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SB Newswire 11.10.09

SB Newswire is a weekly video news blog highlighting the world of national and local news. Our interns Angelica Gonzalez and Sean Towers get you “wired” with news about social networking site Facebook setting an innocent man free after his status update pardoned him from a crime he was being accused of in New York City and Larry King’s bizarre interview with fallen Miss California contest Carrie Prejean.

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Evil Elves Revenge Now Live in AWinter Wonderland

This festive season, AWinter Wonderland brings you the fantastically fun and exciting Evil Elves Revenge game where you can help Father Christmas defeat the sinister elves who are trying to ruin the holiday cheer. What better way to get into the joy of Christmas than to guide Santa’s magical sleigh and ensure that all the presents are delivered to the anxiously awaiting children

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WiGig Alliance Finalizes 7 Gbps Spec for 60 GHz Band

The WiGig Alliance has hit a planned mark, with a spec going to members and 7 Gbps in the air: The WiGig Alliance is a group now comprising about 30 members, including all major wireless chipmakers, that wants a standard radio platform and standard application profiles for the 60 GHz millimeter-wave band. The 60 GHz band is available with different allotments in most international regulatory domains, with some, like the US, having 7 GHz available

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QShell

QShell is a free application to improve the log in experience for vWorkspace users on thin clients and end of life hardware where you want to provide a PC’s like log in experience to a virtual desktop. It can provide a single sign on experience removing the client devices original desktop, start menu, task bar and desktop icons. Currently this is program is not an official Quest release and therefore cannot be supported via the normal Quest channels. However due to a number of customer requests we are looking officially release QShell next year (2010). As I get more details I will update the blog but until it is officially released you should use this program at your own risk. If you do have any issues or requests I will endeavor to help where possible.

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Canadians Experience Wonder and Joy of In-Flight Internet

This piece in the Globe and Mail may be a little too breathless by half, but it’s quite fun: The first two planes are plying routes from Canada to the US with Gogo Inflight Internet enabled over American portions, although this is a trial and only until 29 January. The service is being offered commercially. The Canadian part will be enabled in a partnership between Canuck firm SkySurf, which won the domestic airwave rights, and Aircell, which operates Gogo.

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WHDI Completes Wireless High Def Spec

The WHDI Consortium has finished a spec for running 1080p at 60 GHz and 12 bits over 5 GHz spectrum: It’s not Wi-Fi, nor anything remotely like it, but the WHDI spec uses 40 MHz channels in the 5 GHz band to carry the equivalent of 3 Gbps as far as 100 feet. This new spec, based on work from Amimon, which developed the technology, boosts resolution fro 720p in the previous version to 1080p. It also supports HDCP, the digital rights management (DRM) specification that’s used with wired HDMI to ensure end-to-end protection of content.

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Google CEO channels Houston police chief

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy : “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” The if you’re not doing anything wrong meme rears it’s ugly head once again, only this time it’s the CEO of a company who’s business relies on the accumulation of data (albeit not all of it is personal). Last time I heard the line it was coming out of a Houston police chief’s mouth, while trying to justify the installation of surveillance cameras in people’s bedrooms.

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Automated WPA Cracking Service Costs $34

A clever researcher launches a service that mostly proves how easy it is to crack a bad WPA password: IDG News Service reports that Moxie Marlinspike, a nom de Net for a security researcher, has launched WPA Cracker , a $34 service that cracks poorly chosen passwords found in a database of 135 million passwords in 20 minutes or less using distributed commodity computing. For $17, it takes 40 minutes. Let me be clear: this is a clever and worthwhile addition to penetration testing (pentesting) and network security, and I would gladly pay $34 to prove to someone smug that his or her company password was vulnerable.

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I know, let’s put all our great thinkers in a box stamped "learning disabled"

Due to the artificial focus on degrees, valuable dyslexic minds are often shunted into little nothing jobs because people tend to equate writing/reading ability w … ith overall intelligence, which is a mistake that will cost much time and delay in the advancement of science and industry- traditionally headed up by visual thinkers- a nd especially dyslexic minds….

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SAP Failures: Is Lack of Sr. Mgt. Commitment the REAL Issue?

