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IEEE Approves 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:33:28 GMT

"The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard. Bruce Kraemer, the long-time chairman of the 802.11n Task Group (part of the 802.11 Working Group, which oversees the WLAN standards), has sent out a notification to a listserv for task group members, which includes a wide range of Wi-Fi chip makers, software developers, and equipment vendors. A press release is available now as well. This process began in 2002."

Inside Story of the Economic Crisis

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:43:36 GMT

From Boom to Bust: The Crisis Explained

How the bursting of the housing bubble led to a global financial meltdown.

An in-depth, media-rich timeline that tracks the story of America’s economic collapse, highlighting key moments and players. Read More ...

Wells Fargo Exec Parties in Bank-Owned Foreclosure

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:35:42 GMT

A story is circulating in the LA media today about a Wells Fargo executive, Cheronda Guyton, who allegedly moved into a foreclosed property being held by the bank and threw lavish parties there.The previous owners of the Malibu, CA home, which is or was supposedly worth $12 million, lost the house after they lost all their money to Bernard Madoff.According to reports, Guyton, who oversees foreclosed commercial properties, moved into the swanky home with her husband and two children and even had a large party there the last weekend in August. More...

Motorola Phone Focuses on Social Networks

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:12:36 GMT

Motorola introduced the first of a new generation of smartphone Thursday that it hopes will reverse it's plummeting cellphone sales. The phone, called the Cliq, is meant for young people obsessed with social networks. Instead of the traditional menu of features, the Cliq’s home screen is an ever-changing mosaic of e-mail, Twitter tweets and status updates, superimposed over photos of the people sending those messages.

“It’s alive,” said Sanjay Jha, the co-chief executive of Motorola, who was hired a year ago fromQualcomm to revive its cellphone business. “Think of it like the text bubbles in cartoons, with new information pushed to you all the time.”

The Cliq will be available through T-Mobile in the United States in the fall. The price has not been announced, but analysts expect a $100 price tag. The phone has a 3.1-inch touch screen and a slide-out keyboard. Motorola is expected to introduce a second, more expensive smartphone in a few weeks that will work on the Verizon network. More...

India vs. New Zealand - 2nd Match, Compaq Cup

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:38:57 GMT

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Google May Have to Modify Book Settlement for Judge

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:18:04 GMT

Google Inc., the Web-search engine scanning millions of books to create a digital library, may have to modify a settlement with publishers and authors after more than 60 groups and individuals filed objections or demanded changes, lawyers said.

A federal judge is scheduled to decide Oct. 7 whether to approve a $125 million agreement to establish a “Book Rights Registry,” which would identify and compensate rights holders whose books have been scanned by Google. The governments of Germany and France have joined authors in the U.S., Japan and Europe to oppose the settlement, saying it doesn’t give copyright owners enough choice about how their content is used. More...

Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:22:16 GMT

"The Linux kernel v2.6.31 has been released. Besides the desktop improvements and USB 3.0 support mentioned some days ago, there is an equivalent of FUSE for character devices that can be used for proxying OSS sound through ALSA, new tools for using hardware performance counters, readahead improvements, ATI Radeon KMS, Intel's Wireless Multicomm 3200 support, gcov support, a memory checker and a memory leak detector, a reimplementation of inotify and dnotify on top of a new filesystem notification infrastructure, btrfs improvements, support for IEEE 802.15.4, IPv4 over Firewire, new drivers and small improvements. The full list of changes can be found here."

Twitter to add money making features

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:11:31 GMT

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told reporters in Mexico City this week that the companmy expects to add revenue generating features to the microblogging site in the fourth quarter, according to a report from Bloomberg.com.

After a year or more of speculation by bloggers and financial pundits on ways that Twitter could generate revenue, Stone on Tuesday said the company is building an 'analytics dashboard' designed to help businesses keep track of what is being tweeted about them.

The dashboard is expected to be ready by the end of the year

Comparing Microsoft and Apple Websites' Usability

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:19:22 GMT

'In the article entitled Apple vs. Microsoft — A Website Usability Study, Dmitry Fadeyev, co-founder of Pixelshell,compares Apple's and Microsoft's web sites from a usability perspective, and Apple is the winner. Scott Barnes, PM at Microsoft, agrees with him and suggests the problem is because various site sub-domains have different management.'

De Niro, Springsteen among 2009 Kennedy honorees

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:19:03 GMT

Actor Robert De Niro, musician Bruce Springsteen and funnyman Mel Brooks are among the entertainers whose careers will be celebrated at this year's Kennedy Center Honors Gala in December.

Brooks, 83, was noted for the hilarity of his movies and musicals including "Young Frankenstein," "Blazing Saddles" and "The Producers."

De Niro, 66, has demonstrated a legendary commitment to his characters including the young Mafia godfather Vito Corleone in "The Godfather: Part 2" and the real-life boxer Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull," the center said.

The honorees also include jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck and opera singer Grace Bumbry. They will be feted before America's entertainment and political glitterati on December 6 at Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.