| Google's business Apps sparks debate
With the launch of Google Apps for Your Domain, the online search giant hopes to cash in on the market for-on demand applications. Analysts have welcomed the move but some question the company's motives and wonder whether our personal data is safe in Google's hands. Launched on Monday, Google Apps for Your Domain is a series of on-demand applications that individuals and companies can use to handle basic functions. It includes Gmail (Google Mail in the UK) for email, Google Calendar, Google Talk for instant messaging and Page Creator for page design. A word processor and a spreadsheet are still in beta testing. James Governor, of analysts Red Monk, said that the current Google approach was to produce applications that were "Good enough. It's not about releasing polished applications".
Chow & Tell: Taste Buds at Blue Adobe Grille
Along with our dip, we chose a small cup of red chile pork posole soup with spicy mixes of roasted pork and hominy in a red chile broth ($5.25). The red chile pork posole could be an elixir for the ill in small isolated villages. Our server graciously brought us a sample of the green chile chicken corn chowder ($3.50). The chowder was thick and creamy enough to comfort our taste buds. Do you see a theme here? Staying true to the New Mexican cuisine, green/red chile is used in almost every dish at Blue Adobe. The lobster dip was delicious although we would have preferred to enjoy it with tortilla chips instead of the deep fried flour crisps. As for the soups, we liked the red chile pork posole better. The spices and flavor hit the spot. For dinner Jennifer picked the chorizo stuffed chicken ($16), which was a pecan-grilled chicken breast stuffed with chorizo, green chiles, fontina cheese and smothered with anamaretto mushroom cream sauce.
McLaren sets very high bar as hubby
Every February he goes to the FBR Open in Scottsdale and enjoys the crowd spectacle at the 16th hole. Many years ago on an off-day in Oakland, Ken Griffey Jr. lined up limos to take players and coaches to Pebble Beach, and McLaren passed because he had yet to take up the game. He said he'd die to play there now. There are perks to being a big league manager. McLaren was playing with a friend at Blackstone Country Club last week, and after they finished their round, the head guy pulled him aside and gave him a membership, waiving the $75,000 initiation fee. McLaren couldn't believe it. "I've always wanted to be part of a country club," he said. When he's not golfing or managing, McLaren is most apt to be at home reading the paper, messing around on the computer or watching ESPN.
Video is the winner on the Web
Overall, across the world, online viewers spent 3.25 hours in November watching videos up from 2.5 hours in January the same year. On an average, they spent 2.8 minutes online. In November 2007, the world watched a phenomenal 9.5 billion videos online, 28.3 per cent higher than September 2007. YouTube alone accounted for 2.9 billion of those, with 29.5 million visitors... Compete, another website analytics company, found that several new video sharing sites (including adult video sharing sites) showed growth rates of over 14,000 per cent from December 2006 to December 2007. Another trend: 18 of the top 20 sites belong to the peer-to-peer sharing platform. Video content is now an integral part of the Web 2.0 trend where person-to-person interaction and information sharing will be the bedrock of the development of the Internet.
Cethromycin Achieves All Endpoints in Second Pivotal Phase III Trial ...
CHICAGO, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADLS) , today announced positive results from Trial CL-05, the second of two pivotal phase III clinical trials designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of cethromycin, a novel once-a-day oral antibiotic for the treatment of mild-to-moderate community acquired pneumonia (CAP), the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. The primary efficacy endpoint of statistical non-inferiority in the clinical cure rate at the test-of-cure visit was achieved. The study results showed that cethromycin cured 94.0% of patients with CAP, compared to Biaxin(R) (clarithromycin), a current standard of care treatment for CAP, which cured 93.8% of studied patients in the per protocol population. In the modified intent to treat population, cethromycin cured 83.1% of patients and Biaxin cured 81.1%.
EFI Inks Licensing Agreement for Paid Inc.'s Patented Online Shipping ...
