Bringing Up the Rear

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""Soros, who has financed efforts to
promote open societies in more than 50
countries around the world, is bringing
the fight home, he said. On Monday, he
and a partner committed up to $5 million
to MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group,
bringing to $15.5..."

""Soros, who has financed efforts to
promote open societies in more than 50
countries around the world, is bringing
the fight home, he said. On Monday, he
and a partner committed up to $5 million
to MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group,
bringing to $15.5..." 11/11/2003 03:17 PM

Deliveries in the Rear

Deliveries in the Rear 04/01/2005 09:46 AM
Recipients should not eat their FecalGram, a fresh-squeezed, human-made steaming manatee mailed anonymous ly from Florissant, Missouri. "They are not intended for human consumption, or consumption by any animal."

Man Shoots Himself in Rear End (AP)

Man Shoots Himself in Rear End (AP) 08/06/2004 09:16 AM
AP - Drew Patterson wanted to protect himself after hearing reports of an fugitive in this northeastern Oklahoma community.

JVC Big Screen EXE Rear Projection TVs

JVC Big Screen EXE Rear Projection TVs 04/07/2005 12:44 PM

JVC will introduce a few new rear projection TVs for the Japanese market, under the "Big Screen EXE" brand. The 61" "HD-61MD60" will cost 787,500 yen, and the 51" 682,500 yen. They do appear to have some nice specs, such as a 700cd/m² brightness on the 52 inch. But they're being marketed based on a low power consumption: 198W, not that we Americans really care. Speaking of Americans, JVC plans to introduce these two sets here in July, as well as add a 70" model.

Press Release [JVC]

Gateway's new rear-projection TV

Gateway's new rear-projection TV 10/30/2003 10:20 AM
Gateway is getting even deeper into the television business. They're adding a 56-inch rear-projection widescreen TV to their line of LCD and plasma displays that is about one-third the depth of a regular rear-projection television. Read...

MTV to Cut Shot of Eminem Exposing Rear
(AP)

MTV to Cut Shot of Eminem Exposing Rear
(AP) 06/07/2004 03:42 PM
AP - Eminem's moon has been eclipsed. MTV plans to cut a shot of the rapper exposing his rear end to the audience at the 2004 Movie Awards when the show is broadcast Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT, a network representative confirmed.

The browser war in the rear-view mirror

The browser war in the rear-view mirror 12/22/2004 01:23 AM
Randal l Stross's piece on Firefox in the Sunday Times business section, with its comical quotes from a Microsoft spokesman who suggests that unhappy users buy themselves new computers, brought a little wisp of browser-war nostalgia to mind.

It's undeniable that, today, if you want to protect your computing life and you run Windows, you're insane to continue running basic Microsoft applications like Internet Explorer and Outlook. (Firefox and Thunderbird are great alternatives in the open source world. I'm still wedded to Opera and Eudora out of years-long habits. Opera does a great job of saving multiple open windows with multiple open tabs from session to session, even when you suffer a system freeze.) These programs function together in a variety of ways that Microsoft presented as good ideas at the time they were written. Hey, integration means everything works seamlessly, and everyone knows how highly the business world prizes the word "seamless."

Today it is precisely the same integration -- the way, for instance, that ActiveX controls and other code pass freely across the borders of these applications, allowing them to work together in potentially useful but hugely insecure ways -- that make IE and Outlook such free-fire zones for viruses and other mischief. (It's certainly true that the Microsoft universe is targeted by virus authors because it's where the most users are; but it's also true that Microsoft's products are sitting ducks in a way that its competitors in the Apple and open source worlds simply are not.) If you're willing to turn on Microsoft's auto-update to keep up with the operating system patches, and to abandon Outlook and IE for your day-to-day work, you can rest relatively easy. But you never know when some other application is calling on that "embedded browser functionality," when you're using that Outlook code without even realizing it.

Stross is strangely mum on the antitrust background of these matters. It's the ultimate, though not entirely unforeseen, irony of the Microsoft saga that the very integration-with-the-operating-system that enabled Microsoft to "cut off the air supply" of its Netscape competition is now looking more and more like the franchise's Achilles heel. Microsoft fought a tedious, embarrassing and costly legal war with the government to defend its right to embed Web browser functionality in the heart of the operating system. "Our operating system is whatever we say it is! How dare government bureaucrats meddle with our technology!" was the company's war cry.

