In a bid to boost the tourism industry in Jaffna, the foundation stone was laid for Hotel Nallur in Jaffna. The three star hotel, being the first of its kind in the war torn province after a lapse of 60 years, is being constructed by the Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/travel/37-getaways/2649-tourism-to-pick-up-in-jaffna.html
Cairn India which is exploring for oil in Sri Lankan waters is to start gathering meteorological data and monitor ocean currents next month ahead of a test drilling programme, an official said.
The sub-contract for the 'metocean and currents survey' in the Gulf of Mannar, off the island's north-west is to be awarded soon, said Neil de Silva, head of Sri Lanka's petroleum resources development secretariat overseeing exploration efforts. "You might see a ship going out next month to put instruments in the sea and collect data such as wave heights and ocean current strengths in the drilling area."
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/business/126-economy/1836-sri-lanka-to-start-ocean-survey-in-oil-search.html
The Colombo Fashion Week, a completely integrated showcase, aimed at developing a South Asian fashion hub, which encourages and promotes commerce between regional designers and retailers, kicked off in Colombo on February 5. Its main aim is to uplift the fashion industry of Sri Lanka, and its approach is multifaceted.CFW identifies promosing young designers before offering them guidance and internship through CFW’s Technical Studio. These designers then become part of the international showcase, gaining the opportunity to interact with and learn from established designers, as well as exposure to high potential markets.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/entertainment/fashion/1454-colombo-fashion-week.html
Jacqueline Fernandez who debuted in ALADIN received her due at the Max Stardust Awards 2010. Ex - Miss Sri Lanka Jacqueline Fernandez from TV anchoring to political reporting to modeling, has done it all and now has finally fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming an actress.
The gorgeous star made a big splash with her debut in Sujoy Ghosh's ALADIN alongside veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan and Riteish Deshmukh - the results of which won Jacqueline the 'Exciting New Face' at the Stardust Awards 2010.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/entertainment/movies/975-jacqueline-wins-exciting-new-face-award.html
Sri Lanka's veteran actress Malini Fonseka has been named by CNN as among Asia’s best 25 actors of all time. Apart from Malini Fonseka Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan is also among the best 25 by CNN.CNN noted that in the history of the Academy Awards (airing on March 7th), only two Asians have ever taken home a Best Actor or Actress statue. Yet Asia has produced incredibly talented thespians that have changed the course of their nation’s cinematic history. In anticipation of Oscar night, CNN narrowed the list of greats to 25.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/entertainment/movies/1998-malini-among-asias-best.html
It happened right in front of us — in a bid to duck the crowd who had gathered around her vanity van last week — Jacqueline Fernandez’s mobile slipped out of her hands. And before she could recover it, the device was already broken into bits.
“Let that go. It’s already beyond repair. It’s better that I get a new set for myself,” says the former Miss Sri Lanka as we sat down in her vanity van for an interview.
As the actor started talking about her upcoming film by Sajid Nadiadwala, we deflected the topic towards Sri Lanka where the film industry has almost ceased to exist because of the continuous tension.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/entertainment/movies/2298-jacqueline-shows-interest-in-lanka-film-industry-.html
Sri Lankan cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya cast his vote for the General Elections in Matara today, a day before the actual polls, after obtaining special permission from the Elections Commissioner as he will be out of the country for the IPL cricket tournament.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/2917-sanath-casts-his-vote.html
The woman photographed with Australian cricketer Michael Clarke waiting for a taxi outside Ravesi's Hotel in Bondi has been identified as a Canadian tourist, called Jacqueline Adama.
Adama has spent the past few years touring Australia with her equally pretty identical twin sister Michelle, the pair landing twin jobs as barmaids at Justin Hemmes' hot city nightspots Establishment and Ivy, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Meanwhile, Clarke's ex Lara Bingle has also parked rumours that she's found a new partner.
The model was spotted with an unknown man with dark long hair in a BMW. (ANI)
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/sports/cricket/2927-michael-clarkes-mystery-blonde-identified.html
Sourav Ganguly struck his sixth Indian Premier League half-century and remained in the thick of things as Kolkata Knight Riders upstaged Delhi Daredevils by 14 runs to stay afloat in the race for a semi-final berth.
