| Castro steps down as leader
I saw three consecutive stories on Fidel and Cuba on our left-leaning, biased mothercorp. Not one mentioned that Cuba is a one party dictatorship, that Castro was a dictator held in power by his brother's control of the army, that in the early days of the "revolution" they shot, imprisoned or exiled their opponents. Now they only imprison them - including a 75 year old grandfather calling for democracy. Cuba today has as little political rights and freedoms as Battista's right wing Cuba did. Fidel is no Robin Hood, they are wealthy kleptocrats with huge bank accounts in Spain and Switzerland. No one can dare criticize the Cuban state without fear of prison, loss of housing or ration cards. Canadians who vacation there blithely, not realizing that their resort lines the pockets of and props up a dictatorial regime are complicit in the Cuban people being delayed freedom.
SIDEBAR: The GameSpot News Blog
GameSpot's first tournament of the year will be...explosive. Registration begins at 4 p.m. Pacific today for GameSpot's Bomberman Live Bombs Away tournament. The Bombs Away tourney is open to GameSpot Total Access users, where six players will enter the battlefield, but only one will depart without a singe in Bomberman Live's battle mode. Matches begin January 28 at 11 a.m. Pacific, and the finals will be broadcast live on Tournament TV on February 1 at 4 p.m. Pacific. All participants in the final round are guaranteed to walk away with a prize, regardless of whether their legs remain affixed to their bodies. To the winner will go a $250 gift card for Best Buy, while the remaining finalists will each receive a $50 Best Buy gift card. The Bomberman Live tourney is open to all US and Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) aged 13 and up.
As ISPs choke file-sharing, users look elsewhere
RapidShare and MegaUpload are among the most used file-hosting services. Together, the two sites account for 9 percent of all Internet traffic in the Middle East and 4 percent in Germany, according to iPoque, a company based in Leipzig, Germany, that specializes in traffic-management appliances for ISPs. The percentages are significant since over the last year usage of file-sharing sites, which number in the dozens, has surged, said Klaus Mochalski, iPoque's CEO. The sites offer potentially faster download speeds for sharing files than peer-to-peer networks. "These Web pages are tremendously popular," Mochalski said. The services let users upload a file and then share a link, called a direct download link, in e-mails and Web forums for others to download the content.
I agree, bring Fesenko up now.
Looks like another mutany after the Price for Hart saga. Maybe Jerry just wore down from reading the message boards?
I bet he gets up at 5 am like the rest of us to see how the Jazz are doing and what move to make next. We should have lobbied harder to trade Collins, Hart and Miles for Dwight Howard. Man would we be good then.
The big story should be how the league allowed the Lakers to reload without giving up anything. Now thats the conspiracy. Bet we regret the Fisher move in the playoffs. .
Whole Foods Market(R) Launches Online Video Series for Kids by Kids to ...
The Whole Foods Market motto, "Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet"(TM) captures the company's mission to find success in customer satisfaction and wellness, employee excellence and happiness, enhanced shareholder value, community support and environmental improvement. Whole Foods Market, Fresh & Wild(TM), and Harry's Farmers Market(R) are trademarks owned by Whole Foods Market IP, LP. Wild Oats(R) and Capers Community Market(TM) are trademarks owned by Wild Marks, Inc. Whole Foods Market employs more than 50,000 Team Members and has been ranked for ten consecutive years as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" in America by FORTUNE magazine. Whole Foods Market is continuing to strengthen its commitment to the environment. Most stores participate in a composting program where food waste and compostable paper goods are regenerated into compost.
Newspaper staff honored for coverage of Hispanic immigration
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Response to InfoWorld’s Choices on 2007’s Top Technology
First of all, I must note for the record that InfoWorld has never given me an award as being top in any category. I'm thankful that they've spared their readers that pain. Now that I've gotten that over with, I'd like to comment on an article I recently read over at InfoWorld. David Marshall, a well known comentator on the virtualization arena and quite an interesting person, comments on his choices of the best technology from 2007. Although several fine products are mentioned, they seem to be the obvious choices because they offered technology that certainly was good enough to statisfy the needs of many organizations and were both highly and successfully publicized by their developers. What about the technology that was less highly publicized but, very interesting nevertheless? I suspect that the products that were easiest to defend were selected due to the limited space allowed for such discussions.
EFI Inks Licensing Agreement for Paid Inc.'s Patented Online Shipping ...
BOSTON & FOSTER CITY, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- EFI, the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, and Paid, Inc. (OTCBB:PAYD) announced today that the two companies have signed a license agreement that enables EFI to integrate Paid's real-time online shipping calculation technology into its PrinterSite order system via an application protocol interface (API). The licensing agreement with EFI marks the first API integration since the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent for portions of Paid's online shipping calculation technology in January 2008. Under the annual renewable contract, EFI will pay Paid, Inc. an annual licensing fee that will allow EFI's system to access Paid's AuctionInc server to calculate or recalculate shipping costs in real time for customer orders.
Apple Files Five Major Touch Screen Patents
On February 21, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a powerful series of Touch screen related patent applications from Apple Inc. respectfully titled Touch Sensing Architecture, '>Typing with a Touch Sensor, Writing using a Touch Sensor, Touch Sensing through Hand Dissection and '>Contact Tracking and Identification Module for Touch Sensing. Although all five applications share a common patent abstract and summary, the patents do in fact present their unique distinctive presentations in the second half of each of these patents. All five applications share a common set of 55 patent figures with one that clearly illustrates a full computer touch screen based keyboard in the works. Apple's Abstract Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface.
ARI 1Q profit, revenue rises
ARI Network Services Inc. reported Monday that it recorded increases in both profit and revenue for the fiscal first quarter. ARI (OTCBB: ARIS) posted net income for the quarter ended Oct. 31 of $243,000, or 4 cents per share, compared with $225,000, or 3 cents per share, for the same period a year ago. Revenue for the Milwaukee provider of electronic parts catalogs and marketing services increased 21 percent to $4.2 million from $3.5 million. ARI chairman and CEO Brian Dearing said the marketing services business continued to drive revenue growth. About 45 percent of the revenue growth was because of the acquisition of OC-Net Inc., a Cypress, Calif. company that provides Web hosting and e-commerce services, in January 2007. .
Orkut worm feeds on scraps
Malware authors have written a worm for Orkut, Google-owned networking site that's big in Brazil. The Scrapkut worm uses active code injection to spread between victims and their friends on Orkut. The malicious code appears on a victim's scrapbook, containing a link to a supposed YouTube video. .
To former Zale execs, Dunkin' Donuts is a gem
Tobolowsky and Billy Gutow, previously senior vice president of Zale real estate development, have made millions building and selling Blockbuster Entertainment franchise stores in the Washington, D.C., area and Palm Beach Tan salons in Las Vegas. .
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