BOSTON & FOSTER CITY, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- EFI, the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, and Paid, Inc. (OTCBB:PAYD) announced today that the two companies have signed a license agreement that enables EFI to integrate Paid's real-time online shipping calculation technology into its PrinterSite order system via an application protocol interface (API). The licensing agreement with EFI marks the first API integration since the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent for portions of Paid's online shipping calculation technology in January 2008. Under the annual renewable contract, EFI will pay Paid, Inc. an annual licensing fee that will allow EFI's system to access Paid's AuctionInc server to calculate or recalculate shipping costs in real time for customer orders.
Queensryche has a tour stop at home
In the late 1980s, it was second only to Heart as the most popular band to come out of Seattle. Dubbed "The Thinking Man's Heavy-Metal Band" because of its smart lyrics and serious approach to music and performance, the band built a following before ever actually playing here. Determined from the start to conquer the world, it bypassed the nightclub route and went straight into the studio. Its independent recordings were hits on local radio, which led to a recording contract with EMI America. The debut "Queensryche" album came out in 1983 to good reviews and impressive sales. After that, the band began doing local shows and touring, building an international audience. Queensryche released its elaborate, political-thriller concept album, "Operation Mindcrime," in 1988, but really hit its stride in 1990 with "Empire," its slickest, most popular release.
Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition ‘analog’ hole
A little more than a year ago, Sebastian Krahmer posted a question on the Dailydave security mailing list whether Vista's speech recognition was exploitable or not via malicious sound files that could be hosted on websites. I was the first to answer his call with some initial skepticism but that turned in to astonishment when I ran some tests that confirmed the vulnerability. Stories ran a few months ago before the finalization of Vista Service Pack 1 that SP1 would close this speech recognition vulnerability but I couldn't get any confirmation or denial from Microsoft after multiple queries. I finally got tired of waiting and decided to test the exploit again with Vista SP1 RTM installed and found that the vulnerability still exists. The test sound file I created managed to wake Vista speech recognition, highlight all the files on my desktop or all my pictures via Windows Explorer, and invoke the shift-delete command which wipes the files without the ability to undelete from the Recycle Bin.
Prices rise on four fronts
A friend of mine from the UK, says that the Uk has the title Rip off Britain, yet food, cars, houses and general good including computers, and all other electrical goods are cheaper than Australia. So why is this? Greed. You hear that stores increase value by up to 300%, why this rip off. Petrol in some parts of Brisbane are higher than Sydney. House prices in Brisbane are over valued by at least 100,000 dollars and yet Real Estate agents keep on ripping us off. Healh insurance going up, petrol rises and greed greed greed. Banks in Australia and New Zealand are the onlt first world countries who charge ATM fees. Posted by: Colin of Rip Off Brisbane 7:14am March 07, 2008 Comment 50 of 206 .
World Markets See-Saw As Dollar Hits Record Low And Oil Prices Soar
News on Thursday showed that foreclosures, or repossessions, had hit a record high in the fourth quarter of last year while house prices look to be in freefall.
Analysts said the latest numbers were as good as confirmation that the U.S. economy was already in recession as a result of the housing market collapse and sub-prime mortgage crisis, which has already claimed victims across the globe, including Northern Rock.
'The debate should no longer be about whether there is or is not a recession, only about how deep it will be. Private employment has now fallen for three months in a row,' said Nigel Gault, economist at Global Insight. 'The Fed has to be more aggressive,' said Richard DeKaser, chief economist for National City Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Adams bulks up Tour staff with stars
Add a couple of big PGA Tour names to Adams Golf's marquee.
Less than three weeks after signing Q-school graduate Tommy “Two Gloves" Gainey and Brad Elder, the Plano, Texas-based equipment maker has added a pair of top-20 PGA Tour players in Rory Sabbatini and Aaron Baddeley.
Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Sabbatini, a former Nike staff player who is a four-time winner on the PGA Tour and ranked 11th in the world, will wear an Adams hat and carry the company's staff bag while using Idea a3 irons, an Idea Pro hybrid and Insight driver. He finished sixth on the money list last year after posting top-10 finishes in each of the four FedEx Cup playoff events and winning the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.
Baddeley, a two-time Tour winner and the 18th-ranked player in the world, was released from his deal with MacGregor in the fall.
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