by Dave Methvin, InformationWeek, Sept 29th.
While all the focus has been on Windows 7 lately, there’s another piece of Microsoft  software coming out this week that could make an even bigger difference to the Windows world: Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). Athough I think MSE will be a great solution for most people, not everyone will [...]

Technologies such as WiMax, smart grids and social networks will transform tomorrow’s urban centers.
by John Brandon
Science fiction writers paint grand pictures of glorious cities of the future. But aside from some of the more whimsical elements of those visions — flying cars, say, or downtown atriums protected by invisible walls — City 2.0 [...]

By Jenny Anderson NYT
It is an obscure art of Wall Street, a technique that gives a scattering of traders an edge over everyone else and the Securities and Exchange Commission wants to stamp it out.  The SEC on Thursday proposed to ban what are known as flash orders, which use powerful computers to glimpse at [...]