Kevin Gregg: Making A Pitch to Stay as Closer
Update: Gregg, working in a non-save situation Friday, struck out the side while pitching a scoreless ninth inning. Recommendation: He now sports a 2.52 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and 25:10 K:BB ratio in 25 innings, and is 2-for-2 in converting saves. If he continues to pitch well the Marlins may elect to leave him in the closer role even after Henry Owens ... (Read on Source)
Gatti Will Bring The Thunder Against Gomez
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Touched by Diabetes - From Laboratory to Reality
Diabetes The Full Story, is the web’s newly launched premier social network for everyone touched by diabetes, and passionate about getting the most out of their lives and careers. (PRWeb Jul 20, 2007)
Herbalife Summary Judgment Granted In Part
NEW YORK - In an April 25 order, the ephedra multidistrict litigation judge denied summary judgment to Herbalife International of America Inc. as to liability issues in an individual injury case but granted it as to future damages and punitive damages (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1598; Margaret Parks v. Herbalife International of America, Inc., 1:04-Cv-09358, S.D. N.Y.; See April 2007, Page 10). Full story on lexis.com
Week-End Links
RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below, consider this to be an open thread, and have a great week-end! Media Mythbusters Michael Medved: The Perception Of Powerlessness No Spanish? No Job, Teachers Told Theodore Dalrymple: How Societies... (Read on Source)
Stock Trade Training 083107 Anatomy of a Signal Technologies
From our live trading education room; an overview of visual price pattern and signal analysis, focusing on the fundamentals every trader can use. Understanding the anatomy of a signal will improve confidence and lead to more profitable trading. In this clip, we discuss stocks such as Apple and Dell, but these strategies can apply to ANY market and ANY time frame.
Congress: Raise Cigarette Tax 61 Cents Per Pack
House and Senate lawmakers trying to craft a veto-proof version of a bill to raise cigarette prices to finance $35 billion increase in State Children's Health Program.
U.N. report: Rich-poor digital divide still broad
Gap is narrowing, but more needs to be done to ensure poorer countries reap tech revolution's opportunities in growth, development, says report. The digital divide between rich and poor countries is narrowing as mobile phones and Internet use become more available, but the developing world still lags far...
59% of Swedish Musicians Have Engaged in Illegal File-Sharing
Despite economic losses caused to the music industry a majority of music artists get their music just like the rest of us - via P2P. Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan recently conducted a survey in which 100 musicians were asked 5 questions related to the practice of illegal file-sharing. What makes the survey interesting is that it's a rare glimpse into the minds of music artists who always seem to be absent in the debate. The only sides we ever seem to hear from are the record industry or of course the occasional accused file-sharer. Rarely do we hear from music artists nor of their listening habits or behavior.
Santander to buy UK bank A&L in $2.6 bln deal
LONDON/MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Santander is buying British bank Alliance & Leicester for 1.3 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) in an agreed deal that will bulk up its existing UK bank Abbey.
'Dark Knight' Forgoes Digital Techniques
In a digital world, the newest Batman saga tells its story with traditional cinematography.
Poll: Would you get a degree in Web design?
When I started in this business in 1995, there were almost no classes on HTML, period, let alone university courses or degrees. But now most universities offer some type of...
NFL Finally Gets Into the Digital Game
For the last few years, it's been easier to sack New England quarterback Tom Brady than to get the National Football League thinking about a more progressive Internet strategy. "They've been very dictatorial about the amount of [video highlight] content you can put on your Web site," Gartner Digital Media Analyst Allen Weiner told the E-Commerce Times.
Update: Google extends Apps Premier credit for Gmail outages
Due to the three outages that Gmail suffered earlier this month, Google will extend a credit to all paying customers of its hosted Apps suite and has vowed to improve its problem-notification methods.
In an apologetic e-mail sent Wednesday to Apps Premier administrators, Google said it will automatically extend annual subscriptions by 15 days at no extra charge. Apps Premier subscriptions cost $50 per user per year. This 15-day extension is the maximum credit of the 99.9 percent uptime service level agreement Google offers Premier customers for Gmail.
