July 26, 2008
· Filed under world news · Tagged Amar Musubah, Gaza, Hamas
Hamas arrests Fatah rivals after Gaza blasts
- Hamas security forces arrested more than 100 rival Fatah members in Gaza Friday night and Saturday while searching for suspects in bombings that killed five Hamas militants and a child, a security source said
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July 25, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged DNS, Kaminsky, Las Vegas
Kaminsky (finally) provides DNS flaw details
In his first public comments since his Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning flaw was made public, Dan Kaminsky said in a conference call on Thursday he doesn’t want to parse who said what when. He just wants everyone to understand that they must patch their systems now.
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July 25, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Veghte, Vista, windows 7
Microsoft: Windows 7 on track
Windows unit head Bill Veghte said on Thursday that Windows 7 development remains on track.
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July 25, 2008
· Filed under world news · Tagged ID, Karadzic, Kosovo, Milosevic, Ratko Mladic
Man whose ID was used by Karadzic is found
The real Dragan Dabic is a 66-year-old construction worker in nearby town
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July 25, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged Angelopoulos., NASA, spacecraft, THEMIS
July 25, 2008
· Filed under world news · Tagged Bynum, Kupchak, Lakers notes
The NBA’s burgeoning trade deficit just took a troubling turnThursday. At least as far as the Lakers are concerned.
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July 25, 2008
· Filed under world news · Tagged McCain, Obama, RNC, Sabato
McCain camp: Obama taking a 'premature victory lap'
Sen. John McCain sharpened his attacks against Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday, saying he’d rather give a speech in Germany as president than as a presidential candidate.
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July 25, 2008
· Filed under world news · Tagged Gordon Brown, Merkel, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama
Obama: New walls need tearing down
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama was due to arrive in Paris on Friday, one day after speaking to hundreds of thousands of exuberant people in Berlin.
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July 25, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged DoCoMo, iPhone, iTunes, Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Symbian
Symbian and Android to make love, not war
The launch of Android, Google’s open-source OS for mobile phones, was postponed . As a consequence, a majority of carriers and handset vendors have pushed the launch of their Android-powered smart phones to the end of the year or beginning of next year. In the meantime, Nokia acquired Symbian and then released this dominant mobile OS in open source. Many believed that this was a prelude to a head-on collision with Android but it looks like the two are headed for more of a beast with two backs relationship than a tap out.
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July 25, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged Facebook, google, MySpace, Pervy McPete
Facebook Connect: laying the seeds for revolution
Facebook Connect is an example of hope dangled within reach. The question is, once you give people a taste of this kind of freedom, won’t they want more? More means my data isn’t my stuff anymore. It doesn’t belong to Facebook, MySpace, Google, or anyone else for that matter. It just sits out there for everyone to mess with. My privacy cannot be protected by a Privacy Policy. This kind of rush to interoperability, openness, and the platform of social networking are threatening my libertarian values.
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