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written by Robert Cauthorn for team CityTools info 249 weeks 6 days 4 hours 44 minutes ago
Folks, we're still assembling documentation on how the multiple languages work -- and yes, we're aware that some translations need work and we are working on it.
In any event, here is a quick version of how to use CityTools in multiple languages.
If you're not a...(more)
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submitted by Micca 198 weeks 5 days 10 hours 9 minutes ago
he Zimbabwean government this week responded to the hyperinflation crippling the country’s economy by knocking 10 zeros of the value of currency.
From Friday notes with a face value of Z$100 billion will be worth Z$10, the equivalent of 50p.
But the inflated notes, which will be legal...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 167 weeks 4 days 20 hours 23 minutes ago
The online forum and classified site Craigslist is once again under fire from law enforcement for running advertisements for erotic services.
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submitted by Grace 229 weeks 3 days 4 hours 13 minutes ago
Security researchers are tracking holiday attacks by the Storm Worm, a particularly insidious piece of computer malware that has been circulating around the world for about a year.
Earlier this week, the worm - actually a batch of malicious software code - started generating Christmas-related e-mail spam....(more)
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submitted by GG92 213 weeks 2 days 20 hours 46 minutes ago
PC World - A planned cyberattack against CNN's Web site fizzled out Saturday as the group backing the event called it off.
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submitted by Ari 202 weeks 3 days 6 hours 12 minutes ago
Four years ago, Geri Rebstock started using Yelp, a popular site for consumers to review local businesses and services. She critiqued her favorite veterinarian, a neighborhood print shop and an acupuncturist who took care of her bad wrist.
But Rebstock's reviews and personal account vanished from the...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 224 weeks 4 days 10 hours 50 minutes ago
AFP - Microsoft Friday unveiled a hostile bid of 44.6 billion dollars for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 221 weeks 20 hours 59 minutes ago
Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing "blasphemous" content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials said Sunday.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 248 weeks 3 days 2 hours 30 minutes ago
I've know Vin since... hmmm... about 1995 when we met in St. Louis. He's just about as smart as they come in New Media and this is a really nice read. Many of us greybeards in this space will read it and smile. Newcomers will get...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 247 weeks 21 hours 26 minutes ago
Yahoo Inc. insisted Monday that it was merely following Chinese law when it turned over user records to that country's authorities that ultimately led to the jailing of two dissidents.
The Sunnyvale Web portal's comments came as part of its first legal rebuttal to a case brought...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 216 weeks 3 days 21 hours 6 minutes ago
This is the one that everyone's talking about - the YouTube laughing baby. Try NOT to laugh while you're watching this. Impossible.
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submitted by Ari for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 241 weeks 10 hours 3 minutes ago
There's crazy and then there is Conservative America crazy -- now they're amped about Sputnik and Google. Oh. My. God.... From the story:
"Should the world's most-used search engine be more of a Yankee Google Dandy?
Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful home-page logo to...(more)
