SOURCE: WEB MD Dental Devices May Cause Infection Toothbrushes, Dentures, and Other Dental Devices May Harm Your Health By Sid Kirchheimer WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD on Thursday, September 30, 2004 Sept. 30, 2004 -- Four out of five dentists may be surprised: Toothbrushes, dentures, dental floss, and athletic mouthguards may be responsible for recurring health problems ranging from asthma attacks to herpes outbreaks. The problem: Bacteria, ye...
SOURCE: NEW YORK POST Online GOOGLE PICKS GATES' BRAINS By STEPHEN LYNCH September 19, 2004 -- Google, $1.67 billion richer from its August initial public offering, is spending its money poaching the brightest minds from arch-rival Microsoft and other tech giants. Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft. Google has wooed Joshua Bloch, one of the main devel...
SOURCE: TOPIX.NET The Secret Source of Google's Power Much is being written about Gmail, Google's new free webmail system. There's something deeper to learn about Google from this product than the initial reaction to the product features, however. Ignore for a moment the observations about Google leapfrogging their competitors with more user value and a new feature or two. Or Google diversifying away from search into other applications; they've been doing that for a while. Or the priv...
SOURCE: ZDNET Clues may point to Google browser By Stefanie Olsen CNET News.com September 23, 2004, 2:01 PM PT The Google franchise could be coming to a Web browser near you--if all the recent clues add up, that is. Evidence is growing that may support rumors that the preeminent search company plans to introduce a Google-branded Web browser down the road. Among the clues are a domain-name registration, a patent application and several recent hires. Since the search star's $1....
SOURCE: USA TODAY Can money buy the Beatles' Apple love? By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY Search any fee-based digital music service for the best-loved musical artists of the 20th century and most of the expected names show up. Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Sinatra are all accounted for, with their complete catalogs available per song, at 99 cents apiece. There are holdouts, but none bigger than the best-selling recording group of all time: the Beatles. That c...
SOURCE: Marketing VOX Gay Search Fagoogle 'Banned' 23 Sep 2004 SearchEngineLowdown: Fagoogle Offers Gay Search Engine Seemingly violating the trademarks of both Google and Microsoft's MSN simultaneously, a concern calling itself Fagoogle launched a meta search site for gays and lesbians. For its part, Google said it was fine with Fagoogle's launch - at least according to a Fagoogle release - a precedent that may make Google's going tough in some of its trademark cases against suc...
SOURCE: BNET e-Medicine Is Bigger Than Google While all the attention about the e-World has been focused on the selling of Google stock, what will impact you far more are the significant advances in e-Medicine. First, a tip of the hat to Google. I use it, almost exclusively, for web searching. This has been the case for some time, although I fondly recall the days of Alta Vista, Excite, Northern Light, and all the rest. And from time to time I'll enjoy an offbeat search engine li...
SOURCE: CorpLawBlog A Light Touch, After All With distance comes perspective. For instance, before my vacation from Corp Law Blog I was leaning towards the view that the Sarbanes-Oxley/Spitzer response to a few aberrant cases of financial fraud was getting a little heavy-handed and hysterical. Then, when I read that Jamie Olis had been sentenced to 292 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole, I was sure that things had gotten out of hand. But with my newf...
SOURCE: PRWEB Many Falling Short On The Sarbanes-Oxley Act The Sarbanes-Oxley Forum (http://www.sarbanes-oxley-forum.com) reports that almost 50% of organizations still haven't developed plans to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (PRWEB) September 21, 2004 -- The Sarbanes-Oxley Forum (http://www.sarbanes-oxley-forum.com) reports that almost 50% of organizations still haven't developed plans to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Their onsite survey, of over 2000 different o...
SOURCE: BNET SOX insights from an IT auditor By Jeff Davis In this column, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Nick Edmunds. In his role as senior IT auditor for a Fortune 300 company in the food services industry, Mr. Edmunds has spent the majority of his time in the past year on ensuring his company's compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. I managed to hijack a bit of Mr. Edmunds' precious free time to talk about his experiences and recommendations to fellow internal auditors. He...
SOURCE: CNET IT Physical Security in Mission-Critical Facilities Source: American Power Conversion Physical security — controlling personnel access to facilities — is critical to achieving data center availability goals. As new technologies such as biometric identification and remote management of security data become more widely available, traditional card-and-guard security is being supplanted by security systems that can provide positive identification and tracking of human ac...
I didn't watch the show so I guess this is a late post considering its 9/21 2004 and the show aired Aug 31. Straight from MSN TV "Father of the Pride" NBC, Tuesday 9 p.m. ET/PT Premieres Aug. 31 NBC takes an ambitious leap into computer-generated animation with this series from DreamWorks, currently flexing its CGI muscle with "Shrek 2." This small screen comedy captures the domestic travails of a family of white tigers featured in Siegfried and Roy's Las Vegas animal act, with ...
I have to say that I believe in this very much. I went through very stressful situation at my old job. Being I had previously had aniety problem, I took the job knowing that I would not be subjected to too much stres and agrevation. Then I was placed at the worst site the company had, probably in the United States. Through it all I am proud of myself in a sensethat I lasted 7 months there. A long time considering others lasted only 2 or 3 months and were either fired or quit (or got transfe...
SOURCE: USA TODAY Low-income students scarce at elite colleges By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Thomas Jefferson believed that democracy wouldn't work unless poor but worthy students had access to a quality education. So what would he think today about all those SUVs or that shiny black Saab turbo convertible parked near student hangouts at the campus he founded 185 years ago? The number of students at his beloved University of Virginia who qualify for need...
SOURCE: CNN MONEY Wall St.'s graphic gains? U.S. markets set to open higher Tuesday on Adobe results; Fed meeting awaited. September 21, 2004: 9:15 AM EDT NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Optimism about tech stocks in the wake of strong results from Adobe Systems could lift U.S. stocks at Tuesday's open, pushing the meeting of Fed policy makers on Wall Street's back burner for at least a little while. Early Tuesday, Nasdaq and S&P futures were solidly higher. Adobe Systems (ADBE: Rese...