Free Open Source Counterparts of Windows Software

I will be giving information on my personal favorites (which would generally mean BETTER) open source replacements. There are however other choices as well, so drop a line or two if our choices differ!

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The Sad State of U.S. Broadband

Although the Internet was started here, the U.S. can't seem to catch up with other developed nations when it comes to giving citizens access to high-speed connections.For the second year running, the U.S. ranked 15th among the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development in terms of broadband availability.

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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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