美国《时代周刊》近日公布2007年50个最佳网站,由陈士骏与Chad Hurley创办的YouTube与近期窜红的同类型网站Twitter上榜.
《时 代周刊》还列出了网站评级和投票数等信息.2007年这50个最佳网站分为艺术与休闲(Arts & Leisure)、音频与视频(Audio & Video)、新闻与信息(News & Information)、社交网络(Social Networks)、网络服务(Web Services)等5个类别.
此外,《时代周刊》还选出了25个生活中不可或缺的网站,其中包括雅虎、Google、维基百科、苹果 iTune、eBay拍卖网及英国广播公司(BBC)等热门网站.
新华美通北京7月9日电：中国领先的财经及娱乐跨媒体广告公司新华财经传媒 (Nasdaq: XFML) 今天宣布，公司调高截至2007年6月30日第二季度的营业收入指标。
新华财经传媒预计公司2007年第二季度营业收入将在2,700-2,900万美元之间，超过之前预测的2,300万美元。该增长主要由于超过预期的内部增长表现，以及今年6月份收购的两家公司所带来的收入贡献。
基于这两个收购所带的收入贡献，以及一家于七月份完成收购的公司的预期贡献，新华财经传媒正在评估2007年全年的收入指标，并将于8月公布第二季度业绩 时将之前预测的1亿1千万美元的全年营业收入指标调高。新华财经传媒在今年6月份收购的两家公司分别是：北京心情互动信息技术有限公司和声色（控股）香港 有限公司，7月份收购的公司是权威广告公司。
新华财经传媒有限公司简介
新华财经传媒 (Nasdaq: XFML) 是一家中国领先的财经及娱乐跨媒体广告公司，服务于全国高端人群。公司通过横跨电视、广播、报纸、杂志等发布渠道，提供了最有效的一体化广告平台。公司下 设综合广告、电媒广告、平面广告、内容服务、和市场研究五大互为补充业务部门，为客户提供全面解决方案，充分满足他们在媒体广告传播各阶段的不同需求，丰 富消费者的品质生活。
新华财经传媒总部设在北京，办事处和分支机构遍及北京、上海、广州、深圳、香港等中国主要城市。详情请浏览： http://www.xinhuafinancemedia.com 。
本声明包含前瞻性陈述。这些陈述是基于美国1995年私有证券改革法案中有关“安全港”的有关规定而做出的。这些前瞻性陈述可从使用的“将要”、“预 期”、“预计”、“将来”、“打算”、“计划”、“相信”、“估计”等词汇中加以识别。新华财经传媒还可能在其上报美国证券交易委员会的阶段性报告中，给 股东的年度报告中，新闻稿和其他书面材料中、以及管理人员、董事和雇员对第三方的口头陈述中发表书面或口头性质的前瞻性陈述。属于非历史性事实，并包括新 华财经传媒的看法和期待的陈述应视为前瞻性陈述。前瞻性陈述所包含的一些内在风险和不确定性因素可能会导致实际业绩与展望性陈述中的业绩有相当的出入，包 括（但不仅限于）以下几个方面：公司成长策略、公司未来业务发展、营运及财务状况、开发及维持客户的能力、在中国广告业的竞争力、营业收入与成本支出的变 化、目前和未来的讼诉与仲裁的结果、由于近期负面新闻报道造成的风险、中国广告业与媒体业的预期增长、中国政府关于广告与媒体的政策。这些潜在风险和不确 定性因素在新华财经传媒给美国证券交易委员会的报备资料中有概括描述，也包括在其 F-1 报表中的注册声明之中。本新闻稿中的信息均以新闻稿发布当天的情况而做出。如无适用法律的要求，新华财经传媒不承担对有关信息进行更新的义务。
消息来源 新华财经传媒有限公司
文章来源：美通社
ComputerWorld评出了40年来最重要的十大IT产品,这里面有许多我们熟知的东西,也有年代久远而不为我们所了解的祖父级产品.
在我们享受着现在完善的数码生活的同时可千万不能忘记40年的IT业界发展历程,我们一起来看一下吧!
IBM System/370:
1970 年 6 月,IBM 引入了 System/370™.它是构建在先驱者System/360™ 之上的一系列兼容大型计算机.370 145 型是第一台完全集成了单片存储器(一些电路,其中诸如电阻器、电容器和二极管的所有相同元件都装配到一个硅片上)和 128 位双极芯片的计算机.在每个 1/8 平方英寸的芯片上蚀刻着超过 1,400 个微电路元件.半导体技术是来自于磁核心技术的重大转变,在此前的 15 年里磁核心技术是计算机存储器的支柱.
以太网:
1972 年底,施乐实验室的Metcalfe和David Boggs设计了一套网络,将不同的ALTO计算机连接起来,接着又把NOVA计算机连接到EARS激光打印机.在研制过程中,Metcalfe将其命名 为ALTO ALOHA网络,因为该网络是以ALOHA系统为基础,同时连接了众多的ALTO计算机.最初施乐以太网的速率只有2.94Mbps.没有人会想到时至今 日,以太网已经几乎成为局域网的代名词之一.
IBM 个人电脑:
美国国际商用机器公司(IBM)于1981年8月12日推出型号为IBM5150的计算机,个人电脑从此诞生.时至今日,个人电脑虽然只有25岁,但它已经影响人类生活的各个方面,不断改变着世界.
