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Submission + - Google's impact on economy dismissed as gimmick 1

Submitted by goG
goG writes: Internet search engine giant Google Inc. (GOOG) revealed, its economic impact in all 50 states, saying it contributed $54 billion of economic activity for over 1 million American businesses, website publishers and non-profits in the past one year. However, many analysts have dismissed Google's published report as nothing more than a marketing ploy to boost its flagging image and attract investors.

"Google has lost control of its image. People have trouble investing in a company that has a declining image," Enderle said, adding that often a company, whose image has taken a battering, resorts to commissioning economic and other reports for public support.
Security

Submission + - Two Years Later, Apple Still Won't Fix Safari Hole (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Two years after fixing a security bug in the Windows version of its Safari browser, Apple apparently has decided that Mac users can go without a fix. Apple was initially unimpressed by Nitesh Dhanjani's work developing what's known as a "carpet bomb" attack, the security researcher said in an interview Monday. 'I told Apple about it two years ago, and they responded back, saying it was more of an annoyance than anything else.' That turned out to be the wrong assessment. Soon after Dhanjani went public with the flaw in May 2008, another security researcher showed how carpet bombing could be combined with another Windows attack to run unauthorized software on a Windows PC. Apple then shipped a fix for Safari on Windows, but not for Safari on Mac OS X. Nobody has shown how to do this on the Mac OS X version of Safari, but Dhanjani still thinks Apple should fix the issue on both platforms. '[W]hile most sane Web browsers warn the end user and ask for explicit permission before saving a file locally, Safari goes ahead and saves the file into the default download location without asking the user,' he said in a recent blog post. 'Even if hundreds of files are served up by the malicious website simultaneously.'
Technology

Submission + - Big Apple has big bucks for tech startups (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: Forget Silicon Valley, you'll love New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is going after geeks and he has deep pockets to woo them. Today Bloomberg announced the creation of a $22 million venture fund that will invest in tech companies headquartered in New York City. He made the announcement in front of the right audience....speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, a media and technology conference that attracts entrepreneurs from throughout the country.
Power

Submission + - GE Hitachi Plans to Turn Nuclear Waste into Fuel (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino
MikeChino writes: President Obama’s recent announcement that the U.S. government will offer $8 billion in federal loan guarantees for the first new nuclear plant in the country in 30 years upset clean energy advocates for a number of reasons. One of the biggest problems: all that radioactive waste. Now GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, one of the world’s biggest suppliers of nuclear reactors, claims that it can safely turn nuclear waste into fuel. Goodbye, Yucca Mountain.

Submission + - Newegg Violates Labor Laws, Employs Hackers (courthousenews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Courthouse News Service writes that Newegg, the online computer retailer that many Slashdotters know and love, has been violating a slew of labor laws, as well as employing hackers "for the purpose of gaining an unfair competitive advantage." Plaintiffs say that a disproportionate amount of Chinese labor is employed with false promises that Newegg would assist them in obtaining green cards, and then forces these employees to work egregiously long hours without breaks.
Hardware

Submission + - Disturbing trend with computer hardware? 1

Submitted by yakatz
yakatz writes: I have noticed over the last few months that I have had many requests for just-out-of-warranty service for hardware problems.
For example, a customer with a 13-month old computer gets "USB over current error" on ever boot.
I tried contacting Dell, since I have been having the most trouble with Dell computers. Dell regular tech support and Dell parts keep directing me to Dell out-of-warranty support, who wants to charge me a fortune just to re-diagnose that a USB port is broken.
At this point, some of my customers have given up and would just buy the replacement parts, but Dell is making it very hard to obtain exactly the same parts.
I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this trend? Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with these issues (i.e. talking to manufacturers, not diagnosing the problems)?
Games

Submission + - Starcraft 2 To Be Released In Mid 2010 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by XPeter
XPeter writes: It's finally here folks, after over a decade of waiting the second Starcraft game is set to be released by ActiBlizz in the middle of 2010, with the beta starting later this month. The new Battle.net has been equipped with multi-game voice chatting, along with a shop to purchase ActiBlizz titles. For those interested, "Thousands" of players will be given access to the beta (which you can sign up for here: http://www.starcraft2.com/beta-faq.xml), across North America, Australia, Taiwan, Europe, New Zealand, and South Korea.

Submission + - Heat Apartment Using Hot Water? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I'm an engineering college student in a very cold city, living in an off campus apartment. I have to pay for electricity and heat, while water is free. Our building has a common hot water heater, so I get that for free as well. I was wondering if anyone could think of a way that I could use my free hot water as an effective heater for my apartment.

Comment The point of gaming (Score 1) 553

by vldragon (#30491854) Attached to: Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers
I though one of the main point of gaming was to take you out of reality and become someone or something differant. I doubt this would ever be used in game, and if is i don't think it will sell very well. Maybe they just wan't to patent it to keep other from doing it? I don't the employess of MS are any more fit than your average gamer anyway...

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