Interesting article by Diane Mermigas at Seeking Alpha about the challenges Google is facing as it diversifies into more and more areas, and it rumbles over the line dividing plucky upstart to hated giant monopolist:
Like past monoliths of new growth industries, Google appears to be invincible. But Google is vulnerable just because it is thinly spread in a. . .
As part of Microsoft’s on-going commitment to combat the spread of pirated and counterfeit software, and to protect our customers and partners, the Office team today made two important announcements.
First, we expanded the Office Genuine Advantage Notifications program into 13 more countries, upping the total to 41 countries where the voluntary program offers end users enhanced protection against the risks of using non-genuine copies of Office, such as viruses and malfunctioning code. more. . .
Microsoft apologized Tuesday for using photo editing techniques to change the race of a person depicted on the company's Web site.
In a photo on the company's U.S. Web site, three businesspeople--one black, one white and one Asian are shown as part of a pitch for Microsoft's business productivity software. more. . .
The event, on September 1 in San Francisco, will "share how the two companies collaborated on key enhancements during the development of Windows 7," according to Intel. Steve Smith, vice president and director, Intel's Digital Enterprise Group Operations, and Michael Angiulo, general manager of Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem at Microsoft, will talk at the event. Microsoft plans to launch Windows 7 on October 22.
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Officials warned about fake DHS intel e-mails
WASHINGTON — Some e-mails purporting to be from the Homeland Security Department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software. The e-mails actually originated from Internet addresses in Latvia and Russia,
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Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used:
By deleting one small text file from a Windows installation DVD, users can choose to install any of five different editions, according to Woody Leonard, a contributing editor to the Windows Secrets newsletter.
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ADO.Net Data Services exposes data, represented as Entity Data Model (EDM) objects, via web services accessed over HTTP. The data can be addressed using a REST-like URI.
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The Pakistan government's approval for the construction of the mega Diamer-Bhasha dam in the Northern Areas, in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), could initiate a fresh row with India.
New Delhi says the proposed project would not only be located in an illegally held territory but could also cause floods in Jammu and Kashmir. It is also concerned over reports that the dam may be built with Chinese assistance. more. . .
While the open-source crowd gets (rightly) excited by Linux's growing market share, three companies are pulling the rug out from under the feet of traditional operating systems.
Red Hat is winning in Linux while IBM cleans up the Unix market. But those are increasingly yesterday's markets as Microsoft, Google, and VMware create different breeds of operating system, each tuned to the strength of its product portfolio. continue reading. . .
A Canadian woman has won a landmark lawsuit against Google Inc. which forces the search engine giant to reveal the identity of the anonymous cyber bullies she says posted offensive comments about her on a blog using the technology titan’s Blogger service.
Former fashion model Liskula Cohen -- who appeared on the covers of Australian Vogue and W magazine in the early 1990s -- sued Google in January, demanding the Web company hand over the name of an anonymous blogger who posted pictures of her with unflattering captions on a blog entitled "Skanks of NYC" in August of 2008.
Ms. Cohen, who won the suit in New York State Supreme Court read more. . .BERLIN — The proposed U.S. legal settlement giving Google the right to sell digital copies of millions of books is dividing publishers and authors in Europe, which has struggled to develop viable alternatives to Google’s ambitious book digitization project.
Some big European publishers, like Oxford University Press, and Bertelsmann and Holtzbrinck, which own read more. . .Jaswant Singh on Sunday met former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the latter's residence.
Singh, who was a Cabinet minister under Vajpayee's government, drove to the ailing BJP patriarch's Krishna Menon Marg residence this afternoon. more. . .
Days after being purchased by VMware, open-source Java specialist SpringSource is expanding into the enterprise cloud-deployment biz using a recent acquisition of its own.
SpringSource has sprung a service into beta for Java developers making apps in the cloud. The platform, called SpringSource Cloud Foundry, is built on the open-source Cloud Tools project currently used for Java Enterprise applications on Amazon EC2. more. . .
What did you do this summer? Flat World Knowledge stayed busy on campus and now has 40 times as many students and more than 10 times the colleges using their freemium, open-source digital textbooks as they did spring semester. And they did it the old-fashioned way — one professor at a time.
After a sort of beta earlier this year, Flat World is set to announce Thursday that more than 40,000 college students at 400 colleges will use their digital, DRM-free textbooks fall semester, up from 1,000 in 30 colleges in the spring. more. . .
Google has begun work on a 64-bit version of Chrome for Linux, a move likely to whip Linux loyalists into a lather of excitement.
