FDA rejects Merck's Vioxx successor
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co. said on Friday that U.S. regulators have rejected its arthritis drug Arcoxia, the drugmaker's follow-up to Vioxx, informing the company it cannot be approved without new supportive data.
Unproduced Scripts, S.W.A.T., and Scrubs
On the unproduced scripts page there are twenty-three new or revised scripts up for your reading pleasure. Thanks to Dailyscript for a couple of neat items. On the TV scripts page we have a draft of the pilot Scrubs. On the Movie Scripts page we have S.W.A.T.. I think just about every [...]
Westin Resort, Nusa Dua, Bali, appoints Dario Orsini as EAM
Westin Resort, Nusa Dua, Bali, appoints Dario Orsini as EAM.
Young working to improve after Offensive Rookie of Year honor
Parties at the Super Bowl and the Kentucky Derby. Charity work for his own foundation and serving as poster boy to remind children to drink more milk. And despite the talk of jinxes, the Tennessee quarterback and NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year will be on the cover of the Madden NFL '08 video game. (Read on Source)
Wiener Forscher klären Details der RNA-Interferenz
RNA-Interferenz - kurz: RNAi - ist ein natürlicher Abwehr- und Steuerungsmechanismus der Zelle. An den Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) in Wien hat eine Forschergruppe weitere Funktionen aufgeklärt. (Read on Source)
Free Software Licensing, Part 2: Beyond GPL
While the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public Licenses are used in nearly three-quarters of all free and open source software, GPL-based licenses not the only game in town. There are dozens of free and open source-focused software licenses, and while most aren't used, they offer various levels of permission and protection designed to govern use and distribution.
Studie: Zu viele US-Kinder mit psychischer Störung?
Die Zahl der diagnostizierten Fälle von manisch-depressiven Störungen bei amerikanischen Kindern ist einer US-Studie zufolge von 1994 bis 2003 um das 40fache angestiegen. (Read on Source)
Grizzly tree rub secrets revealed
The mystery behind the bizarre tree rubbing rituals of North America's grizzly bears may be solved.
MIDI Ironing Boards, Theremin Crutches Squeal at Handmade Music Event
Tweakers make a racket when they unveil electro-musical oddities at Brooklyn gathering.
Apple re-releases Texas Hold'em mini game
Apple today re-released its Texas Hold'em mini game to provide compatibility with the company's new third-generation iPod nano and revised iPod classic portable players. The game, which features seven tournaments starting from a modest $1,000 pot spanning through $2 million in potential winnings, features progressively difficult computer-controlled...
LogiGear To Double Size of Vietnam Software Testing Center - Fully Integrated US-Vietnam Operation C
The first and only US-led software testing center in Vietnam, the LogiGear Test & Research Center has now doubled its capacity and will employ 500 test and software engineers and other personnel by the end of 2008. [PRWEB Oct 15, 2007]
AOL to lay off 20 percent of staff (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - AOL will lay off about 2,000 employees, or approximately 20 percent of its staff, as it continues its transformation into an online, ad-supported business and moves further away from its traditional revenue model based on dial-up Internet access fees.
FTC appeals Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal appeals court to review a lower court ruling allowing Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats Markets to merge.
Second-gen iPhone already delayed?
While only just having been confirmed as a 2008 release, the second-generation iPhone may already have experienced its first delay, according to an analyst from Friedman Billings Ramsey & Company. Mehdi Hosseini claims that among information gathered in "recent checks," it was learned that the next iPhone may have originally been planned for launc...
Briefly: FCPUG SuperMeet; charity shareware bundle
In brief: A Final Cut group organizes a Macworld "SuperMeet," a shareware bundle splits proceeds with charity, a free book teaches game programming, and a software package teaches Quark Job Jackets. The Final Cut Pro Users Group has finalized the agenda for its seventh-annual Macworld SuperMeet. The event is scheduled from 7 to 10PM on January 16...
The Accompanists
Both are confident and funny, opinionated and very smart. Both are Ivy League lawyers with working-class roots. Both have formidable identities independent of their formidable partners. Both are history-making spouses of history-making presidential candidates.
