If a report from TheStreet.com has it right, Verizon won’t be picking up the Palm Pre after all. Showcased at this year’s CES, Palm’s flagship phone garnered quite the following, and was praised as a potential iPhone killer. Just prior to its official debut on Sprint’s network in June, Verizon said it would offer the smartphone within six months.Sprint replied by saying it held exclusive rights to the Pre through 2009, which left most with the impression that the handset would be available via Verizon in January 2010. Palm’s CEO Jon Rubinstein recently fueled that anticipation when he said the…
Business
Verizon passing on the Pre after all?
Business
US SEC: Protecting long-term investors a priority
WASHINGTON: The first responsibility of the US Securities and Exchange Commision is to protect long-term investors if their interests conflict 10 most trade-friendly economiesBen Bernanke: Face of the FedMore on Financial crisisEconomies out of recession with short-term traders, the head of the SEC said in a letter revealed on Monday. “I firmly agree that the commission’s focus must be on the protection of long-term investors,” SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said in a Sept 10 letter to Senator Ted Kaufman, Democrat of Delaware. Kaufman had asked the SEC to review what he called “questionable” developments in the structure of capital markets…
Software
Download Accelerator Plus 9.2.0.3 Beta
Download Accelerator Plus DAP is the worlds most popular download accelerator giving you the fastest possible download speeds with privacy security and ease of use Allows you to download up to 300 faster with increased reliability resume support and errors recovery It searches for mirror sites that most effectively serve your downloads through multiserver connections for optimal utilization of dial up or broadband connections DAP automatically recovers from shutdowns lost connections and other errors New in DAP 9 2 Available in 38 languages with translations provided by DAP usersUnicode languages support Hindi Nepali Tamil Bangla and more Fixed Fixed issues…
Facebook
Facebook Testing Friend Confirmations That Emphasize SMS And News Feed
This afternoon Facebook updated some users’ friend confirmations to include two check boxes. One asks you to select whether or not you’d like to have that user’s info displayed in your news feed and the other asks if you’d like to receive SMS messages. It’s a subtle change but what’s becoming increasingly clear is Facebook is trying to streamline the communication process after integrating all of Twitter’s functionality within their site.
Today’s latest move was to include privacy options with all items posted from the Facebook publisher. Interestingly enough, a lot of their other services do not yet have this…
Software
ATI Catalyst 9.6
AMD released version 9 6 of their ATI video card driver package
Performance Improvements Company of Heroes performance improves up to 25 with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10 on HD 4800 series Crysis performance improves up to 13 in multi GPU configurations Crysis Warhead performance improves up to 11 in multi GPU configurations World in Conflict performance improvements of up to 30 can be seen in settings that were previously CPU limited
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System Some systems with both a component video display and a secondary…
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Ways to Increase the Power of Believing in Yourself by: Traliece N. Bradford
One of my favorite and inspiring quotes is by the great Buckminster Fuller, “I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.” It reminds me to not be a statistic and to go for greatness.Fuller also made a very underlining point: When you let life, people, circumstances, and inner conflict of your mind, body, and spirit consume you and conquer you to where you have no clue as to who you are and what your true individual gifts, talents, and purpose is you become dead from…
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How to Sleep on an Airplane by: Roseanna Leaton
There’s nothing worse than sitting there, pinned into your seat, whilst the person next to you snoozes happily by your side, oblivious to your discomfort. Some people have all the luck! But is it really just luck? Is it to do with their temperament, or anxiety levels, or could it be that they have just learned how to get to sleep?You hear of some people who describe themselves as so laid back that they are “almost horizontal” but this does not necessarily mean that they are good sleepers when on an airplane. They will sleep beautifully when at home, and…
Computer
XP Registry
Easiest Method To Fix XP Registry Mistakes
When you first purchase your new Windows XP system, you will notice how well it performs until you start using it more and installing random programs. This problem behind that doesn’t lie totally on hardware overuse, but software configuration can be part of the blame as well. Majority of your Windows XP configuration lies in the registry and the Windows registry can get messy at times and the only way to do something about it is by using a registry fix software that you can download or purchase over the internet.
Most registry…
Facebook
Ex-Facebook COO, Owen Van Natta, Becomes CEO Of MySpace
Today MySpace has annoucned that Owen Van Natta, the ex-Chief Operating Officer of Facebook has been appointed the role of MySpace Chief Executive Officer. It’s approximately a year and two months after leaving Facebook and one has to wonder, did Owen Van Natta have a non-compete? He clearly has substantial competitive intelligence and while he may not know the latest information from inside Facebook, he at the least has deep insight into the way the organization functions.
The announcement comes as no surprise given that MySpace has been leaking the information for the past few days, but now that it’s…
Opinion
War and peace
War & Peace
WAR AND PEACE
You open a newspaper or for that matter any news channel and news on war or terrorism is there aplenty.At times it makes me feel that there is something seriously wrong with the civilisation Some body has rightly said that WAR IS A PERMANENT CONDITION OF MANKIND,From time immemorial great thinkers and philosophers have been trying to uncover the mainspring of action in the human mind.Barring a few optimists almost all of them have reached the conclusion that war rather than peace is the natural state of man/society.A meditation on the conduct of poltical…
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open your favorite websites using only your keyboard. with site laucncher
SiteLauncher is an add-on for Firefox that gives you a super-quick way to to open your favorite websites using only your keyboard. One special hotkey brings up the “Launcher” (see image), followed by a unique key to launch a site.Designed to be especially useful for quickly opening Web sites you use often throughout the day. For example, many people would probably want to add Google, Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter to SiteLauncher–what sites to include is entirely up to you.Because SiteLauncher appears on demand, it’s also useful for minimizing toolbar clutter.The default hotkey for the Launcher is Ctrl+Space (or Ctrl+Alt for…
Magic
Personal Test
Your view on yourself:You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don’t like conflict. Because you’re so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.Intelligent? not really. But i really hate conflict.The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:You are not looking merely for a girl/boyfriend – you are looking for your life partner. Perhaps you should be more open-minded about who you spend time with. The person you are looking for might hide their charm under their exterior.definately!Your readiness to commit to a relationship:You prefer to get to…
