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• Hi-tech, eco or both
The new autumn and winter fashion collections highlight the tension between technology and the environment, luxury and ecology, consumption and conservation.
• Now, a technology that predicts premature births
Washington, Sept 5 : A group of researchers has developed a world-first computerised system which may reveal a way to predict premature birth with greater accuracy.
• Nokia Warns on Third Quarter as Economy Weighs
Nokia warned on Friday that the soft global economy, tough competition from rivals and a weak handset portfolio would hit its market share in the third quarter.
• Comcast appeals FCC net neutrality order
provider Comcast appealed in federal court Thursday against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order that it stop interfering with file sharing traffic passing over its network. In a three...
• Nokia sees loss in market share
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- Nokia said Friday it expects global market share in the third quarter to be lower than in the second quarter. Its share price tumbled more than 10%.Nokia Corp. gave no figure...
• CAST to Present at World Congress for Software Quality
Congress for Software Quality NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - September 5, 2008) - CAST, the worldwide leader in Automated Application Intelligence (
• Amazon signs buy two get one laptop deal
its bit for the developing nations by signing a deal with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation. The online retailing giant will begin its give one get one (G1G1) programme in November which...
• Samsung working to acquire SanDisk
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Fri...
• Curious grey stuff could radically alter handset design
Peratech . The company produces a conductive material which it calls QTC (Quantum Tunnelling Composites). Its codename – curious grey stuff – is more descriptive. QTC can be used to b...
• Acer Predator gets big screen surprise
ACER, A COUPLE OF MONTHS BACK , flipped its lid and put out what looked like a pretty decent gaming PC (and gaming laptop too…) dubbed The Predator. Now there’s an LCD to live by its le...
• NIIT Tech eyes travel, insurance sectors for growth
MUMBAI: Software services provider NIIT Technologies Ltd is eyeing the travel and insurance sectors for growth, Arvind Thakur, chief executive officer, told a private TV news channel on Friday. ...
• Greetings from "the angry left" Hey, peeved hippie! Stop your hatin
"Fellow citizens, if the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry left never will." -- George W. Bush, RNC '08
• McCain to fight for American values
John McCain urged Americans to fight for their country, to make history, and to rid Washington of its "constant partisan rancour" as he accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination. The 7...
• Yahoo shares drop to new low
once again playing the ‘how low can you go?’ stock drop game, as shares in the firm hit their lowest mark for five years. Plunging 3.3 per cent to a measly $18.75, the shares took their...
• Fake death canoeist launches appeal
Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has launched a bid to appeal against his sentence, his solicitor said. The 58-year-old was jailed in July at Teesside Crown Court for six years and three mont...
• Microsoft cuts US Xbox360 prices
Wednesday that it will drop its Xbox360 game console prices in the US. The pricing move will undercut its competitors, Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PS3. Microsoft said it will cut the price of its low...
• AMD desktop roadmap leaked
roadmap confirms that quad-core Phenom processors based on the Deneb core are due to be released on 8 January 2009. The roadmap leaked to Spanish site ChileHardware shows the chips will be revealed...
• Survey reveals huge food cost rise
The era of falling food prices is over and households will have to get used to spending more of their budget at the checkout, experts said. A typical trolley of food has risen in price by 8.3% since...
• Pioneer Surgical Technology Receives 510 Clearance To Market FortrOss, A Next Generation Bone Void Filler
0 posts Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market FortrOss, a novel bone graft substitute utilizing the power of nan...
• EC reforms aim to smooth path to fibre era
The European Parliament has been debating EU telecoms reform proposals ahead of a vote later this month that could usher in an era of fibre broadband for European citizens and mandatory data-breach re...
• AMD donates computer labs to SA schools
have teamed up to help out South African schools by donating two more computer labs to the country. The labs are situated at the Makgoto High School in Limpopo and the Lenyora High School in the Fr...
• Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could be maliciously repl...
