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?Did You Know?? Educational App for iPhone Released

While Softpedia manages to throw in a little Apple history every now and then with its Did You Know section, E.A Productions' Did You Know? application for iPhone and iPod touch is said to offer interesting tidbits on a daily basis, for just $0.99.

The Cyber Crime Hall of Fame

DigitalDame2 writes "Not all hackers are bad guys, but a few fall prey to the dark side and use their talents for evil — not good. In compiling this list of the craziest cyber crimes, PC Mag looked for a few things: ingenuity (had it been done before?), scope (how many computers, agencies, companies, sites, etc. did it affect?), cost (how much in monetary damages did it cause?), and historical significance (did it start a new trend?). Read on about famous hackers John Draper, Robert Morris, Kevin Poulsen, and others."

Blog Buzz: Reviews of Palin's and Biden's Debate Performances, Schwarzenegger Needs a Loan for California

Sarah Palin's performance at last night's vice presidential debate gets mixed reviews from bloggers, who are generally split along party lines. Those on the left say it was clear her answers were rehearsed and consisted of talking points that she was clearly reading off her prepared notes. This, liberals say, and the fact that moderator Gwen Ifill did not ask follow-up questions, saved Palin from crashing and burning and gaffe-ing, like she did in recent interviews. But while she sounded more competent, Political Animal, Matthew Yglesias, and TPM say she still had a few whoppers. Michael Crowley says she did nothing to hurt herself but little to help John McCain. Conservative bloggers thought that while Ifill was biased toward Joe Biden, Palin still managed to pull off a sparkling, terrific performance (even a "grand slam" for the first h

Did O2 Miscalculate Demand For The New iPhone?

News that O2 has warned customers that the new iPhone will be in short supply until the end of the summer has raised a few eyebrows. Did O2 miscalculate the demand for the phone? Is Apple having manufacturing problems? Or has demand just taken the whole industry by storm?

Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony?

techmuse writes "Viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC's Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and forth, apparently delaying the appearance of the United States in its home market until later in the broadcast. (In fact, the US team was shown on the infield before they were shown marching!) NBC did not acknowledge this in its broadcast. Is NBC altering the reality of the broadcast to boost ratings? Was this true only online, or also in the live broadcast?"

UPDATE 2-Cox did not infringe Verizon patents-jury

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Cox Communications [COXC.UL] did not infringe patents owned by Verizon Communications (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), a jury in Virginia decided on Monday.

UPDATE 2-Cox did not infringe Verizon patents-jury

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Cox Communications [COXC.UL] did not infringe patents owned by Verizon Communications (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research), a jury in Virginia decided on Monday.

When 22-year-old music student Joanna Brehany joined an after-college choir, little did she know it would lead to singing in front of seven million viewers on national TV. Joanna, whose >

When 22-year-old music student Joanna Brehany joined an after-college choir, little did she know it would lead to singing in front of seven million viewers on national TV.

ODI captain MS Dhoni said senior cricketers like Dravid and Ganguly did not need...

As India's experienced players drew flak for their lacklustre show in the just lost Test series against Sri Lanka, ODIs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday came in their defence, saying they did not need to prove themselves.

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1/2: The big stage continues to bring the very best out of Pietersen. In his first innings against the country of his birth he scored a hundred, as he did in his debut as captain

Fooling Google News is as easy as s-p-o-o-f

I did it last week. Not that I was trying, mind you -- honestly, I wasn't. I did, however, predict it would happen, so I'm going to take this opportunity to gloat about that.

Sony KDL-40Z4100/B (black)

Although CNET did not review the 40-inch Sony KDL-40Z4100?b (black), we did review the 46-inch Sony KDL-46Z4100/B (black). Judging from their spec sheets, the two Sony front-panel LCDs are basically identical but for screen size, so we expect the review of the 46-inch model to give a good indication of how the 40-inch model will perform. For more information, refer to the full review of the Sony KDL-46Z4100/B (black).

Sony KDL-40Z4100/S (silver)

Although CNET did not review the 40-inch Sony KDL-40Z4100/S (silver), we did review the 46-inch Sony KDL-46Z4100/S (silver). Judging from their spec sheets the two Sony front-panel LCDs are basically identical but for screen size, so we expect the review of the 46-inch model to give a good indication of how the 40-inch model will perform. For more information, refer to the full review of the Sony KDL-46Z4100/S (silver).

