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Electronic ink shows print's not dead, says Esquire
NEW YORK - Although readers keep shifting to the internet, Esquire magazine's editor is sure print isn't dying, and he aims to prove by unveiling a 75th-anniversary issue with a cover that features electronic ink.
"For the last couple of years I've been in search of ways to do something that shows that print is a particularly vital product," said Esquire magazine's editor-in-chief, David Granger. "I really do think that print is the most exciting and rewarding medium there is."
September 09, 2008
Anger at 7-hour London Stock Exchange computer crash
LONDON - Trading on The London Stock Exchange was halted for seven hours on Monday - the bulk of the usual session - angering customers unable to do business on what was expected to have been one of the busiest days of the year.
Traders' woes were further compounded when technical glitches also hit the London platform of the U.S.-based ICE commodities electronic exchange - over-the-counter trading and futures trading were both suspended for around an hour.
September 09, 2008
Old online story sends airline shares plummeting
CHICAGO - An old story about United Airlines' 2002 bankruptcy filing resurfaced on a newspaper website on Monday, pummeling its shares before trading was halted.
United blamed the drop on the appearance of an old Chicago Tribune story on the website of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Both are owned by Tribune.
September 09, 2008
Google wants 244 years of news in giant archive
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years, hoping the added attraction will lure even more traffic to its leading internet search engine.
The project extends Google's crusade to make digital copies of content created before the internet's advent, so the information can become more accessible and, ultimately, Google can make more money from ads shown on its website.
September 09, 2008
Beware Google Chrome, warns security specialist
BERLIN - Internet surfers should approach the preliminary version of Google's new browser, Chrome, with caution because its security is untested, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Office for Information Security said.
"People should be aware that this is a beta version and that we don't yet know much about its security," said spokesman Matthias Gaertner. "Beta" refers to the test release of an internet product.
September 09, 2008
Real DVD copying software could anger Hollywood
NEW YORK - RealNetworks plans to begin selling software that lets people copy DVDs to their PCs, which might be convenient for on-the-go movie buffs but could incite some wrath in Hollywood.
Unlike various software programs that can be used for illicit disc copying, the new RealDVD software will copy DVDs to computers or portable hard drives without taking off or altering the "content scrambling system," or CSS, encryption that is included on commercial DVDs.
September 09, 2008
Monster computer network ready for Big Bang probe
GENEVA - When scientists fire up the biggest physics experiment in history this week they will face a task that makes finding a needle in a haystack look simple.
Inside a 27-kilometre tunnel deep beneath the French-Swiss border they hope to detect evidence of extra dimensions, invisible "dark matter" and an elusive particle called the Higgs boson.
September 09, 2008
Atom smasher ready for Big Bang tests
GENEVA - It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe - or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.
Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide who have awaited this moment for two decades.
September 08, 2008
Microsoft's Seinfeld ad slammed as 'not funny'
NEW YORK - Microsoft was getting mostly negative reviews online for the first installment of its $300 million advertising campaign featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld, meant to rebuff Apple's commericials that depict the PC software giant as uncool.
The first ad in the campaign premiered last Thursday night during the broadcast of the National Football League's season kickoff game.
September 08, 2008
Rocket fuel experiment goes off with a bang
HITCHCOCK, Texas - A retired Nasa engineer looking to develop an inexpensive way for people to travel to space might have to go back to the drawing board after one of his experiments exploded at the weekend.
Jim Akkerman was working on a spacecraft his firm is developing when his rocket fuel exploded. No one was injured and no property was damaged at the accident in Hitchcock, located about 40 miles southeast of Houston.
September 08, 2008
Ad group opposes Yahoo-Google pact
SAN FRANCISCO - A group representing big-spending US advertisers said it sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting an online ad partnership between Yahoo and Google will stifle competition and likely raise prices.
The Association of National Advertisers said on its website that the letter to Thomas Barnett, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's antitrust division, came after a "comprehensive, independent analysis" and meetings with Google and Yahoo executives.
September 08, 2008
Nothing ventured...
Jenny Morel says New Zealand venture capital is in a dire state. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Related nzherald links:Tech investor plans $100m fund to give start-ups a liftOnly way is up for Kiwi-made jet packNZ's angel investment industry flourishesLack of green-sector cash 'may force talent overseas'Call for greater venture capital investmentNo 8 means spadeworkVenturing into No 8 countryWho's who in NZ's VC industryJenny Morel doesn't mince words when describing the state of New Zealand's venture capital industry.
September 08, 2008
Anthony Doesburg: VectorNet targets a hairy problem
Officials intent on getting the country's rampant possum population under control have a new weapon of mass marsupial destruction. It's not a new kind of trap or poison - it's information.
Armed with greater detail than they've had about where the pests are hiding and records of earlier control measures, they think they can get possum numbers down to as few as a pair per 100ha.
September 08, 2008
Family games help Xbox defy recession
The New Zealand video game industry is defying the recession, with sales increasing from $121,312,445 from June 2006 to May last year, to $145,662,181 from June 2007 to May this year.
Tom Hunt, the Xbox product marketing manager for New Zealand, says: "Action blockbusters aside, the social and family games are so important."
September 07, 2008
Out of the inbox, into the dog box
Employees should carefully consider context, layout and meaning before sending work emails. Photo / Richard Robinson
ConnectInternet war shifts to new frontierISP appeals Torrent-blocking decisionEmail is a powerful tool - for good and ill - and too many Kiwi employees are missing the message, says Diana Clement
September 06, 2008
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