31 January 2008 – 11:59 AM
Accenture’s head of research and development, Martin Illsley, on Monday advised businesses that mashups, web applications combined with more traditional business software, were becoming increasingly useful but have to be managed so as not to overwhelm IT departments.
“Systems can be integrated in a lightweight manner,” said Illsley. “But mashups and the like have to be […]
31 January 2008 – 11:49 AM
In what could be a major breakthrough, a California-based company, Stemagen Corp, is claiming that it has created five cloned human embryos from adult skin cells in the hope of eventually making matched stem cells for patients.
The Stemagen team used a technique called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, or SCNT, the same technique used to make […]
31 January 2008 – 11:44 AM
Size matters in pornography, except when it comes to tiny mobile phone screens, the next frontier for erotica.
If the adult entertainment industry has its way, Americans will soon get a choice of free porn on cell phones — or at least some photographs of good-looking girls in bikinis.
Unlike in Europe, mobile porn has yet to […]
30 January 2008 – 5:47 PM
Yes, this is true… Japan says, “UFOs do exist”, a top Japanese government spokesman top local media. The comment by chief cabinet secretary Nobutaka Machimura drew laughter from reporters at his regular briefing on government policy.
Machimura, asked about the government’s view on UFOs at a regular press conference, told reporters that the government can only […]
30 January 2008 – 1:37 PM
German cops are pushing ahead with controversial plans, yet to be legally approved, to develop “remote forensic software” - in other words, a law enforcement Trojan.
Leaked documents outline proposals by German firm Digitask to develop software to intercept Skype VoIP communications and SSL transmissions. A second leaked document from the Bavarian Ministry of Justice outlines […]
30 January 2008 – 1:36 PM
A brainchild of Sun Microsystems’ research wing, the Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) platform code is now open to Java developers at large.
Sun SPOTs are palm-sized battery powered devices that can wirelessly relay data about movement, temperature and sound. They run on a virtual machine written almost entirely in Java called Squawk, and crank […]
30 January 2008 – 1:34 PM
IBM thinks it can slice the hell out of a server. In fact, it looks to use virtualization as a major weapon against Unix rivals Sun Microsystems and HP and against x86 vendors. Don’t believe us? Then witness the PowerVM branding exercise.
IBM unfurled the PowerVM moniker in front of journalists today, as it announced new […]
30 January 2008 – 1:31 PM
Yahoo! president Sue Decker believes her company is “moving from catch-up mode to a mode of true differentiation.” But its fourth quarter profits were down 23 per cent, and it will soon axe seven per cent of its work force.
This afternoon, during a conference call for the benefit of industry analysts and reporters, Decker and […]
25 January 2008 – 4:59 PM
Posted by: Martin Streicher (martin.streicher@gmail.com), Editor in Chief, McClatchy Interactive
Discover how to combine an enterprise-worthy search engine — Apache Software Foundation’s Solr — with your PHP application.
In “Build a custom search engine with PHP,” I combined PHP and the open source Sphinx search engine to create a blazing-fast alternative to text-intensive database queries, such as […]
25 January 2008 – 2:15 PM
The news that Facebook has opened its API to allow third-party widgets will have non-technical readers scratching their heads.
What is an API, you will probably wonder? What’s a third-party widget? Indeed, perhaps Facebook itself is still a mystery to you.
Set up in 2004 as an online answer to the yearbooks popular in American schools and […]
