Peak Oil: Bugatti Makes a Car for the Ages
- Bugatti's convertible is the pinnacle of internal-combustion car tech -- one that will probably never be surpassed with the auto industry's focus shifting to electric vehicles. Here's what it's like to drive it.
Keeping It Reel — Five Pieces for Your Must-Have Angling Kit
- Fly fishers dread the question: "Catch anything today?" Dazzling your interrogators with cool gear might let you dodge the question. No gadget can improve your cast, but tech can surely enhance life on the water.
July 4, 1776: Preserving the Declaration
- It's one thing to declare independence, but quite another to preserve the aging document from the ravages of time.
Tour de Tweet: Follow Lance and the Boys Online
- The Tour de France begins Saturday, July 4, in Monaco. Here's how to follow the three-week bike race using streaming audio and video, Twitter, Google Earth and other online tools.
Penguin Parents Won't Chip In to Help Handicapped Spouse
- Penguins, famous for the lengths they go to to protect their eggs and rear their young, may not be the most supportive couples around. When one member of a penguin couple is handicapped, the other doesn't step in to pick up the slack.
Solar Racing Champs Roll Out New Car
- Delft University is back, ready to take a fifth consecutive title with Nuna 5.
Judge Overrules Jury, Acquits Lori Drew in MySpace Cyberbullying Case
- Federal judge throws out Lori Drew's three misdemeanor convictions.
Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res Images
- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun producing high-resolution and wide-angle images of the moon's surface.
We Drive BMW's Electric Mini E
- Sticking a battery and a motor in the Mini makes it a sweet little EV we could live with if it weren't for the stratospheric price tag.
Why You Can't Keep Your Foot Out of Your Mouth
- When your brain is overloaded, it will often get stuck on exactly the thing you are trying to avoid thinking about, leading you to blurt out things you never meant to share.
Bomb-Detection CEO Named New Darpa Boss
- Regina Dugan is the new top gun of the Pentagon research arm.
Video: Pentagon's Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing
- A tiny drone looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. It could inspire other bio-imitative mini spies.
$4 Billion in Broadband Stimulus Grants Tied to Strict Net Neutrality Rules
- Two federal agencies are now ready to hand out $4 billion in grants and loans to help bring broadband to the people and stimulate the economy, but applicants have to promise to play fairly with whatever devices, applications and services users want to use.
Astrophysicists Discover New Class of Black Hole
- Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one. Until now.
Video: Roast Weenies With Infrared Grill, Wireless Meat Thermometer
- To celebrate Independence Day, Wired.com editors Danny Dumas and Steven Leckhart roast dogs with 14,000 Btu of infrared heating power. They review the an infrared portable grill and a wireless meat thermometer.
July 2, 1982: Up, Up and Away in 42 Balloons
- If bad eyesight ends your dreams of becoming an Air Force pilot, well, there are other ways to fly....
Hot Gear for a Cool Summer
- Want to make your summer really sizzle? Make sure you've got the right gear first. Wired highlights the best tech for fishing, golfing, beach reading and uh, whittling. Why? Because warm weather comes but once a year.
Featherweight Olympus Is a Fine Entry-Level DSLR
- The Olympus E-620 is an inexpensive digital single-lens reflex camera that won't weigh your shoulder down, is easy to use and takes fine pictures in a wide variety of conditions. And it's
Explosions in the Sky: Take Better Fireworks Photos
- When those great balls of fire appear in the sky above you this Independence Day, grab some impressive shots — no matter what kind of camera you own. Follow this advice from Wired’s How-to Wiki.
Pirate Bay 2.0: Pay Pirates to Become Consumers
- The Swedish gaming executive who’s gambling nearly $8 million buying The Pirate Bay is convinced he can turn the 20 million users of the world’s most notorious file sharing site into well-behaved consumers — even amid a deluge of account-deletion requests.
Grow, Canada: Sustainable Biofuel From the Great White North
- We fill up at what's called the first gas station to sell gas blended with cellulosic ethanol.