Now it turns out that if Gates and company had paid a little more heed to the government they might have done their users, and their business, a favor. Microsoft's tight browser/operating system integration helped spell Netscape's corporate doom; today it is one of the biggest gaping holes in Windows security, and a legion of hostile viruses swarms through it.

Stross writes, "Stuck with code from a bygone era when the need for protection against bad guys was little considered, Microsoft cannot do much. It does not offer a new stand-alone version of Internet Explorer. Instead, the loyal customer must download and install the newest version of Service Pack 2. That, in turn, requires Windows XP. Those who have an earlier version of Windows are out of luck if they wish to stick with Internet Explorer."

But it's not quite that simple. Microsoft's reluctance to invest in browser development has stemmed only partly from the kind of inertia that comes from having won a war in a previous generation ("The browser? We own that space, we don't have to keep improving it"). Even more deeply, Microsoft has been reluctant to make the browser better -- more reliable, more secure, more flexible as an interface for more kinds of applications -- because its leaders understood very well what that would mean: The better the browser is, the less dependent people are on the operating system's features -- as today's users of well-designed Web applications like Gmail, Flickr and Basecamp demonstrate every day. This is not where Microsoft wants to see the computing world go, so why, once it gained a stranglehold on the browser market, would it help the process along?

In other words, what happened once Microsoft left the courtroom was precisely and exactly what the government's antitrust lawyers said would happen: Microsoft's goal in integrating the browser was not to serve the public and the users, but to shut down further innovation and development. Netscape argued that Microsoft wanted to control browsers because it wanted to make sure they did not emerge as a platform for applications that would undermine Windows' importance. Netscape, the record now shows, was right.

We lost three or four years of Internet time (from the collapse of the bubble to this year's Renaissance of Web applications) thanks to Microsoft's stonewalling and the Bush administration's unwillingness to represent the public interest in this matter. The next time a worm comes crawling through your Windows, curse the Justice Department's settlement -- and go download Firefox.

Consumers Want Rear-Projection TV's, and
Now

Consumers Want Rear-Projection TV's, and
Now 12/24/2003 12:38 AM
New York Times Dec 23 2003 11:52PM ET

MTV to cut shot of Eminem exposing rear

MTV to cut shot of Eminem exposing rear 06/07/2004 03:35 PM

MTV to Edit Shot of Eminem Exposing Rear
(AP)

MTV to Edit Shot of Eminem Exposing Rear
(AP) 06/07/2004 08:18 PM
AP - Eminem's moon has been eclipsed. MTV plans to edit out a shot of the rapper exposing his rear end to the audience at the 2004 Movie Awards when the show is broadcast Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT, a network representative confirmed Monday.

Thomson's new ultrathin rear projection
HDTVs

Thomson's new ultrathin rear projection
HDTVs 01/07/2004 07:12 PM
A pair of skinny new RCA Scenium rear-projection high-definition televisions from Thomson that use DLP technology (rather than plasma or LCD). The HDTVs should out...

Minor Injuries as Train Is Rear-ended

Minor Injuries as Train Is Rear-ended 04/19/2004 12:22 PM
The accident this morning caused minor injuries and scattered rush-hour delays.

Radio Shack's Wireless Rear-Channel
Amplifier

Radio Shack's Wireless Rear-Channel
Amplifier 04/30/2004 04:23 PM
Although he spends just as much time blathering about the need for wireless speaker connections as he does talking about technical details (and trust me, it happens, I know), Randy is pretty impressed with Radio Shack's 5.8Ghz Wireless Rear-Channel Amplifier that he used to connect his sister's 5.1 surround sound...

Epson Demos 1080p 3LCD Rear-Projection
TV

Epson Demos 1080p 3LCD Rear-Projection
TV 01/06/2005 02:27 PM
At CES, Epson showed a prototype 1080p RPTV based on 1080p polysilicon LCDs. It's early to tell, but the wow factor could be huge.

Canon to Start Making Rear Projection
TVs in 2005

Canon to Start Making Rear Projection
TVs in 2005 01/04/2005 01:23 PM
Japanese camera and office equipment maker Canon Inc. said on Tuesday it would start producing rear projection televisions later this year, aiming to secure a chunk of the rapidly growing market for big screen TVs. Canon also said it plans to invest in a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel joint venture by Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.

