Gordon Brown is facing a revolt by cabinet ministers who are demanding a free vote over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, claiming that the ethical issues raised are matters of conscience Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 11:07 pm
Colin Blakemore: Does anyone else have the feeling that the world has become a bit apocalyptic? Melting icecap; pandemic flu; oil running out; human-animal hybrid embryos. These are the daily stuff of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 11:07 pm
dgan brings us a NYTimes piece about the development of speech recognition for common gadgets. Companies such as Vlingo and Yap are marketing their software to cellular carriers to give consumers a hands-free option for tasks like finding directions and text messaging. Quoting: "Vlingo's service lets people talk naturally, rather than making them use a limited number of set phrases. Dave Grannan, the company's chief executive, demonstrated the Vlingo Find application by asking his phone for a song by Mississippi John Hurt (try typing that with your thumbs), for the location of a local bakery and for a Web search for a consumer product. It was all fast and efficient. Vlingo is designed to adapt to the voice of its primary user, but I was also able to use Mr. Grannan's phone to find an address. The Find application is in the beta test phase at AT&T and Sprint. Consumers who use certain cellphones from those companies can download the application from vlingo.com."
Amazon announced in a press release today their plans to sell DRM-free music worldwide through the Amazon MP3 store beginning later this year. This news is being viewed by some as the latest volley in Amazon's digital music sales war with Apple's iTunes. Since Amazon has completed its plans to offer DRM-free music from all four major record labels (most recently, Sony and Warner), the global availability of the MP3s can only be excellent news for customers.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion has leapt into the retail consumer market with products such as its pink BlackBerry Pearl, a candybar-shaped e-mail phone stuffed with multimedia... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 3:04 pm
By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jan. 27--OROVILLE -- Judy McInturf is making a list of the sick and the dead. On it are old friends, her son's former co-worker, her daughter's friend, family acquaintances, their adult children. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Mike Higgins Safari Future Travel Anyone who has been on safari in an African game park knows the problem: word goes out that a leopard has been spotted feasting on a springbok, and the next thing you know every Land Rover within 25 miles turns up. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Al Jones, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Jan. 27--It's hard to believe the Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo has shifted operations from Gulfport to Biloxi. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Gwen Fowler, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Jan. 27--Taxpayers in Horry County need a voice just as powerful as that of developers, Pam Creech says. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Paul Burgarino LATHROP -- The city is planning to take over a piece of land -- by eminent domain if necessary -- in an eastern section of town to build a sewer pumping station to cater to future industrial development. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Lois Henry, The Bakersfield Californian Jan. 27--I want a river. I want a river so bad I can taste it. You can tell me all day long how much more beneficial it is to carve the Kern River into a Hydra of canals and ditches that help sustain our ag economy. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By R. Scott Rappold, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Jan. 27--A foreign invader that's made its way into Colorado for the first time has raised concerns for water supplies in the Pikes Peak region, and officials worry the scourge is heading west. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Bob Hood, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Jan. 27--Reports from many reservoirs indicate the stage is being set for another good sand bass spawning run this year. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Rachel Hatzipanagos, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jan. 27--OCEAN RIDGE -- The Palm Beach County sand transfer plant, called the "oldest transfer plant in the world" by some accounts, is to be replaced. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Nick Walter, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Jan. 27--ny inshore fishing seminar that's worth listening to will mention one word at least once -- structure. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 27 Jan 2008 | 2:00 pm
coondoggie brings us a NetworkWorld report discussing iRobot's plans to include Laser Radar technology in their military robots. Quoting: "Specifically the robot-maker is licensing Advanced Scientific Concepts' 3-D flash Ladar which uses laser beams to scan and process targets. The system has the ability to create a virtual 3D picture of an entire area. IRobot ... believes the technology will provide new navigation and mapping capabilities for future generations of robots and unmanned ground vehicles and pave the way for autonomous vehicles to lead convoys into dangerous territory, search contaminated buildings for casualties, or enable bomb squads to safely investigate suspicious objects."
Spotted on Yanko Design from the Chocolate Agency , the P-Per; a concept mobile phone to satisfy both environmentalists and tech nerds. "The design consists of just 4 layers, a printed circuit... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 1:06 pm
Tokonamu sends a note about the release to a private testing group of a new build of Windows Vista SP1, possibly presaging the imminent release of the long-awaited service pack. Speculation about a Feb. 15 release date has been fueled by a report out of Taiwan, according to the article. Microsoft also issued a new build of Windows XP SP3 this week, but it's getting next to no publicity out of Redmond, what with XP being the main competition for Vista and all.