"We're committed to making Google Apps Premier Edition a service on which your organization can depend. During the first half of August, we didn't do this as well as we should have," reads the letter.
One outage, on Aug. 11, lasted about two hours but affected almost all Apps Premier users. The other two, on Aug. 6 and Aug. 15, hit a small number of Apps Premier users, but both outages were lengthy, lasting for some affected users more than 24 hours. In all of the incidents, users were unable to access their Gmail accounts, getting instead an error message when trying to log in.
In Wednesday's letter, Google said that system reliability is a top priority and that, although it can't promise zero downtime, it commits to solving outages quickly. "More importantly, we promise you focused discipline on preventing recurrence of the same problem," the letter reads.
In addition, Google plans to improve the way it informs Apps Premier administrators about system problems via a new dashboard that will become available in a few months.
That dashboard will provide descriptions of problems, especially of their impact on users; a regularly updated estimate of when the issues will be resolved; and, if necessary, a formal report within 48 hours of the resolution. The report will describe the incident, explain its cause, list corrective and preventive actions taken, and provide an outage timeline.
Google officials will also make themselves available to participate in live discussions about the incident with Apps Premier administrators and their companies' managers.
The plans for fuller disclosure of problem causes, fixes and prevention plans sound good to Gartner analyst Matt Cain, but he's confused as to why Google didn't start applying these principles with this letter, which he found slim on details.
"I'd like more transparency into what actually happened and why. They don't go into that [in this letter]. That's what they should have done in this note," Cain said. "Why start in the future and not now?"
Crediting all Apps Premier customers across the board and taking proactive steps to prevent future outages were the right actions for Google to take, said analyst Rebecca Wettemann from Nucleus Research.
"These are natural growing pains for an on-demand vendor," she said. "Google is doing what it needed to do [to respond to the outages], but in fairness to Google, it's held to a higher standard in terms of uptime and availability, as are many on-demand vendors, when you compare them to internally deployed applications."
Apps comes in various versions, including the free Basic and Education editions and the fee-based Premier edition. In addition to Gmail, it includes Google hosted services like Calendar, Sites, Talk, and the Docs word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
Overall, more than 500,000 businesses with 10 million active users use Apps. Hundreds of thousands of those active users have Premier subscriptions, according to Google.
With Apps, a hosted suite of communications and collaboration applications, Google is a leading proponent of SaaS, an emerging model of software delivery that backers say represents the future.
Because vendors host applications in their own data centers, companies don't have to concern themselves with hardware provisioning and software maintenance. By living in the Internet "cloud," these hosted applications simplify sharing and collaboration among employees.
However, outages such as the one Gmail experienced are among the biggest question marks regarding SaaS applications, as IT and business managers ponder whether to ditch conventional software packages that are installed on their companies' servers.
When applications hosted by vendors go down, there is little that IT and business managers can do to remedy the situation and respond to their angry end-users.
Google Apps critics question whether the suite can really provide enterprise-grade software availability and performance and thus be a real option in large companies to conventional, on-premise options like Microsoft's Office and Outlook/Exchange or IBM Lotus Notes/Domino.
Google acknowledges that most Apps subscribers are individuals or small and medium-size organizations. However, the company has high hopes that the Premier edition, with its IT management and enterprise software integration features, will push into the enterprise market of large companies.
Google has proved it can learn from mistakes and has improved as an enterprise IT provider, Cain said. However, Gartner's advice to enterprises is to hold off on adopting Gmail as an e-mail system, and this month's outages justify that position, Cain said.
"A 24-hour outage of e-mail for many companies would be catastrophic. That indicates that our cautious approach is warranted," he said.
Before giving the green light to its customers, Gartner wants to see at least a dozen enterprise deployments of Apps Premier with at least 10,000 Gmail seats, each running successfully for six to 12 months, Cain said.