Cheered by a chockablock Eden Gardens crowd, the home side defended their total of 181 for three with gusto, restricting the Daredevils to 167 for eight for their sixth win in 10 outings.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/sports/cricket/2938-mathews-mendis-shine-as-kkr-upstage-daredevils-to-stay-in-semifinal-hunt.html
New York – Who takes care of the kids when you've got a movie to promote? When it's the premiere of "Date Night" and the stars are Tina Fey and Steve Carell, it's their other halves. For Fey and Carell worked the red carpet in front of New York's Ziegfeld Theatre on Tuesday, April 6, sans their real-life spouses; it was a work night for the pair, who are both best known for their NBC-TV shows.
Fey is the creator and star of "30 Rock," while Carell leads the insanity of "The Office," but both were ready to jump to the big screen when the comedy "Date Night" came along.
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Kate Arrington, Tim Bickel, Marylouise Burke and Tom Irwin will appear in A Parallelogram, a new play by Bruce Norris, at Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Chicago home July 1–Aug. 29.
Directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County), the staging in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St., concludes the troupe's 2009-10 season. Opening night is July 11.Norris was represented Off-Broadway earlier this season with Clybourne Park.
Here's how Steppenwolf bills the play: "If you knew your fate — would you accept it? Or try to change it? Bee is a young woman who believes she has an uncanny ability to see the future, and maybe even alter it. From the award-winning team that brought you The Unmentionables and The Pain and the Itch comes this dark, funny world premiere about a woman bent on reinventing her own destiny — and possibly the world."
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A top Federal Communications Commission official acknowledged on Wednesday that the Obama administration's ambitious plan to expand broadband access could be impacted by a court ruling that limited the agency's authority to regulate operations of network providers.
Austin Schlick, the General Counsel of the FCC, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that FCC recommendations aimed at accelerating broadband access in rural parts of the U.S. as well as connecting disabled and low-income Americans, were among the various provisions of the recently unveiled broadband plan that could be affected.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100407/media_nm/us_fcc_broadband;_ylt=AjhlwQE4ZvPInJdS.vEJt_1xFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTJtbW0xMDdlBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAwNDA3L3VzX2ZjY19icm9hZGJhbmQEcG9zAzE0BHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDZmNjb2ZmaWNpYWxz
NEW YORK – Born in 1908, the great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson came of age when small, handheld cameras were giving artists and adventurers unprecedented access to the entire world. Cartier-Bresson began to travel at age 22 and didn't stop for nearly half a century, always with camera in hand.
Now the Museum of Modern Art — which like Cartier-Bresson himself did so much to define visual art in the 20th century — has launched a major retrospective of six decades of work by a man whom curator Peter Galassi calls "one of the most talented photographers who ever lived."
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NEW YORK – Tennis great Martina Navratilova says she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and her prognosis is excellent.
Navratilova said in a phone interview Wednesday that a routine mammogram in January found a lump, and a biopsy the following month determined it was a noninvasive cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS.
The nine-time Wimbledon women's singles champion had a lumpectomy in March and will start six weeks of radiation therapy next month.
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NEW YORK – Whitney Houston has again pushed back the European leg of her first tour in years on the advice of doctors who are encouraging her to take time to recover from a respiratory illness, according to a statement issued Wednesday.
Houston had already postponed the European kickoff, originally scheduled for Tuesday in Paris, because of illness. A statement from a representative said doctors advised Houston to reschedule concerts Thursday and Friday in Manchester, England, and a Sunday performance in Glasgow, Scotland.
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READING, Pa. – Jon Gosselin has sued ex-wife Kate for primary custody of their eight children.
The former reality TV star also asked the Berks County Court on Wednesday to review his child support obligation.
Gosselin's attorney, Anthony List, has previously accused Kate Gosselin of neglecting the children because she appears on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," a charge her attorney rejected as "patently false."
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LOS ANGELES – Roman Polanski's lawyers have filed a last legal volley in a California appeals court, saying that the 33-year-old sex case and its lengthy delays have been an assault on the state's judicial system.
The attorneys said in papers filed Tuesday that the court should order an investigation of judicial misconduct in Polanski's original case and that the Oscar-winning filmmaker should not have to pay for it — an indication that he is running out of funds.
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LOS ANGELES – Megan Fox and her sometime boyfriend, actor Brian Austin Green, are protesting California school budget cuts in a new video online.
