaying computer games like "World of Warcraft."
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
In technology, the hot jobs aren't always in starting an Internet company from scratch or designing the slimmest laptop. In mainframe computing, an almost-forgotten corner of corporate information technology departments, demand is growing for a new generation of professionals who can manage these complex systems.
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Thursday - April 3, 2008
While President Bush's advisers were taking offers on an ideal spot for his library and museum, they probably should have paid more attention to the virtual real-estate market. Officials finally settled on Southern Methodist University in Dallas to house the $250 million complex.
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Wednesday - April 2, 2008
U.S. presidents rely on daily secret reports on national threats, but some of those reports are now coming from public Internet sources, officials say. The top-secret President's Daily Brief compiled covert operative reports, spy photos and other highly classified sources.
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Sunday - March 30, 2008
It's a conundrum that the best and brightest of the tech industry haven't yet solved: how to get computers to the "next billion" customers in developing countries. The highest-profile effort to date, One Laptop Per Child, has run into a series of setbacks.
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Saturday - March 29, 2008
For job-searching college seniors, the weeks before graduation are sometimes spent retouching resumes, suiting up for interviews and nervously awaiting offers. Brian Tajo, however, is sitting pretty. The Virginia Beach native, one of 105 seniors graduating with a degree in business information technology, has already scored a job with IBM Global Services.
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