A top state-run science college in South Korea has forged a research partnership with the U.S. space agency NASA, the school said Sunday. The development comes as the Asian nation seeks Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 12:44 pm
Will Price of Hummer Winblad has a good post on how to navigate the coming economic downturn . He accurately describes what happened in 2001 and 2002: Valuations seemed absurd in retrospect, companies... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 12:36 pm
A German software engineer has been honoured by the National Museum of Computing for deciphering an encrypted radio message faster than Colossus, the British Second World War... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 12:31 pm
I am so pleased to watch Barack and Hillary compete to win the hearts and minds of the democratic voter (and me). Barack said last night in his victory speech : After four great contests in every... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 12:11 pm
A cell phone safety tip: Never, ever answer a cell phone while it is being charged. Specially if you live in Gahna - where I'm hoping this deathly accident occured because safety norms are different... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 11:47 am
German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom said on Saturday it had signed up 70,000 iPhone customers in the 11 weeks since November 9, 2007. French operator France Telecom said on January 10 it had sold... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 11:43 am
Maria Sharapova powered her way to a first Australian Open title with an impressive straight sets victory over Ana Ivanovic - and revealed a text from legend Billie Jean King had inspired her to glory.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 11:14 am
Andrew Malcovsky, an American trained in Slavic languages, is translating the works of the great Czech writer Karel Capek into English. Capek's RUR gave us the word "robot" and has been widely translated, but many of his shorter, lesser-known works are not available in English.
His Final Affairs
The tram clanks and rattles its way uphill towards the Olšanský cemetery.
"Look," a short little man says to a younger chap in a rabbit-fur coat, "Something's being built there; it will be a school or maybe a cinema. You know, I'm really glad I got to see him one last time. 'It's you,' he said. I don't think it really helped him much, but a man must show his friendship. 'I've come again,' I told him, 'but you'll be running off already,' I say, and meanwhile--"
The young chap in the fur coat nodded his head mournfully.
"I took the medal with me, so he would be happy," the little man continued, "and he said, 'My God, is it you?' You see, he recognized me. And I told him, 'Jozef, it will pass.' And he says: "Maňička, give me some of those giblets.' So she gave them to him, and he only took two bites, just pecked at them, but he didn't eat a thing. 'Maňička, give me some of those giblets," the man repeated, touched.
Andrew Malcovsky, an American trained in Slavic languages, is translating the works of the great Czech writer Karel Capek into English. Capek's RUR gave us the word "robot" and has been widely translated,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 10:52 am
Whatever became of the Cleveland death ray that Modern Mechanix reported on in the September, 1934? Suppressed by the gubmint! REPORTED to have tremendous military possibilities, a successful death... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 10:44 am
Whatever became of the Cleveland death ray that Modern Mechanix reported on in the September, 1934? Suppressed by the gubmint!
REPORTED to have tremendous military possibilities, a successful death ray machine is said to have been invented, after lengthy experiments, by a Cleveland scientist.
A partial description of the machine’s construction and operating principles was recently offered at a session of the National Inventors’ Congress at Omaha, Nebraska.
Privileged witnesses to demonstrations of the machine declared that experiments were successful to a startling degree. Dogs, cats and rabbits were killed instantly, their blood turning to water as the ray was turned upon them. It is reported that the machine has been suppressed by the government until such time as it may be needed as a defensive weapon.
A revamped online file-sharing service aims to woo legions of music fans by offering unlimited, free song downloads that are compatible with iPods, and all with the blessing of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 9:53 am
E5Rebel sends in an article from Computerworld.uk article that reports: "IBM believes Linux on the enterprise desktop is finally ready for widespread adoption. To meet future demand it is preparing to deliver its next versions of Lotus Notes enterprise collaboration software and Lotus Symphony office productivity applications for the first time with full support for Ubuntu Linux 7.0... The Ubuntu support for Notes and Symphony were a direct response to demand from customers."
