Detergent uses GPS to stalk customers
A Brazilian promotion for Omo detergent involves 50 boxes that have GPS inside. Customers lucky enough to buy one of these boxes will be followed home in order to be given a very technological prize.
| Hedge your bets in cloud computing
The future role of cloud computing is in many ways unpredictable and ever changing. What balance of traditional infrastructure, private clouds, and public cloud services will your IT department consume in the next three years? Five years? The trick is to hedge your bets wherever you can.
| In IPO-signaling move, Zynga adds fancy CFO
The fast-growing social-gaming site says it has hired Allen & Co. investment banker David Wehner as its new chief financial officer.
| Will Apple's 'Spinning Wheel of Doom' become chic?
An enterprising marketer is attempting to persuade geeks that the new geek chic consists of wearing Apple's Spinning Wheel of Doom on their chests. Will it work?
| Intel may be destined for iPhone, iPad
Multiple reports indicate that an Intel buyout of chipmaker Infineon's wireless unit may be imminent.
| Contest finds workers at big firms handing data to hackers
Organizers of contest at hacking confab hope showing how easy it is to get data from cold calls to companies will help alert firms to the threat of social engineering.
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Hacker snoops on GSM cell phones in demo
Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference Saturday.
| Japan user marks Twitter's 20 billionth 'tweet'
Twitter, the social networking site that allows users to say something in 140 characters or less, passed another milestone on Saturday with the sending of tweet number 20 billion.
| VA set to spend billions on IT
The U.S. Veterans Administration is making upward of $12 billion in IT contracts available to businesses over the next five years, as part of an effort to modernize its operations.
| They're (almost) here: Android tablets to rock the market
Android isn't just for smartphones anymore. Google's mobile operating system is coming to tablets that could rival the iPad in portability and usefulness for business.
| PCs can kill. Here's how to survive
Working as a computer columnist is dangerous work. Living on the cutting edge of technology is fun, but it's an edge that cuts both ways -- it's a life-threatening lifestyle, according to new research.
| How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask
A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn't be a bad idea, either.
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BP to try well kill Tuesday
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| A solar detective story: Explaining how power output varies hour by hour
Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar). Read his introduction here and see all posts here . Solar homeowners' favorite topic of conversation is the performance of their arrays. As part of the sales pitch, the installer estimates how much power you'll generate, and most systems come with a meter (separate from the utility meter) to monitor the power output continuously. But how can you tell whether your array is really living up to expectations? That simple question set me off onto a mathematical hunt that other solar homeowners might enjoy -- and which would make a good term-paper project for a high-school science class. [More]
| A Solar Salamander
By Anna Petherick Occasionally, researchers stumble across something extraordinary in a system that has been studied for decades. Ryan Kerney of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, did just that while looking closely at a clutch of emerald-green balls -- embryos of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum). [More]
| Weather or Not?: Last Winter's Record Snow Driven by Short-Term Meteorologic Patterns, Not Long-Term Climate Change
Just six months ago residents of the eastern U.S. were shoveling themselves out of the snowiest winter ever--weather that prompted mockery of global warming among some people . Now, scientists have a new explanation for why such anomalous snowstorms can coexist with global warming: The storms were kicked up by the convergence of two natural, large-scale weather patterns. In order to better understand possible triggers of last year's media-dubbed " snowmaggedon ," a team of scientists from Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory analyzed more than 50 years of snow data as well as measurements of atmospheric pressure and sea-surface temperatures. They found that a combination of El Niño (periodic sea-surface warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean) with an unusual period of decreased variability in atmospheric pressure across the North Atlantic (known as the North Atlantic oscillation , or NAO) frequently results in a pile-up of snow in the mid-Atlantic region. [More]
| Chile's quake was fifth largest on modern record
When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile on February 27, residents and seismologists knew it was a big one. But a new analysis reaffirms just how massive it was. [More]
| EPA Rejects Challenges on Greenhouse Gas Threat
U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson rebuffed recent efforts to prevent her agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions yesterday, stating that the evidence proving climate change is a problem remains "robust, voluminous and compelling." Jackson rejected 10 petitions filed by the attorneys general of Texas and Virginia, the Ohio Coal Association and other groups that urged her to nullify the "endangerment" finding -- the EPA ruling that stated greenhouse gases pose a direct threat to human health and welfare . That ruling triggered the legal requirement for their regulation. [More]
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Aussie broadband is slower than a slow thing in a slow town
Slower than New Zealand
So Australia is building a superfast fibre to the home (FTTH) national broadband network and not a minute too soon.…
| Reg Hardware Reviews Digest
Another chance to see our reviews from the last week
In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics, photography, gaming, mobile communications and information technology.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
| iPhone 4: And now we are 3 (Mobile)
Cheap deals for all
3 Mobile is shipping iPhone 4 today - along with T-Mobile UK, it was the last UK network to announce availability.…
| Sony Bravia KDL-32NX503 32in LCD TV
Smaller sized set with big screen extras
Review Monolithic is a desirable word, unless it’s applied to small things like a mobile phone, a peanut, a shrew. So does it fit a flatscreen TV, especially one at the lower end of screen sizes deemed suitable for a living room?…
| Disney throws $763m at social gaming
Getting animated about Facebook
Disney has thrown over three quarters of a billion dollars to bring it up to Goliath status in the online gaming world, acquiring two and a half year old Playdom, which offers games for social networks – the new buzzword in gaming that has all the VCs on the planet hopping onto investments.…
| Social-engineering contest reveals secret BP info
Hacking human gullibility at Defcon
Defcon A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.…
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