Scaling the Rox: Dodgers 2, Rockies 1
Aspect Score Notes Table Setters Only two out of eight plate appearances they got on board. Taveras took a walk which was encouraging. Neither scored. Heart of the Lineup Several times aboard tonight, but outside of Hawpe and Holliday's doubles, there wasn't a lot of thunder from these slots. Bottom of the Order Torrealba had one hit in the ... (Read on Source)
Dutch internet TV company to show CNN (AP)
AP - Joost, a company attempting to broadcast television via the Internet, said Tuesday it had signed several new content distribution agreements, including one with Turner Broadcasting System Inc. to show CNN news and interview programs.
Hamas "Mickey Mouse" Back On The Air
(CBS/AP) A weekly children's show on a Hamas-run TV station featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike preaching Islamic domination was broadcast as usual Friday, two days after the Palestinian information minister said it would be suspended immediately. (Read on Source)
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It is great to use natural herbs to improve the over all health and well being. And there are many herbs that can help with specific diseases. Diabetes is one of them. Here you will find tips on how to help diabetes without drugs.
Shady Web sites fueling mortgage fraud
An increasing number of shady Web sites are offering to make insolvent home buyers in the United States more attractive to lenders.
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Government Customer Service: No Longer an Oxymoron?
Next year, when taxpayers call the IRS for help answering questions as they fill out a return, they will know how many minutes they will have to wait on hold before they can speak with an agent. Earlier this year, constituents may not have known how long they would be holding, but some may have noticed a far shorter wait time than in previous years.
Novell boosts legal team with litigation expert
Company taps high-powered patent lawyer Eric Acker, who has a formidable history, including 45 jury trials as a federal prosecutor.
MIAL Chooses Nortel for New Communications Infrast...
... network management and optimization. Nortel's Metro Ethernet-based PBB/PBT technologies will be used to provide VPN and point-to-point Ethernet transport services for the airlines. PBT is a Nortel innovation that ...
Washington
The World Tour trudges along. Babak and I took the fast Acela train down to Washington DC and checked into the Crystal Gateway Marriott.
Nice turnout in Arlington today: about 150 people.
This Thursday, in Austin, at 5:30 Central Time, Jim and Ossie from NewTek are working on getting a live stream going so you can watch the demo as it happens. To get a high-speed internet connection in the meeting room, we have to pay the hotel an extra $100. After all the other hotel bills, that actually sounds kind of reasonable, believe it or not.
Anyway, the live stream is going to be in WMV (Windows Media) format. The URL for it will be here. A couple of days later I'll get the flash version up if you have any problems with the stream or want to watch it later.
After the demo we managed to break the automated check-in machines at the Delta airlines check-in counter, trying to move to an earlier flight. Eventually a nice human at the counter straightened it out.
Now in Atlanta. See ya!
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ExtJS 2.0 Plugin for Aptana
If you're a .NET developer, you've surely used Visual Studio .NET and know how important a good IDE is for developer productivity. Heck, I feel like Visual Studio's Intellisense feature pretty much taught me C#, and has certainly saved many grueling hours of syntax research over the years. After I saw the features of ExtJS a while back, I was immediately interested in using the library, but was a bit scared off by the extensive JavaScript development that would
Baby Mammoth CT Scan Reveals Internal Organs
 | A baby woolly mammoth frozen in Arctic Russia has provided the first detailed glimpse of the inner workings of a prehistoric mammal, scientists say. |
Lunar Samples Reveal Watery Secret
A new analysis of some very old rocks is reshaping our understanding of the moon. Scientists used modern techniques to search for tiny traces of hydrogen in a set of lunar sand samples taken by Apollo astronauts in the '70s. The systems used in the study were able to break down the rocks 10 times more effectively than any past techniques.
Talking about the economy on the NewsHour
I'm scheduled to appear on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer at 5:17 p.m. Houston time today. I'll be discussing the economy with reporters from Cincinnati, Charlotte, N.C., and Los Angeles. ...
Olympics Marketing Battle Cry: Viral, Social, Digital
Marketing around the Olympics used to be like a 100-meter cakewalk. You'd pay a gazillion dollars to the International Olympic Committee, then pay a gazillion more to brag like heck about it on TV and in print ads. That was then. This is now: Add on a multi-pronged digital ad strategy that feeds on megabuzz.
Canadian Markets: Drop in oil, gold reels in Toronto stocks Friday
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Canadian stocks retreated for the second straight day Friday as crude-oil and gold futures closed lower, pulling down shares of energy and mining companies.
Palm Treo Pro steps into the smartphone ring
Palm unveiled on Wednesday the Treo Pro, a keyboard-enabled smartphone that will contend for a piece of the mobile market against such superstar players as Apple, Google, and Linux OS.
What the Pro lacks in glitz and glamour ? it looks a lot like a RIM BlackBerry ? it makes up for by using a tried-and-true operating system, Windows Mobile 6.1. Windows Mobile boasts hundreds of thousands of developers, both corporate and third party, who are familiar and comfortable with the Windows platform.
