Why AT&T should buy you a femtocell

Femtocells, network widgets that ease the problems that many suffer trying to use their mobile phone at home, are going to be selling like hotcakes soon.

But here's what I'm thinking. You shouldn't have to buy yourself a $150 femtocell. They should be coming with your next-generation mobile phone--for free.

Let me explain.

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20001242-264.html

SKorean president orders military on alert

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's president ordered the military on alert Tuesday for any moves by rival North Korea after the defense minister said last week's explosion and sinking of a South Korean ship may have been caused by a North Korean mine.

The blast ripped the 1,200-ton ship apart last Friday night during a routine patrol mission near Baengnyeong Island, along the tense maritime border west of the Korean peninsula. Fifty-eight crew members, including the captain, were plucked to safety; 46 are missing, with dim prospects for finding any further survivors.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100330/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_ship_sinks;_ylt=AlASTAbvWCALaOFdj5ombPKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNvMTN0MjhpBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzMwL2FzX3Nrb3JlYV9zaGlwX3NpbmtzBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDOQRwb3MDNgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA3Nrb3JlYW5wcmVzaQ--

'Nyet' to $1 million? Math genius may reject award

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia — and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.

Grigory Perelman can't decide if he wants the money.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_math_genius;_ylt=AtR0z7BLZLiI.r9bDaBbE7ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtYjVkdm0zBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzMwL3VzX3NjaV9tYXRoX2dlbml1cwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzgEcG9zAzUEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNueWV0dG8xbWlsbGk-

Obamas mark Passover with private Seder

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to mark the start of Passover with a private Seder in the executive mansion.

Obama and first lady Michelle Obama invited friends and White House aides to mark the Jewish holiday with a meal on Monday. The Obama aides started the tradition during 2008's primary campaign in Pennsylvania; Obama made a surprise stop to meet with staffers who were sharing an impromptu meal in a hotel basement.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_passover;_ylt=AhhS0Ogr5J8_g.Hnu12f5kes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNsbTBqbGs1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzI5L3VzX29iYW1hX3Bhc3NvdmVyBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNwRwb3MDNARwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA29iYW1hc21hcmtwYQ--

Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults

CHICAGO – Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans — a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100330/ap_on_he_me/us_health_care_age_matters;_ylt=AsFZ2mkX9s.U5qs48nNCdqus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTN1MGE4Nm51BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzMwL3VzX2hlYWx0aF9jYXJlX2FnZV9tYXR0ZXJzBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNgRwb3MDMwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA2hlYWx0aHByZW1pdQ--

Nearly third of children globally are couch potatoes

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – American children aren't the only couch potatoes with nearly one third of children globally spending three hours a day or more watching TV or on computers, according to study of over 70,000 teens in 34 nations.

From Argentina to Zambia, Regina Guthold of the World Health Organization in Geneva and her colleagues found most children aren't getting enough exercise and it made no difference if they lived in a rich or a poor country.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_children_exercise;_ylt=Av7wK7kpTGq2KHeBISb3BCus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNvNWpxNXNrBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAwMzI5L3VzX2NoaWxkcmVuX2V4ZXJjaXNlBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA25lYXJseXRoaXJkbw--

Chinese Buy Volvo

Ford Motor Company sells the brand for $8 billion.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/18876388

 

Report: Apple working on Verizon iPhone

NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple may be working on an iPhone designed for Verizon Wireless.

Currently AT&T is the only U.S. phone company that carries the iPhone.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36089312/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/

Heavy rain set to topple records on East Coast

BOSTON - Nervous residents along the sodden East Coast watched rivers rise Monday as they braced for a new round of flooding — and the wettest March on record in some areas.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36085345/ns/weather/

Nissan to sell electric car in Japan for $40,000

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday its new electric car, the LEAF, will start at 3.76 million yen ($40,000) in Japan, aiming to put zero-emission cars within reach of drivers around the world.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36092225/ns/business-autos/

NASA will help probe Toyota accelerators

WASHINGTON - NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's massive recalls.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36092407/ns/business-autos/

 

Taking Apart the Energizer Trojan

"Researchers at SkullSecurity have written a tutorial on how they reverse engineered the Energizer Trojan and generated an Nmap probe to remotely detect infections. The Energizer Trojan is a great educational tool because its inner workings are very simplistic, and it makes minimal efforts to hide itself or conceal its purpose; it even lists what appears to be the author's name — 'liuhong' — in the source! The article provides an introduction to malware analysis, from infecting a test machine to debugging and disassembling the Trojan to writing the actual probe."

