Breaux says he won't run for governor
By Ed Anderson Capital bureau BATON ROUGE --Democratic former U.S. Sen. John Breaux said Friday he will not be a candidate for governor this fall because he did not get a definitive legal opinion from the state attorney general clearing... (Read on Source)
Make Time for Web Marketing 2.0
How significant is a Web site to your organization? My impression is that for businesses who have devoted the resources to develop and maintain an effective online presence, its Web site's impact is unprecedented, and for the folks who haven't gone down that path, it's value and profitability are marginal.
Ads Start Running on Joost
Joost, the video-on-demand site boasting the world's first broadcast-quality Internet television service, hung out its open sign Tuesday with the announcement of its commercial launch. The site also entered the final beta stage, allowing beta testers to issue an unlimited number of invitations to friends, family and colleagues.
Atlassian releases Crowd 1.1 with and OpenID server
The Atlassian Crowd team is proud to announce the release of Crowd 1.1. This release contains a whole host of new features targeted at implementing OpenID, along with core updates to the Crowd Administration Console.
Undeveloped .com Domain Name Prices vs SEO Service Prices
Post comparing the value and prices of web based businesses, undeveloped domain names, and SEO services.... read more (Read on Source)
Fuzz testing with zzuf
Fuzz testing, which uses random input to test software for bugs, has been the biggest thing to happen in IT security in quite awhile. Now you can quickly and easily direct your own fuzz testing ops, thanks to a cool little program called zzuf.
Panasonic Reports Steady Demand for Plasma
Panasonic expects demand for large plasma televisions to slide from 40% in the next two years but to hold steady after that at about 30% of the total market for "TVs of 37 inches and above," according to Hiro Wada, who is in charge of product planning for visual products and display devices at Panasonic. Panasonic's parent company, Matsushita, is the world's biggest maker of plasma TVs, which are losing ground to LCD models as LCD technology for larger screens improves. Matsushita is investing $2.3 billion to help double its plasma capacity in the next two years even though the company makes LCD TVs in sizes up to 37 inches. "In the plasma market, we want to stay number one," said Wada. He said plasma technology's relative youth at only 10 years old compared with about 30 years for LCD meant plasma still had plenty of room to improve. As well, he predicted that half of all flat-panel demand would be for TVs with diagonals above 30 inches by 2010.
Plasma is said to give better picture reproduction because it is self-illuminating, unlike LCD, which has to be backlit. Nonetheless, plasma's share of the flat-screen market has slid and rivals Sony and Sharp make only LCD TVs. 
News source: PC World
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Political dirty tricks 2.0: Outsourcing voter suppression calls?
What happens when voter suppression calls get outsourced to India? How will law enforcement track down the evildoers, and what will this mean for our elections?
Action needed on maternal deaths
Experts condemn a lack of progress in reducing the number of deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
Configure Specific E-Mail Addresses for Specific Exchange 2007 Recipients
In Exchange 2007, E-mail Address Policies are the components that generate the primary and secondary e-mail addresses for your recipients (which include users, contacts, and groups) so they can receive and send e-mail. By default, Exchange 2007 contains an e-mail address policy that specifies the recipient's alias (usually, but not necessarily ? the same as the user's logon name) as the local part of the e-mail address, and uses the default accepted domain.
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Apple Store Goes Offline - New Macbook Or The iPhone App Store?
Apple’s online store just went down, a definitive sign that they will be launching a new product overnight. It could be the iPhone App Store, which will launch sometime this week (developers had to submit their apps by noon today to be considered for the launch), or it could be a rumored new Macbook/Macbook Pro product. (Read on Source)
See the future of Ubuntu ... plus an editorial on Debian
I know that Debian does its thing the Debian way, but I'd like to at least see a definite period of support for the project's releases. That means I don't care when they come out; it doesn't have to be every six months or even every year. But I'd like to see the project pledge to support Etch for five years, regardless of when the next Debian release achieves Stable status. In other words, I'd like to see Debian treat itself a little more like the "enterprise" Linux releases from Red Hat and Novell -- and like Ubuntu -- by taking the guesswork out of how long distributions will receive support.
Website Usability Website Development
... flashy and attractive and are low on navigation and usability. The irony in the web design arena is such that there are plenty of websites that have won numerous accolades ...
Game Controllers Driving Drones, Nukes
War is getting more like a videogame, as hardware and software from the gaming industry is increasingly being adopted for military use. The latest sign of this appeared at the Farnborough air show this week, where arms-maker Raytheon showed off its new Universal Control System for robotic aicraft.
12 Seconds Micro Video
New site called 12 Seconds just started and my friend Big Dave sent me a invite to the beta. I might have a bunch of beta invites soon… I will keep you posted. The service is pretty simple… record 12 seconds of video. Its like the twitter of video. Its pretty sweet but a [...] (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
IBM launches three mobile software products and services
IBM announced new software and services for mobile devices today, noting that sometime later this year there will be more mobile phones in use worldwide than land-line phones.
IBM's internal Institute for Business Value also projects that the number of mobile Internet users worldwide should reach 1 billion this year, nearly 200 percent above the number in 2006. Two-thirds of all workers are estimated to use mobile and wireless computing, IBM said.
That kind of market growth makes the provision of software for mobile devices more important than ever, said Shawne Robinson, product manager for mobile and wireless at IBM's software group.
Among its new offerings, IBM unveiled IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), which allows developers to transform green-screen applications that usually run on mainframe systems so they can be securely accessed by mobile users from wireless devices, Robinson said. An insurance adjuster could, for instance, access details of a claim on the road via a mobile device, retrieving data from a mainframe.
