Is Vonage the New MCI? "Daniel Berninger, senior analyst with Tier 1 Research thinks otherwise, and believes that like MCI that put the squeeze on old AT&T, Vonage can put the squeeze on its bigger, more well funded rivals including the Bells and Cable Companies." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:31 p.m..
Mark Shuttleworth almost strip searched by US customs When Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth recently traveled to the US, he was declined entry and almost strip searched! (He refused, and they relented). Furthermore, he now has to fill out a visa application form for "people with a criminal record" every time he wishes to travel to the US. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:31 p.m..
Drug Warriors Want Eye-Eating Fungus Massively Sprayed in Colombia Why are members of Congress advocating the use of a dangerous crop-killer in Columbia? From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:31 p.m..
How to: Vista Beta on Your MacBook and MacBook Pro After a few false starts I have finally got a working Vista up and running on my MBP. This is assuming you already have a working copy of XP installed using BootCamp. Here is what I did: From on June 10, 2006 at 8:52 p.m..
Big Microsoft Brother Yet another take on the Microsoft Spyware issue: Who wouldn't trust a company that hid built-in spyware on every Windows-based PC in the land? From on June 10, 2006 at 8:52 p.m..
Duke Nukem Forever - Could the wait be over this year? Stock plunges after dismal earnings report; SEC filing reveals 3D Realms has a $500,000 incentive to finish infamously delayed PC game by year's end. Duke Nukem Forever due by Dec. 31? From on June 10, 2006 at 8:52 p.m..
Cisco Buys Two Small Software Companies: Metreos and Audium "Cisco Friday announced it has agreed to acquire two small companies that will help it create a common application development interface for its voice, video and data communications platform." From on June 10, 2006 at 8:02 p.m..
Top 50 Game Ending Songs You will no doubt find some old favourites in the list, and probably a lot of other titles you’ve never played or even heard of. There are MP3 files for each one of the songs. From on June 10, 2006 at 8:02 p.m..
Top 10 Strangest Spy Gadgets Our editors have compiled a list of the “Top 10 Strangest (or coolest) Spy Gadgets” for your enjoyment. Which ones are your favorites? From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
Explaining disconnect between women, video games It's not that women don't understand video games, it's that video games don't understand women. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
Amazing Interactive SVG Diagrams Learn how to use Inkscape to create incredible animated and scripted SVG diagrams. Complete with step-by-step instructions... who needs Flash anyway? From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
China walks out on meeting over world wireless encryption standard An international dispute over a wireless computing standard took a bitter turn this past week with the Chinese delegation walking out of a global meeting to discuss the technology From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
EU Institute of Technology to compete with MIT. Europe has preliminary plans to build their own Tech institute to help stem brain drain, and kickstart innovation in Europe. They want to start it within 3 years, but have some hurdles to clear. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
Google Spreadsheets is More Powerful Than You Think "There are no PivotTables, there's no charting, and apart from sorting, you can't do much with text. But there's a lot more functionality than you might expect. Google Spreadsheets' user interface, functions support, collaboration features and performance are all strengths." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
Porting PC games to the PS3 may take studios over 3 years to accomplish. It seems that porting PC games to the PS3 will basically require developers to rebuild the game almost from scratch; whereas a PC to Xbox 360 port may be simpler than most people realized. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
New Super Mario Bros DS hits Million Mark in only 2 Weeks! Only after two weeks on the market in Japan, Nintendo’s DS game New Super Mario Bros. sells over one million copies. The first week it went on sale the game sold nearly 900,000 units From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
Net Neutrality: Who Voted for What? Here is a list of Representatives who voted Yes, No or Nothing at all for Net Neutrality. It is sorted by state so you can easily check what your representative voted for. If they voted against what you believe then be sure to vote them out in the next elections. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
MySpace Cheat Sheet for Parents This is hilarious, almost as good as the infamous MS Leetspeak for parents page. eg: say, " 'Hey, let's sit down and see what's going on with your online life.' From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
World's Funniest Joke Professor Richard Wiseman carried out an internet experiment five years ago to find the world's best gag. A joke about two US hunters who go into the woods topped the poll after more than 100,000 people around the world cast their vote on 40,000 jokes. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
Human Eye = 500 Megapixels - Pixels, photos and Moore's Law An interesting look into the future of the professional digital SLR market, the megapixel war, and how Moore's Law applies. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
A Futuristic Eco- Friendly Speedboat Runs on Fat from Man's Behind "It can be a real pain in the butt. Just ask Peter Bethune, who's powering his speedboat with biodiesel made of fat from his backside. Of course, nobody's butt is big enough to sustain a 27,600-mile journey. Bethune's contribution amounts to only a liter of fuel; the rest comes from vegetable oils and other animal fats." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
How Google Is Killing the Internet There are multiple problems here, all of which will be costly (if not impossible) for Google to eradicate. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 7:31 p.m..
Bungie Has Reached A Major Milestone In The Development Of Halo 3 The design, engineering, art, test, tools and audio teams, have all been working hard on a major internal milestone. Thanks to everyone who worked late and hard to reach that goal, and they should all have a beer this afternoon to celebrate. With new and old vehicles, weapons and maps being implemented in the 2 hour multiplayer testing sessions. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 2:31 p.m..
