Watchdog group flunks Google on privacy practices
Blog: Watchdog group ranks Google among the worst top Internet sites for privacy, but Google says report is based on inaccuracies.
Re: Restric users from printing the report from reports runtime previewer
The product is for insurance companies and some smart users are trying to cheat the management by just issuing the customers some sample schedule reports and deleting the policy from the system. Only when the customer comes for any claim, the mgmt is aware of such policy being issued. There requirement is just to allow the users only to preview the report, but they should not be allowed to take a print out.
Nielsen says it's not what sites you visit but how long you stay
Blog: Nielsen/NetRatings to change Web site ranking to focus on time spent rather than page views
Sources: Windows Vista SP1 beta due this week
(InfoWorld) - Microsoft could pull the trigger on putting out a beta of the first service pack for Windows Vista any day with a final release by November, sources close to the company said.
Microsoft has been mum about exactly what will be included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a rollup of updates for the OS, many of which are pushed out automatically through its Web-based update services. The company also has not said when the software will be in final release -- the latest from the company revealed only that a beta will be out sometime before the end of the year.
The WinBeta.org blog reported Tuesday in a post that Microsoft 's WDK (Windows Driver Kit) team sent out an e-mail to beta testers that a new build of the WDK was being released to them to coincide "with the recent OS beta release for Vista SP1 Preview," hinting that SP1 beta is soon to be sent to testers.
Others speculate Microsoft might release the SP1 beta Thursday, the day it will report the company's fiscal 2007 fourth quarter and year-end financial results.
In an interview Wednesday, one source close to the company said he had been told by insiders that a beta of SP1 would be out by now, so an imminent release is highly likely. And another source said that beta testers report SP1 will definitely be out this week with a final release coming in November or December.
At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver two weeks ago, Mike Sievert, corporate vice president of the Windows business group at Microsoft, toed the party line on Vista SP1 and said little about when it would be released or what would be in it and hinted that Microsoft's own plans for the service pack are still in flux.
Sievert also downplayed the software's role in when some Windows users will upgrade to Vista, though it's widely known many users -- especially business and enterprise customers -- are waiting for SP1 before replacing Windows XP with Vista.
"Most companies are still in the evaluation phase," he said in an interview. "Service pack or no service pack, they're still looking at what they will deploy."
The Big Melt
New studies show that we are cooking our planet much faster than experts originally expected. The latest source of alarm is the news that sea ice in the northern polar region has just set a new low with still another month of melting ahead. At this...
ThyssenKrupp aims to double China sales in 5 years
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp aims to double its China sales to 2 billion euros ($2.85 billion) in the next five years, its chief executive said on Sunday.
N.L lags in flu vaccination rate
The Victorian Order of Nurses starts its flu shot campaign across Newfoundland and Labrador Tuesday, but the lines to get vaccinated may not be very long. (Read on Source)
McCain Rebukes Giuliani on Waterboarding Remark
Senator John McCain said that Rudolph W. Giuliani’s statement on Wednesday that he was uncertain whether waterboarding was torture reflected his inexperience. (Read on Source)
Are musicians owed royalties for performance of their music in torture chambers?
Canadian copyfighter Howard Knopf has suggested (presumably with tongue firmly planted in cheek) that recording artists whose music is played by torturers in Gitmo are owed performance royalties: Leaving aside the legal niceties about whose law if any applies in that dreadful place, one can only wonder if ASCAP might not want a piece of the action. (Read on Source)
Transcript: President Bush's Radio Address
President Bush urges Congress to lift restrictions on oil exploration and drilling in his weekly radio address.
'Comedian' Dane Cook Talks Marketing
Dane Cook -- who has somehow managed to become a gajillion-dollar-earning comedian despite the fact that watching his stand-up routine is like watching your not-so-bright cousin "perform" at the family reunion -- is upset with some of the marketing behind the upcoming movie "My Best Friend's Girl." In particular, he doesn't like the poster. (Read on Source)
Bond Report: Treasury bonds rise, boosted by commodities slide
Treasury prices rise on a boost from a jump in foreign purchases of U.S. assets in June, as traders also digest reports showing a rise in U.S. factory output and tentative recovery in New York State manufacturing.
Camera spots rare clouded leopard
Automatic cameras capture images of a Bornean clouded leopard in a national park where the big cats have not been recorded before.
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Good question Ron. We have the following revenue model: 1. Selling Domain names 2. Providing premium services (especially to small businesses) 3. Integrating with 3rd parties who offer us a bounty for signing up new users (we already have such deals in place) 4. Creating and advertising network around the user generated content (opt in for ... (Read on Source)
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Flying Cars
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Web Marketing: How Do I Start with Online Marketing?
