Dr Amar Bose ’81, Bose Corporation’s Founder, has given to MIT the majority of the stock of Bose Corporation in the form of non-voting shares — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google Australia paid tax of $1 million last year on its market-dominating Australian online search advertising business, which is estimated to reap more than $700 million in revenue annually — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Hacker Typer allows you to produce convincing code the way the movie-hackers do: simply bash at the keyboard and hey-presto, you are 1337
PageLime is a hosted Content Management System (CMS) for designers, web agencies, and web developers. It allows you to manage text, images, and documents on your site by logging into a web-app that’s hosted on our servers. The best part is that it doesn’t matter where your site is hosted, it doesn’t matter whether you use PHP, Java, or ASP (or no scripting platform), and you don’t have to make a single change to your site architecture.
Malaysia plans to offer every adult in the country a free Web-based e-mail account to ensure that tax returns, court documents and other official notices reach the population of 28.3 million.
The government has named Tricubes Berhad, a local smartcard reader and authentication software vendor, as the operator of the service. Starting from July, the company will begin setting up a email account for citizens over 18, with a goal of total coverage by 2015, company officials said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We’ve always argued that the most secure password is one you don’t even know, and is basically incomprehensible. Security expert Thomas Baekdal argues that these incomprehensible passwords—while secure—are not as secure as a more memorable and simple phrase. In other words, this is fun is a more secure password than s$yK0d*p!r3l09ls. Here’s why — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In March, Microsoft, the US Federal Marshal service and security firm FireEye took down the Rustock botnet, a network of a million compromised computers surreptitiously managed by a group of criminal bot operators.
While the takedown resulted in spam dropping by nearly a third, it netted an unintended side effect: An increase in the volume of email messages with malicious links or attachments. Security experts theorize that the takedown of the Rustock botnet has left a deep pit in the supply of compromised computers and that bot operators are scrambling to build bigger botnets — via redwolf.newsvine.com
With the creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jun Xu has boosted the light-to-power conversion efficiency of photovoltaics by nearly 80 percent — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Stolen Camera Finder uses the serial number stored in your photo to search the web for photos taken with the same camera
With free tools and cheap web hosting, there’s really no reason you can’t have your own catalog and shopping cart on the web if you’ve got something worth selling. Whether you’re looking for a side project or a real source of income, here’s a starting-from-scratch guide to setting up shop on the web — via Lifehacker
Some companies fail, some kill off product lines that are not profitable, but in the end, where does all the knowledge go? Nowhere, usually. In a world of disposable everything, is it time that we demand companies do what’s good for humankind in addition to the bottom line?
If companies are going to just kill something off, why not open source it? Some companies do just that, and others, like Nokia, will promise open source (Symbian, dead product) and then quickly reverse itself, locking it up — via redwolf.newsvine.com
GPS manufacturer TomTom has apologised for sending its customers’ user data to Dutch Police, which had used the information to set speed traps — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internet auction giant eBay has reported a sharp rise in quarterly profits thanks in large part due to strong growth at its Paypal division — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are back in action: having cashed out for $1.76bn in 2006, they’ve now bought the bookmarking service. But what will they do with it? — via michaelsautter.newsvine.com
The Ultimate CSS Gradient Editor was created by Alex Sirota (iosart). If you like this tool, check out ColorZilla for more advanced tools such as eyedroppers, color pickers, palette editors and website analyzers. As you might know, HTML5 introduced many exciting features for Web developers. One of the features is the ability to specify gradients using pure CSS3, without having to create any images and use them as repeating backgrounds for gradient effects.
The head of the NSW Police fraud squad has warned Australian PlayStation users that they may have to cancel their credit cards after hackers stole enough information to even take out loans on the victims’ behalf — via The Sydney Morning Herald
University of Technology, Sydney scientists have reported remarkable results in developing a composite material based on graphite that is a thin as paper and ten times stronger than steel.
In work recently published in the Journal of Applied Physics, a UTS research team supervised by Professor Guoxiu Wang has developed reproducible test results and nanostructural samples of graphene paper, a material with the potential to revolutionise the automotive, aviation, electrical and optical industries. — via jcatom.newsvine.com
YouTube is launching a movie rental service in a partnership with Hollywood film giants including Sony and Warner Bros, to rival Netflix and Apple’s iTunes.
The video website will expand into streaming big-name, full-length blockbusters in May, according to reports. With the premium movie-on-demand service, film lovers will be able to stream new releases for as little as $2 (£1.20), though prices will differ for each movie.
Three of the six major film studios – Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros and Universal – have reportedly agreed licensing terms with the Google-owned video giant. Paramount, Fox and Disney have not yet committed to the plan, it is understood. The service is expected to be limited to the US for the foreseeable future — via carloz.newsvine.com
If there’s a lesson to be learned from last year’s Stuxnet worm, it’s that the private sector needs to be able to respond quickly to cyber-emergencies, the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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