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Biotech

Submission + - 'Bad fats' ban in NYC restaurants

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gollum123
gollum123 writes: "New York City's Board of Health has voted to ban artery-clogging trans-fats from the city's restaurants ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6210600.stm ). The unanimous vote makes the city the first in the US to ban the fats, although the original strict deadline to comply has been lengthened. Restaurants will be banned from using most frying oils containing trans-fats from 1 July, and will have to eliminate the fats from all foods by 1 July 2008."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Richest 2% own 'half the wealth'

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gollum123
gollum123 writes: "BBC reports The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth, according to a new study by a United Nations research institute ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6211250.stm ). The report, from the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the UN University, says that the poorer half of the world's population own barely 1% of global wealth. It deals with all countries in the world — either actual data or estimates based on statistical analysis — and it deals with wealth, where most previous research has looked at income. What they mean by wealth in this study is what people own, less what they owe — their debts. The assets include land, buildings, animals and financial assets. The study also finds that inequality is sharper in wealth than in annual income. In less developed nations, land and farm assets are more important, reflecting the greater importance of agriculture in those economies. In contrast, some citizens of the rich countries have more debt than assets — making them, the report says, among the poorest in the world in terms of household wealth."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Future of Home Video

Journal by gizmateer

This article brings up several perceived trends in the home video market... several of which are controversial such as DVDs starting to die and Blu-ray and HD-DVD's becoming irrelevant soon.

The Internet

Submission + - Standards for web page load speeds

Submitted by
paul
paul writes: "I'm helping manage the redesign of a large corporate customer service web site and realized that I only have information from the user's perspective about page load speeds. Are there current targets, even if they're moving targets, for acceptable page load times for a) static pages, b) dynamic pages, and c) dynamic pages with database backend — does anyone have any industry research on this? — Paul"
SuSE

Submission + - Microsoft Linux?

Submitted by 56
56 writes: At a press conference in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Novell CEO Ronald Hovsepian announced a

new partnership between Microsoft and Novell. The unprecedented deal will have Microsoft offering a degree of sales support for Novell's SUSE Linux while both companies work towards better interoperability between their respective operating systems. As part of the agreement, Microsoft also promises not to wield its patent portfolio against SUSE Linux.

The Internet

Submission + - A misterious site pre-launches with a puzzle

Submitted by RBAE
RBAE writes: Stealth sites are not new, but have you ever seen one that challenges you to figure out what they'll be, by watching a (homemade) video? That's what coRank.com is proposing: guess what coRank is from watching a simple video, then post what you think coRank is (or will be).

There's something "diggy-like" to the project, but the interesting part is in some of the ideas people are submitting. Some of them are quite good. And as one commenter points out "Sure it's not a revenue sharing thing — Calcanis isn't going to like it". Crowdstorming anyone?
PHP

Submission + - PHP 5.2.0 Released

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ShaunC
ShaunC writes: "The PHP Group and Zend have released PHP 5.2.0, and upgrades are encouraged. The 5.2.0 update offers several security fixes, including patches for a couple recently announced buffer overflows in input parsing. This release also includes a number of library upgrades, bug fixes, and default bundling of the popular JSON extension to help with AJAX development. See the full changelog for more details."

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