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It’s not a real pretty line: 4.1 7 4 4 1 5 91 pitches/53 strikes Couple of things: I thought he got squeezed at times. It also seemed like the umpire blew the call at first on John McDonald in the fifth inning and that cost him. Michael Kay is singing his praises but putting eight guys [...] (Read on Source)
XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft
2007-06-18: Documenting changes since Last Call, the Web API Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object. The core component of Ajax, the XMLHttpRequest object is an interface that allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)
Flock 0.9 lands gracefully
The Flock project has been building a "social Web browser" since 2005. The upcoming Flock 0.9 release adds new blogging features, integrates media streams into the browser, and includes an overhaul of the Flock bookmark system. It's not perfect yet, but Flock 0.9 is a big leap forward.
America's tech moment of truth
Commentary--Foreign nations are recruiting the country's best companies and universities to go overseas. Can they be won back?
Rail link eyed for New York-area airport
New York may build a commuter rail stop at Stewart International Airport after the city's major airport operator takes it over, a state engineer said Tuesday.
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Expert Reports Submitted By Plaintiff Who Claims Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
NEW YORK - A plaintiff who claims to have suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage from taking BDI's Ultimate Energizer on June 5 disclosed her two expert witnesses (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1598, No. 04-md-1598, and Debra Morehouse v. Body Dynamics, Inc., No. 06-13024, S.D. N.Y.). Full story on lexis.com
Optical Storage Aims for Enterprise Acceptance
Blue-laser optical storage offers high capacity, long shelf life and cost savings. So why isn't it catching on in enterprise storage environments?
MuleSource fires up MuleForge collaboration site; Apache Tuscany team announces 0.99 SCA release
The current release builds on the stability and modularity of the previous releases and includes more complete implementation of SCA specifications, support for distributed SCA domains, SCA policy, OSGi implementations, and pub/sub support. With numerous bug fixes, the 0.99 release is expected to be the last point release before the 1.0 version.
Google Presentation Finally Launches; MSFT?s Sigh of Relief
With all the hype surrounding Google’s pending launch of a PowerPoint challenger, today’s launch is a little anti-climatic. I know, I know, I should have been prepared that Google Presentation would be the bare bones of a online presentation tool–just look at how their Word and Excel challengers started out–but I’m still a little disappointed [...]
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If you have ever suffered under the terrifying grip of anxiety panic attack symptoms then you have undoubtedly felt pretty desperate about finding some way to cope with any further panic attacks. The good thing is that there are a lot of options to choose from. The bad thing is that deciding which is best for you isn't always so easy.
Search Firm, InfoNgen Debuts Bullseye Customized Tool, with TheMarkets.com
New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - October 17, 2007 - Discovery search engine, InfoNgen, along with research and estimates services provider, TheMarkets.com, has launched the new Bullseye customized alerting tool, to include real-time news, combined with broker research.
TheMarkets.Bullseye, is designed as a a real-time alerts system combining broker research and web-based news content. Amy Kadomatsu, Senior Vice President of Product, Marketing, and Strategy for TheMarkets.com remarked, ''Bullseye represents our continued focus on enhancing our product line in direct response to our client base's requests. We've taken this request a step further by integrating news content and broker research- targeted to the investment interests of the client-in a single alerting system that is available via the web or a customizable window on the desktop.''
The Company reported that, in a recent survey, 90% of respondents indicated that adding news to TheMarkets.com would add value to their workflow. Bullseye enables subscribers to TheMarkets.com to customize their watchlists of coverage, collating relevant results from broker research and online sources including mainstream news, local and foreign language media, government and regulatory websites, company press releases, and blogs.
