iPhone tour available on Apple's site
The company on Friday posted a 20-minute guided tour of the device that is one of the most exhaustive looks yet at that iPhone thing you might have heard about. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
Freeroll Poker Tournament: What Is It?
Should You Enter A Freeroll Poker Tournament? For some, a freeroll poker tournament may seem like a poor idea. They believe that, because they are not having to pay to enter, the prize will onl...
NowPublic raises $10.6M in venture capital (AP)
AP - NowPublic, a startup that lets nonprofessionals post news accounts and images on its Web site, said Monday it raised $10.6 million in venture capital.
Vick in trouble now, co-defendant claims QB financed fights
The non-guilty plea entered by Falcons QB Michael Vick took a series shot today when his co-defendant pleaded guilty and admitted that the QB was responsible for financing most of the fights. Now that the prosecutors have an inside witness, I really don't see how Vick is going to escape this rush. For all of his talk, he really screwed up. I ... (Read on Source)
Rain at Michigan could mean change in Chase run
Sunday's postponement of the NASCAR race and the forecast for more rain this week opens the possibility of an altered Chase for ... (Read on Source)
Game Stories: Catchin' Up. OR 35-6. Take that Rangers.
And your new starting RF for the Boston Red Sox... ...I kid, I kid, though it's hard not to notice that even Kevin Cash had a much bigger impact offensively in the first three games against "the other Sox" than Drew . On the plus side, a whole f---in lot of runs. Each game seemed to have a few strong performances: Game 1: 'Tek , Lowell Game 2: ... (Read on Source)
The dangers of automatic updates
When I started using GNU/Linux eight years ago, I was dumbfounded to encounter Debian users who started their day by upgrading their entire system. Yet now, with the updaters that sit in the notification trays of recent GNOME and KDE-based distributions, I realize that these daily upgraders were not daredevils, but pioneers in the idea that all upgrades are desirable. Never mind that this idea is an nuisance and an unwarranted assumption -- let alone that constant upgrades are unsuitable to many styles of computing and contrary to responsible system maintenance.
Let fee-dom ring
Given that banks are now making more on fees than they ever have, the results of the latest bankrate.com surveys aren't that surprising. To sum them up: ATM fees are rising. Bounced check fees are rising. Minimum balance requirements are...
Litecom Selects Comverse for Deployment of Wholesale Residential...
... Switzerland. Litecom markets data transport services and Internet connectivity (leased lines, co-location, Ethernet, and VPN services) on a wholesale basis to regional service providers, enterprises and public sector customers. ...
Thagoo for metasearching tags
Information Trapping for Tags: Thagoo ResearchBuzz (Oct 7) "If you’re looking for more tag sites to do information trapping, check out Thagoo. It’s a tag meta-search site that offers RSS feeds for search results." Thagoo really is a metasearcher of... (Read on Source)
Damon Hill: Lewis has amazed everyone
Lewis Hamilton is close to winning the Formula 1 championship. The young Briton that started the season as a rookie was a regular visitor to the podium. But not many would expect to see him lead the championship at the final round of the 2007 Formula 1 season. Country fellow Damon Hill, Britain's last crowned F1 champion, is proud to pass the ... (Read on Source)
Huge New Palm Found -- "Flowers Itself to Death"
 | The six-story-tall plant recently discovered in Madagascar self-destructs by producing hundreds of thousands of flowers at once?a "truly spectacular" sight, says one scientist. |
It's About Nothing
Dispatches from the twilight of a presidency: 7:13 a.m.: The South Lawn. President Bush, determined to dispel doubts about his relevance, grants an early-morning interview to Robin Roberts of ABC News's "Good Morning America." Joined by the first lady, he fields hard-hitting questions about . . ....
MIT Study Shows the Way Forward for Cars
A study on how to cut fuel consumption in half in 25 years may seem highly relevant after the summer of $4 gas, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began the study five years ago, when gas cost half as much as it does now.
Let's just say we're glad they were working on it even when no one was paying attention.
With Americans sucking down somewhere in the neighborhood of 390 million gallons of gas each day, climate change screwing with the weather and world oil supplies stretched to the limit, MIT has several recommendations on how cars can survive.
Some of their suggestions are obvious, such as the continued development of hybrid, electric and hydrogen vehicles, along with innovations in vehicle weight and other gas-saving technologies.
In what is beginning to be viewed as the conventional wisdom, the researchers poo-poo corn ethanol, but advocate development of cellulosic ethanol, as well as biodiesels derived from algae.
The least popular of their suggestions (and we'd love to hear what our readers have to say on this subject), though, will surely be met with some resistance.
First of all, the study says that innovation in car technology must be geared toward fuel economy, not delivering more speed or power. That has obviously has been the trend over ? how long? Oh, yes: the entire history of the automobile. Researchers flatly state that Americans must learn to conserve and, in doing so, expect less from their cars in terms of performance and size. In other words, it's not about inventing ways to make SUVs more efficient, it's about ending the mentality that people need the biggest, baddest V-8.
