Topic: NEWS english - on May 14, 2004 at 2:21:00 AM CEST
Coming to a Store Near You: Chinese Cola
China's largest beverage maker is going where no other Chinese firm has gone before -- it has shipped the first retail batch of its own cola to the home of the carbonated soft drink, the United States.
Hangzhou Wahaha Group, whose 170,000-bottle shipment is on the way to New York and Los Angeles, will have to slug it out with giants PepsiCo Inc and Coca-Cola Co in the mammoth $64 billion market.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 14, 2004 at 1:49:00 AM CEST
German police raid five homes in Sasser case
German police have widened the hunt for the vandals responsible for the distribution of the infamous Sasser and NetSky worms by raiding the homes of five new suspects. All are close to the home of Sven Jaschan, the prime suspect.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 14, 2004 at 1:48:00 AM CEST
Student uncovers US military secrets
An Irish graduate student has uncovered words blacked-out of declassified US military documents using nothing more than a dictionary and text analysis software.
Claire Whelan, a computer science student at Dublin City University was given the problems by her PhD supervisor as a diversion. David Naccache, a cryptographer with Gemplus, challenged her to discover the words missing from two documents: one was a memo to George Bush, and another concerned military modifications to civilian helicopters.
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Topic: Terror - on May 14, 2004 at 1:47:00 AM CEST
FBI anti-terror network scares experts
The FBI's Trilogy project - a plan to replace ther Bureau's existing local and wide area networks - has been slammed by technology experts from the National Research Council.
The NRC said the $600m project was "not on a path to success" and failed to adequately support the FBI's focus on terrorism since 9/11. The report calls on the bureau to build anti-terrorism systems from scratch. The NRC described the FBI's efforts in the last twelve months as "late and limited" and said its upgrade programs "fall far short of what is required."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2004 at 1:40:00 AM CEST
Elefanten als Wahlhelfer
waren vielen Indern die elektronischen Wahlstationen, die auf den Rücken von Elefanten bis in die entlegensten Landstriche transportiert wurden.
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Topic: BLOGLIFE - on May 14, 2004 at 1:36:00 AM CEST
Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition
Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition is finally here, and we've got a lot to say about it. Mena's explained the thinking that went into this new version over at Mena's Corner, where you can get the full story.
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Topic: BLOGLIFE - on May 14, 2004 at 1:22:00 AM CEST
Jaggle down
Due to a catastrophic hard disk failure and too much concurrent users we have been off line for the last days. We have taken the chance to migrate our stuff from Pivot to Movable Type. In the beginning of next week will be back with a new layout, new functionality and a cleaned up database with over 5000 items. Our provider, Flaxe Webhosting, will also move us to a faster server located in Amsterdam which can handle more traffic and way more users. CU next week!
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