Key benefits of Bullseye: -- Extends clients' currently existing Profiles-watchlists of tickers, keywords, and industries-from TheMarkets.com to web-based news, blogs, and regulatory content -- Features real-time scrolling headlines, targeted to the client's coverage, from tens of thousands of online sources and TheMarkets.com -- Links to original source documents, with translated and original-language versions, as well as seamless access into TheMarkets.com -- Tags web-based content with key topics, such as mergers and acquisitions, using InfoNgen technology -- Includes a customized browser toolbar, that enables the user to search TheMarkets.com from anywhere on the web.
Alina Sullivan, Vice President of Global Sales for TheMarkets.com added, ''We're driven by the mandate of saving clients time. And Bullseye does just that, by narrowing down to one the number of resources an institutional investor needs to see the announcements and analysis that will impact their investments. More than that, it also enables subscribers to rely on Bullseye to keep them from missing a piece of breaking news or a lesser known item that might represent alpha potential. Bullseye is about saving time and identifying opportunity, and we're excited to present it to our over 1800 client firms globally.''
John Mahoney, CTO and Co-founder of InfoNgen offered, ''Bullseye is the first product we've launched, in partnership with TheMarkets.com, that leverages our technology to provide their client base of institutional investors a solution for discovering relevant information across their broker research, news sources, industry publications, journals, blogs and more. Our proprietary tagging technology makes quick work of categorizing and filtering hundreds of thousands of pieces of web-based content daily-enabling clients to focus their time on taking action on issues and opportunities.''
TheMarkets.com is a provider of research and estimates services to over 1800 institutional investment management firms worldwide. TheMarkets.com is owned by: Banc of America Securities, LLC (NYSE: BAC), Citi (NYSE: C), Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS), Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB), Dresdner Kleinwort, part of Dresdner Bank AG and a member of the Allianz Group (NYSE: AZ), The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH), Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), UBS Investment Bank (NYSE: UBS), and Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY, LSE: RTR), which provides technological infrastructure, web-hosting services, and certain proprietary content.
Recently, InfoGen opened its subscriptions to include an offer for free professional-grade business and financial information search. InfoNgen launched its free news monitoring and search service at www.infongen.com. At the center of InfoNgen's search capability is a proprietary tagging engine that processes and filters volumes of information to make the results relevant to each individual user's needs.
InfoNgen is owned by Instant Information, Inc., which was founded in 2004 by Isaak Karaev and John Mahoney to provide information management and collaboration solutions to the financial industry. The company is privately owned and funded by Standard and Poor's, Reuters, and several private equity firms including Union Square Ventures.
To learn more about InfoNgen, please visit: www.infongen.com.
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ATTO Technology to Showcase Next Generation 8-Gigabit Fibre Channel Host Adapters
ATTO announced today that it will showcase its Celerity 8-Gigabit Fibre Channel Host Adapter product at the SNW, RSA and NAB trade shows. The Celerity single-, dual- and quad-channel host adapters offer eight lanes of 5Gb/sec. PCIe 2.0 bandwidth.
Mahoney Software Adds Employees and SageCRM to Meet the Demand of Small and Medium Sized Businesses
Mahoney Software expands its personnel, product lines, and industry scope to become a leading provider of end-to-end business solutions. In addition to hiring two new executives, Mahoney software adds SageCRM a customer relationship management solution to its existing product line. SageCRM integrates with industry-leading accounting solution Sage MAS 90 to form a complete end-to-end business solution. (PRWeb Apr 11, 2008)
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Jones 'ready' for England recall
Simon Jones has told England's selectors he "is now ready" to end his three-year international exile. The Worcestershire fast bowler has suffered an injury nightmare since last starring for England in their memorable 2005 Ashes success against Australia. (Read on Source)
10 Things You Should Have Bought at Comic-Con
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SAN DIEGO -- You just made it home from Comic-Con and are looking forward to sleeping in your parents? basement and having something to eat other than a craptastic pretzel, but as you rummage through your ginormous swag bag you realize you got nothing but three lame television show T-shirts, a handful of temporary tattoos and a promotional poster.
