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SINCE the discovery of DNA, mapping the genome and all that clever stuff, you often hear reports about the discovery of some new gene or other. more...

SINCE the discovery of DNA, mapping the genome and all that clever stuff, you often hear reports about the discovery of some new gene or other.

Solar wind weakest since beginning of space age

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The intensity of the sun's million-mile-per-hour solar wind has dropped to its lowest levels since accurate records began half a century ago, scientists say.

Lots of updates and parrots since the initial release of Pirates

Destructoid writes: "There have been a significant amount of changes to Pirates of the Burning Sea since it was shown last year at Gen Con. There is now more dueling, new graphics and cities, more pillaging, and even more "piratical pets." I like parrots, to be honest, but I've always been afraid of how long they live. Could you imagine having to chill with a bird for your entire life, nonethless one that takes dumps on your shoulder for decades?

Orange France sells 116,000 3G iPhones since launch

Orange France said it had sold 116,000 Apple iPhone 3G smartphones since it launched the product in the middle of July, compared to taking nearly five months to sell 100,000 units of the first version of the iPhone, writes Les Echos. The success of the new version is partly attributed to Orange's decision to offer it through retailers such as Fnac, Darty and Auchan. It only sold the first iPhone at Orange stores. According to Orange, half of its iPhone 3G users first had the original version. Orange is selling the 3G phone for EUR 149 compared to the first version's retail price of EUR 399. Rival mobile operator SFR said that 40,000 of its subscribers had a first generation iPhone and between 1,500 and 2,000 owned the iPhone 3G. The operator made concessions to some of its clients by partially reimbursing the price of iPhones bought as st

Orange France sells 116,000 3G iPhones since launch

Orange France said it had sold 116,000 Apple iPhone 3G smartphones since it launched the product in the middle of July, compared to taking nearly five months to sell 100,000 units of the first version of the iPhone, writes Les Echos. The success of the new version is partly attributed to Orange's decision to offer it through retailers such as Fnac, Darty and Auchan. It only sold the first iPhone at Orange stores. According to Orange, half of its iPhone 3G users first had the original version. Orange is selling the 3G phone for EUR 149 compared to the first version's retail price of EUR 399. Rival mobile operator SFR said that 40,000 of its subscribers had a first generation iPhone and between 1,500 and 2,000 owned the iPhone 3G. The operator made concessions to some of its clients by partially reimbursing the price of iPhones bought as st

Colorful Import Australian makeup artist Napoleon Perdis has gained quite a following since debuting in 1995. Carrie Denny

Australian makeup artist Napoleon Perdis has gained quite a following since debuting in 1995. He gussies up the ladies in Australia’s Next Top Model (yes, the down-under version of Lady Banks’ big, American-based hit); he was the official makeup sponsor of the 2007 Primetime Emmys; and I have an Australian acquaintance who still begs her visiting mother to lug over suitcases of his goods, even after years in the States.

Domino Master | Xbox Live Arcade |The game of Dominos has been passed up through the generations since its conception in the early eleven hundreds. Many of us have played the ivory and ebony block game at one point or another, so reviving the classic

The game of Dominos has been passed up through the generations since its conception in the early eleven hundreds. Many of us have played the ivory and ebony block game at one point or another, so reviving the classic game for the "gaming generation" seems like a great idea. Besides the PC platform, the Xbox 360 is the most logical choice for smaller companies to publish their creations, so here we are with TikGames Domino Master. Bringing the down home classic game of Dominos to fresh faces around the globe Domino Master includes five variations on the dotted blocks that you can enjoy in single player or multiplayer modes. Here’s a look at the first Domino game for the Xbox Live Arcade.

Chinese leading folk artists have been demonstrating their skills in Olympic Village since it was opend early August, making it a place for foreign athletes to feast their eyes on Chinese culture.

Kong Bingzhang, a Chinese kite artist, shows his works at the Olympic Village in Beijing, China, Aug. 21, 2008. Chinese leading folk artists have been demonstrating their skills in the village since the village was opend early August, making it a place for foreign athletes to feast their eyes on Chinese culture.(Xinhua Photo/Li Ziheng)

i-Technology Viewpoint: The Performance Woe of Binary XML

Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes five to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store. While most agree that verbosity is inherent to XML's way of encoding information (e.g., extensive use of tags and pointy brackets), the explanation of XML's perceived performance issue remains inconclusive. A popular belief is that since XML is human-readable text, it has to be slow and inefficient. And by the same token, proponents of binary XML seem to suggest that a compact encoding format, most noticeably the binary XML, would automatically lead to better processing performance.