Congress Probes Defunct Airport Security Fast-Lane Company
- Lawmakers want to know what's going to happen to traveler data after the best known airline fast-lane company shut down last week, while holding onto sensitive data of 165,000 fliers.
Wired Playlist: Soulful Post-Bop From Herbie Hancock, DJ Food
- Give your ears a blast of cool summertime music. Other featured acts in this week's podcast include Indian Jewelry, Iggy Pop and Cursive.
Insider Trading Suspected in Pirate Bay Sale
- Securities regulators are investigating potential insider trading of Global Gaming Factory before it announced plans to purchase The Pirate Bay for $7.7 million. Yo ho ho.
Bing Snags Small Gain From Google
- Bing grabs a percentage point in the search wars, stealing a sliver of the search market from Google. Is it the beginning of a long march or just the product of an ad campaign?
Michael Jackson First to Hit 1 Million Downloads in Single Week
- The king is dead, long live the king: Michael Jackson becomes the first artist to sell over a million downloads in a single week. It's a reminder of his dominance in the '80s, a heyday the music industry isn't likely to see again.
Salamander Discovery Holds Clues to Human Limb Regeneration
- Some salamanders can regrow limbs without cells reverting all the way back to embryonic-like stem cells. Instead, the cells take a smaller step back to slightly less mature versions of themselves before growing into the many kinds of mature cells in the limb.
Mixed results for green IT goals
- A majority of tech workers in the public sector do not know about the emission reduction targets they face, says a survey.
Billions stolen in online robbery
- Details emerge of why billions in virtual cash disappeared from a virtual bank in Eve Online.
Facebook criticised over privacy
- The social networking site comes under fire for planned changes to privacy settings.
Regulators eye Google book deal
- US anti-trust regulators are to examine Google's $125m deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues, reports say.
MySpace 'suicide bully cleared'
- A woman accused of "cyber-bullying" a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide sees her conviction provisionally thrown out.
Twitter followers 'can be bought'
- Twitter users can now buy followers to boost the audience for the messages they send via the micro-blogging service.
Iran 'lifts block on SMS texting'
- Reports from Iran say SMS text messaging services have been unblocked for the first time since disputed presidential elections.
Innocents accused of net piracy
- The crackdown on illegal file-sharers is catching innocent people alongside the pirates, according to a report.
Ariane lofts biggest 'space bird'
- The world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite - to offer a terrestrial/satellite phone service - is put into orbit.
Hybrid cars to make noise to help blind pedestrians
- Japan considers adding noise-making devices to quiet hybrid cars to improve safety for blind pedestrians.
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- Carphone Warehouse is to restart selling Vodafone mobile phone contracts, three years after Vodafone pulled the products.
Traffic rockets to Twitter site
- The number of people visiting Twitter has soared over the past year, according to an internet monitoring company.
Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers
- New owners of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files.
Cost of texting abroad falls
- A cap on the cost of sending a text message while abroad in the European Union comes into force for the first time.
Cyber bullying case sentence due
- The woman tried in the US's first federal cyber bullying case, which led to a teenager's suicide, faces sentencing.
Workplaces set to get 'smarter'
- Technology will ensure that the office of the future is full of sensors that help workers be very productive, suggests a report.
Anger over China web controls
- Chinese netizens denounce new filtering software
China delays internet filter plan
- China delays a plan requiring new computers to be equipped with internet filtering software.
ID scheme is an 'embarrassment'
- The government's handling of ID cards is a "national embarrassment", says ex shadow home secretary David Davis.
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- A return to Venice for the Biennale art festival gives Bill Thompson a chance to reflect on digital art.
Can't connect, won't connect.
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- Bill Thompson on social networking 'scares'
A nation of programmers?
- Regular columnist Bill Thompson argues that people need to know more about programming and what programmes do
Battle over anti-counterfeit treaty
- The anger over an 'anti-counterfeiting' treaty
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Code-cracking and computers
- Best known for its code-cracking work, Bletchley Park also played a role in the origins of the computer age.
