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Le nuove tribù promuovono nuove infrastrutture di accesso alla Rete. L'innovazione la promuovono i Cittadini; siamo noi quelli che stiamo aspettando.
Microsoft takes a page out of Apple's playbook to entice Windows 7 fence-sitters, with disappointing results An October surprise -- that's how many are interpreting Microsoft's 11th-hour revelation that it will be providing a virtualized copy of Windows XP as a free compatibility add-on to Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions.
The latest virus definitions for Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal and Lite. Use this if you already have AVP installed.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Things are looking a little dicey for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's plan for a second-half economic recovery, if two data points Wednesday are any indication.
April's retail sales numbers came in below expectations, suggesting that the engine driving the nation's economy -- consumer spending -- isn't running as strong as once believed. Sales fell 0.4% from March, and could be revised further downward.
Without a slight uptick in autos, of all sectors, the figure would have been down 0.5% month over month. See full story.
Economists had expected the month-to-month sales figure to be flat to slightly up, but that didn't pan out. And year-to-year, the sales plunge approached double-digit territory.
If that wasn't enough, businesses' efforts to cut back their inventories in March fell flat -- as sales fell even faster. Companies were unable to make any progress in getting a handle on bloated inventories. See full story.
Many still wonder whether a little more air needs to be let out of the economy.
Meny Grauman at CIBC WorldMarkets wrote in a note to clients: "The green shoots of economic recovery are looking a little less green, especially for American consumers. Personal spending is no longer in freefall as it was at the end of 2008, but April's weaker-than-expected retail sales report emphasizes that talk of a full-fledged economic recovery is still premature."
Sure, Bernanke could still be right. After all, he is the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Plus, the second half of the year isn't here yet.
Still, it's only six weeks away. In the economic garden, that may not be enough time for green shoots to turn to full-fledged blossoms.
-- Russ Britt, Los Angeles bureau chief
Social scientists have had a decade in which to study the use of the Internet by teenagers and adolescents. In a review article published in February, researchers Valkenburg & Peter (2009) found that the Internet — contrary to initial expectations — seems largely to be of benefit to most adolescents.
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) stimulates self-disclosure. People who use a computer to communicate with someone else engage in more communications with that person, and the communications results in more intimate self-disclosure.
Midweek Mental Greening
People often associate becoming depressed during dark winter months with Seasonal Affective Disorder (or, SAD). SAD can actually affect people during any season, including the bright and sunny days during spring and summer months; however, according to a recent Swedish study, regardless of the similar symptoms, SAD doesn’t seem to be the culprit when it comes to the high number of suicides happening in places that experience extended sunlight like Sweden and Greenland.
Since launching back in 2004, Gmail has set the gold standard for webmail clients, offering a large amount of storage and a highly usable interface, free of charge. But for many people it has remained out of reach - no matter how appealing Gmail might be, they’ve racked up thousands of messages on other services that they simply can’t give up. Today, that changes. Gmail just released
a new feature that allows users to import their Email archives and contacts into their Gmail accounts effortlessly.
The new feature, which is being powered
by TrueSwitch
, supports importing from all of the usual suspects, including AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and dozens of others (you can find a whole list here
). To start with it is only enabled on new accounts, with support for existing accounts being added over time (Google warns that this roll-out will be considerably slower than normal). You can also optionally choose to import messages sent to your old account for
While Twitter is busy removing features, or half removing them, or whatever — FriendFeed
continues its relentless pace at adding new ones. The latest one today is small, but potentially very, very useful. Basically, you can now get emails/IMs/pop-up notifications from any group or individual
user on FriendFeed.
While it may not be so obvious at first, this is useful because you can custom tailor FriendFeed to use even when you’re not on the site. The way I’ve been using it for several months now is to create groups for people/things I’m particularly interested in. But that would still require that I go to FriendFeed to check those groups. Now I can just get pinged over IM every time something I’m looking for comes up.
A new study in rats at the University of Haifa reveals that tauma experienced by a mother even before pregnancy will influence her offspring's behavior. *"The findings show that trauma from a mother's past, which does not directly impact her pregnancy, will affect her offspring's emotional and social behavior. We should consider whether such effects occur in humans too," stated Prof. Micah Leshem who carried out the study.*
In 1958, President Eisenhower signed the Space Act, officially creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. From the beginning, the purpose for the new branch extended beyond space ships and moon boots. The law stipulated that its research and advancements should benefit all people, and in its 50-year history, NASA has certainly fulfilled that role.