A revamped online file-sharing service aims to woo legions of music fans by offering unlimited, free song downloads that are compatible with iPods, and all with the blessing of major... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:57 am
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels over the years, a shot of a sensationalist newspaper headline displayed outside a shop near my first flat in London. The paper is the Camden Chronicle, whose headlines often included the word "pervert" or reference to some kind of slaughter, beheading or similar. London newspapers are locked in a kind of hypercompetitive fever that leads them to ever-greater excesses of giveaways, gimmicks, and catchy headlines. For some reason, I assumed at first that the signs bearing the day's headlines were hand-lettered by each newsagent, mentally explaining away the eerie similarity in handwriting by inventing an exhaustive newsagent's training program (similar to the gruelling years-long training undertaken by London's Black Cab drivers). Later, my friend Danny O'Brien clued me in -- the newspaper prints the "hand-lettered" signs and ships them out to all the vendors with the day's papers.
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Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels over the years, a shot of a sensationalist newspaper headline displayed outside a shop near my first flat in London. The paper is the Camden Chronicle,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:43 am
Alpha is a 20-student, 10-day intensive science fiction and fantasy writing workshop for teenagers from 14-19, run on principles similar to those at the Clarion workshops. It looks like a hell of an experience, the kind of thing I'd have given an arm to attend when I was a teenager -- this year's instructors are Tamora Pierce, Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Arnzen and Christopher McKitterick. The submission deadline is March 1.
Learn about writing and publishing. Meet other teens who share your interest in writing speculative fiction. Talk about short stories, novels, and films. Have your submission story critiqued. Brainstorm new story ideas, write a first draft, receive feedback, and rewrite. Attend readings by the authors. Do a public reading. Learn about submitting for publication, and send off your story at our manuscript mailing party.
Finally, at the conclusion of the workshop, attend Confluence, Pittsburgh's annual, literature-based convention, where you will have the opportunity to attend panels and readings, and interact with other fans, authors, editors, musicians, artists, agents, and scientists.
2008 will be Alpha's seventh year. Previous attendees placed in the Dell Magazines Award and Writer's of the Future contests, and have sold stories to Boys’ Life, Realms of Fantasy, Fantasy Magazine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Fantastic Stories, Corpse Blossoms, Aberrant Dreams, and Fantastical Visions.
Alpha is a 20-student, 10-day intensive science fiction and fantasy writing workshop for teenagers from 14-19, run on principles similar to those at the Clarion workshops. It looks like a hell of an experience,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:38 am
Check out these haunting and beautiful photos and video of the abandoned Namibian town of Kolmanskop, a ghost-town that is turning back into sand-dunes.
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, Luederitz was plunged into diamond fever and people rushed into the Namib desert hoping to make an easy fortune. Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, was established in the barren sandy desert.
But shortly after the drop in diamond sales after the First World War, the beginning of the end started. During the 1950's the town was deserted and the dunes began to reclaim what was always theirs.
I'm awfully fond of this proposed t-shirt design from Design By Humans's Reyyy, entitled "Mecha Naga Buddha." The artist sez, "It's our friend Buddha, mechanized, surrounded by the seven-headed Naga serpent."
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The RPM Challenge begins on February 1 -- just a few days off -- and all over the web, musicians will work to produce an entire album in just one month. This is the music version of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and inpsires the same passion and creativity. I've had numerous writing students who participated in NaNoWriMo and used it as a way to surgically burn away their self-doubt, destructive reliance on "inspiration," and cherished illusions about the process of writing, acquiring in a mere month the kind of discipline that often takes writers many hard years to arrive at.
The rules of RPM Challenge are simple: write and record 10 songs, or 35 minutes' worth of material, in the 29 days of February, using anything and anyone you can shanghai into your project. Last year, over 850 records emerged from the competition. The RPM site will connect you with other challengers and let you offer support to one another as you go.
This is the challenge: record an album in 29 days, just because you can.
That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. Go ahead… put it to tape.
Don't wait for inspiration - taking action puts you in a position to get inspired. You'll stumble across ideas you would have never come up with otherwise, and maybe only because you were trying to meet a day’s quota of (song)writing. Show up and get something done, and invest in yourself and each other.
Anyone can come up with an excuse to say “no,” so don’t.
Wired has a tasty infographic showing what happens to a blog-post after you click "publish" -- all the scrapers, bots, ad-servers, splogs and bloggers who read and process it.
