North America

by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

by Jeff Wilson
I. GONDWANALAND, MIGRATION, AND DINOSAURS

Palm said Thursday it expects revenues will fall well below the company's previously forecast range of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion for the current business year. The smartphone maker attributed the anticipated decline to slower than expected consumer adoption of the company's products, which has led to lower order volumes from carriers as well as the deferral of future orders to later periods.

Gartner said Tuesday that Apple succeeded in capturing market share from Nokia and other smartphone producers last year. The iPhone OS held 14.4 percent of the worldwide market at the end of 2009 -- sharply up from Apple's 8.2 percent share in the prior year -- enabling Apple to slip by Microsoft and become the world's third-largest smartphone vendor, the research firm said.

Nokia Corp. may be the world's top cell phone maker, but it's no longer a trendsetter, as a host of inventive and alluring technologies from North America is shifting the center of gravity in the cellular universe away from Europe.

Despite efforts to boost its position in the U.S., Nokia is struggling to compete with Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. -- maker of the iPhone -- and Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry.

A band of hackers who were recently discovered hoarding a trove of account logons pilfered from thousands of companies worldwide are garden-variety cyberthieves, security experts say.

The gang most likely began by hiring spam specialists to send out e-mail and social-networking posts to lure recipients into clicking on a tainted Web link, says Don Jackson, senior researcher at SecureWorks.

They then used a dated free version of a hacking tool called ZeuS and did nothing to hide their tracks, indicating that "they're probably amateurs," Jackson says.

Joe Kloc in Seed Magazine:

The University of British Columbia is claiming the title of North America's greenest building for its impressive $37 million Center for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), currently under construction and to be completed in 2011.  What makes this building the greenest?

From Slaveryinamerica.org: