HD DVD Battle Stakes Digg Against Futility of DRM
A flurry of posts containing the hexadecimal code that lets users crack Hollywood's new format leads the social-networking site into murky legal waters. News analysis by Ryan Singel.
Dunn, his contract, and the trading deadline
From Foxsports.com: Reds left fielder Adam Dunn lacks a no-trade clause, but his contract includes a provision that grants him his own form of protection, effectively allowing him to determine his own fate. If Dunn is traded, his $13 million club option for ‘08 will be voided, making him a free agent at the end of the [...] (Read on Source)
Ask.com Ad Campaign Associated With Google
Ask.com has gotten a lot of flack over its “algorithm” ad campaign, and it seemed possible that the publicity might hurt, rather than help, the company. Now one survey has revealed that many people didn’t even associate the ads with Ask.com - instead, they believed those strange and controversial messages were coming from Google.
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This discovery comes courtesy of Barry Schwartz (posting under the name “rustybrick”), who found that 78 percent of his Digg respondents thought Google was behind the ads. Now, for all you statisticians out there, I should note that only 27 people answered Schwartz’s question, and Schwartz himself admits, “This also only reflects the Digg market and does not reflect normal people who work in schools, in doctor offices, legal offices and so on.”
Still, for Ask.com to run a campaign that so many people think is the work of another company . . . well, if it weren’t for the poor response to the ads, I’d call it disastrous. Yet random references to Jesus and the Unabomber didn’t go over well, so, as things stand, perhaps having people think Google’s behind it will help Ask.com, after all.
Let’s just pretend, though, that Ask might want to claim ownership of its commercials - this doesn’t seem like a huge leap. Schwartz points to John Mueller, a veteran member of the Cre8asite Forum, who thinks it may still require a huge effort. “Google is constantly doing something with [its] ‘algorithm’. It even ranks #4 for ‘algorithm’ (on Google),” Mueller writes.
“Getting a ‘new’ company associated with a term like that is going to be a long, hard journey,” he concludes.
Well, at least, according to Schwartz’s numbers, 24 percent of people have already made the connection.
Tags: Ask.com, Algorithm, Google
Former ATI CEO Leaves AMD
Now that the AMD-ATI union is complete, Dave Orton makes a 'typical' move to new pastures.
Adsense check funny!
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Netflix cuts prices of two more rental plans (Reuters)
Reuters - Netflix Inc. cut monthly subscriptions for two of its most popular plans by $1 on Sunday, a day ahead of a quarterly earnings report that will show whether rival Blockbuster Inc has further dented the online DVD rental company's growth.
New Weapon To Fight Leukemia
A new study indicates that the drug FTY720 prevents disease in a mouse model of two leukemias -- blast crisis chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia -- caused by the cancer protein BCR-ABL. As the drug also induced cell lines from humans with these leukemias to die in vitro the authors suggest that FTY720 should be considered by ... (Read on Source)
R.H. Donnelley Expands Deal With Yahoo
The computer desk and monitor that sit before me are propped up by a total of seven phonebooks. ; I sometimes use an eighth for actual reference purposes. ; But given that ratio, it seems like a wise move on the part of R.H. Donnelly, ?a leading...
As Season 1 draws to a close...
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Crude oil prices start the day lower
Crude oil prices began the Wednesday session on the New York Mercantile Exchange off 17 cents, selling for $85.10 a barrel in morning trading.
Lily stock hit by drug test suspension
Shares of Eli Lilly and Co. fell 6.6 percent Thursday after the drug maker announced suspension of trials on its most important experimental drug.
Business Blogs Can Bring You Killer PR
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Microsoft Paper: Improving Search Results by Mining Web Surfing Activity
A new research paper from Microsoft Research looks at how surfing behavior -- as logged by a search toolbar -- can be used to improve search results.
Brocade Deal to Help Drive Data-center Transition
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InfoWorld columnist Ed Foster dies
Ed Foster, InfoWorld's The Gripe Line blogger, died this past Saturday of an apparent heart attack. He was 59.
Foster began The Gripe Line as a column in InfoWorld's print edition in 1993, helping technology users deal with complaints about products, companies, and service providers that proved otherwise unresponsive. He continued this tradition in the online medium as a blogger, still focused on helping readers. Foster had worked for InfoWorld as a reporter, writer, editor, and publication executive for more than 20 years.
"We are all saddened by Ed's passing but grateful for his 15 years of consumer advocacy in the field of technology products through The Gripe Line column and blog," said Eric Knorr, InfoWorld's
eitor in chief. "We will all miss his passion and professionalism."
Foster's son Jeff said, "He was very proud of the work he had done and the community he had built here. He was very engaged in what you all had to say, and we had many running instant message conversations about comments or e-mails people had sent. He was an extremely smart man, and he loved to be mentally stimulated, whether it was a good book, an interesting conversation, or one of the many comments you posted that made him look at something in a slightly different way."
InfoWorld and Foster's family have asked Foster's readers to share their remembrances of him at the blog that he cared so deeply about.
When Obama Goes Home to Hawaii
When Barack Obama was last in Hawaii to visit his grandmother and sister, it was December 2006, and he was still a relatively unknown junior senator from Illinois deciding whether to run for President. Obama was shocked, then, when a paparazzi shot of him emerging from the Pacific Ocean on one of his favorite Oahu beaches ended up in People ... (Read on Source)
McCain just part of Washington, Democrats say
Sen. John McCain got one thing right Thursday when he said the Republicans had let Washington change them, Democrats said after his speech. (Read on Source)
IToner Ringtone Maker Updated for ITunes 8
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Twitter background guidelines
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Man denies hacking Palin e-mail
The son of a prominent Democratic politician is indicted over the hacking of Sarah Palin's private e-mail account.
IS teams with SharePoint360
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YouTube Lets Commenters Hear Their Own Gibberish
A new button in YouTube's comment interface plays back the user's comment as an audio file -- an idea originally proposed in the xkcd web comic. The hope is that users will scrutinize their own words before posting, but whether that will curb the famously abusive and inane comments on YouTube remains to be seen.
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Android and iPhone philosophies worlds apart
How does Apple's iPhone philosophy differ from that of Google's Android? Let me count the ways.
YouTube Goes Big and Wide
YouTube has now launched a bigger version of its video player. The decision to do so came after a large amount of feedback about things that users would like to change about the site indicated the need for a bigger size.
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Downturn hits mobile phone makers
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Canada seeks access to detained Iranian-Canadian blogger (AFP)
AFP - Canada has not been granted consular access to detained prominent Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan in Iran, a foreign affairs spokesman said in Ottawa.
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