Medical Imaging Supplies: What To Consider When Buying
Buying medical imaging supplies is something that you may never have to do. After all, this is not common among everyday people. But with that being said, if you have a job within the health field you...
Understanding Intelligent Caching Engine in Translator Plugin Pro / Gold 5.0
We have designed a new caching engine for Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 & Gold 1.0. Previously we used WordPress’ Object Caching Engine (bundled with WordPress) which doesn’t work so well in resource constrained sites. Also it doesn’t serve our need to have semi-permanent cache for translated pages and provide infrastructure...
Google 'probably' to bid for 700MHz spectrum
Blog: The search giant may submit a $4.6 billion bid for a prime chunk of wireless spectrum, its CEO says.
The Competition that Just Won't Budge
Posted by randfish
You know the feeling... That competitor who, no matter what you do, always ranks above your site. You've got more links, better links, better optimization, more targeted anchor text, tons of better viral content and yet, somehow, as though blessed by a higher power, your site simply can't outrank that @#$%!
I'd like to do something a little different on the SEOmoz blog today, and ask you to share - share your ranking nightmare. Share the search term and the website that you just can't figure out. If you've been pulling out your hair and screaming at the search engines, today's your chance to offer up your struggle and get some help from your fellow SEOmoz readers (and us mozzers, too).
Obviously, I don't actually hate HouseValues.com - I'm just pandering to a friend (exhibit a).
Over the next few days, we'll hopefully take a more detailed look at some of the sites and SERPs you share and try to puzzle out what's helping them ruin your otherwise blissful existence :)
ResearchBuzz Roundup 102607
XM Radio is offering free updates on the California Wildfires and traffic information for two of the affected areas. The channels will be available to all XM radios whether they’ve been activated by subscribers or not. Presidential Cabinet members get blogs. I have so many mixed feelings about this my entire brain is paralyzed. LookSmart ... (Read on Source)
China's Virtual World Plans
Your favorite pants are fraying? You may soon be able to order replacements directly from the factory where they were made, according to the chief scientist of an ambitious Chinese Internet project. China's government is building a vast virtual world dubbed "Beijing Cyber Recreation District," which founders say will help the manufacturing superpower evolve into an e-commerce juggernaut.
Bird Flu Finds Children's Lungs Faster
New findings about how the virus binds to the respiratory tract and lungs suggest children may be particularly susceptible to avian influenza. The results also mean that previous receptor distribution studies may have to be re-evaluated.
Fedora 8: Close, But No Cigar
Tecosystems: "Anyway, on the workstation front, Ubuntu had done nothing to deserve a dismissal, but the cool kids in #redmonk kept bragging about all of the new hotness in Fedora, and, well, I wanted to be cool too..."
Microsoft Live Search Toolbar to Be Distributed on 2009 HP Consumer PCs
REDMOND, Wash. — June 2, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, to install a Live Search-enabled toolbar on all HP consumer PCs planned to ship in the United States and Canada, beginning in January 2009. As part of this deal, the default search ... (Read on Source)
Tomb Raider Underworld Gets Date
Eidos has announced that Tomb Raider: Underworld, the next game in the long-running tomb raiding franchise, will be released in North America on November 18, with an European release three days later. The game is in development at Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Legend, the critically acclaimed entry that revitalized interest in the ailing franchise. Underworld [...]
Chinese Search Engine
Reuters has recently reported that chinese internet portal Sohu.com has just made an announcement that they have got $40.2 million in second quarter profit, up 600% over the same quarter in 2007. The news comes in the wake of results posted by another popular Chinese search engine Baidu, which previously saw a huge profit rise of Sohu.com 87% in ... (Read on Source)
Report: Google China Will Unveil MP3 Search Function
As long as Baidu's Chinese and Google's American, it seems like that first company will have an advantage in a certain part of the world. There's a sign that Google China is trying to catch up, however, by offering something to compete with Baidu's much-loved MP3 search.
Web-to-mail Service Gets Around Work Site Bans
A novel free service will send you an e-mail version of a Web page to get around workplace site blocking.
Hughes Launches Scalable Private Networking Solution for Small to Mid-Size Businesses
... performance, at a price more affordable than terrestrial alternatives, including competing MPLS and Internet-based VPN solutions. With a HughesNet Private Network, SMBs can enable branch-to-branch communications, directly connecting each ...
