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Book reviews: 'The Likeness' and 'Of Men and Their Mothers'

The usual sequel takes characters from an established book or series and then moves them on toward new adventures. But "The Likeness," Tana French's second novel, has a much tighter bond with its predecessor. Her first book was the Edgar-winning "In the Woods," in which a police detective named Cassie Maddox took on an undercover role. Cassie became a college student named Alexandra Madison in the course of a long investigation that left Cassie with stab wounds and nightmares. But the fictitious Lexie Madison is long gone by the time "The Likeness" begins.

Dreamtech Press Book Release: Dreamtech strengthens its presence with ?€?Java EE 5 Black Book?€?

Summary: Dreamtech Press, a leading publisher forays into Java EE 5 Education, by introducing new “Java Server Programming Java EE 5 (J2EE 1.5) Black Book�- a book for Java EE 5 education. The book is launched with a combined vision to increase the productivity of Java Professionals by implementing effective learning theories. Book Details: ISBN – 978-81-7722-835-9; Price – 599/- w/CD.

Media Cybernetics Offers Free Image Processing Consultations

Researchers learn sophisticated image analysis techniques using their own images BETHESDA, Md.--(Business Wire)-- Media Cybernetics, the scientific imaging software company, has added an exciting, new tool to their website that enables individuals to upload their images and receive a free image processing consultation. This new image upload feature gives researchers the opportunity to describe their imaging challenge and receive feedback on how they can accomplish their desired outcome using image processing tools. This tool allows Media Cybernetics' representatives to consult with and train researchers-using their own images- resulting in a significantly reduced learning curve. Researchers benefit immediately, improving their research processes through the use of advanced image analysis techniques, including counting objects, tracking th

Etisalat's Online Services leaves positive impact on customers during the holiday season

Etisalat today announced that its online services continue to receive positive feedback from customers during the holiday season by helping them to conduct transactions at their own convenience even when they are on holiday abroad. Etisalat services allow customers to automatically pay their bills when it is due; renew their ‘Wasel’ balance automatically or manually through their mobile by dialing *122# , along with access to many other services that are available on www.etisalat.ae/online. Customers can easily manage their account through the online services; check the value and details of their bills, make payments online, recharge their ‘Wasel’ account and carry out many transactions quickly and safely at any time with one single click.

Farmers Recognised for Their Commitment to Wildlife ; East Yorks: Farmers Who Encourage Wildlife Have Been Recognised for Their Exceptional Efforts to Help Birds and Animals on Their Farms.

East Yorks: Farmers who encourage wildlife have been recognised for their exceptional efforts to help birds and animals on their farms.

MapusoftMapuSofts Solutions Give Tecnobit the Ability to Move their Code to the Linux Operating System MapuSoft Technologies (MT) announced that Tecnobit, of Valdepeas, Spain has selected MTs OS Changer software reuse product for their current mig

MapuSoft Technologies (MT) announced that Tecnobit, of Valdepeñas, Spain has selected MT´s OS Changer software reuse product for their current migration project. Tecnobit is using OS Changer to move their legacy software to the Linux operating system. The application that uses OS Changer is a simulator of a navigation console for a tactical data system for the Spanish Armada. By implementing MT´s solution, and recycling their original software, Tecnobit will save valuable development resources and eliminate an expensive and time consuming code rewrite.

Subject to Change

prostoalex writes "Most companies would call themselves innovative and would claim they're delivering an above-average service to their customers. Yet, their customers opinions might differ. If you drill a company on their innovation practices, they would probably mention two approaches they employ: 1. Their research department meets with target groups, compiles presentations for the upper management, which then occasionally hands those reports over to the development department. 2. Their research or marketing department comes up with competitive matrix of the products available from competition. In a meeting then, executives see that their product is missing a feature, and hence the development department is assigned the task of adding 'an Internet-enabled installer' to the product, since everybody else offers them, thereby creating mark

Book Review: 'Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America'

In a nutshell: This is a compelling book about the battle for the heart and soul of the American West. Stephen Trimble, writer, photographer and environmentalist, has written several books and scores of articles about the importance of saving the land. In this book, he examines his own back yard, specifically Snowbasin in the Ogden Valley, and the battle between legendary local land baron, Earl Holding and the rural people who didn't want their precious mountain to be used or modified, Olympics or not. Holding is well known as a hard-driving, highly successful businessman who enjoys owning land. Trimble was unable to get an interview with his nemesis, but he writes an interesting and important book about the importance of maintaining open space in Utah.