It added, however, that details of the planned investment, including the size of the stake, have yet to be decided and it had no plan to make LCD televisions. "We are aiming to offer rear projection TVs on a commercial basis by the end of the year. Since they are to be used at schools and other public facilities, we don't expect them to sell as well as consumer goods," a Canon spokesman said. The rear projection TVs would be the second flat-panel TVs for Canon, which also plans to launch surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) TVs this year.

News source: Reuters

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Larger vehicles drive rear camera
utility

Larger vehicles drive rear camera
utility 11/16/2003 10:27 AM
Chicago Tribune Nov 16 2003 9:14AM ET

Study: Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End
Accidents (Ontario)

Study: Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End
Accidents (Ontario) 04/13/2005 04:28 AM
Study: Red Light Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End Accidents (Ontario) .. aren’t all they’re cracked up to be .. there's an increase, not decrease in accidents

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HP retains PDA pole position over
palmOne, RIM in rear view mirror

HP retains PDA pole position over
palmOne, RIM in rear view mirror 04/20/2004 09:54 AM
Computer Shopper Apr 20 2004 2:17PM GMT

Intel Corp. plans to develop chip for
rear-projection digital TVs

Intel Corp. plans to develop chip for
rear-projection digital TVs 12/17/2003 11:51 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 17 2003 11:13PM ET

Webl0gs: More Driving by the Rear-View
Mirror (or, Static Documents by One
Person)

Webl0gs: More Driving by the Rear-View
Mirror (or, Static Documents by One
Person) 06/16/2004 11:25 AM
Things written in stone were permanent — proverbially so. Things written in ink could be scratched out, but not erased….

Syntax Groups Unveils 50 inch LCOS
Technology Rear Projection TV at Market
Leading sub $3000 Price

Syntax Groups Unveils 50 inch LCOS
Technology Rear Projection TV at Market
Leading sub $3000 Price 08/27/2004 01:40 PM
Syntax Groups debuts sub-$3,000 LCOS TV, bringing brighter, lighter, thinner affordability to digital home entertainment. The new Olevia™ LCOS TV showcased at this week’s HDTV Forum 2004 industry conference. [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004]

Bringing down the House

Bringing down the House 03/31/2005 05:36 PM
Two PACs are running ads attacking Tom DeLay for his actions in the Terri Schiavo case and alleged ethics violations.

Bringing out the big guns for SOA

Bringing out the big guns for SOA 04/17/2005 10:34 AM
ZDNet Apr 17 2005 2:17PM GMT

Bringing relief with the pee-Pod

Bringing relief with the pee-Pod 08/03/2004 12:11 AM

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“The trauma of dirty loos could be a thing of the past for users of pPod, a guide to the best and worst of public toilets for iPod owners….A free interactive guide to public conveniences, appropriately called pPod, offers audio and text information on their whereabouts, opening hours, facilities and cleanliness.”…

Bringing their 'A' games

Bringing their 'A' games 02/12/2004 05:46 AM
USA Today Feb 12 2004 10:06AM GMT

Bringing logic to the source

Bringing logic to the source 12/31/2003 01:07 PM
It seems that amidst the glee and anticipation of next week’s Macworld Conference will be a horde of angry Mac users, hell-bent on exposing the display problems and logic board failures that have plagued the final revision of Apple’s G3 iBook line. While Apple has stuck to its no-harm, no-foul mentality, hundreds of iBook owners have been voicing their concerns for months, some even resorting to class-action lawsuits. Several of Apple’s recent released have been hit with production...

Bringing space down to Earth

Bringing space down to Earth 05/09/2004 08:57 AM
Chicago Tribune May 9 2004 12:23PM GMT

Bringing it back home

Bringing it back home 05/14/2004 06:15 AM
USA Today May 14 2004 10:43AM GMT

RIM Bringing Bluetooth to BlackBerries

RIM Bringing Bluetooth to BlackBerries 07/11/2004 03:08 PM
BrightHand Jul 11 2004 6:10PM GMT

Community News: Bringing the Outside In?

Community News: Bringing the Outside In? 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Do you remember the time back when you knew nothing of PHP? Back when Perl or ASP was the dominant force, working to "make the web a better place"? Every one of us had to start somewhere, and every one of us had to hear about PHP from someone (or somewhere) - do you remember when you first were introduced to the fastest-growing web scripting language out there?

