July 26, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged BTES, Canadian, energy, Green Alberta, Gylcol, Natural Resources, Okotoks, travel
Canadian community first to go completely solar
The Drake Landing Solar Community is the first community to be completely solar powered in all of North America. It is located within the town limits of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada. This development is a prime example of how simple living a greener lifestyle truly is. Located throughout the community you’ll notice over 800 solar panels on garage roofs, they are responsible for the production of 1.5 mega-watts of thermal power during the summer and work to supply heat to the district heating system. The entire system meets 90% of the annual heating and hot water needs of the community’s residents.
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July 26, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged BrowserRank, game, google, Microsoft, SEO
Microsoft BrowserRank versus Google PageRank
Ah, those Redmond guys just won’t accept Google’s rule. A research paper delivered at a conference in Singapore this week, highlights Microsoft Asia Research’s alternative to Google’s PageRank algorithm, BrowserRank. The new process, in theory, ranks sites based on their usage, and user behavior patterns. Google’s algorithmic stew for rankings remains a great mystery, and an ever changing set of goalposts that are constantly gamed by companies looking to leverage search results to drive traffic, and drive revenues. Microsoft sees Google’s strength in this regard as being its weakness, too, arguing that web developers have many opportunities to influence the ranking system, unfairly. BrowserRank, on the other hand, would actually try and take a look at user behavior on a site, Microsoft arguing that the more people are engaged by a site, the more likely it is that it has relevance.
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July 26, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged Escaped, SUV
Escaped spammer murders family, commits suicide
Bennett (CO) – Escaped spammer Edward Davidson was found dead, along with the bodies of his wife and three-year-old daughter. Police believe Davidson tried to kill the entire family after he escaped from a minimum security correctional facility near Denver Colorado. A teenage girl was also shot, but survived and fortunately the couple’s infant son wasn’t harmed.
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July 26, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged Boeing 747, Qantas 747
Qantas 747 makes emergency landing after door blows out
Manila (Philippines) – A Qantas jumbo jet made an emergency landing after a faulty door exploded open during flight. Qantas Flight 30 from Hong Kong to Melbourne had to quickly descend 20000 feet and eventually landed in Manila. All 346 passengers and 19 crew on the Boeing 747 aircraft were not hurt.
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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 Technology · Tagged Angelopoulos., NASA, spacecraft, THEMIS
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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July 25, 2008
· Filed under Technology · Tagged Gartner, google, Medpedia, Wikipedia
Knol: Google does a pedia
Knol doesn’t rely on just anybody to create its collection of knowledgeable articles. You get to be the author, the buck stops here byline on a contribution, and if you write it, you kind of own it. Unlike Wikipedia, which it is compared to, Knol has a commercial bent. You get to run ads, too, and, in theory, make some money off of your expertise. It’s not a new concept, but it is a Google concept, and that’s about all it takes for the world domination theorists to come out of the woodwork. But, does it have legs?
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