Google has unveiled their latest web app. It’s called Google Sidewiki and makes it easy to “Contribute helpful information to any webpage”. We’re not quite so sure. If you have the Google Toolbar installed on your browser, Sidewiki allows you to open a side-panel, add your comments about the page, and read the comments of others.
In a Utopian Internet (Utopernet?) the world’s most predominant experts on all subjects would be browsing websites dropping off clairvoyant nuggets of wisdom like Greek oracles. In reality, letting anyone add to any web page does not equate to instant insight. We’re all…

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Registry Mechanic is an advanced registry cleaner for Windows reg that can safely clean repair and optimize your registry in a few simple mouse clicks With Registry Mechanic you can safely clean repair and optimize the Windows reg registry with a few simple mouse clicks Problems with the Windows reg registry are a common cause of Windows reg crashes slow performance and error messages By using a registry cleaner regularly and fixing registry errors your system should not only be more stable but it will also help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades Learn more about the importance…

IBM and the Indian School of Business (ISB) on Monday said they have established a research “collaboratory” at the ISB campus for furthering research in service science. IBM and ISB have been working closely on service science research for last few years. This collaboratory marks the beginning of a new phase of an expanded relationship between the two organisations. An IBM collaboratory is a laboratory where IBM researchers co-locate with a university, the government, or commercial partner to share skills, assets, and resources to achieve a common research goal. The new collaboratory will initially have a team of 10 full-time…

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When we saw the video of the Phasma insectoid robot above, we immediately thought of the iSprawl. After checking out their site, it turns out that the two are connected in some way, we’re not sure how, maybe just inspiration. The Phasma gives us a little more insight into the construction of the bot. The photos are highly detailed so you can see how the drive works, using the sliding cables to extend the “feet”. It seems quite agile in the video. The drive system, working off of a single cam seems like it would be easy to convert…

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Researchers from NetQin Tech. are reporting on a newly discovered mobile malware variant (Transmitter.C) distributed through a modified version of legitimate mobile application. Upon execution, the malware attempts to automatically spread by sending hundreds of SMS messages linking to a web site where a copy of it (sexySpace.sisx) can be found.
NetQuin’s CEO, Dr. Lin Yu provided more insight into the nature of the malware, its financial implications for the infected user, as well as thoughts on the future of mobile malware.
As a foreign variant of previous erotic short message virus (Transmitter.A), this virus camouflages in a normal…

Registry Mechanic is an advanced registry cleaner for Windows reg that can safely clean repair and optimize your registry in a few simple mouse clicks With Registry Mechanic you can safely clean repair and optimize the Windows reg registry with a few simple mouse clicks Problems with the Windows reg registry are a common cause of Windows reg crashes slow performance and error messages By using a registry cleaner regularly and fixing registry errors your system should not only be more stable but it will also help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades Learn more about the importance…

In case you don’t know what a blog is, it’s a shortened form of’weblog’. It’s like a personal journal, offering musings orinformation, but available to the public on a website. Blogs areinformal, and often provide new entries every day, or quitefrequently. There’s nothing static about a blog. They’re intriguing because they give you an insight into theperson writing them, and because you know there will be newstuff daily. Many give you the opportunity to make entries orcomments yourself and become sort of dialogues or collaborationsbetween the writer, you, and others who contribute. Blogs sometimes have a theme , but in…

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The Most Popular Business Books
Currently in your local bookstore are a number of newly released books that can provide rich insight and glorious financial understanding of a variety of hot business topics. From the stock market to the supermarket, these books have hit a vein in the American public by enlightening them to subjects that heretofore seemed elusive and confounding. Here are a few of these successful books, and a little bit about why you might want to pick them up when you have a little extra money.
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets by William Bonner is a look at…

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