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Tech news:
Jef Raskin, GUI pioneer, interface expert, Apple employee #31, and the man most credited with the creation of the Apple Macintosh, died of cancer on Saturday February 26, 2005. He wa 61. It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to “Macintosh” to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer.
Bank of America loses a million customer records
A “small” number of backup tapes with records detailing the financial information of government employees were lost in shipment to a backup center, Bank of America said on Friday. The tapes contained information on the customers and accounts of the U.S. government’s SmartPay charge card program, which has more than 2.1 million members and annual transactions totaling more than $21 billion, according to the General Services Administration. Reports have pegged the number of cards affected at 1.2 million.
Here are all the slick new gadgets Oscar celebs get:
A year free year of VoIP phone service from Vonage.
The black version of Motorola’s RAZR V3.
An iXi collapsible bike.
A Dyson DC11 vacuum.
Sprint is offering some unreleased “multimedia” phone from Samsung, maybe the SCH-5600?
A Krups kitchen set that includes a toaster and an electric kettle.
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How To: Protect yourself from Sidekick hacks.
1. Turn on password protection for voicemail.
2. A real secure security question.
3. A hard-to-break password.
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Music: Mash-Up- Belinda the Punkrocker.
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