This story was updated on August 28, 2008
Hackers Attack Iraq's Vulnerable Computers
Maj. Ahmed Khathem, the head of Iraq's newly formed cybercrimes division, sits in a borrowed office, at a borrowed desk, working on a laptop borrowed from one of his subordinates. (Read on Source)
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Microsoft announced an important update to Dynamics CRM this week in which it spiffed up its marketing capabilities. You can find the news details pretty easily out on the Web, but the details are less important to this piece. The fact that Microsoft delivered an update is the really interesting part and I was glad to see it.
How often should you publish?
How many movies should you star in next year? How many records should you release? How many songs should you write? How many times a week should you post to your blog? And when should my next book come out? Or your next newsletter or that next cartoon? What about Nike--they launch more than one product every day. Is that too many? A lot of the ... (Read on Source)
Live Blogging T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East, New York
I think that’s an attractive title… we’ll see how it goes with the wifi. Note to conference organizers everywhere — wifi makes for more and better dealmaking! If we can get online from breakfast, in seminars, etc. we do more and better deals! (I tether from my cell if necesary, but then I need a [...] (Read on Source)
Bailout Traffic Crashes House.gov
October 1, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Flooded with so much traffic spurred by bailout legislation, the US House of Representatives website has been largely inaccessible since yesterday's vote, leading officials to limit incoming messages to effectively bailout its servers.
The Importance Of Background checks in Corporate Risk Management
Employers understand the importance of reducing liability in the form of employing wrong people. Towards this end, many companies ensure that they find out all about the person's past before taking that person in. It would have been tough finding information about people just a few years ago. However, technology has advanced to such an extent that conducting these background checks on people is as simple as clicking the mouse and getting the details on your computer screen. Although all the records are found online, there are many unlicensed services that claim to provide access to all the records at cheap rates. When trying to find criminal information about others, you do not want to end up in the hands of a criminal, who provides you incomplete data or completely inaccurate data. This is where it is important to find the services of a licensed professional that can conduct this screening for you. Background checks provide all the information about a person, including their address history, phone numbers, court records, criminal history and driver license details. The data in these reports will make it clear to the employer whether the applicant has given the correct details or not. Thus, it provides an insight into the character of the person and how honest the individual is. Through these background checks, employers can gauge the sincerity of the applicants. Ensuring the applicant is not convicted of any major crime in the past is the main reason these checks are conducted. Article Source: Background Check Also visit: www.ezcheckwriter.com
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Making MacBooks Similar, Yet Different
When introducing the new MacBook models at Apple's laptop event on Tuesday, Steve Jobs noted that the top three requests from...
'Superglue' brain op for toddler
The parents of a 17-month-old girl have told how surgeons used glue to seal tiny brain blood vessels that were threatening her life.
The Compleat Tanta
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Using Dropbox on Any Linux Distro
Linutop: "If you usually work on several machines (e.g., a desktop machine at home and a notebook on the move), the Dropbox service can help you to keep your files and documents in sync with minimum fuss."
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Startup banks on making money from free broadband (AP)
AP - For the past three years, a startup called M2Z Networks has been figuring out a way to blanket the nation with a free wireless broadband network to ensure all Americans have access to basic high-speed Internet connections.
RoadLoK Motorcycle Locking System Now Featured at Bruce Rossmeyer's Daytona Harley-Davidson Dealersh
Bruce Rossmeyer's Daytona Harley-Davidson® is now equipping all new motorcycles with a RoadLoK® Defender™ motorcycle locking system. (PRWeb Dec 18, 2008)
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Zoosk Celebrates Its First Anniversary with Twelve Million Users and a 2009 People's Choice Open Web
The World's Largest Social Dating Network Continues Its Rapid Growth and Delivers 150 Million Connections for its Users in One Year (PRWeb Dec 18, 2008)
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Learn more about search and SEM from Google videos
Here's an introduction to Google videos presenting the company's products and services. (Read on Source)
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