Cyberculture News: Movers and Shakers
Smart Phones Make PC Obsolete?
If there is one headline in the Cyberculture News that can be labeled as a "mover and shaker", this is it. The potential consequences are revolutionary in the near future, as well as in the long term. Historians shall designate this as the marketing strategy that made the PC obsolete.
Apple Working to Deploy iPhones at Universities
Abilene Christian University (ACU) announced yesterday that they would be issuing iPhones or iPod Touches to incoming freshman for use in their college courses and day to day lives.
Texas university giving freshmen iPhones and iPod touches
UPDATE: Apple Has Fewer Legs For Growth, Analyst Says
Cyberculture News
Gold n Them Thar Virtual Fences
What does a virtual fence, lunar challenge, DNA, an atom moving force and emerging infectious disease have in common? For one thing, they are not common household words. Second, the average human brain would dwell about a nano-second on the concept of each word or phrase.
Swoosh!
Did you feel the breeze above your head?
If you didn't and you're still reading this, then there might be a chance you may be cognizant of the keywords in this edition of The Cyberculture News' Portentous Headlines.
In order to be able to profit from these headlines, you need to have a perceptive analytic understanding of the situation, scenario, and circumstances that formed the basic foundation of each story. In other words, research, research and more research.
The Cyberculture News suggest you start with the "virtual fence" story. There's gold in them thar virtual fences.
For 28 Miles, Virtual Fence To Separate US, Mexico
Washington Approves Virtual Fence for Arizona, Texas
A Google Competition, With a Robotic Moon Landing as a Goal
Ten teams now vying for part of the $30 million purse offered up ...
eFluxMedia
Have you ever been to Africa? According to the latest studies on human diversity, you have! Scientists identified that sub-Saharan Africa is the place where the human migration phenomenon began 100000 years ago, when a small group of ...
Genetic Mutations Offer Insights on Human Diversity
Tracing humanity through the ages
Scientists Measure What It Takes to Push a Single Atom
IBM unveils atomic memory advance
Study urges new focus in hunt for emerging diseases
Predicting a Pandemic
Investment Grade Headlines
Google to float wireless data?
Computerworld
You and IT Blogwatch (in a little toy shop): in which Google may (or may not) buy a bag of wireless data balloons (with the money it's got).
Google Eyes Sending Cell Towers Aloft?
Google To Build Balloon-Based Wireless Networks
China Criticizes US Missile Strike
Comment by Joan Johnson-Freese, Chair National Security Decision Making Department, NWCNew York Times
US Navy handout via AP By THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON - Just hours after a Navy missile interceptor struck a dying spy satellite orbiting 130 miles over the Pacific Ocean, a senior military officer expressed high confidence early Thursday that a tank ...
Video: Navy Missile Hits Spy Satellite on First Attempt Comment by James A. Lewis Center for Strategic and International StudieseFluxMedia
By Dee Chisamera The US Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday a Maine law meant to restrict minors’ access to tobacco via Internet or mail by forcing delivery companies to institute a recipient-verification service that ensured the buyer is of legal age.
Supreme Court Strikes Down State's Law to Diminish Internet ...
Supreme Court strikes down law targeting online cigarette sales
Cisco's new networks: Highways, airports, and city streets
CNET News.com
The router and switch kings are teaming up with cities like Seoul, Lisbon, Madrid, San Francisco and Hamburg, Germany, on energy efficiency experiments.
Cisco Chairman & CEO Outlines Technology's Ability to Transform ...
Cisco Spearheads ‘Green’ Initiative for Cities, Industry
Orbital Sciences Rises After NASA Deal
CNNMoney.com
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Shares of Orbital Sciences Corp. rose in afternoon trading Wednesday after NASA selected the aerospace company to develop a commercial spacecraft, a program one analyst said will likely boost income by 25 percent.
NASA Gives Orbital Contract For Spaceship Cargo
Contract for private space cargo
New York Times
By ROBERT McMILLAN, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau, IDG Efforts by countries like China to restrict the exchange of information on the Internet are ultimately doomed to failure, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told an audience of Stanford ...
Bill Gates gives pep talk to UT computer science majors
Gates attacks censorship
Redirecting Aging DNS Infrastructure
eWeek
It was said of the Chicago stockyards that they used every part of the pig except the squeal. The same can be said of the Internet search industry.
