Technology

NEW YORK, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - Members Given Access to Live Web Stream of TEDGlobal 2009 Conference The TED Conference is again making available its popular Associate Memberships, which will provide a virtual front-row seat at the upcoming TEDGlobal 2009 conference via a private, live web stream of all its main stage events. The TEDGlobal 2009 conference will explore The Substance of Things Not Seen. Speakers this year include world-renowned philosophers, scientists, religious leaders, entertainers, artists, musicians and technologists. The event will take place July 21-24 in Oxford, U.K…

NEW YORK, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - The Destination For Beauty Business Innovation WHAT: 17th Annual HBA Global Expo & Conference WHEN: September 15-17, 2009 WHERE: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY HOW: Register at www.hbaexpo.com WHY: HBA Global Expo is the leading product development event for the cosmetics, fragrance, personal care and wellness industries. For three days the entire beauty community will gather together to source new international ingredients and raw materials, packaging and components, contract manufacturers and…

HEEMSTEDE and SCHIPHOL, The Netherlands, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare & Science division of Thomson Reuters has released a new version of the program EndNote(R) for Windows, the bibliographic software, used by millions of researchers, librarians and students all over the world. EndNote X3, including EndNote Web, is a software program that helps to make research easier and more efficient. EndNote X3 offers new possibilities to create, import, manage and group references. It also includes an improved full text locator for online databases. The unique Cite While You Write(TM)…

MERIGNAC, France, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Cortix, the market leader for Internet site creation in France and Europe, is expanding its product range in June 2009 with 50 new site models specially designed for microbusinesses and SMEs. The objective: to meet the needs of the customer group, made up of small businesses, artisans and independent professionals, who continue to invest in the development of their website despite the difficult business environment. Currently, Cortix has a catalogue of over 200 available products. Below, we take a closer look at these companies and the new Cortix…

Error Handling And Error Codes This article is a brief explanation of how errors can be handled in computer code.  The basic idea is that if an error arises then it should be obvious, and easily corrected. The concept of error-handling and correction is relevant to the suggestion in my series,  A Science Of Human Language,  that what we see as the grammar of a language is simply an error-handling component of language.  I suggest that the function of the grammatical aspects of language is this: if an error arises then it is made consciously or subconsciously obvious, and…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The use of power rental equipment is becoming increasingly important in sub-Saharan Africa to alleviate the current electricity crisis affecting the region. Despite customers' preference for buying gensets rather than renting them, power rental companies that are able to provide rental services at a competitive price with robust after-sales support can expect to gain significant returns. New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.energy.frost.com), Power Rental in Key African Markets, finds that the markets in Angola, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya,…

On television, police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist but, in real life, enhancing this low-quality video to focus in on important clues hasn't been an easy task. It just got a little easier.   Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky of Tel Aviv University and colleagues have developed a new video "perfection tool" to help investigators enhance raw video images. Commissioned by a defense-related company to improve what the naked eye cannot see, the tool can be used with live video or with recordings, in color or black-and-…

Time for a job-hunting question.  Which programming languages can you work with?  It's not the same question as which languages you know, and can be a surprisingly hard question to answer, particularly when you're job-hunting and the issue comes up.  Answering 'all of them' is a bit overconfident, but listing each one can be inexact. Being a programmer is akin to being an athlete.  You're up to speed in what you do, and easily able to perform in a variety of fields, but have better ability in some areas than others.  A middle distance runner can switch to long…

I spent last week in Boston, attending the Open Mobile Alliance meeting. Whenever one goes to meetings, one does the dance of the business card exchange. Because it was my first OMA meeting, I had more of it going on than usual, as I met a lot of people for the first time. So I’ve collected a batch of 2-inch × 3.5-inch cards, which I then have to copy information from and put it into my address book. And there’s no hope of reading these things without my reading glasses. They’re inconvenient, to be sure, but they do work, and we’re used to them. Everyone has them. And guess what: No one tried…

Interested in Michael Jackson now that he is dead?   So are cyber criminals who are exploiting public interest in his death with spam messages that infect computers with a virus able to steal bank account numbers and passwords, according to Gary Warner, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) director of research in computer forensics. Warner and the other researchers at the UAB Spam Data Mine began tracking the celebrity-focused spam early on Tuesday, June 30. “We’ve been tracking the cyber criminals behind this spam and the associated virus for many weeks, but it is just today that…