Google has won regulatory approval for its $700 million deal to buy ITA Software, but the Justice Department intends to keep a close eye on the search giant.
The proposed settlement, which still must be approved by a federal judge, requires Google to continue licensing ITA’s travel technology to rivals for five years on reasonable and nondiscriminatory
terms. Some of those rivals, such as Kayak and Hotwire, formed FairSearch.org to oppose the deal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dead Cthulhu dreams… of holding hands and candle-lit dinners — via RedBubble
Gnome et Rhône is a familiar name in vintage aviation circles. But few people know that the French company also built motorcycles, from 1920 until the early 1950s. This lovely machine is one of around 3,000 manufactured under license from the British firm ABC Motorcycles—a company closely aligned with Sopwith, another aircraft manufacturer. In those days, aviation and motorcycling were commonly linked, and this particular connection was brokered by a pilot: André Barthélémy, the official Parisian distributor of ABC — via Bike EXIF
A very fun tattoo commission for Amy. Her little guy apparently calls them applepus
instead of octopus, which is adorable and also the reason for the toy.
I used a more impasto application of gouache than usual, and it was both challenging and educational. The stuff is really easy to blend wet in wet, but once it dries, lifting becomes a problem. It’s a delicate balancing act between having enough paint mixed up and keeping that paint wet while you work with other colors — via CrashOctopus Blog
Maine lawmakers on Wednesday approved legalizing switchblades for people with one arm, moving close to becoming the first state to make such an exception to laws that ban use of the spring-action knives.
Backers of the measure say legalizing switchblades would eliminate a need for one-armed people to be forced to open folding knives with their teeth in emergencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The cronTab, or Cron Table
, is a Linux system process / daemon which facilitates the scheduling of repetitive tasks thereby easing up our day to day routine. In this tutorial, we’ll create a dynamic PHP class that, using a secure connection, provides us with a means to manipulate the cronTab — via Nettuts+
A sixteen-year-old waits in Liverpool Street Station for parents who never show — via The Moth
Treasurer Wayne Swan has officially prohibited the merger of the Australian and Singapore stock exchanges — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A simmering conflict between The Australian newspaper and the Greens has become open warfare, with Greens leader Bob Brown accusing the national broadsheet of a vendetta against his party and telling it to grow up
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Officer Trey Economidy of the Albuquerque police now realizes that he should have thought harder before listing his occupation on his Facebook profile as human waste disposal
.
After he was involved in a fatal on-duty shooting in February, a local television station dug up the Facebook page. Officer Economidy was placed on desk duty, and last month the Albuquerque Police Department announced a new policy to govern officers’ use of social networking sites.
Social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter can be valuable assets for law enforcement agencies, helping them alert the public, seek information about crimes and gather evidence about the backgrounds of criminal suspects. But the Internet can also get police departments into trouble — via redwolf.newsvine.com
photo.
The system, dubbed StripeSpotter, only requires a small amount of human input. Users draw a rectangle around the zebra’s side, then this part of the image is automatically sliced into a number of horizontal bands and each pixel is made fully black or fully white, creating a low-resolution version of the zebra’s stripes.
Each band is then encoded as a StripeString, a sequence of coloured blocks with particular lengths – for example, white for two blocks, black for three, white for one – and the collection of StripeStrings forms a StripeCode, the zebra equivalent of a barcode — via benno.newsvine.com
An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
VMware has added another cloud service to its lineup, hiring Mozy’s workers and acquiring its assets.
Mozy is an online data backup service that serves businesses and consumers. Since EMC owns Mozy and is majority owner of VMware, the deal involves related organizations. But the companies say the change will help VMware boost its cloud offerings — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google and Facebook are among a group of net heavyweights taking the French government to court this week.
The legal challenge has been brought by The French Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) and relates to government plans to keep web users’ personal data for a year.
The case will be heard by the State Council, France’s highest judicial body.
More than 20 firms are involved, including eBay and Dailymotion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The personal details of thousands of Dell Australia customers have fallen into the wrong hands and security professionals warn that Australian customers of other companies could unknowingly be affected following a major security breach at a global email service provider — via The Sydney Morning Herald
The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management.
Speaking at the fourth Annual EMEA ID WORLD summit, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K Noble said that regulating migration levels and managing borders presented security challenges for countries and for the world that INTERPOL was ideally-placed to help address — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Embryonic stem cells from mice have been transformed into a rudimentary eye, raising hopes of growing parts of the human eye to investigate and treat blindness — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Research suggests that 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. The city of San Francisco has banned plastic bags in large markets and pharmacies for a few years now. Most of the time I carry my foldable tote in my handbag so I usually never have to have a plastic bag in my hand. But what about the plastic bags you may have lying around in a drawer or garage?
Back at Maker Faire Austin back in the fall of 2007, I had a chance to film Cristen Andrews from cristencrochet.blogspot.com for a CRAFT Video where she showed me all the fun things she made from crocheting plastic bags, how to create the plastic bag yarn, and how to start crocheting.
Here’s her tutorial with step-by-step photos on how to create your plastic bag yarn — via CRAFT
Our second set of motorcycle wallpapers are from the photographer Todd McLellan, who shot the bikes for the famed Canadian artist William Fisk to use as reference. The motorcycles are from a private collection: The collector has a couple hundred of them and I would love to shoot them all some day,
says Todd. You can download four of the best right here — via Bike EXIF
Two holidaymakers who were caught on CCTV dumping a dog in Dorset have been convicted under animal cruelty laws.
The dog – originally called Brandy but later renamed Ginger – was filmed in Weymouth sitting on grassland as a car was driven away in September.
Michael Hartley, 54, of Daisy Meadow, Preston, pleaded guilty at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court. Jennifer Hadfield, 56, of Briary Court, was found guilty — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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