Evening news roundup

• Computer terms ‘confuse workers’ [BBC]
  “Most office workers find computer jargon as difficult to understand as a foreign language, a survey suggests.”
• Student’s cash-raising net scheme [BBC]
  “A student who plans to sell a million dollars in internet advertising space is well on the way.”
• Attack code published for Firefox flaw [CNET]
  “Computer code that could be used to attack Firefox, Mozilla Suite and Netscape users has been released on the Internet.”
• Handbook offers tips for cyber-dissidents [CNET]
  “A new 87-page booklet from Reporters Without Borders gives bloggers advice on dodging state censors.”
• Cell phone virus tries leaping to PCs [CNET]
  ‘A virus discovered Wednesday is among the first designed to spread from smart phones to PCs, says security firm F-Secure.”
• To Find a Doctor, Mine the Data [NYT]
  “Many people are using the Web to comparison-shop online for hospitals and doctors.”
• The Silence of the Leaf Blowers [Wired]
  “Suburbanites tired of the screech of leaf blowers have long pressed their communities to ban or restrict use of the tools. Manufacturers are fighting back with quieter models and political lobbying.”
• Voice Over Internet Both Simple, Complex [AP]
  “We have more ways than ever of communicating, but trying to keep up with family and friends can be exasperating. Our overlapping free time seems to shrink. We constantly play phone and voice mail tag. And e-mail, in its tone-deaf impersonality, barely helps.”

Die Dulci Fruere