Accelerating the modern age
- A technology that helps the modern world keep running celebrates its 40th anniversary on 5 August.
One tonne 'Baby' marks its birth
- The sixtieth anniversary of the birth of the first modern computer - known as Baby - is celebrated.
The history of UK computing
- The UK's role in the early days of the computer revolution have been overlooked, say conservationists.
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Looters attack Libyan ruins
- Once a major city of the ancient world, Cyrene, today rests in ruins in Libya. Now open again to the world, the site is ...
Magic gets easier in 6th Harry Potter game
- Impatient Harry Potter fans can join the young wizard on their video game consoles two weeks ahead of the July 15 movie release ...
Play with creatures aplenty in 'Spore' add-on, 'Overlord' sequel
- In this week's look at the latest video games, we meet mischievous minions, angry yetis, hairy goblins and even pigs in wedlock.
NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en Espanol
- NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He will tweet from space in ...
Baaad news? Global warming now shrinking sheep
- Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.
PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China
- Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite ...
Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules
- In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store ...
New form of El Nino may increase Atlantic hurricanes
- El Nino may have a split personality.
Online advertisers launch sweeping rules over data privacy
- The digital ad industry will announce today sweeping new self-policing guidelines aimed at providing consumers with options for ...
Google vs. Bing: Bing holds its own in search-off
- Talk about an iron grip on search. To research this column comparing Google's venerable search engine with Microsoft's upstart ...
Facebook changes privacy tools so users feel safe sharing
- Facebook is streamlining its complicated privacy controls to give its millions of members more control over what photos, comments ...
NASA: Fuel test a success, shuttle launch day set
- To NASA's relief, a fueling test on space shuttle Endeavour uncovered no hydrogen gas leaks Wednesday and paved the way for another ...
Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution
- Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates ...
Facebook changes privacy controls so members feel safe to share
- Facebook is overhauling its complicated privacy controls in an attempt to simplify them for its 200 million-plus users.
Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century?
- Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles ...
Internet Companies and Ad Agencies Go From Old Enemies to New Friends
- The slowing growth in online advertising is pushing traditional ad agencies and Internet companies to work together.
What Did Shaq Just Tweet? A New Web Site Knows
- With more athletes using Twitter, Facebook and personal blogs, one Web site is trying to provide a centralized place for fans to keep up with the increasing amount of content.
Practical Travel: Twitter Comes to the Rescue
- From bad airplane seats to poor room service, customers are getting surprisingly fast responses to their tweets.
Bits: Apple, Acer, and...Arrington?
- Michael Arrington, the founder of the TechCrunch blog, says he will begin selling the CrunchPad, a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing, later this summer.
Bits: How Much Did Michael Jackson Rock the Web?
- Compete, an analytics firm, crunched some numbers to quantify the demand for Michael Jackson information after his death.
Bits: Google Drops News Comment Feature
- Google has eliminated an experimental feature that allowed people quoted in articles in Google News to post comments on those articles.
Bits: Bing Now Shows Some Twitter Updates
- Bing is adding recent "tweets" from celebrities and other popular Twitter users to its search results. It is the first major search engine to do so.
The Medium: Street Smart: Urban Dictionary
- The unruly, unlexicographical but surprisingly useful offerings of Urban Dictionary.
U.S. Inquiry Is Confirmed Into Google Books Deal
- The Justice Department confirmed it was conducting an antitrust investigation into a settlement of a class action between Google and groups representing authors and publishers.
Facebook to Offer New Features to Allow Users to Control Privacy of Information
- The company is testing new controls that will allow members to specify which groups or individuals are able to see each text update, photo or video they post on the site.
10 humor sites sure to make you LOL
- Bored with Pearl, the cursing toddler landlord demanding rent money? Not amused by those cutesy pictures of cats with the baby-speak captions? Replenish your list of favorite bookmarks with these 10 new or lesser-known humor Web sites, including some that find comedy in real life.
Unlocked cell phones coming to U.S.
- Nokia and Sony Ericsson are targeting the U.S. with a new set of unlocked phones. But without hefty carrier subsidies, will they ever be able to crack the U.S. market?
Dell turns netbooks into navigation devices
- Say hello to your latest personal navigation device: a netbook. Dell plans to introduce a GPS and Wi-Fi card that can be integrated into the company's netbooks to turn them into gizmos that can offer turn-by-turn direction as well as any Garmin or TomTom.
Fake Tamiflu out-spams Viagra on Web
- The number of Internet scammers offering fake anti-swine flu drug, Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, a UK body said Friday.
Facebook cleans up its privacy controls
- Revamped privacy settings are coming soon to Facebook.
MySpace suicide case conviction overturned
- A federal judge tentatively overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman accused of using MySpace to deceive a teenage girl who eventually committed suicide, a U.S. attorney's spokesman told CNN.
Attacks, arrests slowing Web news from Iran
- Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.
Blogging live from Spiral Jetty
- Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty.
Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store
- The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.
Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites
- At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted.
What soccer team would your company be?
- Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect.
iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web
- Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.
Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID
- Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.
Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
- q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.
Defending against chemical and biological weapons
- At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them.
Week in review: A speedier new Firefox
- Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.
Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it
- Open source has a role to play in cloud computing, but it's likely not to be the vanquisher of old, proprietary dominance.
Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography
- Firefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along.
Sites that help you lodge complaints
- If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard.
Google App Engine misfires
- A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday.
iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing
- Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true.
Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case
- Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.
Net neutrality gets a boost from the feds
- The Obama administration includes the FCC's Net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.
DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement
- Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.
Fisker's good Karma
- At a dinner speech recently, Henrik Fisker laid out his plans for Fisker Automotive and its first car, the plug-in hybrid Karma.
Apple fixing iPhone SMS security hole
- Vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the phone, turn on the microphone, or turn phone into botnet zombie.
Windows 7: Moving beyond Vista
- Microsoft aims to make a much different first impression with Windows 7 than it did with Vista, its oft-maligned predecessor.
Photos: NASA's science, tech showcase
- A look at the high-tech research and development going on inside the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
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SMP-enabled Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Turns Up the Heat on VMware
- Version 3.0 of Sun's xVM VirtualBox desktop virtualization tool adds support for multiple guest processors--a major feature addition which, when considered alongside the product's low cost (free) and broad host platform support, is certain to give VMware Workstation a run for its money. - Sun Microsystems' xVM VirtualBox, a no-cost virtualization tool that enables virtual machines to run on a variety of standard operating systems, continues to improve its position as a potential challenger to workstation products from VMware and Parallels. Sun release version 3.0 of xVM VirtualBox on...
Apple iPhone 3GS Jailbreaking Tool Hits the Street
- The hacker who made the news in 2007 for unlocking Apple's first iPhone has released the a new application for jailbreaking the iPhone 3GS. The tool is currently available for Windows only. - George Hotz, the 19-year old hacker who made headlines for unlocking Apples original iPhone, has now released the first-known jailbreaking tool for iPhone 3GS.
The tool, called ‘purplea1n, is only available for versions of the Windows operating system - excluding Windows 7 - at the moment, but H...
China Says Green Dam Still Coming, Mac Version in the Works
- Chinas Ministry of Industry and I.T. reportedly said it “will definitely carry on the directive on Green Dam.” And while Apple has so far been on the sidelines of the Windows-based filtering software mandate, Green Dam maker Jinhui is said to be testing a Mac-compatible version. - The latest news on China's Green Dam filtering software is that the debates not over yet and Apple may finally be pulled into the fray.
In early June the Chinese government announced to PC makers that, by July 1, all computer sold in China would have shipped with Green Dam Youth Escort, a Web...
