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Sharper Image Files for Bankruptcy

Sharper Image Files for Bankruptcy

Upscale gizmo retailer The Sharper Image has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection blaming three straight years of losses on declining sales and problems stemming from its much-derided Ionic Breeze air purifiers.

According to court papers, the chain has been facing declining sales since 2004, and has posted losses during the last three fiscal years. As of January 31, the company claimed to have $251 million in assets and $1999 million in debt, with about $700,000 in cash on-hand. The company is seeking a $60 million loan arranged by Wells Fargo to keep operating.

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U.S. Leads World In Hosting Phishing Sites

U.S. Leads World In Hosting Phishing Sites

Anti-phishing group PhishTank, which is a service of openDNS and tracks phishing attempts on the Internet, offers information about phishing and ongoing scams, and offers an open API to developers looking to build phishing protection into applications, has released its phishing statistics for October 2006. Overall, the PhishTank community noted more than 7,000 suspected phishing attempts, of which almost 3,700 were verified and just under 900 were confirmed as invalid—most of the remaining sites went offline before community members could vote.

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New IBM Podcast Covers Genographic Project

IBM has a new podcast up which might interest those who are into DNA. Called “IBM and the Future of our Past”, it is part of a new series of IBM podcasts called “IBM and the Future of…”, which focuses on both general technology trends and IBM contributions in a variety of businessand technology areas.   "IBM and the Future of our Past" introduces the Genographic Project, a landmark five-year study conducted by IBM and the National Geographic Society. The Genographic Project is collectinghundreds of thousands of DNA samples to put together a map of how humans migrated out of Africa and populated the planet. The podcast is hosted by Ben Edwards and features a discussion betweenworld-renowned geneticist and anthropologist Dr. Spencer Wells, who heads the Genographic Project, and Ajay Royyuru, head of IBM’s Computational Biology Center.   The podcast is approximately 16 minutes and length and 7.5MB in size.

HDTV DivX Player In The Works

KiSS Technology, Inc. today announced that they will work with DivXNetworks, Inc., to develop a DivX Certified DVD Player optimized for the high-resolution HDTV playback of DivX video files. KiSS Technologies will demonstrate DivX Certified DVD players to major retailers at RetailVision North America, where DivXNetworks is an event sponsor. RetailVision is held April 26-29 at the Hyatt Grand Champion in Indian Wells, California.  Read more...

Retailers To View Hardware DivX Players

Providing North American retailers with a first-hand look at the most popular video technology since the introduction of DVDs, DivXNetworks, Inc., the company that created the revolutionary,patent-pending DivX video compression technology, will demonstrate a range of DivX video software and consumer electronics solutions at RetailVision North America, held April 26-29 at the Hyatt GrandChampion in Indian Wells, California.

DivXNetworks will showcase a number of technologies to top retailers at RetailVision, including secure playback of DivX video-on-demand content on DivX Certified DVD Players; DivX video playback on handheld and portable devices; High-Definition DivX video playback at a fraction of the file size of broadcast HD files; conversion of DV home video footage into DivX using Dr. DivX video software for nearly 20 times better compression, and more.

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IBM Asks Court To Throw Out SCO Claims

The request came in an amended counterclaim filed last week striking back at SCO claims that IBM gave proprietary Unix code to Linux developers.

Twice in a 47-page filing IBM asked federal magistrate Brooke Wells to issue a declaratory judgment absolving it of SCO accusations and calling off a trial set for April 11, 2005.

Read more at USA Today.

Intel announces Itanium 2 processors

These processors set a new precedent for world-class performance and breadth and scale of systems. This builds on the broad choice of software and operating systems and architectural strengths that have made Intel processors the choice for the majority of server deployments.

“The combination of our two enterprise architectures has addressed the diverse needs of enterprise computing from top to bottom,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and chief operating officer. “These new Itanium 2 processors and Intel Xeon processors MP deliver world-class performance and price-performance, strengthening Intel’s leadership over competitive enterprise solutions.”  Read more...

Apple releases Safari 1.0

Safari has become the browser of choice for millions of Mac® users and will be the default browser for all newly introduced Macintosh® computers, starting with the Power Mac® G5 announced today.Apple also released a software development kit that allows developers to embed the Safari HTML rendering engine directly into their applications.

The fastest web browser ever created for the Mac, Safari re-energizes the browser category through innovations like built-in Google search; SnapBack to instantly return to search results; a completely new way to name, organize and present bookmarks; tabbed browsing; and automatic “pop-up” ad blocking.

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Nvidia reaches ‘tentative’ deal with SEC

Nvidia has reached a broad agreement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that in return for agreeing to be a good boy in future, the stocks and shares regulator will not fine the company this time.

The agreement, revealed in Nvidia’s annual report, filed with the SEC on Friday, was tabled earlier this month. It is not a formal arrangement, and negotiations to finalise its terms could take weeks or months, Nvidia warned. Even then, the SEC may decide that it wants to take “enforcement action” after all.  Read more...

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