Archive for June, 2007
The BlueGene/L supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory topped the list of the world’s fastest computers once again, according to the new Top500 data released Wednesday. Built by IBM, BlueGene/L clocks in at 280.6 teraflops, or 280.6 trillion floating point operations per second.BlueGene/L is a workhorse machine for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). “Since BlueGene/L went into production in early 2006 it has performed beyond our expectations,” said Dona Crawford, associate director for computation at Lawrence Livermore, in a statement. “BlueGene/L’s architecture has proven suitable for a much broader range of applications than originally envisioned.”
June 28th, 2007
On eBay, creative entrepreneurs are offering to stand in line to buy you an iPhone on launch day. Their fee: a cool $100. That’s only one-fifth the price of the phone itself.Others are peddling iPhone.com domain names, like iPhoneStop.com, .net, and .org, for $1,000. That’s twice the price of the iPhone’s least expensive model, but at least the domain names offer the potential to cash in on demand for iPhone accessories.
Speaking of accessories, you can find anything and everything related to the iPhone for sale on eBay. And, if you just can’t wait until the June 29 debut, you can purchase one of the much-hyped phones for as little as $1,299 — more than twice the price of the high-end model — with free overnight shipping.
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June 28th, 2007
Score one for Microsoft 
in its battle with Google. Google’s complaints about its rival’s practices failed to move the judge who is overseeing Microsoft’s antitrust agreement with federal and state governments.On Tuesday, Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she would not rule on a complaint Google filed about Vista’s search features. The judge has decided to leave the matter in the hands of government lawyers.
At issue are the changes Microsoft agreed to make to Windows Vista last week to address Google’s concerns. Google feared users of the operating system would be discouraged from using competing desktop search tools — namely its own. Although Google wasn’t satisfied with the proposed changes, lawyers representing federal and state governments were content with Microsoft’s move to make other desktop search tools more interchangeable with their own.
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June 27th, 2007
On Tuesday, tens of thousands of webcasters interrupted their regularly scheduled programming to give their listeners a taste of the future — complete silence. Yahoo, Live365, Rhapsody, MTV Online, AccuRadio, Radioio, Born Again Radio, Pearadio.com, and Ear.fm were among the many webcasters who participated in the the “Day of Silence” protest.The radio silence was a protest against the recent 300 percent royalty rate increase for online music webcasters. The twofold goal of the blackout was to raise awareness of the threat these new rates pose to the future of Internet radio and rally support for legislation pending in Congress.
The question now is whether the last-ditch effort will serve as a catalyst to stir listeners to storm the gates of Capitol Hill with e-mails, letters, and phone calls, or whether listeners will stay quiet as the House Committee on Small Business prepares to hold a hearing to assess the effects of the increase on recording artists and webcasters on June 28.
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June 27th, 2007
If you tried to tune in to your favorite Web radio show this morning, you were likely met with silence. That’s because much of Internet radioland is observing a national “Day of Silence.”The interruption is a protest against the recent 300 percent royalty fee increase for online music webcasters. The goal of the industry-wide, daylong blackout is to raise awareness of the threat webcasters believe these new rates pose to the future of Internet radio. Protesters are hoping to rally support for legislation pending in Congress.
“With nearly a half-million e-mails and phone calls from webcasters, listeners, and the artists they support sent to Congress in just the last two months, this national grassroots campaign has certainly captured the attention of lawmakers, but there is more to be done and time is running out,” Jake Ward, a spokesperson for the SaveNetRadio Coalition, said in a statement.
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June 26th, 2007
The regulatory battle between Google and Microsoft is not over yet. Less than a week after antitrust regulators agreed to force Microsoft to address Google’s complaint about Vista’s built-in desktop search, the search giant is asking the federal court for more.Specifically, Google has asked the court to extend oversight in an agreement that settled federal and state antitrust cases against the Redmond, Washington-based company years ago. The oversight was supposed to expire on November 12, 2007. For its part, Microsoft turned the tables on its Internet rival with its own court filing that challenges Google’s right to ask the court for the extension.
At issue are the changes Microsoft made to Windows Vista last week to address Google’s concerns that users of the operating system would be discouraged from installing competing desktop search tools. Typically, desktop search tools are free to the user, and the hope among search companies offering these tools is that if you get consumers accustomed to searching their hard drives with a particular brand, they will search the Internet with that same brand.
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June 26th, 2007
“I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.” — Mike Todd, film producer
June 26th, 2007
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