Watch out for 'Old Europe': She can bite

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McCartneys 'take fight to Europe'

McCartneys 'take fight to Europe' 04/06/2005 02:43 AM
The sisters of Belfast man Robert McCartney are set to meet the president of the European Commission.

Italy lambasts 'core Europe' idea

Italy lambasts 'core Europe' idea 01/22/2004 04:57 PM
Foreign Minister Franco Frattini warns France, Germany and the UK they cannot dictate to the EU.

Women take on 'Old Boy network'

Women take on 'Old Boy network' 04/23/2004 01:28 AM
Professional women are challenging the traditional male bastion of power by creating all-female groups, a report says.

UK.gov stuck in 'old economy' mindset

UK.gov stuck in 'old economy' mindset 06/23/2004 07:54 AM
Time to wake up and smell coffee, says Intellect

Glance at 'Old Hickory' Brigade

Glance at 'Old Hickory' Brigade 01/26/2004 05:16 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 26 2004 8:53AM GMT

German 'old tart' emailer fined

German 'old tart' emailer fined 05/07/2004 09:02 AM
Don't let's be beastly...

Nokia to offer phones with 'old-world'
styling

Nokia to offer phones with 'old-world'
styling 09/09/2004 02:12 PM
One of the new handsets invokes Garbo, according to the Finnish phone giant. Another is described as "sleek and sexy."

Wireless Watch 2004: UbiButton Watch
Super Clapper

Wireless Watch 2004: UbiButton Watch
Super Clapper 07/22/2004 08:11 AM

WIRELESS WATCH 2004 is going on in Japan until Friday, and there are plenty of new product demonstrations as well as those currently in development on display. This year's hot sheet includes NTT DoCoMo's "UbiButton," a device similar in form factor to a wristwatch. By detecting the shock waves in the arm created by a simple snapping of the fingers, a switch is flipped that can, for example, turn a light on and off. In other words, DoCoMo has glorified The Clapper to now be called The Snapper. Actually, I know a couple people that can't snap their fingers...what the hell are they supposed to do? [Uhm, clap? - ed] Other highlights from the convention included a working model of a Bluetooth pen, and DDI Pocket's "Jacketphone," a SD card sized PHS module. TechJapan has full Day 1 coverage, with pretty pictures.
Read - WIRELESS JAPAN 2004, Day 1 [TechJapan]

Related
Nokia's Bluetooth digital pen [Gizmodo]

Crazy TokyoFlash watch: the Pimp Watch

Crazy TokyoFlash watch: the Pimp Watch 10/31/2003 09:37 PM
New on the killer TokyoFlash watch site, the Pimp Watch -- at $129, it's a little rich for my blood, but boy, that's some sweet watch action. Link

Wolves Bite Each Other in the Ass

Wolves Bite Each Other in the Ass 04/17/2005 10:47 AM

Linus of Linux fame knifes Tridgell of Samba fame and Peren s the wolfherder tells Linus to stop talking nonsense and cool it.

A summary of what happened:

Tridgell saw a problem, hypocritical use of non-open source version control software BitKeeper to develop Linux, and moved to fix it by reverse engineering BitKeeper's proprietary protocol.

This upset McVoy, the keeper of BitKeeper and Linus's childhood friend.  Sharp exchanges between McVoy and Tridgell caused enough uproar for Linus to pull back on BitKeeper and then punch back at Tridgell for causing trouble where there was none from Linus' point of view.

Meanwhile, Perens who thinks inconsistency is a crime and everyone should sacrifice themselves for the wolfpack kicks Linus' ass.

I could use some buttered popcorn.

Bite me, Dick

Bite me, Dick 06/24/2005 07:54 PM
Today, I got an email solicitation of funds from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. No big deal; I'm not planning to make any political contributions until later this year. But what annoyed me about this particular email was its author,...

Seven wants a bite of the BlackBerry
market

Seven wants a bite of the BlackBerry
market 04/11/2005 01:58 PM
ZDNet UK Apr 11 2005 4:51PM GMT

Litigants Take Bite Out of Apple

Litigants Take Bite Out of Apple 02/11/2004 05:44 AM
Five class-action suits are filed against the maker of the popular iPod digital music player. The iPod's battery life isn't what Apple said it was, the litigants charge.

Apple's Juicy Bite

Apple's Juicy Bite 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
There can be no doubt -- DVD Studio Pro 2 is a top-notch app. By Chris Oaten (The Advertiser via MyAppleMenu)

Taking a bite out of terror

Taking a bite out of terror 08/11/2004 07:02 PM
With Americans growing numb to the Homeland Secuity Department's color-coded threat warnings, Tom Ridge and his staff are pushing a new way to get the word out: the homeland security mascot. The Gannet News Service reports:

When Business Models Bite

When Business Models Bite 04/28/2004 01:10 PM
FranklinCovey tries desperately to pick up an eighth habit.

