Living Tongues Institute lists top world language extinctions

Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 7:32 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
In association with the National Geographic Society, the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages has identified five areas of the world where the use of languages are disappearing the most--and...

Blacksmith Institute releases 2007 “World’s Most Polluted Places”

Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
On September 12, 2007, the New York-based independent environmental organization listed the most polluted places on Earth: six out of ten are in China, India, and Russia (eight out of...

Tales of the Forgotten (Part 2) — Windows Explorer file filtering

Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 10:20 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff
Sometimes software developers bring out a new product version with lots of bells and whistles, while mystifyingly doing away with essential useful features that were frequently used in the old...

Facebook warned on safety claims

Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 9:50 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Facebook warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites.

Stealth Windows update reportedly causes XP repair mode to fail

Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 5:09 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff
These days your everyday, commodity PC is in many ways more far more complex than the mainframes of the 1970s. It's a wonder that keeping them up and running is...

Once megabitten

Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 12:00 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Internet server providers need to offer more memory for their mailboxes, writes David Flynn.

Up close and personal

Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 12:00 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Searching for yourself on the net may make or break your job prospects, if not your career.

Coming to a paddock near you: e-farming

Posted on September 30th, 2007 at 12:00 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
A network of electronic sensors could one day allow farmers to monitor every hectare of pasture and every animal using a laptop on the farmhouse veranda.

West Virginia undergrad makes discovery of possible new space object

Posted on September 29th, 2007 at 9:16 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
West Virginia University undergraduate student David Narkevic was looking at old radio data taken from an Australian radio telescope when he found something that looked like a very short and...

If Microsoft can’t write drivers for Vista, what hope does anyone else have?

Posted on September 29th, 2007 at 1:24 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
If there's one advantage Microsoft's Hardware division should have over everyone else making cameras, mice and keyboards, it would be the ability to write supporting software that worked pretty well with Windows. So...
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