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German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant
reporter writes 'HIV is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Until now, HIV has no cure and has led to the deaths of over 25 million people. However, a possible cure has appeared. Dr. Gero Hutter, a brilliant physician inmore
FTC Wants To Straighten Out IP Law
coondoggie writes with this excerpt from NetworkWorld: 'What do you get when you mix the government, the court system, company lawyers and Joe Consumer? A serious mess that would send most people screaming into the night. But the Federal Trade Commissionmore
HTML North America names U.S. market manager
HMTL North America/Heavy Metal & Tubes Ltd., Rehoboth Beach, Del., has named Lisa Sarch as U.S. market manager for the heat exchanger, boiler, and condenser group. She has more than 20 years of industry experience as a sales representative for welded andmore
Very Large Telescope Captures New 27 Megapixel Deep Field
xyz writes 'European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has captured the deepest ground based U-band image of the universe yet. The image contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the VIMOSmore
How Social Software Can Improve Democracy
Geek Satire writes 'Politics breeds cynicism; politicians seem to pander to contradictory focus groups to get elected, then break their promises to everyone. Mass mailings and faxings overwhelm their staffs, and who knows if you can tell yourmore
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic
jbpisio writes with a link to this blog-post summary that the Canadian government has commissioned a pair of unmanned subs to explore the geology of two underwater Arctic mountain ranges; the subs' mission will be to provide evidence supporting Canada'smore
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use
With the disclaimer 'I'm both Irish and work for the EU Commission,' reader VShael writes 'The head of the Irish police force has requested that Irish cell phone providers (Vodaphone, 02, Meteor, 3) retain detailed information on the web pages thatmore
Which Computer Books For Prisoners?
Brian D. writes 'I've recently begun working with a group that sends books to prisoners in federal and state prisons. We try to match their requests as well as we can. One request that we consistently have trouble filling is for computer books. This ismore
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop?
Ahmed Kamal writes 'Is Linux getting too old for you? Are you interested to see what other systems such as OpenSolaris have to offer? OpenSolaris has some great features, such as ZFS and dtrace, which make it a great server OS but how do you think itmore
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 course
This course will teach you the skills from creating a basic HTML page and website to applying Dreamweaver skills and owning a site.Deadline for registrations: 04 November 2008more
China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites
frogger writes 'China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and Themore
Amazon's Cloud Data Center to Follow Google to Oregon
1sockchuck writes 'All your online data doesn't really live in a big, fluffy cloud. It resides in servers and data centers. That's why Amazon.com is quietly building a large data center complex in Oregon along the Columbia River, not far from Google'smore
Malaysia Frees "Anti-Islamic" Blogger
quarterbuck writes 'The Malaysian blogger who under arrest on sedition charges has been freed by the courts. Raja Petra Kamarudin's comments were represented by the government as being anti-Islam and anti-government; he was under arrest under Malaysia'smore
Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store
CWmike writes 'Microsoft is working on a software distribution scheme along the lines of Apple's iPhone App Store, CEO Steve Ballmer said yesterday at a developer's conference in Sydney, Australia. 'There's not much money being made, but the generalmore
Red Hat & AMD Demo Live VM Migration Across CPU Vendors
An anonymous reader notes an Inquirer story reporting on something of a breakthrough in virtual machine management a demonstration (not yet a product) of migrating a running virtual machine across CPUs from different vendors (video here). 'Red Hat andmore
NYCL Responds To RIAA Accusations
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes 'You may recall that when the RIAA decided to run away with its tail between its legs in the long running Brooklyn case against a home health aide who has never used a computer, UMG v. Lindor, it decided to take some partingmore
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs?
CryoStasis writes 'I am a graduate student getting my degree in biomedical sciences. Because my work often requires me to maintain a local sterile environment (under a biological hood) I find that I am unable to physically touch my computer, which sitsmore
Good Cross Platform Speech Recognition Programs?
CryoStasis writes 'I am a graduate student getting my degree in biomedical sciences. Because my work often requires me to maintain a local sterile environment (under a biological hood) I find that I am unable to physically touch my computer, which sitsmore
Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits
twitter writes 'Analysts at Bloomberg noticed the tumble in Microsoft's traditional software sales last quarter and blamed it on netbooks: 'The devices, which usually cost less than $500, are the fastest-growing segment of the personal-computer industrymore
Bug In Android Passes Keystrokes To Root Shell
pasokon writes 'ZDNet reports on an Android bug in T-Mobile G1s with early versions of the firmware: 'When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed on the keyboard from then on to that shell. Thusmore
Chandrayaan Enters Lunar Orbit
William Robinson writes 'After an 18-day journey, Chandrayaan-1, the moon mission of India, has entered Lunar orbit. The maneuver was described as crucial and critical by scientists, who pointed out that at least 30 per cent of similar moon missions hadmore
Telco Appeals Minnesota City's Fiber-Optic Win
tsa writes 'In a predictable move, TDS Telecom has filed an appeal after its complaint against Monticello, Minnesota's new fiber network was tossed by a county judge in early October. As you may remember, the city decided to build its own fiber-opticmore
Researchers Hijack Storm Worm To Track Profits
An anonymous reader points out a story in the Washington Post, which begins: 'A single response from 12 million e-mails is all it takes for spammers to turn annual profits of millions of dollars promoting knockoff pharmaceuticals, according to anmore
Yahoo Interested In a Microsoft Buyout, But Microsoft Isn't
Linux Blog writes 'The Google-Yahoo advertising deal has been rejected by the Department of Justice, and Google has pulled the plug on a search-ad partnership with Yahoo that would have given Yahoo major new revenue, but that raised antitrust concerns.more
Should the United States' New CTO Really Be a CIO?
CurtMonash writes 'Barack Obama promised to appoint the United States' first Chief Technology Officer. Naturally, the blogosphere is full of discussion as to who that should be. I favor American Management Systems founder and former IRS Commissionermore
A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet
CNet is running a story about research from security expert Joe Stewart into the CoreFlood botnet, which has harvested at least '50 gigabytes of compressed data, searchable in a MySQL database,' from a group of over 370,000 bot IDs. Stewart explains howmore
Simulations Predict Where We Can Find Dark Matter
p1234 writes with this excerpt from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics: 'Simulations by the Virgo team show how the Milky Way's halo grew through a series of violent collisions and mergers from millions of much smaller clumps that emerged from themore
Are Neo-Retro Game Releases a Fad?
With modern console technology making it easy to develop and distribute small games, more and more companies are taking advantage of gamers' nostalgia to re-release decades-old hits, and to create entirely new titles in older styles. Gamasutra takes amore
Roundup: Adobe Releases New Acrobat 8, Acrobat Connect; Updates Camera RAW, Creative Suite; Dumps GoLive
First, Adobe announced that Acrobat 8 would ship in November of this year, and that it would integrate Macromedia Flash and Breeze technology. Next, rumor mill predictions of GoLive?s demise, rampant since the first announcement of Adobe?s intent tomore
Enough Whining About the Adobe-Macromedia Merger
Recently, Quark VS InDesign.com reader Woz mentioned his concern over the Adobe-Macromedia merger because of an editorial he found on the blog Daring Fireball. Fortunately for Woz, that editorial was riddled with incorrect facts and erroneousmore