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Ask.com Thinks You?re An Idiot

Why does Ask.com think I?m a vapid idiot? If the battle of the search engines was a football game, Jennifer Laycock and I would be sitting in the front row of the bleachers clutching hands, decked out in our favorite Ask.com gear and jumping up and down rooting for our... (Read on Source)



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Ableton debuts Live 6 LE

... Mac and iPod repairs at our Mayfair and Spitalfields shops. 100% Mac focussed broadband, web hosting and FTP solutions. No appointment necessary New FileMaker 9 product line delivers 30 ease-of-use ...


What Is A Penis Enlargement Traction Device? Posted By : Staggerlee Phillips

With all the information available on the Web about penis enlargement devices, which ones are really legit? Particularity, is the Fastsize Extender all it's cracked up to be?


Google adds presentations app to hosted suite (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Google plans to add a presentations application to its Web applications suite on Tuesday, delivering on a promise made in April. The suite, until now known as Docs & Spreadsheets, will also be renamed Google Docs on Monday.


Perfect Acne Medicine Tips For Imperfect People Posted By : Winfred Jennings

Some humans have secretory organs that are cultivating overtime to produce excess oil and this allows bacteria the ultimate situation to thrive and live. Just about all acne skin care products necessitate to work at both aspects of cutting the oil and eliminating the acne.


Is Linux Really Losing Market Share to Windows?

Linux-Watch: "I, for one, think that what IDC is measuring and what server operating systems people are really using are two entirely different things..."


Metaboli Raises 5M to Deploy Digital Tycoon Worldwide

Metaboli announces a new round of fundraising to finance the worldwide deployment of Digital Tycoon, an advanced version of the Metaboli platform, which will enable videogames publishers and distributors to self-manage digital distribution. (PRWeb Apr 2, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/metaboli/digital_tycoon/prweb816834.htm


Antivaccination rhetoric running rampant on the Huffington Post

Antivaccination rhetoric running rampant on the Huffington Post A couple of weeks ago, Arianna Huffington introduced into the blogosphere with great fanfare a new group blog, The Huffington Post, which was going to be populated by various pundits and celebrities who would blog. To me so far it looks like just a standard political punditry website with a bunch of periodic articles by different people. (Heck, ... (Read on Source)


How pick a company spokesman

39 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the most famous person in the world. He was an astronaut, of course, but there were dozens of people who could have done the technical work that Armstrong did. What Armstrong became was a spokesperson for an organization, a nation and a movement. NASA did what many organizations do when picking someone to act ... (Read on Source)


Getting to know Courtney Roby

Getting to know Courtney Roby Pro tenure: Fourth season, first with Colts. Drafted in third round in 2005 by Tennessee. Caught 23 passes in two seasons with Titans. Spent two weeks with Cincinnati last season but did not play. (Read on Source)


Do you really need to know what Business Service Management

Business Service Management is an approach for managing information technology that also covers technology investments of the business to track, monitor, manage and view the investment side of technol...


Salling Media Sync Transfers Music to Your Phone

Salling Media Sync lets users sync music from the their iTunes library to a cellular phone.


PCLinuxOS September 2008 Release

PCLinuxOS Magazine, September 2008 (Issue 25) is available to download


Wade forecasts his future in Miami - ESPN


ESPN

Wade forecasts his future in Miami
ESPN - 1 hour ago
By Chris Sheridan Dwyane Wade is treated like a king in Miami. No reason he wants to leave the Sunshine State. MIAMI -- Two years removed from a championship, two years away from an opportunity to become an unrestricted free agent and currently working ...
Dwyane Wade: Acts as Point Forward Rotowire
Beasley has nice debut Sun-Sentinel.com
Rotoworld.com - Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach Post
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Nobody's dummy

Liberals underestimate Sarah Palin's vitality and -- yes -- smarts at their own peril. Plus: Obama's presidential air, Biden's condescending mugging, feminism's lost sisters. (Read on Source)


Poverty ? The Online Landscape.

Poverty ? The Online Landscape. As part of the Blog Action Day initiative, today I am going to share some insights on the usage of websites representing the humanitarian efforts of the community to help those that find themselves in time of need. The interest in humanitarian efforts are no doubt spiked when major disasters strike, but even so a pattern is well established at ... (Read on Source)


Texas-Oklahoma State leftovers

Texas-Oklahoma State leftovers AUSTIN - Texas quarterback Colt McCoy didn't sound like someone who had just beat a third straight ranked opponent after Saturday's 28-24 nail-biter against Oklahoma State. McCoy wasn't happy with his two second-half turnovers that allowed the Cowboys to stay in the game. "Nobody plays this game perfect," wide receiver Jordan Shipley said. "It's ... (Read on Source)


Sponsorship affords children an opportunity to pursue their dreams, not marriage

A new report details how forced early marriage prevents girls from achieving their full God-given potential. But World Vision sponsorship is making a difference.


Botnet Master Sees Himself as Next Bill Gates

The 19-year-old New Zealand bot-master known as Akill says he sees himself as 'maybe the next Bill Gates.'
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Microsoft May Use 'Kumo' Name for More Than Search (PC World)

PC World - Microsoft has been rumored for some time to be renaming its Live Search "Kumo" in 2009. However, a trademark application the company filed this month suggests Microsoft may use the name for more than just its search engine.


Homeland Security forecasts 5-year threat picture (AP)

AP - The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press.


Homemade Hydrogen Motorcycle Is Ugly, but It Runs

Innovation isn't always pretty.


Make the Most Out of Your Search Marketing Budget ? Attend SMX Search Analytics

Learn how to best demonstrate the value of SEO. Get tips on comparing the effectiveness of creative, landing pages and other elements of your PPC campaign. You?ll hear all of this and more at Search Marketing Expo - SMX Search Analytics, March 31 ? April 1 at the Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre in Toronto. Join us [...] (Read on Source)


Microsoft won't let companies host Azure on premise

Microsoft has no plans to let businesses license and host its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure on their own premises, the company said this week.

The Azure cloud-computing infrastructure consists of several services, including database, OS and application-development services, that run in the cloud. There was some talk that Microsoft would let businesses take these services, or potentially the entire Azure infrastructure, and host them on their own IT networks.

[ Related: "Microsoft opens Azure to PHP developers" and "Microsoft refreshes Azure tools." ]

However, Microsoft said this week, both in an e-mail through its public-relations firm and in a company blog posting, that it plans at this point only to let businesses use Azure running on Microsoft's own datacenters.

"We don't envision something on our price list called 'Windows Azure' that is sold for on-premises deployment," according to a blog post attributed to Steven Martin, a Microsoft senior director. The reason for this decision is that Microsoft plans to make what it calls "innovations" it develops for Azure available through its Windows Server and System Center products, he wrote.

Windows Azure is an extension to the Windows Server code base, for which Microsoft is building "a ton of new IP" to create the cloud-computing infrastructure, according to the blog post. That intellectual property is being shared with the Windows Server code base, and eventually "will land in our premises technology, including Windows Server and System Center," Martin wrote.

Azure, introduced last October at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, is Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructure on which companies can develop and host applications. It is currently only available in a test release, which Microsoft calls a Community Technology Preview. Some early adopters are already building and running applications on Azure, which suffered an outage recently that Microsoft blamed on a routine OS upgrade.

Microsoft has not officially given a firm date for when Azure will be generally available. However, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a group of financial analysts last month that the company plans to make the infrastructure generally available by November at this year's PDC.

All of that said, Microsoft did give itself an out in case it decides in the future to change its mind on letting companies license Azure. In an e-mail, Microsoft said it will "continue to collect feedback from the community and take these learnings into consideration as the Windows Azure product roadmap is developed and planned," so the company has room to revise its position on allowing the on-premise hosting of Azure in the future.




New Google AdWords Beta Expands Internationally

Google launched limited beta testing of a new AdWords campaign management interface back in November. At first it was only available to a limited number of US advertisers. Now the company has expanded the testing to more US advertisers as well as advertisers in the UK and Australia.

Furthermore, the beta is available in more languages now. They include Spanish, Japanese, French, and Brazilian Portuguese. Emel Mutlu of the Inside AdWords Crew shares some info about the new features: 

- Performance graphs: Spot trends over time with custom graphs on every campaign management page.

- Insight across ad groups: Focus on the high-impact areas of your account with new roll-up tabs on every page. You can see and edit keywords, placements or ads from all ad groups on a single tab.

- In-line editing: Want to change a keyword or bid? Click on it and make changes in-line instead of loading a separate page.

- Easier content network management: Improve content network performance through a new Networks tab. Look at statistics for the placements where your ads have appeared, and then take action by setting unique bids or excluding placements directly from the report.

Mutlu asks advertisers to keep in mind that the new interface doesn't affect how ads run, and that bidding, ranking, quality score, etc. will not change just because the interface is changing.

There are more videos looking at the new interface features here. There is also a nice resource center with a how-to guide, a help center, a changes overview PDF, and more.


12 million new IP addresses hijacked by botnets

Help Net Security: "Today the McAfee first quarter threat report revealed that cybercriminals have taken control of almost 12 million new IP addresses since January, a 50 percent increase since 2008."
Again, no mention of vulnerable platforms, even though only Windows vulnerabilities are named-- ed.


Ire Over a Columnist, an Author of Torture Memos

When The Philadelphia Inquirer hired as its new opinion columnist John C. Yoo, an author of the Bush administration’s widely criticized legal memos on harsh interrogation techniques, it was probably inevitable that the decision would draw complaints. (Read on Source)


Mixup forces Rays to bat Sonnanstine - MLB.com


Boston Globe

Mixup forces Rays to bat Sonnanstine
MLB.com
By Bill Chastain / MLB.com ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays had a lineup card mixup in the first inning of Sunday's game that cost the team its designated hitter.
Rays lead Indians, 7-5; Francisco hits pair of homers for Tribe The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Lineup card error forces Rays' pitcher to hit The Associated Press
Rotoworld.com - Bradenton Herald - Indians.com - Waiting For Next Year
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The UAW Has A Long Memory

The U.A.W., now a major GM shareholder, has delivered its final punishment to those auto workers who dared move to Spring Hill, Tennessee and show up the rest of the union by building reliable car without Wagner-style work rules. GM's new small car will be made in Michigan, and the Spring Hill plant will close . .... P.S.: Nikke Finke has a ... (Read on Source)