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Paul Froutan, vice president of engineering at Web hosting firm Rackspace, told the E-Commerce Times that he has seen a great deal of growth in demand from companies seeking to boost redundancy in anticipation of holiday traffic spikes.
American businesses would have to expense stock options under a controversial proposal announced on Wednesday by a private body that is responsible for creating accounting guidelines.
Most not prepared for attack
Most Americans have not followed the government’s advice to prepare for terrorism by stocking food and water, making a plan to contact family members and identifying a “safe room” in their homes, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows.
Sales pop a wheelie as motorcycles get naked
Motorcycles are getting undressed.
Dogs do resemble their owners, finds study
The old adage that people resemble their pet dogs may really be true, suggests a new study by US scientists.
‘Drunk and naked’ in Cancun
Shane Mahmood woke from a booze-induced fog with a half-inch stainless steel ring pierced through his lower lip.
Late flights on the rise at smaller airports
Akron-Canton Airport bills itself as a traveler’s dream in television ads. It’s the place for “shorter lines, less crowds and confusion” — better than “big airports.”
Vonage to offer portable Wi-Fi phones
Broadband phone service provider Vonage will make available portable Wi-Fi phones later this year to help defend itself against AT&T’s expansion into its market, a Vonage executive said Monday.
DDoS Attacks for the Common Man
Around the peak of the dot-com era there was a series of incidents that introduced most users to the term DDoS, or distributed-denial-of-service attack. These came to be known as the “Mafiaboy” attacks. The attacks were somewhat scary in that they brought down, one by one, the biggest and most prominent Web sites on the Internet. Every day we wondered who was next, and—gasp!—could it be us? Eventually, the site for which I wrote the most was taken down just like all the big guys.
San Antonio one of the worst cities for late tax filers
San Antonio has some of the worst procrastinators in the country when it comes to filing their income taxes, earning them a spot on America’s Top 10 Tax Procrastinating Cities list.
eBay consignment store concept expanding to Texas
Pasadena, Calif.-based iSold It LLC on Monday announced that it has signed franchise development agreements for 38 new iSold It stores in San Antonio, Los Angeles, Houston and Austin.
Flash mob to attempt supercomputing feat
An attempt to transform a motley collection of laptops into the first ad-hoc supercomputer is about to go ahead, thanks to software written at the University of San Francisco.
Hotel takes aquarium to new heights
Something fishy is going on in Berlin.
This is great, but I prefer Paytrust. In addition to what this article talks about, they allow any biller to send them a bill – not just “approved billers”… and they’ll archive the actual paper bill for you by scanning them in so you can see what it looked like as well.
If you’re paying an online service to handle your bills electronically, you might want to think twice before you cut the next e-check.
Study finds no evidence stretching prevents injuries
Stretching does not live up to its reputation as an injury preventer, a study has found.
Diver’s pill could fend off the bends
Within a decade, divers will be able to take a pill that allows them to stay under water longer without risking decompression sickness when they get to the surface. That is the prediction of a team that thinks it has stumbled across a totally new way of preventing the bends.
It’s Time! Fetal lungs tell mom when to deliver baby
One of the central unresolved questions in mammalian biology is how a mother knows when to give birth. Scientists studying mice have now found evidence that the maturing lungs of a fetus release a protein that initiates the process.
Quick HIV Test Wins Approval
The first oral test for the AIDS virus that gives results in 20 minutes won approval from the Food and Drug Administration Friday, a new option for people leery of blood testing.
Yankee Independently Pits Windows TCO vs. Linux TCO
On the heels of several Microsoft-sponsored studies evaluating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of Windows vs. Linux, The Yankee Group has performed its own independent research on the same topic. And the findings are somewhat similar: Linux provides smaller companies with customized vertical applications or who have no legacy networks with better TCO than Windows.
What does “Pan-Asian” actually mean? If anyone knows, please explain it to me.
Spam Monster Eyes Another Target
Coming soon to the instant messaging program on your desktop — “spim.”
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Spam being rapidly outpaced by ‘spim’
While the torrent of unsolicited spam emails continues to rise, it is being far outpaced by the surge in unwanted messages sent to the users of instant messaging programs, analysts have warned.
When pet lovers go out, doggone it, so does Fido
Joan Marcus of New York City takes her dog, Bubbles, everywhere. And we mean everywhere. To the sushi place down the street, to work, in and out of the neighborhood shops. Even on the subway, which has a no-dog policy.
Sky watchers could not ‘planet’ any better
An after-dinner dessert now awaits sky watchers as five planets make appearances in the early evening sky.
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Rare Five-Planet Alignment Visible
Five planets are arrayed across the evening sky in a spectacular night show that won’t be back for another three decades.
They’re flipping out over Simon’s finger
Maybe it was just a finger malfunction.
Comcast Agrees to Purchase TechTV
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA – News, CMCSK – News) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Vulcan Programming Inc. to acquire TechTV, Inc. Upon closing, Comcast will merge TechTV with G4, the Comcast-owned television network devoted to video games and the gamer lifestyle.
Secretary sacked for cyberlounge abuse
A senior secretary sacked over allegations that she posted offensive and racist messages in a cyberlounge says she was the victim of an orchestrated campaign to smear her name.
Life on Mars – but ‘we sent it’
There is life on Mars, a researcher has announced at a conference – unfortunately it is just spaceship-borne contamination.
TiVo looks to tune in to advertisers
TiVo plans to unveil a new feature this fall that will bring Web-like, interactive advertisements to TV, highlighting early efforts to reinvent television for the age of the digital video recorder.
Science Cooks Up Deadly Proteins
Researchers have figured out how to build their own artificial prions, the deadly, malformed proteins that cause the brain decay of mad-cow disease as well as Creutzfeldt-Jakob, the human form of the disease.
Travel smart, stay safe
Whether it’s taking in a Broadway show and shopping in New York, celebrating a big birthday in Europe or trekking across whole continents, more women today are blazing trails on their own.
Alleged high-tech roulette scam “easy to set up”
An alleged high-tech roulette scam that saw three people walk out of a London casino with ý1.3 million recently sounds too implausible even for a movie plot.
Mercedes takes risk by trying for mass appeal
Mercedes-Benz has an image problem, and it’s turning to Mercedes owners — famous and unknown, dead and alive — to polish the brand in its first corporate ad campaign in seven years.
Business travelers may soon have one more item to stuff in their carry-on: a trusted-traveler card to speed them through security lines.
‘Alamo’ to debut Saturday in S.A.
San Antonio is rolling out the yellow carpet for the world premiere of “The Alamo,” which was filmed in the Austin area.
Burger King had so lost its way that it recently did the unthinkable: It brought back the company’s 76-year-old co-founder to fix the flagship Whopper.
Houston shamed in travel survey
Despite the success of Super Bowl XXXVIII, a new light rail system and top-quality museums, Houston bottomed out in a survey ranking the top American cities.
The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, “already seen.” Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn’t be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you’ve already experienced this very thing — same friends, same dinner, same topic.
The Alamo set to debut in San Antonio
Hollywood will light up San Antonio this Saturday as Touchstone Pictures and Imagine Entertainment debuts the new movie “The Alamo” at a special premiere at the Majestic Theatre.
Archos reveals the AV500 at CeBIT 2004
If this will indeed be called the AV500, Archos has done a nice job on the successor of its AV300 series. With a slimmer sleeker more ergonomic look, the AV500 makes the AV320 look like a clunky has-been.
TiVo Will Die
It’s always hard to write an obituary, especially when the subject is still alive. It’s especially hard for me, because I love the little guy like a brother. But, alas, TiVo (news – web sites) will die.