YouTube seeks to end ban in Thailand (AP)
AP - YouTube offered Saturday to "educate" Thai officials who want to block individual clips from its video-sharing service, hoping to end an impasse that arose after a slideshow mocking the country's revered king appeared online.
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How to Choose a Right Directory Submission Service
In this article we are going to see the importance of internet directories. There are only two most important reasons why people submit their website to these directories. First one is to get more key...
FDA Proposes Limiting Financial Conflicts On Advisory Committees
ROCKVILLE, Md. - The Food and Drug Administration on March 23 published a draft guidance that could exempt from advisory committees anyone whose financial interests in the topic exceeds $50,000, regardless of their expertise. Full story on lexis.com
Their debate
I have no doubt — no doubt — that we, the people, would have done a better job picking the questions than CNN did. I have no doubt that we would have heard far more substance without CNN and TV cameras in this. This should have been a debate held online: candidates answering questions directly without the need for CNN, Anderson Cooper, (Read on Source)
US pushes ahead in WTO piracy case against China - Washington Post
 StarPhoenix | US pushes ahead in WTO piracy case against China Washington Post - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration asked a world trade panel on Monday to force China to crack down on pirated goods, like US movies and software. US requests WTO panel in copyright spat with China US in formal China piracy action |
Kempton on despite disease outbreak
Tonight?s race meeting at Kempton is set to go ahead despite the return of foot-and-mouth disease just miles from the Surrey course.
1 in 3 parents say kids online too much (AP)
AP - A third of parents believe children spend too much time online, and mothers worry far more than fathers about whether certain Internet sites are appropriate for kids, according to a new survey.
High-speed Nokia N95 is now shipping in the U.S.
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KompoZer revives Mozilla WYSIWYG Web editing software
In proprietary software, Web page design is dominated by Adobe's Dreamweaver and Microsoft's FrontPage. Free software users have witnessed the rise and fall of several Web design apps, but it has been a while since a new one debuted. Now the next new release is here -- KompoZer, heir to the Mozilla Composer legacy and updated for today's technology.
Beauty Queens take off their Tiaras on MTV
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Miss USA Tara Conner, who nearly lost her title for alcohol abuse, is joining several other beauty queens on a new MTV reality show that follows what happens to the pageant winners when their crow...
Sudden Surge of Energy
I just had a surge of energy, after being up since 4am PST or 7 EST yesterday. So that is 31 hours of up time, with a little nap on the plane. I am up until at least 8:30pm, so that would make it almost 40 hours of up time. About 20 minutes ago I felt very awake and alive. As I began writing this entry, I started to get sleepy. I can't believe I ... (Read on Source)
Dedicated Linux Hosting
I need some recommendations on a : Dedicated Linux Box in Canada must be Canada IP Dedicated Linux Box in South Africa must be SA IP - might have this sorted but Option always good. Dedicated Linux Box in Australia must be Australian IP DaveN (Read on Source)
The Future of Search: Will Fragmented Search Mean Death by a Thousand Shards for GooHoo?
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Vodafone takes a hit from economic slowdown
New evidence that the European economic slowdown is hitting consumers emerged Tuesday after Vodafone Group, the British cellphone operator, warned that its results would suffer amid the downturn.
NetSuite Enables Five-Fold Increase In Ecommerce Business For Justoffbase
NetSuite Inc. announces that Suffolk-based Justoffbase (Estore with NetSuite Ecommerce. (PRWeb Jul 30, 2008)
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The Online Bingo Community
Real bingo has a social aspect; unlike most games the social aspect of bingo is much stronger. Even people playing online are not deprived of this social aspect either and many find it an attraction. ...
Bono pumps up the volume, lets slip new U2 songs (Reuters)
Reuters - Rock stars may have to rein in their taste for loud music after a fan overheard U2 frontman Bono listening to tracks from the group's forthcoming album and recorded them before posting the songs on the Internet.
Tiny technology
Scientists focus on nanotechnology
Expedient Expands Cleveland Facility
August 26, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cleveland data center, colocation and managed services provider Expedient has completed the fourth phase of its $2 million Cleveland data center expansion, adding 3,800 square feet and 90 tons of cooling to its current 450 tons.
Disk storage drove ahead in Q2
The disk storage industry defied economic gloom in the second quarter with strong increases in both capacity sold and revenue, according to two research companies.
Worldwide revenue from external disk storage systems grew 16.7 percent in the quarter, the fastest year-over-year increase that market has seen in two years, IDC said on Friday. Meanwhile, total disk storage systems revenue grew 10.9 percent, according to IDC. Vendors shipped 1,777 petabytes of capacity in total, up 43.7 percent from a year earlier.
