Bits: Questions We Thought, But Didn’t Ask, in 2007

As the year ends, [The New York Times] ask the questions that perplex us the most.

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Create a keyboard shortcut to paste plain text in Microsoft Word and Excel

Last week I described the PureText utility that lets you paste plain text in Word and other applications via a keyboard shortcut. Unfortunately, you have to click the program's icon in your system tray before you press the shortcut keys. Thus you lose the speed benefit of not having to take your hands off the keyboard.

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FTC Chair's Impartiality Questioned

Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras should recuse herself from voting on the Google-DoubleClick deal because her husband works for the law firm representing DoubleClick, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy said Dec. 12 in an FTC filing.

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IBM: When it comes to energy use, eco-friendly rules

OK, Harry cornered the market today on politically laden postings. So, here I am with some suggestive stats from the data-minded folks at IBM, who have conducted a survey about energy among roughly 1,900 households in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands....

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Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly

Suppose, however, that you could leave the island compound of a social networking site and take your network of friends, and friends of friends, anywhere on the Web? This is what makes Google’s announcement last week of a new alliance of companies so enticing — the possibility that social networking will become ubiquitous.

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AT&T To Spy on Your Internet Traffic

AT&T is getting together with Hollywood studios and recording companies to develop technology to snoop on your Internet traffic in search of pirated material....

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IBM Going Green With Its Largest Data Center

IBM is doubling its Boulder, Colorado data center capacity by 2010, without increasing energy usage or carbon emissions.

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A “Green” Method of Web hosting

Affordable Web Hosting thats environmentally friendly. Affordable Internet Services Online Inc.(www.aiso.net) uses 120+ solar panels, solar tubes, AMD Opteron processors & more. AISO.Net is a true environmentally friendly hosting company that generates all of its electricity by the sun—not by energy credits.

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PC World - IBM Offers Blade Server For the Little Guy

The BladeCenter S system is packaged to include server, storage, input-output connections to a network and software integrated into a single chassis. IBM declined to provide pricing information but said it plans to begin shipping the product in the fourth quarter.



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Google not happy with Microsoft's desktop search concessions - Download Squ

Earlier this week Microsoft promised to make some changes to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista. The move came in response to a complaint filed by Google that alleged Vista's desktop search was anti-competitive and caused computers to run slowly if Google Desktop and Vista were both constantly indexing files. Long story short, Google isn't happy with Microsoft's response.



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The Open-Source Apps That Missed The List

Reader feedback about which open-sourced applications should be on eWeek's "Most Important Open Source Apps of All Time."



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eWeek reviews Fedora 7 and is impressed

After devoting the bulk of its efforts over the past couple years to realizing the advanced server technology goals of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux product, the community-powered Fedora Project has turned its attention toward catching up with the distribution and packaging advances of its Linux rivals.eWEEK Labs tested the fruit of these efforts—Fedora 7—and we were impressed to see how amenable to customization this popular Linux-based operating system has grown. Fedora 7's tools for building custom versions, or spins, will make it easier for groups to create Fedora variants, in the way that Ubuntu backers have spun off the KDE-centric ..



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PC Mag's 10 Wicked Awesome Webcomics

A top ten list of PC Mag's favorite webcomics.



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Is Google in the Right Gear?

Opinion: I think Google Gears is cool, but a handful of experts weigh in on the significance of the search giant's technology.



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Microsoft's New Open-Source War

There was one aspect of this whole circus that struck me immediately upon seeing the news. And that was that this whole effort of FUD on the part of Microsoft is a clear sign that they have given up. Microsoft has been fighting a war for the last several years, and this announcement about the 235 patents was as clear as a white flag. It's just another scare-tactic that Microsoft is using to fight a losing battle to prevent companies from switching over to less-expensive, more secure and productive open-source software.



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10 Emerging Technologies that Flopped

eWEEK's list of ten emerging technologies that never quite got out of the door.



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IBM Mainframes Go 3-D

By integrating its Cell processors with the mainframe, the company hopes to create virtual worlds on the Web that benefit gamers as well as the enterprise.



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