Nokia Looks to Cars: GPS going to take off?
posted by simple (10) 25 months ago (gigaom.com)
While we’ve been somewhat skeptical about the market for certain location-based applications for mobile devices, the market for GPS-navigation services is actually taking off. Nokia is betting big on the GPS market, and today the company announced its first dedicated GPS auto-navigation device, the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation, which will be
..... more »'Dilbert's' 9-point financial plan worthy of economics Nobel - MarketWatch
posted by simple (10) 26 months ago (www.marketwatch.com)
OK, so Dilbert didn't win the Nobel Prize in economics this year. There's always next year, right? Or perhaps a parallel universe? You may wonder whether Dilbert and his creator, cartoonist Scott Adams, have any chance, but since the Nobel committee's records are sealed for 50 years our imagination runs free.
.. more »Blogspot Blogs Banned by Indian ISPs: Read Tricks To Access Blocked Websites.
posted by sunil (135) 28 months ago (labnol.blogspot.com)
Amit Agarwal blogs that Reliance Infocom, MTNL, Star Hathway and Tata Internet Services may be blocking access to blogspot sites. Rumor is that it is government initiated. He also discusses ways to circumvent the ban... more »
andreasviklund.com » Free website templates
posted by sunil (135) 28 months ago (andreasviklund.com)
Some great looking open source XHTML/CSS website templates... more »
Software Evolution from Biological Perspective (Open Source and Closed software models)
posted by prashant (299) 28 months ago (scienceblogs.com)
Carl Zimmer writes, "Biologists have long recognized some striking parallels between genes and software. Genes stored information in a language of DNA, with the four nucleotides serving as its alphabet. A genetic code allowed cells to translate the information in genes into the separate language of proteins, which used an alphabet of twenty amino ..... more »
Inflatable space Aircraft Test successfull
posted by prashant (299) 28 months ago (news.bbc.co.uk)
An experimental inflatable spacecraft that blasted into space on Wednesday has successfully expanded. Bigelow Aerospace, the commercial firm behind the Genesis 1 module, confirmed that the ship was in orbit and was beaming pictures back to Earth... more »
TechCrunch: Skype Protocol Hacked
posted by kjohn (224) 28 months ago (www.techcrunch.com)
Reports are coming in from Asia that the Skype protocol has been hacked. If accurate, this means that users can access the Skype VOIP network without using the Skype client - calls could be made through third party software directly to and from Skype users. A Skype-compatible client may be available by the end of July... more »
Kiva: give loans to small businesses in the developing world.
posted by sams (94) 28 months ago (www.kiva.org)
Great initiative. "Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal ..... more »
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The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art
posted by ruchir (1089) 28 months ago (scienceblogs.com)
As a starting point for the attempt to discover universals in art based on our knowledge of neuroscience, and visual neuroscience in particular, V.S. Ramachandran has proposed ten principles of art (eight of which come from the paper he wrote with William Hirstein, titled "The Science of Art") ... more »
How network inefficiency is bringing down Skype
posted by prashant (299) 28 months ago (www.pbs.org)
Cringley writes, "Most ISP's plan their facilities with the idea that no more than 15 percent of customers are active at any time. If some number significantly above 15 percent attempted to be active, service would suffer." And "If broadband users are promised one megabit-per-second, the ISP buys 1-2 percent of that amount of backbone capacity per ..... more »
How To Install VMware Server On Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
posted by sunil (135) 28 months ago (www.howtoforge.com)
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install the free VMware Server (version 1.0) on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake).
"VMware has just released version 1.0 of its free VMware Server. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host ..... more »
VentureWoods
posted by sams (94) 28 months ago (www.venturewoods.org)
VentureWoods, the blog "is an attempt to bring the Indian venture community closer together. All its constituents, right from the entrepreneurs themselves, venture capital firms, angel funds, lawyers, recruiters, investment bankers, incubation cells".. more »
Linux breeds Boeing's new jets in Australia
posted by mblaster (217) 28 months ago (www.linuxworld.com)
Hawker de Havilland, the Australian arm of aircraft engineering giant Boeing, will retire its 30-year-old VAX system in favor of its new Linux-based environment in the manufacture of parts for the company's next-generation 787 jets... more »
The USB missile launcher!
