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1. Ashmolean in Oxford re-opens this weekend

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Oldest public museum in world It's taken quite a while for the refurb of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford - that's going to be good news for the flocking tourists in this city. The galleries include some ...

2. Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... said in a public forum in Austin earlier this week that while it was important for AMD to use the very latest process technology, he was confident that Global Foundries would close the gap with Intel. ...

3. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... owns AFF and other significant brands, is going public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) that expected by the end of this year.  As part of that exercise, the company has declared their financial performance ...

4. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Boxer of California. Fiorina's entry into the race could present the liberal Boxer with her toughest re-election challenge, but Fiorina has to win a Republican primary against state Assemblyman Chuck ...

5. Verizon Wireless gets writ from AT&T

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   A public spat has blown up after AT&T sued Verizon Wireless over an advertisement alleging it has gaps in its coverage. A public spat has blown up after AT&T sued Verizon Wireless over an advertisement ...

6. Apple drops Atom bomb on Hackintosh netbook rebels

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... processor," reported OS X Daily. "This is especially important for Hackintosh users who have hacked various Atom based netbooks to run Snow Leopard." The publication also hypothesized that Apple was attempting ...

7. Twitter tilts at lists on feeds

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... organize the folk they follow by classifying them into lists. You can make the lists private but the default attribute is they're public - over half of Twitter users have already had the beta version ...

8. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   ... higher for the Republican ticket who started the mudslinging suggesting folks not use weapons that they very vulnerable to. For Sun, and tech, the effort did do Microsoft a substantial amount of damage ...

9. Google updates Search and Voice

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... social circle consists of Gmail contacts and those they're publicly connected to on social networking sites - although not, it seems, Facebook, which is rather a notable omission. Google is also expanding ...

10. Family Guy escapes curse of Redmond

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... double act ads is that the prodigiously-untalented performer hasn't been seen in public since. Bill Gates appears to have vanished as well. "We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex ...

11. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... small packet throughput.  A high-performance true random number generator (RNG) and public key accelerator enable up to 50,000 RSA handshakes per second. Packet processing accelerator: mPIPE (multicore ...

12. Toshiba hunts for rare metals in Kazakhstan

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Japanese firm Toshiba said it has signed a letter of intent with Kazatomprom, a firm owned by the Republic of Kazakhstan, to create a joint venture in rare metals.Japanese firm Toshiba said it has signed ...

13. NASA launches space exploration app for the iPhone

    (Space/Space Features)

    ...  "The NASA App provides an easy and interesting way for the public to experience space exploration." According to Martin, the app also tracks the current positions of the International Space Station ...

14. Chrome for Mac finally arrives in beta, sort of

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... in response to a question from the audience. "I am using Chrome for Mac [and] a Mac version is available for the public, but it's only an early developer version, not in a real beta testing for the public." ...

15. Global warming scepticism rising faster than temperatures

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... of the US public by the Pew Research Center reports that only 57 percent - down from 77 percent three years ago - believe there is strong scientific evidence that the Earth has become warmer over recent ...

16. Microsoft upgrades Bing with live Twitter feed

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... such as Twitter provide unique access to public opinion and thoughts - which  US Bing users can now easily search through.    "If you want to keep an eye on [a specific] topic, you can ...

17. AUO unveils flexible e-paper

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... 20-inch e-paper module - the world's largest, it says - and has launched its six-inch and nine-inch flexible e-paper displays. The 20-inch EPD (Electrophoretic Display) module is aimed at public information ...

18. YouTube offers chance to quiz Nobel winners

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... students, educators, researchers and the general public to take this opportunity to communicate with John Mather." If you are in Stockholm, you can ask questions at a special YouTube pod stationed at ...

19. Office 2010 enters public beta next month

    (Software/Software Features)

    The next version of Microsoft’s flagship application suite, Office 2010 is to be available as a public beta program from November, CEO Steve Ballmer announced today. The next version of Microsoft’s ...

20. The Delusions of IT Startups

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... to revolutionize the IT industry. Hard-bitten VCs like their startup leaders to be delusional, at least in public, and especially to the press. They want their wet-behind-the-ears CEOs boasting of their ...

21. Insecurity leads to fascism

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... blames the fact that the internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the US military as the source of the problem. When it was introduced to the public and it was wrong ...

22. Judge protects Verizon ringtones from greedy publishers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    A US District Court judge has ruled that Verizon Wireless does not require a public-performance license for selling ringtones. According to Judge Denise Cote, when a ringtone plays on a cellular telephone ...

23. Barnes and Noble leaks e-reader details

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... "The hardware maker has allegedly contacted publications such as The New York Times and publishers like McGraw Hill and Oberlin Press about making their content available in an upcoming device. And a group ...

24. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... when the existing tools are "good enough". I expect the new OS will have a very slow adoption curve. That will cause Microsoft bashers to crow with glee at the "failure" of Windows 7. That negative publicity ...