Mozilla takes bite out of IE

Mozilla takes bite out of IE 07/12/2004 08:52 AM
Security concerns drive browser defection

Discontent may bite Macworld

Discontent may bite Macworld 01/02/2004 07:16 AM
ZDNet UK Jan 2 2004 6:41AM ET

Apple: It May Be Too Late To Take A Bite

Apple: It May Be Too Late To Take A Bite 02/05/2005 09:39 PM

Besides a reflected glow as part-owner of today's most glamorous gadgeteer, what does 77 a share get an Apple buyer? By Robert Barker, BusinessWeek

Outsourcing will bite in 2004

Outsourcing will bite in 2004 12/30/2003 11:09 PM
ZDNet Australia Dec 30 2003 9:39PM ET

Putting the Bite on Apple

Putting the Bite on Apple 04/16/2004 04:51 AM
RealNetworks wants to cut a digital music deal with Apple, according to a memo leaked to The New York Times. If it doesn't get one, it's threatening to go running off with Microsoft.

Tigers bite back

Tigers bite back 05/13/2004 02:08 PM
Tig ers bite back. Endangered Sumatran tigers have taken the destruction of their habitat into their own mouths by killing three & mauling several other illegal loggers.

Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You

Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You 09/06/2004 07:44 PM
Edison's New Media. American Memory (natch) offers this sprawling archive of audio files and filmic material. Uncovered while seeking an archive of piano roll recordings, unsuccessfully. Also noted: Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier and recordings from the American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920.

Taking A Bite Out Of Apple

Taking A Bite Out Of Apple 04/15/2005 01:10 AM

Yes, Apple creates super cool products, but the insular mindset of Steve Jobs et al is causing it to fall behind in the race to provide video over the internet. By Tony Perkins, AlwaysOn

BW: 'It may be too late to take a bite
(of Apple)'

BW: 'It may be too late to take a bite
(of Apple)' 02/05/2005 10:09 PM
In his column for BusinessWeek, Robert Barker's "The Barker Portfolio" looks at Apple's financial success and huge stock climb and ponders how this affects current and future investors in the company...

PHPBuilder: Your First Bite of PEAR

PHPBuilder: Your First Bite of PEAR 12/27/2002 08:16 AM

More bite demanded of boardroom
watchdogs

More bite demanded of boardroom
watchdogs 05/23/2004 10:51 AM
San Jose Mercury News May 23 2004 2:54PM GMT

PATRIOT in bite-sized chunks

PATRIOT in bite-sized chunks 05/16/2004 04:54 AM
I'm giving a talk in Barcelona on Wednesday about the USA PATRIOT Act, and so I've been boning up on EFF's analysis of this sweeping, unconstitutional law. Of particular help has been the clause-by-clause analyses that our staff attorney Kevin Bankston's been writing for EFFector, EFF's weekly newsletter. If you ever wondered what the big deal was about PATRIOT, Kevin's blurbs will explain it all -- in bite-sized, layperson-friendly chunks.

Apologists justified the broad, civil-liberties corroding powers granted to the government under the USA PATRIOT Act by arguing that they would be used to put terrorists behind bars. Yet several provisions can be used against Americans in a wide range of investigations that have nothing to do with terrorism. Others are too vague, jeopardizing legitimate activities protected under the First Amendment. Worse, the Department of Justice has worked to expand and/or make permanent a number of these provisions -- despite the fact that they were sold to the public as "temporary" measures and are scheduled to expire, or "sunset," in December of 2005.

Link

Apple to bite into gaming market?

Apple to bite into gaming market? 04/08/2005 12:00 PM
Neilsen Entertainment on Thursday revealed results of a study concluding that men spend more money on video games than on music. According to Neilsen spending on games has become the second ranked purchased category for males behind DVDs and in front of CDs, MP3 and music purchases. As we can see in the figures from Nintendo and Sony for the first few days of sales of the companies new handheld systems, game and console sales are going well. Sony managed to snag 500,000 customers of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) within the first two days of its North American release, generating over $150 million at retailers. The company boasted that what makes the $150 million mark "all the more spectacular," is that "PSP sales were achieved during a traditionally slower non-holiday season launch, and during a period when many retailers were closed for Easter." The launch of PSP was everything the company had hoped for, according to Sony Computer Entertainment America president and CEO Kaz Hirai. "In only two weeks, PSP is having an immediate impact across the entire industry as consumers are clearly voting it the product of the year in 2005." Nintendo sold nearly 87,000 units of the Nintendo DS in the first two days alone in the UK. Several retailers in the UK opened at midnight so DS fans could be the first to purchase the device. As of launch time in the UK of the DS, Nintendo sold more than 3 million units worldwide. At the end of March, the company announced that sales in the UK surpassed 500,000 since the March 11 release. "The launch of Nintendo DS in the UK has been an unprecedented success; breaking all expected sales figures and even exceeding our expectations. Nintendo fans, new and old, have embraced the Nintendo DS and have left no doubt that it is the new must have handheld console," Nintendo UK General Manager David Yarnton said. "Nintendo set out to create a new way of hand-held gaming, offering an innovative and enjoyable experience and with the new Nintendo DS, and we have certainly accomplished this." The success of the Nintendo DS has even helped Nintendo prepare for the launch of its upcoming Nintendo World Store set to open in New York City this spring. The store will allow visitors to try out new and unreleased games for Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance SP at sampling bars and interactive stations. The two-story mega-complex will also be the new home of Pokémon Center and will host a myriad of Nintendo merchandise, accessories, DVDs and Pokémon trading cards. With the gaming market so strong and continually growing, why doesn't Apple break into the burgeoning $35 billion annual global video game market? Well, maybe it plans to. According to an anonymous report, MacRumors.com was told that Apple and ATI have been discussing either creating or purchasing a game development unit. Creating a games division could help attract more PC users to switch to the Macintosh platform. The website also noted that Apple appears serious about improving gaming performance on the Mac as recent reports have noted that Apple, ATI and NVidia are actively recruiting developers to improve OpenGL performance. Since game sales are above and beyond sales of CDs, digital music, and other music purchases, perhaps Apple would be wise to break into the increasingly popular (not to mention, incredibly profitable) gaming market... just in case it doesn't reach the forcasted 23.5 million iPod sales mark in 2006, or continue to have one million downloaded songs per day from the iTunes Music Store.