Service Taps Users to Help Filter Sites
Services Are Tapping People Power to Spot Malware
Google, Cleveland Clinic team up on patient records
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leading Web search company Google Inc is collaborating with Cleveland Clinic, one of the United States leading health institutions, to pilot a new project which helps patients manage their own health information.
Google in joint venture with Cleveland Clinic
Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic
Headlines: Foreseeing the Future
While Yahoo! News and Google News may have their Most Popular, Top Stories and Featured news, only The Cyberculture News provides The Portentous Headlines. These are the headlines that are foreseeing the future from the past.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Tuesday the United States will not soon lift its embargo on Cuba despite Fidel Castro's resignation.
White House runners: Castro's exit not enough
World's leaders wish Cuba well, urge change
KPLC-TV
(AP) - A Michigan dog who's donated blood 20 times is being honored for his genorosity by a chapter of the American Red Cross.
90-kilogram English mastiff to be honoured for donating blood 20 times
Big dog, big heart: He's donated blood 20 times
New York Times
In an escalation of its fight for Yahoo, Microsoft will authorize a proxy fight at the Internet company this week, people briefed on the matter told DealBook.
Report: Microsoft won't raise bid for Yahoo, proxy battle may loom
In Focus » See more posts on: Microsoft-Yahoo
MSFT - YHOOTheStreet.com
Asian markets inched ahead Tuesday, with Shanghai leading gains as Bank of ChinaBACHF announced that it has enough ammunition to defeat subprime losses, and higher than expected inflation data in China was taken as a bullish signal on the country's ...
ASIA MARKETS Shanghai shrugs off inflation data to post gains
Hong Kong Key Index Rises 1.5 Percent
SHA:601988Liberal credentials an open question
Chicago Sun-Times
Barack Obama is rated the most liberal US senator in 2007 by the National Journal, scoring 95 liberal. Hillary Clinton scored 82.8 percent.
Clinton, Obama science advisors showcase their candidates
Clinton and Obama Square Off On Science Policies
$3.01 In Pennies Sold For $10.7 Million
eFluxMedia
By Matthew Williams Friday night at an auction on Long Beach the rare collection of 301 American pennies of Walter Husak gathered $10.7 million.
Collection of rare pennies fetches $10.7 million
A few hundred rare pennies fetch $10.7 million at auction
Scientists Develop Breathalyzer for Disease
ABC News
University of Colorado at Boulder physics doctoral student Michael Thorpe holds a detection chamber next to a novel laser apparatus at JILA.
Asthma, Cancer Detected By Breath Analysis
Breath Check Can Test For Asthma, Cancer
The Doctor Is Online
New York Times
Simply providing a surgeon’s e-mail address nearly triples the likelihood that a patient will contact the doctor about the surgery, a new report shows.
E-mail communication with surgeons may aid patients
Hand in Hand, Surgeon and Patients Embrace E-Mails
Cardiac arrest: avoid nights, weekend, study says
Reuters
People who have a cardiac arrest in the hospital at night or on the weekend are far less likely to survive than those who suffer one during the day, US researchers said on Tuesday.
Dying on the Night Shift
Cardiac Arrest in Hospital is Deadlier at Night
Judge Shuts Down Web Site Specializing in Leaks
The contents of the site, whose goal is to discourage “unethical behavior” by corporations and governments, can still be found on “mirror sites” around the Internet.
Portentous Headlines: Seeing the Future
Cyberculture News' Portentous Headlines are the headlines that turn on the light bulb in the brain and suggest a potential play for the opportunistic headline trader.
BBC News
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said an early draft of the infamous dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has been made public.
Britain releases secret file from before Iraq war
Britain Releases Iraq WMD Dossier Draft
Chemical & Engineering New
NIH, EPA to reduce animal testing
Comment by Andrew N Rowan, PhD, Executive VP Operations The Humane Society of the United StateseFluxMedia
By Dee Chisamera Florida is debating on whether to include Darwin’s theory of evolution in the educational system and is set to vote on the proposal during the Tuesday meeting.
