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Science in Society RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Toward Precision Astronomy | Moderating Rainfall | Back in Circulation | Putting Limits on Ice Loss | Coding Space, Time, and Memory | Focus on Fatty Acid Synthase | Tracking Evolution of Transcription Regulation | ESCRTing Membrane Scission | The Normal Side of Trans-Splicing | Quantity, Not Just Quality, Matters | Explaining Meteorite Oxygen Isotope Composition | The Active Part of Real Catalysts | Viral Resistance Strategy | Wnt Receptor Signaling...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - PHYSICS: Snapshot Magnetometry | BIOCHEMISTRY: Translation Translocations | CLIMATE SCIENCE: 1000 Years of Hurricanes | GEOPHYSICS: Sensing Supershear | BIOCHEMISTRY: Plasmid Propulsion | BIOPHYSICS: Molecular Cloaking | BIOMEDICINE: From Clinic to Lab and Back... Science Scope - Japanese Budget Rollout | Taleyarkhan Weighs Suit | Your Local Library... Random Samples - RUN, TOAD, RUN | THE EMPEROR'S TOES | THE RIGHT NOTE | CHINESE EMISSIONS... Newsmakers - LHC | IN OTHER NEWS : AWARDS | THEY SAID IT | Q&A... [EDITORIAL] Scientific Publishing Standards - Author: Bruce Alberts... [NEWS] GENETIC PRIVACY: Whole-Genome Data Not Anonymous, Challenging Assumptions - The discovery that a type of genetic data that is widely shared and often posted online can be traced back to individuals has prompted the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust to strip some genetic data from their publicly accessible Web sites and NIH to recommend that other institutions do the same.Author: Jennifer Couzin... [NEWS] PLANT SCIENCE: China Plans $3.5 Billion GM Crops Initiative - Confronted with land degradation, chronic water shortages, and a growing population, the Chinese government later this month is expected to roll out a $3.5 billion R&D initiative on genetically modified plants.Author: Richard Stone... [NEWS] CANCER GENETICS: A Detailed Genetic Portrait of the Deadliest Human Cancers - Three studies published this week, two of which are being published online by Science, have given researchers their most detailed look so far at the genetic mutations that underlie the deadliest of human cancers: pancreatic cancer and the brain tumor glioblastoma.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [NEWS] NEUROSCIENCE: Hippocampal Firing Patterns Linked to Memory Recall - Two studies appearing in this week's issue of Science--one with rats (p. 1322) and one with people undergoing surgery for intractable epilepsy--suggest that patterns of neuron firing in the hippocampus are also involved in recalling past experiences.Author: Greg Miller... [NEWS] MATHFEST 2008: Shapeshifting Made Easy - At MathFest 2008, computational geometers demonstrated a general procedure for turning an arbitrary dissection of a polygon into a so-called hinged dissection.Author: Barry Cipra... [NEWS] MATHFEST 2008: Sweet Inspiration - At MathFest 2008, geometers announced that they'd found a more efficient way to wrap spherical chocolates, helping to alleviate global warming and the resulting chocolate-melting problem.Author: Barry Cipra... [NEWS] MATHFEST 2008: A Royal Squeeze - In a talk at MathFest 2008, a mathematician described a variant on the nonattacking queens problem in which he and his collaborators added pawns to the board and proved that each additional pawn permits an extra queen, provided that the board is large enough.Author: Barry Cipra... [NEWS] MATHFEST 2008: Taking the Edge Off - A quartet of researchers at MathFest 2008 demonstrated the densest packing for five circles on a torus by treating it as a square whose edges are connected.Author: Barry Cipra... [NEWS FOCUS] PSYCHOLOGY: Investigating the Psychopathic Mind - With a mobile brain scanner and permission to work with inmates in New Mexico state prisons, Kent Kiehl hopes to understand what goes awry in the brains of psychopathic criminals.Author: Greg Miller... [NEWS FOCUS] LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: The Overture Begins - Next week, physicists at the European particle physics lab, CERN, will fire up the world's biggest atom smasher. Expectations are sky-high, but discoveries may still be years away.Author: Adrian Cho... [NEWS FOCUS] LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: Researchers, Place Your Bets! - Many physicists are speculating about what the Large Hadron Collider might find. And some are even willing to put their money where their favorite theoretical models are and wager on their expectations.Author: Adrian Cho... [NEWS FOCUS] LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: Bracing for a Maelstrom of Data, CERN Puts Its Faith in the Grid - Researchers have hammered out new networking tools to store the Large Hadron Collider's instrument readings and make them available to physicists worldwide.Author: