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Hey, Big Number, Make Room for the Rest of Us The G.D.P. is all well and good, but as a stand-in gauge for the nation’s overall well-being, this supernumber is less than perfect. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Vint Cerf: Big changes ahead for the Internet The Internet will get support for IPv6, a more secure domain name system, and international characters, during the next couple of years, according to Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Gallery: 10 YouTube Videos Destined for the Big Screen : YouTube's biggest tear-jerker may soon be wrenching sobs from big-screen viewers.Sony Pictures has its claws in Christian the Lion, a clip of grainy footage showing a pair of animal lovers reuniting with their adopted cub in Africa. John Rendall and Anthony Bourke, the duo who adopted th Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: 10 YouTube Videos Destined for the Big Screen : YouTube's biggest tear-jerker may soon be wrenching sobs from big-screen viewers.Sony Pictures has its claws in Christian the Lion, a clip of grainy footage showing a pair of animal lovers reuniting with their adopted cub in Africa. John Rendall and Anthony Bourke, the duo who adopted th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Hey, Einstein, How Smart Are You, Anyway? News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Having Fun, and Making Money DreamWorks, Viacom Relationship a Real Nightmare And the Winner Is: the Web (Again) Subscribe to Portfolio magazine The words come in a rapid, random Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Hey, Einstein, How Smart Are You, Anyway? News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Having Fun, and Making Money DreamWorks, Viacom Relationship a Real Nightmare And the Winner Is: the Web (Again) Subscribe to Portfolio magazine The words come in a rapid, random Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big 240 B.C.: Greek astronomer, geographer, mathematician and librarian Eratosthenes calculates the Earth's circumference. His data was rough, but he wasn't far off. Eratosthenes was an all-around guy, a Renaissance man centuries before the Renaissance. Some contemporaries called him Pentat Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big 240 B.C.: Greek astronomer, geographer, mathematician and librarian Eratosthenes calculates the Earth's circumference. His data was rough, but he wasn't far off. Eratosthenes was an all-around guy, a Renaissance man centuries before the Renaissance. Some contemporaries called him Pentat Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Yahoo proxy may come down to battle of big funds - MarketWatch SifyYahoo proxy may come down to battle of big fundsMarketWatch - 7 hours agoBy MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - It looks like the bar room tete-a-tete in Sun Valley, Idaho last week may have helped one of Yahoo Inc.'s biggest institutional shareholders make up Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Democrats Could Make Big Gains in Congress Again "At the outset of this election cycle, most political analysts did not anticipate a second consecutive big win in November for congressional Democrats for a number of reasons," Charlie Cook explains.However, after losing three special House elections this year and with President Bush's Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Jerry Jones gets why this is a big deal - Dallas Morning News Washington PostJerry Jones gets why this is a big dealDallas Morning News - 29 minutes agoJerry Jones will spin this story as much as possible to make sure that Adam "Pacman" Jones can play against the Cardinals and the rest of the teams on the Cowboys' schedule.Cow Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Era of big acquisitions largely over, Forrester says A new report from Forrester Research declares that the wave of mega-acquisitions in the software industry is over for now, though big vendors will continue to snap up smaller firms as they round out their portfolios. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Gallery: How to Make Super-Strong, Super-Flexible Metals : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comPASADENA, California -- Researchers at Caltech are pioneering new ways to make superstrong metals that are twice as tough as titanium, and twice as elastic. These "metallic glass" composites are so strong a 3mm rod can support a 2-ton truck and they bend instead of Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: How to Make Super-Strong, Super-Flexible Metals : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comPASADENA, California -- Researchers at Caltech are pioneering new ways to make superstrong metals that are twice as tough as titanium, and twice as elastic. These "metallic glass" composites are so strong a 3mm rod can support a 2-ton truck and they bend instead of Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Wooden Sci-Fi Sculptures Make Great Geek Art : Courtesy Michael Rea Sculptor Michael Rea has a knack for building. But unlike most architects, he draws on an encyclopedic knowledge of geek culture and an eccentric sense of humor for his unique sculptures. Rea’s movie-influenced menagerie includes electronic consoles, time mac Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Wooden Sci-Fi Sculptures Make Great Geek Art : Courtesy Michael Rea Sculptor Michael Rea has a knack for building. But unlike most architects, he draws on an encyclopedic knowledge of geek culture and an eccentric sense of humor for his unique sculptures. Rea’s movie-influenced menagerie includes electronic consoles, time mac Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Enterprise 2.0, corporate agility big themes at Interop '08 IT departments intent on blocking access to workers' favorite consumer devices and social networking Web sites will have to change their ways or risk falling behind the times, says Interop General Manager Lenny Heymann. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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$160 Billion Robotic Army Network Passes First Big Test. Kinda. A van full of insurgents speeds through the desert. They do not notice a series of networked ground sensors that have begun tracking their every move. Hovering somewhere overhead, a tiny robot points its camera at the van and takes note of its color scheme and markings. An even bigger d Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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$160 Billion Robotic Army Network Passes First Big Test. Kinda. A van full of insurgents speeds through the desert. They do not notice a series of networked ground sensors that have begun tracking their every move. Hovering somewhere overhead, a tiny robot points its camera at the van and takes note of its color scheme and markings. An even bigger d Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Hey-ooo! Ed McMahon's Housing Crisis - E! Online Boston GlobeHey-ooo! Ed McMahon's Housing CrisisE! Online - 5 hours agoAP Photo / Tammie Arroyo Johnny Carson's longtime right-hand man is facing foreclosure on his Beverly Hills mansion after falling $644000 behind on payments for mortgage loans totaling $4.8 million. Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |