#pdf09: Internet alone ...

NEW YORK -- In a speech to a receptive audience at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009, Danah Boyd, an ethnographer who works at Microsoft Research New England and at the Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet, said that many within...

Office challenge: How d...

Pictures aren't common in Excel workbooks. Inserting a picture into a sheet is easy enough, but can you display a picture in an Excel comment? Last week we asked How do you copy a style from one file to another? Instructions in Help are clear enough, in my opinion. Here's how...

Video: TR Community Eve...

The TechRepublic Community Event in Louisville, KY, on June 26, 2009, was captured on video. Check out the download, and view the short compilation video of "shout outs" or greetings that were sent in by TR members who weren't able to attend the Event.

Overstock joins Amazon&...

Overstock has added its name to the list of online retailers taking their protest against new tax laws to the people. The Utah-based firm has terminated its affiliate advertising programs in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island as those...

Linux devs strike back ...

From the 'cutting the FAT' files:In 2007, Microsoft shook up the Linux community with claims that open source allegedly infringes on as many as 235 of Microsoft's patents. Until this year, Microsoft had not actually filed any kind of...

Will AES crypto go the ...

From the 'no lock is secure' files:The AES (Advance Encryption Standard) (Define:AES) is a standard encryption mechanism in use by the US Government and many others -  and it is now at risk from a very theoretical attack.The attack...

“It is dangerous ...

"It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use." This is a quote by Richard Stallman in an article on cnet news about the use of Mono. The issue comes down to the idea that Microsoft could enforce patents at some point against the use of C#. I wonder if Bell...

Firefox 3.5.1 update co...

From the 'but I just downloaded a new version...' files:Firefox 3.5 has been out for barely two days - but an update is already being planned for later this month.The Firefox 3.5.1 update will fix at least three key...