12.27.06
Posted in Disney, Theme Parks at 10:05 pm by Lee
Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Animal Kingdom both have reopened by 3:15 this afternoon after being closed earlier in the day when they got full.
But the big crowds pouring into Walt Disney World still are still creating at least one challenge. The main parking lot at Disney-MGM Studios is closed by 3:30 p.m., and drivers are being redirected to other parking lots to attend that park, said Disney spokesman Jacob DiPietre.
Epcot is running as normal.
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12.26.06
Posted in Tech From The Net at 4:15 pm by Lee
If you got a new iPod or iTunes gift card today, please keep in mind that the store is very slow because there are actually more than 1 million people today trying to fill up their brand new shiny devices. Check this out for more info if you’d like.
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12.24.06
Posted in Tech From The Net at 12:46 pm by Lee
“Visitors to Google’s sites rose 9.1 percent to 475.7 million in November from a year earlier, while those to Yahoo sites rose 5.2 percent to 475.3 million, ComScore Networks Inc. said today.”
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12.23.06
Posted in Tech From The Net at 9:34 am by Lee
Buying a book could become as easy as buying a pack of gum. After several years in development, the Espresso – a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library – is nearly consumer-ready and will debut in ten to 25 libraries and bookstores in 2007. The New York Public Library is scheduled to receive its machine in February.
The company behind the Espresso is called On Demand Books, founded by legendary book editor Jason Epstein, 78, and Dane Neller, 56, but the technology was developed six years ago by Jeff Marsh, who is a technology advisor for New York City-based ODB (ondemandbooks.com).
The machine can print, align, mill, glue and bind two books simultaneously in less than seven minutes, including full-color laminated covers. It prints in any language and will even accommodate right-to-left texts by putting the spine on the right. The upper page limit is 550 pages, though by tweaking the page thickness and type size, you could get a copy of War and Peace (albeit tough to read) if you wanted.
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12.22.06
Posted in Tech From The Net at 12:33 am by Lee
Spam volume soared another 35% in November, an e-mail security vendor said Thursday, and the month saw spam tactics that reduced the efficiency of traditional anti-spam filters.
“There’s been a huge increase in spam volume,” says David Mayer, a product manager at IronPort Systems, “from 31 billion spams a day on average in October 2005 to 63 billion in October 2006. But in November, we saw two surges that averaged 85 billion messages a day, one from Nov. 13 to 22, the other from Nov. 26 to 28.
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12.20.06
Posted in Tech From The Net at 3:33 pm by Lee
Record label Sony BMG will compensate customers in California whose computers were damaged by anti-piracy software on CDs sold by the firm.
It settles a long-running lawsuit between Sony BMG and a number of US states about the nature of digital rights management software on CDs.
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12.19.06
Posted in Tech From The Net at 5:02 pm by Lee
Many online merchants this year will still sell goods with standard shipping terms through Monday or Tuesday, a boon for late holiday shoppers.
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Posted in Tech From The Net at 4:41 pm by Lee
A heatproof battery for laptops, which could help solve recent problems with overheating, is to be mass produced by Japanese firm Matsushita.
It follows a series of incidents where batteries overheated or caught fire.
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12.18.06
Posted in Tech From The Net at 7:11 pm by Lee
When YouTube emerged as one of the Internet’s most popular Web sites last year, many TV executives dismissed it as a flash in the pan — and a largely illegal one at that. But after Google agreed to pay $1.65 billion for YouTube in October, they adopted a radically different stance: suddenly they wanted to take it on.
Now, a handful of giant media companies, like NBC Universal, the News Corporation, Viacom and possibly CBS, are close to announcing a new Web site that will feature some of their best-known television programming and other clips in an attempt to build a business for distributing video on the Internet to rival YouTube. The new business could be announced as soon as this week.
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Posted in Tech From The Net at 5:54 pm by Lee
Social networks Bebo and MySpace were the two most searched for terms of 2006 using Google’s search engine.
The two rival sites allow users to create individual web pages, with photos, music and video.
The football World Cup was the third most searched for term while Paris Hilton topped the news searches.
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