Archive for June, 2008
The Google Media Server gadget can send audio and video from a Windows Personal computer to another device. (Credit: Google) Google has released a software module that can turn Windows PCs into devices that streams media files to other devices. The Google Media Server is a gadget that works on the Google Desktop software. It sends the data to other devices over a Universal Plug-and-Play connection such as a Sony PlayStation 3, according to the Google Desktop blog. With it, people can play videos and music and view photos on a PC. In addition, it can connect to Web sites including Google’s YouTube for video and Google’s Picasa for photos. 
MySpace's Data Availability logo. MySpace is set to release on Thursday the application programming interface (API) for Data Availability, a developer project that the News Corp.-owned social network announced in early May. Through Data Availability, participating social sites can let users synchronize accounts with MySpace profiles, importing …
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ConnectU founders score spots on U.S. Olympic rowing teamPosted by: admin in Social Media and TechCameron and Tyler Winklevoss might not have gotten their way with Mark Zuckerberg, but they’ve got a different prize in mind now: Olympic glory. 
Tyler Winklevoss, one-third of ConnectU’s founding and one-half of the U.S. men’s straight pair. (Credit: usrowing.org) The identical twins, who founded …
MySpace's Data Availability logo. MySpace is set to release on Thursday the application programming interface (API) for Data Availability, a developer project that the News Corp.-owned social network announced in early May. Through Data Availability, participating social sites can let users synchronize accounts with MySpace profiles, importing …
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Lehman Brothers Holdings (LEH) Could Suffer a Bear-like Liquidity CrisisPosted by: admin in Investment NewsPaulson, in other words, raised the specter of “moral hazard,” or the government’s inadvertent promotion of reckless lending, trading and other risky behavior by guaranteeing that banks won’t be allowed to fail. And he risked bringing up his own Wall Street lineage to bring home the point. When the Treasury and its central bank opened the Primary Dealer Credit […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net  If you’re a frequent Webware, reader you might remember Grooveshark, and Grooveshark Lite–two different but equally awesome music-sharing and listening tools. From those same folks comes TinySong, a bit of a play on massive link sharing services like TinyURL. However, instead of sharing Web sites with your friends, you’re linking them straight to the track. The service uses the same built-in song search found in Grooveshark Lite, and will simply jump whoever opens the link right to the Web based jukebox. What’s nice is whoever is searching will have the short link copied to their clipboard automatically. For popular songs there’s also a fairly good diversity of variations and remixes. One thing missing from TinySong is a way to make multi-song playlists, but you can simply use Grooveshark Lite and share the playlist link with a friend. See also services like MuxTape and Mixwit for such a task. [via Delicious] 
TinySong lets you search for songs hosted on the Web and share them with friends using a small, sharable link like you'd get on services like TinyURL. (Credit: CNET Networks)
The prices for corn and other crops are so high that conservation subsidies can’t compete with what farmers can make by planting the land. One reason for the high prices is the ethanol mandate in the energy bill Congress passed last year. Shifts in land use from diverting food-producing land to grow crops for energy — called “indirect land-use change” — can potentially negate the environmental benefits of corn ethanol. There is still much debate on how to measure it, but no question it’s important to take into account. One current study published in Science (Searchinger, et. al.) found that using croplands for biofuels causes a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions relative to gasoline when indirect land use change is taken into account. Unintended consequences such as these highlight the danger of mandating a specific clean energy technology, and the importance of relying on performance standards instead. What is “indirect land-use change”? When food-producing land is diverted for energy production, the food that would have been grown on that land must be grown elsewhere. This prompts farmers to convert land not currently in production into cropland. When grassland or forestland is cleared to grow crops, the carbon sequestered in the soil and trees is released into the atmosphere. If a lot of new land is cultivated, the resulting carbon release can totally negate the benefits of using biofuels. The New York Times stated as many acres as in Rhode Island and Delaware combined were removed from the Conservation Reserve Program, and that’s just one corner of the country. Not all the land was removed due to U.S. biofuel policy, but it plays a part. Some research has found that U.S. policies can contribute to deforestation in southeast Asia and the Amazon. Assessing the impact of indirect land-use change is tricky, and experts disagree on how to quantify it. According to the Searchinger study, when indirect land-use change is factored in:
We can’t state whether these numbers are exactly correct, but we can state that indirect land use effects — particularly tropical deforestation — are important to consider. Shaping policy to reduce emissions Government mandates for a specific technology to lower greenhouse gas emissions risk unintended consequences — even higher net emissions. An effective policy that ensures lower emissions has two key components:
Biofuels might have a role in our energy future, but only if they’re produced in ways that lower emissions. Performance-based standards and market incentives can prevent the unintended consequences of mandating the wrong technology. Lehman president, CEO to give up bonuses: report By Riley McDermid, MarketWatch Last Update: 6/27/2008 8:03:00 AM NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The chief executive and president of Lehman Bros. Holdings have said that they will forgo their 2008 bonuses in a nod to the beleaguered investment bank’s recent troubles, a report stated Friday. Earlier this month, Lehman (LEH) reported its first […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net
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Lehman Brothers Holdings (LEH) Could Suffer a Bear-like Liquidity CrisisPosted by: admin in Investment NewsPaulson, in other words, raised the specter of “moral hazard,” or the government’s inadvertent promotion of reckless lending, trading and other risky behavior by guaranteeing that banks won’t be allowed to fail. And he risked bringing up his own Wall Street lineage to bring home the point. When the Treasury and its central bank opened the Primary Dealer Credit […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net |
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