Classic FM parent GCap Media is set to scale back its investment in digital radio under a radical cost-cutting programme, according to reports. The turnaround plan for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:16 am
Ponca City, We Love You writes "NASA announced last week that members of the general public will have a chance to suggest a new name for the cutting edge Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, otherwise known as GLAST, before it launches in mid-2008. NASA wants a name that will capture the excitement of GLAST's mission and call attention to gamma-ray and high-energy astronomy. 'We are looking for something memorable to commemorate this spectacular new astronomy mission,' said Alan Stern, associate administrator for Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. 'We hope someone will come up with a name that is catchy, easy to say and will help make the satellite and its mission a topic of dinner table and classroom discussion.' The period for submitting names closes on March 31, 2008. Participants must include a statement of 25 words or less about why their suggestion would be a strong name for the mission."
Nokia has developed software that allows data to be received from GPS enabled phones, which is then compiled and interpreted into traffic flow patterns. The plans are currently at concept stage, with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 9:09 am
BARCELONA (Reuters) - After forcing Europe's mobile operators to cut rates for making and receiving phone calls abroad, the European Union's top telecoms regulator has set her sights on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 9:08 am
A surgical robot aimed at simplifying hip operations is being trialled in Britain. The robot could eventually replace traditional techniques for carrying out complex... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:37 am
NASA scrambled to rearrange the flight plan for the 10 astronauts aboard the linked shuttle and space station Sunday after their main job _ installing the Columbus lab _ was delayed a day Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:32 am
By Steve Cahalan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Feb. 10--Dan and Robin Kohls plan to open their second area Snap Fitness center in mid-April in the former Hunter's Mid-Town convenience store at 234 N. Leonard St. in West Salem, Wis. Dan Kohls said he and his wife are leasing the building. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Lisa Sink, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 10--It was a relatively small project: renovating 5,300 square feet inside Hunzinger Construction's Brookfield headquarters to add more work stations and replace the heating and ventilation system. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Stanley Miller Ii, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 10--SHORTLY AFTER MEETING SOMEONE NEW -- especially someone interesting -- it's only natural to extend some kind of online link through a social networking site. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Feb. 10--Afternoon snow, followed by gusty winds and bitter cold created difficult driving conditions throughout the Coulee Region on Saturday. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Dr. Frank Dixon, an immunologist who pioneered the use of radiolabeling in molecular biology, who was among the first to explain how autoimmune diseases worked and who founded the Scripps Research Institute... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Its board reportedly will say that the $44.6-billion offer is too low. Analysts see merit to that argument, but also wonder if it's a negotiating ploy. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The firm is back to its aggressive ways in its Yahoo bid. But the real fight is with Google, and it's the underdog. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Think of Propertyroom, which has deals with more than 1,200 agencies, as your personal, legal fence. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
With neurologists' help, political consultants can track exactly what audiences will respond to, and how. But it's far from an exact science. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The Washington Post Co.'s latest online venture targets a black audience, drawing from its own media properties but linking to too little else. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
For entrepreneur Sandeep Sood, the misunderstandings of two worlds are fodder for his cartoon strip. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The Knife writes "Amazon secretly canceled orders for a large jazz CD set after realizing that it had mis-priced the item at $31 instead of its MSRP of $499. At first, inventory shortages caused the online merchant to string customers along for over a month after they placed their orders. But when Amazon realized that the box set was under-priced by $470, it simply erased all records of customers' order in their account history. No emails were sent to customers informing them of the price change or of the order cancellation. Probably because it violates Amazon's highly publicized price guarantee policy. A customer who called to complain and request the CD set at the $31 price was given a $20 discount off of his next Amazon order." A caveat: there is no external confirmation that Amazon did what is claimed here.
