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Submission + - Google Phone is Coming !

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google Inc has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its cell phone project and is courting U.S. and European mobile operators, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp to design a Linux software-based Googlephone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.
Education

Submission + - Salaries Growing for Computer Science Grads (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by SirLurksAlot
SirLurksAlot writes: A recent study shows that Computer Science graduates are experiencing an increase in starting salaries. Despite (or perhaps because of) a reduced interest in Computer Science in colleges across the nation and the recent trend towards outsourcing, it looks like there could be a change of fortune for current Comp. Sci. graduates. From the article "A recent study of post-college careers from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (also noted by the Chronicle) found that computer-science grads saw their average starting salary offers grow by 4.5 percent last year alone. The new average salary for a job right out of college is now $53,051. That's the highest amount this decade."
Worms

Submission + - Analysis of Storm Worm (cyber-ta.org)

Submitted by madAlric
madAlric writes: This is an interesting analysis of the Storm Worm trojan.
From the article:
"In this paper, we attempt to partially address voids in our collective understanding of Storm by providing a multi-perspective analysis of various Storm clients. Our analysis includes a static dissection of the malware binary and the characteristics of the Storm worm's network dialog as observed from multiple infection traces."
Software

Submission + - 10 years of Winamp (winamp.com)

Submitted by
Will Fisher
Will Fisher writes: "On 10/10 at 10:10 the 10th anniversary edition of Winamp (version 5.5) was launched. Winamp has been a central part of the mp3 revolution, and is now staging a resurgence. Key features of this new release are a completely new interface (but you can still use all your old winamp skins), album artwork and remote access of your media. Wired has a good write-up of the release."
Power

Submission + - Ethanol demand is increasing food prices worldwide

Submitted by hereisnowhy
hereisnowhy writes: The rising demand for corn as a source of ethanol-blended fuel is largely to blame for increasing food costs around the world, the CBC reports. Increased prices for ethanol have already led to bigger grocery bills for the average American — an increase of $47 US compared to July 2006. In Mexico last year, corn tortillas, a crucial source of calories for 50 million poor people, doubled in price. The increase forced the government to introduce price controls. The move to ethanol-blended fuel is based in part on wide-spread belief that it produces cleaner emissions than regular gasoline. But a recent Environment Canada study found no statistical difference between the greenhouse gas emissions of regular unleaded fuel and 10 per cent ethanol-blended fuel. Environmental groups have argued that producing ethanol — whether from corn, beets, wheat or other crops — takes more energy than is derived from the product.
The Internet

Submission + - Michigan Wi-Fi Freeloader Faces Felony Charge

Submitted by Aaron
Aaron writes: Broadband Reports has an interesting piece up about a Michigan man who was charged with felony "Unauthorized use of computer access" for using free Wi-Fi outside of a cafe. The charge comes with a maximum of five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine. The interesting bit being that neither the man, the cafe, nor the police chief who chatted him up repeatedly had any idea he was committing a crime. At least not until the police officer decided to do some research and find a law he interpreted as being broken, anyway.
The Internet

Submission + - Illegal Downloading Drops Among Youth

Submitted by Overly Critical Guy
Overly Critical Guy writes: A BSA survey shows a 24% drop in illegal downloading in the last three years among 8 to 18 year olds. Fear of parental reprisal rose 40% in the last three years to reach #4 on the list of fears involved with illegal downloading, topped by receiving a virus, getting into legal trouble, and accidentally installing spyware.
Television

Submission + - A la Carte pricing violates 1st Ammendment

Submitted by Murrdox
Murrdox writes: According to Randolph May, a government mandate of "a la carte" pricing for cable companies violates the 1st Ammendment. "Mandatory a la carte almost certainly will diminish the amount and diversity of programming available to cable subscribers, a result at odds with First Amendment values."

May then offers up a straw-man argument, saying that forcing a la carte pricing for cable companies is similar to forcing The Washington Post sell parts of their paper separately. "readers should not be required to pay for the news section, which, with a war on, contains some "violent" content, or the style section, which contains some content that may be considered "indecent.""

May approaches a la carte from the sole perspective that it is being used as a government censorship tool to keep violent channels out of family homes. What Martin fails to mention is that if cable companies offered a la carte pricing, that does not force them to not include channels, and families can still opt-in to whichever channels they wish.

It also does not necessarily preclude cable companies from continuing to offer bundled channel packages, for those T.V. watchers who want to still have a huge selection of channels.
XBox (Games)

Submission + - What is the best console controller of all time?

Submitted by Mateo Slovinsky
Mateo Slovinsky writes: Is the XBox 360's controller the best controller of all time? CNet seems to think so in its line up of the top five gamepads of all time. "Did you expect the Wii? Sorry. It's a brilliant piece of innovation, that's not in question, but there simply aren't enough games to judge it against the best controllers ever. The Xbox 360 pad has proven itself over a longer time and on a wider selection of titles — and it has its own claims to originality."
Nintendo

Submission + - The five best game console controllers of all time

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: CNET.co.uk is running an article on what it thinks are the 5 best game controllers of all time. Amazingly, this article doesn't feature the Wii remote and instead rates the Xbox 360's controller as better. It does, however, have the Atari 2600's joystick that was a classic controller.
Republicans

Submission + - Florida: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Submitted by
SuperJew
SuperJew writes: "Well, it looks like Florida has done it again. The state that brought you the hanging chad has gone BACK to paper ballots. In 2002, many FL counties went to the touch screen systems, but now have decided to switch back.

[Governor] Crist, who made the elections overhaul an early priority, basked in bipartisan praise on Monday for ending the paper-trail fight. The federal government will cover the roughly $28 million cost to switch to optical-scan devices. Touch-screen machines will still be used during Florida's new Jan. 29 presidential preference primary, but paper ballots must be in place by the fall 2008 elections, with one exception. Touch screens still can be available for use by disabled voters until 2012. "
The Media

Submission + - PC World: Best 100 products of 2007?

Submitted by
javipas
javipas writes: "The popular PC World magazine has published its annual list of the 100 best products of the year, with a few surprises on it. Google Apps Premiere Edition ranks first, with other 4 services on the list. Apple has six products on it, with Tiger — a two-year old OS — on the ninth position. Microsoft and Dell have four each, and Canon and Nikon, three. Almost forgot: Ubuntu 7.04 has made it, and has entered on the 16th position. That makes you think about the kind of ranking process, doesn't it?"
Math

Submission + - A Mighty Number Falls

Submitted by space_in_your_face
space_in_your_face writes: Mathematicians and number buffs have their records. And today, an international team has broken a long-standing one in an impressive feat of calculation. On March 6, computer clusters from three institutions — the EPFL, the University of Bonn and NTT in Japan — reached the end of eleven months of strenuous calculation, churning out the prime factors of a well-known, hard-to-factor number that is a whopping 307 digits long.

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