In a video posted Wednesday on the comic Web site FunnyorDie.com, Fox urges viewers to "call, write and annoy the governor until he cries for his mommy."
She says more than $17 billion has been cut from state educational programs over the past two years, and Green says the "terminators in Sacramento" plan to cut another $2.5 billion.
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BANGKOK — Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand declared a state of emergency in the Bangkok area on Wednesday after antigovernment demonstrators broke into the Parliament building, forcing government ministers to flee by helicopter.
The televised announcement came after nearly a month of street demonstrations by the red-shirted protesters, who paralyzed the city’s commercial district in recent days and paraded through the city in defiance of government restrictions. They are demanding that Mr. Abhisit dissolve Parliament and call new elections.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/world/asia/08thai.html?src=me
Tennis
Navratilova has breast cancer: Tennis great Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer and her prognosis is considered excellent.
Navratilova said a routine mammogram found a lump, and a biopsy the following month determined it was ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS. The nine-time Wimbledon women's singles champion had a lumpectomy in March and will start six weeks of radiation therapy next month.
"It was such a shock for me," Navratilova said. "It was my 9/11."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2011551531_digs08.html
Reuters) - Kyrgyz riot police fired tear gas and flash grenades to disperse protesters in the capital Bishkek on Wednesday, witnesses said, the second day of unrest linked to mounting public anger over a weaker economy and corruption.
World
Below are some key facts about Kyrgyzstan:
THE ECONOMY AND GROWING UNREST
* Kyrgyzstan's economy grew by 2.3 percent in 2009, down from 8.4 percent a year earlier, as the impoverished Central Asian state was hit by the global crisis.
* Kyrgyz migrant laborers, working mostly in Russia, used to be one of the key sources of the country's foreign currency revenues. But Russia's own woes have left many of them unemployed or doing jobs that pay less.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6363F420100407
FBI agents say no explosives were found in the shoes of a Qatar diplomat who was subdued by federal air marshals on a United flight to Denver Wednesday night after allegedly telling the marshals, "I'm lighting my shoes on fire."
Authorities say the diplomat was wrestled to the ground and two F-16 fighter jets were dispatched to accompany the 757 on the final five minutes of its flight to Denver. Flight 663 originated from Washington Reagan airport.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/air-marshals-stop-shoe-bomb-attempt-united-jet/story?id=10315314
MONTCOAL, West Virginia, April 8 (Reuters) - Rescuers could begin searching a West Virginia coal mine on Thursday for four miners missing since a blast killed 25 others in the largest U.S. mine disaster in a quarter century, officials said.
After more than two days trapped in the Massey Energy (MEE.N) mine, authorities said the missing miners were only likely to be alive if they had made it to a refuge chamber stocked with several days worth of food, water and air.
Deadly gases in the Upper Big Branch mine were falling toward levels safe enough for rescuers to venture 5 miles (8 km) underground to check two refuge chambers, said Kevin Stricklin of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0715253720100408?type=marketsNews
When Sarah Palin made her debut as the host of “Real American Stories” on Fox News on Thursday night, she described several triumphs of regular people over insurmountable odds, but she missed an obvious one: her own.
After her failed bid for the vice presidency, she was more or less told to head back to Alaska to serve out her term as governor — a kind of metaphorical kitchen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/business/media/05carr.html
Nationwide it's been reported more than 71 million doses of H1N1 vaccine may need to be destroyed.
The Wisconsin state health department received nearly two million vaccines. It doesn't know for certain how many remain among local health departments.
So far, though, more than 378,000 doses of the nasal mist have been disposed of because they expired. And it's only the beginning.
It wasn't even six months ago when health departments couldn't get their hands on enough vaccine or when the rush was on to get it.
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=12274541
Rush Limbaugh is striking back at President Barack Obama.On Friday, the nation's top-rated radio host hit back at Obama, saying the president isn’t telling the truth and doesn't have the support of the American people.The controversy started Thursday, when Obama used an interview with CBS' Harry Smith to level a broadside at Limbaugh and Fox News host Glenn Beck.Smith asked Obama if he is “aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves and that people have made part of their daily conversation" about him, including being called a Nazi and socialist.Obama shot back, "Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it's pretty apparent, and it's troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out."
http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/rush-limbaugh-barack-obama/2010/04/03/id/354675
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates' bullpen set the stage, and Ronny Cedeno came through on cue. With one out in the bottom of the 10th, Cedeno's RBI single broke a string of eight scoreless innings for the Bucs' offense to give the club a thrilling 4-3 walk-off win over the Dodgers in front of 31,061 at PNC Park on Wednesday night.