We don?t want to rub it in your face, but instead of standing in line for hours to see the ?Is Your Cylon Girlfriend Cheating on You?? panel in Room 907, you could have waited in line to take home one of these boutique baubles. Here are the 10 things you should have bought.
Left: King Kun, designed by Jarvis and Bounty Hunter, created such a stir that gaggles of people had to be turned away. ?Aesthetically, I think it?s dope,? said Jim Crawford, co-owner of Strangeco. ?It's got a gorilla-gone-punk rock thing." King Kun sold for 75 greenbacks.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com?She's really cute,? said Min Quach, of Los Angeles, as she eyeballed the Not for Sale sign on the final Tokidoki Geisha Doll at the Toy Toyko booth. ?I came a little too late.? They brought 400 to the show and 399 went home with someone new.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.comThe Jumbo Machinder Stormtrooper prototype got all the hype at the Super 7 booth. ?People are going crazy for it,? said Brian Flynn, owner of Super 7. ?People are going mental.? When this bad boy is finally released he will have a weapon that fires, be on wheels and sell for a cool 300 smacks. ?If people collect them, that?s fine,? said Flynn. ?But we?re making toys.? The Stormtrooper will stand 24-inches-tall and will be made at the same factory as the original Machinder Shogun Warrior.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.comChris Yates? handcrafted jigsaw puzzle, ?Bottle With a Bear Problem?, was a collaboration with artist Andrew Bell. It brings together both the art crowd and the puzzle crowd, with Bell doing the design and Yates putting his production skills to work. It could have been yours for a mere 150 bucks.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.comOho Rojo, in Oni Ojo colors, was an early sellout at the Gargamel booth. A collaboration between Gargamel and artist Martin Ontiveros, this piece was hand-sculpted and hand-painted in Japan and sold for 80 dineros.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com?Little is cute,? says Patrick Ma, of IWG. The IWG Zipper Pull Danglies are all based on endangered species and could decorate your hoodies for $3.95 a pop.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com?It?s a ninja with a moustache,? said Kirby Kerr. ?What more can you say?? The Ninjatown Macho Micro Plush from Shawnimals were available in orange or the more ninja-friendly black, and were flying off the table at 7 clams a piece.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.comArtist Dez Einswell?s take on Ironman, seen here without its mask, is a follow-up to last year's Hulk, from STD Toys and XLarge. ?That Ironman?s sick,? said Ian Farr, of Las Vegas. And it could have been yours for 110 bullets.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.comThe Beastlies are handcrafted polymer clay creatures brought into this world by L.A.-artist Leslie Levings. Show attendees were seen walking past the booth again and again, unable to forget the gaze of these little fellas. Then it was just a matter of time before they plunked down the 15-20 bones necessary to adopt one.
: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.comKoiboto -- the fish person, or love friend, or fish friend depending on how you translate -- by artist Yoskay didn?t have any trouble selling out at the Munky King booth despite the fact that you could see his little private parts. ?In my opinion it seems like the best in the show,? said Jesse Gale, of Eugene, Oregon.
Auto Review: 2008 Nissan Sentra -- Perhaps overlooked?
Sometimes you can write some good things about a car and then hit them with the bad news at the end ? THE PRICE! But not so with the Nissan Sentra which is a neat little gas sipper at a reasonable price. Ron Amadon reviews it.
Schiff Hardin Associate Resigns From Obama Campaign
Mazen Asbahi, a Muslim-outreach coordinator to Barack Obama's presidential campaign and a corporate associate at Chicago's Schiff Hardin, has resigned due to his acquaintance with a suburban Chicago imam who has caught the attention of the Justice Department. Asbahi offered his resignation on Monday after questioned the Obama campaign about Asbahi's ties to Jamal Said, who once served with Asbahi on the board of an Illinois-based Islamic investment fund.
