Scientists working on baby milk that prevents obesity
From the Guardian: British scientists are working on a baby formula which would chemically restructure the metabolic system of children to ensure they never became obese. Studies in mice have found that large doses of the appetite-controlling hormone leptin during infancy permanently prevent excess weight gain and reduce the chances of type 2 ... (Read on Source)
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Darkness falls...despair abounds...evil reigns.... (Read on Source)
Google Page Rank Update 2007
There is talk in the seo world and on the webmaster forums that there is a google page rank update just around the corner. It is been over eighty days since the last update and therefore people believ...
Chili Products Recall
FDA is warning consumers not to eat certain canned food products or to serve certain dog food produced by Castleberry's Food Company of Augusta, Ga., due to possible botulism contamination. Botulism can be fatal. (Read on Source)
Multiple Microsoft search refreshes due over the 12 months
Microsoft is readying multiple new search releases ? the first of which is coming this fall ? that it will launch over the next 12 months.
The fall search update will include improvements to the search core, relevance and performance and mobile capabilities as well as new vertical search experiences, Kevin Johnson, the President of Microsoft?s Platforms and Services division, told attendees of Microsoft?s Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) conference.
Search isn?t the only Live rollout coming. Johnson said Microsoft is preparing a full Windows Live 2.0 update for launch this fall. The 2.0 update will be a single suite of user services available as a single download that will work on the PC, phone and browser, Johnson said.
Cousin in line for Gers debut
New Rangers signing Daniel Cousin is set to feature in tomorrow?s Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against St Mirren.
The Dark River
The Dark River opens in New York City with a stunning piece of news.... (Read on Source)
Sony and Warner Bros. Successfully Sue a Downloader for $222,000 in Minnesota.
In a devastating blow against the P2P downloaders of the world, a young lady in Minnesota has been successfully sued for sharing music. This October, a US Federal court judge...
ZendCon: How to Web-optimize your tech show
As befits people catering to the PHP programming crowd, the Zend guys are clearly plugged in to how to make their conference a Net event.
Climate threat to biodiversity
Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries could trigger a mass extinction, warn scientists.
Ocean "Thermostat" May Be Secret Weapon Against Warming
 | A natural but mysterious regulating process could help protect some tropical coral reefs from the effects of climate change, a new study says. |
Acidifying Oceans Add Urgency To Carbon Dioxide Cuts
It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean. The ecological and economic consequences are difficult to predict but possibly calamitous, warn a team of chemical oceanographers, and halting the changes already underway will likely require even steeper cuts in carbon emissions than those currently proposed to curb climate change.
Alden March Bioethics Institute Picks Up the Pieces After Glenn McGee's Ouster
After three rocky years under the leadership of bioethicist Glenn McGee, faculty members at the Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI) at the Albany Medical College are breathing a sigh of relief that he was sacked. For McGee, however, the battle to preserve his storied reputation--and his six-month severance package--has just begun. [More] (Read on Source)
Wait continues for iPhone 3G at Apple store
The iTunes server issues that turned Friday morning's launch into a debacle are gone, but count on at last a two-hour wait for an iPhone 3G today.
IBM continues to feed Novell with Cognos roll-out on SUSE Linux
IBM looked past Red Hat to start with Novell's SUSE Linux in its mainframe strategy.
Popular Online Cross-Dress Store Celebrates One-Year Anniversary
Genie, The Crossdress Store, founded by Canadian cross-dresser Nicolle Robinson, celebrated its first anniversary with the launch of its new website offering information and support to the cross-dress, transgendered, transsexual and transvestite communities. (PRWeb Jul 23, 2008)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1130684.htm
Transit Systems Are Not Well-integrated Into Local Emergency Plans
Millions of people each day rely on transit, yet few urban area emergency plans have focused on its role in an emergency evacuation. Transit systems could play a significant role in transporting car-less and special needs populations in times of emergency, but these groups are inadequately addressed in most local emergency plans and evacuating them could easily exceed limited transit resources.
Windows' days may be numbered
Could Microsoft be switching away from Windows?
Some very interesting documents have been leaking out of Microsoft. They clearly indicate, believe it or not, that Microsoft is considering shifting its users from Windows to a new operating system: Midori.
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And, when I say "new," I mean new. This isn't the kind of lip-service change that we saw with David Cutler and NT or Jim Allchin and Vista. Midori, under Eric Rudder, senior vice president for technical strategy, isn't a cosmetic change; it's a completely new operating system.
Midori is being designed from the ground up to be a distributed operating system running on top of multiple hardware systems and virtual machines. That's one heck of a change from what has always been a single-user operating system designed for a stand-alone PC.
That design is a big reason why Windows is the insecure mess that has kept Symantec, McAfee, and dozens of other anti-malware companies in business for decades. Despite that, Microsoft has never dared to change Windows too much, because it has been a cash cow. Now, things seem to be changing.
