Daily Readings July 9, 2005. 12:55:56
Slashdot
- Newsforge reports on Fundable, a donation site that collects money towards a specific purpose, and if a specified goal isn’t reached in 2-4 weeks, everyone gets their money back.
- In the last few days, it has been discovered that a certain pineapple extract will trigger an immune system to attack cancer cells, and a drug has been made that appears to make cells block the AIDS virus.
- VeriSign to be able to raise prices for the .net TLD in 2007.
- Microsoft offers a sneak peak at some of the functionality that will be available in Office 12.
- British Banks’ security response to 9/11 implemented internet chatrooms, which did help in communications during the attack on London earlier this week.
- The Washington Post writes about how cell phone records can be bought and sold now, instead of having to hack a phone.
- Popular Science has an article about how to build your own solar-powered portable hotspot for $1100-ish.
- China is planning their own Deep Impact mission for eliminating earth-bound collision-course objects.
- Wired has appealed to a debt-collection firm to get ex-subscribers to come back.
- Fujitsu will begin to allow SuSE linux to be installed on their servers, along with having the choice for RedHat.
- There’s a blog post on an interview with Ballmer. From reading a snipplet of it, I get the feeling that Ballmer is an idiot and extremely conceited.
- SGI, releasing their preliminary financial results for Q4 of their last fiscal year, saw an extreme drop of stock value.
- Longhorn Beta has begun, with unique preliminary user invitation codes.
- Honda is leasing fuel-cell cars to Americans, because hydrogen gas installations are more available here than in Japan.
Flexbeta
- Microsoft has patented the understanding of music.
