Start-up Zenzui makes mobile Internet more personal (AFP)
AFP - US technology start-up ZenZui launched on Tuesday, offering a test version of software that lets people customize mobile telephones with tile-shaped icons that link quickly to favored websites.
Mavericks 91, Spurs 86
Although their meeting Sunday had little bearing on the playoff picture, the Western Conference powers played a tense, emotional game that saw bodies flying, emotions overheating, Tim Duncan getting ejected and the Mavericks beating the Spurs 91-86 Sunday
50,000 People Expected For Immigration March
Up to 50,000 people are expected to march on today for the second annual May Day immigration rally. CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports. VIDEO: Hear Local Activists Talk About Immigration Policy Find Out Which Bus Routes Are Affected Get breaking news alerts (Read on Source)
Prosecutors Feeling Impact of 'Duke Effect'
After rape charges were dropped against three Duke University lacrosse players, the prosecutor in the case was hit with ethics charges for allegedly withholding DNA evidence. Now prosecutors across the country are seeing fallout from the case, as defense attorneys use it to discredit other criminal cases and paint them as overzealous prosecutors with something to prove. "It's becoming a tool and a buzz word for defense attorneys to say, 'Look what happened at Duke,'" New Jersey prosecutor Paul DeGroot said.
Red Hat, Symantec offer bundled secure server apps
E. Stride writes "Red Hat teamed up with security vendor Symantec to offer a bundle that couples Red Hat Enterprise Linux with an intrusion protection service, Symantec Critical System Protection."
Blogs for Business
Blogs for business that serve as the e-commerce branch of a brick and mortar operation would do well to cater to their online shopper with the idea in mind that they may well be perusing your inventory with the intent of actually getting in their car and driving to your store. Indeed content promotions [...] (Read on Source)
The Comdexification of Linux
ZDNet: "If you're under 30 you may barely know what I'm talking about. But back in the last century Comdex was the computing industry's Woodstock..."
Broadcom Seeks Ban on Qualcomm Chips - Forbes
 Sabah | Broadcom Seeks Ban on Qualcomm Chips Forbes - By ELLIOT SPAGAT 08.14.07, 6:20 AM ET Qualcomm Inc., the world's second-largest chipmaker for cell phones, became a wireless industry powerhouse in the 1990s with its engineering prowess and skill at licensing rights to its patented technology to other ... Qualcomm lawyer quits ahead of Nokia case Court to Award Broadcom $39.3 Million in Qualcomm Dispute |
In matters of sex and death, men are an essential part of the equation
In a paper, to appear in the August 29 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Stanford scientists show that the standard practice of tracking only female life histories leads to mistaken conclusions about the forces that shape human evolution. The reason is that men's and women's age patterns of fertility differ in important ways. (Read on Source)
HR Talent Shortage
Well, I was quoted in the Economic Times' Mumbai edition yesterday saying the talent shortage in HR (blogged earlier here here and here) is not an unsurmountable problem. The article was written by Ambika Naithani and called "For HR talent shortage is a personnel problem" :-)
As the HR function develops more and more specialisation, there will be specialised skills needed for the various sub-functions of HR. More and more specialists are choosing career paths that don't go anywhere near generalist functions. Today's HR talent crunch is about the shortage of specialist skills like recruitment, training and compensation expertise. So the solution is to hire people with specialised skills and develop them as HR experts.
After a reader read the article he sent an e-mail saying:
But then how HR professionals must improve their skills so that they can create and maintain their demand in market?What are the core HR skills and functional/business skills? We can acquire core HR skills once but how to acquire different business skills as we can work in any kind of business/industry?What is the future of HR?
To answer that question, I'll merely point to the comment on my previous post that one of India's stalwart OD consultants, Sushanta Banerjee had made:
HR texts (mostly set in the american context) offer action solutions but fields such as org theory and the basic social or behavioural sciences are rarely tapped by the HR professional. we all say knowledge is power, how does the HR community use this for itself ? secondly, while HR keeps organising and managing developmental work for others in the organisations, i have come across very few that do the same for themselves. I believe that HR ought to be the holders of valid and uptodate knowledge,understanding of people and collective processes which it must deploy for the good of the organisation including the people,as individuals as well as a community. this will however require HR to powerfully deploy its audit as well as advisory roles.focussing merely on managing systems is not enough,it will inevitably lead to a sense of low power.
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New Vertini, MRR, and TSW Wheels Available from Online Retailer
GetYourWheels.com, an online retailer of aftermarket wheels, offers this summer's newest wheels from manufacturers such as Vertini, MRR, and TSW. (PRWeb Jun 21, 2008)
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Futures slide as Fannie, Freddie plummet
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures slid on Friday as investors worried about the widening impact of the credit crisis on the financial sector and the outlook for government-sponsored mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae .
Cathay Pacific to align Retirement Age for all Hong Kong-based Cabin Crew
Cathay Pacific to align Retirement Age for all Hong Kong-based Cabin Crew.
New Clip Claims To Show Android Phone
Not too long ago, there were rumors that the first generation of Android-based phones was running late. Now that bit of gossip's been denied by official sources, and what's more, a video of what's supposed to be the HTC Dream device has been seen.