The inning started with a gift from Dodgers second baseman Blake DeWitt, who fumbled a routine grounder off the bat of Lastings Milledge. After Jeff Clement moved Milledge to second with a sacrifice bunt, Dodgers reliever Ramon Ortiz walked the next two hitters to load the bases for Cedeno. Pittsburgh's starting shortstop then worked out of an 0-2 count and delivered the game-winning RBI single to left-center.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100407&content_id=9122318&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Disgraced Tiger Woods's comeback at the U.S. Masters has done little to help florist Frank's business but former British Open champion John Daly had no complaints as he hawked merchandise nearby on Wednesday.
Sitting no more than a Woods three-iron away from Augusta National, a smiling Frank, as he has for nearly 40 years, stood outside his shop holding a "$20" (13 pounds) parking sign above his head.
"I have had people from around the world come back and park here every year," said Frank, who was unwilling to provide his surname, as he looked back at an empty lot where he has previously squeezed in 25 cars to supplement his income.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/04/07/sports/sports-uk-golf-masters-business.html
Kate Gosselin is struggling as a hoofer on Dancing With the Stars, but she already has found her new calling: using her role as an "example mom" to help and learn from others.
TLC announces plans today for the Jon & Kate Plus 8 star to get her own series, Twist of Kate, and to revisit her family life, without ex-husband Jon, in a series of Kate Plus 8 specials. It's part of a plan to build on the channel's growth that also includes Sarah Palin's Alaska, a travelogue series about the state and its high-profile former governor.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-04-08-TLC1D08_ST_N.htm
Ryan Seacrest promised a surprise at the beginning of Wednesday’s “American Idol” results show. Sometimes that’s a relative term and means, “We’re going to actually end the show on time this week,” or “We spent the extra couple of dollars to make sure all of the microphones work.”
But give him credit — this time he meant what he said.
Michael Lynche the lowest vote-getter? Really, America? I mean, he wouldn’t be my preference to win this right now, or even to make the final, but no love at all?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36244460/ns/entertainment-reality_tv/
At first glance, Tuesday's federal court ruling on Comcast looked like a clean win for the cable giant and for competitors including Time Warner and AT&T. The court, after all, ruled that Comcast could regulate high-speed Internet traffic over its own system and that a company that wanted to push its content through Comcast's pipelines could not.
But the ruling might be only be the beginning of a long campaign between Internet service providers and companies such as Skype, Google and Microsoft. The outcome is far from certain.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704866.html?hpid=topnews
Let’s set aside the question of whether you should get an iPad and suppose you already bought one last weekend. You probably floated home and loaded it with a few whiz-bang apps and maybe even passed it around to your friends.
At some point in all the euphoria, you may also have wondered whether this device is just a trophy or something you can actually use.
Such self-doubts can be easily cast aside, providing you delve a little more deeply into the App Store than the Top 100 list — and are ready to open the wallet again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/technology/personaltech/08smart.html
(Reuters) - Asian stocks fell on Thursday after racking up strong gains in recent weeks, while the euro slipped further as Greece's borrowing costs reached a new high.
Japan
Tokyo's Nikkei index .N225 slipped 0.8 percent to 11,204 points as a stronger yen provided investors an excuse to cash out after the market reached an 18-month high earlier in the week.
But many market watchers saw it as only a mild correction, pointing to expectations for improving corporate earnings and continued strong economic growth in much of Asia.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6360JO20100408
United Airlines and US Airways are in merger talks that, if successful, would create the nation’s second-biggest airline. It is the third time in a decade that they have tried to make a deal.
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The negotiations represent the latest efforts to consolidate the struggling airline industry, which lost $60 billion over the last decade as fuel costs soared and the number of travelers fell. Both companies have been vocal in calling for greater partnerships.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/business/08air.html
WASHINGTON — President Obama is taking the first major step in his push toward a nuclear-free world, returning to Prague to sign the kind of arms-reduction treaty with Russia unseen for nearly two decades.
The deal goes beyond modest arsenal reductions, offering Obama a chance to repair soured relations with Moscow and pursue more dramatic cuts in global nuclear weapon stockpiles.