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(via YPulse)
The Canadian National Post looks on with mild horror as American linguists report on the growing trend in the American south to use "Canadian" as a masking euphemism for black people, so that white racists can say socially inappropriate things without tipping listeners off about the cancer in their souls.
Last August, a blogger in Cincinnati going by the name CincyBlurg reported that a black friend from the southeastern U.S. had recently discovered that she was being called a Canadian. "She told me a story of when she was working in a shop in the South and she overheard some of her customers complaining that they were always waited on by a Canadian at that place. She didn't understand what they were talking about and assumed they must be talking about someone else," the blogger wrote.
"After this happened several times with different patrons, she mentioned it to one of her co-workers. He told her that ‘Canadian' was the new derogatory term that racist Southerners were using to describe persons they would have previously referred to [with the N-word.]"
A similar case in Kansas City was reported last year on a Listserv, or electronic mailing list, used by linguistics experts. A University of Kansas linguist said that a waitress friend reported that "fellow workers used to use a name for inner-city families that were known to not leave a tip: Canadians. ‘Hey, we have a table of Canadians.... They're all yours.' "
By Cassie Tarpley, The Shelby Star, N.C. Jan. 27--SHELBY -- The Salvation Army is doing the most good with the help of generous Cleveland County people. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous Who Network Rail What Internal communications campaign Why To raise awareness of health and safety Few jobs can be as dangerous as a railway maintenance-just ask Network Rail. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
By DR. JOBS Q AN old colleague is trying to headhunt me for his new firm through Facebook but I'm worried that my present boss might find out. What should I do? - Iain, Stirling. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
By Twentyman, Jessica Marketing ONLY HALF OF all UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a marketing budget, according to a 2007 survey by Loudhouse. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Henry Ian Cusick reveals Scotland was a shock after globetrotting childhood GET THE LOOK Mailfashion Travel 20 pages of great escapes from Mull to the Maldives PLUS 15-PAGE TV GUIDE MUSIC AND MOVIES (c) 2008 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK). Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous Founder, Influence Because... * She's hit upon a way of combining two monster sectors-online social networking and business women's networks. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
By Coleman, Claire The internet is a powerful medium. One negative comment on a blog and your brand could be ruined in minutes. But there is help at hand. Claire Coleman talks to some of the PR companies offering online reputation management. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
By Thompson, Bernie The use of CAN and other network protocols is growing rapidly, as vehicles incorporate complex networks to control everything from convenience to safety systems. When problems develop (they always do), your understanding of these systems will be essential. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
By Crush, Peter The Wikinomics principle is coming to a website near you. Peter Crush speaks to Linkedln's marketing director, Patrick Crane, about how global connectivity will be the activity of 2008 Forget Facebook; it is so 2007. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Facebook users, angry at being turned into junk-mail senders, prompt a change. WHILE playing around recently with Facebook's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
WASHINGTON A disabled American spy satellite is rapidly descending and is likely to plunge to Earth by late February or early March, posing a potential danger from its debris, officials said Saturday.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 6:37 am
A large US spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth late next month or in March, US government officials have said. The satellite, which can... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 6:33 am
An anonymous reader suggests we go over to Slyck for news that The Pirate Bay has cracked 10 million users. The publicity from the upcoming court case probably helped. "Today, The Pirate Bay asserts itself as the self-proclaimed 'World's Largest Tracker' by topping over 10 million peers, while managing over 1 million torrents. Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay told Slyck, 'We're very happy to be part of all of this and we hope our users keep sharing those files!... And we're looking to break 20 million as well.'"
HAIFA, Israel, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT) announced that it has been awarded a contract from the Netherlands MoD for the supply... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 27 Jan 2008 | 5:07 am
QTrax announces deals with all the major music labels and publishers to offer the first free and legal ad-supported P2P service to include major label music.
Microsoft CRM recommends a long AP article laying out the nightmare scenario of RFID chips in everything tracking not only things but people. The darker possibilities of a technology capable of enabling ubiquitous surveillance are not news to this community, but it's not so common to see them spelled out for a wider audience. "Microchips with antennas embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer items and consumers wherever they go. Much of the radio frequency identification technology that enables objects and people to be tagged and tracked wirelessly already exists and potentially intrusive uses of it are being patented, perfected and deployed... [A director at FTI Consulting] said:] 'It's going to be used in unintended ways by third parties — not just the government, but private investigators, marketers, lawyers building a case against you.'"