No one would dare let me enter the halls of the Microsoft campus, so I can only imagine that Midori started as a skunkworks project. Its purpose was probably to try out some ideas. That kind of project gets started all the time in major technology companies. Most of them amount to little. Why would Midori take on a life of its own?
I think it's because Vista's dismal market performance really shocked Microsoft. The company has had plenty of other failures -- Microsoft Bob quickly comes to mind -- but Vista is a failure of epic proportions. The reason both Mac OS and Linux are gaining ground on Windows is that people are rejecting Vista (much as I'd like to give the credit to their advantages).
Now, you may not believe that the Linux desktop or the Mac is really taking market share from Windows, but they are. In the United Kingdom, Linux was preinstalled on 2.9 percent of all PCs sold in June. Meanwhile, 14 percent of all PCs sold in the United States are Macs. People are no longer mindlessly buying Windows systems, and Microsoft knows that.
The company has tried to con -- uh, convince -- people that Vista really is a good operating system, with its painful Mojave Experiment Web site. The site crashed Safari on my MacBook Pro and wouldn't render on Firefox on my openSuse Linux PC. When I finally did get it to show up on an XP SP3 system, I was told it was my fault that I was having trouble with Vista. That's a surefire way to make me want to buy Vista.
Windows has had a long run, too long really. It can't be twisted into an operating system that can handle a world where processing power may be on the desktop or in a cloud, and where networking is a given. Microsoft needs something different.
But can it be serious about dropping Windows? I think it is. Vista has been a wake-up call that the company can't simply keep reinventing the same old thing. At the same time, Microsoft knows, of course, that it can't afford to alienate its customers, so the plan is to include Windows legacy support by way of virtualization. This path should enable Microsoft to provide the outstanding legacy application support it will need to keep end users happy.
Having said all this, do I think Microsoft will actually follow through? Not for a while, if at all. I can't see Midori coming out before 2013. The real question is, will Steve Ballmer make it happen? I can't see it. I can't hold the word "vision" and Ballmer in my head at the same time. If Microsoft changes management, Midori will turn into reality. If he stays in charge, we'll be seeing Windows 7 SP1 or, as I prefer to think of it, Vista SP4.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was cutting edge and 300bit/sec. was a fast Internet connection -- and we liked it! He can be reached at sjvn@vna1.com.
E.M. Swift: Chinese gymnasts shine, but cloud remains
The night before the showdown with the Chinese, the U.S. women's gymnastics team gathered in Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin's room in the Olympic Village and watched the movie Miracle, which tells the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's miraculous gold medal run. (Read on Source)
Argonne hosts 1st Int'l Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automotive Applications Sept. 1
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will host the 1st International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automotive Applications Sept. 15-17, 2008. (PRWeb Aug 27, 2008)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ANL/Conference/prweb1256404.htm
Fasthosts Fined £1,500
September 3, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A UK judge has ordered Fasthosts to hand over almost £1,500 to a former client, for damages and fees for not honoring its uptime and customer service guarantees, according to reports from news site The Register.
Romanian Phishing Busts Were Years in the Making
The FBI has been working since 2003 to crack down on Romanian phishers, a senior FBI official said Friday.
Build A Site Tips
When you have a passion about a particular subject you should have a voice against it and make your voice be heard. If you are sitting in the side lines listening and agreeing with other protesters, i...
The Real McCoy
Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy is in his 36th year of covering the Cincinnati Reds, the longest tenure for any active writer covering one team. Counting spring training and postseason games, McCoy has covered more than 7,000 major-league baseball games, written close to 18,000 baseball stories and eaten enough hot dogs to give Babe Ruth ... (Read on Source)
Bjorn shines after injury lay-off
Thomas Bjorn, playing his first tournament for 10 weeks, wasted no time making the headlines at The Belfry today - both for his golf and his comments afterwards.
New Free Web Monitoring Service Launched!
DrPinger.com is a great new site aimed at helping make monitoring your site easier. DrPinger is a great website that allows you to "set and forget" your website. All you have to do is set up t...
Perfcast Episode 6 Featuring Deb Ng
I'll start off by saying that our interview with Deb Ng of FreelanceWritingGigs.com has to be one of the most enjoyable interviews I've ever been a part of. David and I both grilled Deb Ng on the topics of freelancing, getting a job in the world of blogging, using your blog as a resume, managing time and much more. During the show, David, Deb ... (Read on Source)
Sling Media Goes Head-to-Head with Hulu: Updates Offerings (PC World)
PC World - Sling Media hopes to go head-to-head with Hulu, Joost and other online streaming sites with a newly launched video streaming destination of its own at Sling.com.
Carbon detectives are tracking gases in Colorado
Scientists are tracking where greenhouse gases come from and where they go over time in order to learn how to budget emissions for the long term. (Read on Source)
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