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FDA says cloned animals safe is food.
WASHINGTON - Just over a decade after scientists cloned the first animal, the last major barrier to selling meat and milk from clones has fallen: The U.S. government declared this food safe Tuesday.
Now, will people buy it?
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Apple’s problems started with environmental protection advocate Greenpeace issuing a report (PDF) finding the iPhone not up to snuff with its standards of responsible technology.
The irony is that the iPhone showed no traces of cadmium or mercury, typical causes for violation. While the iPhone appears to have met EU and U.S. environmental standards, it did not meet those of Greenpeace. Greenpeace found trace amounts of lead and other carcinogenic compounds in the device.
Lead is a carcinogen and can cause brain damage. Despite a large amount of medical evidence, only one state, California, recognize lead based solders to be carcinogenic.
Caroline Cox is the research director with the California Center for Environmental Health.
Cox: What we really need is more systematic testing by the manufacturers and the suppliers and the retailers. So that people can really have assurance that when they buy something that the product won’t contain toxic chemicals.
Apple says it plans to eliminate PVC — polyvinyl chloride — from its products, including the headphone cables, by the end of next year. Cox says that’s not soon enough to meet California regulations and the Center will sue Apple if it doesn’t correct the problem.
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Stuart Scott, who joined Microsoft in 2005 as Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer and he reported to Kevin Turner, chief operating officer was fired from Microsoft on November 5 for violating company policies, Microsoft officials said.
At Microsoft, Scott led an IT staff that oversees security, infrastructure, messaging and business applications and supports Microsoft product groups, corporate business groups, and the global sales and marketing organization.
Scott and his team were also responsible for deploying prerelease versions of Microsoft software and gathering feedback to be rolled into products before their commercial release.
Before Microsoft Scott worked for General Electrics for 17 years.
Mary Jo Foley posted a statement from Microsoft about the issue: “We can confirm that Stuart Scott was terminated after an investigation for violation of company policies , and have no further information to share.”
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Okay, we’ve been hearing quite many rumors about the so called Google Phone, or gPhone, especially after Apple came out with its iPhone.
Instead, the big news is that Google is offering free software to anyone who wants it under the relaxed terms of an open-source license, which will allow developers to view the source code for that software. This also means there will not be a “gPhone,” or any sort of phone with the Google brand on it.
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Three years ago, worst episode in Hewlett-Packard’s history started to unveil.First they dismissed their chief executive, then they got rid of the chairman as well of a phone-bugging and identity theft scandal in which members of the board accounted for their secret surveillance of each other in front of Congress.
“It was never my intention to be a whistle-blower. In fact, I was not,” says Tom Perkins, the former head of the nomination and governance committee, with whos help Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive, and Patricia Dunn, the former chairman went down.
It is coincidental that as Mr Perkins launches his new book, Valley Boy, speaking to The Times in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, less than a 15-minute taxi ride away, two other giants of American business are enduring the same bloody coups. Knifings, plotting and timely leaks to the media are being reenacted down the road on Wall Street, at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.
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The OSx86 Scene forum is offering full instructions on how to install the newest Mac OS on Windows PCs.
The OSx86 Scene forum has released details of how Windows users can migrate to Apple’s new OS, without investing in new hardware — even though installing Leopard on an PC may be counter to Apple’s terms and conditions.
The forum is offering full instructions on how to install the system, including screenshots of the installation process.
Not all the features of Leopard function with the patch — Wi-Fi, support, for example, is inoperable. Historically, Apple’s likely next move will be to track down and act against those behind the hack.
Also this weekend a crew of hackers unleased Jailbreak Me, an online service iPod touch and iPhone users can navigate to in order to break into these devices in order to install applications on them.
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Its been less than a week that 3 american economists were awarded the Nobel for developing the mechanism planning theory, which got already implemented in the popular file-sharing network.Dr Johan Pouwelse researcher of Dwelf University (Netherlands) is implementing the winning theories algorithm into Tribler a file-sharing program based on BitTorrent.
He hopes this will speed up the system, so the people will share more content, and it will be more easier to find unique content in the network.
How this economic theory works in practice, the prof didnt tell in his interview, but you can find out more about the basics of Tribler here and here.
The algorithms implemented can also be found in the source code of Tribler.