Killer Bug Looks Like a Virus
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Containing a Killer Flu Virus
Containing a Killer Flu Virus
04/14/2005 07:00 AMLaboratories worldwide destroy samples of the 1957 Asian flu virus
they received as part of a proficiency testing program. Between 1
million and 4 million people were killed by the pandemic nearly 50
years ago.
Killer Virus Tracked to Hotel
Killer Virus Tracked to Hotel
03/20/2003 08:33 AMHealth officials have identified a Hong Kong hotel as the likely
starting point for a mysterious outbreak of the pneumonia that has
killed 14 people.
Red Hat, Intel spread virus killer
Red Hat, Intel spread virus killer
06/07/2004 07:28 AMZDNet Jun 7 2004 12:11PM GMT
Scientists Rush to Destroy Killer Flu
Virus (Reuters)
Scientists Rush to Destroy Killer Flu
Virus (Reuters)
04/13/2005 08:20 AMReuters - The killer "Asian" flu virus, sent to
laboratories around the world as part of routine test kits,
could trigger a pandemic if it escapes, but the chances of that
are low, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
Killer Kangaroos! No comment from the
Killer Rabbit
Killer Kangaroos! No comment from the
Killer Rabbit
07/09/2004 03:03 AMmake sure you pack an extra boomerang .. quite
aggressive
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Killer Mobiles for Killer Apps
Killer Mobiles for Killer Apps
02/01/2005 08:35 PM
Continuing my series on mobile platforms, I now think killer mobile
apps need mobile
devices designed like game consoles, meaning that it has one
or two slots
for application cartridges. Each cartridge contains one or
more applications.
Cellphones would come with a built-in cartridge containing the
phone app as well as
others.
Adding a cartridge adds new apps. Applications have two
modes: running and stopped.
The Next-App
button (aka
Appy button) activates (brings to front) each running apps in
turn. Some apps
can activate itself when an event fires (phone call
received). To see the list
of available apps, keep the Next-App button pressed for a second.
Eventually, app cartridges will be advance to become platform
cartridges, taking over
the full functionality of the mobile device to offer better
application platform services
than the one that came with the device (i.e. easy to use app
download service that auto-configures
apps for your device). If you don't like the built-in
calender, just stop it
and run a third-party calendar instead.
Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Bounty To
Help Track Down Virus Writers
Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Bounty To
Help Track Down Virus Writers
11/05/2003 10:59 AMWhat do you if you're in an unchartered area with no reasonable law
enforcement, and criminals are running rampant? You convince everyone
to become the "enforcement" arm and find someone rich enough to pay
them to help fight crime. Microsoft can't be bothered to fix a few of
the holes in their programs that make it incredibly easy to pass on
viruses, so instead, they're
setting aside $5 million for anti-virus bounty hunters who can
track down anyone responsible for worms, trojan horses or viruses.
The rewards will be given out in $250,000
wads of cash from
Bill Gates wallet increments. So, now, who's going to round
up an anti-virus posse?
Computer Virus Like Human Virus
Computer Virus Like Human Virus
05/25/2004 11:41 PMXposed May 26 2004 3:45AM GMT
Bagle Virus Riding on the Coattails of
Spam; Deceiving Spam and Virus Filters
Bagle Virus Riding on the Coattails of
Spam; Deceiving Spam and Virus Filters
08/12/2004 02:51 AMSpam Inspector Software Developers Working to Stay Ahead of Bagle to
Keep Users Protected [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]
The Killer App
The Killer App
07/09/2004 10:24 AM [Frank via Jim]...
Spy Killer v4.0
Spy Killer v4.0
09/24/2004 07:32 PMSpy Killer is an award-winning spy software / spyware and adware
detector, remover, and shield . Spy Killer also includes a stealth
feature to hide its presence. The spy software / adware scan detects
and eliminates over 200 hidden programs. Spy Killer's shield feature
prevents certain spyware / adware from being installed on your PC.
This unique feature works even while Spy Killer is running silently in
the background in stealth mode. [Shareware $49.97 7 Days 4.2 MB]
A new killer app
A new killer app
03/25/2005 01:35 AM
Inspired by Abe
Vigoda: The Terri Shiavo mortality-status Firefox plugin.
The Game Boy killer?
The Game Boy killer?
10/30/2003 12:36 PMAnother glowing review of Zodiac, Tapwave's Palm PDA designed
specifically for playing games, this one by Ric Manning of
Portables.About.com. But forget about the Zodiac being a N-Gage killer
(the N-Gage is already doing a perfectly fine job of that) -- Ric goes
so far as to call the this thing a "Game Boy Killer," saying it has a
screen that puts the Game Boy to shame. Read...
Which One is the iPod Killer?
Which One is the iPod Killer?
