Adobe Ships CS3 as Digital Creative Market Heats Up
Adobe's $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia in 2005 was viewed as a master stroke for the market leader in digital creativity tools. It matched the stars of Adobe's portfolio, including Photoshop and InDesign, with Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Flash, giving the company a complete set of "best in breed" titles that executives hope will solidify its place at the top.
Zoho Apps Mash Up With Facebook
The online application vendor has ported its productivity tools to the social networking site.
Microsoft Seeks Open-Source Certification
The software vendor is submitting its shared source licenses to the Open Source Initiative.
DIY house selling
... Gumtree was the only one that got any response." She had no experience of web design, but using tools available online she made a six-page site featuring photographs and financial ...
Sitestar Reports Second Quarter Financial Results
... , a provider of residential and business Internet access, web hosting and value-added products and services, announced today its financial results for the quarter ended ...
91. God bless America
On this week's show: Paul gets to grips with the fact that the whole world isn't British, Marcus explains how to deal with the client from hell and Julie Howell shares her expertise on accessibility.
ACT Database
An introduction to CRM software. Every day, there are more and more companies that are looking to expand sales with their clients. One way that companies can achieve such feats is with CRM software. C...
Security Wonks Reveal Holes in Firefox Straight Out of the Gate
As Mozilla went after a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a 24-hour period with its release of Firefox 3, it didn't take security researchers long to drop a bomb on all the browsing fun. TippingPoint's DVLabs reported that its Zero Day Initiative program received a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as prior versions of Firefox 2.0.x.
Wanna some real cash? Go to Adsense
Adsense is really making a huge impact on the affiliate marketing industry nowadays. Because of this, weak affiliate merchants have the tendency to die faster than ever and ad networks will be going t...
Yet Another Report On Why Forcing A La Carte Cable Is A Bad Idea
If there's one topic that we regularly discuss that many of our readers (even those who agree with us on most other things) disagree with us on, it would be mandatory a la carte cable. We've explained repeatedly why forcing cable companies to offer a la carte cable is a bad idea that would likely lead to higher prices and less choice. Yet people still argue against it, claiming (incorrectly) that they would just order a few channels and prices would decrease. Instead, those fewer channels would inevitably cost a lot more (if they were still available at all) because a la carte pricing for channels reduces demand for individual channels, resulting in higher (not lower) prices per channel. Jeff Eisenach and Adam Thierer have put together a short report looking at the problems of a la carte cable, and noting that even if the intentions of those supporting mandatory a la carte cable are strong, the end result isn't likely to be what they'd expect.
On top of that, it's probably worth pointing out that this debate may soon be moot anyway. As we move increasingly to a world where most TV programs are available online, the entire concept of the channel will go away. It won't matter what channel a particular program is on, because you'll just subscribe to that program, and it will get delivered over the internet. In the meantime, though, there's simply no reason to force cable companies into providing a la carte channel selections.
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N.J. Court: Consumer Fraud Act Applies if Bank Fails to Make Investment as Promised
A bank can be held liable under the Consumer Fraud Act if an employee fails to act on a promise to invest a client's money in a mutual fund, a New Jersey appeals court held Wednesday. The court rejected an argument by Wachovia Bank that it was not liable because the statute does not apply to securities. But the problem for Wachovia was that its employee failed to invest the money at all, not that he invested it badly or misled the plaintiff into investing in a bogus company, said Judge Donald Collester Jr.
Microsoft tries to offer something different
Internet Explorer 8, now available in beta, is the company's bid to move ahead of Firefox and Apple's Safari in performance, features and user experience.
Russia Web site owner killed after arrest (CNET)
CNET - The owner of an opposition Internet news site in Russia's volatile Ingushetia region was shot and killed Sunday after being detained by police.
Strong Start, Lousy Finish, as Nasdaq 100 Takes Out Support
The stock market had a strong start and another terrible finish and closed at the lows for the day going away with steep...
Oxfam: Urgent U.N. action in Chad needed
Banditry and increased insecurity are threatening U.N. and EU peacekeeping efforts in eastern Chad, an aid group said in a report ...
Federal Judge Who Resigned After DWI Arrest Joins Posternak Blankstein
Former U.S. District of Massachusetts federal bankruptcy Judge Robert Somma, who resigned after a drunk driving arrest, is now senior counsel at Boston-based firm Posternak Blankstein & Lund. Somma was arrested in New Hampshire in February while wearing women's evening wear, according to Associated Press reports. He tried to rescind his resignation and more than 200 bankruptcy lawyers signed on to a letter supporting him that was sent to the 1st Circuit. His resignation became effective on May 30.
