Saturday, February 06, 2010

FBI Wants Better Snooping

FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited

The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.

Facebook Engineers Hit Redesign Button Once Again

Facebook has once again redesigned the social-networking site and is rolling out the changes to some users. Facebook says the redesign will make navigation easier, but at least one user says the change has ruined her organization of friends. Facebook has added dashboards for applications and games, and said it is providing privacy settings.

Microsoft's challenge: Innovation, innovation, innovation

Former Softies are weighing in publicly about Microsoft’s culture of innovation — or lack thereof — in the past couple of days. What they aren’t doing is offering any real suggestions about how Microsoft can make a company of 90,000 or so employees more agile, less insular and more innovative.

How to Buy a Netbook

If you're not thinking about buying a netbook, you should be—they're powerful, portable, and even more inexpensive than a year ago. Here's what you need to know before you buy.

Audacity 1.2 - Free - Full Review

Want to record some audio you hear on the Internet? Edit a quick podcast sound file? Mix some tracks together? Clean out background noise? Open source Audacity is your ticket for all these audio tasks, and it doesn't require you to pay for professional sound-editing software.

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