I received this question via my Twitter account today: @the_rich_brooks I have created a website but have no idea where to start with web marketing. I have a blog and yahoo group. -- @livestrongcjm Thanks for the question, Chad. Through... (Read on Source)
Amazee launches network for 'collective action'
Dania Gerhardt, co-founder and COO of Amazee ? whom I spotted at TechCrunch50 last week ? passes along word of the collaboration site's US launch: Amazee launches network for 'collective action.' (Read on Source)
PDM And Pacific Magazines Announce Exclusive Cross-media Partnership
Australia’s leading provider of Out-Of-Home Digital media, PDM, today announced the launch of an exclusive partnership with consumer magazine publisher, Pacific Magazines, providing advertisers with a unique cross-platform media opportunity.
Hi-Tech Challenge To FDA Ephedra Rule Denied In District Court
PITTSBURGH - A federal judge ruled Oct. 15 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not act in an arbitrary and capricious manner in enacting the 2004 Final Rule on ephedra and that it acted properly in seizing five unlabeled boxes of ephedra products from a fitness products company in Pennsylvania (United States of America v. 5 Unlabeled Boxes and Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Andrew C. Von Eschenbach, M.D., et al., No. 2:06-cv-00027-NBF, W.D. Pa.). Full story on lexis.com
Investors Recognizing How ProIP Is Bad For The Entertainment Industry
Kevin Stapp writes in to point out an interesting article over at the Motley Fool, where the author, Anders Bylund, points out why the new ProIP law is bad for the big entertainment companies from the perspective of an investor in those companies. Basically, he recognizes what some of us have been saying for years. If you rely on stronger copyright as a crutch to protect an old business model, you're much slower to adopt newer business models that can greatly increase the size of your market. In other words, by denying the growth potential of infinite goods, you shrink the potential size of your market, and that's bad for the company and bad for investors:
As much as I love my Walt Disney investment and the great entertainment the company has created over the years, it's also part of a boneheaded industry that can't deal with the digital revolution.... Disney, Warner Music, and their colleagues could handle rampant piracy in a much more delicate manner and turn today's massive problem into free distribution and dirt cheap marketing. Yes, there are ways to make money when others copy your dearly beloved content for free. The PRO-IP Act is a step in exactly the wrong direction, though.Exactly. And this reinforces the point that it's a mistake to keep trying to find the right "balance" between content producers and content consumers. There's no need for a balance if the content producers adopt business models that both expand their market (by properly defining the market) and leave consumers free to share and promote the content in a way that actually helps the bottom line of the content producer. It's quite rare to see short-term investor-types recognize such strategies, so it's quite interesting to see a discussion like this on a mainstream site like the Motley Fool. Hopefully others will start recognizing this reality soon as well.
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North Carolina startup to take on Quickbooks
A couple of geeks who live in North Carolina hated using Quickbooks to do their invoices. For one it only worked on IE 6. But they found it much more difficult to use than it needed to be. So, what did they do? Built their own called Merchant’s Mirror (it’s in alpha testing right now, should be released in beta in December). (Read on Source)
Microsoft Offers Startups Free Software, But Be Wary
Microsoft announced a new program the other day called Microsoft BizSpark, where they give away a boat load of software and services to young startups and presumably lock them into Microsoft long-term. For a small start-up with little capital, this has to be a very attractive offer, but think be for you take the offer.
How much was your vote worth? Obama often outbid McCain
Obama spent $7.23 per vote in Missouri, but still lost to McCain, who shelled out "only" $5.19. Obama spent $12.15 to win each vote in Virginia while the Republican spent $4.35. (Read on Source)
HP Updates Desktop Virtualization Software (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard hopes to widen the use of its desktop virtualization products with new software that will improve video playback and allow the use of USB peripherals such as webcams, the company announced Monday.
Windows 7 Build 6956 Does Well in Benchmark
I'm sure you're all still (sadly) familiar with the recent 'debate' I had with InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy, which detailed a lot of silly things. The seed of that discussion was planted with Kennedy's first article which, among other things, claimed that Windows 7 performed similarly to Windows Vista (meaning, slower than XP). Leaving the thread count discussion behind, Kennedy did include a benchmark which showed that Windows 7 performed similar to Windows Vista. There's a new benchmark out now, comparing a slightly more recent build of Windows 7 to Vista RTM/SP1 and XP SP3, and in these tests, Windows 7 blows all of those out of the water.
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Mark Teixeira's not a 10
As the bidding intensifies for free agent Mark Teixeira, the Red Sox have let it be known they are willing to go only so far. Should another team up the ante and, as has been... (Read on Source)
No taking Jaguars lightly, players say
Punter Koch gets AFC special teams award To reach the playoffs, the Ravens only have to avoid something that has yet to happen this season: a letdown. (Read on Source)
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