UK Music Piracy at an All-Time High
New survey says 43% have illegally downloaded music, and that social networking sites are an increasingly popular method of discovering new music.
Entertainment Media Research, a London-based entertainment research consultancy serving film, music, broadcast and advertising industries in the UK, has released its 2007 Digital Media Survey which claims that the increasing popularity of social networking sites such as MySpace and BeBo is helping to "democratize" the music industry as more people discover new music online instead of via the radio or TV.
The research hardly seem
Directory Submission for Tons Of Quality - 1 Way Links
Don't know how to optimise for search engines! They are evolving each and every day, it's getting harder and harder to get top search engine rankings. One of the things search engines are now looking...
Craig?s voicemail for attorney shows: He un-resigned before he resigned!
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Does Excessive Censure Bring About Excessive Blushing? Posted By : Gary Ambrosh
If you suffer from a problem of excessive blushing, you may have thought about why people go red in the face. Those who redden constantly think about about what other people think of them. They always assume that others are gawking at them or speaking about them. On the contrary, the majority of the time, the fact is, other people do not even spot the blush!
Intel Unleashes Powerful, Power-Saving Atom Chips
Intel on Wednesday unveiled the Centrino Atom family of low-power processors for mobile Internet devices. It also announced a new class of inexpensive, simple Internet-centric computers, called "netbooks," which will hit the market later this year, and new developments in other chip families.
Publisher Puts German Wikipedia on Paper
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is to be published in Germany as a book for people who prefer turning pages to clicking links, publishing multinational Random House said Tuesday. Editors will distill 50,000 of the most popular entries in the German version of Wikipedia into the 1,000-page volume to go on sale in September.
Digital Cameras - A Guide To Buying
Digital camera sales are going through the roof. As the quality of images from digital cameras improve they are becoming much more affordable and the sales are simply not surprising. Consumers are also becoming more comfortable with the whole idea of taking of photographs digitally. In choosing a digital camera, take into account your basic needs and what you plan to use the camera for...
The Slimfast Diet for Airlines
Fascinating data points from an ATA document on how airlines are trying to slim down to save weight and stay in business given jet fuel at record levels: (Read on Source)
Taking Breaks From Your Computer
IT Wire: "I usually set the work interval to 55 minutes, the break interval to 5 minutes and check the box to allow for postponing of breaks. That's it. Very simple and easy. When a break happens, the screen is locked out, so it forces me to get up and move around."
European Boxing News: Kessler-Haussler, Virchis-Gomez, Abraham-Marquez, More
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Firms told to beware of virtualisation (vnunet.com)
Phil Muncaster, vnunet.com , Friday 8 August 2008 at 13:20:00 Compuware warns that poor planning can lead to app failure IT managers looking to adopt virtualisation technologies must plan their migrations carefully or risk application failure, according to IT services firm Compuware....
Timing Of Political Messages Influences Voter Preferences, Researcher Finds
In political campaigns, timing is almost everything. Candidates communicate with voters over a long period of time before voters actually vote. What candidates say to these voters is, of course, important, but it turns out that when they say it also influences voter preferences.
Apple adds free education iPhone developer program
Apple recently unveiled the iPhone Developer University Program, a free service allowing higher education institutions that allows upwards of 200 students to collaborate on iPhone applications. The iPhone Developer University Program is full featured, offering students the ability to create and test applications, before adding them to the application store. Apple is making the program available to...
Met to offer online service for opera lovers (AP)
AP - Legendary performances at the Metropolitan Opera of "La Boheme" with Luciano Pavarotti and "Otello" with Placido Domingo will soon be available over the Internet for the first time.
Cloud computing pondered at eBay event
Officials from companies such as HP and Joyent debated the merits and even the definition of cloud computing Monday during an event at eBay headquarters, emphasizing efforts underway and noting limitations to cloud computing on the software side.
Panelists and the audience pondered the issue of cloud computing during the eBay ResearchFest event in San Jose, Calif.
[ Read more about the emerging world of cloud computing in InfoWorld's special report ]
"[The] cloud computing juggernaut is coming. Embrace it," said panelist Prith Banerjee, senior vice president of research at HP Labs.
"Cloud computing, cloud services is computing and services that people can access over the Internet," Banerjee said, offering up his own definition. An audience member, meanwhile, defined cloud computing as "distributed computing trying to be a mainframe."
The question of what cloud computing is came to the forefront recently, with published reports quoting Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, pondering the subject.