 

http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/03/29/1948210/Taking-Apart-the-Energizer-Trojan

OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released

"After over 11 years of development since the start of the OpenSSL Project (1998-12-23), OpenSSL version 1.0.0 has finally hit the shelves of the free-for-all store."

 

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/29/1952215/OpenSSL-100-Released

AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs

"AMD released on Monday its 12-core chip code-named Magny-Cours, doubling the number of cores over the previous-generation Opteron chip. While a doubling of performance is nice, another key benefit delivered by a chip with a dozen cores may be in reducing software costs. For Matt Lavallee, director of technology at MLS Property Information Network, a company that supplies real estate data, upgrading to the 12-core Opteron chip from his current quad-core chips will allow him to cut the number of servers — and his software licensing fees. While the 12-core chip costs a little more than an eight-core chip, it's 'nowhere near as much as a SQL server costs,' said Lavallee, who has been beta-testing the new chips. MLS operates 60 servers, and Lavallee said he could theoretically cut the number of servers by half but will likely reduce his server count by a third with the chip upgrade."

 

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/29/2033230/AMDs-12-Core-Chip-Cuts-Software-Licensing-Costs

Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon

"Following the recent discovery of Richard Garriott's old moon rover, the man known as Lord British has laid claim to his own lunar territory. Moon dwellers, all hail your new overlord!"

 

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/03/29/2037239/Lord-British-Claims-He-Owns-the-Moon

Open Source, Open Standards Under Attack In Europe

"A battle for the soul of European IT is taking place behind closed doors in Brussels. At stake is the key Digital Agenda for Europe, due to be unveiled in a month's time. David Hammerstein, ex-Member of European Parliament for the Greens, tweeted last week: 'SOS to everyone as sources confirm that Kroes is about to eliminate "open standards" policy from EU digital agenda; Kroes has been under intense lobbying pressure from Microsoft to get rid of interoperability and open source goals of EU.' This is confirmed by the French magazine PC Inpact (Google translation), which also managed to obtain a copy of the draft Digital Agenda (DOC). It's currently supportive of both open source and open standards — but for how much longer?"

 

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/29/2115235/Open-Source-Open-Standards-Under-Attack-In-Europe

Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates

"TorrentFreak reports that Warner Brothers UK is hiring college students with an IT background to participate in an internship that will pit them against pirates on the world wide web in an effort to crack down on illegal digital distribution. The intern will literally be on the front-lines of the epic battle against pirated content, ensnaring users in incriminating transactions, issuing takedown requests, and causing general frustration amongst the file-sharing population on the Internet."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/29/2142255/Warner-Brothers-Hiring-Undercover-Anti-Pirates

Description of the database normalization basics

Description of Normalization

Normalization is the process of organizing data in a database. This includes creating tables and establishing relationships between those tables according to rules designed both to protect the data and to make the database more flexible by eliminating redundancy and inconsistent dependency.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283878

Complete Hibernate 3.0 Tutorial

This tutorial provide step by step instructions on using Hibernate 3.0. Hibernate is popular open source object relational mapping tool for Java platform. It provides powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java.

http://www.roseindia.net/hibernate/index.shtml

Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

As computers increase in processing power, the software they execute becomes more complex. This increased complexity comes at a cost of large programs with huge codebases that can quickly become difficult to understand, maintain and keep bug-free.
Object-oriented programming (OOP) tries to alleviate this problem by creating networks of objects, each like a small software 'machine'. These objects are naturally smaller entities, simplifying the development task of each unit. However, when the objects co-operate in a system, they become the building blocks of much more complex solution.

http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/ObjectOrientedConcepts.aspx