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Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Impact

I see it in the stars. Someone’s going to be laughed out of court-and soon. A Russian astrologer has filed suit against NASA claiming the impactor probe the space agency used to blow a football field sized crater into a speeding comet has “distorted” her horoscope.

German Teen Spreads Worms

Sven Jaschan admitted to wrecking computers worldwide when he confessed to creating last year’s Sasser computer worm. The worm devastated hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe. In the process, he’s bought himself some real jail time for his computer terrorism.

Sasser Worm Scribe Confesses

A 19 year-old German, Sven Jaschan, has confessed to writing the Sasser worm that affected millions of computers last year.

Reviews: Build Traffic and Reputation

Writing book reviews, product reviews, and reviews of other blogs is one way to increase your visitor traffic level. Reviews are also a powerful technique to enhance your reputation as a blogger.

Interview with Ashley Norris – Shiny Media

As I mentioned in my I’m home’ post – I was fortunately to catch up with two talented ProBloggers whilst I was in London – Ashley Norris and Katie Lee from Shiny Media.

Chevron Vs. CNOOC: Down And Dirty

Chevron told the Financial Times today they wanted to keep Unocal intact, dismissing notions of splitting Unocal up and giving up the Asian assets to China. This means that the battle rages on as Chevron tries to get the Unocal deal done before state-owned Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) get their fingers in too deep.

IBM: Phishing Up, Viruses Abound

A new report from the Armonk, NY technology company suggests phishing attacks jumped more than 200 percent in May.

Toyota Plans To Double Hybrid Production

Japanese automaker announced plans to double their hybrid automobile production in 2006 according a new Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. This plan will take their production levels to 500,000 cars a year.

Skype dominates VOIP

Most people have heard of Vonage, but Skype-which still causes eyebrows to lift when I mention it to audiences-dominates the Voice Over IP (VOIP) market in North America.

Microsoft Calls Up CRM 3.0

The new version skips from CRM 1.2 to 3.0 and will be available to current users at the end of 2005.

How Many Blogs to Focus Upon?

Paul wrote a week or so ago about his decision to scale back his blogs to those which are most profitable in a post titled “One site or one hundred sites?”…

Posting Frequency Observations

One of the things that going away and not checking your RSS feeds for a month can do for you is help identify who is blogging how much. I generally clear my bloglines account every day. As a result I don’t notice from day to day which of my 350 or so feeds are updating frequently.

Blog Censorship And The Impact On Doing Business In China

The many conversations in recent weeks about blog censorship in China won’t lead to any meaningful conclusions, I reckon.

Micro Persuasion 2.0

Now that this blog is over a year old, I feel it’s in need of a bit of a design refresh. So, I am playing around with the different blog templates TypePad provides.

Take A Computer Class, Teachers Urge Students

At a meeting of the National Education Association, teachers said they want to stem the falling number of college computer students.

Firefox Getting Official Google Toolbar

Google is releasing a toolbar for Firefox on July 7, according to a message it sent to developers of the Firefox Googlebar.

Surprise: GM Extends Discount Program

The world’s largest automaker said they would extend their “Employee Discount Program For Everyone” plan for another month until August 1. Chrysler has already started their plan which started on July 1st and Ford also announced today the Ford “Family Plan” offering incentives and discounts.

Prudential Creates Google Earth Plugin

In an effort to capitalize on the usability of Google new downloadable mapping service, many services are in the process of developing plugins designed to take the functionality of Google’s service to higher levels.

Oil Might Hit $80 By December

Continued worries about international tensions and insatiable consumer demand drive options higher.

Samsung, Motorola, Cross-Licensing Technology

Two big rivals in the mobile handset industry ink agreement to collaborate on technology by cross-licensing patents.

China Fixing Need For Internet Fix

A family goes out on nice vacation up in the Poconos for a summer vacation. It’s time to kick back for a few days and forget what day it is. You and your family have been planning the trip for months. No cell phones, no computers, no work or school, just the peace and quite of good ol’ Mother Nature, except someone is apparently going through Internet withdrawals.

Tablet Computing Founder Writes Against Microsoft

The founder of pen-based computing has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in federal and California courts.