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Particle Drilling Technologies Announces Update on Field Trial and Fiscal 2008 Third Quarter Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated Reports 2008 Second Quarter and First Half Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)CHARLOTTE, N.C.—-Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated today announced it earned $15.2 million, or basic net income per share of $1.66, in the second quarter of 2008 compared to net income of $11.7 million, or basic net income per share of $1.28, in the second quarter of 2007.

It was inevitable really: Feedburner’s new owner Google has gone ahead and integrated the feed tracking service into its Blogspot/Blogger.com blog platform, enabling one click redirection of Blogger feeds to Feedburner. In other words: if you want detailed stats on who is reading your Blogger blog, it’s now easy to do. The integration [.]

- Feedburner Comes to Blogger: Google Analytics Next?

The practice, which sharply divides Internet users, has been fueled by the rapid growth of fast wireless broadband in homes and people’s failure to secure their networks.

- Two arrested, cautioned over wireless ‘piggy-backing’

The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled charges against Hewlett-Packard for not disclosing the reason for a director’s resignation amid a board-level investigation into company leaks last year, according to a release Wednesday from the commission.

- SEC settles with HP over disclosure violation

About the security content of Mac OS X 10.4.9 and Security .This document describes the security content of Mac OS X 10.4.9 and Security Update . Security Update 2007-003 will install on Mac OS X v10.3.9 and Mac OS X . Software Update will present the update that applies to your system .

Yes, this is another update on my mail woes with .Mac. Tonight I got yet another message from .Mac support that started like this: Although we will be unable to give you absolute reassurance that you will never encounter email issues with your .Mac account ever again, I can offer a work-around.

I’m a passionate about Twitter. I spend more time in on it than in any other social media venue. Twitter has been good to me. It is the source of leads for my text and video blogs, not to mention several very nice consulting and speaking offers. But the real value is in the friendships I’ve.

DigPhilly is a new social networking site that is pretty niche, as it’s dedicated to Philadelphia, but still offers a comprehensive community for users on a global scale.DigPhilly lets you share photos and videos, create multimedia blog entries, buy and sell in their classifieds section, manage and share your calendar, read their news stories or [.]

- DigPhilly is a Niche, Interactive Magazine

Hardware accelerated user interface and scalable vector graphics engine developer Scaleform has announced that its Scaleform GFx tools and middleware have been updated for release on both the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable. Leveraging the power of Nvidia and Sony’s RSX graphics chip, the GFx SDK is a rich media vector graphics engine for console and PC developers, combining the scalability of tools such as Adobe’s Flash with hardware graphics acceleration. Built on Scaleform’s .

- Product: Scaleform GFx Comes To PSP, PS3

China’s Alibaba moving toward IPO (AP)

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- Alibaba.com CEO Jack Ma speaks during a news conference to launch the software called ALISOFT in Shanghai, China, in this Jan. 8, 2007 file photo. Alibaba.com Corp., a leading Chinese online commerce site in which Yahoo Inc. owns a 40 percent stake, has taken steps toward an initial public stock offering in Hong Kong for its business-to-business unit, a company spokesman said Monday, July 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said Monday it is moving toward a long-anticipated initial public offering, with plans to sell shares of its business-to-business unit in Hong Kong.


- China’s Alibaba moving toward IPO
(AP)

Salvador Guerrero waits for his wife to exit customs at Los Angeles International Airport after a computer failure by customs and border protection left about 6,000 passengers stranded on airplanes and in terminals on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007. The passengers were stranded in four airport terminals and in 24 planes starting at about 1:30 p.m. because of a breakdown in the computer system. The system contains the names of arriving passengers and law enforcement data about them, including arrest warrants, said Los Angeles World Airports spokesman Paul Haney.(AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP - Weary international passengers were stuck at Los Angeles International Airport for several hours, unable to set foot in the United States after a computer failure prevented customs officials from screening arrivals.


- Computer glitch causes delays at LAX
(AP)

Stringer Promises To “Refine” PS3 Price Before Christmas

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McAfee patents Virus Update over the Internet The RegisterThe Register ? Security ? Anti-Virus ? McAfee patents Virus Update over the Internet. Patently ridiculous. By John . Network Associates’ McAfee division has obtained a patent for updating anti-virus software over the Internet in one of . Network Associates granted new US patent for updating anti-virus over the Internet. Related Stories. McAfee files . Britney fears used as ANI exploit lure * Grum worm poses as IE7 beta * Microsoft’s OneCare flunks anti-virus test Read . which describes techniques for setting up a local server for the distribution of anti-Virus Updates and for checking the . Upgrading of Antivirus Applications Using a Computer Network, “further distinguishes” McAfee brand anti-virus solutions . Security. *Management. *Science. *Odds & Sods. Security:. *Crime. *Enterprise Security. *Anti-Virus. *. *ID. * . Mobile Gadgets. *Hosting. Top Stories. * ANI takers for Asus website virus? * Linux malware for iPods poses little risk .

?The Sopranos? finale outraged viewers. But it?s not the first work to end in the mid.

- Endings Without Endings

Sony Group Chairman and CEO Howard Stringer has appeared to confirm that the PlayStation 3 will undergo a price cut before the Christmas gift buying season this year, indicating that the company is currently looking at ways to drop the price without incurring undue extra losses. Speaking in a new video interview with the Financial Times, Howard acknowledges customer resistance to the current high price of the PlayStation 3 but indicates that the company is .

- Stringer Promises To “Refine” PS3 Price Before Christmas

A security firm known for its aggressive approach to hunting down and publicizing zero-day security flaws has released a tool aimed at automating the process of pulling together zero-day exploits.

- Defcon: Security firm automates generation of attack code