Apple plugs QuickTime zero-day flaw
Patch comes just over a week after the vulnerability was used to grab a $10,000 prize and a MacBook Pro in a hack-a-Mac contest.
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MGM Grand Detroit Taps NxTV for Nation's First Fully Digital IPTV Install
NxTV, Inc. leads industry in delivery of 100% digital content and distribution system for in-room media; Ultra crisp on-screen images for guests. (PRWeb May 22, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1DcmFzLUNyYXMtRW1wdC1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Powerset - Open Source approach to beat Google
Powerset is slowly coming out of stealth mode. Dan Farber at ZDNet has an excellent in depth story on Powerset and PowerLabs, their approach to including the community in developing and QA'ing the Powerset search engine index. It is a novel idea, empowering of the open source community to join the fight to beat Google. Open Source contributors ... (Read on Source)
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq: 'Fear' Pervades Iraqi Society
The White House is pushing hard to buy time for its Iraq strategy, offering Congress unusual access to President Bush's top military and diplomatic advisers.
How To Play Small Pocket Pairs In Cash Games
I play a lot of no-limit cash games online and one of the hands I most like to see is a small pocket pair (ie 8's or under). This is because if you're lucky enough to subsequently hit trips &#...
Keith Hernandez wins best mustache in NY
Only cretins from Long Island would vote that mustache the best in NY Sports history. (Read on Source)
Oregon Sen. Wyden to Block Bush's Choice for CIA Post
Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block President Bush's nominee to become the CIA's top lawyer.
Rutgers Student Section Now Out Of Control At Scarlet Knights Games
RUTGERS STUDENTS TO NAVY PLAYERS, FANS: "F--- YOU!": With 9/11 once again upon us, last weekend was a great time to give a tip of the cap to our police, emergency personnel, military and service academies. But apparently Rutgers students were too busy on beer runs or at electrolysis sessions to be bothered. (Read on Source)
UCLA report card
It was a near flawless effort by the Utes Saturday, one that would make a parent giddy with pride at their high marks (if only I could say the same about my report cards in high school). So like any happy parent would do, I'm pimping the report card around town. It's hanging on the fridge for all the guests to see. Right next to the shopping list ... (Read on Source)
State Farm® Kicks Off Friday Night Feats
National video contest to find best plays from this year’s high school football season. (PRWeb Oct 18, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U3F1YS1Mb3ZlLUNvdXAtTG92ZS1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Enter prise 2.0: soci al ne twork s beh ind..
Embed Video?Just include the embed code in the comment! We support embeds from Youtube, Google Videos, BlipTV, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Viddler, Yahoo Videos and several other approved sites only (Read on Source)
Would-Be Linux Contributors May Get a Leg Up
To better the OS and grow participation, Linux's backers want to help developers negotiate what's become a complex community of people and processes.
IRC Clients for Linux Part 1: List of 6 GUI Clients
Linux Weekly: "I decided to put up this list which contains no less than 6 graphical IRC clients for Linux, powerful or user-friendly. I also provided several screenshots where I considered necessary and a brief description for each of them."
Dell sees weaker global IT demand; shares dive (AP)
AP - Shares of Dell Inc. tumbled 10 percent Tuesday after the computer maker said it is seeing "further softening" in demand for information technology products around the world.
Amid market meltdown, Wall Street Journal goes Web 2.0
The wall Street Journal this week unveiled a redesigned Web site that features various web 2.0 technologies.
Sept. 24, 1993: Beautiful 'Myst' Ushers In Era of CD-ROM Gaming
1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn Miller founded a software-development business called Cyan Worlds in 1987, and they started making history. The pair partnered in 1989 with game-publisher Activision to create a CD-ROM version of Cyan's first game, The Manhole, which was the first entertainment product released in the fledgling format. More CD-ROM games followed, including follow-ups from Cyan, but few consumers bought expensive CD drives for their home computers, because there were no truly compelling applications -- that is, until Broderbund published Cyan's Myst in 1993. Myst's dreamlike world and simple gameplay appealed to what we would now call "casual gamers." Its graphics were so polished and its world so entrancingly designed that it hooked a wide audience. Copies flew off the shelves. But perhaps more important, CD-ROM drives flew off shelves. To play Myst, you needed the hardware. The underlying technology of the new game wasn't that different from Manhole's -- both were programmed using HyperCard, a free Mac application that gave amateur programmers a user-friendly, visually oriented creation tool. What separated Myst from the pack was the game's beautiful, "pre-rendered" 3-D world. The mid-'90s were videogames' puberty, a strange and awkward time spent trapped between child and adult. Computers were able to render 3-D worlds, but the videogame consoles in people's homes couldn't come close. As a result, game designers often created 3-D worlds on their workstations, then took 2-D bitmap snapshots of the worlds and dropped them into their games as pre-rendered graphics. Nintendo would later use this technique to great effect in Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo. As its box art signified, Myst dropped the player into a remote, deserted island with little in the way of prelude. The player's goal: Explore the island, find the fragments of story that explain the situation, and solve puzzles. Writing about the game in the early days of Wired magazine, Jon Carroll described the appeal of Myst's atmosphere: "The game is remarkable for its sense of control and mood; it is internally consistent in a subtle and layered way. There are interlocking themes: sound, water, gears, energy. The interface is transparent and minimal; it works like a glove....
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
The world's financial markets may be collapsing, but technology lives on -- for the moment, anyway. This week the feds arrested a suspect in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case, and both Steve Jobs and Windows XP got yet another lease on life. Also: new e-books, virtual worlds, and some truly wacky science. Are you up to speed on all things tech? Prove your geek street cred by acing this quiz. Correct answers are worth 10 points each, and no asking your artificial intelligence buddies for help. Ready?
1. Tennessee University student David Kernell has been charged with illegally accessing Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account by changing her password. What new password did he allegedly choose?
a. Pitbull
b. Lipstick
c. Popcorn
d. Maverick
Game Show Attendance Drops 8% on First Day
The Tokyo Game Show saw an 8 percent drop in attendance on Thursday, the first day of the four-day long show, organizers said...
Earth-like Planets May Be Easier To Find Than Previously Thought: Young Planets Stay Hotter Longer
Hot, young planets may be easier to spot because they stay that way longer than astronomers have thought. A new study shows that newborn Earth-like planets could be easier to find than previously thought. (Read on Source)
Audio-Technica intros new high-end headphones
Audio Technica on Friday announced the upcoming release of a number of headphones that range from the entry-level earbuds to the ultra high-end meant for audiophiles. Starting at the top is the ATH-A2000X set that includes 53mm (about 2.1in) diameter drivers and deliver frequency response of 5Hz-45kHz. They also share their 42-ohm impedance level and maximum loudness of 101dB with the slightly les...
A Quick Introduction to GPU Accelerated Computing
GPU, short for Graphics Processing Unit, is a dedicated processor for rendering graphics. Traditionally, graphics are rendered by the CPU (Central Processing Unit). Therefore, theoretically speaking, ...
--> IBM Commits to Future of ODF With Symphony Roadmap
... free Lotus office application suite to MacIntosh, Ubuntu Linux, OpenOffice 3.0 and Microsoft Office customers. ... to general availability. Symphony 1.1 provides a debian package optimized for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). ...
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Funerary Monument Reveals Iron Age Belief That The Soul Lived In The Stone
Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body.
FDA Seizes $71,000 In Dietary Supplements It Says Were Misbranded
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 9 ordered that U.S. marshals seize $71,000 in dietary supplements that the agency said were being improperly promoted as treatments for serious diseases. Full story on lexis.com
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