Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Airport security missed bomb parts. Investigators with bomb-making components in their luggage and on their person were able to pass through security checkpoints at 19 U.S. airports without detection, according to the Government Accountability Office. http://www.sgtwalk.com/businessa/sitemap.php [CNN.com] 10:18:04 PM    comment [] Turning E-Mail into a Social Network. Ponca City, We Love You writes "Saul Hansell at the NY Times has an interesting article on his technology blog about his conversations with executives at Yahoo and Google about how they plan to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services into social networks. Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph — the connections between people. That's why social networks offer to import the e-mail address books of new users to jump-start their list of friends. Yahoo and Google realize they can use this information to build their own services that connect people to their contacts. Yahoo is working on what they call "Inbox 2.0" which will display messages more prominently from people who are more important to you, determining the strength of your relationship by how often you exchange e-mail and instant messages with him or her. "The inbox you have today is based on what people send you, not what you want to see," says Brad Garlinghouse, who runs communication and community products for Yahoo. "We can say, here are the messages from the people you care about most." There will also be some sort of profile system attached to Inbox 2.0 with a profile users show to others and a personal page where they can see information from their friends. "The exciting part is that a lot of this information already exists on our network, but it's dormant," Mr. Garlinghouse added." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://www.sgtwalk.com/businessa/sitemap.php [Slashdot] 10:17:15 PM    comment [] In Eco-Friendly Factory, Low-Guilt Potato Chips. Frito-Lay is redesigning a potato-chip factory aiming to reduce the energy it consumes and waste it creates. By ANDREW MARTIN. [NYT > Business] http://www.myprowealths.com/income/sitemap.php 10:16:05 PM    comment [] Retail Sales Slip, Signaling Cutback in Holiday Spending. Spending is slowing — but so is inflation, offering the Federal Reserve more room to stimulate the economy by lowering interest rates next month, if it wants. By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM. [NYT > Business] http://www.myprowealths.com/income/ http://www.sgtwalk.com/businessa/ 10:09:16 PM    comment [] Dell to offer Sun software in servers (AP). AP - Dell Inc. has agreed to install Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system in some of its servers, the companies announced Wednesday, signaling Sun's latest truce with a former rival. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] http://www.myprowealths.com/income/ http://www.sgtwalk.com/businessa/ 10:08:13 PM    comment [] WWII computer working again. Code-cracking is once again being carried out at Bletchley to mark the end of the Colossus re-build project. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] http://www.myprowealths.com/income/ http://www.sgtwalk.com/businessa/ 10:07:12 PM    comment [] eBay Trojan morphs to snare motor victims. ipod information http://www.sgtwalk.com/businessa/ As eBay security czar discusses new measures A sophisticated Trojan menacing eBay Motors users continues to circulate, according to researchers from Symantec, who say the malware has morphed three times in the last week in an attempt to evade detection.… [The Register] 8:35:48 PM    comment [] French showdown over job benefits. Transit worker strike challenges President Sarkozy's bid to trim costly retirement packages. ipod information http://www.sgtwalk.com/businessa/ [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] 8:34:55 PM    comment [] Bush Veto Sets Up Clash on Budget . NEW ALBANY, Ind., Nov. 13 -- A budget dispute erupted into a full-scale battle Tuesday as President Bush vetoed the Democrats' top-priority domestic spending bill and the party's Senate leader threatened to withhold war funding if the president does not agree to pull out of Iraq. By Peter Baker. [washingtonpost.com - Politics] ipod information http://www.sgtwalk.com/businessa/ 8:33:59 PM    comment []

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