Network demand will explode, fueled by unexpected growth in ambient video, like puppy cams and surveillance video, according to reports from the 33rd Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference held last week in Hawaii — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Another blow has been delivered to the mass BitTorrent lawsuits that were introduced in the United States last year. The German-based copyright profiteers DigiProtect sued hundreds of alleged BitTorrent users a month ago, but now more than half of the cases have been orally dismissed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you haven’t seen the announcements, the big news is that BBC Online is having to cut its budget by 25% and is being reorganised. Part of this reorganisation will see the BBC moving away from stand alone communities and message boards. Last year some message boards were closed, more will close this year. The BBC’s other big community 606 is scheduled for closure. (You can read about why we’re moving in this direction on this blog post from Ian Hunter.)
The review is part of the BBC’s Putting Quality First strategy which you can read about here. BBC Online will be reorganised into five portfolios of “products”. All parts of BBC Online have to fit with these. Over the past year all areas of the site have been reviewed to see where, and if, they fit. Sadly the conclusion myself and my colleagues have come to is that H2G2 does not fit in the new shape of BBC Online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A single universal
memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers.
The new memory technology, which uses a double floating-gate field-effect-transistor (FET), should enable computers to power down memories not currently being accessed, drastically cutting the energy consumed by computers of all types, from mobile and desktop computers to server farms and data centers, the researchers say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is pressing the Federal Government to give it enough power to prevent price signalling by banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cheaper and lighter compared to its more expensive, cumbersome silicon cousin, plastic photovoltaics (PV) could herald a revolution in the solar power market, according to a UK solar panel expert — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US states are facing a new obstacle to enforcing the death penalty after the sole American manufacturer of a drug used in lethal injections announced it was ending production — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Oh dear. Last week I appear to have scared a lot of people 🙁 I guess a modicum of scaring is a good thing as it makes people aware of the dangers and traps that it is easy to fall into. I was perhaps a little bit hyperbolic when I said anywhere else
. I should have said Why you should never search for free WordPress Themes in Google or Any Other Search Engine
— via WPMU.org
A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words free WordPress themes
, builtBackwards‘ Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh‘s Exploit Scanner, I’m going to take a look through the first page of Google to see just how safe pages ranking for Free WordPress Themes
are — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Idaho home that has been infested with thousands of snakes for at least five years has been put up for sale for $66,000 less than its estimated market value after the recent owners gave up and walked away — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A council is proposing to save money – and combat global warming – by heating a leisure centre and swimming pool using heat generated by the crematorium next door — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 32-year-old man is accused of forcing his girlfriend to watch while he sexually assaulted her 12-year-old daughter three times — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The pungent smell of roasting chillies in an apartment building sent four people in the Finnish city of Espoo to the hospital on Monday with respiratory problems.
Rescue workers had to use gas masks to get up to the top floors where the smell was coming from,
rescue services spokesman Mika Maekelae told AFP, saying the smokeless odour was akin to pepper spray.
The first rescue worker who entered the building had a bad coughing fit and trouble breathing, he added.
Inside the apartment, rescue workers found an oven full of burnt whole chillies, which the occupant had forgotten — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
I had bad blocks on my iPod classic 120gb. I was told to trash it and by a certified technician but I wouldn’t give up. I tried reformating at least 50 times. My iPod would restore and show up in iTunes no problem but I couldn’t copy more than 2gb of data before iTunes would hang.
I also tried reformating the iPod with Disk Utility. I was able to format but not with zero out data
selected (recommended for fixing bad blocks). I even tried changing the partition map through terminal but was unsuccessful — via Mac OS X Hints
Local start-up Noosbox is hoping its selection in the Startmate entrepreneur program will boost the success of its email-sharing application — an idea borne out of frustrations in helping solve customer problems — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Crochet Sitting Kitty by Bethany Scofield – how utterly cute – pattern here — via whip up
One reason why people with diabetes can suffer more damage during strokes has been discovered by US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone has terminated its dealer agreement with Communications Direct after this website on Friday revealed allegations that staff at the dealer were misusing customer information and forwarding detailed call records outside the company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MI5 and MI6 will argue in a test case before the supreme court tomorrow that in future no intelligence gathered abroad, even if initially obtained through torture, should ever be disclosed in a British ourt.
Last year an appeal court dismissed what it described as an attempt to undermine a fundamental principle of common law: that a litigant must see and hear the evidence used against him or her.
Now the security and intelligence agencies are challenging that ruling in an unprecedented case. The Guardian, the Times, the BBC, and the human rights groups Liberty and Justice will argue before the country’s most senior judges that if the agencies get their way, the right to a fair trial will be eroded, while public confidence in decisions taken by the courts will be diminished — via redwolf.newsvine.com
CSS PNG Image Fix for IE Nov 05 181 We’ve all seen them, the hoards of PNG fixes for IE6. That is because IE6 is a bag of smashed buttholes. I’m serious. It is. That is why we (web designers of the new world) have to continually come up with creative ways to solve the PNG issue. In case you are lost, just realize that in IE6, PNG images with transparency do not show their transparent regions, so you have to use some crazy IE6 proprietary filters. Moving on — via Komodo Media
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