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Submission + - U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine F (nytimes.com)

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on Sunday April 26, 2009 @03:19PM

mallumax writes: "American health officials on Sunday declared a public health emergency over increasing cases of swine flu, saying that they had confirmed 20 cases of the disease in the United States and expected to see more as investigators fan out to track down the path of the outbreak. Other governments around the world stepped up their response to the incipient outbreak, racing to contain the infection amid reports of potential new cases from New Zealand to Hong Kong to Spain, raising concerns about the potential for a global pandemic. The cases in US looked to be similar to the deadly strain of swine flu that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 1,300 more."

Submission + - Change.gov launched by Obama

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on Thursday November 06, 2008 @05:35PM

mallumax writes: "Obama has launched Change.gov. According to the site "Change.gov provides resources to better understand the transition process and the decisions being made as part of it. It also offers an opportunity to be heard about the challenges our country faces and your ideas for tackling them. The Obama Administration will reflect an essential lesson from the success of the Obama campaign: that people united around a common purpose can achieve great things.". The site is extensive and contains Obama's agenda for economy and education among many others.They first define the problem and then lay out the plan. Everything is in simple english without a trace of washington speak. The site also has details about the transition. According to many sources Obama's transition efforts started months ago. It looks like, this site was also part of the plan. The copyright for the content is held by 'Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization' . If Obama puts half this effort in translating his policies into actions, US is going to prosper like never before."

Submission + - iTunes on OS X finally has competition

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on Thursday November 06, 2008 @05:09PM

mallumax writes: "The truth is : iTunes is an average music player. Though the UI is simple and good like most apple products, it has lagged in features compared to music players available on linux and windows.A feature as basic as monitoring a folder and adding the latest music files to library is unavailable in iTunes. There are no plugins or themes. Despite the many faults many of us continued to use iTunes because of the lack of options available. But today the wait is finally over. Not one, but two music players have become credible contenders. Songbird: An open source music player which has been in the works for more than 2 years has finally released its 1.0 Release Candidate builds. The team behind Songbird have members which who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo Music Engine. It has support for extensions and themes(feathers in songbird parlance). Amarok: The undisputed champion among linux music players is finally coming to OS X thanks to due KDE 4 being ported to OS X. Amarok developer Leo Franchi has been able to run a Amarok on OS X natively. So we can expect a reasonably stable Amarok to hit OS X in a few months time. Hopefully these players will gain traction among OS X users which will finally force Apple to either step up in terms of features or open up iTunes for extensions."

Submission + - Pocket Sized Projector has arrived (nytimes.com) 1

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on Thursday November 06, 2008 @09:44AM

mallumax writes: "David Pogue of New York Times has reviewed, Pico which is a pocket projector from Optoma . The review is quite entertaining(he projects the images on to a plane's ceiling leaving passengers baffled) and detailed. The highlights are : It is a pocket sized projector which runs on batteries and can project images and videos from a variety of sources like iphone,ipod and dvd players with a 480x320px resolution with a maximum screen size of 65 inches at 8.5 feet. It uses a non replaceable 10,000 hour LED lamp and a DLP chip from Texas Instruments. The battery lasts for 90 minutes and can be recharged through USB or with its own power chord. The device weighs 115g and comes with an inbuilt speaker which is practically useless. If you want one, it will set you back by 430$."

Submission + - Amazon launches "Frustration-Free Packaging (amazon.com)

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on Monday November 03, 2008 @03:36PM

mallumax writes: "Amazon has announced the launch of "Frustration Free Packages". The Frustration-Free Package is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, and wire ties. It's designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging (on the right). Products with Frustration-Free Packaging can frequently be shipped in their own boxes, without an additional shipping box.Amazon works directly with manufacturers to box products in Frustration-Free Packages right off the assembly lines, which reduces the overall amount of packing materials used."

Submission + - Hans Reiser Sentenced to 15-to-Life

Submitted by mallumax on Friday August 29, 2008 @06:30PM

mallumax writes: Hans Reiser, who had pleaded guilty and had led police to his wife's body earlier was today handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life.Jury trial had concluded in April this year with Reiser's first-degree murder conviction. That carries a 25-to-life term, but the authorities, in a backroom deal, later offered him 15-to-life if he produced his wife's body and waived any rights to appeal his conviction.

Submission + - Google Apps For Your Domain

Submitted by on Monday August 28, 2006 @04:52AM

mallumax writes: Google has started to offer its IM,Email,Calendar and Web Page Creator as a bundle under Google Apps For Your Domain. The service is free now and ad supported. Google said it will offer a ``paid, premium'' version with the option of being ad-free and more administrative control and compliance features to meet the demands of bigger corporations and government agencies. Is this the sign of Google Office? If Writely and Google Spreadsheets are added to this bundle, it can meet the needs of quite a lot of small businesses.

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