Enough wind offshore to electrify America There is as much wind power potential (900,000 megawatts) off our coasts as the current capacity of all power plants in the United States combined, according to a new report. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 2:31 p.m..
Family Guy Voice Actor's Speech @ Harvard (VIDEO) Seth MacFarlane spoke at this year's Harvard Class Day. It's pretty funny. I am surprised he got away with some of the stuff he said. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 2:31 p.m..
Nicotine could save 250,000 Americans a year The nicotine that gets people hooked on cigarettes can be implicated in hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S. each year. But immunologist Luis Ulloa has found that it can also reverse the condition called sepsis, which kills some 250,000 Americans a year. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 2:31 p.m..
The Simpsons almost disprove Fermat's Last Theorem This is so cool; remember the Halloween episode where two dimensional Homer gets sucked into the third dimension? Remember this innocent-looking equation: 178212 + 184112 = 192212 floating by? From digg on June 10, 2006 at 2:31 p.m..
Gorgeous Clocks Made from Old Vacuum Tubes These neon-filled numeric displays, also known as 'numicators', consist of an outer mesh anode, with ten cathodes shaped to form numbers. They were popular in the 1960s and 70s when the first logic ICs became available, the 7441 or 74141 TTL devices often being used as a driver, and can still sometimes be seen in old electronic test equipment. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 2:31 p.m..
Young people in Sweden support file sharing - even if it is illegal The majority of young people who will be allowed to vote for the first time this September during national elections are in favor of file downloading - despite the fact that it is illegal. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 2:31 p.m..
10 Father's Day Gifts That Actually Make Sense Funny article on things Dad really needs. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 2:31 p.m..
First impressions of Google Browser Sync Keeping your Firefox brower information straight between different PCs and even different operating systems has just gotten a lot easier with this new Google extension. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 11:30 a.m..
Amazing Art Produced During Science Research "In the spring of 2006 we asked the Princeton University community to submit images—and, for the first time, videos and sounds—produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. Out of nearly 150 entries from 16 departments, we selected 56 works to appear in the 2006 Art of Science exhibition." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 11:30 a.m..
Google Crushes Competitors in Search Market Share "Google Inc. held on to its commanding lead as the preferred search engine in the U.S. in May, processing almost 60% of all queries filed, way ahead of its two closest competitors, Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 11:30 a.m..
New Material Sensitive as Human Skin "The sensitive sheet was produced by encouraging microscopic particles to bond to the sensor surface by dipping the materials in a series of chemical baths. The resulting material is only about a hundred nanometers thick. When something touches it, the pressure changes the current in the sheet, and the affected particles in the sheet light up." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 11:30 a.m..
Newegg is HUGE! $5-7 Million a day. Looking to Expand to Europe. Newegg.com anticipates its worldwide sales will grow 30% to US$1.7 billion in 2006, up from an estimate of NT$1.3 billion in 2005. Every day, the online retailer generates US$5-7 million in sales, with about 550,000 visitors to its website on average every day. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Do Americans Need to Relax more? Researchers discover Americans just might have "anger issues." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Take Pictures in Public? Careful, you could be sued! "I sometimes snap pictures of strangers and post them on my blog and Flickr. Could I get into legal trouble for violating their privacy? In Québec, a girl successfully sued a photographer for $8,000 after he took her picture without her knowledge, even though she was sitting on the front steps of a public building." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
How Life Began: New Research Suggests Simple Approach Somewhere on Earth, close to 4 billion years ago, a set of molecular reactions flipped a switch and became life. Scientists try to imagine this animating event by simplifying the processes that characterize living things. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Can you buy an American PC? "Most people assume that their PCs were made overseas, but a few manufacturers such as Dell and Gateway have brought some, but not all, of their manufacturing work to the U.S. Here, they assemble components made and manufactured all over the world." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Nuclear reactors 'evolve' inside supercomputers Nuclear reactors could be built more efficiently using supercomputers to artificially "evolve" designs, say engineers from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
James Cameron Making Massively Multi-Player Film Cameron spoke to BusinessWeek, saying his new film was code-named "Project 880." Moreover, he said a MMO would be tied to the film. This week, a casting notice for Project 880 appeared. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Civilization IV for Mac has gone beta! hope you haven't made too many plans for this summer, because if you have, you've only got a couple weeks to get them taken care of before Sid Meyer's wickedly addictive Civilization IV is finally being released for Mac. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
MPAA: The Grateful Dead's Success Was An Abomination Witness this bizarre exchange between John Perry Barlow and the MPAA's Dan Glickman debating the future of the entertainment industry. Barlow notes that he made an awful lot of money as a songwriter for the Grateful Dead, which encouraged its fans to make tapes of its shows for free. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