The new treaty, to be signed today by Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev, will shrink both nations’ arsenals of strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550 over seven years, about a third less than the 2,200 currently permitted. It was a year ago nearly to the day, also in Prague, that Obama outlined his agenda to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in US security strategy, with a long-range goal of eliminating nuclear arms.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/04/08/in_move_for_nuclear_free_world_obama_will_sign_arms_treaty_with_russia/
The San Francisco man arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her support for health care reform spent five years harassing a local church - until its custodian helped break the case involving Pelosi, the church's lawyer said.
Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, made at least four dozen harassing and threatening phone calls to Pelosi's homes in St. Helena and Washington as well as her husband's San Francisco office, authorities said.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/07/BAU71CR8R9.DTL#ixzz0kTn3Oaxe
Alternative "Big Ole" titles include "Big Ole Podcast," "Big Ole Bite of Intel's Giant Robotic Hamster," and so on. In the actual news, the Apple-Google war continues into mobile advertising territory, we debate the relative valuation of Foursquare, and Verizon resorts to shamelessly begging for the iPhone.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-19709_1-20001954-10.html
I don't know who decided that when it comes to the time for a brandy and toke, every American TV should feature a middle-age man with difficult hair sitting behind a desk.
Perhaps it was a middle-aged man with difficult hair who spends his whole day sitting behind a desk.
However, Conan O'Brien, he who made so many feel sad that he was being given a lot of money not to work, seems to have decided that he will become America's most future-focused, Web-aware middle-aged man who sits behind a desk.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20001971-71.html
Recent stories in the press about teenage cyberbullying and real-world bullying are sickening. It's hard to know how much cyberbullying contributed to her decision to kill herself, but the case of Phoebe Prince brings tears to my eyes. The South Hadley, Mass., 15-year-old was reportedly the brunt of repeated cruelty at the hands of classmates (six of whom are now facing criminal charges) until she put an end to her life.
There is also the recent cyberbullying case of Alexis Pilkington, a 17-year-old girl from Long Island, N.Y., who committed suicide last month after being taunted with cruel comments on the Web site FormSpring.me. Some of those comments reportedly even continued after her death.
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1601791191287597953
Most people develop acne when they become socially aware. Firefox just gets an add-on. Mozilla Contacts is an experimental new add-on for the browser that provides one-click access to your address books, provided that you've synchronized them.
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20001993-12.html
Apple's touch-screen iPad tablet has only been out for a few days. But a study has found that by 2015, the majority of kids under age 15 will be using computers that feature a touch-screen display.
According to market-research firm Gartner, the younger generation could lead the way in touch-screen computing. The firm said it believes about 50 percent of the computers that will be bought for kids aged 15 or younger in 2015 will feature a touch screen. In 2009, that figure stood at just 2 percent of PCs.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10473058-17.html
Psst...want to save some money on printing? Try Century Gothic.
Hit by the high prices of inkjet and toner cartridges, we're all looking for ways to shave some bucks off the cost of printing. New data from Printer.com found that because different fonts use different amounts of ink to print, using the right font could save you as much as 31 percent off your inkjet and toner cartridge expenses.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20001913-93.html
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the first details of a planned service pack to Exchange Server 2010, which will add several new features to the messaging and calendar server software.
In addition to the usual crop of tweaks and fixes, Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2010 will allow for better archiving and discovery of mail, improvements to Outlook Web Access, and better management capabilities, among other features.
Microsoft plans to make available a beta of the service pack in June with the final version due out later this year.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20001928-56.html
iPhone OS 4.0 is on its way. There have been hints that we'd see the next version of the software that powers the iPhone and iPod Touch soon, and on Monday Apple sent invitations to a media-only preview of the software, inviting us to "get a sneak peek" at iPhone OS 4.0. Apple isn't going to let on what's in the updated iPhone software until then, but there's been some buzz recently about what Apple might have in the works.
When version 4.0 of the software will be available for download still isn't clear. Thursday is likely just an overview of new features, though Apple might give at least a time frame for the software's release. The best guess is that it will coincide with the release of new iPhone hardware, which has happened in late June or early July every year since 2007.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20001799-260.html
Though cloud computing is often touted as a cost-saver for companies, IT pros still have lingering doubts about the safety and security of working in the cloud.
