TurboTax gets sexy

Oops. The folks at Intuit, the makers of the popular TurboTax software program, are understandably red-faced over this blunder.Taxpayers get unexpected return–sex chat

There is such a thing as TOO big

This makes me real nervous. Isn’t the sort of company SBC and AT&T would become exacly the reason the government broke up the Bells in the seventies? RedNova News - SBC Announces Deal to Buy AT&T

PDAs fading fast

As technology marches relentlessly on, the stand-alone PDA is looking pretty obsolete these days compared to converged devices. Smartphones killing off PDAs

Broadband wars good for consumers

It’s amazing what competition does. It’s cable Internet versus DSL and the result is good news for all of us.MIKE WENDLAND: In broadband war, it’s price vs. speed

Finger scanning at the Magic Kingdom

What’s up with this? I’m down in Orlando with the grandkids and made a quick visit to Disney World yesterday. At the admission turnstyles, you can’t get in unless you insert two fingers in a scanning machine.
“We have to be finger-printed to get in?” I asked the ever-smiling keeper-of-the-mouse guard that takes tickets.
“That doesn’t take your fingerprint, sir,” she cheerfully explained.”It scans your finger bones.”
Like I should be excited about it.
“So no one else can use your ticket,” she explained when I asked why.
Uh huh. I snapped the phone cam picture you see here.
Does the ACLU know about this?

Honey pot catches spammers

That honeypot I installed a few weeks ago has been paying off. It’s all part of a growing network of anti-spam activists who are fighting back. I write about it in the Freep this morning. MIKE WENDLAND: Sweet new weapon enters war on spam

ID Theft: Net gets bad rap

So says the Better Business Bureau, which issued a report saying most ID theft is from someone you know and results from a lost wallet or other such non-Net causes.Identity Theft more from paper than online.

Gamers as athletes

Good grief. Now gamers want to be considered as cyber athletes. Golden boy gamer becomes a brand

Wi-fi spreading fast

This city is 103 square miles in size and everybody who lives there will be able to tap into a wi-fi network within 90 days.Wi-Fi Goes Live in Rio Rancho, N.M.

Got questions? Get answers

Answers.com is a search tool, but unlike Google and the others it isn’t a directory of web pages, instead it’s an aggregate of dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference tools. So instead of returning links that may or may not provide you with an answer, it actually provides a straight answer. It’s perfect when you need a quick definition or background on a topic.

The Mac mini - in print and on TV

All my reporting today is on the Mac mini. Here’s my Free Press review, played on Page One. My bottom line assessment:

I’ve had a mini to try out since Friday, and it’s impressed me greatly. This is no weakling computer. It’s a full-fledged Macintosh that can do most everything I can on my $2,000 PowerBook, despite its small size.

In the review, I forgot to mention AppleWorks, which does have a word processor built in.
For my NBC-TV report that is sent out to all 215 affiliates today, I also looked at the mini, as well as the other new Apple products.
I also did a short review on the new iWork bundle. I was not as impressed

Did Microsoft grab another company’s blogging name?

A tiny Michigan online company that markets a blogging tool called Spaces wants to know why Microsoft chose the same name for it’s two-month-old service. MIKE WENDLAND: Oakland firm challenges MSN over product’s name.

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