Guitar Hero 4 Music Sharing to Disallow Covers, Take Down Any Songs That Resemble Copyrighted Materi
Hoping to ignite some creativity amongst gamers, Activision let out word that they will remove any track that resembles copyrighted material posted using Guitar Hero World Tour?s music-creation tool. "We’ll be actively monitoring the site," said Neversoft project director Brian Bright. "We can’t condone people putting up covers of music. It’s [...]
23andHerBreasts
On Thursday, 23andMe announced their latest initiative aimed at bringing together the largest cohort of women with breast cancer "to build an infrastructure, based on genetics, that will accelerate consumer-based research of the disease." The women who opt for 23andMe's... (Read on Source)
Bickley: Edge, Manny just being themselves
"You gotta be yourself, and Manny always is Manny," James, the Cardinals' running back, said Thursday. "That's what I love about Manny. We're kind of alike. You're not going to put on these acts, act like this and act like that. You're going to be yourself. You just do it your way." (Read on Source)
EFF: Hollywood's RealDVD suit is a smokescreen
... version (1.3.9) is provided that corrects these issues and also provides other bug fixes. Debian Security Advisory 1646-2 - In DSA 1646-1, an update was announced for a denial ...
Is Apple's new MacBook Pro a gaming machine?
Gamers and analysts indicate that Apple has made great strides, but that it still hasn't reached the upper echelons of gaming computers.
Marketing and Online Communities Conference
The Marketing & Online Communities Conference is an invitation-based event held at the exclusive Tribeca Grand in New York City on November 5th, 2008. The conference will bring together thought leaders from the marketing and online community sectors to discuss marketing challenges ? and unprecedented opportunities ? in online communities. (Read on Source)
What Linspire Has Going For It
... different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on. I've learned ... ways and each shines in different ways. Xandros is by far the best when it ... consider the markets of each distribution. Fedora, Debian, and Gentoo are aimed at the experienced ...
Study: Violent Games Cause Violent Behavior
A new study from Iowa State University suggests that playing violent video games leads to more aggressive behavior in children, CNN reports.
While the effect of violent video games has been an oft-debated subject--some argue that violent games merely draw the attention of those prone to violent behavior--the study found that players were more aggressive than before the research began.
Furthermore, the more they played violent games, the more aggressive the players were in real life. Meanwhile, those that had less exposure to violent games did not see as much of a growth in aggressive behavior.
The study is "pretty good evidence" that violent games lead to violent behavior, commented University of Michigan research director Dr. L. Rowell Huesman.
The research was conduced across three groups: 181 Japanese students ages 12 to 15, 1,050 Japanese students aged 1...
AsiaTiv Offers Affiliate Program for Bloggers and Writers
AsiaTiv, a leading hotel reservation portal, has even more opportunities for affiliates to earn commissions. Writers and bloggers can earn commissions through their Hubpages, Squidoo, Howto.com and other similar sites. (PRWeb Nov 9, 2008)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/asiativ/travel-affiliate-program/prweb1584634.htm
Court says Internet baby to be taken into care (Reuters)
Reuters - A Belgian baby bought over the Internet for adoption by a Dutch couple must be placed in the temporary care of the Dutch authorities, a court ruled on Thursday.
Buying as much as the banks allow
... a Louisville, Ky.-based competitor. He pumped the proceeds into technology stocks and into a Web hosting start-up at precisely the wrong time. When the tech bubble popped, Arguelles lost all ...
X.Org Talks @ FOSDEM 2009
Luc Verhaegen has announced today that the X.Org Foundation will once again have a development room at next year's FOSDEM. The Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting is taking place on the 7th and 8th of February in Brussels, Belgium.
New Field Could Explain How Salmon, Turtles, Find Home
 | The developing discipline of "movement ecology" aims to explore why, where, when, and how organisms move through their environments. It could explain how salmon and sea turtles can return to their birthplaces after years away. |
A script to start and stop ramdisks in the Solaris OS
This article describes a start/stop script for ramdisks in the Solaris OS. Using this script you can start and stop one or more ramdisks either manually or automatically while booting the system. The script also supports an initial load of the data for the ramdisk after creating the ramdisk and a...
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