Free Mobile RSS Reader

MobileTopSoft recently did a review of a free RSS reader called FetchIt! The program did a great job of managing RSS, Atom, and Podcast feeds and allowed you to multitask by letting you read content that has already been downloaded while downloading other new feeds. You can also share the latest news with friends as it has integration with Pocket Outlook and your contacts. The program can be downloaded by clicking on.

Stumper's Republican Convention Coverage Starts Now...

The Partisans Loved It. So Did The Pundits. But What Did the Only Undecided Voter* in Mile High Stadium Think of Obama's Speech?

Stumper TV: Fineman on Obama's Speech

The Partisans Loved It. So Did The Pundits. But What Did the Only Undecided Voter* in Mile High Stadium Think of Obama's Speech?

eBay Loses Mojo on Google Search

I was doing some searching on Google on September 18th for sewing patterns for Halloween costumes when I observed something interesting. eBay listings did not appear to be showing up high in natural search on Google for my searches. So I did searches for some traditional eBay items, such as Fenton Glass and Beanie Babies. There were no eBay listings on the first page of Google search results.

Video Game Developer Talks To Pirates: Realizes He Can Compete With Free

Slashdot points us to an interesting story of a video game developer in the UK, Positech Games, who put up a blog post recently, asking people who "pirated" the company's software to explain why they did it. They did... in droves. Now there's a new post up discussing both the results and how the company is responding. While the guy sounds surprised about the results, they don't really seem all that shocking: people hate, hate, hate DRM of any kind (which should serve as a counter to the guy who showed up here last week insisting that DRM is here to stay). That was the thing they were most vehement about. After that, they were upset about the high price of games and the short demos that were offered that weren't representative of the game.

Dismal sales signal collapse of contemporary art market

LONDON: Scrawled in lipstick, inscribed in blood by her former lover, Pete Doherty, the self-portrait by the model Kate Moss was expected to fetch up to £40,000. In the end, the 2006 work - ‘Who Needs Blood When You’ve Got Lipstick’ - did not make its reserve. Nor did many of the other contemporary works by famous names.

Art sale Moss-acre

Scrawled in lipstick, inscribed in blood by her former lover, Pete Doherty, the self-portrait by the model Kate Moss was expected to fetch up to £40,000 yesterday. In the end, the 2006 work – Who Needs Blood When You've Got Lipstick – did not make its reserve. Nor did many of the other contemporary works by famous names.

Cyber War, Defcon 5 for Georgia

In a previous post and in my lectures I define true cyber warfare as the use of network attacks to disable communication and other infrastructure preparatory to sending tanks across the border. I used to joke that cyber warfare did not exist because there would have to be neighboring states engaged in war that were also networked and I did not see any tanks rolling across the Canadian border with the US. Ha.

Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC

Ted Samson IW writes "InfoWorld reports on an experiment in air economization, aka 'free cooling,' conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 production servers, working at 90 percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a facility in New Mexico. Only when the temperature exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit did they crank on some artificial air conditioning. Intel did very little to address air-born contaminants and dust, and nothing at all to deal with fluctuating humidity. The result: a slightly higher failure rate — around 0.6 percent more — among the air-cooled servers compared to those in the company's main datacenter — and a potential savings of $2.87 million per year in a 10MW datacenter using free cooling over traditional cooling.

Lars Ulrich: Napster Wasnt About Money, It Was About Control

Rarely has there been a rock star as maligned for a single incident as Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. In 2000, he became the poster child for bands lashing out at the online world when the band sued Napster following the leak of “I Disappear� via the peer-to-peer service. Ulrich stands by what he did, but wants fans to know he did it for the right reasons. “Nine out of 10 people go, ‘What was that about? It was about money.’ Fuck you — it wasn’t about money. It was about control,� explains Ulrich. “I’ll give away all my shit for free. But I’ll decide when and where and how.� Click below for more from Ulrich’s conversation with Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, including why he lives his life more openly and how tours have changed since 1983.

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