Europe sends Automated Transfer Vehicle into space

authorsizzletime08 Mar 2008categorytechnology
Europe has sent its Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) into space, in a mission which pushes the continent to the forefront of the space race. ... The unmanned ATV is carrying water, air, fuel and equipment for the International Space Station. It is the most advanced...

Google is for bloggers and kids. Nexis is for adults …

authorsizzletime08 Mar 2008categorytechnology

March 7, 2008
N/A

When I clicked on Glenn Reynolds' link to a CBS story titled "Obama's Rezko Ties Escape National Radar" I found myself drawn to a comparison made by the Clinton campaign to the press coverage of the N ...

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The biggest difference between Windows and Mac

authorsizzletime08 Mar 2008categorytechnology

March 7, 2008
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants

Scoble nails one of the things that just drove me nuts with XP (and to hear him talk about it, Vista has not improved things: system sleep/wakeup. It works on the Mac, and doesn't always on Windows: S ...

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Utah Pleases Google with Trademark Law Change, Frustrates Utah’s 1-800 …

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March 7, 2008
ClickZ News

Rewrite of controversial legislation clears Utah Senate following last-minute hearings and meetings between legislators and AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo. ...

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FUH2 is a site dedicated to pictures of people flipping…

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March 7, 2008
kottke.org / deronbauman@gmail.com

FUH2 is a site dedicated to pictures of people flipping off Hummers. (via cathy) (link) ...

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Sun: We’ll put Java on the iPhone

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March 7, 2008
InfoWorld

Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications to run on the popular mobile device.The JVM is to ...

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Beatles songs to go online? Not so, says Apple (Corps)

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March 7, 2008
Guardian Unlimited: Technology

You'll have to wait a little longer for the Beatles' back catalogue online, says a spokesman - even if another paper says it's imminent ...

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Penryn iMac and Mac mini a few weeks away?

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March 7, 2008
MacScoop - The Best News and Rumours Source / Alexandros Roussos

Apple is readying to release an improved version of both its iMac and Mac mini lineups by the next few weeks, sources indicated MacScoop. Advertisement: read more ...

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GOOG-411 expands outside of United States

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March 7, 2008
Googling Google / Garett Rogers

Today I picked up the phone to give GOOG-411 another test drive, and was thrown back after hearing the prompt “What city and province?”. Surely this thing doesn’t work for Canada no ...

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Air Force Cyber Command’s New Weapon: DMCA Notices

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March 7, 2008
Wired: Threat Level / Kevin Poulsen

It's cyber war! YouTube claims the Air Force's elite electronic warriors have sent in a DMCA takedown notice demanding the removal of the official 30-second spot the service created to promote its nas ...

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How to save money, period

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March 7, 2008
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants

Jason Calacanis has a number of money saving tips for startups - buta lot of them work for any outfit. For instance: Buy second monitors for everyone, they will save at least 30 minutes a day, which i ...

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Apple Campus vs. Microsoft Campus: One Visitor’s UI Review [Apple …

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March 7, 2008
Gizmodo / Brian Lam

I had the fortune of being able to visit both Microsoft's Redmond Campus and Apple's Cupertino's offices within the same week. So, I thought I'd do a little comparison as to how a visitor perceives... ...

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Scobleizer

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March 7, 2008
Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger / Robert Scoble

Yesterday Guy Kawasaki tried to give Steve Ballmer heck about Windows Vista, but he didn’t manage to really nail Ballmer with something specific. I have one. Dell a few weeks ago sent me a new T ...

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Microsoft To Launch Sync-based In-Car Advertising

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March 7, 2008
The Truth About Cars / Edward Niedermeyer

Cnet reports that it all starts innocuously enough: upgraded Sync-based navigation systems with live, local updates. Next, Mircosoft will offer "points of interest" navigation to local businesses an ...

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iPhone v. BlackBerry: A battle for hearts and minds of …

authorsizzletime08 Mar 2008categorytechnology

March 7, 2008
FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 / Philip Elmer-DeWitt

One of the advantages Research in Motion’s (RIMM) Blackberry has over Apple (AAPL) is the number of third-party developers writing applications for it: 650 as of last summer, according to RIM c ...

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Blu-ray is doomed

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March 7, 2008
CNET News.com

Don Reisinger contends that Blu-ray is doomed and should stop before it's too late. He gives four reasons why, but is he right? ...

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Authentication in Jersey

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March 7, 2008
java.net Weblogs / Marc Hadley

I'm working on an internal project building some RESTful services using a combination of Jersey, JPA, Glassfish and Derby. Actions on some resources require authentication and I need access to the nam ...

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Bloxes Brings Cardboard Tech To The Office

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March 7, 2008
TechCrunch / Erick Schonfeld

There is nothing that screams “frugal startup” more than cardboard furniture. Aza Raskin, the founder of Songza and Humanized who was recently hired by Mozilla, designed his own system of ...

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Open source = market development

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March 7, 2008
The Open Road / Matt Asay

Generally, when a company wants to open a new market it needs to spend months to years dumping money into it to stoke demand. MySQL and other open-source companies do market development a little di ...

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Intel Prepares for EU Antitrust Hearing

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March 7, 2008
NYT > Technology / By PAUL MELLER, IDG News Service\Brussels Bureau, IDG

Intel is preparing to defend some of its questionable business dealings with PC makers at an antitrust hearing with European regulators and competitors next week. ...

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