"The V8 team did some amazing work this quarter building a working 64-bit port. After a handful of changes on the Chromium side, I've had Chromium Linux building on 64-bit for the last few weeks," said Chrome engineer Dean McNamee in a mailing list message Thursday. more. . .
Everyone talks about house price averages. But how much actual wealth have American households lost in the real estate crash? (And what, if anything, does this mean for you and your money?)
The story on the indices is mixed. The Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller 20 City Composite is down about a third from its peak three years ago. Inevitably this generates a lot of the buzz. But Case-Shiller is weighted towards big cities, including Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Miami, where declines have been severe. Other sources believe more. . .There are several reports (see New York Times and Wall Street Journal) that Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon will join a coalition aimed at challenging the Google book settlement.
Peter Brantley, director of the Internet Archive, which is putting the coalition together, tells the Wall Street Journal that coalition members want the agreement revised, but aren’t necessarily pushing to have it blocked.
The settlement stems from a lawsuit that claimed Google’s practice of scanning books and making them available online violated the copyrights of authors and publishers. Google settled the lawsuit last October, and a federal judge has already given tentative approval of the settlement. But, in response to growing opposition from authors’ groups and others in the publishing industry, final approval of the settlement was delayed until a Fairness Hearing scheduled for October 7th. continue reading. . .
Despite all the nifty, gee-whiz technology that the Web 2.0 craze brought the software industry, it's still stodgy enterprise software that continues to command a significant price tag.
That's because however much we may enjoy Facebooking, Twittering, etc., ultimately we pay for what helps us get our jobs done.
Open source has infiltrated many levels of IT over the past decade.
It has been a slow process; however, little by little, it has become a normality. And even though many companies are adopting open source software, they are hesitant to bring open source developers into the fold. Why is this?
Many larger companies do not place any value on open source applications, therefore they do not place any value in those who code the applications. Some companies are afraid that hiring an open source developer would be a liability--possibly reverse engineering their proprietary software and then releasing forked versions into the community. continue reading . . .
When fashion model Liskula Cohen sued Google, she took aim at one of the key online tenets: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
Disguised in comforting anonymity, bloggers and online commenters can type some pretty nasty things – accusations and language that they’d never say to people face-to-face. However, the masquerade ball may have just ended. more. . .
Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon are reportedly joining the Internet Archive and other non-profit groups to dismantle Google’s book settlement with publishers and authors.
According to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and others, the group of tech giants and library groups will be co-led by Gary Reback, more . . .Another month, another report that Bing is chiming slightly louder. Analytics firm comScore has just released its latest figures on search market share, and once again Microsoft's search engine has managed to grow while its competitors have seen modest losses.
Bing launched to the public on May 31, when Microsoft held 8.0% search marketshare. Over the course of June and July, the site has gained nearly a full percentage point ? it's up to 8.9%, more. . .SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Google lifted the lid a bit last week on a once-secret project, called "Caffeine," to improve its search engine.
Caffeine doesn't look any different from the old Google search engine, but it ranks results differently.
The search giant says the new architecture, which isn't finished yet, will "push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions." more. . .
As chip geometries get infinitesimally small, IBM is looking to DNA to make the manufacture of future chips feasible.
On Monday, IBM researchers and collaborator Paul W.K. Rothemund, of the California Institute of Technology, announced an advancement of a method to arrange DNA origami structures on surfaces compatible with today's semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Low concentrations of triangular DNA
origami bind to wide lines on a lithographically patterned surface.
Microsoft's environmental impact isn’t limited to its massive data centers or its commuting employees. With hundreds of millions of PCs draining batteries and tapping into power outlets around the world, even a small tweak in Microsoft Windows can influence global energy consumption.
One study estimated that changes in Windows Vista — mostly changes in the operating system’s “sleep” mode — could benefit the environment in the U.S. as much as taking 380,000 cars off the road. more . . .
And at first glance, you’d be right. The alliance does a number of things for both Nokia and Microsoft.
Aishwarya Rai is down with a "chest infection" and "flu-like symptoms" and her father-in-law, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, is worried.
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Associated Press File photo of Indian actress Aishwarya Rai arriving for the opening ceremony of the 62nd International film festival in Cannes, May 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
"Aishwarya has taken ill and is down with chest infection and flu like symptoms. She had a high fever yesterday, but is settling down today," he posted on his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com Saturday from Singapore.