Pricing for HATS starts at $268 per user for businesses looking to transform System z and IBM i applications for mobile use. That price is $124 per user for transforming just IBM i applications.
Another software product, Rational Business Developer, is designed to help mainframe developers create new apps that run on a mainframe or a mobile device, IBM officials said. It uses IBM's new Enterprise Generation Language, a programming language, to help them create business applications for System z or System i platforms without the need for familiarity with the middleware or platform. Rational Business Developer will sell for $3,000 per developer.
IBM also announced WebSphere Business Monitor software, which is designed to allow business managers to monitor business processes, such as sales in progress. The software includes client software that resides on each mobile device and communicates information to a dashboard that a business manager can access in a central office. The software is now available for BlackBerry devices and will be available for the iPhone in the fourth quarter. Pricing was not announced.
IBM is already selling Cognos 8 Go Mobile software so users can interact with Business Intelligence content to improve decisions, Robinson noted. In July, IBM also released a beta version of Domino Web Access 8.0.2 for delivering Web access, e-mail and calendar functions to the iPhone 3G, Robinson said. The full release is set for later this month, when the product will be rebranded Lotus iNotes.
In addition to the software products, IBM announced Mobility@Work, a consulting service designed to help with integration of customer relationship management tools and other software for mobile collaboration between members of a work team or company. Robinson said the service will rely on recent advances in cloud computing where users access software and services wirelessly when needed.
In a related announcement, IBM also said it is expanding existing relationships with AT&T and Sprint Nextel to broaden e-mail access to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino users. Both carriers have certified IBM Lotus Notes Traveler software for their wireless customers, meaning they can replicate Notes e-mail, calendaring and personal information. An advantage of the certification is that Traveler software can be loaded by a user with all the setup steps pre-configured, meaning that a device will be "wireless replication-ready" as soon as the user starts using it.
Robinson said there are more than 140 million Notes and Domino licenses worldwide. AT&T and Sprint together will support 12 different devices with the software.
While IBM has a long tradition of mobile device software, it is also taking advantage of partnerships with a variety of other mobile software vendors, Robinson noted.
Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.
Akademy 2008 was Amazing
KDE Dot News: "It has been a couple of weeks since Akademy 2008 finished. KDE's contributors are now back home, more enthusiastic than ever about our future. If you missed the talks videos are now online. This article covers what happened during the week and outlines some of the results."
Nigella Lawson question puts Steve Coppell in a stew
It had been a routine afternoon for Steve Coppell. He had seen his Reading side cruise to a comfortable 3-1 win over Burnley, and the questions in the press conference had so far been regulation. Pleased with the win? Any knocks? And so on... Something brewing: Coppell is questioned about TV cook Nigella But then - out of the blue - ... (Read on Source)
Qik Finally Brings Its Live Video Streaming To Blackberry
Qik, a startup that allows you to stream live video to the web directly from your phone, has launched support for RIM’s incredibly popular Blackberry platform. The software is currently available in an alpha state (so don’t be surprised if you encounter bugs), and includes support for the Blackberry Bold and Pearl (other phones, like ... (Read on Source)
Nortel: Nortel Participates in Global Interoperability Test at GMI 2008, Helps Service Providers Lev
... each of the GMI host sites in order to provide secure voice and data VPN connectivity between all sites. For more information on Nortel's SOA and Web Services for ...
New 3-D Image Systems To Provide Reliable Face Biometrics
A novel 3-D face imaging system which will capture detailed images of people's faces as they pass through high security zones.
USN-660-1: enscript vulnerability
... by Bob on: 2008-11-04 01:20:01 A new enscript vulnerability update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement: " Ubuntu Security Notice USN-660-1 November 03, 2008 enscript vulnerability ...
Enceladus: Secrets of Saturn's Strangest Moon
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000 kilometers of the moon Enceladus. Over the course of a few hours, its cameras returned a handful of images that confounded planetary scientists for years. Even by the diverse standards of Saturn’s satellites, ... (Read on Source)
Metabolife Founder Pleads Guilty To Lying To FDA; Faces 5 Years In Prison
SAN DIEGO - Michael J. Ellis, founder and former president of Metabolife International Inc., on Nov. 5 pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of making false statements to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1999 about the safety of Metabolife's ephedra supplements (USA v. Metabolife, Inc., et al., No. 03 CR 1088-J, S.D. Calif.). Full story on lexis.com
Climate law 'could cost billions'
Government figures show the costs of the Climate Change Bill could far outweigh the benefits, a senior MP argues. (Read on Source)
Galaxies Discovered in Their Awkward Teen Phase
Red spiral galaxies discovered by astronomers may be the missing link between young, blue spiral galaxies and older, red elliptical galaxies.
SCO Vows to Appeal Judge's Patent Ruling
The Utah-based SCO Group has been cleared to appeal a court ruling that might lead to a revival of its dispute with IBM over copyright claims to the freely distributed Linux operating system. Utah Federal Judge Dale A. Kimball has signed a final judgment in a case involving Novell, in which he had awarded Novell $2.5 million for some of the revenues SCO obtained in licensing the Unix computer operating system.
Good OS Announces Cloud - A New Operating System for 2009 Cloud Boots Into a Browser With Google, Ya
... Good OS, most known for its gOS Linux that debuted in Wal-Mart computers, today announced ... browser with a compressed Linux operating system kernel for immediate access to Internet, integration of ...
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