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ManageEngine MailArchiver Plus

ManageEngine MailArchiver Plus is a powerful, 24X7 real-time email archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange Server. It uses the proven Journaling ...



Innovative Leadership Success Depends on Modeling Strategic Excellence!

Innovative leadership is a process of transforming strategy models into prosperous innovation opportunities. Now more than ever, innovative leaders must not fall into the trappings of their traditiona...


ComScore: 31% Delete Cookies; Skews Measurement

ComScore: 31% Delete Cookies; Skews Measurement ComScore released the results of a study analyzing the validity of using cookie-based data to measure the number of unique visitors to individual websites and ad servers. comScore observed that 31... (Read on Source)


Sunderland confirm Halford signing

Sunderland have confirmed their successful £3m swoop for Reading full-back Greg Halford.


Helvetica Chimica Acta

Helvetica Chimica Acta Laboratorium für Organische Chemie der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, ETH-Zentrum, Universitätstr. 16, CH-8092 Zürich *Correspondence to Dieter Seebach, Laboratorium für Organische Chemie der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, ETH-Zentrum, Universitätstr. 16, CH-8092 Zürich (Read on Source)


PPA Plaintiff Appealing Summary Judgment Dismissal

HATTIESBURG, Miss. - A PPA plaintiff whose case was summarily dismissed Aug. 1 for lack of causation evidence has filed a notice of appeal of the decision to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Delois Buxton, et al. v. Lil' Drug Store Products, Inc., No. 2:02CV178KS-MTP, S.D. Miss.; See July 2007, Page 7). Full story on lexis.com


Playoff Rotation Set

Boston has elected to start its playoff series on Wednesday, leaving the Indians and Yankees to commence on Thursday.  Starting pitchers are expected to be as follows: Thursday, 10/4:  Wang v. Sabathia Friday, 10/5:  Pettitte v. Carmona Sunday, 10/7:  Westbrook v. Clemens Monday, 10/8:  Byrd v. Mussina/Wang (if necessary) Wednesday, 10/10:  ... (Read on Source)


LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

The Red Sox team that awaits the winner of the Yankees-Indians series is fundamentally different than the Boston team that won the World Series in 2004. (Read on Source)


Mount St. Helens Steams During Slight Quakes

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The Washington State volcano was steaming during two minor earthquakes this week, according to scientists who are giving St. Helens some space. "We're just being cautious," said one.


Jobs Unveils iPhone 3G

As widely predicted, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new incarnation of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, at the Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco. According to the new features Job listed, Apple listened quite a bit to user feedback.

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Your data used against you

We've known it for years: the information that we put on the internet isn't sacred and is available to anyone who has the time, skills and patience to look for it. It used to be that we had to gua...


QuarkXPress 8 Ships

Quark on Thursday announced that it is now shipping QuarkXPress 8, the newest major release to its flagship desktop publishing...


Google Wants To Launch MP3 Search In China

When Chinese search engine Baidu first went public, some folks pointed out that the main reason why people used it a lot more than Google was that it had an MP3 search engine, which let people find music to download. Google, being afraid of copyright infringement lawsuits, chose not to have such a specific search engine. Of course, once it had gone public, Baidu attracted the attention of record labels as well, and was quickly sued. However, Baidu eventually won that lawsuit -- which does seem like the right decision. Baidu, as a search engine, isn't making any copies of the file itself at all. It's merely linking to where those files are, and it's difficult to see how that's copyright infringement.

Of course, the record labels aren't known for giving up easily, and they simply sued again. However, it appears that Google has seen enough of getting beaten handily in the Chinese market by Baidu, and that initial ruling in favor of Baidu and has apparently decided to set up its own MP3 search engine on its Chinese site. The report notes that Google is first looking to get "approval" from the recording industry, though it's not clear what sort of approval is sought or needed. If it's going to be an industry approved search engine, it's unlikely to do what Google needs it to do. That is, it will most likely be quite limited and locked down, meaning people will just stick with Baidu's.

At the same time, it's still difficult to see why a separate search engine is really necessary. What's wrong with just doing a search with specific parameters included? In fact, some have already automated the process.

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Stracka Live Golf Scoring for iPhone

Teens and other groups have their own social networking sites I guess golfers should too. Stracka.com calls itself the premier golfing social networking site and it has announced mobile, live golf scoring for the iPhone. In addition to the iPhone, Strac...


