Sonics 77, Clippers 75
Rashard Lewis scored 31 points to lead the Seattle SuperSonics to a 77-75 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday night.
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Fan-tastic news for Jambos
HEARTS today revealed that they have smashed through the 400,000 attendance barrier for the first time in more than 20 years. (Read on Source)
Airbus to Deliver First Airbus A380 to Singapore Airlines on 15 October 2007
Airbus to Deliver First Airbus A380 to Singapore Airlines on 15 October 2007.
Griffin Gate Marriott Resort & Spa Proudly Introduces New Executive Chef of the Mansion Restaurant:
Griffin Gate Marriott Resort & Spa is proud to announce the hiring of brand new Executive Chef of the Mansion Restaurant, Nicolas Trueblood. (PRWeb Oct 14, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/UHJvZi1TaW5nLVByb2YtVGhpci1UaGlyLVplcm8=
FIRE-FREE LIVING
"THE Devil Wears Prada" producer Wendy Finerman just got herself a fashionable Fifth Avenue apartment. The Post's Braden Keil reports that the Oscar-winning moviemaker and her banker husband, David Peterson, have bought a 12-room duplex co-op at...
Source: Yahoo, Google Tie-Up a Success
Yahoo may put another thorn into Microsoft's side by considering a partnership to offer Google advertising alongside its search results, following a successful trial....
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Warhammer Online Loses Classes, Cities
Concerns over quality have prompted developer EA Mythic to remove four classes and four capital cities from Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, its upcoming MMO. The four unlucky classes are Choppa, Hammerer, Blackguard and Knight of the Blazing Sun. They were axed because they just “weren’t coming out well,” according to Mythic VP Mark Jacobs. [...]
Too fat to play professional football
Michael Keane of St Patrick's Athletic has been sacked for tucking in too much into the starchy foods.As a teenager, Keane had been tipped for big things after breaking into the first team at Preston North End.He took the tip too literally and went ahead and became bigger and now finds himself too large altogether. His football skills diminished ... (Read on Source)
Trip Cubby logs milage for business iPhone users
App Cubby today announced the availability of Trip Cubby, an iPhone app that tracks mileage for tax deductions or corporate reimbursement. Trip Cubby features predictive input, auto-entry, auto-calculation, and access to frequent trips. Data can be searched and sorted to generate reports. Customizable tabs allow grouping or categorization of tri...
'Modern gears make Mendis difficult to crack'
The state-of-the-art cricketing equipment make it difficult to crack an already cryptic bowling action of spinner Ajantha Mendis, feels a sports expert. (Read on Source)
An EA merger with Take-Two gets U.S. antitrust OK (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. antitrust authorities would approve a combination of Electronic Arts Inc with rival video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software, according to letters from the Federal Trade Commission posted on the agency's web site.
Intel to Build Yahoo Widgets into New TV Chips
Yahoo and Intel are working on what they call the Widget Channel, which will enable TV viewers to interact with and watch a dynamic set of TV widgets -- small Web-based applications that complement TV shows. Widgets will appear in the corner of a TV screen and work something like a picture-in-picture window of advanced TV sets. These small windows let viewers chat with or e-mail friends, watch videos, track stocks or sports teams or keep up with news headlines or weather by using a TV remote control. Widget TV services are being designed to run on a new class of Intel chips for consumer electronics that enables high-definition viewing, home-theater-quality audio, 3-D graphics, and the fusion of Internet and TV features.
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After years of false starts aimed at bringing the Web to TV sets, Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday it is working with Intel Corp to create Web computer channels that run alongside TV shows. The Web company and world's largest chipmaker are working on what they call the q...
Nature reserve surrendered to rising seas
Part of Titchwell Marsh, a favourite spot for birdwatchers on the north Norfolk coast, is to be sacrificed to the waves to save the rest of the site from destruction. (Read on Source)
Digicel proposes compromise to contract row
The row between the West Indies Cricket Board and its sponsors, Digicel, took another twist on Thursday with a proposal from the company to settle its dispute with the board. (Read on Source)
Santana is way smooth - Los Angeles Times
 The Southern Ledger | Santana is way smooth Los Angeles Times - Ted S. Warren / AP Angels starting pitcher Ervin Santana gave up five hits and one run in eight innings Monday night against Seattle, striking out nine and walking none. Gurerro's shot backs Santana Santana, Angels slip past slumping Mariners |
Goliath Beats Davids for Pentagon Power Prize
The Pentagon set up a million-dollar prize to get entrepreneurs and tinkerers to come up with radically new ways to supply power to the all those gadgets a soldier has to lug around. But the winner, the Pentagon declared today, is as traditional as it comes: DuPont, the chemical giant -- and military supplier, since 1802.
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New Xbox Experience Beta Signups Open
Delivering on a promise teased earlier this week, Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has revealed to Xbox 360 fans a way into a sneak preview of the New Xbox Experience, the dashboard overhaul due November 19.
Users can now sign up at Microsoft Connect for a chance at early access to the Experience, which will give selected users the ability to download the dashboard ahead of the November 19 rollout.
Efficiency drive moves to networks
Networks will be the next frontier in energy efficiency if a program kicked off by router maker Juniper Networks and test-equipment vendor Ixia gains a wider following.