Metallica Blames Management for Removing Blogger Reviews

Los Angeles - Metallica have blamed their management company Q Prime for asking bloggers to take down their reviews of rough mixes of the band's new album -- bloggers who were invited to a listening party to hear said tracks, according to a post on Metallica.com. "Our response was 'WHY?!!! Why take down mostly positive reviews of the new material and prevent people from getting psyched about the next record... that makes no sense to us!' So after a few rounds of managerial ear spank and sentencing everyone at Q Prime to 20 push-ups each, we figured why not take matters into our own hands and just post the links here on our site."

When Adoptees Know Their Biological Mother

Every year, more families are undergoing "open adoptions," meaning children remain in contact with their birth mothers after joining their new families. Findings published in the Journal of Family Psychology this month confirm that open adoptions are changing the definition of "family" for adoptees and their loved ones.

T-Mobile To Open App Store For All of Their Phones

tsa brings news that T-Mobile will be developing their own application store to compete with Apple's popular distribution scheme. Their aim is to be capable of bringing new services to all of their customers. Excerpting: "Developers will submit their applications online; the revenue-share agreement will be based on how much the application uses the network; and the applications will be presented to the user in order of popularity, not according to T-Mobile's preferences. It's all pretty straightforward, but the more interesting aspect is that this will apply to all the carrier's platforms from upcoming Android to Java to Sidekick and Windows Mobile."

Atari Tries To Supress Bad Reviews, Claims Piracy

im_thatoneguy sends in an account up at Shacknews about Atari's actions to get early reviews of its upcoming game Alone In the Dark pulled from Web sites in Europe. Atari sued the German site 4Players, alleging piracy, and also cancelled an advertising deal on the site, after a pre-release review gave the game only 68%. 4Players posted a commentary (translation) alleging that Atari is doing this bcause the review is unfavorable. Shacknews reports that Atari has also demanded that both Gamer.no and GameReactor remove early reviews — both reviews gave the game a score of 3/10. Kotaku editorializes: "[Does Atari] fear that, because these outlets may have received copies of the game 'early' (i.e. from pirated copies), that they're somehow reviewing incomplete code, which could affect their opinion of the game? Maybe.

Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids from Learning from Their Mistakes

jamie pointed out an interesting piece being featured in Newsweek that claims a "genetic glitch" may prevent some kids from learning from their mistakes to the same degree as others. "If there is one thing experts on child development agree on, it is that kids learn best when they are allowed to make mistakes and feel the consequences. So Mom and Dad hold back as their toddler tries again and again to cram a round peg into a square hole. [...] But not, it seems, all kids. In about 30 percent, the coils of their DNA carry a glitch, one that leaves their brains with few dopamine receptors, molecules that act as docking ports for one of the neurochemicals that carry our thoughts and emotions. A paucity of dopamine receptors is linked to an inability to avoid self-destructive behavior such as illicit drug use.

Book Reviews: 'Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography' and 'Pharmakon'

When John Keats died in February 1821, just 25, his friends believed that it was the reviews that killed him. In truth, the critics could hardly have been less kind, especially about Keats' second book, "Endymion." "We venture to make our small prophecy that his bookseller will not a second time venture 50" pounds "on anything he can write," a reviewer for Blackwood's Magazine wrote.

Web Host Reviews - 10 New Reviews

Here are the most recent Web hosting service reviews submitted by other Web Design / HTML readers. I got 10 new reviews this month. If you love or hate your Web hosting provider, or just feel ambivalent about them, let me know - write a review of your Web hosting provider. It only takes a few minutes to write a review, and you'll be helping lots of people.

