foxnews.com:
YouTube
Entering Movie-Rental Business
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"Movie rentals are coming to the Internet's most popular video site. The Google-owned YouTube is making its debut
as a rental outlet Friday to help promote some of the movies that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film
Festival..." 100120
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Scientific American: The New Science of Temptation "The power to resist temptation has been
extolled by philosophers, psychologists, teachers, coaches, and mothers. Anyone with advice on how you
should live your life has surely spoken to you of its benefits. It is the path to the good life, professional and
personal satisfaction, social adjustment and success, performance under pressure, and the best way for
any child to avoid a penetrating stare and a cold dinner. Of course, this assumes that our natural urges are
a thing to be resisted – that there is a devil inside, luring you to cheat, offend, err, and annoy. New research
has begun to question this assumption..." 091118
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Herald Tribune: Individual privacy under threat in Europe and U.S., report says "LONDON: Individual privacy
is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance
and information-gathering measures in the name of security and controlling borders, an international rights group
has said..." 071231
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CNN Money: Live chat: your new online salesperson "Website operators are tapping the potential of
instant messaging as a new powerful sales tool. A year or two ago, it looked like instant messaging and
other forms of online chat had reached their full potential as a business tool. Millions of people were using
IM to interact with corporate colleagues. Live chat had also become a fixture on websites, giving customers
a way to inquire about products and receive answers in real time..." 071129
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Fortune: The iPhone's broken connections "For Steve Jobs and his touchy-feely telephone, it's been a
bumpy ride, says Fortune's Brent Schlender..." 071119
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LA Times.com: Online work emerges as big issue in Hollywood "A steamy new NBC soap opera,
"Coastal Dreams," is coming soon to a small screen near you. But not the TV -- the PC..." 070927
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Forbes: Caution: High Voltage "Electric vehicle companies are sparking to life all over. What happens
to them if GM or Toyota electrifies autos?..." 070926
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Science: How Will Nanotech Fare in Europe? "At 23 years old and as a part-time bass guitarist in a
rock band, Bregt Verreet seems an unlikely pioneer, in science at least..." 070926
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Wall Street Journal: Is This Man Cheating on His Wife? "Alexandra Alter on the toll one man's virtual
marriage is taking on his real one and what researchers are discovering about the surprising power of
synthetic identity..."
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MSN Real Estate: Does going solar pay off? "he race is on to install solar panels in American homes
thanks to generous government incentives such the $3.2 billion solar initiative California launched in
January..."
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Business Week: Wherever You Go, You're On The Job "The dramatic shift toward mobility is changing
the way we work -- and shaking up the status quo among tech titans..."
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Global Technology Forum (from the LA Times): Ensnared on the wireless Web "As Los Angeles
and hundreds of other communities push to turn themselves into massive wireless hotspots, unsuspecting
Internet users are stumbling onto hacker turf, giving computer thieves nearly effortless access to their
laptops and private information, authorities and high-tech security experts say..."
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Live Science: Futuristic Workstation Moves Freely in Space "The Gravitonus Ergonomic Workstation
may be just what you've been looking for. Forget those cumbersome chair/desk/computer combos you've
been looking at. This Space Age system is designed to keep you comfortable while you're "piloting" your
way into the future..."
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