Daniel Clery... [NEWS FOCUS] LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: Is the LHC a Doomsday Machine? - As the Large Hadron Collider prepares to carry its first beam next week, a handful of physicists and others have proposed an array of dangerous entities that could be created in the minuscule fireball of a particle collision--and some have even filed injunctions attempting to stop the machine from being switched on.Authors: Daniel Clery, Adrian Cho... [LETTERS] Reading Between the Number Lines - Authors: Rafael E. Núñez;, Véronique Izard, Stanislas Dehaene, Pierre Pica, Elizabeth Spelke... [LETTERS] The Risks of Pigging Out on Antibiotics - Authors: Rebecca Goldburg, Steven Roach, David Wallinga, Margaret Mellon... [LETTERS] Battle of the Bugs - Authors: Roy D. Sleator, Colin Hill... [LETTERS] DOE Should Keep Education in Mind - Author: Lorenz A. Kull... [TECHNICAL COMMENT] Comment on ?Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus? - Authors: Johannes Lehmann, Saran Sohi... [TECHNICAL RESPONSE] Response to Comment on ?Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus? - Authors: David A. Wardle, Marie-Charlotte Nilsson, Olle Zackrisson... [LETTERS] Call for an Objective DOE Decision - Author: Constantine Cassapakis... [BOOKS ET AL.] PUBLIC HEALTH: The Tobacco Strategy Entrenched - The author describes the prevalence and effectiveness of industry efforts to promote doubt and fan controversy in order to undermine research that supports public health and environmental regulations.Author: Carl F. Cranor... [BOOKS ET AL.] THE GONZO SCIENTIST: Chasing the Biggest Shadow of All - The Gonzo Scientist joins a team of scientists to chase an eclipse in Mongolia.Author: John Bohannon... [THE GONZO SCIENTIST] How Astronomers Have Fun (and Nearly Die Trying) - In this installment, the Gonzo Scientist risks life and limb to reach the Gobi Desert in time to help rescue the sun from being swallowed by the dragon-god Rah.Author: John Bohannon... [POLICY FORUM] MEDICINE: Life Cycle of Translational Research for Medical Interventions - From the initial discovery of a medical intervention to a highly cited article is a long road, and even this is not the end of the journey.Authors: Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, George A. Alexiou, Theodore C. Gouvias, John P. A. Ioannidis... [PERSPECTIVES] GENETICS: Enhancing Gene Regulation - Bioinformatic approaches reveal functional changes and the evolution of regulatory sequences that control gene expression.Authors: Gregory A. Wray, Courtney C. Babbitt... [PERSPECTIVES] ASTRONOMY: The Universe Measured with a Comb - A technique for wavelength calibration promises to revolutionize observational astrophysics, in areas including planet searches and cosmology.Author: Sebastian Lopez... [PERSPECTIVES] MEDICINE: The Cart Before the Horse - Chimeric RNAs, transcribed from malignancy-associated chromosomal translocations, can also arise from RNA trans-splicing in normal cells.Authors: Janet D. Rowley, Thomas Blumenthal... [PERSPECTIVES] BIOCHEMISTRY: An Enzyme Assembly Line - Fatty acid synthases and related megaenzymes are highly adaptable to new functions as a result of their modular architecture.Authors: Janet L. Smith, David H. Sherman... [PERSPECTIVES] MICROBIOLOGY: How to Infect a Mimivirus - Large DNA viruses such as the giant Mimivirus can be infected by smaller viruses.Authors: Hiroyuki Ogata, Jean-Michel Claverie... [PERSPECTIVES] PHYSICS: An End to the Drought of Quantum Spin Liquids - After decades of searching, several promising examples of a new quantum state of matter have now emerged.Author: Patrick A. Lee... [REVIEWS] Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation? - Authors: Daniel Rosenfeld, Ulrike Lohmann, Graciela B. Raga, Colin D. O?Dowd, Markku Kulmala, Sandro Fuzzi, Anni Reissell, Meinrat O. Andreae... [BREVIA] Shadow Enhancers as a Source of Evolutionary Novelty - Some developmentally important genes can be regulated via two enhancers, one located nearby and the other, a "shadow" enhancer, 10 to 20 kilobases away.Authors: Joung-Woo Hong, David A. Hendrix, Michael S. Levine... [RESEARCH ARTICLES] The Crystal Structure of a Mammalian Fatty Acid Synthase - A high-resolution structure of mammalian fatty acid synthase reveals that this enzyme is derived from an iterative polyketide synthase and has five active catalytic domains.Authors: Timm Maier, Marc Leibundgut, Nenad Ban... [RESEARCH ARTICLES] Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences in the Rat Hippocampus - As rats perform a memory task, cells in their hippocampus fire in self-generated sequences that correspond to and presage the animals' subsequent choices.Authors: Eva Pastalkova, Vladimir Itskov, Asohan Amarasingham, György Buzsáki... [REPORTS] Experimental Test of Self-Shielding in Vacuum Ultraviolet Photodissociation of CO - The anomalous