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10 Mar 2008
The “Nuclear Disaster” At SXSW Was Nothing More Than A Witch Burning
Based on the Twitter messages and blog posts I saw yesterday emerge real time from the SXSW conference, it sounded like Sarah Lacy's interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was, truly, a career ending, never seen before train wreck of epic proportions. ...
Eircom taken to court over illegal music downloads
Four major record companies have brought a High Court action aimed at compelling Eircom to take measures to prevent its networks being used for the illegal downloading of music. The record companies are also challenging Eircom's refusal to use filtering technology or other measures to voluntary block, ...
Hulu Launches with Warner, Lionsgate (Liz Gannes/NewTeeVee)
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Hulu Launches with Warner, Lionsgate — Wow Hulu, you really pile it on, don't you? I can barely digest all the news the company is putting out tonight. First and foremost, it's launching tomorrow. It's also signed Warner Bros., Lionsgate, the NBA, and the NHL (but not Quincy Smith's CBS).
Most Americans don’t read political blogs
NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive. Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing ...
Hackers can attack heart devices
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Tom Paulson - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - A Seattle computer scientist who helped expose how hackers can mess with electronic voting machines is part of a team that has shown how new, wireless cardiac devices implanted in thousands of heart patients also are vulnerable to electronic attack.NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 from source rating - Review It
The Hand Can’t Be Fooled, Study Shows
ScienceDaily - Mar. 11 (Review) - These findings provide compelling support for what psychologists and neuroscientists describe as the "two visual systems hypothesis." According to this view, put forward more than a decade ago by Mel Goodale and David Milner, one system, -- vision-for-perception -- gives us our conscious visual experience of the world, allowing us to see objects in the rich context of the scenes in which they are embedded. It's also the one that is fooled by optical illusions.NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 from source rating - Review It
US gives thumbs up to OOXML for ISO standard
March 10, 2008
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Sticks to approval The US delegation has voted to maintain its “Approve” recommendation for Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) to be adopted by the International Standards Organisation (ISO). ...
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Shuttle blasts off into the night
The space shuttle Endeavour blazed into the night sky early Tuesday, heading into orbit for the longest visit ever to the international space station.
Improve Search Engine Rankings
More often than not learning the methods to improve your search engine ranking seems like such a daunting task to most people that they end up avoiding the issue altogether. You are either going to have to face your website or suffer serious consequences of less profit and low rankings indefinitely. ...
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0 beta 4 (Steven Musil/CNET News.com)
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0 beta 4 — The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes more than 900 enhancements over the previous beta, Mozilla announced. — The creator of the open-source browser said the new beta includes performance and memory usage …
Could WiFi be Outshined by Mobile Broadband?
Could WiFi Hotspots go the way of the public pay telephone? That’s what Ericsson executives believe, according to an article today on Computerworld. According to Ericsson, as mobile broadband improves and becomes more widely used, WiFi Hotspots will become irrelevant. Here’s a snippet: Mobile...Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 and Beyond
At this year's Mix conference , we announced the availability of the second preview for ASP.NET MVC which you can download from here . Videos highlighting MVC are also available . Now that I am back from Mix and have time to breathe, I thought I'd share a few (non-exhaustive) highlights of this ...
Smalltalk Daily 3/10/08: Condensing the Changes File
March 10, 2008
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants
There's been some discussion recently about what happens when you execute "condense changes" from the "System" menu in the Cincom Smalltalk Launcher. So - today's Smalltalk Daily g ...
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G-Archiver steals your passwords (and CUBOCC)
March 10, 2008
Computerworld Blogs - Security / IT Blogwatch
It's IT Blogwatch: in which we ponder the risks of downloading random shareware. Not to mention a spooky Japanese viral... Dustin Brooks worries: I was looking for a way to back up my gmail account t ...
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Asus CEO: Eee PC to get HDD options, Intel Atom …
March 10, 2008
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Company still backing Linux Asus boss Jerry Shen has revealed that the upcoming 8.9in Eee PC 900 will use Intel's Atom processor and may eventually come with a hard drive.… ...
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Hiding hippos survive war
March 10, 2008
MSNBC.com: Technology & Science
Rare pygmy hippos are surviving hidden in Liberia’s forests against all the odds, despite two civil wars that have ravaged their habitat, scientists said Monday. ...
Discussions:- Busymom.net: Today's headlines
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Logitech boss dismisses Microsoft rumours
March 10, 2008
GamesIndustry.biz
After shares in peripheral manufacturer Logitech rosein January on speculation of a possible USD 8 billion takeover byMicrosoft, chairman Guerrino De Luca has once again moved to qua ...
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Facebook app lets users send movie clips (AP)
March 10, 2008
Yahoo! News: Technology News
AP - Paramount Pictures will become the first major studio to make clips from thousands of its movies available for use on the Internet. ...
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Vista Thuds: All Over
March 10, 2008
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants
Looks like you're in good company if you have Vista issues; senior MS execs are having the same ones: It turns out that Mike is clearly not a naïf. He’s Mike Nash, a Microsoft vice presid ...
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