Do you blog? Choice # of Votes Percent of Votes I run my own blog on my website 104 22.13 I have one with a blog service website 43 9.43 I have a microblog like Twitter 31 4.51 I have too many to list 38 7.38 No I don’t 225…
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DWHS installs new website Phish cracking system
Maybe more than any of the other degenerate methods used on the internet, Phishing is one of the lowest. These people try to prey on new Internet on-goers in hopes of getting their login information or credit card details. So in an ongoing process, we made the first step with a website recognition system that…
Intel develops photonics-based 50Gbps chip
Intel provided a peek at the future of processors today by revealing the first instance of a chip using complete photonics to send data. Four lasers in the prototype convert light into data at about 50Gbps, or “many” times faster than wired connections. The rate, about 6.25GB per second, would be enough to send an…
Mozilla likes HTML5 over Flash
Mozilla has joined the chorus in declaring HTML5 as the way of the future. While Mozilla isn’t going quite as far as Apple – Flash is still supported in Firefox – Vice President of Production Jay Sullivan told The Register the Adobe product will never be bundled with the browser. It’s not specifically Adobe that’s…
BIOS may be dead in three years
It’s the one major part of the PC that’s still reminiscent of the PC’s primordial, text-based beginnings, but the familiarly clunky BIOS could soon be on its deathbed, according to MSI. The motherboard maker says it’s now making a big shift towards point-and-click UEFI systems, and it’s all going to kick off at the end…
New customer service phone number
DWHS has combined all of our numbers into one, the new number now is +1 (602) 818-8021. The old toll-free numbers and direct numbers will phase out over the next couple of weeks. If you have any questions please let us know.
Google Chrome Ditches http://
When you see some text prefixed by “http://” you automatically know that what follows is a web address, as defined by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The question is — since most web addresses are easily recognizable anyway — do you really need it? The developers of Google Chrome don’t think you do, so they simply…
Sony & IBM Stop the Floppy Disk
The days of the 3.5-inch floppy disk are now officially numbered. Sony, which boasts 70 percent of the anemic market, announced Friday that it would end Japanese sales of the ancient storage medium in March 2011, according to a report in the Mainichi Daily newspaper. The 3.5-inch floppy was a ubiquitous and necessary component for…