With the invention of the CD-ROM came Encarta, owned by Microsoft, which enabled easy cutting and pasting of encyclopedia content for students focused on speed and ease of research. It became a quick hit in school libraries yet the enemy of many teachers, who now had to add to their curriculum a lesson on [...]

You can adjust the white noise slider from 1-100 percent. The higher you go, the louder it gets, so be careful.

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I’ve had a white noise loop kicking around on my
iPod for years, and it doubles as a great way to get in the zone for napping. In SimplyNoise’s case, you can dial in [...]

American Airlines passengers will now have Wi-Fi access on some flights.
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American Airlines will be offering Wi-Fi on 15 of its 767-200 airplanes that fly cross country.
The airline said Wednesday that it has finally launched its in-flight Internet access service via Wi-Fi on 15 of its 767-200 airplanes. The service, called Gogo, will be offered [...]

Psystar has since switched merchant services providers to PayPal, who processed my transaction with the company on Wednesday. A PayPal representative did not immediately return a call seeking comment on that company’s policies regarding sales of goods such as the Open Computer.
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Powerpay had been the payment processor for Psystar’s online store until Wednesday, when [...]

Our request for a catfight between Stewart and IAC czar Barry Diller went unanswered.
InterActiveCorp’s Evite might still be the biggest name in online invitations, but Martha Stewart has made her endorsement elsewhere.

The chief executive of New York-based Pingg, Lorien Gabel, spoke to CNET News a few months ago to make the case for his company [...]

A New York Times article Monday wrote that RealNetworks had, oddly enough, made a pledge to help save the Scrabulous game back in March. Yet a company representative told the Times that the Mattel negotiations had been going on for several months.
Sounds like the “Save Scrabulous” crowd has reason to keep up its cause.
Except not [...]

I accept that many things are not for me. A Bentley, for example. When I see one floating down the street, I think to myself: “Hmm, well, the driver’s dyed his hair out of a bottle, but that’s a tastefully designed vehicle.”
The Web site gushes that this button is “integrated in the design, as [...]

Since I was up-to-date on bug fixes, IE 7 was the only thing Windows Update had to install. The installation process includes the option shown below about installing “the latest updates for Internet Explorer,” which I did. All went well, at least according to Windows Update.
The first thing I noticed afterward was that IE 7 [...]

A mid-December firmware update included the promise of “a number of great new channels that will begin to appear on your player in early 2009.” That implies that Amazon is the first of several additional viewing options that will eventually be available on the box. Whether or not the Roku hardware will be rebranded to [...]

We’ll keep updating the story, but let us know in the comments section if you’re having similar problems with the 2.0 firmware update Friday.

Just from the few reports trickling in, it appears this is only happening to people who tried to update their firmware Friday. There were no such reports when many iPhone owners were [...]