posted by nikhil (150) 29 months ago (www.reghardware.co.uk)
The Most silliest USB adaptation. "The desktop deployment system comes pre-loaded with three foam rockets ready to be triggered by punching a virtual version of the infamous red button. You control the direction and angle of attack with your mouse. One click and - foom! - your officemates are toast. Unless they get you first. Have fun!.. more »
The Stress of Reaching for the Mouse
posted by netchutney (21) 29 months ago (www.businessknowhow.com)
If you work at a computer all day, you've probably experienced pain of one sort or another from sitting at your desk and using your computer. In this article by licensed chiropractor Steven Jones, find out what you can do to prevent injuring your arms and hands while using a mouse... more »
10 New Income Streams You Can Add to Your Business
posted by netchutney (21) 29 months ago (www.businessknowhow.com)
Want to increase your income without raising prices? You can expand your business by offering related, but different, products or services. Here are 10 ideas for different income sources you can use to increase your bottom line... more »
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Photo in the News: Mouse Rides Frog in India Monsoon
posted by mblaster (217) 29 months ago (news.nationalgeographic.com)
Great photo! "Photographed Friday in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, a mouse perches on a frog in waist-deep (for a frog, anyway) floodwaters—a small sign of the early arrival of annual summer monsoon rains.".. more »
Imagining the Tenth Dimension - Flash presentation
posted by simple (10) 29 months ago (www.tenthdimension.com)
The flash presentation with narration and sound effects takes you from the first to the tenth dimension.
"In string theory, physicists tell us that the subatomic particles that make up our universe are created within ten spatial dimensions (plus an eleventh dimension of "time") by the vibrations of exquisitely small "superstrings". The average ..... more »
Fingers crossed, B’lore awaits rains
posted by nikhil (150) 29 months ago (www.ibnlive.com)
Bangalore was flooded during rains last year and its citizens fear the same might happen again this time. After Mumbai, is it b'lore turn?.. more »
Cassini unravelling origins of Saturn's rings
posted by nikhil (150) 29 months ago (www.theregister.co.uk)
The origins of some of Saturn's rings' most enigmatic features are becoming clearer, according to scientists analysing the data sent back by the Cassini space craft. Scientists observed a bright arc of material looping around the edge of the G-ring, one of the most tenuous of all the rings around the gas giant. Researchers now believe this is a ..... more »
Wikipedia founder launches political site
posted by nikhil (150) 29 months ago (news.zdnet.com)
Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot political topics... more »
Hardware diagnostics with open source tools
posted by nikhil (150) 29 months ago (software.newsforge.com)
NewsForge takes a look at some of the diagnostic tools found on the GRML live CD. "A GNU/Linux live CD distribution can come handy for hardware diagnostics. For this purpose, my favorite live CD distribution is GRML, which bundles the tools we're about to discuss, along with some other useful programs for both home users and veteran system ..... more »
A Developer's Guide to Surviving Meetings
posted by simple (10) 29 months ago (blog.outer-court.com)
Survival strategy for long meetings - of the boring kind... more »
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US Inc demands instant boost in H-1B visa cap
posted by buster (356) 30 months ago (www.expressindia.com)
Although the US Cong has been arguing that H-1B visa has depressed wages for US technology workers, American high-tech industry expressed the urgency to raise the limit on visas, for the country is in need of 'highly educated foreigners'.. more »
Video - A Meteoroid Hits the Moon
posted by buster (356) 30 months ago (science.nasa.gov)
"On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that's about the same as 4 tons of TNT," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. "The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope.".. more »
Google My Spreadsheet
posted by ashok (142) 30 months ago (www.microsoftmonitor.com)
"Perhaps the real Google competitive threat isn't any product or products, but the information vendor's ability to rustle Microsoft corporate paranoia. To get Microsoft chasing Google phantoms, and in the process get Microsoft's corporate mind off its core business.".. more »
Cingular to Update Windows Mobile Handsets for Push Email
posted by spinner (29) 30 months ago (www.mobileburn.com)
"Cingular has announced that two of its Windows Mobile based smartphones, the 8125 and 2125, will receive the Microsoft Messaging and Security Feature Pack stating later this month.".. more »
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Michael Jackson holds the Anti-Gravity Patent !
posted by goofer (192) 30 months ago (www.smooth-criminal.com)
Michael Jackson and two of his costume designers obtained a US patent (US5255452) in 1993 on "Methods and Means for Creating Anti Gravity Illusion.. more »
Hack Attack: The Cordless Workspace (sort of) - Lifehacker
posted by simple (10) 30 months ago (lifehacker.com)
"When all's said and done, your new streamlined workspace should be totally clear from cord clutter. To be honest, I was blown away by how well this worked.".. more »
Must Read: The Elegant Universe
posted by spcwlkr (130) 30 months ago (moneydick.com)
"Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" Full online text of Brian Greene's bestseller... more »
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