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Krishna Dagli writes:
Two Ph.D. students at the University of California at Berkeley says that Daylight Savings Shift will not do any good or energy saving. We are already spending money for software upgrades in the name of saving energy and after reading following article I wonder has congress really studied the impact of DST shift?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/print?id=2938715
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Krishna Dagli writes:
Well this is quite a good way to make money. Domain names are up for grabs on domain resale sites and prices ranges from hundred to few thousands.
From the article:
Finish security firm F-Secure has discovered that alongside the sale of such innocuous domains as filmlist.com comes the resale of domains that obviously belong to banks or other financial institutions. Sedo.com, for example, is reselling domains like chasebank-online.com, citi-bank.com and bankofameriuca.com. "Why would anybody want to buy these domains unless they are the bank themselves — or a phishing scammer?", F-Secure asks. The firm lists around 30 examples in a posting on its blog here.
The aricle is at The Register ishere.
Here is the one list of domains which are for resale at Moniker
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Krishna Dagli writes:
Seagate, using their new DriveTrust Technology willl automatically encrypts every bit of data stored on the hard drive and require users to have a key, or password, before being able to access the disk drive.
With recent laptop(s) thefts will these make data more secure? Will this technology/method will be faster then the existing tools?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20061030.wharddrive1029/BNStory/Technology/?page= rss&id=RTGAM.20061030.wharddrive1029
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Krishna Dagli writes:
The Firefox web browser has come a long way since the project was announced as a fork from the open-sourced Mozilla project. Version 1.0 was released in 2004 and quickly won critical acclaim for its speed, compatibility with web standards, and features. In a couple of years, Firefox managed to reach a milestone that its predecessor never quite reached: hitting 10 percent market share worldwide. Version 2 of the browser recently hit Release Candidate 2, but the team is already making plans for 3.0. The Mozilla organization has set up a feature brainstorming web site that allows everyone to enter their favorite wish lists for the open source browser.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061013-7986 .html
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Krishna Dagli writes:
A new consortium of hardware vendors and phone companies has formed a group led by ECI Telecom and includes members like Spanish telephone giant Telefonica, but it's based in Israel and funded in part with a grant from the Israeli government. The group's goal is audacious: achieve fiber optic speeds over copper wire. If they succeed, Verizon's $18 billion decision to run fiber all the way into consumers' homes might be a costly one for them and other companies around the world that have jumped on the fiber optic bandwagon.The group hopes that the answer will be found in the use of Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) to boost DSL speeds.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061010-7952 .html
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Krishna Dagli writes:
What if the candy maker Mars could come up with an additive to the coating of its M&M's and Skittles that would keep them fresher longer and inhibit melting? Or if scientists at Unilever could shrink the fat particles (and thereby the calories) in premium ice cream without sacrificing its taste and feel?
These ideas are still laboratory dreams. The common thread in these research projects and in product development at many other food companies is nanotechnology, the name for a growing number of techniques for manipulating matter in dimensions as small as single molecules.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/technology/10nan o.html?ei=5090&en=7fdc7fa661f0698f&ex=1318132800&p artner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
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Krishna Dagli writes:
An estimated 30 million Americans, or roughly one-fifth of the nation's workforce, are part of the so-called Kinko's generation, employees who spend significant hours each month working outside of a traditional office. This rootless army is growing 10% annually, according to Gartner Dataquest research. The reason? Corporations are increasingly supportive of teleworking for reasons that range from saving money on office space to needing a backup in the event of a natural disaster or terror attack.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2006-10-04-third-spac e_x.htm#
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Krishna Dagli writes:
InformationWeek has learned Trend Micro is researching how PCs, including computers in defense agencies, are infected with software that can be used to mine confidential data, send spam, or launch denial-of-service attacks. But government IT managers challenge those findings, and Trend Micro is backing down on some.
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt icle.jhtml?articleID=193104896
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Krishna Dagli writes:
ens of thousands of unsolved crimes could be cracked with a new forensic technique, it has been claimed.The Forensic Science Service (FSS) is piloting a computer-based analysis system which can interpret previously unintelligible DNA samples.It claims the technique is a world first which will boost its crime detection rates by more than 15%.The method is being tested by the West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Northumbria and Humberside police forces.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/5404402 .stm
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Krishna Dagli writes:
Almost certainly — and if you're wondering what a clickprint is, it is "a unique pattern of web surfing behavior based on actions such as the number of pages viewed per session, the number of minutes spent on each page, the time or day of the week the page is visited, and so on." That's the description used by Professor Balaji Padmanabhan, at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Catherine Yang, of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. In a new paper (available from http://tinyurl.com/hj263), they suggest that by observing how people navigate around a site over a number of sessions, an e-commerce company could distinguish between two anonymous surfers.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1 882014,00.html
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Krishna Dagli writes:
A new study by NASA scientists finds that the world's temperature is reaching a level that has not been seen in thousands of years.
The study, led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, N.Y., along with scientists from other organizations concludes that, because of a rapid warming trend over the past 30 years, the Earth is now reaching and passing through the warmest levels in the current interglacial period, which has lasted nearly 12,000 years. An "interglacial period" is a time in the Earth's history when the area of Earth covered by glaciers was similar or smaller than at the present time. Recent warming is forcing species of plants and animals to move toward the north and south poles.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20060925/?p rint=1&1=1&2=2&3=3