China has lost about one tenth of its forest resources to recent snow storms regarded as the most severe in half a century, state media reported Sunday. A total of 17.3... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 7:03 am
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to another district in Bangladesh despite efforts by authorities to contain it, taking the number of affected districts to 40, officials said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 6:27 am
Q: Whats the difference between Silicon Valley and yogurt? A: Yogurt has culture. Maybe this isnt so true anymore. I did a video interview for a new blog that I predict youll find very interesting, Its... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 6:27 am
Breaking cover from my paternity leave again with an important bit of news: Neil Gaiman's publisher HarperCollins have given him the green light to do a free (as in beer) web-release of one of his books and Neil's running a poll to see which one he should put online -- go vote! They'll leave it up for a month and track sales -- if the experiment succeeds, they'll do more.
What I want you to do is think -- not about which of the books below is your favourite, but if you were giving one away to a friend who had never read anything of mine, what would it be? Where would you want them to start?
Breaking cover from my paternity leave again with an important bit of news: Neil Gaiman's publisher HarperCollins have given him the green light to do a free (as in beer) web-release of one of his books... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 6:16 am
The Minneapolis Star Tribune cautiously expressed optimism at US Internet's network: When I spoke to the editorial writer--I'm quoted briefly in this unsigned piece--about Minneapolis, I stressed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:50 am
The Environment Agency has recorded a "gradual" but marked decline in the numbers of wildlife and fish in a Devon river. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
At first glance, the proposal to open up the private land around our coasts to public access looks like a vote winner. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By EMILY KLEIN News You can use The Jo Daviess County Board meeting on two proposed dairy farms will be at 7 p.m. Monday on the third floor of the Jo Daviess County Courthouse, 330 N. Bench St, Galena, Ill. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Feb. 9--Interstate 90 over Snoqualmire Pass could be reopened by later tonight if state Department of Transportation crews continue to make progress in avalanche control on the snow-buried pass, officials said today. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Marshall Brain Every day, the average American creates 4 to 5 pounds of trash. That's more than half a ton per person per year. If a million people live in your city, it's more than a billion pounds of trash per year city-wide. And we don't really think about it. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Scotland's countryside and the wildlife that relies on it is at a crucial crossroads, MSPs have been told. Farmers, crofters and environmentalists joined forces in the Scottish Environment Week event at Holyrood to call for the best use to be made of rural development funding. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Tot Findlay Bain has amazed family and doctors with his speedy recovery weeks after open-heart surgery. Mum Donna is full of praise for medical staff. Page 8 (c) 2008 Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
A school has subscribed to an anti-plagiarism software in a bid to maintain the integrity of its exams. Taunton School, in West Somerset, has signed up to Turn ItIn, a search engine-based program, as part of its International Baccalaureate course. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
A Marine who police said traveled from North Carolina to Pittsburgh to marry 13-year-old he met on the Internet waived a preliminary hearing Friday. Lance Cpl. Johnathan M. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Many of the proposals for a series of "eco-towns" could destroy wildlife and the environment, the Wildlife Trusts said yesterday. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Esther Schindler sends a note about two journalists for very different publications (herself one of them) urging IBM to open-source, not all of OS/2 — they've consistently refused to do that — but instead one of its most powerful features: SOM, the System Object Model. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes at desktoplinux.com, "IBM, I'm told by developers who should know, still has all of SOM's source code and it all belongs to IBM. It's because IBM doesn't have all the code for OS/2 and some of it belongs to Microsoft that IBM open-sourcing OS/2 has proven to be a futile hope." And Esther Schindler takes the developer angle in a blog post at CIO.com: "Could the open-source community use a library packaging technology that enables languages to share class libraries regardless of the language an application was written in? I dare say it could, especially since the code to accomplish that goal was written (and shelved) more than ten years ago. All it takes to make that code available is to ask IBM to release SOM and DSOM as open-source." What are the business issues that would convince IBM to assent?
Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, a person familiar with the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 4:36 am
The buyer in any public-public merger generally sees a stock price hit - they’re offering a premium over what the market thinks the seller is worth, and the market takes that out of the buyer’s... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 4:36 am
Tis the season for deal speculation, with Tom Foremski quoting sources who say that Salesforce has approached Oracle “to gauge if there is any interest in a sale at $75 a share.” If Oracle... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 3:27 am
Moody offers a different way to categorize your music collection. Using color-coded tagging, this app lets you categorize your iTunes music based on the "mood" of the song. Horizontally, the scale... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 2:32 am
vortex2.71 sends us to the Seattle Times for an account of two studies published in the prestigious journal Science pointing to the conclusion that almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these "green" fuels are taken into account. "The benefits of biofuels have come under increasing attack in recent months, as scientists took a closer look at the global environmental cost of their production. These plant-based fuels were originally billed as better than fossil fuels because the carbon released when they were burned was balanced by the carbon absorbed when the plants grew. But that equation proved overly simplistic because the process of turning plants into fuels causes its own emissions — for refining and transport, for example. These studies... for the first time take a detailed, comprehensive look at the emissions effects of the huge amount of natural land that is being converted to cropland globally to support biofuels development."
Computerworld had a review up Friday on the latest build of Apple’s Safari browser, the development version “WebKit” . Like Firefox builds these are evaluation/ testing builds so can... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 2:12 am
By Matthew Spina An Erie County lawmaker Thursday called for a state comptroller's inquiry into the development of a statewide wireless network for emergency responders. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Feb 2008 | 2:00 am
Reports are circulating that a tentative deal has been reached in the WGA strike. Snip from NYT: The agreement would let writers claim to have bettered a similar deal achieved last month between... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 1:55 am
The agreement would let writers claim to have bettered a similar deal achieved last month between the production companies and the Directors Guild of America. In the third year of the Writers Guild deal, writers will be paid a percentage of the distributor’s revenue rather than the flat fee for Web-streamed television shows granted to the directors. The writers had insisted on this issue to ensure they not lose out on any new-media windfall the studios and networks may get from Web video. The producers yielded on this point — and the directors did not push it —arguing that Internet distribution is unlikely to become a significant business during the length of these contracts.
In their message to members, [Michael Winship, president of WGA East,] and [Writers Guild of America West President Patric Verrone] focused on the WGA's contract gains, which include the studios' agreement to pay a percentage of distributors' gross on streamed online product in the third year of the deal; writers will receive a flat fee of $1,200 for the first two years, for content that airs after the promotional periods.
(TrendHunter.com) This is how you solve a problem artistically. Instead of banning chewing gum (hello Singapore, 1992-2004), Hubba Bubba collaborated with DDB advertising, Sydney to tackle the problem... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 1:49 am
When I first heard the news yesterday, that Sheridan College had been locked down because of a gunman, I felt chills run up my spine. Someone from my work had just been sent over to the school to talk about sales, and back at my office we were all concerned. Thankfully it was reported later in the day that there was no attack. Today, however, it's been revealed that the gun sighting that caused a professor to call in the emergency and the subsequent police lockdown was actually... a camera tripod sighting.
And apparently, they're intended for kitty titties. Snip from Instructables:
This instructable will teach you how to make pasties with LED nipples. Obviously this is information you need to succeed in life! First of all, thank you to clamoringfor the original instructable! I followed her instructions to form the pasties, but made a few adjustments to add the LEDs. :D The pasties are so simple to make that I figured it would be nice to add something else - hence the LED "nipples."
Details are emerging on the deal between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. John Scott Lewinski provides links to the numbers.
They have been the pin-up boys of the moral right for decades: prairie vole males look after babies, build nests, stick to one partner - and make ideal models for humans Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 12:56 am
Computer users have been warned to be suspicious of seductive emails that appear to promise undying love but in fact carry the cyber equivalent of a sexually transmitted disease Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 12:34 am
QUALICUM BEACH, British Columbia, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- No matter how the markets behave, winning investors know that sticking to a proven plan is essential.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Feb 2008 | 12:23 am
Oh, Not Now writes "Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12, mere hours old, is vulnerable by default to a directory traversal trick, via the view-source mechanism. Although mitigated by the NoScript plug-in, this is quite a serious bug — the default installation is vulnerable from the get-go."
PENIPE, Ecuador (Reuters) - Transito Gavilanez, a 70-year-old Ecuadorean farmer, has lived in and out of shelters since the "Throat of Fire" volcano began nine years ago to roar and spit... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Feb 2008 | 11:23 pm
House leaders send a letter to fellow lawmakers saying they strenuously oppose handing amnesty to telecom companies that helped the government's secret, warrantless wiretapping program.