Bottom of the Barrel Book Reviews — The Lost Blogs

We get a lot of books for review here at Slashdot. Most are sent out to users on our reviewer list within a few weeks. Others become part of an impressive wall of books on my desk before they find a home. There are a choice few however that are doomed to never see the inside of a Fedex box. This is mostly due to the complete and utter stupidity or absurdness of their subject matter. I've decided to give these failed intellectual endeavors a chance and explore just how big a waste of time a book can be. We start scraping the bottom of the barrel with a little number written by Paul Davidson called, The Lost Blogs. Read below to find out just how bad it got.

Ruby Tuesday To Blow Up Its Store Live Online

Dining chain Ruby Tuesday will blow up their site - literally! According to their website, they will demolish their "last old" restaurant and they will broadcast the spectacle live online. The eatery announces the "brand new Tuesday" ad campaign that they are about to launch after they demolish their last old Ruby Tuesday. The location is still a secret but patrons can watch it live on their website on August 5 at 3 p.m. EST.

Playstation Blog: The Eye of Judgment: Official Online Tournaments Begin Next Week

We hope people have been working on their summoning skills since our last post because we are happy to announce that the Official North American EOJ Tournaments starts this month! You may have noticed our friends in Japan and UK been having their own, now North American players get their chance to prove their skills and their decks!

College Students Can Save Up to 76% on Textbooks by Shopping Online Now

La Canada, CA (PRWEB) July 17, 2008 -- College students can save up to 76% on their textbooks by shopping online now for their fall books according to Steve Loyola, president and founder of Best Book Buys, a leading online comparison shopping service for books (http://www.bestbookbuys.com/) and a service of Best Web Buys (http://www.bestwebbuys.com/). Best Book Buys also reported today that more than 3 million books and textbooks have been purchased through Best Book Buys since 1997 with an average savings potential of 47% over list price for used books, 76% for international editions and 19% for new books.

Study: Some doctor bloggers tell all

Although doctor or nurse bloggers might think they're anonymous, they sometimes inadvertently end up revealing their identities and, as a result, their patients', according to a study. Researchers reviewed five entries each for 271 blogs written by people who said they were a physician or a nurse, and they found that 114 of the blogs described patients. More than half of the bloggers provided enough information in their text or images to reveal their identities, and 45 of the blogs that described interactions with individual patients included enough information for them to identify their doctors or themselves. Three blogs went so far to show recognizable photos of patients.

Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits

An anonymous reader writes "From an article on cnbc.com: 'As employers hand out electronic devices to their employees at a greater pace, there are growing concerns that workers eligible for overtime pay, known as non-exempt employees, could begin suing their employers for overtime hours earned while tapping on their devices during after-work hours. As a result, lawyers are advising their corporate clients to update their policies and handbooks related to BlackBerry use and reconsider who gets a device.'"

Notify Technology Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program

today announced it has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program, which extends the power of Google across the enterprise and helps customers get more value out of their Google Premier Apps deployment. Notify will provide Enterprises using Google's email, calendar, and address book applications with secure over-the-air synchronization to their wireless device using its NotifyLink Enterprise Edition for Google. NotifyLink users are free to use any BlackBerry(TM), Palm(TM), Windows Mobile(TM), or Symbian(TM) wireless device to access and manage their Google email, calendar, and contacts. The NotifyLink solution is available in two versions; one being an On-Premise software solution and the other as an On-Demand service solution. Over the past four years, Notify has been recognized by Gartner Group in their annual Wireless Email Magi

Online Privacy Versus Piracy

Millions of YouTube enthusiasts - including many in Singapore - should be relieved the video-sharing website's owner Google has to hand over only anonymised viewer logs in media giant Viacom's US$1 billion copyright lawsuit. Viacom and other plaintiffs may be suing only for payment of fair value of their content YouTube has made freely available online. They may have no wish to go after individual uploaders or viewers. Another, less obvious, motive might be that the usage data may come in handy in carving out their own online video market share and in boosting their own advertising revenues. Stripping out users' names and their Internet protocol addresses from the evidence allows the plaintiffs a chance to prove their case without compromising US privacy protection law.

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