09/17/2004 10:22 PMG4 Tech TV Sep 18 2004 1:50AM GMT
Killer UCAVs on the Way
Killer UCAVs on the Way
04/09/2004 04:01 PMNoah Shachtman has
written an interesting
update on UCAVs (unmanned combat aerial vehicles) being developed by
the US military such as the Boeing X-45 and Northrop Grumman X-47A
that we've reported on
quite a bit in the past. The article
references a recent Wired
story on UCAVs. In an amusing follow-up, Noah also mentions a
Vietnam-era drone that saw some action over Baghdad.
The Next Mobile Killer App
The Next Mobile Killer App
02/01/2005 08:35 PM
The first killer-app for mobiles is the phone calls. I
believe static downloadable
audio contents such as music, audio books, and podcasts will be the
next killer-app.
Only design problem is sharing one battery for both critical (phone
calls) and casual
(listening to audio) uses which calls for smarter power management
and more powerful
batteries.
Great user experience and clever hardware design is where Apple
excels at so I expect
Apple to introduce iPod phones within a year or two at the latest.
Unfortunately, screen-based applications and dynamic audio
contents, driven by voice
browser technologies, will continue to struggle in the near future
due to tedious
user experience. Mobile killer apps must be available at the
user's fingertip,
not hidden behind a wall of patience.
Program Killer
Program Killer
06/17/2004 09:07 PMLack of Updates
Popup Killer v4.0
Popup Killer v4.0
06/19/2004 07:21 AMPopUp Killer is a small program that can automatically close
previously selected Windows. [Shareware $13.00 30 Days 3.4 MB]
Killer origami
Killer origami
12/17/2003 11:53 PM
Amazing gallery of spectacular origami.
Link
(
Thanks, Kate!)
Zero PopUp Killer XP v5.2
Zero PopUp Killer XP v5.2
12/09/2003 08:42 PMZero Popup Killer XP is a small, effective, and intelligent
anti-pop-up software product that can kill annoying pop-up windows
without human intervention by using artificial intelligence and
intelligent agent technologies. It is light on your system's resources
and resides in the system tray. It works as an add-in for Internet
Explorer and automatically starts when you start up the IE browser.
[Shareware $12.00 1.64 MB]
Killer companies
Killer companies
07/02/2004 08:13 AMPost-"Fahrenheit," the stellar documentaries -- including "The
Corporation" and "Imelda" -- just keep coming. Plus: A moody
meditation on familial love, or homoerotic cologne ad?
Dick Is A Killer
Dick Is A Killer
07/11/2004 10:45 PMFrom Etan comes a Liberal Dance Party tune: Dick Is A Killer Some
more tracks at the Party Party.
Other News: Car Killer
Other News: Car Killer
07/12/2004 11:01 AMDavid Giri is developing a weapon to disable cars with a
high-intensity electromagnetic pulse.
An Appetite Killer for a Killer
Appetite? Not Yet
An Appetite Killer for a Killer
Appetite? Not Yet
04/18/2005 11:23 PMHoodia gordonii, a plant from Africa, is being touted as nature's
hunger buster, but its effectiveness and safety is under question.
The Linux Killer
The Linux Killer
07/28/2004 04:04 AMThe Gmail Killer
The Gmail Killer
06/02/2004 01:31 PM
Aventure Media is the
Gmail killer. No more waiting for
Gmail to be released, Aventure Media is already offering 2GB of
storage. [via
theregis
ter]
The Killer Library App?
The Killer Library App?
06/01/2004 11:22 PMHo
w to Make Money with Digital Lifestyle Aggregators - Part I
"We call it digital lifestyle aggregation and it's based upon a
number of assumptions - first and foremost being 'provide compelling
experiences to your end-users.' That said - here's what you can do to
deliver these oft sought after compelling experiences....
1. Integration. The secret to making things easy to use is in
providing an integrated environment where built-in constructs (such as
IM, image gallery or friends network) provide all the functionality
end-users expect. We call these 'commodity features' and satisfying
end-user's expectations as to what software should be - is what it's
all about. These features have to be taken for granted and assumed to
be there - everywhere - all the time. Even this nascent AO Zaibatsu
system provides built-in friends networks to learn and leverage off
of. And they have to be as easy to use as saving off a file or turning
up the volume.
In the future ALL software products and services will have built-in
digital camera support, cell phone gateways, universal messaging,
real-time presence management, personal publishing, social networking
and oh - did we forget to say - web services? But most will just
patch-quilt on these functional modules, never thinking through how an
integarted approach can not only make it easy to use and viable, but
also achieve an elegant design result, which then causes all sorts of
OTHER things to happen!
By providing an integrated environment with lots of great things
for people to do, it becomes instantly more accessible and viral. By
pre-wiring all of these applications and services - so that they work
seamlessly together - OH MY GOD - you just may yet end up with a
series of compelling experiences - 'cause heaven forbid - maybe not
ALL of our end-users are the same....
2. Aggregation. Do you realize that the digital downloading
universe expects end-users to listen to ONLY the songs they download
from one vendor on their jukeboxes? That it's impossible to mix and
match music you've bought from multiple vendors? That's like only
being able to play CDs you bought from Tower Records on your CD
player! Apple also prevents you from loading music from more than one
machine at a time - so you're out of luck if you have two or more
machines.