The report also advocates strong government intervention to "push and pull" market forces in the necessary direction. It doesn't matter how many hybrids automakers build, what matters is the penetration of those hybrids (and electric cars) into the market. This could take several decades, which, the study basically says, is why it should have started yesterday.
We Can Cut Fuel Consumption 50 Percent in 25 Years (Autopia)
Latest Sneaky Web Attack: Hijacking Your Clipboard To Post Spammy Links
Spammers and scammers keep upping the game against security researchers, sometimes in creative ways. And, in fact, it would appear that the latest sneaky trick making the rounds is almost admirable in its sneakiness. For example, take a look at this latest hack, which hijacks your clipboard, and repeatedly places a link to a site for fake security software. The hijack takes place through flash advertisements (even those found on legit sites), which is all the more reason to use AdBlock or FlashBlock or NoScript or something to protect you. However, what it's banking on, is the fact that plenty of people quickly cut and paste links they want to send around or post in other blogs and forums. When done quickly, many people won't even notice that they're not pasting the link they thought they cut from elsewhere -- thus getting lots of folks to inadvertently spam links. This must be incredibly annoying for those who get hit with it, but that doesn't take away from the creativeness of the attack itself. Even security researchers, like Mikko Hypponen, are grudgingly tipping their hats on this hack: "It is a pretty clever technique. Our work would be so much easier if our enemy would be stupid."
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The Importance of Validating Your HTML!
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our Full RSS feed to get a daily digest of news around search engine industry. With a pool of technologies, like frames, Flash, etc. giving search engine crawlers a tough time already in their quest to decipher and then subsequently rank web pages, you may think ? why make their job tougher as it ... (Read on Source)
Should Citizen Journalism be Placed Under Citizen's Arrest?
When does an iReport give CNN's credibility a black eye? When its citizen "journalism" about a Steve Jobs heart attack turns out to be phony. It takes a lot during this Autumn of the Economic Meltdown for an individual company's stock woes to break out from the pack, but an Oct. 3 iReport on CNN.com claiming that Apple's CEO had been rushed to a hospital after suffering a serious heart attack did the trick.
Husqvarna uses sun to power your lawnmower
Swedish company is adding to its robotic lawnmower line with a solar hybrid that uses the sun's energy to extend the time between recharging its nickel metal hydride battery.
Firefox Hits 20 Percent Browser Share Worldwide
According to the data service Net Applications, the Firefox web browser hit the 20 mark in worldwide market share in October. Firefox's popularity varies from country to country, but the 20 percent mark for global usage is an important milestone as the open-source browser continues to chip away at Microsoft's market dominance.
Do you know enough?
If not, what are you doing about it? If so, who do you think you're kidding? [Interesting side alley: I was talking to a friend yesterday and encouraged her to speak at an upcoming conference. She said, "No way. I don't know enough." I explained that volunteering to speak was the best way to be sure that she'd end up knowing enough by the time ... (Read on Source)
Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
There were unconfirmed reports that the dead included Rashid Rauf, a British suspect in a foiled plot to down trans-Atlantic ...
Apple issues QuickTime update for new MacBooks
New copy-protection technology added to Apple's new MacBooks was incorrectly preventing standard-definition iTunes movies from playing on older projectors.
TOC: The Internet Review of Science Fiction, December 2008
The December 2008 Issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction has been posted: Editorial : The Old and the New by Stacey Janssen Features : Mars Concedes! by Daniel M. Kimmel What Science Fiction Leaves Out of the Future, #1: No News is Good News? by Gary Westfahl Signals 15 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Criticism : Escaping into the Real: The ... (Read on Source)
Judge Approves Common Fund Assessment Reallocation
NEW YORK - The ephedra multidistrict litigation judge on Oct. 17 granted a motion by the plaintiffs to change the common benefit fee for each gross settlement to allocate 1 percent to expenses and 5 percent to attorney fees (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 M.D. 1598 [JSR], S.D. N.Y.; See October 2007, Page 8). Full story on lexis.com
SKorea's Hynix Semiconductor working to raise cash (AP)
AP - South Korea's money-losing Hynix Semiconductor Inc. is making progress toward raising new capital from creditors and direct backing from the government is not being considered, officials said Monday.
EDF close to buying half of Constellation: report
(Reuters) - Electricite de France SA is close to an agreement to buy half the nuclear power business of Constellation Energy Group Inc for $4.5 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
Review: Ditching car OK with Net transit planners (AP)
AP - As a New Yorker, I don't own a car, and I really hate driving.
Ex-NY Giant WR Ingram Captured After Month on Lam
Mark Ingram was arrested in Flint, Michigan, nearly a month after he disappeared on the day he was scheduled to begin serving a prison sentence for bank fraud and money laundering. (Read on Source)
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