?The Windows OS and device makers are enjoying expanded adoption in the enterprise,? said Gerry Purdy, vice president and chief mobile analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
Windows Mobile has sold 20 million units in the past year and still growing, said Purdy, who predicts Windows Mobile will increase its presence in the enterprise even more in 2009.
While the form factor may not be significantly new, said Pete Daily, Integrated Program Manager at Frost & Sullivan, the fact that it uses Exchange also means that the device should integrate seamlessly with other core enterprise applications like Microsoft Office. But Daily considers the $549 retail price a bit steep.??
?There are no carrier partners in the U.S., which is why there are no subsidies but that also means there is no distribution channel,? said Daily.
Without carrier support, business users will have to rely on their own IT departments; IT, in turn, will have to rely on Palm itself to provide enterprise-level support, something Michael Akamine, senior product manager at Palm said the company is prepared to do.
?We have a team of enterprise sales engagements and tech systems engineers that work with enterprise customers,? said Akamine.
In the United States, the tri-band Treo Pro will be sold unlocked, allowing users to choose any GSM operator by simply installing a new SIM chip. At this point, Palm does not have a CDMA version, which rules out companies using Sprint or Verizon.
Nevertheless, the Treo?s success may come more from the business market. An unlocked version will give IT departments that deploy GSM cell phones the flexibility to choose a device that works with the company?s short list of approved carriers.
The Microsoft partnership will also give IT Microsoft Direct Push Technology, a direct link to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or 2007 for e-mail, contacts, and calendars.
Palm will also leverage Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 for security such as enforced password use, remote lockdown, updates, and access to the corporate network.
In addition, according to Akamine, partnering with Microsoft gives IT managers the ability to keep all data inside their own NOC (network operating center) rather than going out to a third party for a piece of the infrastructure.?
Other Treo features include IEEE 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, a 400MHz Qualcomm processor, Bluetooth, IR, 256MB of storage, and 128MB of RAM.
But the Palm also gives Microsoft something they needed, according to Ken Dulaney, chief mobile analyst with Gartner.
?Microsoft has had a shortage of good hardware to compete against BlackBerry. They upgraded to 6.1, which is a competitive platform but lacked the hardware,? said Dulaney.
The Treo fixes that problem and smoothes out some of Microsoft?s traditional rough edges when it comes to installation and networking, Dulaney said.
The unit also has a 2-megapixel camera, a microSDHC expansion slot, and USB.
The Treo measures 2.36 inches wide by 4.49 inches long and 0.53 inch deep, and it weighs 4.69 ounces. Units will ship in the fall.
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Victoria Crater
NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.
The Nice Guy's Guide to Authority
I'm a big fan of being a nice guy. (I'm using "guy" in a gender-neutral way here. Feel free to read it as "gy" if that floats your boat.) (Read on Source)
The Real McCoy
Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy is in his 36th year of covering the Cincinnati Reds, the longest tenure for any active writer covering one team. Counting spring training and postseason games, McCoy has covered more than 7,000 major-league baseball games, written close to 18,000 baseball stories and eaten enough hot dogs to give Babe Ruth ... (Read on Source)
Google Says Its Data Centers Are the Most Efficient
Google released internal test results showing that its data centers are "the most efficient in the world," the company said...
3 Marketing Observations From Oktoberfest In Munich
On my way to Kyiv in the Ukraine a few days ago I planned a stopover for about 8 hours in Munich. As it turned out, it was just enough time to head out of the airport into the city and just outside in Theresienweise to visit the fair grounds for one of the largest celebrations of Oktoberfest in Germany. The Munich version was complete with rides, (Read on Source)
Tests on leading brands of bottle water show levels of contaminants equal to tap water.
Like.com Raises $32m
Via TechCrunch: Like.com raised $32m in its Series C round of financing. Congrats to Munjal and his team. That’s a lot of money to weather this harsh economic winter. This is especially good news in light of eBay’s recent comments about Shopping.com during the Q3 2008 earnings call: “Our online comparison site, Shopping.com, ... (Read on Source)
Outsourcing: ensure business booms with a dedicated hosting service
... is required to optimise this side of operations, whether it's through effective web design, web hosting or network management. By outsourcing such specialised business functions, it can actually be a ...
FDA Committees Vote To Ban OTC Cold Remedies For Children Under 6
SILVER SPRING, Md. - Two U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committees voted Oct. 19 to ban over-the-counter (OTC) cold remedies for children under the age of 6. Full story on lexis.com
The Employment Situation in Pictures
Rather than engage in long commentary, I thought a set of pictures would be...
Who's Breaking Moore's Law?
The computer industry needs to stop padding products with ever longer lists of features and "improvements," and start focusing on raw performance.
FDA Seizes $71,000 In Dietary Supplements It Says Were Misbranded
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 9 ordered that U.S. marshals seize $71,000 in dietary supplements that the agency said were being improperly promoted as treatments for serious diseases. Full story on lexis.com
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