Employees’ cute job titles aside, Geek Squad City is an extremely impressive operation. More than 700 technicians work in two shifts from 5 a.m. until midnight to take the more than 3,000 computers a day that stream in from nationwide Best Buy locations (Best Buy bought Geek Squad several years ago), turn them around [...]

However, obtaining the bandwidth to download a movie in seconds is a problem. Cerf said that the U.S needs policies that will cause more broadband to be rolled out everywhere in country. “We need to have as many broadband solutions as possible to evaluate for cost and deploy in the places where they are most [...]

QuickTime 7.5.5 may be obtained from the Apple Software Update application or you can download the latest version of free Quicktime player here.

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This patch affects users of Mac OS X v10.4.9 – v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2, and SP3. The update addresses the stack buffer overflow [...]

Forget who has the most diggs, users can now view comments that have had the most voting velocity as well as user buries.
Of the advancements, the most noticeable is in load times, which have been tweaked by having comments load as users scroll down the page instead of all at once. Users can also now [...]

Time to get out ahead of this crisis before the stuff really hits the fan. Don’t you think?
And this was during the Reagan administration, hardly a proponent of free-spending, federal involvement in the private sector. But the leadership of the day acted in its enlightened self-interest and made an exception with Sematech. Obviously, the [...]

One thing that’s missing (for now) is a directory of public FriendFeed rooms. In its current iteration, you’ve got to get an invite to join from the creator, or get tipped off about it from someone else. There’s no way to search for rooms you’d be interested in, but I’m assuming that’s the next step.
FriendFeed, [...]

P.S.: The White House seems to be using Akamai’s Edge Platform for scalable Web hosting:

There’s just one problem with these comments. They’re wrong. As of Tuesday morning, the Bush administration’s robots.txt file did only two things: first, it pointed search engines to the high-graphics versions of the page, as opposed to the text-only versions, [...]