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It should become eminently clear that patent trolling happens with the big guys too, as the story about the early, and late, problems of Sun were against Apple and Microsoft. It makes my stand on some of the harassment of Microsoft in eastern Texas a little different, perhaps it is their just desserts. The story this morning in ComputerWorld tells just how pushy, and protectionist both Gates and Jobs are with anything that comes close to looking anything like what they dish out. The thing is, there are lots of ways to attack a problem, just as there are many ways to get out a batter in baseball. Sandy Koufax had...
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After months of speculation and doubts, OnLive has finally announced that the plan to release their new client on June 17th, 2010, during this years E3 show. OnLive will initially be available in the 48 contiguous United States, allowing players to stream their games over the internet, instead of downloading and installing them locally. The pricing structure is drawing quite a bit of criticism though. OnLive plans to charge a monthly fee of $15 a month in order to access the service. This only gains you access to the store, friends and replays. In order to play any games, you need to either buy or rent them fas well. If you...
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Sandra Bullock wants to have her Oscar welded to her car.
The 45-year-old star, who picked up the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in âThe Blind Sideâ, wants to be reminded she is a movie star when doing mundane daily chores and has asked her husband, biker Jesse James, to attach the statue to her vehicle. She said, âIâm going to have Jesse weld the Oscar to the hood of the car. âIt will be there to remind me as I do the school and grocery runs. Iâm taking my award food shopping. More people will...
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One of the fundamental issues of privacy is the safeguarding of one’s medical history. In the United Kingdom, it supposedly was possible to not be part of the government data base. It seems that this is not proving to be valid: “… But doctors have accused the Government of rushing the project through, meaning that patients have had their details uploaded to the database before they have had a chance to object. The scheme, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will eventually hold the private records of more than 50 million patients. But it has been dogged by accusations that the private information held on it will not...
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If you’re a student, then you’re used to writing and turning in papers for classes like crazy. Writing papers on a variety of subjects is just a fact of life for students, and since they write so many of them, it’s important for students to do the best they can on them and make improvements where necessary. Getting this constructive feedback usually requires letting someone else read your work, but PaperRater can help you improve your work without needing the involvement of another human being. This free tool goes above and beyond a simple spell check by also checking your grammar and looking for instances of plagiarized content. PaperRater will...
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When you open Windows Explorer from the Start menu, it always opens to the same folder. For example, in Windows 7, Windows Explorer opens to the Libraries folder. If you prefer, you can configure it to open to a folder of your choice. For example, you can have Windows Explorer open to the Computer folder. You can do so by editing the properties of the Windows Explorer shortcut. To accomplish this, following the steps described below. Open the Start menu and type Windows Explorer in the Search field.Right-click the first result and click Properties.From the Windows Explorer Properties dialog box, type the following command in the Target field: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}.Click OK.
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Not even a few months the idea if incorporating Twitter results real-time in your searches on both google and Bing were all the rage. People pontificated on how this was going to change the whole search landscape. Even Marissa Mayer one of the head honchos at Google raved on about how this was a changing moment. “We think the real-time search is incredibly important, and the real-time data that’s coming online can be super-useful in terms of finding out whether â something like, is this conference today any good? Is it warmer in San Francisco ...
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Demi Moore reportedly gave her daughter a pole-dancing lesson.
The âGhostâ actress and 21-year-old Rumer Willis attended a recent party at exclusive Hollywood venue Chateau Marmont and the 47-year-old beauty was keen to show off her raunchy moves. A source told Life and Style magazine, âDemi got up and impressed everyone, especially when she spun around the pole upside down.â Rumer â the actressâ eldest daughter from her marriage to actor Bruce Willis, then decided to follow in her motherâs footsteps by giving it a go as a host of stars, including Demiâs husband Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Aniston...
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The World Is Always On Jon Hammond for Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs  *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: http://ia311213.us.archive.org/1/items/JonHammondTheWorldisAlwaysOn-JonHammond/TheWorldIsAlwaysOnJon_512kb.mp4?JonHammondTheWorldisAlwaysOn-JonHammond/TheWorldIsAlwaysOnJon_512kb.mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bzE_iLxmkE
Jon Hammond for Alcatel-Lucent / Bell Labs: “On stage, on television or on the radio waves â¨everyday I feel lucky because I’m ALWAYS ON! Jon HammondMusician, television personality and radio broadcaster Jon Hammond boarded a Concorde in 1981 to travel from New York to Paris at supersonic speed, and he never slowed down.Jon travels the world, touring in Europe and Asia two or three times each year while broadcasting his “HammondCast” morning radio show seven days a week. At home in...