Bringing Down A Copycat Site

Bringing Down A Copycat Site 12/29/2004 04:59 AM

ATI's HDTV Wonder - Bringing DTV to your
PC

ATI's HDTV Wonder - Bringing DTV to your
PC 06/22/2004 09:07 AM

Bringing social networking to everything

Bringing social networking to everything 04/25/2004 02:40 AM

I'm sorry I disagree.....[read response after article].......

The next big thing in online social networking.

According to Reuters Social networking sites, which look to introduce friends of friends or people with common interests, have grabbed the attention of Internet users and venture capitalists but many are still looking for ways to make money.

Online dating siteTickle ( >2million profiles) launched a People Search service on its network that includes AskJeeves' . The partnership fuses the uncertain social networking phenomenon with a search model that has proven invaluable to both consumers and marketers on the public Internet.

Kolabora news expert Scott Allen blogs in his Social Networking News: According to Tickle CEO James Currier, “Search is a natural way for online social networking to move forward”. (..) "Tickle people search brings online search full circle, back to letting us find the right people to talk to.”

Reuters press release (April 22)

read more in the full articles quoted from three blogs

- Ask Jeeves Brings Search to Tickle (ClickZNews)< BR>- Jeeves, what’s the next big thing in online social networking? (Online Business Networks)
- Education — the real "next big thing" in online social networking (Online Business Networks)

[Smart Mobs]

I'm certainly in favor of putting social networking into context - but search is not a context.  It's sort of like getting it backwards.

It's not about bringing search to social networking.  It's about bringing social networking to everything.

Bringing the press into the story

Bringing the press into the story 01/03/2005 10:33 AM

Yesterday, walking on the beach, I had a minor epiphany about the press that I thought I should share asap. Talking to a reporter recently, about the difference between bloggers and pros, I tell a story I often tell, the interchange between David Weinberger and Walter Mears at the blogger's breakfast at the Democratic National Convention in July.

Weinberger asked Mears who he planned to vote for in the presidential election. Mears said he couldn't say because that would bring his biases into the discussion, and he writes objectively, his biases are irrelevant. This was about as clear a distinction as I've seen, because bloggers seem to view it exactly the other way. I can't trust you until I know where you're coming from. So a blogger always discloses his opinion on something he's reporting on, so we can triangulate, get a variety of points of view to determine what's really going on. Triangulation is something bloggers and their readers depend on. In the world of the pro, apparently triangulation is not necessary, because in theory every reporter is objective.

So, the reporter I was talking with says he is not part of the story. This is where the epiphany begins. That's why the various attempts to self-enforce integrity have been awful failures for the pros. We tested the self-enforcement system put in place by The Guardian last spring, we're not exactly nobodies, and got blown off, summarily and rudely. This is not what we would expect from a QA department at any organization, and surely not a newspaper of high repute. We wouldn't tolerate this from government, nor industry, but these days, when a campaign can be deleted, and its supporters disenfranchised, by cable networks because a candidate showed enthusiasm, consider how much progress we can make until we systematically watch the pros and judge the quality of their work. We're fools if we believe they can be trusted to watch over themselves. We have the empirical evidence that proves otherwise.

Net-net: the professional journalist is totally part of the story he or she is writing. That they believe otherwise is the major bug in their process.

Mac At 20 -- Bringing It All Back Home

Mac At 20 -- Bringing It All Back Home 01/26/2004 10:20 AM
Apple watchers of all stripes have good reason to celebrate the Mac's anniversary -- and applaud Apple's focus on its core values. By Matthew Rothenberg (PC Magazine via MyAppleMenu)

Bringing Search Down to Earth

Bringing Search Down to Earth 07/21/2004 09:07 AM
Source: ClickZ - Don't get me wrong. I fully believe search engine marketing (SEM) and paid placement (via text-based communications) should play a role in most interactive marketing plans. Yet to make SEM an integral part of a brand advertiser's...

Bringing Java into Perl

Bringing Java into Perl 11/10/2003 10:52 PM
Phil Crow explains how to use Java code from inside of Perl, using the Inline::Java module.

Zend, Sun bringing PHP to the enterprise

Zend, Sun bringing PHP to the enterprise 11/03/2003 03:14 AM
Zend Technologies, inventor and parent company of the popular open source PHP Web scripting engine, today will announce a major partnership deal with Sun Microsystems in a move that may well advance PHP's position in the major leagues of e-business.

Bringing order to chaos

Bringing order to chaos 01/02/2004 06:20 PM
globetechnology.com Jan 2 2004 5:02PM ET
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