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Space Station Toilet Is Working Again 2008-06-04 22:40:16 The troublesome toilet aboard the International SpaceStation
appears to be working again, thanks to a replacement pump taken to the station by the shuttle Discovery.“The toilet appears to have been repaired,” said Rob Navias, the commentator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s video channel on the Web, NASA TV [...] Read more:Again
, Toilet
Microsoft Plans to ‘fix’ Its Online Branding 2008-06-03 23:35:52 Now that a Yahoo acquisition is off the table, Microsoft
is moving quickly to “fix” its online branding problem, an executive said Tuesday.
Microsoft has been criticized for the introduction of the Live brand, particularly because it didn’t fully replace the MSN brand. That has created some confusion in the market, because some [...] Read more:Branding
Microsoft, Apple Spar Over Safari Security Threat 2008-06-03 23:27:24 Microsoft has warned Web surfers about a Safari
vulnerability that could put Windows users at risk. The flaw was one of three first found by researcher Nitesh Dhanjani. One of the bugs Dhanjani found was serious enough to be kept secret until a fix is found. However, Apple
said it does not [...] Read more:Microsoft
Next Silverlight 2.0 beta to appear this week 2008-06-03 23:12:19 Developers going home from TechEd 2008 in Orlando (just as the admin folks arrive for the following week’s demos) could find a delightful surprise in their annual tote bags: the newest plug-in for Visual Studio.A very brief notice appear
ing on the blog of Microsoft .NET developer evangelist G. Andrew Duthie early [...]
Ufone bundle offer for Rs 999 2008-06-05 23:06:42 Ufone bundle offer for Rs 999
First time in Pakistan, one of the leading telecom companies, Ufone, has launched an incredible connection and handset bundle offer at a very low cost. With this ultimate new offer, customers can now get a fully featured handset, Ufone connection and free airtime from Ufone all for just Rs 999.
However, [...]
Qik Expands to Windows Mobile Platform 2008-06-05 23:05:34 Tomorrow Qik, the popular webcasting service that streams video from your phone, will announce support for Microsoft’s WindowsMobile
platform. Actual support for phones will be rolled out in the coming months. To get things started, the site has launched an invite-only alpha for the Motorola Q and Samsung BlackJack. We’ve [...] Read more:Platform
, Windows Mobile
Yahoo’s First Search Gallery Apps Leaves You Searching For The Right Results 2008-06-05 22:56:50 I want to love the search apps in Yahoo
’s newly opened SearchGallery
. I really do. Opening up its search engine to outside developers is an idea worth applauding (although it could still do more). That’s why I was excited when Yahoo announced its SearchMonkey platform, which essentially allows outside developers [...] Read more:First
, Right
Warid introduces Safe Arrival SMS for roaming subscribers 2008-06-05 22:50:29 Warid Telecom becomes first operator in Pakistan to introduce Safe Arrival SMS
service for its Postpaid subscribers. The Safe Arrival SMS service is an innovative service that allows travelling subscribers with international roaming or SMS roaming activated to send a pre-set short text message that conveys confirmation of a safe arrival. This service is available [...]
AMD not launching netbook chip (it already has one) 2008-06-05 22:48:04 UPDATE: With headlines this week like “AMD
jumps into the netbook game,” it sounded very much like Advanced Micro Devices was making a belated entry into the netbook segment. But this isn’t the case, according to AMD.
An AMD spokesperson said that this photo of a purported AMD [...]
Verizon Wireless To Acquire Alltel For $28.1 Billion 2008-06-07 01:43:01 As first rumored yesterday, Verizon
(nyse: VZ - news - people ) is acquiring Alltel
(nyse: AT - news - people ) equity and debt in a transaction worth $28.1 billion.
Wireless
.htm">Verizon Wireless
issued a press release just moments ago, detailing the transaction between itself and it’s minority owners Vodafone (nyse: VOD [...] Read more:Acquire
AMD Wins Another Round Against Intel 2008-06-07 01:34:13 The FTC has subpoenaed the chipmakers to seek information about their customers, including Dell, HP, and Apple. At issue: Intel
’s pricing
Score another victory for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD
) in its crusade to sick regulators on bigger rival Intel (INTC). The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into chipmaker Intel [...]