Intellectual property laws to get more
bite

Intellectual property laws to get more
bite 06/16/2004 09:26 PM
Straits Times Jun 17 2004 0:43AM GMT

Apple Takes a Bigger Bite of RSS

Apple Takes a Bigger Bite of RSS 06/29/2004 12:57 AM
Safari RSS Reader

"Steve Jobs demoed Safari’s RSS Reader today. Read about it and then check it out in action.

Update: Brent Simmons, developer of NetNewsWire, reacts to Safari RSS." [The RSS Weblog]

Is this big news? Sure, but anyone that reads Scoble knows Microsoft is working towards integrating RSS into Longhorn itself.

However, I agree 100% with Steven that the best RSS aggregator is one that is web-based, not a desktop client. As more and more people shift their information on the go, the last thing they'll need is to begin relying heavily on an aggregator that they'll lose when their desktop crashes. 'Cause we've all had that happen, haven't we?

Komodo 2.0 takes a bite out of
development

Komodo 2.0 takes a bite out of
development 02/01/2003 02:08 AM
CNET Feb 1 2003 1:25AM ET

3G for business: Orange takes a bite

3G for business: Orange takes a bite 07/02/2004 11:13 AM
ZDNet Jul 2 2004 3:02PM GMT

US anti-spam law fails to bite

US anti-spam law fails to bite 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
US legislation designed to stop junk e-mails has had little impact on the amount of spam, say experts.

Brinker Taking a Bite out of Outlook

Brinker Taking a Bite out of Outlook 08/11/2004 01:58 PM
Chili's parent posts strong fourth-quarter earnings, but lowers guidance.

IDC: Public sector crunch to bite PCs

IDC: Public sector crunch to bite PCs 03/14/2003 12:15 AM
Research firm IDC reduces its PC sales forecast for 2003, saying government and education budget cuts could have an impact on worldwide sales.

A mad dog who wants a bite of Bermudas
computer market

A mad dog who wants a bite of Bermudas
computer market 02/18/2004 12:05 PM
Royal Gazette Feb 18 2004 3:20PM GMT

Nature so close, it'd bite you in the
arse if it could

Nature so close, it'd bite you in the
arse if it could 06/16/2004 03:08 PM

« A wooden platform path over marshland at Villa Elfvik. »

A few weekends ago, before the weather went to the cold rainy pattern we've been having lately, Jarkko and I went to Villa Elfvik, a nature reserve and beautiful English-style Jugend home that has been beautifully restored. The house is gorgeous, but the nature paths along the Laajalahti nature reserve/marshes is is the most astonishing feature. As we walked around the grounds, I kept thinking how unbelieveably close to downtown Helsinki it is and how it would have been made into strip malls decades ago if it were situated close to a city in the US. Finns are so lucky to have protected the natural habitat in and around the metropolitan area before strip malls became a permanent feature on the global landscape. Of course, like anything you grow up around and see every day, it takes a fresh eye to appreciate what you've got.

Inside the house is a small exhibit on natural resources in Espoo, a cafe (open only on the weekends), some history about the house and its inhabitants and beautiful art nouveau appointments. The house was built in 1904 for baroness Elvira Standerskjöld and there are some events planned to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The paths outside on the grounds are maintained and scenic and there is a narrow path of wood planks that leads south through the marshes towards Otaniemi that even has cows and sheep along the way. One bummer about wading through a swamp during the not-winter season is mosquitos so it might have been a good idea to have carried some repellant. There are bird observation towers at either end of the path which offer a nice view of the area, too.

• A small map of the nature reserve
• A small map of the location of Villa Elfvik
• Getting there: Take the train to Leppävaara and either walk or take the 52, 57, 106 or any number of other busses that stop at Ruukinranta crossing and follow the signs.
• Free entrance. Open every day of the week during the summer and closed on Saturdays during the winter months.
• Take bug spray. :)

Lindenhurst lacks graphics bite

Lindenhurst lacks graphics bite 08/02/2004 06:42 AM
vnunet.com Aug 2 2004 11:10AM GMT
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