25. Microsoft kills Works

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Office 2010 – due for public beta before the end of the year – which can be unlocked by using a key card to be sold at major electronic outlets. Depending on how much they pay, the key cards will enable ...

26. Congress demands FCC probe of Google Voice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... include Republican Steve Buyer and Democrat Charlie Melancon, also demanded that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski examine the "nature and function of Google Inc's voice service."As TG Daily previously reported, ...

27. Free Software Foundation goes mad

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... non-profit organisations that choose proprietary software are undertaking bad public policy through misinformation or a failure to see their technology choices as connected to their social missions,” frothed ...

28. Government anti-leak document leaked

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... up on Wikileaks. The three-volume, 560,000-word guide is marked 'Restricted'. The MoD insisted the publication did not pose 'significant security concerns' because it was written in 2001 and many of ...

29. Acting fast could cut climate change risk, says MIT

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... change increase drastically with higher temperature, in a very non-linear way. Mort Webster, assistant professor of engineering systems, warned that public discussion over climate change policies ...

30. Twitter Lists lets users pigeonhole their friends

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... blog. Lists are public by default - although they can be made private - marking one difference from the TweetDeck service. They are linked from the user's profile, allowing other users to subscribe. ...

31. Win7 XP mode released to manufacturing

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft has released Windows XP Mode to manufacturing and will make it available as a public download when Windows 7 launches on October 22. MS says the minimum system requirement for running XP Mode ...

32. Ig Nobel winners beat each other with beer bottles

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... Bodnar, Raphael C Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago scooped the Public Health prize for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the brassiere ...

33. How to save journalism

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... don't cover it. They don't call sources, dig into public records, get interviews with people in power, attend public meetings, race off to natural disasters, or do half the things necessary to report ...

34. AMD talks up graphics as Nvidia kicks off GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    It’s an unwritten rule of marketing that when your competition is holding a mega event, you should try to get some publicity off the back of it. Hence we saw AMD dragging Intel Developer Forum delegates ...

35. Tyrannosaurs 'killed by throat infection'

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... incredibly difficult. You have to have a viable pharynx. Without that, you won't make it for very long, no matter how powerful you are." Details are in Public Library of Science One.  ...

36. End of O2 iPhone monopoly is good news for UK users

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    ... Orange will relish this point of better reception and bring it to the public’s attention when promoting the iPhone on their network, but whether it is enough of a determining factor for customers to choose ...

37. Oracle fined over "Sun + Oracle is Faster" equation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... because Oracle did not have a TPC result at the time of publication," the TPC explained in an official statement. "The TPC requires that claims based on TPC benchmarks must be demonstrable using publicly ...

38. AT&T to fight texting while driving

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    AT&T has leapt into the texting-while-driving debate, launching a campaign to educate the public about the danger. AT&T has leapt into the texting-while-driving debate, launching a campaign ...

39. ICANN is broken: they think they have fixed it

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... governments,  creating oversight panels that will review ICANN's performance in competition amongst generic domains, data protection, security, transparency, accountability and the public interest. ...

40. Be afraid... the message of subliminal advertising

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... 'danger'." Professor Lavie reckons the research may have implications for the use of subliminal marketing to convey messages, particularly for public service announcements such as safety campaigns.  ...

41. Google Books opponents claim victory

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... is dead. And any hope for revival of a settlement will require fundamental reforms. This is a huge victory for all those voices seeking to serve the public interest, protect innovation and promote competition. ...

42. MCCI showcases 270MB/s USB 3.0 system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 3.0 digital video camera     USB 3.0 gets public viewing  ...

43. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... sold to the general public. Such a use cannot therefore be considered as being a use made in relation to goods or services identical or similar to those covered by the trade marks. Similarly, advertisers ...

44. SuperSpeed controller to boost adoption of USB 3.0

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... September 22nd and September 24th 2009. TG Daily editors will be there.See AlsoPoint Grey debuts USB 3.0 digital video camera     USB 3.0 gets public viewing     Expect some ...

45. Google prepared to compromise on digital books deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the central difficulty that the Proposed Settlement seeks to overcome – the inaccessibility of man works due to the lack of clarity about copyright ownership and copyright status – is a matter of public, ...

46. Apple totally rejected Google Voice app over duplication fears

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... While we could have asked the FCC to oppose those requests, in light of Apple's decision to make its own letter fully public and in the interest of transparency, we decided to drop our request for confidentiality." ...

47. Point Grey debuts USB 3.0 digital video camera

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ...  See Also USB 3.0 gets public viewing Expect some Superspeed USB products this year  ...

48. USB 3.0 gets public viewing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    The USB Implementors Forum said it will show off a number of USB 3.0 applications at the Intel Developer Forum next week.The USB Implementors Forum said it will show off a number of USB 3.0 applications ...

49. British blogger sued for defamation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... about Evony in articles written for his blog. Everiss, who was a marketeer in the games industry just ignored them. Everiss was told to identify the author and the names of all those involved in publication ...