Stories about: Bliss

Steve Jobs doesn't like seams.

Since its inception, the Web has been synonymous with the browser. Pundits hailed NCSA Mosaic as "the killer app of the Internet" in 1993, and today's browsers share an unbroken lineage from that humble beginning.

A new Facebook plug-in to be released this weekend will allow users to monitor and delete cookies created by the Facebook Beacon advertising system. The cookies are used by Facebook to inform a user's friends about his or her purchases.

At at time when carriers are just swallowing 10 Gigabit per second technology, Nortel Networks says will soon let them significantly up their network speeds without ripping apart their fibre infrastructure.

Too often, job seekers ignore the warning signs indicating that their search tactics aren't getting them anywhere. Ignorance is bliss, right? Wrong. The longer you wait to take corrective action, the longer you'll be unemployed or stuck in a job you hate. So fess up to the fact that your job search is failing and commit yourself to starting fresh. By establishing a defined job search strategy and spending more time networking, you'll stop spinning your wheels and you'll come much closer to landing your dream job much faster. It'll be a better use of your time and also more fun.

Gartner analyst Adam Sarner insists that he's serious when he predicts that binding [[ArtId:939030612|"virtual marriages"]] will be a reality by 2015. He says such couples -- including those who have never met in person -- will enjoy the same property rights and legal responsibilities as the rest of us bound by matrimonial bliss.

A one-time civilian employee with the US Department of Defense (DOD) pleaded guilty to conspiring in a scheme that defrauded the government of US$700,000.

In terms of computing power, we've come a long way since 1981. Today's average desktop CPU is more than 600 times faster than that of the original IBM PC. Throw in blazing-fast graphics cards, mind-boggling amounts of RAM, multimegabit network connections, and hard drives that spin faster than a Ferrari engine, and you've got a machine that's powerful beyond the imaginings of the original PC pioneers.

Making customers happy, some experts say, is the fine art of balancing experience and expectation. Based on that, the feeling of Microsoft Corp. customers is starting to edge ever so slightly towards the disappointment end of the spectrum, according to results of an annual survey by the University of Michigan released on Tuesday.

As heavy power users, IT departments have a key part to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. And apart from the environmental impact, they need to make sure they don't exhaust their capacity. A recent Gartner report notes that 50 percent of data centres will have insufficient power and cooling capacity by 2008.

Despite a high level of distrust IT managers display towards software audits, especially when the request comes from Microsoft, more than 800 Australian customers have participated in the company's Software Asset Management (SAM) program since it was launched in 2003.