The companies unveiled the Energy Consumption Rating (ECR) Initiative on Tuesday at a lab in Santa Clara, Calif. The initiative has set up a method of measuring the power efficiency of certain classes of network devices and is making it openly available so that anyone can use it to test equipment.
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There have long been low-power benchmarks for PCs and servers, such as those from the Energy Star program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But the networks that link those systems haven't been held to the same level of scrutiny, representatives of the participating companies and the EPA said Tuesday. Juniper and Ixia launched ECR in order to make quick progress toward a specification that could later be adopted by a formal standards body such as the ITU (International Telecommunication Union), said Luc Ceuppens, senior director of marketing at Juniper. Working from scratch at a formal standards body might take two to three years, he said.
The ECR methodology can determine the number of watts a network element consumes per gigabit per second of traffic. On Tuesday, in a test lab where Ixia said it can simulate the traffic generated by a triple-play telecommunications service for 250,000 people, the methodology was built into an Ixia measurement application called IxGreen and used to test a Juniper T1600 carrier core router. The router, which has a theoretical maximum throughput of 640Gbps, consumed 9.03 watts per gigabit per second, the testers found. It was tested at 98 percent traffic load as well as 49 percent and idle. Correcting for the different load levels, it scored 8.81 watts/Gbps.
ECR today is designed to test individual systems in the network, but over the next year, the group plans to work out a way to test the efficiency of the whole network.
Juniper acknowledged that it helped kick off the effort because it believes its equipment is more efficient than many rival products, and the demonstration also showed off Ixia's iSimCity lab and IxGreen software. But other vendors and testing providers are free to use the methodology themselves, executives of the companies said. The methodology is designed to be repeatable so results from different labs can be compared.
The people formulating ECR have talked about it with representatives of Cisco Systems, the dominant data networking vendor, which made some suggestions but didn't join the initiative, Ceuppens said. Cisco is leading discussions on energy-efficiency efforts in standards bodies and other industry groups, including the ITU and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the company said in a statement.
The EPA welcomes the effort, according to Andrew Fanara, product development team leader in the agency's Energy Star division, who spoke at the event Tuesday.
"This is a very good first step and may become a formal standard," Fanara said. The EPA may try to create an Energy Star program for network devices in the future, but it has many other areas to look at, Fanara said.
IT vendors have to balance efficiency against many other demands in future products, said Vic Alston, senior vice president of product development at Ixia. Unlike in some businesses, such as consumer electronics, networking products are expected to improve tenfold in areas such as security, reliability, scalability and performance with every product cycle, Alston said. It's hard for vendors to justify sacrificing any of those improvements for efficiency, which doesn't give them a sexy specification to list on the product, he said.
The bad news of the economic downturn, along with the good news of lower oil prices, will further shift attention from power consumption, the EPA's Fanara predicted.
"We'll probably see energy consumption drift down a bit" in importance when vendors are designing products and customers are buying them, Fanara said. However, this may be a good time for vendors to retool for energy woes that are sure to reemerge, he added.
Efficiency is beginning to factor into the buying decisions of customers, such as some carriers, Juniper's Ceuppens said. His company is already getting requests for proposals that include power requirements.
"They're fairly broad. They state maximums rather than ideals. But there are people who say, 'I want to get rid of this piece of equipment because it costs me too much to run it,'" Ceuppens said.
Sci-Fi Giant Michael Crichton Dies at 66
The novelist who wrote Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain succumbs to cancer.
Best iPod-compatible iTunes alternatives
CNET's Donald Bell rounds up his favorite iPod-compatible software alternatives to Apple's iTunes jukebox.
Rounded Corners in Internet Explorer
You may remember my recent expirement with getting rounded corners in Internet Explorer to work with VML. I tried to come up with a way to mimic border-radius and to be able to implement simple rounded corners into a design.
The first implementation I saw that tried to do this in a seamless way was Remiz of HTML Remix. The implementation uses an HTML control (ie: an htc file) that can be easily bound to any element which should have rounded corners.
Drew Diller has pointed me to his implementation, DD_roundies, which he has just released. His code has the added benefit of allowing tiled alpha PNGs without using AlphaImageLoader (an unexpected discovery).
Here's hoping, once again, that IE8 will magically support border-radius.
Macs and Malware: The Straight Dope (PC World)
PC World - Earlier this week, Washington Post blogger Brian Krebs stunned the computing world with the revelation that Apple had quietly been recommending anti-virus software for users of Mac OS X.
Scripps Web Site Gets Healthy Upgrade
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Climate Change Alters Ocean Chemistry
Scientists have discovered that the ocean's chemical makeup is less stable and more greatly affected by climate change than previously believed. The researchers report in Science that during a time of climate change 13 million years ago, the chemical makeup of the oceans changed dramatically. The researchers warn that the chemistry of the ocean today could be similarly affected by climate changes now underway, with potentially far-reaching consequences for marine ecosystems.
Wall Street set for New Year gain after bleak 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Battered stocks looked set to start 2009 with some gains as investors focused on the incoming administration's stimulus plan to kick-start the world's biggest economy.
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