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YAHOO will reportedly layoff up to 20% of its workforce in the next two weeks. Both Silicon Valley Insider and TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington have reported on the pending layoffs, saying that the announcement could come during the company’s earnings call on January 29th. 1500 to 2500 people may be affected. The potential downsizing would be the result of a project during Q4 that sought out redundancies and waste within the company. CEO Jerry Yang is expected to make the decision this week.
This month’s lecture: Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?
For directions and more info: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures/feb08.cfm
Summary : Where in the world will our energy come from? What would it take for the world to get away from fossil fuels and switch over to renewable energy? It takes more than willingness to buy a Prius or to install solar panels on your roof. If we want to use wind, solar thermal, solar electric, biomass, hydroelectric and geothermal energy it will take a lot of planning, and willingness on the part of governments and industry. It takes R&D investment, a favorable price per unit of energy to get anyone to produce alternative energy, and plenty of resources to create those energy sources.
Speaker : Dr. Nate Lewis
George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, Caltech
Location: Thursday, February 28, 2008, 7p.m.
The von Kármán Auditorium at JPL
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA
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Friday, February 29, 2008, 7p.m.
The Vosloh Forum at Pasadena City College
1570 East Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
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I’ll posting some pictures from my visit to NAMM later.
The place was packed and my legs are a little sore from walking the whole show floor in about 4 hours. Amazing like last year.
With the help of Mike Jones, Debbie Landa and Mark Jeffrey, we’ve selected the following Showoffs to share their new work at Twiistup 3 on Jan 16 2008. All about these Showoffs.
• Askmenow – askmenow
• Docstoc – docstoc
• Magento – magentocommerce
• OfficeZilla – officezilla
• PeopleJam – peoplejam
• Rubicon – rubiconproject
• Speeddate – speeddate
• ThemBid – thembid
• Yellowbot – yellowbot
Twiistup 3 took place last night in Venice at the Air Conditioned Club on Lincoln.
The event was packed and the number of showoffs was more than the previous Twiistup.
I am looking forward to Twiistup 4, hopefully in the next 3-6 months.
Congrats to the team that put the event together and for drawing an amazing group of people!
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Foreclosure.com has been in business since 1999. We were the first to introduce features such as FREE foreclosure email alerts, and the FREE 7-Day Trial. We are pioneers in this industry and we continue to revolutionize it every day. Imagine having the ability to view every crack and crevice that appears on a foreclosured, property’s exterior without leaving the comfort of your own home.
Foreclsoure.com has recently added an enormous, innovative feature to their site. Members can now view detailed photographs of listed homes on Foreclosure.com. Not only that, but they can view a whole neighborhood, through new image technology, Pictometry.
Everyone knows that the most important thing when purchasing a home is the first impression. By adding this great technology to our site, we have a leg up on the competition and this feature is what your customers are looking for. Rest assured, we’ll still be around years from now doing what we always do best — supplying you with the very best foreclosure-related information so you can be successful in the real estate market.
Press Release Source: RealtyTrac Inc.
Real Estate Industry Veteran Larry Spencer Joins RealtyTrac
Thursday January 17, 11:00 am ET
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ — RealtyTrac(TM) (https://www.realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today announced the hiring of real estate industry veteran Larry Spencer. In his role as Vice President, Spencer will focus on industry relations, with a special emphasis on forging relationships with Multiple Listing Services.
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“We are delighted that Larry has joined RealtyTrac,” said James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. “Larry brings the kind of industry experience and expertise that will help us move forward, growing and expanding the RealtyTrac brand.”
Spencer brings more than 25 years of real estate experience to RealtyTrac. He has held senior management positions in sales, business development and data licensing with a diverse group of companies, including DataQuick Information Systems, TRW, Inc. and Landata/Stewart Title. He most recently was vice president of business development at Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions. Prior to Fidelity National, Spencer was Vice President and General Manager at NewportWorks, where he was responsible for the development and distribution of unique voice recognition technology and applications for REALTORS® and multiple listing services.
“I am excited to join the RealtyTrac family,” said Spencer, who will develop and manage executive-level relationships with senior real estate executives, customers, and prospects. “I look forward to building new partnerships between RealtyTrac and leading players within the real estate industry and finding new ways to strategically leverage our proprietary data and content.” A graduate of Florida State University, Spencer now lives in Southern California with his wife Debra and their two daughters.
Malware Quietly Reaching ‘Epidemic’ Levels
New reports say malware increased by a factor of five to 10 in 2007
JANUARY 16, 2008 | 5:40 PM
By Tim Wilson
Site Editor, Dark Reading
Everybody knew it was bad, but few knew it was this bad.
In separate studies released yesterday, two research firms now say that malware increased between 500 percent and 1,000 percent in 2007, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
“The number of new strains of malware that appeared in 2007 increased tenfold with respect to the previous year,” said PandaLabs, Panda Security’s research arm, in a report issued yesterday. “Over the last year, PandaLabs has received an average of more than 3,000 new strains of malware every day. This represents a malware epidemic which — although silent, with little media coverage and no widespread alerts — is nevertheless dangerous.”
The results indicate that signature-based defenses for malware are no longer effective, the research firm said. Some 72 percent of networks with more than 100 workstations — and 23 percent of home users — are currently infected with malware, despite having operative antivirus or other signature-based tools in place, PandaLabs said.
Experts at AV-Test, an independent testing organization, also reported skyrocketing incidence of malware yesterday. After a detailed count, the organization said it identified nearly 5.5 million different malware files in 2007 — more than five times as many as in 2006.
AV-Test counted the number of files with different MD5 hashes, sometimes called “fingerprints.” This includes malware which is packed using a different run-time packer or is differently encrypted, the testing organization said.
In 2007, AV-Test found almost 5.5 million such files, up from about 973,000 in 2006 and 333,000 in 2005, the report said. And the trend is accelerating: The group already has identified more than 118,000 different malware files in the first two weeks of January.
The results drove AV-Test to concur with PandaLabs’s assessment. “The figures clearly demonstrate that the signature-based approach of current anti-virus software is no longer appropriate,” the report said.
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