Teach Evolution As Science
What you should know about evolution vote
CNET News.co
Samsung Ace Official on Sprint: Mega World Phone Does GSM and CDMA
Samsung ACE Global Smartphone Released
New York Times
Craig Watkins, the district attorney in Dallas, at a news conference announcing the release of a collection of documents and items related to the Kennedy assassination.
JFK Assassination Documents Revealed
New JFK Memorabilia Brought To Light Brings New Questions
Newsinferno.com
Off-label marketing of drugs and medical devices, currently prohibited by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), could soon be allowed under some circumstances.
UPDATE 2-FDA would let drugmakers tip doctors to other uses
Drug Makers May Get Wiggle Room in Off-Label Use
The Portentous Headlines: Foreseeing the future from the past.
Number 1 Equals $14 Million
The Cyberculture News considers the following headlines worthy of further research and are listed in today's Portentous Headlines. These are the headlines that turn on the light bulb in the brain and suggest a potential play for the opportunistic headline trader.
Reuters ABU DHABI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - A licence plate bearing simply the number "1" fetched what organisers said was a world record $14 million at a charity auction in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
Mobile Magazine -
This has got to be one of the craziest cars that Rinspeed has ever created, because not only can the sQuba concept car compete on dry land, it can actually drive on water, as well as underwater.
First submarine car to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show
Washington Post
Two lawmakers have introduced legislation that would prohibit broadband providers from blocking or impairing Web content from competitors.
CNET News.com -
As many as 400000 unlocked iPhones were running on China Mobile's cellular network at the end of last year, according to market research firm In-Stat.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - TV's big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna?
Cyberculture News: Portentous Headlines.
The Cyberculture News is proud to announce the publishing of The Portentous Headlines. These are the headlines that turn on the light bulb in the brain and suggest a potential play for the opportunistic headline trader. The Portentous Headlines foresees the future from the past.
Some voters say sexism less offensive than racism
CNN reached out to a group of Ohio voters to get their views on the role sexism and racism are playing in the presidential race.
The real impact of iPhone and Android
Venezuela requests help from US senator
Newspapers band together in ad effort
Pamela Anderson campaigns for seals in Paris
FDA Seeks to Broaden Range of Use for Drugs
When federal drug regulators approve a medicine for sale, they limit how drug makers sell it. A drug approved to treat only breast cancer cannot be marketed for lung cancer even if some studies suggest that the medicine ...
China Didn’t Check Drug Supplier, Files Show
A Chinese factory that supplies much of the active ingredient for a brand of a blood thinner that has been linked to four deaths in the United States is not certified by China’s drug regulators to make pharmaceutical ...
US doctors group backs marijuana for medical uses
(Reuters) - A leading US doctors group has endorsed using marijuana for medical purposes, urging the US government to roll back a prohibition on using it to treat patients and supporting studies into its medical
Happy Hearts Need Clean Air
Google Slides in Alexa Ratings
While other news outlets are reporting government officials slipping and sliding, The Cyberculture News is reporting that Google has fallen two spots in the Alexa ratings. YouTube and Windows Live moved into the 2nd and 3rd positions, dropping Google into the 4th spot on Alexa's web page traffic listing. Yahoo still remains in the # 1 slot.
According to Alexa, it maintains a listing of all sites on the Web, sorted by traffic. It computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users. The information is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, they have a traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service.
The following is Alexa's Global Top Ten List as of Feb. 14, 2008.
Google.com - Traffic Details from Alexa
Reach for Google.com:
Percent of global Internet users who Google.com
Yesterday 27.799%
1 wk. Avg. 27.4%
3 mos. Avg. 26.905%
Traffic Rank for Google.com:
What's This?
Alexa traffic rank based on a combined measure of page views and users (reach)
Yesterday 4
1 wk. Avg. 4
3 mos. Avg. 3
Cyberculture News Conspiracy Theory
If you knew how to write a program that could provide an 80% accuracy rate for the stock market to increase this year, would you implement it? Knowing that your passage to fame and fortune meant you had to conspire against the mass media and offend some of the richest and most powerful people in the world, can you still see the money?
Common sense tells us that the above fantasy program is unrealistic and if it was possible, it would be the greatest con of all time. A single person could not pull it off, not even a large group of conspirators. Maybe a government might be able to blindside it's citizens and even then, they would need a scapegoat to divert the mass media coverage.
