Submission + - Google Results Frozen (launch.is)
mt1955 writes: "Google is accused of manipulating their results to crush the competition and the intimates that the FCC is investigating."
Submission + - PayPal, eBay sue Google over mobile payments (computerworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the area of mobile payments and point-of-sale strategies. The suit filed Thursday before the Superior Court of the State of California in the County of Santa Clara also charges two former employees, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, who now work with Google, of breaching their obligations to PayPal and eBay."
Submission + - Breakthrough in development of bio-batteries (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: The development of practical microbial fuel cells took a big step forward this week. Research conducted by a team of scientists from England's University of East Anglia was published on Monday (May 23), in which they revealed that they had discovered "the exact molecular structure of the proteins which enable bacterial cells to transfer electrical charge." Scientists possessing this knowledge can now start working on technology for tethering bacteria directly to electrodes, which could lead to much more efficient microbial fuel cells — also known as bio-batteries.
Submission + - 8000 credit card details unleashed in bank breach (scmagazine.com.au)
mask.of.sanity writes: Australia's largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank, has cancelled 8,000 credit cards after it detected a data breach at a merchant.
Mastercard and Visa may issue penalties including fines to the acquiring bank under the payment industry’s PCI-DSS compliance rules.
News of breaches is uncommon in Australia because the nation does not have data breach disclosure laws.
Mastercard and Visa may issue penalties including fines to the acquiring bank under the payment industry’s PCI-DSS compliance rules.
News of breaches is uncommon in Australia because the nation does not have data breach disclosure laws.
Submission + - Amazon Challenges Apple With Mac App Store (computerworld.com) 1
CWmike writes: "Amazon launched a Mac-specific application download store on Thursday that will compete with Apple's nearly five-month-old Mac App Store. The new subsection of Amazon's massive online store, dubbed 'Mac Software Downloads,' kicked off quietly Thursday. Amazon has long offered software downloads for both Windows and Mac customers, but this was the first time that the company called out its Mac-centric 'store.' The retailer, however, apparently did not want to goad Apple into another legal battle by mimicking its rival's 'App Store' moniker: The two companies are already in court over Amazon's 'Appstore for Android,' which Apple claims violates its trademark. Unlike the Mac App Store, which Apple opened in early January, Amazon's includes the popular Office for Mac line from Microsoft."
Submission + - The Universe's 'missing mass' - found by undergrad (monash.edu.au)
brindafella writes: "Filaments attached to superclusters seems an obvious place to look for the 'missing' matter in the universe — now! An undergrad at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, working on a six-week paid astrophysics research internship over the holidays, has found what has eluded astrophysicists. A search through X-ray and 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey data showed Amelia Fraser-McKelvie that there was a significant mass of baryons (fundamental components of atoms) in the galactic filaments. The peer-reviewed paper has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society."
Comment Re:flash is malware/adware (Score 1) 244
You make a good point and some Adobe products are amazing (but I do wish the Studio UI team would go back to the drawing board)
re: speculation -- a lot of proprietary software designs rely on "security by obscurity" with plenty of secret stuff that no one is supposed to ever find about.
Comment Re:Alot of Enterprise Software is "too complicated (Score 1) 153
Did you RTFA?
This is slashdot, right?
Comment follow the money (Score 1) 2288
the problem has always been that it would cost too much to change -- all the tooling (i.e. steel dies, taps, etc) would have to be changed. It would also make it more costly to replace components. Instead of just buying a 9/16" socket head cap screw for $2.00 it would mean re-tapping the hole for 14mm for $45
Where it's free and painless it has already been done, e.g. soft drinks come in liters
Comment resistance is futile (Score 1) 167
We have encountered the Borg
Submission + - Gmail Under China Attack: What Next? (zacks.com)
rexjoec writes: "Google Inc. (GOOG) has announced that the Chinese government appears to be tampering with its email services in China. According to Google, the Chinese government has started partially and intermittently blocking user accounts, so users would experience access problems."
Submission + - 10 of the most popular jQuery Plugins (tutorialcadet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A list featuring 10 of the most popular jquery plugins available. From validating user input, to display media and images in a truly user friendly way, to making data visually appealing in the form of graphs and charts our list of the ten most popular jquery plugins will help you on any development project.
Comment Re:Horrible. (Score 1) 2254
+1 for the new design - I think it is easier to read this way.
Submission + - Win the Future says Obama in State of the Union 4
pickens writes: The Washington Post reports that President Obama repeatedly declared the imperative to "win the future," in his State of the Union address comparing the current need for innovation to the 1950s space race against the Soviet Union and calling for more dedication to research and technology as he raised the specter of a rapidly growing China and India, "This is our generation's Sputnik moment." Obama's proposals — some of them left over from last year's State of the Union address — ranged from increasing math and science teacher training to investing more in developing clean-energy technology. "Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik we had no idea how we'd beat them to the moon. The science wasn't even there yet. NASA didn't exist," he said. "But after investing in better research and education, we didn't just surpass the Soviets; we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs."
Comment Re:Quantity, not quality. (Score 1) 535
agreed: in 2008 a friend in China explained that while Chinese writing is unified there are so many spoken dialects that few know them all and while visiting one of his cousins in the south they agreed to speak English so they could understand each other.
