Microsoft Solves iPhone E-Mail Flaw
Microsoft update should allow Exchange Server 2007 to receive e-mail from Apple's iPhone.
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MARBURY SHOCKER: I'LL PLAY IN ITALY
July 18, 2007 -- Stephon Marbury made a shocking revelation yesterday, saying that when his contract expires with the Knicks in two years, he's planning to play in Italy. (Read on Source)
Global Q2 PC Shipments Outpace Forecasts
Sales of personal computers around the world rose faster than forecast in the second quarter thanks to strong business sales, with HP retaining the title of global sales leader. PC shipments in the second quarter totaled 61.1 million, an increase of 11.7 percent over the same time last year, according to Gartner, which had been forecasting growth of about 10.6 percent.
There?s a Use for Display Ads, After All!
Who knew display ads might actually be useful? A new study from Yahoo and comScore finds that online display ads produced 11% lift in dollars spent in in-store conversions. Search ads yielded a 26% lift in dollars spent. Most impressive, however, was the result from a combination of search and online display ads: a [...]
Software Freedom Day and the Open Source Way
iTWire: "Mark this Saturday, September 15th, in your diary. It's Software Freedom Day and it's coming to you. That's 'free' as in 'free lunch' but also 'free' as in liberty..."
Former rival to back Giuliani
Thompson dropped out of the GOP race after a poor showing in the Iowa straw poll. (CNN) ? Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson will announce Friday he is endorsing Rudy Giuliani for president, an official in the former New York City mayor?s campaign tells CNN. The announcement will take place in Charleston, South Carolina. Thompson, who [...] (Read on Source)
Seattle Comes to Kansas City Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating Now Available in Kansas City, Western M
No contracts, no meetings, no gimmicks.Business founded by Seattle Sutton, a registered nurse, provides fresh, science-based, healthy, well-balanced meals. (PRWeb Jun 27, 2008)
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Because Your University Should Affect Your Choice of Razor
Right-slap on the back of the current issue of UC Berkeley's California magazine is an ad for an officially licensed Cal Berkeley Gillette Fusion Power Razor. (That's the one with five blades for your most comfortable shave.) (Read on Source)
Column: Is coverage of banking troubles `reprehensible'?
You can add John Reich, head of the Office of Thrift Supervision, to the Bad News Brigade. He joins the emerging mindset in Washington (and on the campaign trail) that if we all stopped talking about bad things happening, then...
The Online Social 'Shop Till You Drop' Party
It's no fun shopping alone. That's the theory behind social shopping, a trend that combines social networking with e-commerce. It's a trend that's coming into its own as increasing numbers of online shoppers turn to the sites for fun, companionship, and camaraderie with other shoppers.
Will Nicholas Negroponte Ever Understand That Competition Isn't About Killing OLPC?
We've never quite understood Nicholas Negroponte's position when it comes to the $100 Laptop/OLPC/XO (whatever it's called these days). While the idea behind creating a super cheap, super durable useful computer for children in developing nations is good, Negroponte has always approached the idea as one where only he should be allowed to see that vision through. When other companies decided it might be a good idea and wanted to target that market themselves, Negroponte flipped out and started attacking them for trying to undermine his project.
Sorry, Nicholas, but competition isn't undermining.
In fact, competition is generally what drives all parties to be better at what they do, in order to fend off the competition. Yet, somehow, the UK's Times Online has bought into Negroponte's side of the story and written up an article bashing Microsoft and Intel for trying to "kill" the OLPC. The article is riddled with factual errors and opinion substituting as fact, but the worst is in the central point of the article. The author mistakes companies all aiming for the same market as a nefarious attempt to "kill off" Negroponte's pet project -- as if he has some universal right to the market that no one else can attempt to enter. It also brushes over some simple facts, like the one where many countries have looked at the OLPC and realized it doesn't really serve their needs just yet. That, if anything, should be even more reason why competition is necessary. It helps create better products that actually serve the needs of people in those markets, rather than just what Negroponte decides they must want in his top-down manner.
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What are the top 9 essential CSS skills?
According to Acomment.net, the 9 essential CSS skills are: Styling CSS layouts Styilng lists Understanding the box model Typography Forms CSS Frameworks Optimization and best practices CSS hacks and tricks Buttons, boxes and rounded corners This is a great list,...