… is really a failure on the part of your consultants, the executive sponsor, and internal project manager to do their jobs….This is precisely where consultants and the project management team drop the ball when it comes to managing the executive staff (and yes they must be managed)….When ERP projects fail it is popular (and easy) for consultants and the project management team to simply throw up their hands and site “l…Tags: ERP Consultants, ERP Disasters, ERP Failures, SAP consultants, SAP Failures…

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http://socglory.blogspot.com/2009/12/if-nhs-hospital-had-listened-to-me-baby.html

A consultant from the NHS clinic that sent Baby P home to die has broken her silence to allege that managers from the world-famous Great Ormond Street Hospital bullied h…Dr Holt was one of four permanent consultants at the paediatric clinic, at St Ann’s Hospital, Haringey….If NHS hospital had listened to me, Baby Peter would still be alive’, says consultant…Instead of acting on the concerns raised, Great Ormond Street and the co-manager of the service, Haringey Primary Care Trust, actually cut the number of consultant p osts at the clinic, from four to three….

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Some BC (Before Climategate) Sources

– until they discovered that the computer models’ predictions didn’t … bookmark it) in the National Post pointing to a site called Friends of Science that I began to take the matter somewhat more seriously….The reality is that climate does change … always has, and always will, and true science is never settled, certainly not without some empirical evidence – … computer modelling, which by, all accounts I’ve read, they’ve used to make the data fit their theory….

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Take Your Company Public – How to Find a Consultant That Can Make the Process Fast and Easy

Just and honest consultants in the ‘public offering’ industry are as rare as the illusive white elephant….The best consulting firms are the ’boutique firms’ with minimal overhead that keep a low profile and are made up of 3 or 4 ‘p artner’ consultants….This industry exists in a cesspool surrounded by rose gardens; from afar it looks amazing and an image of a dreamland but get up and close and the sludge and odor a re enough to make you run and hide. So what do you look for in a consultant?…While your intentions may be pure and with genuine motives, you’re entering shark infested waters of boiler rooms, crooked attorneys and underbelly consultants w…

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Network Theory

So Six degrees is no more a myth – the concept has actually evolved into the science of Network Theory, a highly abstract, mathematical concept that has now become c … So does this concept tell you a few things about how to kill a viral infection in a computer network?…In his book, Linked: The New Science of Networks, Barabási writes, “There is a path between any two neurons in our brain, between any two companies in t … In the film, Barabási and other scientists suggest that computer viruses, infectious diseases, proteins in the cell, and human social groups are all governed b y the same fundamental concepts….

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Your Image Must Be Consistent With Your Consultancy

Hiring a consultant is often a risk for them and they will want continued small reassurances that they have done the right thing in hiring you….I want you to sit down and think about individual successful consultants or people that you know that you look up to….If you are a Management Consultant working with a top 100 firm – you better be wearing a smart dark blue suit and shiny black shoes….Now if you are an animal training consultant you are quite able to get away with wearing boots and jeans, if you are an IT Web designing consultant you are quite l…

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Mintz Levin Financial Advisors, LLC Forms Strategic Alliance with Capital Market Consultants, LLC (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Capital Market Consultants, LLC (CMC), a Milwaukee-based independent investment consulting firm, will provide Mintz Levin Financial Advisors (MLFA) with on-going due diligence of MLFA’s existing investment managers, conduct new investment manager searches and provide economic and investment commentary and recommendations.

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Busiest online shopping day ever; today 9th of December

Cyber Monday, busiest Online Shopping Day in the UK Online shopping According to ecommerce and Internet analysts, the busiest day in the history of online shopping will be about lunchtime today, Monday the 9th of December 2009 when millions of online shoppers are expected to log on to their computers, surf to their favourite online retailers to buy items for their loved ones Christmas stockings. It is estimated that collectively, online shoppers in the UK will spend about £4,000 per second

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Baby Peter and beyond – Great Ormond Street in the dock

… he and three other senior consultant paediatricians had raised about the dreadful way things were being handled by management in charge of the child protection health t eam….I raised it in Parliament and if you look back in Hansard you will see me raise the issue of why out of four senior paediatric consultants, two had resigned, one w…She is (or rather was) a senior paediatric consultant in Haringey’s child protection health team….The four consultants were so worried that they took the unusual step of jointly signing a letter enumerating their concerns and stating that they believed management w ere ignoring them….

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This Day in Geek History: December 7

1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) releases the science fiction film Village of the Damned, directed by Wolf Rilla and starring George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin S … most powerful computer, at an inauguration ceremony at Manchester University, in England….(In computer operating systems, paging is a method by which memory allocation algorithms, also called memory address translation, divide computer memory into small p … 1979 Paramount Pictures releases the science fiction film Star Trek: The Motion Picture, directed by Robert Wise and starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest K…

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Mr Brown will announce plans today to reduce Britain’s £175 billion deficit by cutting the costs of quangos, consultants and the Civil Service….

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