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Submission + - A look at Thunderbird 2.0 beta

Submitted by

lisah

on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @03:40PM

lisah writes: "Linux.com has reviewed Mozilla's first beta release of the Thunderbird 2.0 email client and says that, while it 'won't knock your socks off,' there are plenty of reasons to try it out or upgrade from previous versions. The new Thunderbird does away with the limitations of labels and instead allows users to tag emails to their heart's content, in the same vein as Google's GMail. Developers also tossed in a bunch of other useful features like customizable pop-up notification of new email, better search capabilities, and a neat way to navigate through the history of recently read emails. Mozilla developers didn't get everything right, however, since the account setup continues to be something of a headache."

Submission + - A 'nano' cancer monitor implant

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Roland Piquepaille

on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @02:04PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "It is very difficult for doctors to measure the evolution of tumors and if chemotherapy is actually working on cancer patients. This is why MIT researchers have developed a minuscule device that can be implanted directly into a tumor and containing nanoparticles designed to test for different substances associated with tumor growth. As the implant can stay inside the patient for a long time, it will help doctors to see if a treatment is working. This could avoid repetitive MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) exams. But the implant has to go through extensive preclinical testing before being approved. Read more for additional details and several images showing how these nanoparticles will be used."

Submission + - Google's deprecated SOAP API keeps working

Submitted by

d_cove

on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @01:43PM

d_cove writes: "Following up on the earlier story about Google deprecating their SOAP API, an SEM/SEO company has released a SOAP gateway that allows applications that use the API to continue working. Originally written to keep internal applications working, the gateway works by translating SOAP calls into requests to Google's web interface, scraping the results, then packaging the data back into SOAP. The source is available from the project's website under an MIT license."

World's Largest Wind Farm Gets Green Light 388

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 18, 2006 @11:39AM from the a-windy-tomorrow dept.

cliffski writes "According to the BBC website the UK govt has just given the go ahead to two large offshore wind-farm projects. Between them the schemes would produce enough renewable electricity to power about one million households. The larger London Array project covers 144 sq miles (232 sq km) between Margate in Kent and Clacton, Essex and will be the world's biggest when it is completed. The £1.5bn scheme will have 341 turbines rising from the sea about 12 miles (20km) off the Kent and Essex coasts, as well as five offshore substations and four meteorological masts"

Submission + - Save 30 Minutes a Day with Smarter News Reading

Submitted by

InsurgentGeek

on Monday December 18, 2006 @11:26AM

InsurgentGeek writes: "Check out the winners (money! fame!) of our semantic web service mashup contest. We sponsored the contest based on our machine-readable news web service. Among a lot of entries three stood out as the most interesting and effective uses of this capability. One winner allows you to cruise the news by entity (person, place, company, etc). Another lets you see who is hot in the news today and get a snapshot of the coverage. And the third lets you drop a little icon in Google Calendar to see who and what is making news today. Take a look at the winners page to see the winners as well as a number of great honorable mentions.

It's not the semantic web — but it's certainly a step toward wrapping some intelligence around the masses of unstructured content out there."

Bookmark Linux.com - Mandriva Flash delivers Linux to go (linux.com)

by ilovegeorgebush on Monday December 18, 2006 @10:59AM

Submission + - Dutch Police try bazaar model to solve cold case

Submitted by geschild on Monday December 18, 2006 @10:55AM

geschild writes: I had a lazy period when Dutch media reported on this, early December. Now the story is at risk of going stale, I guess I'll have to do the work myself, after all...

Late September 2006 a Dutch "cold case" team with the Utrecht police force re-opened the nearly 12 year old murder on the then 18 year old Sjaak Gerwig. So far nothing extraordinary, but here's a twist: the team has decided to try and involve the public in a new way. The team has put all the information from the case-file online. Reactions from the public are put back onto the site so others can see them, too. Although the site misses quite a few of the hallmarks of a true 'web 2.0' application (reactions are moderated, for instance) Dutch bloggers and mainstream media are referring to this method as 'Police 2.0'.

So far, the police has received numerous reactions and has commented that some might very well be useful, while 'noise' seems low. Could it be the team is on to something?

All sites are in Dutch, unfortunately, as foreign media haven't picked up on this. Is his really new or just new to The Netherlands?

(Please do not add to the noice level? Besides the fact that interfering with a police investigation is a criminal offense most anywhere in the world, putting up comments for the heck of it, while not even being able to read Dutch, isn't cool.)

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