| Sun backs Web 2.0 startups
Sun Microsystems has put its weight behind up and coming web 2.0 companies with the launched this week of a new initiative designed to provide UK startups with discounts on Sun technology and services. The Sun Startup Essentials programme, which was originally launched in the States, will help eligible companies purchase a range of discounted products and services, including Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology, according to the firm. Startups under the scheme can also rent discounted web hosting infrastructure from Sun partners Layered Technologies, NaviSite and NTT Europe Online, and gain access to free open source software including Sun's own. "They will also get free technical support – the idea is to help startups make good decisions up front so as their needs go up they can sustain higher traffic," said Sun's Juan Carlos Soto.
Forth Road Bridge hack redirects to smut bazaar
Updated Hackers turned the Forth Road Bridge website into a filth jamboree after breaking into its systems to plant script designed to redirect surfers to a Turkish site hosting malware. According to Scottish security outfit Roundtrip Solutions the website of the Forth Estuary Transport Authority (www.feta.gov.uk), which runs the famous suspension bridge in central Scotland, was hacked in order to serve up pop-up ads for porn sites. Roundtrip used AVG's LinkScanner security tool to determine that hackers were taking advantage of the (old and a little obscure) MDAC-RDS ActiveX exploit to launch an iFrame HTML element taken from a website under the control of hackers. .
Advanced Life Sciences Announces Successful Thorough QT Study Of ...
Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADLS), announced positive results from Trial CL07-001, a thorough QT study of the Company's novel once-a-day oral antibiotic, cethromycin. This study was conducted to evaluate the cardiac safety of cethromycin and to enhance the safety database for the Company's upcoming New Drug Application (NDA) submission for cethromycin to treat community acquired pneumonia (CAP). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires thorough QT studies for all new chemical entities because prolongation in QT interval (corrected for changes in heart rate, or QTc) may signify an increased risk of developing cardiac arrhythmias.
Trial CL07-001 evaluated the potential of cethromycin to cause a prolongation in electrocardiographic QT interval in accordance with FDA and ICH E14 guidance.
BA unveils its new Heathrow terminal
Unmanned check-in kiosks can also screen a passenger's passport or scan a visa. First-class and business lounges are unusually spacious, have a spa and are luxuriously furnished with chandeliers, wine racks and, in one, even a cinema. There are no fast food restaurants in the new terminal but it does offer a Tiffany's jeweler and a Prada store. The main terminal is 99 percent complete; workers in hardhats could still be seen putting on the finishing touches while stores were being stocked with goods. Terminal 5's completion shows how hard cities such as London are willing to work to maintain their status as world business and tourist hubs, commissioning showcase structures that act as shopping malls with art galleries, spas and Internet access. Terminals can be profitable in an era of tightened security, as travelers show up hours before their flights -- and then shop or eat while waiting to take off.
3G iPhones arriving this summer, say analysts
When it comes to the mythical 3G iPhone, rumors about the device are certainly nothing new. Analysts in the past predicted 3G iPhones during the 2007 holiday season, but we've all see how that one has (or hasn't) turned out. Now the rumors are back, this time coming from UBS analysts Nicolas Gaudois and Ben Reitzes. According to AppleInsider, they're predicting that 3G iPhones with Infineon equipment inside will be arriving sometime this summer. Although it doesn't seem to be much different from last year's rumor, this latest 3G tidbit seems to have some facts behind it. The pair believes the iPhone will use HSDPA 3G technology (the same technology AT&T uses for its current 3G offering). Infineon already produces 3G radio hardware, but references by Infineon to an "HSDPA solutions design win" may be related to the company providing a new 3G platform for the iPhone.
Charles Stross' dense stories have made him a Singularity sensation
It's the stories we tell each other for amusement and social bonding. I'm skeptical about assigning purpose to an artistic phenomenon, because it's something that, at bottom, we do for fun and communication. (When used for communication it may be used with serious intent, but that's far from being the main purpose of most SF.) Having said that, I do believe it's possible to insert interesting messages in fiction, and because fiction is viewed as a recreational activity this makes it possible to get them across to people who might not otherwise be receptive. It's called propaganda, and it can be used for political, social or religious purposes (for example, C.S. Lewis's Narnia books were explicitly conceived of as vehicles for Christian theology targeted at children of an impressionable age).
Countrywide expands plans for subprime borrowers
Calif. groups seek BofA foreclosure moratorium [Sacramento] Countrywide foreclosure rate doubles [Tampa Bay] Countrywide expands plans to help subprime borrowers [Raleigh/Durham] BofA's Columbia Management to merge money-market funds [Charlotte] Wachovia to drop Visa Rewards for its own program [Baltimore] .
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