Who will rule the new Internet? 2008-06-08 08:50:53 An anonymous wit scratched those lines on the side of a junked car door and lugged it to a trail near my home in Northern California. The middle of a pristine, ancient redwood grove is the wrong place to find a rusted-out car door, but the words magically transformed the thing from an aggravating piece [...] Read more:Internet
Soldat 1.4.1 2008-06-08 08:04:12 Soldat is a unique side-view multiplayer action game. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action game play with tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal. This is what multiplayer was invented for.
* It’s [...]
Road Rash 2008-06-07 10:15:18 Road Rash is the name of a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts, in which the player participates in violent illegal street races. The game was originally written for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, but was ported to several other systems. Six versions of the game were released from 1991 to 1999, and a 2004 [...]
Government unveils world’s fastest computer 2008-06-09 22:20:04 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on [...] Read more:Government
Apple announces faster, cheaper iPhone 2008-06-09 22:09:17 CEO Steve Jobs unveils the much-anticipated 3G iPhone
; cuts the iPhone price to $200; takes aim at the BlackBerry.
NEW YORK (Fortune) — Apple
announced on Monday a much faster iPhone that’s half the price of the current model.
The news is expected to address one of the biggest complaints about the [...]
Google | Changes its favicon, works really hard to find something worse 2008-06-09 00:28:32 Struggling search engine almost copies Guardian Unlimited style
Google
must have had some feedback about its dull and horribly weak-looking new favicon
, which is no doubt appearing in a browser tab very near you. The Official google Blog has put up a not-very-spirited defense. This points out that they hadn’t changed it in 8.5 years — [...] Read more:something
AOL | Expands its integrated ad buying platform to Europe 2008-06-09 00:02:53 Time Warner Inc’s AOL is set to expand Platform-A, its integrated ad buying platform, in Europe
with an aim to further its business opportunities in the field of global display ad.
AOL (formerly America Online, Inc.), an American Internet services and media company, has a publishing network in Europe that includes owned and operated sites in [...]
PS3 chip powers world’s fastest computer 2008-06-11 02:13:47 Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world’s fastest. Here’s how.
1,000 trillion floating point operations per second
Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear weapons is the new computer’s ultimate gig. They couldn’t just string [...]
Apple Repairs Five QuickTime Flaws 2008-06-10 22:52:14 The patches, which are addressed in Apple
’s updated in QuickTime
7.5, affect the previous version 7.4.5, which was released in April. Four of the five repairs affect numerous versions of Mac OS X and Windows, while one patch affects only Windows Vista and XP SP2. Apple released five security fixes covering vulnerabilities for its QuickTime [...] Read more:Repairs
Anti-Child-Porn Tactic Criticized 2008-06-10 22:21:59 The decision yesterday by three Internet service providers to block access to online child pornography is the latest in a series of steps by companies and government officials to curb the distribution of such materials. But a report to be published later this month questions whether such actions are making it more difficult to track [...]
Yahoo! India launches local information portal 2008-06-12 01:35:26 MUMBAI: Yahoo
! India
has launched a local information
platform - Yahoo! India Local (beta). The new launch will be made available at local.yahoo.in. The product was conceptualized and developed by the Yahoo! India team in collaboration with the Yahoo! India Research & Development team. Yahoo! India Local will be available across Delhi/NCR (National Capital Region), [...]
Internet Week New York: Let it blend 2008-06-11 22:17:35 NEW YORK–The inaugural Internet
Week New York
was eight days of open bars and missed opportunities. On the red carpet at the 12th Annual Webby Awards on Tuesday night, the final event of the week-long city-sanctioned festival, I called out to Internet Week executive director David-Michel Davies and asked him what he’d do next year [...]
eBay ends online ads sales system 2008-06-11 22:04:28 eBay has pulled the plug on Media Marketplace, a controversial pilot program designed to buy and sell radio and TV advertising on the Internet. The Internet auction house confirmed the closure of the program after one year with the brief message: “We have ended our pilot program in this market.” The system got off [...] Read more:online
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 to be released June 17 2008-06-11 21:56:22 Late Wednesday evening, a Mozilla
spokesperson confirmed to BetaNews that the day the final edition of Firefox
3.0 would be made available to the general public, will be this upcoming Tuesday, June 17.The time the final edition goes live was not disclosed, although the organization said it will be converting its headquarters in Mountain View, [...] Read more:Mozilla Firefox
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