Around 45 percent of IT professionals recently surveyed by the ISACA (formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association) said the risks involved in cloud computing outshine any benefits. A global organization focused on the auditing and security of information systems, the ISACA conducted its first annual IT Risk/Reward Barometer survey (PDF) in March.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20001921-92.html
As a judge debates the final outcome of Google's settlement with book publishers and authors, photographers are ready to prolong the debate.
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit Wednesday against Google, claiming that Google's Book Search project was undertaken without negotiating rights to their images with the photographers. That's the same argument originally leveled against Google in 2005 on behalf of book authors, who wound up settling with the company in 2008.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20001924-265.html
Best Buy has sold out of the iPad at all 673 of its U.S. stores with Apple shops. In contrast, Apple stores are maintaining stock.
"We expect to have iPad inventory replenished at these locations by Sunday," said company spokeswoman Paula Baldwin.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20001953-64.html
The assets of Veoh, a former YouTube competitor, have been acquired by media-sharing company Qlipso, VentureBeat is reporting.
"Veoh is now part of Qlipso, the revolutionary social content sharing company," Veoh's "About" page reads. "Over the coming months, users and business partners will start to see more and more social features coming to one of the world's top video sites--Veoh."
Veoh executives will work at Qlipso as part of the deal, according to VentureBeat. Qlipso is backed by Jerusalem Venture Partners. CEO Jon Goldman told VentureBeat that the company views the purchase as a way to speed up building an audience. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Neither company has responded to a request for comment.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20001960-17.html
Hewlett-Packard scientists on Thursday will report advances demonstrating significant progress in the design of a new class of diminutive switches capable of replacing transistors, as computer chips shrink toward the atomic scale.
The devices, known as memristors, or memory resistors, were first conceived in 1971 by Leon O. Chua, an electrical engineer at the University of California at Berkeley, but they were not put in effect until 2008, at the HP lab here in Palo Alto, Calif.
They are simpler than today's semiconducting transistors, can store information, even in the absence of an electrical current and, according to the new report in Nature, can be used for both data processing and storage applications.
http://news.cnet.com/HP-says-new-device-could-revolutionize-chips/2100-1006_3-6250547.html
Parallels, the company best known for a product that lets Apple users run Windows side by side with Mac OS X, thinks it has found another good use for its virtualization technology.
The company has quietly been working on a product that uses virtualization to ease the sometimes painful upgrade process going from Windows XP to Windows 7, CNET has learned. The new product, which will work for both those upgrading an existing machine to Windows 7 or those buying a new PC, uses virtualization to ensure that older programs can smoothly run on the new operating system.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20001968-56.html
Microsoft has said that, starting with Office 2010, it will allow computer makers to bundle in a limited version of the product onto new PCs. However Microsoft has shared relatively little about Office Starter 2010, the product that will replace Works at the low-end of Microsoft's productivity lineup.
Over lunch on Wednesday, Chris Capossela, a senior vice president at Microsoft, shared a little more about what users can expect when they open up Office Starter.
Chris Capossela, a senior vice president at Microsoft, has shared a little more about what users can expect when they open up Office Starter. (Credit: Microsoft )
As previously detailed, the product includes scaled-down versions of Word and Excel and is free for consumers, but does include advertising. Capossela said that the ads will change every 45 seconds, but for the foreseeable future the pitches will all be for Office itself. The ads will never be based on the content of one's document, he said.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20001979-56.html
"Last year researchers discovered a giant electronic spying operation they dubbed GhostNet. Now, after a further year's worth of research, Infowar Monitor has released a new report. The report (Scribbed PDF) documents a complex ecosystem of cyber espionage that systematically targeted and compromised computer systems in India, the Offices of the Dalai Lama, the United Nations, and several other countries. While the servers are in China, the report's authors say that there is 'no evidence in this report of the involvement of the People's Republic of China or any other government in the shadow network.' Furthermore, the 'intruders even stole documents related to the travel of NATO forces in Afghanistan, illustrating that even though the Indian government was the primary target of the attacks, one gap in computer security can leave many nations exposed.'"
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/06/167213/A-Years-Further-Research-On-an-Espionage-Network
"In a marathon 3-1/2 day session, John McAllister, of Portland, Oregon, has broken the 27-year-old high score for Asteroids, set in 1982 by Scott Safran. The attempt was broadcast via webcam."
