The Less Educated Take the Worst Hit

June 10, 2009

The recession has led to steep job losses across the U.S. work force, but less-educated people have been hit particularly hard. The unemployment rate for workers over 25 years old who haven’t gone beyond high school rose to 10% in May, nearly doubling from 5.2% a year earlier, the government said Friday. Among workers who [...]

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Most U.S. Stocks Gain as Technology Rally Offset Consumer Slump

June 9, 2009

“We experienced in the last three months one of the nicest rallies in Wall Street history, and now we’re seeing the reasons why,” said Robert Lutts, president of Cabot Money Management in Salem, Massachusetts. “Texas Instruments and others are bumping up guidance nicely, and many companies that reported very negative consumer reactions are pulling that [...]

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How to Teach a Child to Argue

June 9, 2009

Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony. “And let’s face it: Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree. Most Americans seem to avoid argument. But this has produced passive aggression and groupthink in the office, red and blue states, and [...]

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The Bar Code Is Taking a Leap Forward

June 9, 2009

LOOK closely at recent supermarket coupons, and you may see some markings on them near the traditional bar code: sets of neat black bars stacked in two rows. The new symbols, called GS1 DataBars, can store more data than traditional bar codes, promising new ways for stores to monitor inventory and for customers to save [...]

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Most firms unaware of Web domain changes: survey

June 9, 2009

LONDON (Reuters) – Two thirds of businesses are unaware they will be able to use their own name in place of domain extensions such as .com, .org, or .net when Internet domains are liberalized next year, according to a survey. The change would let the likes of Nike or Microsoft control their own domain and [...]

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Small wind turbine works at low wind speeds

June 9, 2009

Homeowners this fall will be able to buy a wind turbine at hardware stores that tackles the small wind industry’s bete noire: slow wind. WindTronics, based in Muskegon, Mich., has developed a wind turbine sized for individual homes that it says can operate at speeds as low as 2 miles an hour. It will be [...]

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Sun Shareholders Will Vote on Oracle Deal on July 16

June 8, 2009

Sun Microsystems has scheduled a special shareholders meeting for July 16 for a vote on whether to accept Oracle’s US$7.4 billion proposal to buy the company. Sun’s board has unanimously recommended the transaction go through. The industry has been abuzz with speculation about how Oracle, which made its bid in April, will handle Sun’s assets [...]

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Obama Taps Well-Known Hacker as Security Adviser

June 8, 2009

The Obama administration is embracing the dark side to help it fight cyberattacks. On Friday, a well-known hacker was one of 16 people named to the Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council (HSAC). Jeff Moss, aka “Dark Tangent,” started out as a high-school “phone phreak” making free long-distance calls and later founded the DefCon and Black Hat [...]

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T-Mobile Investigates Alleged Data Breach

June 8, 2009

T-Mobile is investigating a claim that a massive amount of internal data has been stolen from the telecommunication operator’s servers, a company spokesman said Monday. On Saturday, a message about T-Mobile was posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list by people who wrote they’d unsuccessfully tried to sell the data to T-Mobile’s competitors. They wrote [...]

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China Requires Censoring Software on New PCs

June 8, 2009

BEIJING — China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet. Called “Green Dam” — green being a foil to the yellow smut of pornography — the software is designed to filter out sexually [...]

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