"It's worrying to be so far away from children and not be there to look after them. Yes, they are mature and married and responsible, but children will always remain children," he added. Ms. Aishwarya is married to Mr. Bachchan's son Abhishek. more . . .
And yet, there's still a place for the Sunday afternoon staple of home shopping.
"The more exposure we can get the house we're trying to sell, the better," said Frank Schrader, broker-owner of Real Estate Direct, with locations in Melbourne and Cocoa Village.
Still, agents concede, homes rarely sell at open houses. Instead, one of the prime motivations for an agent to hold one is to get leads on potential buyers who aren't yet working with a real estate
Businesses today support Windows. Many also support Mac OS X. Should businesses also support Linux?
The answer is that most already do—at least in some form. Look closely in the corporate data center and you're likely to find Linux servers. Often you will see rack after rack loaded with Linux servers. Industrial Light and Magic's (ILM) data center in the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco's Presidio, handles their special effects image rendering on banks of Linux-based servers.
Even if you don't find Linux in the data center you will probably find it's big brother Unix. IBM AIX servers, very commonly found in data centers, are Unix based. continue reading. . .Dell is one company which has been offering Linux powered netbooks in the international markets.
The company is now working on smartbook models as well and these would also be powered by Linux OS.
Smartbooks are powered with cheaper ARM processors. The company has not confirmed when such a model could be available on sale in the market. more . . .
I received an interesting email recently from a reader that takes offense at how I dare to discuss the differences between Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) systems operating in NUMA versus SUMA/SUMO mode. One excerpt of the email read:
…and I think you are just creating confusion and chaos to gain popularity with your NUMA versus non-NUMA stuff. We tested everything we can think of and see no difference when booted with NUMA or non-NUMA…
I don’t doubt for one moment that the testing performed by this reader showed no performance differences between NUMA and SUMA because I have no idea whatsoever what his testing consisted of. And, besides, Xeon 5500 Nehalem EP is one extremely nice NUMA package. That is, when running non-NUMA aware software on this particular NUMA offering you can rest assured that you won’t likely fall over dead from NUMA pathologies. That’s good, but does that mean there really is no difference when booted in the NUMA versus SUMA? Hardly! more. . .
Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Standard Life Investments, Scotland’s second-largest money manager, plans to raise as much as 325 million pounds ($537 million) in equity for two real estate funds to exploit a two-year slide in commercial-property values.
One fund will be targeted at institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurers, and the other at wealthy individuals, Andrew Jackson, head of strategy at the Edinburgh- based company, said in an interview Aug. 12. Standard Life will start raising the money in October.
What is the most popular programming language used by open source developers?
The answer depends on how you define popularity.
According to a new study from Black Duck, a software-license code analysis vendor, C represents more than 40 percent of all code written for open source software.
Black Duck made its determination by counting the actual lines of code. While C is the leader by that measure, PHP and JavaScript are on the rise when you look at the broader picture of how open source projects use programming languages.
"Most open source projects use more than one language," Peter Vescuso, Black Duck's executive vice president of marketing and business development told InternetNews.com. "We found that 36 percent of all the projects, with a release in the last year, had some JavaScript."
VMware's acquisition of SpringSource is not a match made in heaven. It's going to take an effort by both parties to make this marriage work. Still, it looks like one of the few responses VMware could make to counterMicrosoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s dangerous invasion of its turf.
These thoughts were prompted by an exchange with Salil Deshpande, a general partner of on the three largest investors in SpringSource, Bay Partners more. . .
Made on a budget of around Rs 7 to 8 crore, Raj, the Showman also stars Nisha Kothari as Puneet Raj Kuamr's heroine.For Google, which provided all the free pizza, coffee and Chinese takeout an insomniac code monkey could consume in 48 hours, the campout was a chance to have fresh eyes critique its technology, while tapping into new applications that could boost the attractiveness of Wave. more...
After leaving much of the creation of a new version of HTML to Apple, Google, Opera, and Mozilla, Microsoft has begun sinking its teeth into the Web standard.
The move adds clout to the effort to renovate HyperText Markup Language, the standard used to describe Web pages, which last was formally updated in 1999. In a "mailing list posting" on Friday, the software giant offered a host of questions and concerns with the present proposal. more. . .
It isn’t really that confusing or complicated but the upgrade chart released by Microsoft certainly makes it appear so... read more
Some aspiring Eagle Scouts clean up parks, run safety campaigns, or refurbish hiking trails to complete the leadership service project required to achieve the Boy Scouts of America's highest rank.
David Browning, of Troop 600 in Bellevue, is installing Windows 7.
