Microsoft has achieved something of benefit to almost every computer user regardless of what operating system you use, from Windows to OS X to Linux. The company has successfully convinced a US court to shut down a global network of computers responsible for pumping out more than one and a half billion spam messages every day.
Hilarious. There are at least five unofficial Star Trek tricorder apps to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a fake scanner. Beam me up Jobsie? The developers daren’t mention the name of the TV and film franchise, of course; presumably the word ‘tricorder’ hasn’t been copywrited to Paramount Studios, which is a surprising omission unless someone coined the term before the first series started to air in the 1960s. I don’t know. I bet there are Trek fans out there who do.
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