• Yet another Iphone lawsuit springs forth
yet another Apple lawsuit’. This time it’s a disgruntled chap from San Diego, demanding compensatory and punitive damages from both Apple and AT&T for misleading advertising, or as ...
• EA Mercenaries publicity stunt backfires
done many a ridiculous stunt to promote their latest invention – but none as stupid as giving away free petrol. Electronic Arts has taken over Last Stop garage in Finsbury Park, London this ...
• Local DRS Technologies Engineer in Kanata Awarded for Technology Leadership
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - September 5, 2008) - Robert Turzo, Kanata resident and engineer at DRS Technologies Canada, Ltd., has been recognized for excellence in printed circuit board design by ...
• 5 Burning Questions About E-Commerce Search Solutions
An effective site search solution can help e-commerce sites drive sales and traffic, but customers' expectations are high when it comes to search, writes Shaun Ryan, CEO of SLI Systems. Site search te...
• Govt still needs to be the moderator
YOUNG people who know the ins-and-outs of new technology will be a crucial resource for the Government as it shapes its policies for online content. But it is not feasible at this stage to remove t...
• Tragic soldier spoke of peace hopes
The British Army soldier killed in Afghanistan had spoken of his hopes of bringing peace to the wartorn country, it emerged. The 29-year-old soldier, a member of the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Re...
• State falling way behind No Child Left Behind
California schools, required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act to lift more students over a higher academic hurdle this year, instead stumbled and slipped back, as nearly 1,400 fewer schools met...
• French oppose sinister government database
populace, having returned from its annual summer vacation throughout the month of August, is raising its collective voice in opposition to an arbitrary government decree establishing a national data...
• Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen Adds Technology Law Expert Richard Raysman
Richard Raysman, one of the preeminent lawyers in the area of computer law, outsourcing and intellectual property law, has joined the firm of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, P.C. Raysman was o...
• Pure Digital Evoke Flow internet radio
After two years in development, Pure Digital has created what it hopes will become internet radio’s first genuinely iconic product. Our first reaction was that this is a really attractive little ra...
• Hurricane Watch Expands Through The
Local Views from Home-Based Webcams Available on 'MyCam' NEW YORK, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthCam, the world premier global webcam network, today invited webcam owners in the path of possible ...
• Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow
Everyone hates their Internet service provider. And with good cause: In the age of ubiquitous Internet access, Web service in America is still often frustratingly slow. Tired of being the villain, tel...
• Eros is the god of the 21st century
– however some say this has been taken too far with a little help from a Florida plumber. Kevin Alderman seems to have put a right spanner in the works with his virtual world program which mo...
• Azaya Licenses New Technology for Head and Neck Cancer Treatment
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 06:00 CDT US-based pharmaceutical company Azaya Therapeutics has signed a licensing agreement to further develop a technology that uses liposomes to deliver radia...
• Microsoft plans four updates on Patch Tuesday
On Thursday, Microsoft announced four security bulletins for Tuesday. The announcement is intended as a heads-up for IT departments before Patch Tuesday.
• Maximum heat, oil wells set on fire
Think again. Scientists have used high-tech equipment to generate temperatures in the billions of degrees - that's billions with a "b" - and they can contemplate temperatures that leave that sort of h...
• Microsoft kicks off $300M Seinfeld ad campaign
Actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld comments on the induction of the "puffy shirt" into the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington in 2004. Seinfeld is a celebrity pitchman in Mic...
• Beeb buys high tech film vault
"); The BBC World Service has invested in a high-tech film vault to store more than 6,000 hours of video. The high and low resolution video stored can be accessed by 125 people at once over the Exa...
• Liedkie Moving and Storage buys site in Riverside Tech Park
KRC Group LLC, parent to Liedkie Moving & Storage, has purchased the last available site in the Riverside Technology Park in Schenectady from the city’s Industrial Development Agency. The c...
• Two charged with Shaquille murder
Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of a 14-year-old schoolboy stabbed while sitting on a bench outside his home, police said. Shaquille Smith was killed in Hackney, east London, on Satu...
