Comcast to up speeds to 16Mbit down / 1Mbit up

According to a post on Broadbandreports.com, Comcast has begun to rollout speed increases for its gold package to 16Mbit down / 1Mbit up. Finally!

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IBM Not To Use Vista - But Will Move to Linux Desktops

Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has canceled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform.

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Proof: Humans Are Still Evolving!

University of Chicago researchers say they`ve found approximately 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped by natural selection within the past 5,000 to 15,000 years!

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Open Office 2.02 Released

Although not updated on the official website yet, Filehippo reports that Open Office 2.02 is released and their download link works.

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Microsoft Live.com - Gets a Makeover

Live.com got a pretty nice...site update.

Microsoft is smoothing over the UI which is reflective of Windows Vista and Media Center OS themes.

The new functionality and design looks pretty sweet.

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Canada ISPs just as greedy as USA ISPs....SURPRISE!!!!

Shaw wants its high-speed net customers to pay a $10 "quality of service enhancement" fee if they use a VoIP phone service. Shaw argues that its fee is necessary to maintain the quality of independent VoIP services.

When the CBC tried to find out WTF!?!
Shaw did not immediately return a telephone call to its head office in Calgary.

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Daily Show available on iTunes!

Multi-pass. Pay $9.99 and get 16 episodes. One each week. Think of them as Paid-for podcasts.

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Mac OS X Hacker challenge is over.

38 hours, nobody hacked it. Under fire from intermittent DOS attacks, nessus scans, ssh dictionary attacks and much else.

The difference to the other competition? Nobody had local access to the machine except the machine's owners, as it would be in a realistic situation.

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Counterfeit Flash Drives Plague eBay

Lately there has been a huge increase in the number of counterfeit flash drives on eBay. Sellers claim to be selling large drives (e.g 8GB) from name brand companies, like Sony, but they are actually 64MB drives that have been re-labeled. These drives usually break within a few weeks of being purchase. Please digg this to stop the scammers!

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Toronto to become wireless hotspot

Toronto Hydro Corp. will announce Tuesday that it plans to turn Canada's largest city into one giant wireless hotspot, directly challenging the country's major mobile phone carriers for a chunk of the $8 billion a year wireless market.

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Amazing Google Vid- "Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment"

This experiment shows the really mysterious behavior of quantam particles. Electrons behaving like waves and then like marbles? Mind blowingly cool.

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Canada has the highest online music piracy rate per capita in the world

When they're not growing weed, playing hockey, or having gay marriages, Canadians are busy stealing music more than anyone else in the world, and it's hurting the music selling biz in Canada. Oh noes!

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New Vista Build 5308.60 Released!

Only days ofter 5308 was released, it has been "released" again!
This recompile of 5308 is faster, sleeker, cleaner, and better than ever.
This is the FIRST time MS has EVER followed a Vista build with another, just days later.. Especially not two CTPs in a row!

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High Speed Defragmentation Tool

This program bypasses Windows safety tools that makes defragmentation slow.

Very high defragmentation speed, efficiency and ease of use.

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ABC's Shows Will Be Free on iTunes

Ad-supported iTunes Video of Grey's Anatomy, Lost and Desp Housewives. Guess they figured out, finally, that advertisers will pay more than the consumer...

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sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

Remote controlled cyborg shark-bots... Engineers funded by the US military have created a neural implant designed to enable a shark's brain signals to be manipulated remotely.

Frickin' laser beams!

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Canadian ISP is throttling Bittorrent traffic

"The Canadian ISP “ROGERS” (one of the country's largest) has started to kill all bittorrent traffic on their network, and even some P2P apps. Looks like it's time to change to rival BELL.

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Canadian ISP is throttling Bittorrent traffic

"The Canadian ISP “ROGERS” (one of the country's largest) has started to kill all bittorrent traffic on their network, and even some P2P apps. Looks like it's time to change to rival BELL.

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Why Windows Vista Won't Suck

There's a lot of confusion about Windows Vista these days. Many online discussion forums have a great number of users who express no desire to upgrade to Vista.

ExtremeTech pulls it all together and tell you why they're excited about Vista with a list of what's new and improved in Microsoft's next generation OS and why you should care about it.

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New York Times sues Pentagon over domestic spying

The New York Times sued the U.S. Defense Department on Monday demanding that it hand over documents about the National Security Agency's domestic spying program.

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