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/010249/After-27-Years-a-New-High-Score-For-Asteroids
"On April 13 — the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 accident — Bonhams in New York City will auction off pages from the Apollo 13 mission manual, with handwritten notes by flight commander Jim Lovell. I'm thinking the chances of actually outbidding a rich space enthusiast are slim to none, but having a chance at owning a piece of spaceflight history should be popular nonetheless."
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/0148253/Apollo-13-Mission-Manual-Pages-To-Be-Auctioned
"The widespread belief by astrophysicists that pulsars and white dwarfs are the best clocks in the universe is wrong, say two Australian physicists. John Hartnett and Andre Luiten from the University of Western Australia have recently shown that man-made terrestrial atomic clocks take the crown, contrary to numerous claims in astrophysical literature that the natural timing provided by pulsars and white dwarfs is the most precise. The preprint of their paper, available on the arXiv, shows that terrestrial clocks exceed the accuracy and stability of the astrophysical 'clocks' by all sensible measures, in some cases by several orders of magnitude."
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/1944245/Man-Made-Atomic-Clocks-the-Best-In-the-Universe
"As cloud computing gains traction, some Wall Street firms running armadas of servers to power high-frequency trading operations are contemplating leasing out their excess computing capacity after the trading day ends at 4 p.m. 'Once 4:30 rolls around, we don't need those machines,' said one CTO of a market data firm. 'There may be an opportunity there.' A similar revelation led to the creation of the cloud computing operation at Amazon.com, which built its infrastructure to handle peak Christmas-season loads that lasted just a few weeks each year."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/2037228/Wall-St-Trading-Servers-To-Power-Off-Hour-Clouds
"The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and several other visual artist groups are suing Google over its digitization of of millions of books, claiming copyright infringement related to images within the books. The photographers initially wanted to be included in the authors' and publishers' class action suit, but filed their own suit after that request was denied. Google and others assert that images are only included in the digital copies when permission has been obtained from the copyright holder."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/214208/Photographers-Want-Their-Cut-From-Googles-E-books
"It's always a challenge to try and figure out how many users a particular Linux distro has — but Canonical is now providing a new figure for Ubuntu that is 50 percent more than what they were claiming just 18 months ago. 'We have no phone home or registration process, so it's always a guesstimate. But based on the same methodology that we came up with for the 2008 number, our present belief is that it's somewhere north of 12 million users at the moment," Chris Kenyon, vice president for OEM at Canonical, told InternetNews.com.' Just in case you were wondering, Fedora still claims more — actually almost double, at 24 million."
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/2152206/Ubuntu-Claims-12-Million-Users-mdash-Before-Lucid
"USA Today is reporting that the DA of Juneau County, Wisconsin is threatening teachers that they could face arrest over the new sex-ed curriculum. District Attorney Scott Southworth said a new state law that requires students learn to use condoms and other contraceptives 'promotes the sexualization — and sexual assault — of our children.' Southworth also said 'I'm not looking to charge any teachers, I've got enough work to do.'"
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/2213234/Wisconsin-DA-Threatens-Arrests-Over-Sex-Ed
"Hewlett-Packard scientists on Thursday will report advances demonstrating significant progress in the design of memristors, or memory resistors. The researchers previously reported in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they had devised a new method for storing and retrieving information from a vast three-dimensional array of memristors. The scheme could potentially free designers to stack thousands of switches on top of one another in a high-rise fashion, permitting a new class of ultra-dense computing devices even after two-dimensional scaling reaches fundamental limits."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/2229233/HP-Reports-Memory-Resistor-Breakthrough
"The Register reports that News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, reiterated his disgust at how search engines handle news and called on old media to rethink how their stories are distributed on the web. 'It's produced a river of gold, but those words are being taken mostly from the newspapers,' said Rupert. 'I think they ought to stop it, that the newspapers ought to stand up and let them do their own reporting.' Murdoch added that the iPad was a 'wonderful tool' for listening to music, watching videos and reading newspapers. 'It may well be the saving of the newspaper industry,' by making it cheaper to distribute content to a broader audience, Murdoch said. 'I'm old, I like the tactile experience of the newspaper,' Murdoch said. '(But) if you have less newspapers and more of these, that's OK. It doesn't destroy the traditional newspaper, it just comes in a different form.'"
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/1711224/Rupert-Murdoch-Hates-Google-Loves-the-iPad
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