• Sex and Power survey reckons there aren
of science, engineering and technology (SET), women are most certainly not on top, according to new research by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The research, sensationally called ‘S...
• Chicken soup for the software programm...
This blog is intended to provoke discussion and exchange between like minded software application developers, engineers, architects, project managers - and keen hobbyists too.
• Red Hat snaps up Qumranet
Qumranet is best known for developing the open-source KVM Linux kernel extension. According to Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, KVM functions as a "bare-metal" hypervisor – running directl...
• Union fury over fuel payment U-turn
The decision to rule out cash handouts for households struggling with soaring fuel bills has been blasted by unions as a "downright disgrace". Ministers were expected to unveil plans to give each ho...
• Microsoft gets it all together
launched a little desktop app that lets users create one big collage of all their favourite snaps. Now that all+dog has a digital camera, people are happy to snap away merrily wherever they go, but...
• Old rules apply to political films
WHILE rule changes may eventually allow Singaporeans to put political films online, that does not translate into leeway for such films to be screened in public without a permit. Professor Tan Cheng...
• On-Demand Software Takes Off, But Investors Should Be Wary
-(Dow Jones)- The concept of software as a service is shaking up corporate computing. But shares of companies providing pay-as-you-go computing appear to be on the verge of a shake out.
• Employee has no privacy on company computers, US court rules
Employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy for material stored on computers owned by their employers, a US court has ruled. The New Jersey court said that files on a work-owned compute...
• Itunes 8 goes Hi Def
leak reported by Digg main man, Kevin Rose. Rumours are also rife about new Ipods and even a refresh of the Macbook marque, although none of these whispers of things to come have any substance beyo...
• Dell and Vodafone tie the knot
Inspiron Mini 9 will be sold with built-in broadband. Available from later on this month the Inspiron Mini 9 will feature mobile broadband from Vodafone which will be available from Vodafone stores...
• Internet Broadcasters Getting Screwed
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 06:00 CDT By Jason Bracelin Do they make Kevlar boots? If not, someone ought to fashion a couple hundred pairs and send them to the various music industry powers ...
• RFID leakage is hushed up - claim
products – like passports and Oyster cards – leak data like sieves says Brit firm, Peratech. The scandal broke back in August but those affected – like government agencies and cre...
• Microsoft spends big bucks to improve Vista image
frantically attempting to improve Vista’s terrible public image, and fend off attacks by rival Apple, using, no, not software improvements, but a series of television ads starring Jerry Seinfe...
• Sony unveils wireless photo frame
the launch of the Vaio CP1 wireless photo frame. We thought most photo frames were wireless, but apparently this one is digital and Wi-Fi enabled, allowing people share their holiday snaps over the...
• NFL teaming with Adobe to deliver
said it is teaming with the National Football League to deliver live online video streaming of NBC "Sunday Night Football" games on NFL.com and NBCSports.com starting with Thursday night'...
• Dual CEO-FD role for London internet site chief
London Town , the internet information site for the city of London. Buchanan takes on both the chief executive and the chief financial officer roles with the company. The former chief exec, Richard...
• Spare the content hosts
POPULAR technology website VR-Zone has a team of moderators - including a lawyer - who spend hours daily trawling for and removing defamatory remarks made by the hordes of users who frequent its onlin...
• Education best shield against cyber dangers
Short-term solutions like filters are helpful, the 13-member council noted. But education is key to tackling the high-priority concern of protecting minors from such dangers as online sexual predator...
• Three ways to tackle Section 33
THE current wide-ranging ban on party political films stifles expression. It also stands in the way of works that could contribute to well-informed, rational and insightful debate on issues. That i...
• Govt should engage online forums
FROM paying taxes to renewing road tax, the Government has led the way in offering e-services to people here. But its approach to interacting with Singaporeans online has been decidedly more conserva...
