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Noted painter Hartigan dead at age 86

Baltimore -- Noted abstract expressionist painter Grace Hartigan has died of liver failure in Baltimore at the age of 86, her longtime dealer, Julian Weissman, says.

Noted painter Hartigan dead at age 86

BALTIMORE, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Noted abstract expressionist painter Grace Hartigan has died of liver failure in Baltimore at the age of 86, her longtime dealer, Julian Weissman, says.

Biggest conference of noted painters scheduled for Dec 15

The biggest conference of noted Iranian painters will be held here on December 15 as a peripheral program of the three-day Festival of Products by Arts Bureau's Provincial Branches.

CLSA keeps 27% lower group earnings on HSBC (00005), "sell"

ET Net News Agency, 11 November 2008> CLSA's analyst Daniel Tabbush said the key feature of HSBC (00005) Bank USA's latest results isn't the US$136m loss, but the 34% rise in criticised assets QoQ to US$5.8bn. Tabbush noted that its impairment costs were up just 9% QoQ. Strong "fair value" gains at both HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Finance supported earnings, despite losses: Finance's US$1.8bn of Other Income limited its loss to US$300m (from a $1.4bn shortfall in 2Q08). He maintained his 27% lower group earnings forecast for this year, rating the stock "sell". Tabbush also noted there's no talk of the pending headquarters sale, which he believes is now unlikely to go through. (KL)

Noted Physicist, Photographer Aarons Dies

Jules Aaron, a space physicist and documentary photographer, has died in his Newton, Mass., home after battling congestive heart failure. He was 87.

Noted physicist, photographer Aarons dies

Jules Aaron, a space physicist and documentary photographer, has died in his Newton, Mass., home after battling congestive heart failure. He was 87.

Noted physicist, photographer Aarons dies

Jules Aaron, a space physicist and documentary photographer, has died in his Newton, Mass., home after battling congestive heart failure. He was 87.

Noted porcelain painter Geissler dies during visit to Japan

Meissen porcelain painter Uwe Geissler of Germany died Monday afternoon at a hospital in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, after taking ill while visiting the northern Japan city for a local painting exhibition, the Asahikawa municipal government said Tuesday. He was 51. Hospital staff declined to disclose the cause of Geissler’s death, saying they want to speak to his family first.

EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-key

sunderbear noted that EAs Command & Conquer 3 shipped missing the last digit of the CD Key. He writes "EA's brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a comical work-around. 'There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character,' said a note on EA's customer support site. Yes, they're serious. 'To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game.'" It appears that the helpful hint has been purged.

Researcher warns of critical Google bug in G1 phone

A noted security researcher Monday warned users of T-Mobile's G1 smart phone that a critical vulnerability in Google's Android operating system could be used to hack their phones.

Early e-voting results in vote flipping in three states so far

I noted in passing last week that West Virginia has had the distinct honor of being the first state in the union to report problems (surprise! surprise!) with its electronic voting systems. There are now also reports that similar problems have been happening in Tennessee and Texas as well. No doubt these won't be the last.

Google Adds Video and Voice Chat to Gmail

The company noted that users can communicate in real time without switching to another application or creating a different account. It said it was the "first leading Webmail service to include video chat."

Cost-effective 'Indus knee' patent granted to Pune doctor

Pune (PTI): Noted city orthopaedician Dr K H Sancheti has been granted a patent by the Central Government for an indigenously designed artificial knee for total knee replacement surgery (TKR).

An end to the patent wars?

We've noted here and on FierceFinanceIT that a patent war has been looming in the financial services industry, just as it has long raged in the technology and biotech industries. Companies pretty much have to seek patents on their software and other innovations, and then use them strategically. Some small companies exist for no other reason than to file patent claims against big companies. Is there an end in sight? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit just issued a ruling in the so-called Bilski case, rejecting an attempt to patent a method of hedging risk in commodities transactions. Business Week says this may lead to a scaling back of business-method patents, the pursuit of which has been a big focus in the industry. But the article notes the court sidestepped a big issue: Whether simply employing a computer itself is enou

TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors

David Gerard noted an interesting story going down with a relatively minor project that has interesting implications for any Open Source project. He writes "Ten years ago, Peter Thoeny started the TWiki wiki engine. It attracted many contributors at twiki.org. About a year ago, Thoeny founded the startup twiki.net. On 27th October, twiki.net locked all the other contributors out of twiki.org in an event Thoeny called 'the twiki.org relaunch.' Here's the IRC meeting log. All the other core developers have now moved to a new project, NextWiki. Is it a sensible move for a venture capital firm that depends on a healthy Open Source community to lock it out?"