101 Stairways to Heaven Over one hundred covers of the Led Zeppelin classic song, "Stairway to Heaven". Includes versions by The Doors, Frank Zappa, Dolly Parton, Heart, Redd Kross, Pat Boone, the Gregorian Masters of Chant and the London Symphony Orchestra. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Amazing Optical Illusion of a B&W photo that colors a picture in your brain Stare at the X on the black and white picture for 30 seconds, move the mouse cursor and the picture appears to be in full color, then fades to black and white again as your eyes adjust! Amazing! From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Google Firefox Sync Tool is a Winner "Let's face it, internet access from computers other than our own is becoming an increasingly common occurrence. Having access to all your bookmarks, passwords, history and cookies is what makes turns the browser into your own personal online desktop, which is the value add of this application." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Dvorak admits to deliberately pissing off Mac Users John Dvorak admits (on camera) that he "deliberately pisses Mac users off to get flow for his stories." Maybe now everyone will stop pointing to his insane ramblings? From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Pioneer spacecraft are slowing down for unknown reason There's a mystery at the edge of our solar system: Two spacecraft, Pioneers 10 and 11, which were launched to Jupiter and Saturn more than 30 years ago, are hurtling towards the edge of our solar system - but at a slower than expected rate. Called the Pioneer Anomaly, the effect of this slowing is small, but measurable, and so far unexplained. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
AMD Vs. Intel On Performance & Energy Consumption Intel execs take rival AMD to task for its claims on server chips' energy consumption. But neither company is squeaky clean. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Microsoft : Looking for a few Good Mashups In Microsoft's burgeoning competition with Google, the software company is recruiting its most trusted allies: software developers. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Microsoft wraps up code for 'supercomputer' Windows Microsoft has taken another step in its effort to bring Windows in the world of supercomputing, having finished development of its computer cluster operating system. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Rising Sea Levels Chart shows mean sea levels for 1993 - 2005. During that period sea level rose, on average, 3 millimeters (0.1 inches) per year. Researchers attributed about half of that increase to melting ice and the other half to thermal expansion as the ocean absorbs excess energy. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
Hollywood Producer tricks San Francisco in to "Death Documentary" "For an entire year the cameras rolled, capturing death amid the eerie fog and shifting tides. One by one, filmmaker Eric Steel documented the final moments of nearly two dozen despondent men and women, and the agonizing, four-second fall after they leaped off the Golden Gate Bridge...." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 9:30 a.m..
New Pixar Trailer -- Ratatouille (2007) This movie is being directed by Brad Bird, the guy who brought you The Incredibles and The Iron Giant. From digg on June 10, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..
Basic Things to Know When Switching to a Linux Desktop Quote: "New users get stuck on their new Linux machines trying to figure out what went wrong, or as a better way to say it.. what they didn't know. From different questions that I get from new users, I have come up to a collection of the basic things that a new Linux user must know." From digg on June 10, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..
Good Riddance to bad rubbish I had time so I thought I'd write another blog entry. Why do I have time? Because Vonage is punishing me for cancelling their service (yeah service, if you can call it that) by keeping me prisoner for 25 minutes on hold. I guess I shouldn't complain. I'm lucky to have even reached Customer Service. After all I've had Vonage for a year and have been repeatedly ignored by Customer Service even though I submit complaint after complaint. So when Vonage went IPO last week the least surprised people to see that Vonage's stock tanked right out of the gate we From Undesignated Blog on June 9, 2006 at 11:30 p.m..
New 2 CENTIMETER Thick HDTV- 37 Inches and Only 2 Pounds! Toronto-based electronics company, iFire, has created a new phosphor-based form of flat-panel high-definition television that they say is a "true hang on the wall." Their 37-inch HDTV set is two-centimeters thick and weighs less than 2.2 pounds. From digg on June 9, 2006 at 11:30 p.m..
MySpace Owner in Talks to Add Search Service to Site News Corp., the media company run by Rupert Murdoch, is in talks with a half-dozen search engine owners to handle queries on Web sites including MySpace.com. From digg on June 9, 2006 at 11:30 p.m..
Red Steel Not Just a Gimmick for Wii GameDaily's Robert Workman takes another hands-on look at Red Steel, the launch-title first person shooter for Nintendo Wii. The article talks mostly about aiming and sword fighting with the Wii-mote and the pacing of the game. From digg on June 9, 2006 at 11:30 p.m..
The technology that took out Zarqawi Ten years ago the US would have never been able to pull off the strike to take out Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi like they did this week. The combination of GPS and laser guided bombs amongst other additions to their arsenal makes for a very deadly combination. From digg on June 9, 2006 at 11:30 p.m..
Sleep deprivation costs Japan's economy 30 billion dollars a year The Japanese are known for their long work hours but a new study estimates that sleep deprivation costs their economy 3.5 trillion yen (30.7 billion dollars) a year, mainly in lost productivity. From digg on June 9, 2006 at 11:30 p.m..
Rare Nintendo Prototypes Discovered This lucky person has put up the collection for sale on eBay a piece at a time, releasing new copies of the Star Fox Championship Weekend game pak into circulation as well as prototype versions of Tetris and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past plus the second known copy of the English version of Earthbound for the NES. From digg on June 9, 2006 at 11:30 p.m..
PS3 Could Allow Users to Install OS X Sony wants to allow multiple OS's on it: Linux and Mac OS X From digg on June 9, 2006 at 11:30 p.m..
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