• Canadian Technology Team Selected for Alberta Emergency Management Initiative
The Alberta Emergency Management Agency (AEMA) has selected a team of Canadian technology companies, led by Black Coral, Inc., to meet their requirements for an emergency management decision support i...
• Labour tech tsar attacks gov
The Labour chairman of an influential technology group has warned that government plans to monitor UK email and internet records could collect to much data to be useful.
• Sony launches PCs for three differnt rooms
decided to announce three new all-in-one, Blue Ray inclusive PCs at Denver’s CEDIA show. The three new Vaios, the JS, LV and RT, seem to have been designed with three specifically different u...
• Scrutiny Sours Endeavors for Targeted Internet Ads
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 03:00 CDT NEW YORK - It sounded like a winning proposition - free money - for Internet access providers. By tracking subscribers' personal Web surfing habits, the...
• Arxan Hosts Complimentary Webinar on Software Protection Best Practices
) September 5, 2008 -- Live on Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at 1:00PM EDT, Arxan Technologies, a leading provider of application hardening solutions, designed to protect software intellectual proper...
• U.S. OPEN One year later, Djokovic turns cheers into boos
-- The wonderful thing about a mime is that he needs no words. That was the inherent genius of Novak Djokovic at this exact stage of the U.S. Open last year, a man causing great convulsions of laught...
• Samsung blunders through UK Omnia launch
new Iphone wannabe last night under a banner of pomp and incompetence. The London launch of the Omnia was held in the catacombs of the Old Billington's ice rooms, London's ancient fish market, wher...
• ProFieldTM Generates Buzz at ESRI International User Conference
) September 5, 2008 -- Apex CoVantage, a leading global knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) provider of engineering solutions, announced the successful debut of ProFieldTM, its new field asset managem...
• Planning to leave town because of the schools This parent didn
I never intended to be a pioneer in the trenches of San Francisco's beleaguered and maligned public school system. Back in 1993, when my first child started kindergarten, I'd been lucky. At the time,...
• First-Ever Internet Catholic TV Station Launches
RealCatholicTV.com launched the first television station of its kind on the internet. For the first time, this week all internet users can access solid Catholic programming including, daily news, dail...
• Matthews faces court over
The mother of Shannon Matthews and a 39-year-old man are to appear in court later to enter pleas in connection with the alleged abduction of the youngster. Karen Matthews, 32, will appear alongside ...
• Banks, tech stocks pressure Europe ahead of U.S. jobs data
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares fell again on Friday, with banks and technology firms dropping as investors continued to fret about a slowing global economy against a backdrop of continued tur...
• McCain tries to re-create party in his image
(09-05) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain had to demonstrate Thursday night that he, not his new rock-star running mate, is at the top of his ticket. But he intends ...
• Sony laptop recall hits share price
saw a whopping four per cent drop yesterday, settling at their lowest price for almost three years, after the firm announced it would have to recall hundreds of thousands of fire risk laptops. The ...
• Heathrow Terminal 5 gets Wi-Fi hotspot
"); The service is particularly aimed at business travellers, who can access the network using laptops, PDAs and mobiles. The network promises speeds of up to 8Mbps. The hotspot will be supplied by...
• Evident To Offer A More Colorful LED Technology
More colorful diodes are expected to be useful in advertising signage, such as for companies that use particular colors as part of their brand identity.
• Critcal Windows updates a-coming
has announced plans to issue four critical patches on 9 September. Two of the patches are slated to correct serious security vulnerabilities found in Windows Media Player and Encoder. Another patch...
• Radio DJs encourage drinking
Radio presenters - including BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles - widely encourage drinking, according to a Government-funded study. Research into 1,200 hours of radio output uncovered 703 extracts containi...
• Sony Vaio notebooks recalled due to overheating
The problem affects notebooks in the Vaio VGN-TZ100 series, VGN-TZ200 series, VGN-TZ300 series and VGN-TZ2000 series that were sold through the Sony Style stores and website, as well as electronics re...
