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This month’s featured host is Rackspace Managed Hosting . We chose Rackspace for this month because they’ve done a great job as host to all iNet Interactive sites including WebHostingTalk . Find out what Ryan Elledge, President of iNet Interactive has to say about the quality of service that Rackspace has provided. Then read the […]
It’s a far cry from the Rackspace that customer-care vice president David Bryce found when he arrived in 1999. The company manages the technology back end of Web sites for clients as diverse as e-tailers, game sites, and online ad agencies–folks for whom having a reliable site is obviously critical. Yet the tech-support staff appeared […]
Large-breasted, narrow-waisted women have the highest reproductive potential, according to a new study, suggesting western men’s penchant for women with an hourglass shape may have some biological justification. Barbie-shaped women more fertile
Hotel guests diving into their in-room minibar for a late-night snack might be surprised at what they find. No longer are the little in-room fridges and snack centers just a convenience for guests who don’t want to wander to a nearby 7-Eleven. Hotels get creative to elevate minibar
A list of numbers serves to illustrate how Wal-Mart deals with tradeoffs among the interests of workers, customers, and shareholders: Wal-Mart’s Magic Numbers
I’ve played with the “hypersonic sound” stuff while I was at CES last year, and its quite amazing. Focused beams of sound could direct music or speech to a single person in a crowd. Two inventors have staked competing claims to a potential audio revolution. The Sound War
A truly extraordinary cure for some forms of blindness is being proposed. The idea is to add light-absorbing pigments from spinach to nerve cells in the retina, to make the nerve cells fire when struck by light. Spinach pigments proposed as blindness cure
Mike James pocketed $3,000 in 10 days by selling loads of old stuff on eBay. He sold his battered cowboy boots. He unloaded some dust-collecting artwork. He even hooked a buyer for his Eddie Bauer fishing vest. Firms jump on the eBay wagon
A year later, companies enjoy success
Texas has secured the No. 2 spot among the states for woman-owned businesses, taking into account the number of businesses, the size of the workforce and the amount of sales. Texas ranks second for woman-owned firms
It goes without saying that even a moderately fast CPU these days requires a fast-spinning (read noisy) fan to avoid the risk of overheating. Combine that with a PSU fan, GPU fan, chipset fan and one or more case fans and your average PC can so easily become a major distraction. And it’s not just […]
“Google says it is aiming to raise $2,718,281,828 from its share sale, a number identical to the important mathematical constant e, which is the base for natural logarithms.” Beyond the IPO, Google may have big plans
You paid a lot for your DVDs. Make sure you never need to buy another copy. Dark Tip: Free DVD Backup
News aggregators may be the best new tools to appear on the Web since the browser, but as the programs and the underlying RSS standard grow more popular, some question whether the Internet will be able to handle the traffic. Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?
Microwave ovens should display prominent warnings about the dangers of exploding eggs, says a team of opthalmologists in the UK. Microwave ovens should warn of exploding eggs
A new system that helps cells stave off the ravages of time has been discovered by scientists. The find may help explain how some cancer cells live forever – and provide a new route of attack for up to one in 10 tumours, they say. Secret of eternal life may give cancer cure
Plague outbreaks can be predicted by the rise and fall of the wild gerbil population in Kazakhstan, researchers have discovered. Their plague predicting model might also be applicable to other parts of the world where outbreaks are irregular. Gerbil population boom predicts plague
Not sure about Vonage? You can test how your broadband connection will handle VoIP here: http://www.testyourvoip.com/
In the J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey out Wednesday, Korean automaker Hyundai Motor America shocked the auto industry by scoring a virtual dead-heat with quality leaders Honda and Toyota, tying Honda with 102 problems per 100 vehicles and just one point behind Toyota. Hyundai improves dramatically in quality survey
Women tend to choose husbands who look like their fathers – even if they are adopted, reveals a new study. Women marry men who look like dad
Before we launch into the specs and features of the new Hitachi 400GB hard drive, we need to point out a few things. Hitachi is not targeting this hard drive for your normal PC desktop. It’s really aimed at an emerging application category known as “near-line backup.” Another area of interest is media storage applications, […]
Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl wardrobe scandal seems to be signaling the end of a skin-saturated sartorial era. It’s the great Hollywood cover-up!