A new strategy has been launched to develop Scotland as a leading location for life sciences. The initiative, 2020 Vision: Achieving Critical mass, aims to attract... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Feb 2008 | 11:03 pm
Apple Computers announced today that it has developed a computer that can store and play music in women's breast implants. The Boob will cost between EUR499 and EUR599. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Feb 2008 | 11:00 pm
IT'S half-term, the weather is unpredictable and the children say they're bored! So Conkers is ideal for a visit. And this month, the Birmingham Mail is offering readers family entrance for just pounds 10 (normal price pounds 17.23). Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Feb 2008 | 11:00 pm
A SECOND trader has been arrested over an "internet chat" with pounds 3.7billion rogue trader Jerome Kerviel. The man works for Fimat, a global broker attached to French bank Societe Generale. He is being quizzed in Paris. Last night Kerveil, 31, was re-arrested. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Feb 2008 | 11:00 pm
By Ralph Thomas and Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times Feb. 9--Having trouble finding your caucus? People are apparently scrambling this morning to find where to go to attend their precinct caucus, which begin at 1 p.m. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Feb 2008 | 11:00 pm
By Mike Haskey, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga. Feb. 9--Cries of "Free Gas" met drivers as they pulled into a local gas station/convenience store Saturday afternoon in Columbus. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Feb 2008 | 11:00 pm
Hollywood writers meet in New York and Los Angeles to consider a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work. Compensation for projects delivered via digital media is the central issue in the 3-month-old walkout.
Lally Singh sends us to the inside-the-Beltway blog Wonkette for a quick take on a letter Ron Paul sent to his supporters. In this analysis, Dr. Paul has basically called it quits. "Late Friday night, Dr. Congressman Ron Paul posted a letter to his fans basically saying it's over, but he will continue talking about his message, and plus it would be completely embarrassing for him if he also lost his congressional seat."
Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew bring a sparkling new lab to the international space station on Saturday, smoothly docking after a two-day chase around the world.
Roland Piquepaille writes "A major challenge in public health is that people do not take their medications, a phenomenon known as 'medication non-adherence.' In the US alone, it is estimated that this accounts for 10% of all hospital visits and costs the healthcare system $100 billion per year and $60 billion to the pharmaceutical industry. Now, an MIT research team thinks it has a solution to this problem that will save lives worldwide. They've developed the uBox, a convenient, palm-sized, intelligent pill dispenser, 'which reminds a patient when it is time to take his medication, records when a patient has taken a dose, and prevents a patient from double-dosing.' The first large-scale trial with 100 uBoxes is scheduled to begin in May in Bihar, India, in a 6-month long tuberculosis treatment program."
Many outlets are echoing a subscribers-only report in the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo's board has decided to reject Microsoft's takeover offer. The NYTimes offers the only other independent reporting so far confirming this claim. The report says that Yahoo will formally reject the offer in a letter on Monday, since they believe it "massively undervalues" the company. Microsoft offered $31 per share, a 62% premium on the stock price at the time, for Yahoo; but the latter believes that no offer below $40 per share is tenable. The AP has some background on Yahoo's options in responding to the bid.
bhmit1 writes "BusinessWeek is reporting about Science Debate 2008, an attempt to put the scientific issues front and center in the US Presidential race. After 12,000 scientists signed on in support of the idea of a debate focused on science, no campaign has replied to an invitation to such a debate. The article notes that only one candidate has said much about science issues in the campaign, and that some who are running are sufficiently anti-science as to deny evolution. There is a link to a comparison of the candidates' positions on issues informed by science. (Yes, Ron Paul is included.)"
Yahoo's board is planning to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer, arguing that it "massively undervalues" the company, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
mambosauce writes "Brian Krebs, via the security fix blog is reporting that the recent PDF vulnerabilities which were patched only for Adobe Reader 8 and not 7 are being exploited via banner ads. As if there haven't been enough banner ad attacks this year now we have another one targeting one of the most popular applications in the world this weekend. At this rate there won't be many safe applications left to use."