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: 7-Square-Mile Ice Sheet Breaks Loose
 | A chunk of ice has broken off the Canadian Arctic's largest ice remaining ice shelf, mirroring a trend of declining ice throughout the region, experts say. |
Battlefield: Bad Company Gets Conquest August 7
The promised Conquest mode expansion for DICE's Battlefield: Bad Company (PS3, 360) will as a free download this Thursday, publisher EA has announced.
Available through the online PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace, the traditional Battlefield multiplayer mode and its objective to reduce a team's ticket count by killing foes and capturing control points will be playable online across four Gold Rush maps. [video]12661[/video]
Morning Discussion
Hows it going folks? Another morning means another article from the Shack and this time Nick looks at one of the most important features in PC gaming, the alt-tab. Here we've got word that Warner Music essentially wants game music to be more expensive. And then in somewhat unfortunate timing, apparently Blizzard is looking for a new Diablo 3 art director.
Looking for the Human Element in Enterprise Search
George Orwell didn't specifically mention enterprise search in his visionary book 1984, but he made a statement that still resonates today. When it comes to relevant search query results, "it's not about the statistics." Sanity comes from the human element. Until recently, this concept was mostly ignored by enterprise search solutions.
A Better Way To Make Hydrogen From Biofuels
Researchers here have found a way to convert ethanol and other biofuels into hydrogen very efficiently. A new catalyst makes hydrogen from ethanol with 90 percent yield, at a workable temperature, and using inexpensive ingredients. The new catalyst is much less expensive than others being developed around the world, because it does not contain precious metals, such as platinum or rhodium.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - For Beginners
What is SEO, SEO is search engine optimization, yes but what does that mean? Well in real terms it means strategically moving your website from the bottom of the search engine list to the top. An...
Oracle names new chief financial officer
Oracle names Jeffrey Epstein as its new chief financial officer, marking its fourth CFO since long-time bean counter Jeff Henley retired four years ago.
Turns Out Virtual Worlds Teach Players The Scientific Method
With so many articles trashing video games all the time, Clive Thompson (who continues to consistently write the most interesting articles for whatever publication he's writing for at the time) has a report about a new study that notes that kids playing virtual world video games are basically learning the scientific method, without even realizing it. That is, in order to achieve certain goals and milestones, groups work together to put forth a hypothesis and data on how best to tackle a problem -- and then when it doesn't work, they regroup, and change the hypothesis based on the new data. In fact, the research found that when looking at forums discussing the games, rather than a bunch of juvenile trash-talking (though, there was some of that too), much of the conversation would mimic the process of scientific discovery and understanding:
Someone would pose a question -- like what sort of potions a high-class priest ought to carry around, or how to defeat a particular monster -- and another would post a reply, offering data and facts gathered from their own observations. Others would jump into the fray, disputing the theory, refining it, offering other facts. Eventually, once everyone was convinced the theory was supported by the data, the discussion would peter out.The researcher then takes this a step further, suggesting that one way we could revive sagging science education in this country is to embrace this aspect of video games, and get students to recognize that what they're doing is the basic process of scientific discovery, so that they don't think of science as being boring and irrelevant to their lives.
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Tapping Twitter to monitor broadband outages
A number of Telstra's major broadband rivals have said they have no immediate plans to follow the telecommunications company's lead and use the Twitter microblogging service to monitor service outages and contact customers about support plans, though a closer look shows Optus to be one of the only large carriers not using the tool. (Read on Source)
Debugger supports multi-core MIP64 chips
... XLS system-on-chip (SoC) families, Abatron said. The BDI3000 is suitable for low-level hardware development, Linux kernel development, and in-circuit flash programming on the XLR/XLS platform, says Abatron. The Swiss firm ...
Qimonda sells Inotera stake, CFO steps down - BusinessWeek
 AFP | Qimonda sells Inotera stake, CFO steps down BusinessWeek - German memory-chip maker Qimonda AG said Monday it is selling its stake in Inotera -- a joint venture with Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corp. UPDATE: Qimonda Steps Out Of Inotera JV, Plans Restructuring Micron Buys Qimonda's Inotera Stake for $400 Million (Update1) |
Jurors coming back in Britney Spears case (AP)
AP - Jurors will return Monday to continue considering Britney Spears' fate in her misdemeanor driver's license case.
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