variation of oxygen isotopes in early meteorites is produced by excited states during photodissociation of carbon monoxide, not by self-shielding, as was thought.Authors: Subrata Chakraborty, Musahid Ahmed, Teresa L. Jackson, Mark H. Thiemens... [REPORTS] Identification of Active Gold Nanoclusters on Iron Oxide Supports for CO Oxidation - High-resolution microscopy showed that the most effective catalytic gold species on an iron oxide support were those forming bilayer clusters of just 10 atoms.Authors: Andrew A. Herzing, Christopher J. Kiely, Albert F. Carley, Philip Landon, Graham J. Hutchings... [REPORTS] Laser Frequency Combs for Astronomical Observations - Accurate spectroscopy of the sun with a laser frequency comb shows that it can improve astronomical observations and may yield direct evidence of the universe's expansion.Authors: Tilo Steinmetz, Tobias Wilken, Constanza Araujo-Hauck, Ronald Holzwarth, Theodor W. Hänsch, Luca Pasquini, Antonio Manescau, Sandro D?Odorico, Michael T. Murphy, Thomas Kentischer, Wolfgang Schmidt, Thomas Udem... [REPORTS] Regional Synthesis of Mediterranean Atmospheric Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum - A three-dimensional reconstruction of atmospheric temperatures in the Mediterranean during glacial times is analogous to one of winter during the Little Ice Age.Authors: J. Kuhlemann, E. J. Rohling, I. Krumrei, P. Kubik, S. Ivy-Ochs, M. Kucera... [REPORTS] Kinematic Constraints on Glacier Contributions to 21st-Century Sea-Level Rise - Evaluation of glacier dynamics implies that melting of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets could raise sea level by up to 2 meters by 2100, although a rise of 0.8 meters is more likely.Authors: W. T. Pfeffer, J. T. Harper, S. O?Neel... [REPORTS] Apobec3 Encodes Rfv3, a Gene Influencing Neutralizing Antibody Control of Retrovirus Infection - A resistance factor known to protect mice from retroviral infection is unexpectedly identified as Apobec3, a deoxycytidine deaminase that controls somatic hypermutation.Authors: Mario L. Santiago, Mauricio Montano, Robert Benitez, Ronald J. Messer, Wes Yonemoto, Bruce Chesebro, Kim J. Hasenkrug, Warner C. Greene... [REPORTS] Human-Specific Gain of Function in a Developmental Enhancer - When transferred to a mouse, a conserved regulatory element that has been positively selected in humans is robustly expressed at the base of its developing thumb and wrist.Authors: Shyam Prabhakar, Axel Visel, Jennifer A. Akiyama, Malak Shoukry, Keith D. Lewis, Amy Holt, Ingrid Plajzer-Frick, Harris Morrison, David R. FitzPatrick, Veena Afzal, Len A. Pennacchio, Edward M. Rubin, James P. Noonan... [REPORTS] Wnt3a-Mediated Formation of Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Bisphosphate Regulates LRP6 Phosphorylation - The interaction of the signaling molecule Wnt to its receptor triggers accumulation of a lipid regulator, which stimulates phosphorylation of the receptor and cellular responses.Authors: Weijun Pan, Sun-Cheol Choi, He Wang, Yuanbo Qin, Laura Volpicelli-Daley, Laura Swan, Louise Lucast, Cynthia Khoo, Xiaowu Zhang, Lin Li, Charles S. Abrams, Sergei Y. Sokol, Dianqing Wu... [REPORTS] Helical Structures of ESCRT-III Are Disassembled by VPS4 - A protein responsible for the final separation of daughter cells or budding viruses forms heteromeric complexes on the inside of the membrane to regulate the abscission step.Authors: Suman Lata, Guy Schoehn, Ankur Jain, Ricardo Pires, Jacob Piehler, Heinrich G. G?ttlinger, Winfried Weissenhorn... [REPORTS] A Neoplastic Gene Fusion Mimics Trans-Splicing of RNAs in Normal Human Cells - A chimeric messenger RNA generated in a tumor by a DNA rearrangement is also, unexpectedly, expressed in healthy cells, a result of splicing together two separate messenger RNAs.Authors: Hui Li, Jinglan Wang, Gil Mor, Jeffrey Sklar... [REPORTS] Germline Allele-Specific Expression of TGFBR1 Confers an Increased Risk of Colorectal Cancer - In patients with colorectal cancer, one allele of the transforming growth factor-gene produces less messenger RNA and thus less protein, a likely contributor to disease risk.Authors: Laura Valle, Tarsicio Serena-Acedo, Sandya Liyanarachchi, Heather Hampel, Ilene Comeras, Zhongyuan Li, Qinghua Zeng, Hong-Tao Zhang, Michael J. Pennison, Maureen Sadim, Boris Pasche, Stephan M. Tanner, Albert de la Chapelle... Xbox Now Cheaper than Wii (But for How Long?) - With the Nintendo Wii retailing for $249, Microsoft now says that it is cutting the price of its Xbox consoles! This move will lower the price of its 360 Arcade by $80, to $199, and other models will see a $50 reduction, to $299 and $399. Microsoft has lost ground over the summer to second-place Sony's PlayStation 3, and analysts noted it marked the first time a current-generation console has sold for less than the Wii. Let's see how lo... We Keep Doin' the Gadget Redo ... - Consumers remain willing to spend money on consumer electronics -- for replacing older units or buying new ones with more advanced technology -- even though most homes already own those same products, according to a new report from The NPD Group. Although 85% of consumers own DVD players and sales dropped 25% in the first half of the year, NPD reports that consumers are still interested in buying upconverter units or Blu-ray players to take advan... Samsung's Green Gadget Returns Mean Free for All - Samsung has announced free recycling for all Samsung-branded consumer electronics in all 50 states, beginning October 1. Samsung has just announced its Recycling Direct, a program that will enable consumers in all 50 states to recycle Samsung-branded consumer electronics devices like televisions, monitors, DVD players, home theater systems, cameras, camcorders, printers, peripherals -- essentially, all Samsung-branded consumer electronics.(Loo... Interviews with Top 60 VoIP Movers and Shakers... - Rich Tehrani has a nice roundup of 60 interviews he's done with many of the major "movers and shakers" in the VoIP / IP communications industry. Rich writes: Whenever I go to a conference, I learn a tremendous amount from the people I meet at the show. I really enjoy the impromptu networking which takes place at events as it allows me to learn so much about what is happening in the market .{snip} In less than two weeks the world with gather at... Fonality's trixbox Pro Unified Agent Edition integrates with Salesforce.com - Fonality's trixbox Unified Agent Edition (UAE) can automatically match all inbound and outbound calls with the corresponding record in salesforce.com's AppExchange, and call data is captured and logged eliminating manual entry. This is a big step for Fonality in taking their Asterisk-based IP-PBX from simply an enterprise phone system to a "true" call center platform that can compete with Avaya, Nortel, Interactive Intelligence, and other major c... Sony Laptops Heading Back to Sony -- Oy VAIO! - Sony has issued a recall for thousands of its VAIO laptops because of possible overheating or short-circuits.(Didn't we blog about another similar Sony problem not all that long ago?) The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said that the recall is voluntary, and it recommended that Vaio owners stop using the products unless otherwise instructed. The recall affects 73,000 VAIO TZ-series computers in the U.S. and apparent... Dell Goes to Europe with Vodafone - Vodafone and Dell have announced that Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 ultra-mobile notebook will be sold with built-in mobile broadband, exclusively through Vodafone stores and online, and directly from Dell, in key European markets. Available in late September, the Inspiron Mini 9 is designed to deliver the utmost flexibility, reliability and speed for email and Internet browsing on-the-go without the need for an additional modem. (Or so they say.) D... Pantech Breeze -- Well, Almost So Simple ... - If life could be simple again -- really simple? -- wouldn't we all be better off? And in one of the area where simple could be good -- even great (Palm Pilot drum roll, please), Pantech has introduced its Breeze cell phone. It's key benefits can be summed in with just two letters -- E and Z: EZ to use: simplified, easy-to-read user interfaceEZ to connect: back-lit one-touch quick call keysEZ to access: one-touch speakerphone and cameraEZ to ha... Lost TV Satellite Signal, Couldn't watch Rudy Giuliani or Sarah Palin, Streaming TV to the rescue! - I was watching the Republican National Convention (RNC) speeches last night, toggling between CNN and FOX News, when a major rain storm hit Connecticut causing a lengthly loss of satellite signal. It was the middle of Rudy Giuliani's hard-hitting speech when I lost all of my TV channels. I have to get my nightly politics "fix" or I'm a grumpy blogger in the morning. The highly-anticipated speech from Governor Sarah Palin was still to come and it ... Qik Live Streaming Mobile Video Now on HTC Phones - Qik, the popular live streaming mobile phone video app, is now available on a variety of new Windows Mobile enabled phones including select HTC devices. New support includes:? HTC Touch Dual? HTC Touch Diamond? HTC TyTn-II? AT&T Tilt? Sony Ericsson Xperia X1Qik added mobile video blogging to the Apple iPhone just last week. I was actually going to use Qik on my ... trixbox Pro 2.0 review - Fonality is one of the premiere providers of Asterisk-based IP-PBX solutions. Fonality offers three products: PBXtra, trixbox CE (community edition), and trixbox Pro (commercial/reseller edition). trixbox Pro. which is their commercial edition runs on Fonality's "hardened" PBXtra technology, which Fonality claims has 5 thousand installations and over 325 million calls to date. trixbox Pro is a hybrid-hosted solution, which means you get 24/7 mon... Fonality Lands $12M Financing Round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) - Fonality, a provider of IP-PBX systems based on Asterisk, has just secured a $12 million financing round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Growth Fund with participation from existing investor Intel Capital. Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a well known venture capital firm backing more than 600 companies including industry-changing companies such as Hotmail, Overture, Four11, Baidu, and fellow VoIP company, Skype.I spoke with Fonality CFO Dan Rosen... Only Apple and RIM Can Make Good Smart Phones? - The U.S. market for smart phones continues to be a tough nut to crack for the established handset makers. Top-tier players such as Nokia, Motorola and Samsung control 80% of the market for cell phones but have struggled in the U.S. to sell smart phones -- phones that allow users to surf the Internet, send email and download music, among other advanced functions. Often caught up satisfying carrier demands, handset makers have been slow to bring... Only Another 5 Years for Blu-ray? - Talk about putting the kiss of death on a format that has just ever so barely just arrived, Samsung has said that it sees the Blu-ray format only lasting a further five years before it is replaced by another format or technology. "I think it [Blu-ray] has five years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10," said Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics at Samsung UK in a Pocket-lint interview. Hoping to capitalize before it's too late, Grif... Economy Down, HDTV Sales To Pick Up? - Economy down, oil prices up Hey, time to buy a new HDTV!With the February 2009 digital TV transition looming, HDTV suppliers are expecting a good fourth quarter and hoping for a minimum of price cuts along the way.That is what executives with LG Electronics, Sharp, Toshiba, Mitsubishi and JVC had to say at a recent meeting reported in TWICE.Scott Ramirez, Toshiba's TV marketing VP, indicated that his company will be rolling out a major introduc... Digital TV Transition about To Begin; Fish Tanks on Tap - Next Monday, a group of public officials and broadcasters will gather in Wilmington, N.C., with little more to do than wait for the phones to ring.At noon that day, Wilmington stations will shut off their old television signals and broadcast only in digital, potentially leaving thousands of older televisions unusable. Wilmington is the first U.S. city to switch to digital-only television broadcasts and is doing it five months early as a test of t... Ultrasound Makes Virtual Objects Real - The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce "virtual" objects in mid-air.The field of haptics -- integrating computing and the sense of touch -- has been around for some time, but has required gloves or mechanical devices to impart a sense of feeling.Now, a team of Japanese researchers has developed a system that uses focused ultrasound to do the job, and its inventors may soon commercialize the approach.With the expansion in... Apple Looks to Rock with New Prods Next Week - Apple has sent out invitations for a music-related event next week, and the smart money is on new iPods. The invitation, titled "Let's Rock," went out this morning inviting media to the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco next Tuesday at 10 a.m. PDT. Rumors have been building for weeks that Apple is set to introduce new iPods at what will be its fourth September iPod event in as many years. Many have been expecting Apple... Flashphone adds Adobe AIR VoIP app - Regular readers of the VoIP & Gadgets blog will recall I've written about Flashphone several times. In theory, Flashphone, like Phweet (a Flash-based VoIP app) should work on Aircell's airline Internet service. Until of course, Aircell blocks it of course. (See Andy's post about doing VoIP over Aircell) The most recent Flashphone news was the addition of flash-SIP/VoIP-to-video calling. Now today, Flashphone has released an Adobe AIR version... VoIP Supply Named to CRN's Fastest Growing Retailers - Proof VoIP a Fast Growing industry - Garrett Smith from VoIP Supply emailed me this morning expressing his excitement that "A VoIP pure play keeping up with a who's who of America's top retailers." Specifically, the company Garrett works for was named to CRN Magazine's Fastest Growing retailers listing VoIP Supply's retail business amongst the big boys like Best Buy, New Egg and PC Connection.Out of the 15 companies listed, only one company posted better growth numbers then VoIP Sup... Office Communications Server 2007 R2 beta released - Well if the cat wasn't out of the bag already over the naming convention (OCS 2007 R2 vs. OCS 2009) for the next release of Office Communications Server 2007, we can put that to rest. It will be indeed