Green tea provides a more effective and environmentally-friendly method of preparing computer hard disks, say US scientists. Green tea polishes hard drive heads
Penn Jillette and his partner in crime, Raymond Joseph Teller, have been hypnotizing audiences for almost 30 years with their trademark humor, knowledge of carnival tricks and con-artistry, and blatant stand-up routine. Not only are they a staple at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Vegas, but they are disspelling myths on the Showtime […]
Sunday’s New York Times feature on Apple, Steve Jobs and the iPod touches on one of the weirdest open secrets in Silicon Valley: The unacknowledged father of the iPod is engineer Tony Fadell. Father of the IPod
A majority of national advertisers plan to cut spending on TV commercials by 20 percent in the next five years, when they believe ad-skipping devices like TiVo will take hold in households, according to a new survey. Advertisers face up to TiVo reality
The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece of a mysterious woman with a slight smile, is deteriorating quickly, the Louvre Museum said Monday, announcing that an in-depth technical study was being conducted to determine why Mona Lisa deteriorating, Louvre Museum says
Unwrapping your shopping to find you have bought mouldy bread, rotten strawberries and sour milk could soon become a thing of the past ? thanks to a range of emerging “active packaging” technologies. Wrappers smarten up to protect food
The ability to empathise is often considered uniquely human, the result of complex reasoning and abstract thought. But it might in fact be an incredibly simple brain process ? meaning that there is no reason why monkeys and other animals cannot empathise too. Empathy may not be uniquely human quality
Unpublished studies on the effects of anti-depressant drugs on children suggest some are both ineffective and potentially harmful, according to a new review of research. The unpublished data contradict published results, fuelling the debate on how pharmaceutical companies reveal trial data. Unpublished data reverses risk-benefit of drugs
New research has revealed a molecular basis for the “Mozart effect” – the observation that a brief stint of Mozart, but not other music, may improve learning and memory. Molecular basis for Mozart effect revealed
A spice used in curry could help alleviate cystic fibrosis, new research suggests. The tests in mice show that low doses of a component of turmeric can make most of the symptoms disappear. Curry spice could alleviate cystic fibrosis
According to recent research, it is true that bug zappers can end up transmitting the diseases carried by the insects they zap. Can bug zappers help transmit diseases?
Friday brought news of a major company in wireless technology that is coming to town. Wi-Fi Moving Headquarters To Austin
Debra Baker tells people she has TiVo. But she really doesn’t. TiVo Faces Clone War As Market Heats Up
Representatives at TiVo Inc. said that the high-definition version of TiVo, sold through The DirecTV Group Inc., has finally begun shipping. HD TiVOs Begin Shipping
It appears that my pimp name is “Suede Richard Large” Pimp Name Generator (Thanks Bart)
I found the [ALT-F1] trick in Outlook 2003 particularly useful 🙂 With every version of the Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft refines an already mature set of applications and adds many handy features. But much of Office’s power—hidden options, unknown features, and shortcuts—goes unused and undiscovered by the majority of people that use the suite. In […]
Atheros announced its Super-G throughput enhancement technology back in April of this year, but it’s taken until now for products to hit the shelves. Something else is hitting the ,er, fan, though, in the form of a controversy stirred up by rival WLAN chipmaker Broadcom during the recent Las Vegas Comdex show. Atheros Super-G NeedToKnow
Basic telephone service is plain boring to many people, including technology enthusiasts. The phone line may have brought us our first Internet connection, but the phone itself has been around for decades with only a few changes. Not very exciting in a world of gigahertz processors, DVD recording, and file sharing. Now there’s Vonage. Find […]