Review and Comment Articles

· Out With the Old Phone, in With the Cash - Seth Heine knows what you are doing with those old cellphones, and he is not happy about it. They may be in your desk drawer, your glove compartment, in pieces on your child's bedroom floor. Perhaps you donate them to charity or simply throw them in the garbage.
· Classroom Clickers Make the Grade - An honors student at Ohio State, a kid in a fifth-grade science class in Kentucky and a deaf student in England all begin their learning experience the same way: with their hand wrapped around a remote control. Not a TV remote, but rather one that connects a student with everyone else in the class, with the instructor and with the subject at hand.
· Automatically, a Smart Dish That Feeds a Hungry Pet - Leaving a pet at home during the workday or a weekend trip isn't easy for most people, especially if that pet has a particular eating schedule or is prone to gobbling all its chow at one sitting. The Viatek I-Pet Intelligent Pet Dish addresses those concerns; it can be programmed to open each of its four food compartments at specific times.
· A safe browser? No longer in the lexicon - In November 2003, the CERT Coordination Center first advised Web users to consider using a Web browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. IE's problems at the time were pervasive, and many of them were rooted in its complicated architecture. Vulnerabilities in IE were being reported almost monthly, and users faced risk until Microsoft released updates.
· Thorium Fuels Safer Reactor Hopes - Fueling nuclear reactors with the element thorium instead of uranium could produce half as much radioactive waste and reduce the availability of weapons-grade plutonium by as much as 80 percent. But the nuclear power industry needs more incentives to make the switch, experts say.
· Adobe Warns of Security Flaw to Software - A security flaw in the popular document-sharing software, Adobe Reader, could be exploited to seize control of a computer system, according to the software's maker.
· Surviving the Digital TV Shift - As federal policymakers wrangle over a deadline to switch from analog to digital television, consumers have been left wondering what it all means. How will it work? Are analog TV sets about to go dark? And why all the fuss, anyway?
· Fear of Spyware Changing Online Habits - Internet users worried about spyware and adware are shunning specific Web sites, avoiding file-sharing networks, even switching browsers.
· High-Speed Internet Use Rises 34 Percent - High-speed Internet Covad T1: Built for Business. Get 50% off the first three months on business-class Covad T1 TeleXtend. use by U.S. businesses and households rose 34 percent in 2004 to 37.9 million lines, the Federal Communications Commission Latest News about Federal Communications Commission said yesterday. The figures were cited by the agency's chairman as proof that the FCC's broadband policy is working.
· Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal - Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.