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From the New York Times: Some days the first thing visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art see is the soaring neo-Classical Great Hall punctuated by Corinthian columns, niches brimming with flowers and the spacious information desk. Other days, they may glimpse the interior of the famous Temple of Dendur, with its ancient ruins and …
From TechWeb News: Almost half of senior corporate executives believe their companies are spending too little on IT this year, a survey released Monday showed. Interviews with 230 U.S. executives showed that 46 percent believed their companies weren’t spending enough on IT, compared to 10 percent who said too much was being spent and 44 …
From USA Today: Stand-up comic Dane Cook’s frenetic energy and observational style has helped him build a solid fan base over 15 years of touring the club and college circuit. But Cook credits mainstream success, which includes two best-selling CDs, a guest-host gig on Saturday Night Live, a multi-project deal with HBO, sellout live arena …
From TechRepublic: Dell has agreed to purchase gaming PC maker Alienware, in a rare acquisition designed to improve Alienware’s supply chain and boost Dell’s standing among PC enthusiasts. advertisement Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alienware will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the world’s largest PC maker, said Nelson Gonzalez, chief …
From Mercury News: Google has mysteriously downgraded the search ranking of a Web site geared to help parents care for young children, causing a “cataclysmic fall”in advertising revenue and the number of monthly page views, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Friday. The civil suit by KinderStart.com of Norwalk seeks financial damages and more information …
From TechRepublic: Doctors pronounced Ethan Myers brain dead after a car accident dealt the 9-year-old a severe brain injury in 2002. After he miraculously awoke from a nearly month-long coma, doctors declared he would never again eat on his own, walk or talk. Yet, thanks partly to a video game system, Myers has caught up …
From InternetNews.com: Google is free to cache whatever material it wants unless content owners specifically forbid the search site from copying and archiving online content, a federal judge ruled last Friday. The judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming Google had violated an author’s copyright by archiving his Usenet posts and providing excerpts from his Web site …
From Datamation: Workers! If your office space sounds like the inside of a wind tunnel from the incessant hum of all the PCs surrounding you, lend me your ears. A small manufacturing company recently started shipping a new kind of PC case that emits almost no audible noise whatsoever. Its components stay cool without the …
From CNet News: On Thursday, two Senate Democrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana, introduced a bill called the “Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2006.” The 11-page measure would require the U.S. Department of Commerce to work with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit organization that …
From USA Today: The power of broadband Internet service is expanding the reach of Christian faithful who want to spread the word. Increasingly, houses of worship and individuals are using the Internet to reach adherents and those outside their communities, in a trend sometimes called “Godcasting.” “We want to try to make worship opportunities and …