Government Spends $440 Million Per Year on Wasteful Printing, Report Says
- A report from printer manufacturer Lexmark claims the federal government wastes $440 million dollars a year (almost $1 million per day) on unnecessary printing. - While it could probably be said that most businesses, large, medium and small, print more paper than is necessary, a report by printing company Lexmark International revealed the U.S. government wastes a staggering $440 million annually on unnecessary printing--more than $1 million per day–almost as...
Spate of iPhone Overheating Reports Roast Apple
- Sales of Apple's iPhone 3GS aren't the only thing hot about the device: Reports of overheating issues on the new version of the smartphone caused Apple to release an advisory on how to keep your iPhone cool. - While the debut of the iPhone 3GS, the latest edition of Apples sleek, popular smartphone, has been a runaway success (sales after three days on the market bested one million models sold) Apple acknowledged the devices may have an issue when it comes to overhearing.
In response to numerous co...
Apple Fixing Broken iPhone Screens In-Store
- Apple's popular smartphone, the iPhone 3GS, is prone to mishandling and subsequent cracks in the screen. Apple is making it easier to fix the screen now by adding an in-store repair service. -
Whether theyre dropped, squashed, smashed or outright
trashed, many users find Apples sleek, delicate screens are prone to cracking.
While Apple cant do much to help you prevent dropping your iPhone, they have
made it easier to get the screen replaced. Apple blog The Loop confirme...
DOJ Launches Formal Investigation Into Google Book Search Settlement
- The Department of Justice confirms its investigation into whether Google's $125 million Book Search settlement violates U.S. antitrust laws. Opponents fear the agreement gives the search engine giant too much power in the digital book world. The fairness hearing is set for October 7, 2009. -
The U.S. Justice Department July 2 said it is formally investigating the $125 million settlement between Google and authors and
publishers that lets the search engine scan books online and grant access to them for a fee.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Cavanaugh...
FAA Gets Its New Virtualized Flight-Plan System Off the Ground
- EXCLUSIVE: The FAA, which has suffered a series of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes during the last several years, has upgraded its legacy flight-plan filing system to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Stratus Technologies. This architecture is now replacing critical systems that directly affect all air travelers in the United States. - The people whose job it is to schedule aircraft for takeoff, help guide passengers to their destinations and get them safely back down on the ground finally have some powerful new open-standards computer systems up and running to help them do their work more reliably.
The Federal Aviation Admini...
iPhone 3GS Tops Consumer Reports Ranking, with Palm Pre Close Behind
- The Apple iPhone 3GS asserted itself to the top of Consumer Reports' newest smartphone rankings, though the Palm Pre was close behind. The new capabilities and form factors of smartphones this year forced the advice-giver to reconsider its testing model. - The Apple iPhone 3GS topped Consumer Reports newest smartphone ratings,
according to the blog of the no-nonsense magazine that Americans have trusted
for its unbiased reviews since 1936.
The iPhone 3GS was not, however, a runaway winner, with the keyboard-boasting
Palm Pre following clo...
Google Apps Opens Up Contacts to Socialize the Enterprise
- Google makes it easier for users to find contacts within an enterprise, a move that mirrors some of the functionality in existing enterprise social software providers such as IBM, Socialtext and Jive. In-box socialization is table stakes for software makers that want to appeal to new enterprise customers by making it easier for workers to find company colleagues. - For Google Apps users who have been waiting for the software-as-a-service
suite to resemble some of today's social networks for businesses, Google is surfacing Gmail contacts more readily within companies.
When corporate employees search for a contact in Gmail, they'll see relevant
contacts from ...
Five Continuing Trends in Data Storage
- As we do at six- or 12-month intervals here at eWEEK, we offer a short list of key continuing trends in data storage, based upon daily conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs -- even a few former industry executives now blissfully retired and simply watching this evolution with continued amazement. - Data storage historically has been thought of as a solid, super-important but not-very-exciting sector of IT. Well, quot;not-very-exciting quot; is a value judgment made strictly in the mind of the beholder, and storage certainly is not a newsless valley in the overall IT landscape.
