theodp writes “FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras has refused to recuse herself from the agency’s review of Google’s $3.1B DoubleClick acquisition, despite her current and past ties to DoubleClick law firm Jones Day. EPIC and the Center for Digital Democracy, which had requested her recusal, are keeping up the pressure as DoubleClick-related pages and references […]
Everyone knows that the iPhone has been selling at a record pace, but when you see numbers like these, it really puts things in perspective. Love it or hate it, Apple has a winner on their hands. The company’s first entry into the mobile phone market managed to snag 27% of all smartphone sales for […]
Do you feel that you have too much to do and not enough time to do it in? We’re being pulled in hundreds of different directions nowadays which adds to the perception that we can never get anything done. So how does New York Times blogger Marci Alboher catch up? She has […]
An anonymous reader writes “Time Warner Cable has received a state-wide franchise agreement in Ohio. Time Warner’s agreement covers 260 communities in 60 of Ohio’s 88 counties, for 10 years. AT&T was the first to earn a state-wide franchise contract, after a law was passed in September that allowed operators to negotiate a single state-wide […]
Looking to lose weight? That conscious decision starts when you go shopping, according to Yahoo Health. In an article listing 127 foods that comprise the “Picture Perfect Anytime List”—low-calorie foods that you can eat anytime and anywhere, Yahoo Health goes as far as to say that you’ll be thin for life if you […]
James Hardine writes “Wikileaks reports that US armed forces personnel at Guantanimo have conducted propaganda attacks over the Internet. (The story has been picked up by the NYTimes, The Inquirer, the New York Daily News, and the AP.) The activities documented by Wikileaks include deleting Guantanamo detainees’ ID numbers from Wikipedia, posting of self-praising comments […]
Mac OS X only: Sick of not being able to exit Finder? A quick terminal command will add a “quit” option to the menu in Finder. This means you can run Finder like any other Mac application. If you’re running some heavy applications, simply close Finder and enjoy the extra, albeit small, processing power. Open […]
An anonymous reader writes “While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches chosen by the developers to make those improvements are very different. With differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years, the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. […]
Weighting in at the size of a business card, the tiny Thumb Calendar makes it possible to keep a calendar on you at all times. The Thumb Calendar is two sided and in order to use it, you must cover the dates that are not directly below the month header with your thumbs. The designer […]
prostoalex writes “Researchers at Duke are trying to solve the problem of speeding up fiber-optic connections by converting light into sound, then converting it back into light. From the Nature News article: ‘To get the information from the acoustic wave out again, a third light pulse, the ‘read’ pulse, is sent in. When it reaches […]
