Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close?; Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup?

Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare   |  Want a Job At Google? Better Know Microsoft Office!     Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close?  Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare  Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup?  Want a Job At Google? Better Know Microsoft Office!  Raspberry Pi vs. Cheap Android Dongle: Embarrassment of (Cheap) Riches  What Debris From North Korea's Rocket Launch Shows  'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind  New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users  Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents  New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups  Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade  Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines  SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL Finally Jumps Its Own Height  Bangladesh Slaughters 150,000 Birds After Worst H5N1 Virus Outbreak In 5 Years  Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes     Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close?  From the end-of-an-era department ninguna writes "According to Paul Krugman: 'Gordon argues, rightly in my view, that we've really had three industrial revolutions so far, each based on a different cluster of technologies. The analysis in Gordon's paper links periods of slow and...   Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare  From the name-and-blood-type department ebh writes "Noted in an AP story about how fees make it difficult to compare air travel costs, is how the airline industry is moving toward tailoring offer packages (and presumably, fares) for individuals based on their personal information....   Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup?  From the duke-it-out department Nerval's Lobster writes "Software developer Jeff Cogswell writes: 'About a year ago, I decided to migrate my documents to Google Docs and start using it for all my professional writing. I quickly hit some problems; frankly, Google Docs wasn't as...   Want a Job At Google? Better Know Microsoft Office!  From the isn't-more-knowledge-always-attractive-in-hiring? department theodp writes "After recent Slashdot discussions on Google's quest to unseat Microsoft Office in business and whether Google Docs and MS-Word are an even matchup, let's complete the trilogy by bringing up the inconvenient truth that numerous...   Raspberry Pi vs. Cheap Android Dongle: Embarrassment of (Cheap) Riches  From the fight-fight-fight department New submitter Copper Nikus writes "The price of Android Mini PCs have recently dropped to the point they are starting to make the Raspberry Pi look overpriced. This article compares the Raspberry Pi model B against the similarly priced MK802 II...   What Debris From North Korea's Rocket Launch Shows  From the picking-over-the-pieces department Lasrick writes "David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists analyzes the debris from North Korea's December 11th Unha-3 launch. From the article: 'According to press reports, traces on the inner...   'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind  From the hi-fi-jumprope department antdude writes "The National Purchase Diary (NPD) Group Blog reports that 'Internet Connected TVs Are Used To Watch TV, And That's About All — The Internet connected high definition television (HDTV) screen has so far failed to break beyond...   New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users  From the protect-ya-neck department An anonymous reader writes "A new trojan for Android has been discovered that can help carry out Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The malware is also capable of receiving commands from criminals as well as sending text messages for...   Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents  From the billion-with-a-b department Dupple writes with news carried by the BBC of a gigantic tech-patent case that (seemingly for once) doesn't involve Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, or Google: "'U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology faces having to pay one of the biggest ever patent...   New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups  From the more-magic-always-welcome department An anonymous reader points out developer Àlex Fiestas's work on multiple monitor configuration for Linux. In particular, the screen manager that he and Dan Vrátil are working on — KScreen — gives KDE users a utility "making...   Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade  From the just-in-time-for-the-censorship department A Google Fiberhood-style rollout in the U.S., says a Goldman-Sachs estimate, would cost in the neighborhood of $140 billion. Even for Israel, a country approximately the size of New Jersey, there's a high pricetag ("billions of shekels") for...   Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines  From the knowledge-counteracts department L3sPau1 writes "A zero-day exploit has been found in the Nvidia Display Driver Service on Windows machines. An attacker with local access can use the exploit to gain root privileges on a Windows machine. Windows domains with relaxed firewall rules...   SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL Finally Jumps Its Own Height  From the small-step-for-rocketkind department cylonlover writes "The SpaceX Grasshopper vertical takeoff vertical landing (VTVL) testbed has successfully flown to a height of 40 meters (131 ft), hovered for a bit and subsequently landed in a picture perfect test on December 17, 2012. The...   Bangladesh Slaughters 150,000 Birds After Worst H5N1 Virus Outbreak In 5 Years  From the bird-zero department An anonymous reader writes in with news about a bird flu outbreak in Bangladesh. "At least 150,000 chickens and 300,000 eggs have been destroyed at a giant poultry farm near Dhaka in Bangladesh after the major outbreak of avian flu was detected...   Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes  From the little-chilly-though department skade88 writes "Does life exist on Mars? We might assume if there ever was life on Mars then it most likely came about when Mars was a wetter and warmer place than it is now. So the question is, if life did exist on Mars in the past, does it still...

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