Senator Barack Obama sweeps to victory in South Carolina in the state's presidential primary, with the networks projecting he will win by a large margin.
An anonymous reader tips us to a note up on the IPKat blog, written by one of the four law-professor types behind that venture. The British High Court has ruled on appeal that the UK Patent Office must not reject software patent applications out of hand, as it has been doing for some time now. "In a surprising (to this Kat at least) turn of events, the Honourable Mr Justice Kitchin has ruled today that the current UK Patent Office practice of flatly rejecting patent claims to computer program products is wrong... Kitchin J found that the appeals should be allowed. Each application concerned a computer related invention where the examiner had allowed claims to, in effect, a method performed by running a suitably programmed computer and to a computer programmed to carry out the method... The cases were remitted to the [UK Intellectual Property Office] for further consideration in light of the judgment."
A large U.S. spy satellite loses power and can no longer be controlled. Governmental officials say the satellite, which could contain hazardous materials, could hit the Earth in late February or early March.
EDMONTON - As they say in the FIRST LEGO League world championships: 3, 2, 1 LEGO! About three dozen teams of children between the ages of 9 and 14 carefully manoeuvred the robots... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:31 pm
Police are to examine internet footage of a man driving at almost double the motorway speed limit, it has emerged. The video shows the driver apparently taking his car... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:28 pm
dnormant, among other readers, sent us word that a US spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in late February or March. Government officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is classified as secret. None of the coverage speculates on how big the satellite is, but Wikipedia claims that US spy satellites in the KH-11 class, launched up to the mid-90s, are about the size of the Hubble — which is 13 meters long and weighs over 11,000 kg. "The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it might come down... A senior government official said that lawmakers and other nations are being kept apprised of the situation."
Google says it will work to make it less lucrative to tie up millions of Internet addresses using a loophole in a practice known as domain-name tasting. It plans to keep those domain names from legitimate individuals and businesses.
A new website is offering people the chance to plan their perfect funeral. Users of yourdeathwish.com create their own webpage listing their final requests, from the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:28 pm
hephaist0s writes "The 2008 RPM Challenge — to write and record an original album in February, just because you can — is about to begin. Hundreds of musicians from around the world have already signed up. Last year, more than 850 albums were recorded as part of the challenge, a testament to what can be done by independent musicians without a label, without the RIAA, and often without a professional studio. The efforts ranged from an album made entirely on a Nintendo Game Boy to a Speed Racer rock opera, produced by both experienced bands and novice musicians, often in continent-spanning online collaborations. Last year's challenge generated one of the largest free jukeboxes of original music available online, built to stream on-demand all 8500-plus original, artist-owned songs. Imagine if grassroots, independent systems like this foretold the future of recorded music and its distribution."
FOR anyone touring the Galpagos Islands, it is hard to imagine the globes first World Heritage Site is at risk. The marine reserve is populated with sea turtles and humpback whales, and the national parks... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:36 pm
A SEA change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isnt oil. Its meat. The two... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:36 pm
GERSHOM MUGIRA COMES from a long line of cattle-keepers. His people, the Bahima, are thought to have migrated into the hilly grasslands of western Uganda more than a thousand years ago, alongside a hardy... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:36 pm
Radio frequency identification technology, which enables objects, pets and people to be tagged and tracked wirelessly, is likely to be ubiquitous in the not-so-distant future. Almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of corporations and governments.
Radio frequency identification technology, which enables objects, pets and people to be tagged and tracked wirelessly, is likely to be ubiquitous in the not-so-distant future. Almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of corporations and governments.
Consumers using standard messaging technology can rest assured that their texts are not stored long term. The sexually explicit text-message chat between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide that came to light used a paging technology more akin to e-mail.
Consumers using standard messaging technology can rest assured that their texts are not stored long term. The sexually explicit text-message chat between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide that came to light used a paging technology more akin to e-mail.
Here's a vision of the not-so-distant future: --Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Jan 2008 | 5:19 pm
His Final Affairs
REPORTED to have tremendous military possibilities, a successful death ray machine is said to have been invented, after lengthy experiments, by a Cleveland scientist.
