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HP

Submission + - Whatever happened to Carly Fiorina's headhunter?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In 1999, a little known Silicon Valley recruiting firm named Christian and Timbers was appointed to conduct the search for Hewlett Packard CEO Lew Platt's successor. The stunning selection of Lucent executive Carly Fiorina rocketed Jeff Christian to fame and fortune as well; he published a bestselling book on executive search, and phones were ringing off the hook. Two years later, the dot com era was over, business was no longer booming, and Christian was behaving erratically and eventually agreed to leave his own firm. Carly was ousted by HP's board in 2005; Christian himself hit bottom a year later.

High Performance DDR2 Memory Breaks 1.25GHz 104

Posted by CowboyNeal from the smokingly-fast dept.
TrackinYeti writes "Performance PC Memory manufacturer, Corsair recently released a new addition to their flagship Dominator line of desktop memory, the TWIN2X2048-10000C5DF. This 2GB DDR2 memory kit features the company's DHX Dual Path Heat Xchange cooling technology, support for Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP), it includes one of Corsair's Dominator active memory coolers, and it's rated for operation at a currently industry leading 1.25GHz."
Google

Submission + - Lawsuit Against Google Dismissed

Submitted by
Weather Storm
Weather Storm writes: ""A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Google by a company that accused the Web search engine of dropping Web sites from search results for political and religious reasons and skewing search results in favor of companies that compensate Google financially. The lawsuit was filed by KinderStart, a parenting information Web site that claims it was illegally blocked from Google search results. The judge not only dismissed the lawsuit but granted a motion by Google to sanction KinderStart and one of its lawyers. Google can now seek "reasonable compensation" for attorney fees because KinderStart lawyer Gregory Yu filed claims that were factually baseless and did not perform an adequate investigation before filing the lawsuit.""
The Internet

Many Americans Still Don't Have Home Net Access 313

Posted by CowboyNeal from the willing-luddites dept.
Weather Storm wrote in with a story about those who see no need for home net access. Surprisingly, it's not the cost that is a barrier to entry. Instead, most say they don't see the value of having a net connection at home. "A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a new survey. Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months."
The Internet

Submission + - Stop confussing search engines with bad feeds

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Duplicate content confuses search engines, which can cause your rankings in the search engines to suffer. This tip shows you how to take full advantage of the Atom id tag as the main identifier, including other information about the feed entry, to avoid duplicates in your Atom feeds.
Quickies

Submission + - Digging Dinosaurs Made Underground Dens

Submitted by anthemaniac
anthemaniac writes: Scientists have long puzzled over how some dinosaurs and other creatures survived the asteroid impact that supposedly caused the KT mass extinction 65 million years ago and wiped out all the big dinos. One idea has been that smaller animals, including mammals, could have endured the fallout, the big chill, the subsequent volcanoes, and whatever else by burrowing. Now scientists have come up with the first evidence of burrowing dinosaurs. They speculate that underground dens might explain how some dinosaurs got through long, dark winters at high latitudes, too.
The Almighty Buck

Washington State Encourages Internet Sales Tax 200

Posted by CowboyNeal from the paying-the-piper dept.
prostoalex writes "Washington state Governor signed a tax bill encouraging out of state businesses to collect sales taxes on purchases made by Washington state residents. It should be noted, though, that Washington state does not collect personal income tax, and hence relies on state sales tax for 53.1% of its revenues." As the article notes, "People who purchase items from out-of-state Internet or catalog companies are currently supposed to pay the sales tax, but rarely do." Looks like Washington-staters won't be able to fib on their tax returns about internet purchases, starting in 2008.
The Internet

Submission + - European Web Sites Go for Long Addresses

Submitted by Boom~
Boom~ writes: What's in an Internet domain name? Sixty-three characters max. The group managing the European .eu domain said Friday that six people last year registered the longest Internet addresses allowed, ranging from the tongue-twisting name of a Welsh village to the first 63 numbers that make up the mathematical constant pi. Another German comedian registered both aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa.eu and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzz.eu
Wii

Submission + - Wii Doing What Nintendo Wanted It To

Submitted by
superdan2k
superdan2k writes: "When Nintendo brought the Wii to market, one of their stated goals was to get people who didn't normally play video games using their console. Based on this article from the AP, it seems they've made some headway in capturing the senior citizen market. With the Wii's price point, and it being a good way to get people engaged in physical exercise, it's easy to envision it catching on with other retirement homes beyond the one mentioned in the article. Now that it's expanding beyond the 'typical' video game demographic, has the Wii taken the first steps toward winning the console war?"
Music

Submission + - Industry group says piracy students are settling

Submitted by
Weather Storm
Weather Storm writes: ""A recording industry group that has been offering settlements to college students suspected of sharing music online says more than a quarter of the alleged music pirates have accepted the offer. The RIAA sent letters offering discounted settlements to 400 computer users at 13 universities in late February. Another batch was sent out this week. Association spokesman Jonathan Lamy said Friday that, so far, 116 settlements were reached after the first round of letters went out. Patrick McGee, an attorney Ohio University said $3,000 is the standard settlement offer, though cases have settled for as much as $5,000.""

Killer NIC K1 and Custom BitTorrent Client Tested 106

Posted by CowboyNeal from the frags-and-files dept.
NetworkingNed writes "The new Killer NIC K1 is the successor to the much debated original Killer NIC card that offers the same features at a lower price: this time for about $170 or so. Not cheap, that's for sure. But in this review at PC Perspective, not only is the new card tested under the drastically updated Vista networking stack with improved results, but the free BitTorrent client that runs on the Killer NIC is reviewed as well; with it you should be able to download torrents without affecting online gaming performance. Enough to warrant a $175 network card?"
Music

Submission + - Korean Music Industry Thieves Commit Irony

Submitted by
ghost-maker
ghost-maker writes: "User gets sued by the music industry for posting an "illegal" video. Sounds like the same old same old, right? Not quite. This user, Curio11, posted a video which exposed the startling similarity between music from Korean music "stars" which sounded disturbingly similar to music from the U.S. and Japan. After doing research, I have also noticed that they do not credit nor list the "sources" for their music. Ironically, the Korean Music Industry is eager to find this user and sue him for "illegally reproducing media without express permission". Let us sit here and ponder this phrase while you review. Here are some places you can enjoy the mind numbingly stupidity and lack of creativity of the Music Industry of another nation besides the U.S. Here are several links to the videos http://q.freechal.com/gmcrayon http://data.fruit.kr/5 http://coolog.tistory.com/56 http://greatdobal.egloos.com/3217901"
Java

Submission + - Java-based x86 Emulator

Submitted by
jaavaaguru
jaavaaguru writes: "Researchers at Oxford University have produced a Java-based x86 emulator which they hope will be useful in testing applications and learning about viruses without damaging the host PC's operating system. They have an online demo available which boots DOS and has some games to play. Being purely Java, this emulator should be able to run on almost anything, including cell phones."
Education

Language Learner Looks for Leads in Learning? 42

Posted by Cliff from the say-title-three-times-fast dept.
zanzibar asks: "I learned C in a college course, I learned C++ and Java from books, and I learned Rails from blogs. I'm not convinced one of these methods was more effective than the others. I want to know what other readers think about technical education. What do they want to learn and how do they want it delivered? What do they like about their options today (from college coursework to Wikiversity)? What's missing? What just doesn't work?"

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