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1. Mutant Koobface worm attacks Skype accounts

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... in 18 languages, and it is too complicated to do a lexical analysis for the different languages. It is easier to just randomly chat," said Huq. "The worm will also paste a link to a compromised domain ...

2. 'Hobbits' really are a new human species

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   New analysis shows Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a  genetically flawed version of modern humans.  Using statistical analysis of one skeleton, researchers from ...

3. NASA finds water on dark side of the moon


   (Space/Space Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... impact. The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis, but it is safe to say Cabeus holds water." As TG Daily previously reported, LCROSS was launched June ...

4. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   Analysis: Broad agreement to establish industry ground rules Updated: God alone knows how much lawyers have benefited from the latest spat between AMD and Intel. Today the two companies announced a settlement ...

5. Rickrolling worm infects jailbroken iPhones

   (Security/Security Features)

   Sunday, 08 November 2009

   ... change your root user password to something different than the default 'alpine.'" According to Cluley, an analysis of the worm's code indicates the presence of at least four variants - with one version ...

6. Apple plans iPhone lockdown

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... installation, hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services and risk analysis of security threats. So what does Apple expect from the lucky candidate? "This position requires ...

7. Lee Harvey Oswald photo wasn't faked

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... in the Oswald photo analysis. At a casual glance, the lighting and shadows in the Oswald photo appear to many to be incongruous with the outdoor lighting. To determine if this was the case, Farid constructed ...

8. World's largest supercomputer starts work

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... Habib and his team wrote an entirely new computer code to exploit Roadrunner's hybrid architecture and make full use of the PowerXCell 8i computational accelerators. They also created a dedicated analysis ...

9. Peer pressure can lead to big energy savings

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   ... many analyses that make wild assumptions about how hard or how easy it is to get people to change their behavior, without any basis in science," he said. "Our analysis is based on science. We look at what ...

10. Almost no one is prepared to pay for online news

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    A survey of more than 2,000 people in the UK reveals that 91 percent of respondents would never pay for news online and 90 percent would be unwilling to pay for news analysis. A similar survey carried ...

11. Wolfram Alpha rolls out $50 iPhone app

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... if Wolfram decides it wants to sell the app, so my advice is to just be patient if you’re anxious to get your mobile stats analysis on," added Etherington.  ...

12. Zensify visualizes news with Cloud-based iPhone app

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    Zensify has launched a free news analysis application for the iPhone and iPhone touch. According to Zensify CTO Tom Campbell, ZenNews generates a visual "tag cloud" based on news trending topics that ...

13. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    News Analysis Microsoft's future begins next week. That's when the company ships Windows 7, its latest operating system. If Microsoft stumbles with Windows 7 as it did with Vista, people will start ...

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

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    An MIT analysis of climate risk indicates that even moderate carbon-reduction policies now can substantially lower the risk of future climate change. An MIT analysis of climate risk indicates that ...

15. Top 13 reader comments revealed

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... anymore.    Who cares? report abusevote downvote upVotes: -77. I'm convinced you guys write these articles just to get page hits, because the quality of the your writing and "in depth" analysis ...

16. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... used to do analysis real time so that threats to ships, planes, and solders can be better anticipated and mitigated and criminals can be increasingly caught before they commit their next crime.   ...

17. Sony's PSP Go is go

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... TV shows, 2,300 movies and 225 games. Sony adds that the new SensMe software ‘detects music mood and tempo’. SensMe uses 12 Tone Analysis technology to evaluate Media Go content imported tracks to ...

18. ARM changes name of the netbook game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    Analysis: While GlobalFoundries and ARM are not yet ready to discuss the full deal between them, the news is significant, not just for those two companies, but for the Intel Corporation too.Analysis: ...

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

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    Analysis: Now that Apple’s flagship phone is to be sold by Vodafone and Orange as well as O2, what benefits will UK users see? Ernest Doku of price comparison site Omio.com peers into his crystal ball... ...

20. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... been a great benefit to our VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics) user community, bringing advanced molecular visualization and analysis capabilities to thousands of users," said John Stone, senior research ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    Analysis  For the last ten years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - ICANN - has managed certain aspects of internet governance, most notably the assignment of domain names. ...

22. Handwriting gives liars away

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    People who are writing lies press harder on the paper and produce taller letters than those who are telling the truth, according to Israeli scientists who have developed a handwriting analysis system. ...

23. To lose one Gelsinger is careless. To lose three is an Intel catastrophe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    Analysis We'll probably never know why Kicking Pat Gelsinger decided to tidy up his desk and move his caravanserai to storage company EMC.Analysis We'll probably never know why Kicking Pat Gelsinger ...

24. Compile your iTunes library with care

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 23 August 2009

    ... subject of a short film, available here. An analysis also appears in Group Processes And Intergroup Relations.    ...

25. Analyst sees shiny Apple TV set by 2011

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    ... consumers." Munster's analysis is apparently based on a recent statement by COO Tim Cook, who vowed to continue investing in Apple TV due to a "fundamental" belief that there was "something there for ...

26. European monitor market shrinks again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    ... European sector, and no growth in the Middle East and Africa, the result was in line with our previous forecast [but] a slowing in the rate of value drop was welcome." Meko's analysis of the top 20 ...

27. Canadians research zombie attacks

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    ... researchers note: "This is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the first mathematical analysis of an outbreak of zombie infection." The paper concludes: "In summary, a zombie outbreak is likely to lead to the ...