Google Map to Real Piracy

An anonymous reader noted that you can now see a Google Map of piracy. Not the pretend kind, the real kind with boats and stuff. Considering how much time we spend talking about the other kind, I think it's worth paying attention to the real problems out there.

China Says: If You Must Infringe On Copyrights, Use Baidu

Many people have noted over the years that with all of the effort that China has put into its Great Firewall, the country hasn't done much of anything to crack down on unauthorized file sharing. In fact, at times, it's almost seemed to encourage it. So some people were a bit surprised to find out that China's censors tried blocking traffic to various well known BitTorrent sites, such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay. However, what may be most interesting is that rather than blocking them outright, it appears that the system just redirects all that traffic to popular Chinese search engine Baidu.

Shuttleworth: There's more to Linux development than kernel hacks

As I've noted before, there is more to open-source development than lines of code written, important though that activity is. There is, for example, the critical work done by Canonical, the company behind the ubiquitous Ubuntu Linux distribution, which tends to involve more ease-of-use development than core kernel development.

New ISP Snooping Tech Doesn't Work With BitTorrent

Last week we noted that as part of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's rather dubious "crackdown" on ISPs and child porn, he advised ISPs to begin using a deep packet inspection solution from a company named Brilliant Digital. The technology would analyze user packets, comparing transmitted user data to a master database of illegal content. The entertainment industry has been using the threat of child porn as a gateway toward forcing ISPs to act as content nannies, and Brilliant's solution is a major front-runner for the honor. The system, which begins trials this week in Australia, is being touted as an anti-piracy cure-all -- an article in The Age claiming it "will kill the illegal sharing of pirated content and child porn over peer-to-peer networks.

Danish High Court Says ISPs Must Be Internet Policemen; Have To Block The Pirate Bay

Earlier this year, we noted, with surprise, that a Danish court had ordered Tele2, a large ISP, to block all access to The Pirate Bay website. This followed an earlier ruling requiring Tele2 to block access to AllofMp3.com. It's never been clear why an ISP should take on the responsibility of blocking access to a site, and Tele2 appealed the ruling. Unfortunately, it looks as though the company has lost. The Danish High Court has apparently sided with the IFPI, and says that, indeed, Tele2 must block The Pirate Bay. Of course, this is unlikely to matter. Whenever these blocks are ordered, there are always ways around them, and the attention from the blocks tends to alert more people to the site's existence.

Google, Microsoft Compete To Blow Money On Verizon Deal

Ballmerhands.jpgAs we've noted, Microsoft (MSFT) is threatening to use its gigantic cash pile to steal the Verizon search deal away from Google. Google is reportedly fighting back, and it will be telling to see whether it does something stupid just to avoid losing to Microsoft.

Following The Pack: Warner Bros. Becomes Latest Studio To Withdraw From Korean DVD Market

imageBack in October we noted that Time Warner-owned Warner Bros. was still hopeful of reclaiming some lost ground in the broadband-rich-but-piracy-ridden Korean movie market by releasing films on demand two weeks before their DVD release. It was hopeful even in the face of Sony, Paramount, Universal, Buena Vista and 20th Century Fox having shuttered domestic operations due to lagging sales.

From Firefox to Fennec: Mozilla Has Surprises In Store

Yesterday, on WebWorkerDaily, I noted in a post that the first extension has been created for Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser (Fennec means small fox). Mozilla quietly reported this news in a blog post. With this in mind, and for several other reasons, I think many people are underestimating the impact Fennec will have as a mobile browser. Here is why.

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