Banerjee cited a variety of cloud computing projects at HP to improve the user experience, boost presence and in scaling computing. Among the projects are CloudPrint, to print from anywhere in the world, and Exascale, to build infrastructures for the cloud having millions of servers and petabytes of storage.
HP also is developing datacenter cooling technology, called dynamic smart cooling, that could be applied to cloud computing. "We are working on technology that will allow datacenters to reduce energy consumption by over 40 to 50 percent," Banerjee said.?
HP is partnering with companies such as Intel and Yahoo on Cirrus, which is intended to be an easily accessible, open cloud computing platform.
An official at cloud services infrastructure provider Joyent said software can be an impediment to scaling in the cloud. Twitter, said Joyent CEO David Young, used to be on Joyent, running 30 machine equivalents but unable to keep up with 40MBps of traffic. Another customer, meanwhile, used a single server doing 50MBps, Young said.
"Twitter had plenty of infrastructure, but their software was not ready to scale," Young said.
Also during the eBay event, another panel discussed trends in technology research. Jim Spohrer, director of service research at IBM, noted the company's efforts in computer-aided design systems to generate business models. The company already has an early-stage effort going called component business model, but a full-fledged technology will take 5 to 10 years to develop, he said.
Panelist Mark Bernstein, president and center director at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), formerly Xerox PARC, said personalization of information services would be a trend the next 20 years. And Google's Peter Norvig said while other organizations have had research personnel separated from other parts of the company, Google does not. "In Google, we don't do that. Everything is mixed together," he said. Some engineers and researchers are even in the same office, Norvig said.
Panelists also discussed the impact of patents.
"From my perspective, patents are a fundamental asset to creating business value to the research you do," Bernstein said. "Now all that's changing."
Decisions have been made pushing the pendulum in the direction of open innovation and away from what patent trolls have wrought, he said. "I think patents for their purpose are a very good thing. I think that the use of them in society is less than optimal at the present."
eBay said on Monday that it has been awarded the 2007 Medal of Technology and Innovation and that it was the first Internet company to receive the award. The award was conferred by President George W. Bush at the White House, who cited the company's efforts in online trading, eBay said.
Also at Monday's ResearchFest, eBay touted research projects such as Hyades, offering guided e-commerce search by clustering.
An Interview with David Weber, Part 3
This is part of a series of interviews sponsored by Baen Books with some of today's top military science fiction writers. Links from here point to Amazon for those who want paper copies, while links at Baen point to their... (Read on Source)
nVIDIA ForceWare Beta Drivers v 180.42 for Windows XP 64bit
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Twitter and TV
Now that the excitement of the elections is over, we can get back to what's really important--technology. And the specific...
NASA turns to open-source problem-tracking databases
The space agency will begin using new software written using Bugzilla tools to track and analyze problems with the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs.
OpenSocial's First Year Marked
OpenSocial supporters, including Google and MySpace, have celebrated the first anniversary of the project to establish a common set of standard APIs and tools for developing social networking applications.
Astaro Security Linux 7.350 (Beta)
... that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include stateful packet inspection, deep packet filtering, intrusion detection and prevention, portscan ...
Stem cells may offer therpay option for skin disorder
Stem cells derived from bone marrow may serve as a novel therapeutic option to treat a disease called epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a disorder characterized by extraordinarily fragile skin. read more (Read on Source)
You've Pedaled a Long Way, Baby
The new electric bike from Sanyo shows just how far e-bikes have come since the days of the Sinclair C5.
J.J. Putz Trade Examined
Mets GM Omar Minaya pulled off a blockbuster trade Monday, adding J.J. Putz, Sean Green, and Jeremy Reed to the organization. Let's take a look at the fantasy baseball ramifications. Of the three players the Mets added, Putz should have... (Read on Source)
Obama nominates N.Y.'s Donovan for HUD
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Shaun Donovan, currently a top housing official in New York City, as his nominee to lead the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Global Births Increasing Even as Fertility Rates Decline…and other full-text reports on DocuTi
Posted 15 December 2008 on DocuTicker: + Global Births Increasing Even as Fertility Rates Decline (U.S. Census Bureau) + Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Other Military Operations Through 2008 and Beyond (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments) + Siblings of Adults With Mild Intellectual Deficits or Mental Illness: ... (Read on Source)
Commerce Dept. criticizes Internet addressing plan (AP)
AP - A proposal to create hundreds of new Internet domain names as alternatives to ".com" has suffered a setback as a key U.S. government agency warned that the plan might not benefit consumers or promote competition.
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