That's the world we're in today.
RSS News aggregators are becoming understood (you can subscribe to
me here at AO Zaibatsu for instance or at my other blog - @
blog.canter.com) so what happens when we can start to aggregate other
things as well? Like our digital identity or other forms of expression
besides blogs?...
Aggregation is a killer app - that no one owns. It's public domain.
Everyone benefits from it. So is integration as well.
3.
Customization. So now let's combine Integration and Aggregation with
end-users intense desire to have their software do what THEY want it
to do. To have the software adapt to their appropriate usage level
(beginner, average or advanced), their sex, age, demogarphics - even
their location....
This is all happening - but it's all happening as SEPARATE web
servcies or web apps....
I'm sorry to tell you this guys - but that doesn't work. You need
more than just a single feature to acheive the oft sought after
'compelling experience" we started this post with. To start to reap
the benefits of digital lifestyle aggregation - you need to get smart
about architecting systems that rely upon XML, open standards and web
services.
So personalization and customization find their destiny intermixed
with Integration and Aggregation. The only way to produce compelling
enough experiences is by integrating a wide range of built-in
constructs, combining that with aggregated web servcies and content
and topping it all off with unprecedented levels of control and
customization. In one product or service." [AlwaysOn, via T
he Doc Searls Weblog]
A long excerpt, I know, but even though the author focuses on
commercial applications, revenue streams, and open source software,
it's worth reading through this in the context of libraries.
I've said before that aggregation is a killer app, one well-suited
to libraries and the kind of information to which we provide access.
External projects such as LibraryLookup bring home hard the need for our products
to very quickly adapt to web services and XML back-ends. And now we're
seeing another big push for integration in our industry - federated
searching, OpenURL and SFX resolvers, and statewide union
catalogs are good examples of this.
So what would aggregation, integration, and personalization mashed
together in one app, designed from the ground up to work
together, look like in the library world? Would *that* be our version
of the killer app?
Why There Will Be No iPod Killer -- Ever
Why There Will Be No iPod Killer -- Ever
03/30/2005 11:33 AMWhy? Because it look slike the whole consumer electronics industry
is now trying to "kill" the iPod instead of inventing something of
their own. By Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Network
Psycho Killer
Psycho Killer
03/06/2004 02:04 AMA follow-up to this post about our sad Christmas tree: This past
Sunday I decided that the tree had to go and I was the one to do it
(since I'd put so much of a fuss over throwing it...
Mark of a killer
Mark of a killer
05/14/2004 06:15 AMUSA Today May 14 2004 10:43AM GMT
Killer Gaming Rig
Killer Gaming Rig
03/22/2005 09:57 PMHoi An, The Killer City
Hoi An, The Killer City
09/13/2004 08:40 PM
What's clear, at this late date, is that my girlfriend attempted to
kill me in central Vietnam. What's unclear is why she chose the
ancestral seat to the Cham people to make her fatal move.
"What?" sez you. Your confusion is understandable - let me take you
back to the beginning...
Fog and Bus
It started raining during our bus trip to Hoi An from Hue. So we
whipped out the ...
Killer frozen out of will
Killer frozen out of will
02/13/2004 08:05 PMPolice use new powers to prevent a convicted murderer cashing in on
her husband's will.
A killer Web site
A killer Web site
02/12/2004 05:46 AMUSA Today Feb 12 2004 10:06AM GMT
Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct
05/24/2004 07:51 AMKiller Instinct 0.41
Another ipod killer: It's a Sony
Another ipod killer: It's a Sony
07/07/2004 06:09 PMTechTree Jul 7 2004 10:40PM GMT
Attack of the killer accountants
Attack of the killer accountants
05/05/2004 09:55 AM
The XBRL [eXtensible Business Reporting Language] spec describes how
the parts of an XBRL instance interrelate, using state-of-the-art XML
technologies such as XLink and XPointer. And it talks at length about
the syntax and semantics of "taxonomies" that abstractly define chunks
of financial reports. No sign of any actual financial data, though.
And the link to a sample page at xbrl.org, returned a "404 Not
Found." I'm not surprised. The poor bloke whose job it was to produce
that sample must have suffered a polymorphic recursive brain meltdown.
[Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
Since I am not, myself, an actual financial expert (as Dave Barry
might say), I worried that I might have gone overboard here. But the
responses I've gotten so far allay that fear. One suggests that XBRL,
if successful, will "create a master race of accountants / XML
consultants." How's that for a B-movie concept!
...Microsoft's iPod Killer?
Microsoft's iPod Killer?
04/09/2004 04:01 PMA few weeks ago, news.com reported on Microsoft's iPod killer: a
portable device that can handle both audio and video. The device is
roughly twice as heavy, three times as thick and twice as long as an
iPod though. "Killer"? I don't think so. Not only will it be too bulky
to easily carry around with you, I also don't... (466 words)
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04/11/2004 05:16 PMTake control of popup windows and search any website directly from
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