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Itâs almost impossible to read anything from the mainline computer press that does not have the hard and heavy thumbprint of Microsoft on it. We get it. You all depend on Microsoft for your continued existence, so all articles pointed at them will be heavily slanted in their favor, and, every once in a great while, when Microsoft really screws the pooch, the sarcastic remarks and criticism can fly, but only for so long. (If you donât believe this, you arenât paying attention. Also, gander at the amount of criticism Vista got, and then there were a load of articles saying how no one â not even them â really gave...
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 SeaWeb applauded the announcement by the United States that it will support a proposed international trade ban for endangered bluefin tuna, and the ocean conservation organization called for international support for 32 species of red and pink coral as well as for eight shark species proposed for similar protection. These unique and valued marine species will be the focus of the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Conference of Parties (CoP15), in Doha, Qatar, March 13 to 25.
SeaWeb’s Too Precious To Wear campaign raises awareness of the threats posed to coral by the international...
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In a study reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine (that was not sponsored by Bartles & Jaymes or Anheuser-Busch) findings were published that women who “regularly consume moderate amounts of alcohol are less likely to gain weight” than their non-drinking peers, and were at a lower risk of obesity. The study followed nearly 20,000 women aged 39 or over, 60% of whom were light to “regular” drinkers and 40% classed as non-drinkers. At the start of the study, the women fell into the “normal” range of BMI. While it may seem intuitive that...
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P. Diddy was accompanied by a team of perfume sprayers on a recent night out.
The rapper amazed revelers at Londonâs Runway club by having the DJ play a 30-minute set of his songs to signal his arrival and then insisting on having his own Sean John fragrance sprayed into the room every 20 minutes. A source said, âAll eyes were on Diddy. You could smell him coming a mile off. It was as if a king had arrived in the building â but you could hardly see him under all that mist from the perfume. âHis songs were played...
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 Is a happy life filled with trivial chatter or reflective and profound conversations? Psychological scientists Matthias R. Mehl, Shannon E. Holleran, and C. Shelby Clark from the University of Arizona, along with Simine Vazire of Washington University in St. Louis investigated whether happy and unhappy people differ in the types of conversations they tend to engage in. Volunteers wore an unobtrusive recording device called the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) over four days. This device periodically records snippets of sounds as participants go about their lives. For this experiment, the EAR sampled 30 seconds of sounds every 12.5...
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The year 2009 is proving to be an eye opener for everyone in America, since there were few days that went by it which we didn’t learn about all of the crooks running corporate America. The company Lifelock which promises in their TV commercials to protect the consumer against ID theft and promises to pay you any damages that they occur if your ID is stolen, has been stealing themselves. According to one source the company has been fined by the FTC for deceptive advertising and paid a $12m fine. The fines will be reimbursed to about one million customers who signed up for the service starting in 2005. But if one...
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 A defendant is much more likely to be sentenced to death if he or she kills a “high-status” victim, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver (DU).
According to his research published in Law and Society Review, (43-4:807-837), the probability of being sentenced to death is much greater if a defendant kills a white or Hispanic victim who is married with a clean criminal record and a college degree, as opposed to a black or Asian victim who is single with a prior criminal record and no...
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Cheryl Cole is planning to move out of her marital home.
The âParachuteâ singer wants to quit the house she shared with estranged husband Ashley Cole in Surrey, South East England, who is alleged to have cheated on her with a string of other women, as soon as possible because it holds too many painful memories. A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper, âCheryl does not want the separation to be a long, drawn-out affair. She wants to find somewhere quickly so she can regain stability and become settled once more. âIf she canât find somewhere she likes sheâll consider...
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Sources from law enforcement have confirmed to TMZ that Corey Haim collapsed in the bedroom of his mother’s apartment, and that four prescriptions were found “nearby.” Haim, 38, was found unresponsive at the apartment early this morning, we reported earlier. TMZ published an updated timeline of events in Haim’s collapse and death: Sources say Haim got out of bed just before 1 AM and collapsed in front of his mother. She called 911 at 12:53 AM and Corey was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 AM. The...
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First of all we need to understand how the survey was conducted and what types of categories were used to rank the cities. The specific categories were for ease of getting around, health & safety, Information & technology, green time savers and finally lifestyle. Each city was graded on a scale of 1 to 5 and the scores were than added up to rank each city. Here is a listing of the top five cities: 1. Seattle Time-saving score: 22.5
Population: 598,541 With extensive public transit, one of the countryâs most on-time airports, and 50 miles of new bike lanes in the last two ...
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LA is waking up to sad news this morning. Corey Haim, 38, star of The Goonies, Lucas, The Lost Boys and Dream A Little Dream, died of an apparent accidental overdose early this morning in Los Angeles. Canadian-born Haim, best known for several roles starring fellow child star Corey Feldman, was found unresponsive in his apartment in Oakwood at around 3:30 am. He was taken to Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank, where he was pronounced dead. Police were called to investigate shortly before 4 AM. Haim, who has been in and out of rehab,...
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