To be sure, this is no simple project. The 16-year-old technology enthusiast, who happens to be the son of a Microsoft employee, is overseeing the deployment of Microsoft's new operating system across 67 computers at Eastside Christian School in Bellevue -- managing a team of fellow Boy Scouts and overseeing a complex software duplication process to help the school make a much-needed technological upgrade. read more....
How Ratings are Done For Hollywood Movies  A G-rated motion picture contains nothing in theme, language, nudity, sex, violence or other matters that, in the view of the Rating Board, would offend parents whose younger children view the motion picture. The G rating is not a “certificate of approval,” nor does it signify a “children’s” motion picture. Some snippets of language may go beyond polite conversation but they are common everyday expressions. No stronger words are present in G-rated motion pictures. Depictions of violence are minimal. No nudity, sex scenes or drug use are present in the motion picture.  A PG-rated motion picture should be investigated by parents before they let their younger children attend. The PG rating indicates, in the view of the Rating Board, that parents may consider some material unsuitable for their children, and parents should make that decision. The more mature themes in some PG-rated motion pictures may call for parental guidance. There may be some profanity and some depictions of violence or brief nudity. But these elements are not deemed so intense as to require that parents be strongly cautioned beyond the suggestion of parental guidance. There is no drug use content in a PG-rated motion picture.  A PG-13 rating is a sterner warning by the Rating Board to parents to determine whether their children under age 13 should view the motion picture, as some material might not be suited for them. A PG-13 motion picture may go beyond the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, adult activities or other elements, but does not reach the restricted R category. The theme of the motion picture by itself will not result in a rating greater than PG-13, although depictions of activities related to a mature theme may result in a restricted rating for the motion picture. Any drug use will initially require at least a PG-13 rating. More than brief nudity will require at least a PG-13 rating, but such nudity in a PG-13 rated motion picture generally will not be sexually oriented. There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence. A motion picture’s single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual context. The Rating Board nevertheless may rate such a motion picture PG-13 if, based on a special vote by a two-thirds majority, the Raters feel that most American parents would believe that a PG-13 rating is appropriate because of the context or manner in which the words are used or because the use of those words in the motion picture is inconspicuous.  An R-rated motion picture, in the view of the Rating Board, contains some adult material. An R-rated motion picture may include adult themes, adult activity, hard language, intense or persistent violence, sexually-oriented nudity, drug abuse or other elements, so that parents are counseled to take this rating very seriously. Children under 17 are not allowed to attend R-rated motion pictures unaccompanied by a parent or adult guardian. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about R-rated motion pictures in determining their suitability for their children. Generally, it is not appropriate for parents to bring their young children with them to R-rated motion pictures.  An NC-17 rated motion picture is one that, in the view of the Rating Board, most parents would consider patently too adult for their children 17 and under. No children will be admitted. NC-17 does not mean “obscene” or “pornographic” in the common or legal meaning of those words, and should not be construed as a negative judgment in any sense. The rating simply signals that the content is appropriate only for an adult audience. An NC-17 rating can be based on violence, sex, aberrational behavior, drug abuse or any other element that most parents would consider too strong and therefore off-limits for viewing by their children. | |
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What is an email header?
Each email you receive comes with headers. The headers contain information about the routing of the email and the originating IP of the email. Not all emails you receive can be traced back to the originating point and depending on how you send emails determines whether or not they can trace the email back to you. The headers don't contain any personal information. At most, you can get the originating IP and the computer name that sent the email. The originating IP can be looked up to determine from where the email was sent. IP address location information DOES NOT contain your street address or phone number. It will most likely determine the city and the ISP the sender used.
Each email program will vary as to how you get to the email options. I'll cover the basics...the rest is up to you.
Right click the email while it's in the inbox and choose Message Options. A window will open with the headers in the bottom of the window.
Right click the email while it's in the inbox, choose Properties, then click the Details tab.
Open the email. In the upper right corner of the email you'll see the word Reply with a little down arrow to the right. Click the down arrow and choose Show Original.
Right click the email in the inbox and choose View Message Source.
Right click the email in the inbox and choose View Full Headers.
You can see that no matter the email program, the headers are usually just a right click away.
Usually the first IP listed is where the email originated. There are exceptions to this. You'll have to look at the information logically to deduce the originating IP.
Yes and No. For example, someone who sends an email to your hotmail account shows in the X-Originating IP section of the headers. However, someone who sends you an email from GMail can ONLY be traced back to the GMail servers.
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