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Sales growth was remarkable especially because it occurred across several market segments, IDC said in a news release.
Despite economic slowdowns in some parts of the world, storage demand has been growing rapidly, driven in part by increased use of video and by regulations that force enterprises to preserve more data. IDC has estimated overall demand for storage capacity is growing by about 60 percent per year.
IDC defines a disk storage system as a set of storage elements associated with three or more disks. Some are located inside server cabinets and some are external. While the total disk storage system market hit $6.9 billion in revenue in the second quarter, the external market grew to $5.08 billion.
EMC kept its lead in external disk storage systems with 21.7 percent of the market, followed by IBM and Hewlett-Packard in a statistical tie with 13.1 percent and 12.9 percent, respectively. EMC's revenue grew fastest among the major vendors, up 19.7 percent to $1.101 billion from $920 billion a year earlier. HP's growth rate was lowest, at 8.2 percent, and the company lost a full percentage point in market share.
In the total disk storage systems market, HP fared even worse with a 1.2 percent drop in revenue, while all other major vendors gained. Though HP remained in the lead, it fell to an 18.1 percent market share, nearly tied with IBM at 17.7 percent. EMC was in third place and Dell in fourth. Sun Microsystems had the strongest rise in revenue, at 29.2 percent. Its revenue grew to $494 million and its market share to 7.1 percent.
According to figures from research company Gartner, the external controller-based disk storage market grew 18.8 percent in the second quarter, reaching $4.46 billion in revenue. EMC lost half a percentage point of market share but maintained a commanding lead at 24.3 percent, experiencing 16 percent revenue growth in the quarter. Next was IBM with 14.1 percent of the market, followed by HP, Dell, and Hitachi Data Systems. NetApp came in sixth but had a strong 22.9 percent revenue gain, Gartner said.
Sun's revenue shot up 34.7 percent in the quarter, according to Gartner, which attributed the gain to its StorageTek 2000-, 6000-, and 9000-series products. The relative newcomer to storage, which entered the market through StorageTek and other acquisitions, had 6.6 percent of the market.
Gartner found the Japanese market leading in growth, with revenue up 38.7 percent from a year earlier, followed by Latin America with 25.2 percent. Europe, the Middle East and Africa had growth of 22.3 percent, and the Asia-Pacific region grew 16.6 percent. North America trailed all other regions with 12.7 percent growth, according to Gartner.
Forte on injury report but says he'll be ready
Matt Forte wasn't quite sure what to make of the fuss over his late-week appearance on the injury report. He was just dealing with some of the soreness running backs pick up on a weekly basis, nothing a trip to the cold tub wouldn't work out for him. But the Bears announced the rookie is probable for Sunday's game at Carolina after taking limited ... (Read on Source)
All the news that's fit to exploit--Google Trends
Security firm sees trend in cybercriminals looking to Google Trends to find ways to lure victims to malicious Web sites.
If you blog it they will come
I have had a few discussions lately surrounding the popularity and conversations that happen around blogs. Many people agree that you simply have to keep the discussion going by blogging everyday. Some people can do this easily, while others like myself can blog only ever few days. In an experiment into this debate I am going to try to block time ... (Read on Source)
Time for a calendar revival
Online calendars have been around for more than a decade, and they?re tightly integrated with the leading Web mail services used by more than 680 million people per month (as of August, comScore). So it?s surprising to see how few people are actually using their Web calendars. Even the world?s most popular online calendar, Yahoo! Calendar, ... (Read on Source)
Indo-Australian Study Identifies Genetic Region Involved In Schizophrenia Risk
A study involving an Indian population has led to an important discovery in schizophrenia genetics. Scientists at the Schizophrenia Research Foundation in Chennai, India, and UQ's Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research found statistically significant evidence for involvement of a chromosome 1 region in schizophrenia. (Read on Source)
Lenovo ThinkPad SL500
... value and is powered by the Intel Centrino 2 architecture, and comes loaded with Windows Vista Business. of the notebook world — tough, reliable and rolled out en masse. However, ...
Symantec Demonstrates Market Leadership in Storage Software
... and virtual environment through one, simplified solution, as well as new support for the Windows Server 2008 portfolio. Additionally, in June at its Vision user conference, Symantec announced the companys ...
Six Pressure Points
... tends to be hands-on, with those in authority first among equals. Look at the Linux kernel mailing list, and you will see that even a celebrity like Linus Torvalds is ...
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