Just Assume the Spammers Are Going to Get Your Email Address
There's been quite a flame-war going on over at TechCrunch, where Mike Arrington has claimed that the way Apple deals with invalid URLs for users' public iDisk pages makes it "a dead simple way for spammers to easily spider" Apple's iDisk site to compile a list of all MobileMe usernames (and, therefore, email addresses) for spamming purposes. TechCrunch readers are split about whether this is a serious problem or a non-issue. I think Arrington is right that this wasn't the best design decision, but the hyperbole seems unwarranted. In the first place, this doesn't give anyone a way to spider the iDisk site. All it enables is a brute-force dictionary attack, which is going to be a lot slower and will only catch those whose addresses contain dictionary words. Moreover, as various people have pointed out, similar criticisms could be levied at other companies that also provide ways the bad guys could determine the validity of email address—although Google's email validity checker does present the user with a CAPTCHA after about 10 tries.
I think it's important not to lose sight of the big picture here. No, we don't want to make it too easy for spammers to scrape our email addresses from the web. But at the same time, as the use of email becomes more and more pervasive, there are more and more ways for our addresses to "leak" into underground spammer communities. And once your email address has leaked out, a version of the darknet thesis takes over, and at that point you can just assume all the spammers are going to get your address sooner or later. So it's hard to get too worked up about the problem TechCrunch is identifying here. I've long since stopped trying to shield my primary email address from spammers, and relied on my client-side spam filter to weed out the spam for me. Apple should probably make some changes to the iDisk site, but this is not a serious privacy flaw, and it pales in comparison to the other problems MobileMe has been having recently.
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Summary Judgment Granted For Lack Of Evidentiary Support
BATON ROUGE, La. - A federal judge on Nov. 16 granted summary judgment for Bayer Corp. in a PPA case, stating that he reviewed the record and found that Bayer's argument that the plaintiff failed to provide case-specific expert testimony or expert reports supporting her claims had merit and that the motion was unopposed (Mildred Mitchell v. Bayer Corp., No. 07-CV-212, M.D. La.; See September 2007, Page 17). Full story on lexis.com
Trends For Mega Cities Like Seoul
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a typical mega city: vast, pulsating, noisy and full of exhaust fumes. Researchers are developing new building concepts and IT solutions that will save energy, cut pollution and make living in the city a more pleasant experience.
Web Hosting Resource, WebHostingTalk Australia, Acquired by iNET Interactive
... : Web Hosting Resource, WebHostingTalk Australia, Acquired by iNET Interactive ) - October 21, 2008 - Web hosting industry ...
A Short, Completely Off-Topic Post About Sarah Silverman
As I was perusing the MailOnline today, I was surprised to see them refer to Sarah Silverman as, and I quote, 'the funniest woman alive.' I was not, however, surprised to read this, She bombed as a guest on Jonathan... (Read on Source)
Nets' Boone ruled out after rapid heartbeat
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Nets center Josh Boone was held out of an exhibition game against New York on Monday night after experiencing a rapid heartbeat at practice last week. (Read on Source)
Free/Open-source Video Editing Software
Tech Source From Bohol: "Some of the best video editing software are quite expensive, like Adobe Premiere and Apple's Final Cut Pro. However, thanks to these valuable free/open-source video editing software applications, you don’t have to empty your wallet."
Analysis: PM slams the brakes on Salmond's momentum
IT is official. As of this morning, the honeymoon is over. The extended feel-good factor which Alex Salmond and the SNP had carried with them since last May came to a halt in (Read on Source)
Amazon's Cloud Data Center to Follow Google to Oregon (Slashdot)
1sockchuck writes "All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud. It resides in servers and data centers. That's why Amazon.com is quietly building a large data center complex in Oregon along the Columbia River, not far from Google's secret data lair in The Dalles. Amazon Web Services started as a way to monetize excess data center capacity for its retail operation, but has ...
Microsoft waits 7 years before fixing security exploit
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Microsoft takes 7 years before fixing security exploit -- A patch addressing an NTLM reflection vulnerability in the SMB protocol seems to have skipped Patch Tuesday for the last seven years.
Report confirms AMD gains on Nvidia -- The competitiveness of AMD's new graphics chips is confirmed by a report.
Sick? Google shares health searches with govt. -- Google is launching an initiative called Flu Trends to help the U.S. government "track sickness." Could such initiatives one day lead to an invasion of privacy?
Best Buy gift cards with built-in speakers -- So you got a new iPod for Christmas and want to rock some tunes around the tree? Just plug it into your Best Buy gift card.
FDA Requests Recall Of 'All Natural' Erectile Dysfunction Formulations
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a Nov. 2 press release that it has requested that America True Man Health Inc. recall its "all natural" erectile dysfunction products because they contain potentially dangerous ingredients. Full story on lexis.com
AdCenter Hints on Competitive Bidding!
One of the most important things that was discussed at the event was that the search engines will not defend ylou much, if your trademark utilizes a generic term. (Read on Source)
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