Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute has been identified by the New York Times as Ashley Alexandra Dupre (previously named Ashley Youmans and Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro). The 22-year old New Jersey native and aspiring singer currently lives in New York.
FULL STORY »New technologies in surveillance and identification are changing the way police work is done. In one pilot program, police use high tech equipment to scan license plates of passing cars automatically. Suspect vehicles are identified by automatically checking license plate numbers against a central database, and are pulled over. The driver's fingerprints can then be digitally scanned and sent to a fingerprint database for positive identification.
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Approximately 34% of infant deaths within the first year of life are of premature babies, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
These figures, presented based on new research, are twice as high as previous estimates.
FULL STORY »Congress received its annual report on global terrorism from the Department of State on April 28, 2006. The 262-page report provides an annual strategic assessment of trends in terrorism and the evolving nature of the terrorist threat, coupled with detailed information on anti-terror cooperation by nations worldwide.
FULL STORY »America's about to hit the 300 million mark any day now. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, is: 299,811,596 (almost 300 million). This is the estimated population on 09/23/2006 at 20:29 GMT (EST+5). There's a net gain in U.S. population of 8,640 ever day, or more than 260,000 every month.
FULL STORY »Stanford researchers have found that a protein called calcineurin is involved in diabetes. Their research reveals that calcineurin is very important for the growth of special insulin-producing cells in the pancreas called beta cells. Insulin is the hormone that regulates sugar levels in the blood by telling cells to increase their sugar intake.
FULL STORY »Our company recently switched from hosting our email internally on our own servers, to outsourcing to Google Hosted Services, the new Google Apps service which is an extension of Google's Gmail for Your Domain. This article is about our experience with the service, and with Google's email system in general.
FULL STORY »It used to be that the average American would come home from work, make dinner and then snap on the TV. For the next few hours, the television set would stay on. Maybe even a couple of sets for various members of the family.
Today, things are changing, particularly among the 13-26 age group, as more and more people turn from television to the Internet and other forms of media.
Not only are an increasing number of people watching videos on the Internet, but more significantly, they're also producing content themselves and broadcasting—or netcasting—via video websites such as YouTube, Break, Google Video, Yahoo video and MySpace.
FULL STORY »Universal Music Group's CEO Doug Morris says that social networking sites such as YouTube and MySpace encourage their users to violate copyright laws.
"We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars," said Morris. "How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly."
Will Fox buy YouTube? We'll call this speculation for now, and I'll tell you why a bit later. But first, is YouTube for sale, or can the company make it on its own, covering its $1 million plus in monthly bandwidth charges, potential lawsuits, and timid advertisers?
It's rumored that YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has a vague price in mind. Let's say it's a shade over a million oop... Billion Dollars. Would Rupert Murdoch buy YouTube for $1 Billion Dollars?
