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'Blink' Author: How to Make Better Business Decisions

Blink and The Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell tells security professionals that too much information can impair judgment. He spoke as the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco. As an example, he said emergency room doctors are much better at diagnosing chest pain accurately when they have only four data...

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Videos 2008-04-11

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City sirens needed in spring

Random thoughts from a short guy with a big mouth: n Band-Aid is a brand of adhesive bandage. Kleenex is a type of tissue. But in the households of many Kansans, including this one, the brand names have become universal code...

Articles 2008-05-06

Power down

MILTON, Ontario -- The glowing amber dot on a light switch in the entryway of George Tsapoitis' house offers a clue about the future of electricity. A few times this summer, when millions of air conditioners strain the Toronto region's power grid, that pencil-tip-size amber dot will...

Articles 2008-05-06

New on DVD

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ***1/2, out of four 2007, Miramax, rated PG-13, $30 Oscar-nominated director Julian Schnabel and screenwriter Ronald Harwood The Pianist pull off a tough one, though it's surprising there's no Blu-ray given Janusz Kaminski's cinematography, which was deservedly nominated as well....

Articles 2008-05-02

Julian Schnabel: the eye of the mind: in his film about a man completely paralyzed but for one eye, Schnabel has skillfully interwoven his character's memories with a phantasmagoria of art-historical references and imagery

When Julian Schnabers film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly opened at the Cannes Film Festival last May, I was amazed at what a French movie the American artist had made. That brilliant cast of European and Canadian actors and actresses assembled around the artist-director on the tapis rouge; the...

Articles 2008-05-01

Stuttering: what you should know

What is stuttering? Stuttering is a speech problem that makes it hard to say certain words or sounds. People who stutter may repeat sounds, words, or parts of words. They may also pause longer than normal between sounds and words. They may blink their eyes, jerk their jaw,...

Articles 2008-05-01

Stuttering: an overview

Speech dysfluency stuttering is common in children. Although stuttering often resolves before adulthood, it can cause significant anxiety for children and their families. Stuttering speech patterns are often easily identifiable; when a child is learning to talk, repetition of sounds or words, prolonged pauses, or excessively long sounds in words...

Articles 2008-05-01

Liquor variance ignores wishes of residents

In the blink of an eye, the will of the majority of Bountiful was usurped when the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control voted 3-2 in favor of granting a variance to the law allowing a restaurant to serve alcoholic beverages near a public facility. On April...

Articles 2008-04-30

Buy-to-let keeps the housing blues at bay

Landlords seem untroubled by the market slide, so Laura Howard asks if new investors should cross the threshold PROPERTY Whether or not to jump on board the buy-to-let bandwagon has been a big question for homeowners since the turn of the millennium. During...

Articles 2008-04-27

Portable Tester troubleshoots Ethernet connectivity problems

Housed in impact-resistant ABS case, battery-powered LinkUp? utilizes LEDs for instant basic connection status and LCD display to provide more detailed link analysis. Auto-negotiation capabilities can be scrolled through, and Power-Over-Ethernet voltages can be read. LinkBlink test allows link light on hubs and switches to determine wired port numbers, while...

Articles 2008-04-18

They've got an answer for everything

Last Night's TV CHILD GENIUS CHANNEL 4 THE APPRENTICE BBC2 It's not always easy to focus on the job in hand when you're reviewing television. Take Child Genius, a Channel 4 series that follows the lives of exceptionally gifted children (or, to be...

Articles 2008-04-17

Historic banking bailout will carry a heavy price. More regulation

OUTLOOK Not long to go now before plans for the biggest government bailout of the UK banking system in history emerge blinking into the cold light of day. Details are still thin on the ground, but the broad outline is now clear enough. In...

Articles 2008-04-17

Blink and you'll miss the emotion

Theatre WAR AND PEACE Hampstead Theatre LONDON ** Helen Edmundson's adaptation of the enormous Tolstoy novel is full of Russians dancing, striding, climbing, crouching, brawling, leaping, duelling, whirling. There is a lot of whirling. Men hug women above the knees, hoist them up,...

Articles 2008-04-16

Blink Logic Recruits Veteran EVP World-Wide Sales

Oracle, Progress Software and Net Dynamics Sales Exec Pam Passaretti Joins SAN FRANCISCO -- Blink Logic Inc. (OTCBB:BLKL), the innovation leader in Software as a Service SaaS Business Intelligence BI, announced today that Pamela Reilly Passaretti has joined the company as Executive Vice President, World-Wide Sales and Service....

Articles 2008-04-14

Lebanese increasingly feel inflation's pinch

BEIRUT AFP — Loretta Beayni works 10 hours a day, six days a week in a Beirut beauty salon, earning a mere 400 dollars a month, which goes in the blink of an eye on household bills and helping out her parents. Like many Lebanese, she has a...

Articles 2008-04-09

Medicare Cuts Don't Faze Apria, Wall Street

HEALTHCARE: Diversification, acquisition should insulate Apria Wall Street didn't blink when Apria Healthcare Group Inc. lost potential profits from a cut in Medicare funding. The home healthcare provider made a big acquisition last year and diversified its offerings for health plan operators-moves the company thinks will...

Articles 2008-04-07

The EUR250 Sekurus

THERE'S so much debt in the States that the seven million borrowers with sub-prime car loans are being forced to have little boxes installed in their cars that immobilise the engine if they don't pay up. The EUR250 Sekurus On Time blinks when a payment is nearly due, then beeps...

Articles 2008-04-06

The Weasel Christopher Hirst Snapshots from the edge

ost of us emerge blinking from this tedious ritual once a decade. Aside from passports, it is a more frequent rite of passage for those who need a mug shot for rail, security or other pettifogging purposes. Bizarrely, you have to do it if you're going to the Glastonbury Festival....

Articles 2008-04-05

Multimedia Coprocessor enables video on mobile phones

OMAP-DM510 coprocessor supports up to 8 megapixel still images as well as up to DVD quality video at 30 fps for various video standards, including MPEG4 and H.264. Also able to deliver 3 fps of burst mode performance, it utilizes embedded image signal processor and video processors along with ARM...

Articles 2008-04-03

USA Technologies' New Products Launched at the NAMA Trade Show Result in Increased Sales

MALVERN, Pa. -- USA Technologies (NASDAQ:USAT) reported today a successful appearance at the NAMA Spring Expo, the vending industry's trade show in Las Vegas. At the show the Company launched its G7 ePort, ePort Connect[TM] Stored Value, Loyalty and Certification Programs. The new products were overwhelmingly well received and initial...

Articles 2008-04-02