Countering cloud computing threats
... Technology such as two-factor authentication systems, when married to encrypted VPN connections, can secure an internet connection into a cloud computing-based service. That's the verdict ...
Readable non-harvestable email addresses with CSS
Stupid hack I’ve just thought of. My email address is: @silogenixkry.org Spam harvesters looking at that will see the following code: <p style="padding-left: 5em"><span>@</span><span style="margin-left: -2.5em">sil</span><span style="margin-left: 3.5em">ogenix</span><span style="margin-left:...
That will do nicely
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Google Finally Opens AdSense Ad Manager To All Advertisers!
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. In the month of March of this year, Google had launched the free advertising platform known as 'Google Ad Manager', that had been designed specifically for small and medium-sized Google AdSense publishers. ... (Read on Source)
Game Predictions ? Western Illinois
Another season…another year of weekly predictions. It?s always a fun thing for us during game week to throw out our guesses and then see what you think. Last time we did this, the RazorBloggers were divided over whether to pick Missouri or the Hogs. In the end, it was Sunshine who chose correctly?not that it made [...] (Read on Source)
UConn defense rises to occasion
UConn led Baylor 31-28 with just over six minutes to play. Bears quarterback Robert Griffin, a true freshman, had been driving the Huskies crazy all night long. Scrambling this way, scrambling that way, dodging tacklers like Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. (OK, so maybe that's not the right analogy, but you get the point.) (Read on Source)
Poll Results: A Resounding "No" On The Bailout! + Kos Chimes In
Yesterday afternoon, I put up a poll that asked, "Do you support the 700 billion dollar bailout?" The response was 85% "No" and 15% "Yes." For once, I think we've found something that the left and right agree on because... (Read on Source)
EMI Sets Up Its Own Online Store As YouTube Tries Selling Music
Lots of folks are trying to figure out new business models in the music space, and here we have two separate big companies testing out ideas that seem unlikely to work all that well. First up is EMI, the big record label that keeps insisting that its going a different route but can't seem to reign in its lawyers from taking the same old route. This time around, it's launching its own music download site, where it's promising lots of extras and goodies -- including some stuff for free. It will be interesting to see how the actual site is set up, but the idea of setting up just a label specific site seems destined to fail. People want a one-stop shop. They don't want to have to know that the music they like is on EMI. Imagine, back when people bought CDs, if they had to go to a different store for each record label. Maybe there's more to it than what's being described, but at first pass, this sounds like more of the same: a big record label sticking a square peg into a round hole, covering it with shiny paint, and talking about how awesome it is.
Then there's Google, which has been struggling mightily to come up with ways to make money off of YouTube. At the same time, record labels have been complaining about how much "music" (accompanied by videos, of course) is available on YouTube, and the folks at Google put two and two together and will start offering options to buy the songs you hear on YouTube at partner sites such as Amazon or iTunes. While it's not a bad idea (why not offer people a chance to buy if they want it), it's hard to see this really getting that much traction. Some people may go ahead and buy out of convenience, but it's hard to see people actually doing that much music "shopping" this way.
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Europeans reject animal cloning for food: survey
Reuters - Most Europeans have reservations about cloning animals for food, while 67 percent see cloning as justified if used to preserve rare animal species, a survey that could help forge EU policy in the area showed on Thursday. (Read on Source)
Anonymous Proxy Servers: Necessary or Evil?
Some security experts believe anonymous proxy servers are only necessary if you're up to no good, while others see them as a legitimate tool for research, pen testing and the like. Who's right?
PdV calls in karate expert
The Springboks used the expertise of karate 7th Dan, Hennie Bosman, to help them with their close-contact skills at training today. The squad trained at the University of Cape Town’s Groote Schuur fields this afternoon in front of a couple of hundred students who were keen to take a break from the books during exams. The opening half ... (Read on Source)
As the Mac turns: MacBook Air delayed, Mac Mini coming soon?
Customers who ordered one of the new MacBook Airs from Apple with the regular hard drive will have to wait a little longer, but Mac Mini mavens should be patient.
WhoIsHostingThis.com Relaunches with User-Inspired Features
... from different sources. * New hosting coupons section ( ) with special offers on web hosting that will deliver significant savings for users looking for a better hosting deal. * ...
Oklahoma Supplement Distributor Files Bankruptcy After Breach Of Contract Decision
OKLAHOMA CITY - AMS Health Sciences, a distributor of natural supplements, recently filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, citing a November verdict and judgment against it related to its acquisition of Heartland Cup Inc. (In Re: AMS Health Sciences, No. 07-14678, N.D. Okla. Bkcy.). Full story on lexis.com
Freshwater's Poor Teaching
The Columbus Dispatch reports on day 5 of the Freshwater hearings. Part of that day was devoted to complaints from science teachers at the high school that students who had Freshwater in middle school had to be retaught basic science because Freshwater was really teaching creationism: Mt. Vernon High School Principal Kathy Kasler testified that e- (Read on Source)
Officer recalled over security lapse
... attack via a crafted SNMP GETBULK request. Ksplice is practical technology for updating the Linux kernel without rebooting. It enables you to avoid the disruptive process of rebooting for kernel ...
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