Defcon: You Got to Show Us Your Stinkin' Badges

A highlight of the annual hackers' convention, which opens later this week, is the hackable Defcon badge. Find out how this year's version was engineered.
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Cairo-Dock - Desktop dock for openSUSE Linux

Cairo-Dock is a simple but effective feature rich dock for your openSUSE Linux. Ever since, Fabounet proposed a version improved, with a very ergonomic configuration newer versions are followed at an intensive pace and with their new functionalities like the sub-docks, the effects on the launchers...Many people were grafted with the project, each one bringing its competences, of graphics, to the applet or plugins and development.


Abrams on 'Fringe': Science, Conspiracies and 'The Pattern'

Freakish experiments and bizarre coincidences fuel Fox's new mind-bending series.
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10 hot Web redesigns of 2008

Redesigns happen all the time, but 2008 featured nearly a dozen major redesigns of massively trafficked Web sites. We round down 10 of them.


VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets

At this year's VMworld conference, the talk was all about the free release of Microsoft's hypervisor product, and how much of a threat the software giant may pose to virtualization leader VMware The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat...


50 significant moments from internet history

... (as defined in RFC 2332). It makes it possible to create a dynamic multipoint VPN Linux router using NHRP, GRE, and IPsec. It aims to be Cisco DMVPN compatible. ...


Website Optimizer Wednesdays - Excluding Internal Traffic

Website Optimizer Wednesdays - Excluding Internal Traffic Google Website Optimizer provides a handy preview tool that allows to check how your experiment pages will look before you start your test and while your test is running. Now there are some cases where the preview tool does not work . While there is a manual way to preview tests even when the preview tool fails, there's nothing like being able ... (Read on Source)


Bill Gates Starts New Company

It’s been said and feared that once a man stops working he starts dying. But honestly, give me a billion, just one, and you’ll never see me again unless it’s at a margarita bar somewhere beautiful. Not so for Bill Gates, though, recently semi-sorta-retired from Microsoft. He’s starting a new company.
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Obama SpokePOV

Obama SpokePOV Wow, Aneel used 6 " SpokePOVs " to turn his bicycle wheels in to Obama logos ( photo set here )... He included the files for download if you want to do this on your own, or you can of course make whatever you want. Oh, just to be clear and to avoid a comment-fight, MAKE does not endorse any political party, this is just a cool use of open source ... (Read on Source)


Michael Nagel appointed General Manager of Hilton Beijing

Michael Nagel appointed General Manager of Hilton Beijing.


Yahoo-Google deal may flounder, analyst says (Reuters)

Reuters - The new search advertising deal between Yahoo Inc and Google Inc is unlikely to win U.S. antitrust approval, and therefore may open the door to a new bid for Yahoo from Microsoft Corp, an analyst said on Tuesday.


Apps: FlashVideo Converter, Speedy Mac, Sound Grinder

FlashVideo Converter 2.2 ($100) is a tool for converting Flash SWF and FLV files to video files such as MP4, MOV and MPEG. Version 2.2 has improved the overall video quality as well as the movie size optimization feature. An option for selecting background color is also now available along with other various bug fixes. [Download - 15.1MB]...


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Texas Tech Rallies to Aid Big 12 Hopes, and Kansas Spoils Missouri ...
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By AP Fourth-quarter rallies by Texas Tech and Kansas made for exciting finishes in the Big 12 on Saturday, but in the end neither changed the landscape of the conference title-game picture.
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Preemption Judgment Denied; Seroquel Plaintiff's Claims Include Extra-Label Promotion

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Seroquel multidistrict litigation court on Nov. 6 denied, at least for now, defendant AstraZeneca's motion for preemption on 11 plaintiffs' failure-to-warn claims, saying they include not just drug labels but also promotional activities of sales representatives with doctors (In Re: Seroquel Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1769, No. 06-md-1769, M.D. Fla., Orlando Div.). Full story on lexis.com


Hubble Finds CO2 on Extrasolar Planet

The Hubble Space Telescope detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet using its infrared camera and a planetary eclipse. The same technique could be used to detect the byproducts of extraterrestrial life.
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Microsoft to Keep XP in Harness

Microsoft is giving PC makers -- essentially, companies that make build-to-suit computers -- an additional four months to buy the Windows XP operating system. Redmond had originally designated Jan. 21, 2009, as the cutoff for shipping the OS. Now, these manufacturers can take delivery up to May 30.