Wireless: For the rural poor, cellphones come calling
Mundawar, a district in rural India, just played host to a jarring new visitor: Nokia's traveling mobile phone van.
Re: server databases
select username from dba_users; select distinct owner from dba_objects;
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Skolelinux 3.0 graduates to full release
Version 3.0 of the Debian-based schools Linux distribution Skolelinux has been released. The latest release features support for more than 50 languages and includes a range of educational software.
Morning-final swim test for one-year-countdown to the 2008 Games - People's Daily Online
 MSNBC | Morning-final swim test for one-year-countdown to the 2008 Games People's Daily Online - At the same day by the same morning-final format as it will be in the 2008 Olympic Games, world silver medalist Wu Peng will led a group of Chinese swimmers to contest a national swim meet from Aug. 9 - 11 in Beijing. CHINA: Rehearsing the Coming Out Party Called Olympics A Year Out, Beijing Games |
The Genius of Microsoft Windows
Hm… Wonder which I should choose…. (Read on Source)
Fortean Wonders
The Charles Fort Institute , with a little help from Fortean Times , are looking for nominations for their list of the 'Seven Fortean Wonders of the World': Earlier this year the publicly voted New Seven Wonders of the World were announced, which put an idea into the collective head of The Charles Fort Institute. They want to establish the Seven ... (Read on Source)
The GPL and Embedded Applications
KernelTrap: "'There are no 'persons responsible for defending the kernel GPL', there are just a few hundreds or thousands copyright holders of the kernel...'"
Updates, advisories and surprises
A roundup of the latest corporate earnings reports and what companies are saying about future quarters.
Legal Advantage, LLC Appoints Ashar Akhtar Managing Attorney-Operations
New Managing Attorney enhances Legal Advantage's role in document review service offerings. (PRWeb Dec 20, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/VGhpci1JbnNlLUhvcnItQ3Jhcy1UaGlyLVplcm8=
FUTURESWINGS for 1.28.08 Trading Session
Signals are generated based on todays closing prices and daily statistics, for tomorrows markets
Ad Network To Offer Contextual Discount Coupons
A small Silicon Valley company is hoping to do for discount coupons what Google has done for just about everything else: placing them as contextual ads. Coupons, Inc. may be on to something: advising them on their "Brandcaster" project is a Google guy who helped develop AdSense.
Implementing IDisposable (C#)
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Microsoft's data centers growing by the truckload
Redmond is going beyond the traditional racks, instead having its servers delivered and run from a sealed container, a move that should cut costs and power demands.
NASCAR comes down hard on Gibbs operation
Mike Mulhern, Winston Salem Journal BRISTOL, Tenn. - Trying to fool NASCAR officials is no laughing matter, as Joe Gibbs' Nationwide crews have learned. Gibbs, a veteran team owner, was appropriately apologetic yesterday for the stiff penalties that NASCAR slapped his teams and drivers with, for trying to hide true engine horsepower from ... (Read on Source)
Surgery May Be Considered For Extreme Face Pain, New Guideline Says
A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology finds surgery may be considered for people who suffer from extreme, electric shock-like pain in their face and do not respond well to drugs. The guideline on treating trigeminal neuralgia is published in the August 20, 2008, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Virtual Network Server
Virtual Network Server is possessed with an ability to support an unlimited numbers of virtual networks. Likewise, you can establish connectivity for unlimited number of virtual machines to a virtual ...
Free Hunting Game Coming from Just Cause Developer
Gamesindustry reports that Avalanche Studios, the developer of Just Cause and its upcoming sequel, has officially confirmed The Hunter, a free online hunting game for the PC, with a mobile and console version due at a later date. To be published by Emote Games, the game will enter a beta phase scheduled for next month. [...]
Gamma Ray Burst From the Edge of the Universe
NASA's Swift satellite captured the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast came from an exploding star 12.8 billion light-years away, near the edge of the visible universe. Swift saw the explosion on September 13 at 1:47 am EDT. But because light moves at finite speed, and looking farther into the universe [...] (Read on Source)
Filemailer simplifies email file transfers
Altomac has launched Filemailer for the Mac, a utility that simplifies the task of transferring files via email. The software allows a user to quickly move data files ñ such as PDFs, images, and documents ñ without needing to open an email program and compose an email for the sole purpose of sending a file. Filemailer sends the file to the receiving party's email address. It also avoids build-up o...
Setting up a Logon Script through Active Directory Users and Computers in Windows Server 2008
A logon script is a series of instructions that a workstation follows every time a user logs on. You can use logon scripts to assign tasks that will be performed when a user logs on to a particular computer. These scripts can carry out operating system commands, set system environment variables, and call other scripts or executable programs. This article is the first of a series, describing how to write and use logon scripts in Windows Server 2008.
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Now's the time: Register to vote
Political participation is at an all-time high this election season, and a record number of voters have already started to cast ballots -- a few even camped out in Ohio to be the first in line for early voting yesterday. But roughly 1 in 4 Americans still aren't registered to vote, according to the most recent Census report . Now is the time -- ... (Read on Source)
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
All-New Doctor.com Unites Powerful Doctor Search with Unique Social Media Features
Employs next generation technologies to help users quickly find local doctors and medical professionals who accept their health insurance. (PRWeb Oct 28, 2008)
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Sydney Brenner to fat people: you're a criminal!
Kambiz attended the Humanity's Genes and the Human Condition , and he reports some interesting goings on. Sydney Brenner , Nobel Laureate 2002, had this to say this about human evolution: Starts off with a zinger: "Biological evolution for humans has stopped." Uhh, really Sydney? You better do better than that. He uses an analogy about how if we ... (Read on Source)
Where's that Doctor Doom mask again?
As I sat down on the couch in front of the TV last night to do my nightly blogging ritual, trying to tickle the gray matter to come up with the pearls of wisdom or insolence that my readers have come to know and love, I had a fantastic idea for a serious consideration of a question that comes up in the discussion of science and pseudoscience and ... (Read on Source)
Kennedy Seeks to Prove Qualifications for Senate Bid
Caroline Kennedy is launching a public effort to demonstrate that she has both the ability and the stomach to perform the job. (Read on Source)
Lenovo Mobile Workstation Now Offers Dual-Screen Display
... in the future. Lenovo also support several Linux operating systems, including Red Hat and Ubuntu. ...
Navy Settles With Environmental Groups in Wake of High Court Ruling
A Supreme Court ruling has a way of concentrating the minds of litigants. Six weeks after the high court issued its ruling on the impact of the U.S. Navy's sonar training on marine mammals in , both sides have reached a settlement on issues related to -- but not decided by -- that case. Both the Navy and the NRDC are touting the settlement, which charts a course for future research by the Navy on sonar impact on marine mammals.
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