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Submission + - Starting an Online Business (seofleet.com)

Submitted by seomathew
seomathew writes: SEO will be very beneficial to your online business. By implementing SEO, you can make your online business noticeable on web i.e. in top results on major search engines.

Submission + - An Anonymous, Verifiable E-Voting Tech (ted.com) 1

Submitted by Kilrah_il
Kilrah_il writes: After the recent news items about the obstacles facing E-voting systems, many of us feel it is not yet time for this technology. A recent TED talk by David Bismark unveiled a proposal for a new E-voting technology that is both anonymous and verifiable. I am not a cryptography expert, but it does seem interesting and possibly doable.
Government

Submission + - Ballmer 1, Gates 0

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: TechFlash reports that Washington's proposal to impose a state income tax on those making more than $200,000 was soundly defeated Tuesday night. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his father supported the measure, while a number of prominent high-tech business leaders — including Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos — argued that the measure would hurt the state's competitiveness. Ballmer anteed up $425,000 to defeat the measure, which was intended to boost funding for education and health. Opponents also argued that the tax eventually would be passed on to all citizens. This marks the seventh time that WA voters have rejected a state income tax. Washington remains one of seven states — along with Florida, Nevada, Texas, Alaska, Wyoming and South Dakota — without an income tax.

Submission + - Motorola Droid X Bugs worse than Antennagate (i4u.com) 1

Submitted by i4u
i4u writes: When the serious iPhone 4 antenna design flaw hit the blogosphere, there was a media explosion and Apple hate campaign almost like we've never seen before. Yet, one of the most high-profile Android phones to date has much more significant, extremely crippling glitches that still haven't been fixed, and no one is really calling for action.
When the Droid X got its update to Android 2.2, almost immediately users began reporting issues of phones crashing, screen display bugs, and apps becoming completely unusable. In addition, it became impossible to download any new apps because the Android Market completely vanished.
Printer

Submission + - Researchers invent inkjet that prints out skin (geek.com)

Submitted by shougyin
shougyin writes: If you’ve ever seen the lesser-known Sam Raimi movie Darkman, you probably remember that the plot involved the main character, Dr. Westlake, trying to figure out a way to “print” liquid skin to help burn victims. Westlake never did figure out how to keep the synthetic skin from destabilizing past the 98 minute mark, but luckily, Wake Forest Instititute for Regenerative Medicine researchers seem to have mastered it, showing off their amazing skin printer that uses living cells instead of ink.
Apple

Submission + - The Apple Hackintosh Experience (benchmarkreviews.com)

Submitted by ocoles
ocoles writes: The recently published guide "Turning PC into Apple Macintosh: Hackintosh" described my experience building a Hackintosh, and my thoughts on the concept as a long-time Macintosh computer user. The article was very popular and generated a lot of comments from our readers, some with recurring themes that I want to address here, as well as report on the longer-term use of the machine.
Businesses

Submission + - Meg Whitman Loses Gov Auction Despite $161MM Bid

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: It was a bad Tuesday for ex-tech CEOs Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, who were the Republican dream team of candidates in California. Fiorina, once the head of HP, failed to unseat incumbent Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate race, and Whitman, who made eBay a household name, lost out to state Attorney General Jerry Brown in her $161 million bid for governor. Both women campaigned on largely the same issues: reinvigorating California's struggling economy, creating jobs, and cutting government waste. California's voters (and probably Whitman's sons) were reportedly dismayed at the amounts of money that Fiorina and Whitman spent, even though it was largely from their own coffers.

Submission + - Chevrolet to launch new cars in 2011 (cardekho.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: General Motors India, the 5th largest car manufacturers in India is quickly climbing the success ladder. GM had a successful year in India and hopes to continue to do so in the coming years. The company plans to maintain the momentum by raising its market share by expanding the product range which will help them in gaining a meaty chunk in the Indian auto market. Chevrolet with plans to capture the maturing the Indian market by launching the all new Chevrolet Beat in diesel model. The new diesel version will be according to the Indian standards and also the price will be cost effective.
Books

Submission + - How Google is Solving its Book Problem (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by
Pickens
Pickens writes: "Alexis Madrigal writes in the Atlantic that Google's famous PageRank algorithm can't be deployed to search through the 15 million books that Google has already scanned because books don't link to each other in the way that webpages do. Instead Google's new book search algorithm called "Rich Results" looks at word frequency, how closely your query matches the title of a book, web search frequency, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the title, how often an older book has been reprinted, and 100 other signals. "There is less data about books than web pages, but there is more structure to it, and there's less spam to contend with," writes Madrigal. Yet the focus on optimizing an experience from vast amounts of data remains. "You want it to have the standard Google quality as much as possible," says Matthew Gray, lead software engineer for Google Books. "[You want it to be] a merger of relevance and utility based on all these things.""
Australia

Submission + - Aussie research company brings Wi-Fi to TV antenna (zdnet.com.au)

Submitted by joshgnosis
joshgnosis writes: The CSIRO has unveiled new technology that could bring internet to people in rural or remote parts of Australia using their existing TV antennas. Analog TV signal is set to be switched off in 2013 but this technology could see the spectrum used to deliver internet straight into people's homes through their TV antenna. Gartner expert Robin Simpson told ZDNet Australia that this would make it much easier for companies to get new customers. "What appeals to me about it is that it re-uses existing infrastructure, all of the competing wireless technologies tend to use high frequencies and therefore require new base stations, new spectrum and new receiving antenna infrastructure as well," he said. "The fact that they're re-using the analog TV stuff gives them a much easier market entry strategy."
Portables

Submission + - Creative launches Android tablets (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Creative Labs has announced entry-level media tablets with 7-inch and 10-inch touchscreens, with prices ranging from US$249 to $319. The Ziio Pure Wireless Entertainment tablets come with Google's Android 2.1 OS and storage ranging from 8GB to 16GB. Some models are priced lower than Archos' 101 Internet Tablet and Velocity Micro's Cruz tablet, which are priced at $299."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Wireless broadband over TV spectrum advancing (cio.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Great slideshow of the CSIRO's prototype Ngara symetrical 12mbps wireless over analogue TV spectrum technology ahead of field trials in December. The CSIRO is also seeking millions in networking vendor funding to commercialize the technology, which could help deliver Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN).
Google

Google Settles Buzz Privacy Suit 165

Posted by timothy from the lawyers-win-the-pie dept.
bouldin writes "This evening, Google e-mailed Gmail users who had been invited to Google Buzz to advise of settlement on a class-action privacy suit. The class action suit alleged privacy breaches due to the default privacy settings when Google rolled out the service. Terms of the settlement include $8 million to cover lawyer fees and fund privacy policy education on the Internet, but do not include cash payouts to Gmail users. With several outstanding class action privacy suits against Facebook and Zynga, it is interesting to see Google set this precedent."

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