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
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
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
A founder of the internet has heaped praise on the National Broadband Network but warned it will be difficult to predict its economic benefits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NY Times – Turbine-Free Wind Power from Antfood on Vimeo.
The wind panels are the brainchild of Francis Moon, a professor of mechanical engineering at Cornell University. He created a panel of 25 pads that oscillate in the wind, much the way leaves vibrate when a gust of air sifts through a tree. The pads attach to piezoelectric materials that produce electricity from each vibration — via The New York Times
There’s a new world record for the fastest solar-powered land vehicle: 88 km/h average speed over one kilometre in a lightweight car that uses about the same power as a toaster — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Every once in a while, you’ll go to empty the trash on your Mac only to have it spit out a Trash Cannot be Emptied because ______ is in use
error. Here’s how to fix that problem — via lifehacker
The Google folks are taking issue over spam and the quality of Google searches which some have claimed has gone down in recent months.
Today on its official blogsite, the company’s Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer stated: January brought a spate of stories about Google’s search quality. Reading through some of these recent articles, you might ask whether our search quality has gotten worse. The short answer is that according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness. Today, English-language spam in Google’s results is less than half what it was five years ago, and spam in most other languages is even lower than in English. However, we have seen a slight uptick of spam in recent months, and while we’ve already made progress, we have new efforts underway to continue to improve our search quality
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
We are happy to announce that Six Apart KK (SAKK), a Japanese subsidiary of SAY Media, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Infocom, a Japanese IT company, as of 1 February 2011. As part of this transaction, SAKK will assume responsibility for the worldwide Movable Type business, and the Six Apart brand — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Silicon Valley companies that store our personal data have a growing responsibility to protect it from government snooping, according to Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Micro-blogging service Twitter is being sued by a company that claims it had already come up with the idea for an online network of celebrities.
One of Twitter’s biggest appeals is that it gives web users a chance to get inside the mind of their favourite celebrities by reading updates about their daily lives. Whether it’s musings from Demi Moore, Aston Kutcher and Stephen Fry, or the likes of Katie Price discussing her divorce.
However, according to VS Technologies, Twitter infringes on its patent, which was granted in 2002, for a method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Everyone knows the world ends in 2012, so why not send if off in style, kicking butt and chewing bubble gum? You do still chew bubble gum, don’t you?
That’s right, Duke Nukem Forever will finally be with us, for better or worse, on 3 May 2011 (6 May 2011 worldwide). Publisher 2K Games and pinch-developer Gearbox Software (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms) announced the date this morning. The presumably irreverent first-person shooter will ship simultaneously for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PCs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The working group for HTML has done away with version numbers for the Web page rendering standard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Vodafone dealer’s staff have been caught posing as customers to cancel the customers’ original accounts in order to sign them up for new contracts with higher commissions.
The staff members of Communications Direct Pty Ltd have also breached privacy by forwarding detailed customer call records outside the company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julia Gillard’s bid to censor the internet is not an effective move
, says Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet and Google’s chief web evangelist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The University of Sydney has exposed thousands of student details including names, addresses and course information to public access via the internet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
User forum Whirlpool was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last night, according to the site’s hosting provider BulletProof Networks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The CSIRO has aired tentative plans to expand its datacentre footprint in the nation’s capital, calling for expressions of interest from vendors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google Earth, the Chrome browser and photo service Picasa will be available for download in Iran for the first time, the search giant has announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of Japan’s largest glass manufacturers debuted on Thursday a new glass designed for smartphones and tablet PCs that is considerably tougher than conventional glass.
Asahi Glass said its Dragontrail glass is about six times as tough as typical chemically-treated soda lime glass and should be better suited to the rough-and-tumble life to which portable gadgets are subjected — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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