New products...
CSC to Resell Microsoft Cloud Services
- CSC announces an agreement with Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell the software giant's cloud-based online services. - CSC has announced an agreement with
Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell cloud-based Microsoft online
services.
Under the agreement, CSC will resell the
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online
Services. The move is an expansion of a cloud services an...
Labs Gallery: Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Ramps Up Challenge to VMware with SMP Support
- VirtualBox, Sun's open-source, cross-platform desktop virtualization product, now boasts support for multiple guest processors. Starting with Version 3.0, which began shipping on June 30, Sun's virtualization tool can expose up to 32 virtual processors to its guest instances. The rest of the changes in VirtualBox 3.0 are primarily bug fixes and tweaks. Even so, the non-free workstation products from VMware and Parallels will seem a little less shiny now that VirtualBox is sporting its SMP chops. - ...
10 Additional Ways to Geek Out Your Office
- Anyone can dress up the office with Ikea lamps and funky furniture, but if you want to truly stand out you have to find the objects and accessories no one else is going to have. Sure, an office desk crafted from an airplane wing may not be your style, but for the tech geek who wants it all, eWEEK presents 10 cool ways to customize your cube, including unusual iPhone docking stations, flying alarm clocks and even an ejection seat. - ...
Cisco, VMware Look to Move VMs Between Data Centers
- Cisco and VMware are working on a proof-of-concept around the idea of using VMwares VMotion technology to move live virtual machines between multiple data centers, a capability that would aid in such areas as load balancing, data center maintenance and disaster avoidance. The two companies demonstrated the proof-of-concept during the Cisco Live show. However, VMware officials warn that more work needs to be done to make the concept a reality. - Cisco Systems and VMware are developing ways that enterprises can use
VMwares VMotion technology to move live virtual machines from one data center
to another.
The two companies showed off a proof-of-concept at the Cisco Live 2009 show
in San Francisco, and demonstrated
the capabilities during ...
Biden meets U.S. troops in Iraq for Independence Day
- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met U.S. troops preparing to mark their Independence Day holiday on Saturday, on the third day of a visit he has used to urge Iraqi politicians to do more to reconcile rival factions.
North Korea defies U.S. with new missile launches
- SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an act of defiance toward the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.
Palin resigning as Alaska governor in surprise move
- ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, the brash, deeply conservative governor of Alaska who crashed onto the U.S. national political scene last year as the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president, announced abruptly on Friday she was resigning as governor.
Hardline Iran editor calls for Mousavi to face trial
- TEHRAN (Reuters) - A newspaper editor seen as close to Iran's top authority said on Saturday defeated election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi and a former pro-reform president had committed "terrible crimes" which should be tried in court.
Two U.S. soldiers killed in complex Afghan attack
- KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their base in southeast Afghanistan came under attack on Saturday, the U.S. military said, two days after a major operation against the Taliban was launched in the south.
OAS set to suspend Honduras as it renounces charter
- TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Organization of American States prepared to suspend Honduras on Saturday after a caretaker government refused to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya and defiantly renounced the OAS charter in an apparent preemptive move.
U.N.'s Ban denied Suu Kyi meeting
- NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he was "deeply disappointed" that military-ruled Myanmar's top general had rejected his request to meet with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Rescuers find debris of Yemenia aircraft: government
- SANAA (Reuters) - Search crews have located a large piece of debris from a Yemeni jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros islands last week and are working to retrieve it, the Yemeni transport ministry said Saturday.
Massive demand for Jackson memorial tickets
- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than half a million fans from around the world applied for 17,500 free tickets to Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, organizers said on Friday as a massive security operation got underway.
Pakistani forces attack militants near crash site
- KALLAY, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked Taliban militants on Saturday in a northwestern region where a military helicopter crashed the previous day killing 26 soldiers on board, a government official said.
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