Archive for June, 2008

June 29th, 2008

McCain: On Some Issues ‘Obama’s Word Cannot Be Trusted’

ABC News’s Bret Hovell reports: At a fundraiser tonight in Louisville, Ky., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said that the word of his opponent for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., "cannot be trusted."
"You know, this election is about trust, and trusting people’s word" McCain told a crowd of donors to his campaign. "And unfortunately, [...]

June 29th, 2008

Laptop heralds Intel Centrino 2 mobile gaming

Posted by Brooke Crothers

Germany-based Cizmo is offering an Intel Centrino 2-based gaming laptop that shows what’s in store for mobile gamers this summer.
Intel’s newest crop of Centrino 2 Montevina mobile processors are slated for a July 14 rollout and will include the Extreme X9100 processor: the first Penryn-class mobile processor to break the 3.0GHz [...]

June 29th, 2008

101 Secrets (and 9 Lives) of a Magazine Star

By DAVID CARR
WALK by the magazine rack, turn on a television at dinnertime or sneaka peak at the gossip sites during work, and you will notice a lot ofAngelina and a ton of Paris, and see far too much of Britney. But inall of those places, there is someone who is more ubiquitous, moreoddly present, [...]

June 29th, 2008

Stress Test

By
PEGGY ORENSTEIN
For weeks before a store down the street from where I live in Berkeley opened, it was unclear what it would sell — materially, anyway. Rather than having a sign describing the merchandise, the windows were papered over with foot-high aphorisms in punchy red and white type. “Friends are more important than money.” “Jealousy [...]

June 29th, 2008

6 Qualities of a Good Domain Name

Choosing a good domain name is crucial to the success or failure of your business. You may wonder how something so small and slight could have an impact on your business, but the best way to compare this is to think about how important location is to an offline business? If you do not have [...]

June 29th, 2008

Mengungkap korupsi malah di bui!

BENGKULU - Ironi terjadi di dunia hukum Bengkulu. Ketua DPRD Kota Bengkulu Ahmad Zarkasi SP yang mengungkap dugaan korupsi proyek pengadaan buku Diknas malah dijebloskan ke penjara.
Hukuman tersebut harus diterima setelah dia dilaporkan dengan tuduhan pencemaran nama baik. Atas tindakannya itu, dia divonis bersalah dengan hukuman satu bulan penjara.
Sedangkan laporan korupsi yang disampaikan tidak jelas [...]

June 29th, 2008

Menkominfo Akan Blokir Judi Internet

Surabaya- Menteri Komunikasi dan Informasi (Menkominfo) Mohammad Nuh menyatakan judi yang kian marak di internet juga akan diblokir, namun pihaknya kini masih mempelajari pola judi internet yang ada.
"Kami akan melihat kategori judi internet itu apa saja, kemudian kami akan lacak pola judi internet itu bagaimana," katanya kepada ANTARA, usai memberikan orientasi kepada ratusan wali murid [...]

June 28th, 2008

Firefox 3.0 wins memory battle, says tester

By Gregg Keizer
By contrast, Safari for Windows is ’extremely poor’ in managing memory
Mozilla Corp.’sFirefox 3.0 browser uses memory much more efficiently than its rivals, according to an independent tester who wrote a memory-monitoring utility to track usage by Firefox, Internet Explorer(IE), Flock, Opera and Safari.
In a lengthy postto his Web site, .Net developer [...]

June 28th, 2008

eBay backs off controversial PayPal-only plan in Australia

By Linda Rosencrance
June 27, 2008 (Computerworld) Ebay Inc. has, for the moment, backed off a plan that would force sellers in Australia to only use PayPal, which eBay owns, as their online payment method.
The plan, which was set to go into effect last week, was scuttledby Australia’s competition watchdog agency, which said eBay’s plan [...]

June 28th, 2008

Clinton and Obama rally together

Hillary Clinton has joined Barack Obama at a rally - their first public event since she pulled out of the race to be the Democratic presidential candidate.

The rally in Unity, New Hampshire, was an opportunity for supporters of the party to come together after the divisive primary battle.
The event follows a joint [...]