Disney Leading Hollywood to the Videogame Grail
In 2002, when Graham Hopper was tapped to head Disney's videogame operations, his bosses gave him a choice: Come up with a dramatic plan to reinvigorate the flailing unit or downsize and focus exclusively on licensing to other companies.
It was far from an obvious choice. At the time, many Hollywood studios were getting out of the games game?Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and DreamWorks dumped the divisions they had launched during the digital boom of the 1990s, having learned the hard way that the ability to make successful films and television shows didn't mean squat in the interactive world. Producing quality videogames required hundreds of millions of dollars and years of patience.
Hopper convinced his bosses to hang on?with a small footprint, making cheap games based on Disney Channel fare like Hannah Montana and Kim Possible. Just five years later, that decision has put it ahead of the pack, as Hollywood goes hurtling back into videogames. Paramount and Universal are spending tens of millions of dollars to create a new slate of products, and MTV and Warner Bros. have invested hundreds of millions to build themselves into major publishers.
"If you were to build an entertainment company from scratch today, you wouldn't even question that games should be in it," says Hopper, a dapper South African who spent a decade in Disney consumer products before his videogame stint.
It's not the first time such words have been uttered in Hollywood, but there's a sense of inevitability?for some, perhaps even desperation?this time around. When Hollywood exited videogames five years ago, it was riding high on revenues from DVDs. Today, home entertainment is shrinking, box office is flat, the TV audience is increasingly splintered, and significant internet money remains hypothetical. Videogame revenue, meanwhile, shot up 34 percent last year and has increased 49 percent so far in 2008.
Companies are busily recruiting experienced talent, spending big on acquisitions, and pushing through early failures. Warner Bros. made its first stab at videogames with the 2005 flop The Matrix Online, but has gone on to release a much broader slate?and spent more than $200 million last year to buy British developer Traveller's Tales, maker of the ultra-successful Lego Star Wars games.
Movie-based videogames have a deservedly terrible reputation. Since they're often made on the 12- to 18-month timeframe of a film's production schedule rather than the three years it takes to produce a major console game, and can sell well on the back of a movie's mega-marketing spend, they're regularly amongst the lowest-quality titles on the market. For proof, just check the reviews of recently licensed games like Iron Man and Wall-E."
But even adaptations that sell can tarnish a brand with young consumers if the games stink?something studios now recognize. Universal, not wanting to rush its self-financed Wanted game, hasn't announced a release date yet, even though the film is out. Warner Bros. is turning Watchmen into a series of small downloadable games rather than rush one big package for the film's release next March.
"The ultimate goal for us is to have our best IP well established and sustainable on the videogame market," says Martin Tremblay, who worked at Ubisoft and Vivendi Games before becoming president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in June. Accomplishing that is a crucial first step for studios before becoming a fully legit publisher by moving into original titles.
So far, Disney is the only player in Hollywood that has already done so. After establishing girl-targeted brands like Hannah Montana and Kim Possible as million-unit-plus sellers in 2003 and 2004, it came into 2005 with a small but viable publishing operation. "This is a very disciplined company, so we were given a small amount of resources at first to prove we could be successful," recalls Hopper. "Then we were able to get more investment and just keep on growing."
Disney's C.F.O., Tom Staggs, said last year that the conglomerate is prepared to more than triple its spending on games from $100 million in 2006 to $350 million by 2012. Disney recently moved videogames out of the sprawling consumer-products unit and into a new operating division along with online media.
The revived Disney Interactive Studios (formerly Buena Vista Games) has used its capital infusion to acquire six development studios (the folks who actually make the games) since 2005, and has a slate of 19 titles for its fiscal year ending in September, significantly more than any other media conglomerate and even some pure-play publishers like Sumner Redstone's struggling Midway or Eidos.
"By the existing model, Disney is definitely in the lead. They are a good year or two ahead of Warner," observes Keith Boesky, a former president of Eidos who now leads his own videogame agency. "The question is whether one of the other studios will come up with a better way to pursue the market."