• Cal gets go-ahead for sports training center
(09-04) 19:19 PDT BERKELEY -- A state appeals court refused Thursday to block UC Berkeley's plans to build a sports training center next to Memorial Stadium, denying a request from oak tree advocates...
• Parcel Delivery - Courier Booking Software, Shipping Manager Version 2 Launched
Parcel Shipping Manager Limited today announces the launch of version 2 of their parcel delivery booking software, Shipping Manager. This program enables online retailers to book their courier service...
• The Ultimate A-To- Z Guide
Interop New York, the East Coast's largest business technology conference and exhibition, runs September 15 through 19th at the Jacob K Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan. Here's an alphabetical guide...
• Blizz brings game music to Itunes
reminisce about that great Zerg rush or the first time they slayed Onyxia while away from their PCs, thanks to a deal between Blizzard and Apple. The agreement means that a wide selection of music ...
• Broadband outcasts to get next-gen networks first
"); The regulator's Consumer Panel said in a new report that communities that missed out on the initial broadband rollout should leapfrog other areas this time around. The chair of the Ofcom Consum...
• Mental illness on both sides of the pond.
I have no idea what the "cracker" did or did not do. $700,000 of damage is BS when a $150 1TB hard-drive is likely all the backup space necessary to backup what he allegedly managed to hack into. It d...
• AIG Software opens Asian hub in Malaysia
AIG Software International JVSdn Bhd, part of insurance giant American International Group Inc (AIG), has opened its Asian hub in Kuala Lumpur to offer travel help to policyholders, local media report...
• Now we are 10
Google enters its next decade with the future focused on search As Google prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary the company has an eye on its future and declared that for web users "the best i...
• Sun Upgrades Desktop Virtual Machine, Gains Traction On Macs
VirtualBox enables a developer to develop code on a Mac, a Windows, Linux or Solaris machine and then run it in a virtual machine that mimics its target environment.
• Chaos on the Internet and the Constitutional Compromise
There have been two complete revisions of U.S. copyright law (the most recent passed in 1976, and enacted in 1978), plus numerous amendments along the way that can be viewed in the context of fulfilli...
• AOL Chief Plots Return to China
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 03:00 CDT By Davis, Anita Norman Koo is convinced the portal giant can crack the world's biggest web market by targeting new users. By Anita Davis PROFILE Mention...
• 49ers hasty in writing off Smith
Just in time, as it turns out, for the 49ers to throw one last fragmentation grenade at their own pet abuse project, Alex D. Smith. You saw the quotes, or heard about them. Scot McCloughan said what ...
• Chrome is simple, but I want features!
PeterJudge Chrome is still my default browser, and there are everyday things I can't do so easily in it as in Firefox. Perversely. I think what I want is a Google Toolbar for Chrome... The issues ...
• Germany to tighten data protection laws after scandals
BERLIN, GERMANY - German ministers agreed on Thursday to update data protection laws for the digital age in the wake of scandals showing how easily personal details can be bought on the Internet. The...
• Experts call for united global action against cyber attacks
TALLINN, ESTONIA - The world has to unite against the growing menace of cyber terrorism, IT experts said Thursday, evoking a recent "cyber war" against Georgia as the latest example of the t...
• Dell plans to sell computer factories
Dell Inc is trying to sell computer factories around the world in efforts to cut cost and improve profitability, the Wall Street Journal said. In recent months, Dell has approached contract computer ...
• Tech Talk Google Bets Chrome Will Shine
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 00:00 CDT By STEVEN ROSENBERG What is Google Chrome? Developed by Google engineers, the Web browser released to the public Tuesday promises a better, faster and s...
• Wall Street Journal says Dell is trying to sell most of its computer factories to contract manufacturers and close others
See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactive To...
• Japanese shrine offers protection for computers
Tokyo - In high-tech Japan, not only programmers provide protection from viruses and other computer bugs, but also the gods. At Tokyo's Kanda-Myojin Shinto shrine, the faithful can bring their compute...
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