Baidu Expose Suggests That It's A Lot More Involved In Music Downloads Than It Lets On
More than three years ago, when Chinese search engine Baidu first filed to go public, we noted that it's huge advantage over Google in China appeared to stem from its very popular music download search engine -- and we wondered if going public would force that to go away, potentially damaging the company's bottom line significantly. In fact, we were surprised that it appeared that the investors in the site hadn't done much due diligence to understand what was going on. The recording industry wasted little time in suing Baidu. While Baidu won the first case on a technicality and quickly sued again.
At first, this did seem like a typical situation seen with other online search engines, such as The Pirate Bay or even Google, where it's not really clear how Baidu could stop the searches for unauthorized music. However, a new investigative report by The Register found evidence that suggests Baidu is actually a lot more involved in the music download business than it lets on. Specifically, the search results mostly link to a mysterious network of sites that are only reachable via Baidu searches. You can't just go to the sites directly. The sites themselves have a long (and potentially growing) list of random domain names such that the songs constantly move around, and any time Baidu receives a "takedown" it can claim it complied, while the music almost immediately shows back up on the next domain in the list. Also, Baidu almost never links to other, legitimate, download sites -- preferring to point people to these sites that are unreachable outside of Baidu instead.
All in all, it certainly sounds like Baidu is a lot more involved in providing the actual downloads than it would as just a search engine.
That said, The Register's report includes a variety of unsupported statements about how this has "destroyed" economic activity in the music business. As we've seen, the music business has actually adapted to the expectation that the music itself is free in China. I recognize that it's popular for the RIAA and IFPI to make claims about how downloading is destroying the music industry, but you would think that the Register would know better.
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THAT rapper TI will perform as part of Patrón tequila's "Music in Motion" tour tonight at Marquee . . . THAT "Top Chef" alum Sam Talbot will host a celebrity chef tasting at Michael Sinensky's new eatery, Vintage Irving, on Wednesday . . . THAT...
Top 10: Money meltdown, Ozzie's cloud, security worries
At least those of us who are fans of professional baseball have the playoffs to take our minds off the grim news this week (at least that's the case for fans of the teams that are winning). The U.S. financial system meltdown smacked world markets and set off a whole lot of worry, which tended to overshadow all the other news.
1. The IT worker's Wall Street meltdown worry list and bailout roundup: It seems we've all had more questions than answers in recent weeks about the U.S. financial crisis and slumping global economy. Which financial institutions will melt down next? What will be the effect on the IT industry? Is our money safe? What about our jobs? Answers to such questions as well as a roundup of related news, including numerous stories regarding the likely fallout for IT, can be found at this story link.
[ Special report: IT and the financial crisis ]
2. Microsoft will float cloud OS this month: Microsoft will debut its secretive "Cloud OS" project led by Ray Ozzie at its Professional Developers Conference later this month. Developers will see the APIs (application programming interfaces) and services that are part of the cloud-based application platform, which is code-named Red Dog.
3. AMD says Shanghai won't be another Barcelona: AMD's quad-core Barcelona has not exactly had a smooth ride. First, it was repeatedly delayed. Then, once it finally did hit the market, it suffered a recall when a bug was found in the chip's cache memory -- an error that cost AMD six months. While Barcelona floudered, AMD's chief rival, Intel, seized the opportunity to pick up market share. Well, AMD says the Barcelona errors won't be repeated with its successor, Shanghai, thanks to an overhauled testing process.
4. Apple drops iPhone NDA: Apple took some serious lumps last week when it was revealed that iPhone developers are subject to an unusually strict NDA that essentially banned them from discussing the development process. Naturally, developers didn't take too kindly to this discovery and voiced their opinions to Apple, which responded this week by lifting the controversial sections of the NDA, though it is not yet clear what, if anything, will replace those clauses.
5. Vendors fixing bug that could crash Internet systems: Patches are being developed for a set of security flaws that could be exploited to easily knock servers offline. Technical details of the flaws have not been publicly released, but experts who uncovered them have said the vulnerabilities can knock offline Windows, Linux, firewalls and embedded systems using a denial-of-service attack. In other security news ...
6. Researcher finds evidence of massive site compromise: Criminal gangs have obtained administrative log-in credentials for more than -- sit down -- 200,000 Web sites and have launched attacks from those domains using a hacker exploit kit, according to Ian Amit, director of security research at Aladdin Knowledge Systems. He infiltrated a server of a customer of Neosploit, a hacker tool kit used to carry out exploits on browsers and Web software, and discovered that several hacker groups have contributed to an enormous pool of usernames and passwords for sites.
