• Intel will miss its already-lowered 4Q targets (AP)

  AP - Even after sharply reducing its outlook for the fourth quarter, Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it would miss its revenue projection by about $500 million, a sign that PC makers and buyers are being more tightfisted than it seemed only two months ago.

• Toshiba to expand the powers of the TV set-top box (AP)

  AP - Toshiba Corp. is planning to use the Cell processor, the brain of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game console, to create an ultra-powerful TV set-top box that can record up to six high-definition channels at once and improve the look of any video.

  
  
  

• LG shows off `Dick Tracy' wristwatch phone (AP)

  AP - It looks like Dick Tracy may finally get his wristwatch cell phone, the one that does video calls.

  
  
  

• SEO, Keywords, And Links -- Improving Your Site's Traffic - Turks.US

  It is important to implement Internet marketing strategies to drive traffic to your website. Even if you put up a page on the Web, it is not a guarantee that your page will be accessible on search engines. Considering that there are millions of ...

• There's No Shortcut to Good SEO...Or Is There? - Search Engine Watch

  In some ways, this is a continuation of my rant in last week's column on paid links . In life and business, I've always felt that there are no shortcuts. You work hard and build a successful life. You reap what you sow. Nothing good in life comes ...

• Apple's Music Deal Could Mean the End of DRM (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - In what could be the final nail in the coffin of digital-rights management for music tracks, Apple on Tuesday announced a deal with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and EMI, along with thousands of independent labels, to offer music files on its iTunes Store without DRM protection.

“I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man.” - Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture 2005

“The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.” - US President Truman