Chances of such a feat being successful and going undetected are near zero. Or is it?
The Super Bowl Indicator is the market predictor that shows a high correlation between the winner of the Super Bowl and stock market performance. Since Super Bowl I forty two years ago, the Super Bowl Indicator Theorem states: when one of the original NFL teams wins the Super Bowl (New York Giants), the market that year will be up. If an AFC team wins, the market will be down. There is over 80% accuracy with this historically.
(The Super Bowl Indicator is the program that would provide an 80% accuracy rate for the stock market to increase this year.)
Monday, Feb.4, 2008
Giants Stun Patriots in Super Bowl XLII
Manning led a game-winning scoring drive late in the fourth quarter to give the Giants an unlikely victory in the Super Bowl and spoil the Patriots’ perfect season.
Needing to create a cash stream to cover it's debt at 12 to 1 odds, Vegas (Mafia) sells off on the stock market.
Tuesday, Feb 5, 2008
Nevada casinos lost $2.6 mln on Super Bowl wagers
Nevada casinos lost nearly $2.6 million to Super Bowl gamblers this year, the state's Gaming Control Board said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
Asian markets plunged after consecutive days of steep declines on Wall Street.
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008
Scores arrested in joint US-Italian anti-Mafia sweep
US and Italian police on Thursday arrested 74 suspected Mafia suspects including 54 members of the Gambino Mafia family in
New York,
(They would need a scapegoat to divert the mass media coverage.)
Law enforcement experts estimate that the name-sake organization of the late Carlo Gambino currently consists of approximately 150-200 members and as many as 1,500-2,000 associates. ~ NJSCI
1/4 to 1/3 of the Gambino Family members were arrested on Thursday. The stock market ended on the upside.
Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008
Stock Market week ends on a mixed note
In summary, the World is in need for a strong stock market.
The Super Bowl Indicator Theorem states: when one of the original NFL teams wins the Super Bowl (New York Giants), the market that year will be up.
New York Giants win against 12 to 1 odds.
Needing to create a cash stream to cover it's debt at 12 to 1 odds, Vegas (Mafia) sells off on the stock market.
Consecutive days of steep declines on Wall Street.
Police on Thursday arrested 74 suspected Mafia suspects including 54 members of the Gambino Mafia family.
Stock market ends the week on mixed trading.
Do you believe in coincidences?
If there is one constant we remember from the X-Files, it has to be Mulder's exclamation that "the truth is out there." Social, economical and political forces sometimes dupe the mass media with conspiratorial press releases in order to cover up or distort the truth from being exposed. In that news can easily be read and perceived differently from any story line, one has to question whether the general population was given misinformation on the reporting of the above breaking news during the week of Feb. 4, 2008 to Feb. 11, 2008.
The World According to Oxymoron
With a short tradition of truthful tabloid, unbiased news coverage and the reporting of tomorrows' headlines today, The Cyberculture News brings to it's readers the first edition of false fact timeless moments in "The World According to Oxymoron."
According to Dictionary.com an oxymoron is a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence.
World News: Kremlin Democratic Machine Incensed by EU's Refusal to Monitor Elections
Guardian Unlimited: Vladimir Putin's decision to endorse Russia's first deputy prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, as his successor, virtually guaranteeing him a landslide victory. Medvedev has offered Putin the job of prime minister. Medvedev already enjoys blanket TV coverage and the support of the Kremlin's formidable administrative machinery.
U.S. News: Congressional Harmonious Discord Passes Stimulus Plan
Business News: Legal Ethics Freezes Billions in Assets from Venezuela
New York Times: The oil giant Exxon Mobil has won court orders freezing as much as $12 billion in petroleum assets controlled by the Venezuela’s government.
Technology News: Apple Quick Fixes QuickTime Bug
InformationWeek: The update addresses a vulnerability in QuickTime's handling of RTSP and restores compatibility with Adobe After Effects.
Sports News: Civilized Warfare Declared Between Coaches
Arizona Daily Star, AZ:
Entertainment News: Paris Hilton@Harvard.edu
Harvard, the most respected institution of higher education in the American education system bestowed accidentally on purpose their critical acclaim, extra ordinary, and unbiased Women of the Year Award upon one of the entertainment industry's functional illiterate.