be called Office Communications Server 2007 R2. In fact, just a few days ago, Microsoft shipped the beta for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, "in record time after shipping OCS 2007 last year." Kintan Brahmbhatt, a Program Manager at Microsof... friends of fring - fring is offering a limited number of "friends of fring" with exclusive access to news, and features before general release. I like to call fring the "Swiss Army knife of mobile VoIP" supporting SIP, Skype, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, and AIM. I have it installed on my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone. As a "friend of fring" you can also provide feedback. My first suggestion should I become a FoF would be DTMF support... New 3CX VoIP Phone SIP Softphone - In late July, 3CX launched a new SIP-based VoIP client called 3CX VoIP Phone, with a fully-featured dialpad, and it allows for easy call transfers. It also features history of calls, the ability to put calls on hold, and the ability to accept, reject or ignore calls. Best of all 3CX VoIP phone is completely free and works with most popular IP PBXs and VoIP providers. It even sports multiple SIP profiles support for registering with multiple SIP ... Roasting AT&T over iPhone Problems - "A phone is only as good as the network it's on," said a full-page Verizon Wireless newspaper ad on Thursday, lobbing a shot at AT&T's 3G, or third generation, high-speed network. (And ain't that the truth -- we know if well where I live!) Apple sold more than a million iPhone 3G cellphones its first weekend -- with some stores running out -- and two million more since then, analysts say. But its July debut has been nothing less than a p... Remember When Labor Day Meant Noisy Beach Parties??? - It really wasn't all that long ago when you could bring an AM radio to the beach for Labor Day, tune in Cousin Brucie and rock the sand dunes!(Remember all of those beach party movies? Can anybody name one?Now, with all of the anti-fun measures that are posted at the beach (no noise, no ball playing, etc.), it's amazing that you can still go in the water and swim (only between the green flags, please!).Anyway, looks like the 2008 end-of-summer be... Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 (next release) to be 64-bit Only - It was just announced on the Office Communications Server Team blog that the next release of OCS 2007 (rumored to be called OCS 2007 R2) will support 64-bit operating systems only. Customers who are using 32-bit hardware systems to run OCS 2007 will have to upgrade to x64 systems to install and run the next release of OCS.From Microsoft:As a part of the broad initiative across Microsoft to support 64 bit versions across many of ... Happy 5th Birthday Skype! - Just want to wish Skype a Happy 5th Birthday. Skype has helped make VoIP a household name and has carried more VoIP minutes than any other VoIP software application out there. Well done Skype. I hope you continue to innovate, though Andy Abramson writes today Skype is dropping Skypecasts, a nifty feature. Andy poo-... You Can Buy Gadgets Everywhere! - A recent study from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has found that 25% of people would be willing to buy their gadgets from Starbucks, 30% from Ikea, 40% from Bed, Bath and Beyond and almost 60% from Home Depot. "Electronics have become so pervasive that consumers are looking to buy these devices wherever they want," said Tim Herbert, CEA research senior director, adding, "No [retailer] is safe. If you don't reinvent yourself, t... Is Sony Ericsson Headed for Splitsville? - According to Reuters, Sony's joint venture with cell phone maker Ericsson must do better. Asked whether Sony is planning to end its Sony Ericsson joint venture, Sony head honcho Howard Stringer said: "It's certainly been a difficult year but buying out a partner is never an easy thing." Sony lowered its group net profit forecast for the year to March by 17 percent, citing a slump at Sony Ericsson and weakening prospects for its electronics div... What's Wrong with Second-Hand Video Game Sales? - Publishing giant Electronic Arts has said that it's currently trying multiple new business models to help battle the critical problem of second-hand videogame sales. (No problem for me!) While retailers reap the benefits of selling the same product multiple times, publishers and developers don't see any income once a title hits the second-hand market. But realizing it's powerless to stop retail from selling second-hand goods, EA is looking to ... Open Letter to Scientology: Why can my daughter not visit me? - Former Scientologist Susan Lentsch is submitting an open letter to the head of communications for the Church Of Scientology asking why her daughter, Katherine, cannot be allowed home for a vacation from the church's elite management organization.