7. For Microsoft shops, Silverlight 2.0 trumps Flash: Silverlight 2.0 will be released within the next few weeks and is expected to provide developers and Web designers with the first serious alternative to Adobe's popular Flash technology for creating rich Internet applications. While Flash will continue to have plenty of support and has the advantage of being an established, much-used technology, more developers and designers will be drawn to Silverlight with the new release.
8. Security researcher reveals iPhone design flaws: Security researcher Aviv Raff detailed two security problems with Apple's popular handheld. Both flaws are related to the iPhone's e-mail application, prompting Raff to recommend against using the app. Raff said he notified Apple of these issues two months ago and decided to go public after seeing three iPhone updates come and go without addressing the problems.
9. Google proposes $4.4 trillion clean energy plan: Google doesn't have enough on its corporate plate -- the company now aims to decrease U.S. dependence on fossil fuels and push the move to alternative forms of energy as part of a -- gasp! -- $4.4 trillion plan it says will lead to enormous financial savings by 2030 and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 48 percent. Clean Energy 2030 is meant to spur debate about environmental issues, according to Google. "With a new Administration and Congress -- and multiple energy-related imperatives -- this is an opportune, perhaps unprecedented, moment to move from plan to action," the company said.
10. Nokia takes aim at Apple with touch-screen phone: Nokia showed off its first touch-screen phone, the 5800 Xpress Music, which will be released by the end of the year. The phone looks a lot like an iPhone and is expected to offer competition for the popular Apple smartphones. Nokia's touch-screen phone runs on Symbian's Series 60 OS, which the Finnish company said it has modified so that it's more user-friendly.
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Heads They Win, Tails You Lose: For the Beltway Media, Even Democratic Victories Prove the Country i
We usually have to wait until after the Democrats emerge victorious at the polls for the Beltway finger-waggers to begin warning them not to be too ambitious, not to do too much, not to actually follow through on the proposals they presented to the voters. But this year, it's starting early: Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, penned a 3,300- ... (Read on Source)
McCain latches onto false NYT story about Obama inaugural address.
During a campaign rally in New Mexico today, Sen. John McCain attacked Barack Obama for taking a “victory lap” by claiming Obama has “already written” an inaugural address: MCCAIN: You know what? We just learned from a newspaper today that Senator Obama?s inaugural address is already written. You know? I?m not making ... (Read on Source)
Genes That Prevent Changes In Physical Traits Due To Environmental Changes Identified
Biologists have identified genes that prevent physical traits from being affected by environmental changes. The research, which studied the genetic makeup of baker's yeast, appears in the Public Library of Science's journal, PloS Biology.
Full RSS Feed Versus Partial
Within the realm of blogging, there are some arguments that seem to go on forever. Whether or not one should use partial or full RSS feeds happens to be one of those arguments. Those in favor of partial feeds usually argue that this prevents duplicate content from showing up on blogs who scrape their content. Based on previous experience and ... (Read on Source)
Skin deep
Yesterday's post on anomalous developmental paths prompts me to share a remarkable story. My wife has always given me a hard time for "judging people by their looks," and she is no doubt right. I have long admired her own ability to see past superficialities to the central core of a person. I wanted to explore this theme in the novel that became ... (Read on Source)
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Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage
SACRAMENTO — Less than two weeks before Election Day, the chief strategist behind a ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California called an emergency meeting here. (Read on Source)
Installing alpha version of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 in Hardy
Sharing knowledge is fun: "Finally I managed to install the alpha version of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 in my Ubuntu Hardy. It runs nice on my Firefox 3"
I'll Drink To That
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, when the 21st Amendment was ratitfied on Dec. 5, 1933. USA Today reports that celebrations "are planned in San Francisco, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere." (Read on Source)
The Popular On Line Training Programs For Professionals
Training for professionals If you are you an IT professional seeking a job in the IT sector, then you must be aware that you need to be updated with latest in computers, software and technology. Yo...
OneTouch Satisfies Demand for Ultimate Portability with One of the Lightest Massage Tables on the Ma
OneTouch Massage has established itself as a leader in the massage table industry by offering the OneTouch Ultra-Light, a lightweight portable massage table that raises the bar for balancing lightness with strength and quality. Sensitive to the needs of mobile massage therapists, OneTouch strives to achieve the optimum blend of quality, strength, comfort and lightness in portable massage equipment. OneTouch also seeks to reduce the number of work-related injuries for massage therapists by offering products that are ergonomic and mobile-friendly. (PRWeb Dec 24, 2008)
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