Beyonce named most desirable woman: survey
January 31, 2007
Reuters - Singer-actress Beyonce, star of the
movie musical “Dreamgirls,” was named this year’s “most
desirable woman” in an annual reader survey released on
Wednesday by the popular lifestyles Web site AskMen.com.
Nintendo video games winners with fans and critics
January 31, 2007
Reuters - Japanese video game giant
Nintendo Co. Ltd. was the top winner at the 2006 People’s
Choice 1UP Awards hosted by the Ziff Davis Game Group in San
Francisco on Wednesday.
Dutch botnet hackers sentenced to time served
January 31, 2007
Court sentences pair of hackers deemed responsible for hijacking millions of PCs to sentences that equal time-served and sent them home on probation.
Google 4Q earnings nearly triple
January 31, 2007
AP - Google Inc. has grown into a financial juggernaut so quickly its extraordinary growth is starting to look routine — a phenomenon making it more difficult for the online search leader to impress investors.
Google Fensi: What is it?
January 31, 2007
An interesting discovery made through "Google in Your Language" gives us a few hints about an unknown service called "Fensi". The requested translations for the service make it sound like a social network site — but I'm not sure about that since they have Orkut securely under their belt. Here is a screenshot:
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Google Profit Rises, Revenue Growth Fails To Impress
January 31, 2007
TechWeb - The search giant said quarterly profit nearly tripled,
helped by a lower tax rate and expense controls, but revenue
growth failed to impress investors.
Kerry takes up ‘Extra Innings’ issue
January 31, 2007
AP - A proposal to make Major League Baseball’s “Extra Innings” exclusive to DirecTV has drawn the ire of Sen. John Kerry.
Models “too thin,” say 4 in 5 consumers
January 31, 2007
Reuters - Female fashion models and many
celebrities are “too thin,” say four in every five consumers
from around the world, a new online survey showed on Thursday.
Battle the Colossus in God of War 2
January 31, 2007
Kotaku has a writeup on what it’s like to battle the Colossus in the latest demo for God of War 2. The epic boss battle that sets the stage for the game recalls the incredible Hydra sequence at the start of the first God of War title. One can only hope that the designers plan to kick off every GoW game with an intense fight scene. Kotaku’s Brian Crecente on what it is like to face the beast: “There’s much rolling about and trying to dodge giant-sweepy arms, and of course dispatching of normal-sized bad guys. Finally, you can hump it over to a nearby ballista which you can use to first attack the big statue guy and then to launch yourself on to him. Once you mount the statue, the battle turns into timed button pushes which do some amazing bits of damage and really flexes the graphics muscles of the Playstation 2. My favorite bit here was the eye-gouging. You gotta love that.” To see the game in action, GameVideos can accomodate you in a three part series of moving pictures.
Skype to partner for security in the workplace
January 31, 2007
Partnership with instant messaging security specialist is meant to help organizations gain control over usage of the Net telephony tool at work.