28. Hapless Twitter hijacked by insidious botnet

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 14 August 2009

    ... "Our investigation and analysis of Downloader.Sninfs is ongoing but has so far shown that it reads a specific Twitter.com RSS feed only once. The RSS feed is simply a text file similar to other RSS feeds ...

29. Smartphone downloads to top 6.67 bn by 2014

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 12 August 2009

    ... & Sullivan. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, An Insight into the U.S. Smartphone Application Storefront Market, says that smartphone downloads from all app stores will reach 6.67 billion ...

30. Facebook jealously rears its ugly head

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 07 August 2009

    ... study utilized a hierarchical multiple regression analysis and hypothesized that increased Facebook use "significantly predicts" Facebook related jealousy. "We argue that this effect may be the result ...

31. NASA convinced it can find Earth-like planets

    (Space/Space Features)

    Friday, 07 August 2009

    ... and data analysis software were finished. "As NASA's first exoplanets mission, Kepler has made a dramatic entrance on the planet-hunting scene," said Jon Morse, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate's ...

32. Snapdragons snap at Intel's heels

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    Analysis - Intel may not be too happy about this, but if reports are true, a large number of Taiwanese manufacturers are set to introduce smartbooks based on ARM Snapdragon and ARM Tegra technology.Analysis ...

33. Flies get a go on flight simulator

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Sunday, 02 August 2009

    ... particular intensity when presented with the pattern appropriate to it. For the analysis of the optical flux fields, it's important that motion information from both eyes be brought together. This ...

34. Global Foundries has a fighting chance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    Analysis - While it's true that Global Foundries has an assured business fabbing out Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) designs, it has to make a far bigger impact on the industry if it truly wants to go ...

35. SOI could chop $800 billion from US power bills

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    ... to make, results from two studies are offered by consortium members to demonstrate this point. A benchmark analysis was performed by ARM Holdings using a 24-stage interconnect-loaded datapath circuit. ...

36. Analysis: Microsoft prepares to dominate global console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 July 2009

    Analysis - The Nintendo Wii is currently the number one selling console. However, there are indications that Microsoft has unleashed a carefully devised strategy to ensure its global domination of the ...

37. Endeavour crew checks heat shield

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... for the standard flight day two inspection of the reinforced carbon carbon wing leading edge and nose cap. The data will be transmitted to NASA’s imagery experts on the ground for analysis. The “standard’ ...

38. Microsoft beats Google, Lego tops Apple

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... behind Rolex. The annual analysis is carried out by The Centre for Brand Analysis (TCBA), which compiles a shortlist of 1,400 brands from thousands initially considered. The lowest scoring brands (around ...

39. Global warming theories 'incomplete'

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past. The study consists of an analysis of published records of a period known as the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM, about 55 million years ago. ...

40. Organic Motion deploys OpenSTAGE technology at Sony Wonder Lab

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... for analysis or display." Company spokesperson Chris Michaels told TG Daily that Organic Motion deployed 14 cameras and utilized advanced software to create an exact representation, or "digital clone" ...

41. Bluetooth support added to iSamurai's deadly arsenal

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 10 July 2009

    ... analysis allows each iPhone to distinguish between four distinct attacks and blocks. Indeed, the two devices communicate their actions to each other over Bluetooth and utilize realistic sounds to indicate ...

42. Cellphone interference can predict floods

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 06 July 2009

    ... was demonstrated in post-analysis of two case-studies of floods in the Judean Desert in Israel, where cell phone towers — and flash floods — are abundant. "Accurate predictions of flooding were difficult ...

43. Toyota refines brain machine interface for wheelchairs

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 29 June 2009

    ... machine interface (BMI) utilizes blind signal separation and space-time-frequency filtering technology to analyze brain-waves in under 125 milliseconds.   "Brain-wave analysis results are displayed ...

44. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ...  If you already have a website, this training focuses on what can be accomplished within 5 days of your first meeting with the ninja? Use SWOT analysis on your online presence and your competitors. By ...

45. Lake discovered on Mars

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 18 June 2009

    ... to one meter in size from its orbit 200 miles above Mars. Analysis of the images indicates that water carved a 30-mile-long canyon that opened up into a valley, depositing sediment that formed a large ...

46. Time is right for Indian flat panels

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 18 June 2009

    ... customer support." Analysis of the Indian LCD Panel Market is available from Frost and Sullivan.  ...

47. Humans more closely related to orangutans than chimps

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    New fossil analysis suggests humans share a common ancestor with orangutans rather than chimpanzees, contradicting DNA evidence.Pittsburg - New fossil analysis suggests humans share a common ancestor with ...

48. LCD makers have a heart of glass

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    Displaysearch produced an analysis of TFT LCD screens showing a breakdown of panels on different fab generations. Displaysearch produced an analysis of TFT LCD screens showing a breakdown of panels ...

49. Big Blue ploughs $100 million into mobile research

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... capabilities and an analysis of all candidate agents' calendar availability. For the 83 percent of the world that does not have easy access to the Web via PCs, IBM is striving to help mobile phone ...

50. Nvidia’s boss aims for computing hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    Analysis The CEO of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang, is a pugnacious guy who isn’t without charisma.Analysis - The CEO of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang, is a pugnacious guy who isn’t without charisma. He doesn’t pull ...