Performance Woe of Binary XML

Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes five to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store. While most agree that verbosity is inherent to XML's way of encoding information (e.g., extensive use of tags and pointy brackets), the explanation of XML's perceived performance issue remains inconclusive. A popular belief is that since XML is human-readable text, it has to be slow and inefficient. And by the same token, proponents of binary XML seem to suggest that a compact encoding format, most noticeably the binary XML, would automatically lead to better processing performance.

i-Technology Viewpoint: The Performance Woe of Binary XML

Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes five to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store. While most agree that verbosity is inherent to XML's way of encoding information (e.g., extensive use of tags and pointy brackets), the explanation of XML's perceived performance issue remains inconclusive. A popular belief is that since XML is human-readable text, it has to be slow and inefficient. And by the same token, proponents of binary XML seem to suggest that a compact encoding format, most noticeably the binary XML, would automatically lead to better processing performance.

LG Injects Sex Appeal Into DVD Players

It's been a long time since DVD players were considered cool and even longer since they gave off even a whiff of sex appeal, but LG has certainly injected a little heat into the now bland DVD arena with its DVS450H DVD.

SEC does YouTube? Ruling says blogs are OK for public disclosures

It's been nearly 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, and at least a decade since the first blogs appeared. But until now, publicly traded companies have not been able to use the Web or blogs to meet the Feds' disclosure requirements.

Review: Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise

It has been a rather long time since I pulled a twelve hour gaming session. The last was probably sometime during my first year in WoW but since then there's been nothing which has held my attention for more than a few hours here and there. So you can say I wasn't expecting to be giving up on Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise at five in the morning, a good half a day after first inserting the disc. Over the last few years I've been less and less inclined to devote huge chunks of my time to driving, shooting and commanding armies or groups of brave adventurers. The appeal... it's just not the same as it once was. Yet it seems that if you give me a virtual spade, some seed packets and a few colorful animals, only physical exhaustion will bring me to quit my game.

An unexpected pace revival

When you consider that Zaheer Khan hadn't played one-day cricket since November and Munaf Patel since one miserable day in February, and that Praveen Kumar had taken one wicket from four matches at an average of 174 in his last series, it's rather stunning they have been the most inspiring aspect of India's current campaign. The trio bowled creditably in the series opener and utilised the helpful conditions in the second match; a third consecutive professional display at the Premadasa proved that Dambulla was no flash in the pan.

Would You Rent A Domain Name?

Professional domainers have been buying and selling domain names since at least as early as 1994. In those days some domainers were saying that domain names with more than one word in them wouldn’t sell. But they have long since been proven wrong. A recent development in the controversial practice of domaining is domain renting.

Sony Earphones Make Attractive, Useless Subway Maps

In order to prove how far Sony has come since ATRAC3 and long-playing MiniDiscs, a new ad attributed to the company shows a NYC subway map traced in its entirety by black Sony earphones, accompanied by a Network Walkman. As if it wasn't enough to try to retake ownership just one iPod-saturated public transit system, a search revealed similar designs for both the London Underground and Sydney's Metro. That last one makes sense, since Sony retained the Sydney office of badass ad agency Saatchi and--repetition is key to messaging--Saatchi for the inspired work. One prob though: As any seasoned straphanger will tell you, you kinda need the colors, or else all the lines run together. [The Cool Hunter]

At the arcade: In Japan, video games are about the experience

Disclaimer: I am not a geek. I have not owned a game system since the Sega Genesis and I can’t speak a lick of Klingon. But since I arrived here in May, I’ve appreciated seeing names such as Konami and Sega grace the sides of downtown city structures.

I-COM Online Marketing Blog Proving a Real Success with 38% Traffic Increase

Manchester based online marketing and search engine optimisation company I-COM has seen real success since adding a company blog onto their website, I-COM.net. In the month since the blog was added to I-COM’s website, organic search traffic to the web site has increased by 38%, with web inquiries also increasing by a huge 270%.

Activision Suing Pirates, RIAA Style

There are plenty of good reasons not to steal Activision Blizzard's games, but apparently, since 2007, one of them has been the snare of their lawyers. GamePolitics reports (via Kotaku) that the publisher has since last year been quietly suing individuals for alleged copyright infringement of their console games, with most cases ending in big settlements -- often upwards of $100,000.

Opinion: How Desktop Linux Should Behave

IconThe promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?

Achewood Creator on NPR

On my drive in to the office today, I heard an interview with a comic creator. Since I started the car mid-interview, it took me just a few moments to figure out who it was: Chris Onstad from Achewood (NSFW some days. Possibly including today, depending on your W). He's plugging his book The Great Outdoor Fight. Since his comic is one of the favorites here, I thought you all might enjoy hearing the interview. Today's comic is especially amusing given that it will likely be read by a great number of those NPR types unfamiliar with the strip.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Released

Adobe, the 800-pound gorilla in the graphics world, has released a new version of their flagship product, Photoshop. I have to admit that since I haven't used Photoshop since version 6.0, I'm not particularly excited about this - but there are a lot of new features, and if you're a Photoshop junkie, this release will probably get you excited. The "content aware scaling" feature looks really cool - this is the commercialized version of some work I saw a year or so ago.

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