On her birthday, the mother received a phone call. Not from her daughter, but from her daughter's 'handler.'... Plea could send founders of Marijuana church to prison - The founders of an Arizona church that deifies marijuana have pleaded guilty to two criminal charges and are now each facing up to 20 years in prison.
But Dan and Mary Quaintance , founders of the Church of Cognizance, remain confident that they will not end up behind bars.
Dan Quaintance believes freedom of religion will prevail, and predicts the case could go as far as the U.S. Supreme Court.... Documentary reveals hidden side of British mosque where extremist women urge Muslims to kill non-believers - An investigative report by Britain's Channel 4 documents the extremely dangerous nature of Islamism as promoted by -- among others -- Saudi Arabia. Bent on infiltrating peaceful countries in order to eventually turn them into Islamic states, this interpretation of islam is filled with bigotry, hatred, terrorism and other expressions of extremism. [video]... Ayurvedic medicines often contaminated by toxic metals, study says - A fifth of the nearly 200 concoctions tested contained levels of the toxic metals that, if taken at the maximum recommended doses, would surpass California's safety guidelines.Also: a review of Trick or Treatment, in which Simon Singh and Dr. Edzard Ernst report the results of hundreds of studies on the purported benefits of various alternative-medicine treatments.... Texas drops half of cases in polygamist sect raid - Child by child, Texas authorities are acknowledging that many of the children seized during a raid on a polygamist sect's ranch can safely live with their parents or guardians.
Since the April 3 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, 235 children's custody cases have been dropped, meaning fewer than half of the 440 children seized remain bound by a court order to stay in Texas, attend parenting classes or be available for unannounced v... UK: Hate preacher Abu Qatada?s bail conditions under review after his meeting with car bomb extremist - Abu Qatada's bail conditions were under review last night after security experts said allowing the hate preacher to associate with a convicted terrorist made a 'mockery' of the rules.
Home Office officials are investigating the Daily Mail's exclusive picture showing Qatada - dubbed 'Osama Bin Laden's ambassador in Europe' - strolling through London with fellow fanatic Yasser Al-Sirri.... UK: Goths march for tolerance in memory of hate crime victim Sophie Lancaster - Goths in England have marched in memory of Sophie Lancaster, a young woman who was murdered simply for the way she looked.She was brutally attacked along with her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, while walking through a park near Manchester almost a year ago. The couple wore gothic fashion and were members of the goth subculture.... Pagans pray to goddess Athena in rare gathering at the Parthenon - Defying police presence and a thunderous downpour, dozens of Greek pagans huddled near the Parthenon in Athens on Sunday, holding a protest prayer for a museum being built at the foot of the sacred site.
The ceremony, attended by scores of curious onlookers, was performed amid the ruins of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon. The ancient Greek religion was outlawed by the Roman empire in the fourth century.... Father of ?faith healing? victim renews call to dismiss homicide charge - If a couple accused of killing their 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care goes to trial, the courts will wrongly become entangled in constitutionally protected religious matters, an attorney argued Tuesday.... Muslim radiographer loses job after refusing to bare her arms - A Muslim hospital worker in the UK refuses to abide by nationwide hygiene rules has left her job, claiming she was discriminated against and forced to choose between her religious beliefs and her livelihood.
Our view: The hospital worker discriminates against non-Muslims by insisting that they choose between her religious views and the safety of others.... Copyright © 2008, Chicago Best Price. All Rights Reserved. |