Is the Wii's Motion Controller Any Good?
How good is the Wii's motion controller? Researchers intend to find out. Rice University professors Marcia O'Malley and Michael Byrne will spend the next thee years measuring motions as simple as slapping around a paddleball to as sophisticated as maneuvering a fighter jet.
The problem with free search
As usual when it comes to technology, we get what we pay for. You want inexpensive software? Then it will usually work just well enough to be useful but it won't be the best engineering. So when we want to pay nothing for search, we get what pays the bills: Commercially biased results.
Yahoo OneSearch coming to T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA has made Yahoo's OneSearch the default search engine on its phones, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday.
Google launches iPhone voice search app
After an unexplained three-day delay, Google late Monday added voice capabilities to its search application for the iPhone.
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Hacking Exposed, Sixth Edition
By Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz; Published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne
The original Hacking Exposed authors rejoin forces on this tenth anniversary edition to offer completely up-to-date coverage of today's most devastating hacks and how to prevent them. Using their proven methodology, the authors reveal how to locate and patch system vulnerabilities. The book includes new coverage of ISO images, wireless and RFID attacks, Web 2.0 vulnerabilities, anonymous hacking tools, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2008, mobile devices, and more. Enter now!
