BooRah, a service that uses semantic technology to find restaurant reviews online and combine them to give users a rating, announced that it has launched a new API for websites and businesses that want to display the company’s reviews on their own sites.
The API allows users to search for restaurants in their city and view [...]

Another option for taskbar problems is the free Taskbar Repair Tool Plus, which I found on Kelly Theriot’s Kelly’s Korner.

I found the solution on Colin Cochrane’s blog. Here are the steps in a nutshell:

Tomorrow: the best OpenOffice.org templates and clipart.
For whatever reason, the last time I booted my Vista laptop the network icon was missing [...]

Neto allegedly agreed with Nasiri to broker the sale of the botnet to a third party for 25,000 euros, or more than $37,000, according to a Justice Department statement.
The case is being investigated by the Cyber Squad unit of the FBI’s New Orleans field office with assistance from the Dutch Hi-Tech Crime [...]

Early Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos reported that some visitors to the
Sony PlayStation site may have been prompted to download an antivirus scanner.

Danchev concludes: “If you don’t take care of your Web application vulnerabilities, someone else will.”

The injected code linking to the scanner has since been removed.

With fast-flux, a registered domain name stays the [...]

Revenue for the three-month period rose 13 percent to $3.7 billion.
China-based Lenovo said that worldwide PC shipments grew 21 percent, ahead of the industry average growth rate.
For the quarter that ended March 31, Lenovo said that profits attributable to shareholders grew 133 percent to $140 million from the same period a year ago. That figure [...]

Other user-preservation features already available include Gmail’s capability to watch for words like “attached” in the body of an e-mail and to alert you if there are no attachments to the message; and a feature in Google Apps (the corporate version of Gmail) that puts orange borders around the names of e-mail recipients that [...]

Despite the recent pairing between Yahoo and Google, signs indicate that Microsoft is after the Sunnyvale-based Yahoo for its search capabilities. That doesn’t come as a huge surprise since that was the essence of the last round of talks before the deal was completely yanked off the table. And if we’re likening this courtship [...]

Navigation may be better on the iPhone, but IE 6 will have some advantages, such as full Flash support.

The current version of mobile Internet Explorer, seen here, leaves a lot to be desired. A new version, based on the same rendering engine as Internet Explorer 6 for the PC, promises Flash support and other improvements.

That’s [...]

The end result is pretty incredible and feels a lot like Google Maps. It uses vector graphics to keep lines and text nice and clean as you zoom in and out of bits and pieces of a presentation. Media also streams in as you go, so you can begin your presentation from wherever while big [...]

It could also be the groundwork for a more advanced YouTube viewing experience. The curtains on the player make for a neat decoration, but could also be placeholders for a more advanced 16:9 player that takes advantage of the increasing number of clips uploaded from shiny new HD video cameras.
Google Blogoscoped has unearthed a new [...]