About 70 percent of Disney's games are based on existing film and TV properties like Prince Caspian and High School Musical?the bread and butter of Disney Interactive's business. But the real reason the company is willing to invest so much may lie in that other 30 percent. Its small but growing slate of original titles, which started last year with alien-exploration game Spectrobes and is expanding this fall with the stunt-driving title Pure and Guitar Hero-like music simulator Ultimate Band, are potentially more than just game properties. They're new franchises that can eventually flow through the Disney pipeline: Imagine Pure the theme park ride or Spectrobes the animated TV show.
"They're a content engine, like any other form of media," Hopper says.
Core videogame players are still largely young males, and Disney Interactive has started pursuing them with games like Pure and February's Halo-esque shooter Turok, based on a comic book about a dinosaur hunter. That's not exactly standard fare from the most conservative studio in Hollywood.
"Part of our opportunity here is to connect in a relevant way with demographics groups that are otherwise harder for our company to reach," Hopper says. "It's easy to get other publishers to license our hit movies or TV shows, but if we want to invest in new customers via videogames, we have to do it ourselves."
Google, Verizon Weigh In On White Space Test
The on-going corporate wrangling between Google and Verizon is heating up again as the Federal Communications Commission prepares to test technology that would make it possible to offer WiFi broadband Internet over unused TV channels known as white spaces.
FBI, Dutch police crack the Shadow botnet
The law-enforcement bodies have cracked a major botnet, asking antivirus company Kaspersky to help victims clean up the malware on their PCs. In a joint operation, the FBI and the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit have cracked the Shadow botnet--thought to contain 100,000 PCs. Two...
Energy plunge helps factories, jobless claims ease
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mid-Atlantic factory activity declined less rapidly in August while weekly jobless claims fell, in two reports on Thursday that revealed morsels of good news in an otherwise bleak economic environment.
Cenzic Q2 Trend Report Reveals Attacks on Web Sites Continue as Cyberwarfare Moves Mainstream
Cenzic Inc., the leading provider of application security vulnerability assessment and risk management solutions, today released its report revealing...
Automated Bus Uses Magnets To Steer Through City Streets
The thought of a bus moving along city streets while its driver has both hands off the wheel is alarming. But a special bus steers not by a driver, but by a magnetic guidance system developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, with remarkable precision.
Solar stocks fall on uncertain outlook for tax credits - MarketWatch
 stv.tv | Solar stocks fall on uncertain outlook for tax credits MarketWatch - By Steve Gelsi NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Solar stocks fell Friday after the US House of Representatives OK'd a measure to extend billions in tax credits for renewable energy, but the measure faces an uncertain future because it differs from the Senate ... Still no word on solar tax credit extension House OKs extending renewable energy tax credits |
Hopes Dashed for Ice on Moon
New images of Shackleton crater suggest no water ice in cold lunar craters. (Read on Source)
Pat Boone Creates Web Sites to Share His Passion About American Heroes
Entertainment legend Pat Boone has created two new websites to honor his American heroes: the soldiers who serve our country in the National Guard and evangelist Dr. Billy Graham. For My Country is a documentary history of the Guard from the Revolutionary War to Iraq and features interviews, commentary and action sequences. Thank You Billy Graham is a star-studded "We Are the World" musical tribute, including, Bono, LeAnn Rimes, Reba McEntire, Charlie Pride and many more celebrities. (PRWeb Oct 28, 2008)
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Now Instant Answers With Search Results At Live Search!
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. Whenever we try our hands to get instant answers at one of those famous search engines, all we want is to have results in seconds! (Read on Source)
Advantech and Aricent unveil converged access solution
... unified communications services delivery, combining SIP-based VoIP services, media gateway functions, virtual private networking (VPN) and security, Wi-Fi access, quality of service (QoS), LAN switching, IP routing, WAN access ...
Interview With KDE's Konqueror Team
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