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Analyzing Apple's iPhone Strategy 270

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @10:13AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

Galen Gruman submitted infoworld's summary of Apple's grand strategy for the iPhone. He points out that the real important part of the new iPhone is the software, not the hardware. He talks about the new SDK stuff, the ad-hoc app distribution, and other stuff. It's a reasonable read if you have been ignoring the iPhone and want to know what the hype is about over this release, but doesn't break any new ground if you've been paying attention.

EBay Pressured To Block Sales of Ivory Products 261

Posted by timothy on Friday June 06, 2008 @09:54AM from the first-they-came-for-the-ivory-guys dept.

RickRussellTX writes "eBay is being pressured by an animal welfare group to ban sales of ivory and animal tooth products on its site. Although eBay is in compliance with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species when it warns users that such postings may be inviolation of national and international law, the International Fund for Animal Welfare is demanding that they go a step further to search for and delete any posting of ivory products."

Music Industry Tells Advertisers to Boycott "Pirate" Baidu 206

Posted by timothy on Friday June 06, 2008 @04:16AM from the takes-one-to-know-one dept.

An anonymous reader points to a story at PC Authority, which begins: "Music industry representatives have warned advertisers to stop supporting Baidu, China's largest search engine, because they believe it is encouraging music piracy. Baidu is the largest source of pirated music in China, according to the representatives, who describe the company as 'incorrigible.' The Chinese firm's music search engine is accessed through what is described as a prominent link on the company's home page."

HyperCard, What Could Have Been 159

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 25, 2008 @08:13AM from the wild-cards dept.

bobwrit sends us to Wired for a look back by the author of HyperCard, Bill Atkinson. Quoting: "HyperCard is a programming environment that can create applications as diverse as utilities and games by linking 'cards' arranged into 'stacks.' Commands are executed through a natural-language scripting language called HyperTalk... The software has been phenomenally successful and highly influential. But Atkinson feels that if only he'd realized separate cards and stacks could be linked on different people's machines through the Net — instead of cards and stacks on a particular machine — he would have created the first Internet browser."

Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? 387

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday May 24, 2008 @05:26AM from the so-cold-it's-hot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The italian economic journal 'Il sole 24 ore' published an article about a successful cold fusion experiment performed by Yoshiaki Arata in Japan. They seems to have pumped high pressure deutherium gas in a nanometric matrix of palladium and zyrcon oxide. The experiments generates a considerable amount of energy and they found the presence of Helium-4 in the matrix (as sign of the fusion). I was not able to find other articles about this but the journal is very authoritative in Italy. Google translations are also available."

Comment Cognition improvement for MS (Score 3, Interesting) 189

by perkyx1 on Friday May 23, 2008 @08:53PM (#23524142) Attached to: Cognition Enhancer Research

Personally I'm keen on the idea - from a selfish point of view :-) As I have progressive MS it seems like cognitive problems aren't due soon (hopefully) and will be less than with other forms (again, hopefully) but if there's a hope for something that'll help prevent this - then that's great. Not walking too well is ok, and being a wheelchair user is something I can surely cope with - but difficulty with thinking? That's the most terrifying thing I can imagine.

Understanding How CAPTCHA Is Broken 148

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday May 17, 2008 @11:10AM from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Websense Security Labs explains the spammer Anti-CAPTCHA operations and mass-mailing strategies. Apparently spammers are using combination of different tactics — proper email accounts, visual social engineering, and fast-flux — representing a strategy, explains their resident CAPTCHA expert. It is evident that spammers are working towards defeating anti-spam filters with their tactics."

The World's Spookiest Weapons 224

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday May 17, 2008 @03:21AM from the criminally-insane-working-for-the-government dept.

DesScorp writes "Popular Science has a piece on some outrageous ideas for weapons; some came to fruition, and others didn't. And while some of the weapons (atom bombs, chemical weapons, bats with bombs strapped to them that seek out homes and buildings at night) are truly frightening, some of them are also kind of silly, such as the Gay Bomb, and the Frisbee bomb that was labeled the 'Modular Disc-Wing Urban Cruise Munition.'"

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