Items tagged for circulation in the tech digest.
Medical
Not surprisingly, researchers have established brain tissue loss in high altitude summiters. Now to study politicians.
The milk contamination saga goes on. How did so many people become involved without anyone stopping to ask whether this was ultimately a good thing? Reminds me of sub-prime.
Fifteen more Chinese dairy companies were identified Wednesday as producing [...]
More backlog blogging - tech industry data.
iPhones are twice as reliable as Blackberries and Treos,
SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is 5.6 percent, compared to 11.2 percent for [...]
Back from APEC, and Peru, and before I get into all that I’m going to post the backlog of tech snippets I’d collected before I left… (long post)
Futures
The teaser - what do games look like on a 150″ plasma screen… it weighs 1700 lbs, and burns 7KW.
While they are still fresh, here are some immediate thoughts on the ASEAN 100 Leadership Forum which I was indeed fortunate to be invited to attend…
First off, it’s pretty clear that ASEAN as a project is a shared journey, not any particular destination. Pulling together a group of 520 million people as diverse as this [...]
The SEC has decided to provide “guidance” (pdf) for Wall Street lawyers on possible lines of argument to take when defending their clients’ pretense that their holdings are still worth more than the going market price.
The determination of fair value often requires significant judgment…
Determining whether a particular transaction is forced or disorderly requires judgment… [...]
A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.
A lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building simple cell models that can almost be called life… Szostak’s protocells are built from fatty molecules that can trap bits of nucleic acids that [...]
The state of blogging report by technorati says around 1.5 million blogs updated in the last week, 900k in the last 24 hours…
Bloggers have been at it an average of three years and are collectively creating close to one million posts every day. Blogs have representation in top-10 web site lists across all [...]
The Google G1 (also known as HTC Dream) using the new Google open source operating system Android is out for $179 with a two-year contract (or $399 contract-free) to mixed reviews.
Mossberg appraises it (via Barrons Online):
a serious handheld computer with a powerful new operating system…and a clever touch-based user interface… with features the iPhone lacks [...]
The FT reports that the emerging market theme is getting a bit stale among foreigners; outflows from emerging markets bond and equity funds reached $29.5bn over the past three months, the highest level since at least 1995. This was the Asia investment trigger I was personally looking for since August 2007, but jumped the gun [...]
If you wake up tomorrow, then the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland didn’t create a black hole that swallowed the earth. Its collisions will generate seven times the energy of its most powerful rival, the Tevatron at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.
Not to worry,
… the actual experiments that could [...]