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It’s not even that investors aren’t bidding the proposed price of between $108 and $135, but that Google isn’t getting enough bids at all, according to the banker, who asked not to be identified. Google IPO Under Threat Due to Shortage of Bids
A new pollen-blocking cream applied to the inside of the nose may alleviate hayfever without the side-effects of other remedies, suggests a new study. Pollen-blocking cream cuts hayfever
Can genetic engineering defeat diseases spread by insects? Don’t Let the Bugs Bite
More than one-fifth of U.S. science and engineering workers have less than a bachelor’s degree, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation. . Many engineers lack even a four-year degree
Ok, this is weird… make sure you have the volume up so you can hear the background sounds… Ghost in car commercial?
The IPO lexicon has a myriad of colorful words, such as “green shoe,” “blue sky,” “flipping” and “red herring.” There is a new word we can add: GOOG-plosion. Google this: disaster
I’ve seen this a year ago, but its worth revisiting… its pretty cool: Horn Man
Whether people find you “hot or not” could depend on the sound of your name, suggests a new study. Pleasing names make faces sexier
The University of Texas is becoming more popular. The school has been named the hottest state university in the 2005 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get into College Guide.” UT named ‘hottest’ state school
Internet usage has soared in South Korea–unless you’re an older woman living in the countryside. South Koreans face digital divide
Who knew all the pretty people lived in just a handful of cities? Apparently, they do. AOL Travel and Travel + Leisure magazine teamed up to find out America’s Favorite Cities and in the process they found out the cities with the best-looking people. The Cities With the Best-Looking People
I love my PocketPC, this guy loves his too: I wear too many hats! I am a full-time graduate student, a youth pastor, a library assistant, a husband, and a father. Not too long ago I was an extremely unorganized person, forgetting and mismanaging important information. But now I’m the opposite because of the new […]
Glass that blocks out heat but not light when a room starts getting excessively warm has been developed by UK scientists. Smart glass blocks infrared when heat is on
If you’re sick of spam, imagine wading through dozens of prerecorded porn and Viagra messages on your voice mail. Net phone customers brace for ‘VoIP spam’
“While researching for an embedded systems project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant, articles that were 6-10 years old, etc. Further research proved hard, because I had become google’s authoritative source. So Stripe Snoop was […]
I have collected links to many applications that make GMail easier to use. Google GMail Loader (GML)
“NewsForge [ed. note: part of OSTG along with Slashdot] is running its concluding piece on the week-long Blackhat/DEFCON hackerfest in Las Vegas. Want to know how little our police/intelligence agencies seem to have learned from their failures prior to 9/11? Or how a very large goon known only as Priest prevented outright political violence at […]
“Reporter Jay Lyman attended the O’Reilly OSCON developers’ get-together and wrote daily briefs plus a wrap-up that are all posted on NewsForge now. If you didn’t make it to this excellent conference, reading Jay’s reports is the next best thing.” Yes, NewsForge is also part of OSTG. Complete OSCON Coverage
Since the release of Windows XP Professional, Microsoft has discovered that the vast majority of illegitimate copies in use are using a small handful of leaked “corporate” keys. In an effort to thwart these illegitimate users, Windows XP Service Pack 1 (and possibly all future updates) will not install on systems using these keys, and […]
Warehouse chain Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, announced on Monday that it will begin selling Humax-branded recorders that use TiVo’s digital video recording technology this month. TiVo’s service works with a set-top box to enable subscribers to pause live television broadcasts and record future shows. Sam’s Club warehouse stores will initially sell Humax’s […]
Amyloid beta, the waxy protein that litters the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, is like a criminal with many arrests but no convictions. Studies have implicated amyloid plaques in the disease, but nobody has proved that they cause it. Stopping Alzheimer’s: Antibody thwarts disease in mice
Dirk and I saw this stuff demo’ed last week at defcon… its quite frightening. Serious flaws discovered in Bluetooth technology used in mobile phones can let an attacker remotely download contact information from victims’ address books, read their calendar appointments or peruse text messages on their phones to conduct corporate espionage. Security Cavities Ail Bluetooth
America Online has acquired antispam software vendor Mailblocks for an undisclosed sum, the Time Warner subsidiary said Wednesday. AOL snaps up antispam company
TiVo users will be able to share copies of digital TV shows through the Internet with a small number of friends and family members, the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday. FCC lets TiVo users share shows
Paul Froutan, vice president of engineering for Rackspace Managed Hosting—part of Rackspace Ltd.—said the remote access cards are critical to his hosting business, which has 10,000 servers in four data centers. “With DRAC installed in the servers, all of a sudden I can do [remote] management,” said Froutan, in San Antonio, who has tested a […]
Net phone service provider Vonage confirmed that it suffered its first outage in 18 months on Monday, due to problems at partner Global Crossing. VoIP provider Vonage suffers outage
If you ever want to destroy a digital camera’s memory card, don’t bother putting it through the wash or hitting it with a sledgehammer as neither will guarantee destruction. It’s OK to boil your memory card: official
TiVo, the company that makes the digital-video-recorder boxes that inspire such strange idolatry among their users, is in a weird spot. It’s asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to add a new feature — the option for a TiVo user to send recorded digital TV programs via the Internet to nine other people. TiVo […]
Its funny, i’m actually sitting in the conference session that’s talking about this particular issue, and it appears on CNET at the same time… amazing. The same technology that allows Web surfers to locate and connect to computers on the Internet can be used to create covert communications channels, bypass security measures and store distributed […]
People love a good, unified explanation for the ways things are. One current favorite is the concept of disruptive technology, a coinage and concept put forth by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and explained in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. This guy has so many honors that apparently whatever he says is gospel. The […]
Users of Bluetooth phones and PDAs better watch out, as a new Bluetooth Sniper gun can attack your device from up to 1 kilometer away Bluetooth Sniper Guns debut at Defcon
If everything goes as planned, for 72 hours next February hackers from all over the United States will hit targets across the Internet in the largest mass attack to date. Hackers plan global game of ‘capture the flag’
For those of you using Bloglines, I think I’ve fixed the problem. Let me know if it works now, or if it doesn’t.
I’m don’t necessarily agree with this since programming is not just about programming in its self, but its interesting to think about. Paul Graham has posted an essay on “great hackers,” derived from his OSCON keynote. “When you decide what infrastructure to use for a project, you’re not just making a technical decision. You’re also […]
WASHINGTON — The ongoing debate over whether TV viewers in the United States should be able to pick their cable channels on an a la carte basis continues Thursday when the Federal Communications Commission holds a symposium on the controversial question. FCC to Sample TV a la Carte
Hollywood — always in search of hip, influential people who can get others to go see a film — is spending an increasing portion of its collective marketing resources online, shifting budgets and attention from traditional media like television and print toward the Web. Hollywood Chases Young Men Online
The only thing worse than paying $4,000 for a scooter has to be using said scooter for a game of polo. Segway owners beat each other with homemade mallets There’s a video of it in the article, its pretty funny. 🙂
New digital video recorders using TiVo’s service will be coming out this summer. New TiVo recorders on the horizon
MySQL AB Launches MySQL Hosting
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