China banks on B2B exchange The country is building an online procurement exchange called e-Hub to support its $80 billion electronics industry. ...
Hacker turns his Android phone into a garage door remote! When my house is in range, it does the magic HTTP request to my garage door opener's webserver (HMAC-signed timestamped URL, for non-replayability/forgeability if sniffed) and my garage door opens. ...
Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Goes Coast to Coast 1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad ...
U.S. auto execs plead for Congress to fund bailout (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. auto executives warned Congress on Tuesday that their industry was teetering on the brink of disaster as they pleaded for a $25 billion aid package despite political opposition to ...
Cuban responds to SEC, says no secrecy deal (Reuters) Reuters - Billionaire basketball team owner Mark Cuban responded to U.S. insider trading charges on Tuesday, saying on his website that he had not agreed to keep information about a proposed stock ...
Artists Does 801 Tattoos in 24 Hours To Break World Record "Cantrell tattoos steadily for the next couple of hours. At 11:30, he strips down to his boxer shorts and performs tattoo 801—his last—on his own thigh to the cheers of his friends." ...
IBM catches iPhrase Big Blue acquires iPhrase Technologies, a privately held company specializing in software for online commerce. ...
Twitterpillar Emerges as Fail Whale Becomes 'Endangered' When a colorful caterpillar and his wisecracking ice cream cone sidekick show up to inform Twitter users of a service disruption, a contest to name the new characters is born. ...
Linux Foundation: the kernel is worth $1.4 billion The Linux Foundation has released the results of a study that it conducted in order to estimate the financial value of the Linux platform. They say that the kernel is worth $1.4 billion, and the ...