Apple Macintosh:
个人电脑的发展,全世界市场上主要常见的有两种机型,一是美国国际商 用机器公司(IBM)最早推出的IBM PC电脑,就是人们说的PC电脑,占目前市场的绝对多数;另一个就是美国苹果(Apple)公司推出的Macintosh计算机,就是Mac电脑1984 年,苹果公司推出了新型的个人电脑——Macintosh. Mac是世界上第一台使用图形用户接口(GUI)的个人电脑.
1984年,美国 苹果电脑公司率先推出图形界面的Mac系统电脑.它的出现,使电脑突破了只能处理简单文字和数字的传统框架,向多媒体的方向发展.Mac的这项成就连 IBM也自叹不如,Mac电脑使用的是Motorola公司68000系列或POWER PC系列的中央处理器CPU.采用专门设计的SYSTEM操作系统,由于Mac电脑在图像处理和排版领域很有特色,非常受欢迎.
SAP R/3:
R/3 系统 SAP公司开发的集成化的企业管理应用软件, 包括财务、成本,资产、销售、原材料、生产、质量、人力资源、工厂维护、项目管理、工作流程等企业管理所有的基本功能.SAP R/3 系统为支持客户机/服务器机构的产品,SAP R/2系统为支持主机结构的产品.SAP的R/3系统是现代企业管理的技术先驱和代表产品!
Salesforce.com: 1999年,在第一波互联网浪潮的巅峰,Benioff看到了软件业的新机遇,并在美国旧金山的一所小公寓中创建了Salesforce.com.他提出 了一种CRM(客户关系管理)在线租赁软件模式,简单地说,就是把软件当作一种服务(SaaS,Software as a Service),用户无需购买自己的服务器,也无需购买一整套复杂的企业管理软件,而是可以按照需求“租”用相应的功能模块,并按月交付一定的服务费 用,将一切数据和软件托管在Salesforce.com的网站上.
Linux: 如果说Salesforce.com 是一个词“租借”,那么 Linux 就是”免费”,1991年,Linux起源于一个学生的简单需求,但到了今天,它却拥有着世界最大的开发者群体.
Netscape Navigator: 网景导航者(Netscape Navigator)是吉姆•克拉克和从Mosaic开发群中离开的马克•安德生以及吉米•萨温斯基等人开发的网景公司的网络浏览器.最早是以共享软件的 方式贩卖,因为新功能追加得很快,因此占有率相当地高.之后占有率被Internet Explorer给夺去,在成为开放原始码计划之前,占有率已经掉到全盛期的一半以下.但毫无疑问,它曾经是王者.
Dynamic RAM:DRAM(Dynamic RAM),动态随机存储器,IBM发明了它,Intel让他走入千家万户,它需要用恒电流以保存信息,一断电,信息即丢失.其接口多为72线的SIMM类 型.虽然它的刷新频率每秒钟可达几百次,但是由于它采用同一电路来存取数据,所以存取时间有一定的间隔,导致了它的存取速度不是很快.在386、486时 期被普遍应用.
BlackBerry:
BlackBerry(黑莓)的名字起源于1998年,这种无线电子邮件接收器挤在一起的小小的标准英文黑色键盘,看起来像是草莓表面的一粒粒种子,就起了这么一个有趣的名字.
QWERTY键盘是它的特点之一. 理论上来说,它是一个手机PDA,但是实际上大多数使用它的欧美用户,主要是运用它可以随时随地收发无线电邮.尽管,BLACKBERRY出现不过才10 年,但是在美洲非常风靡.除了商务人士,就是热衷于用电邮来联络的年轻人.它的键盘的确有非常大的吸引力, 方便快捷,不受时间和地域的限制,都会发出那可爱的声响.如果你想随时看电影 听MP3 ,就放弃吧,BLACKBERRY更适合商务的需求.
在网游的世界中有这样一群人，他们不喜欢和别人一起组队游戏，觉得要迁就别人的习惯和脾气实在太麻烦了。于是他们决定自己同时控制2台甚至更多的 PC，一个人完成游戏中需要组队完成的任务。这些人把这种玩法叫做“Dual Boxing”（或者3 boxing、4 boxing、5 boxing等等），他们有自己的论坛，经常在上面讨论多机操作的硬件配置、软件协调以及优化操作方法等。
近日，在他们的论坛中出现了这样的疯狂玩家，他和他的女友两人控制46个帐号在《魔兽世界》中游戏，组成了整整一个工会。这对情侣档自2001年起就开始多机操作，当时玩的是《无尽的任务》，2005年转入《魔兽世界》，从双机操作开始，一直到最后的23机。
为了节约空间和电能，他们的47台机器（每人23台+一台服务器）大都是Shuttle、AOpen等的Mini PC，并且除两台外都没有配置硬盘，使用PXE无盘网络运行。操作上，他们使用可编程键盘和KVM多机切换装置，每人在三台显示器上交替操作23个帐号。 另外，国外可没有免费下载的客户端，人家可是真的花每套60美元左右的价格，买了46套《魔兽世界》+《燃烧远征》的。
昨天新华财经媒体(XFML)大跌18.95%，收市7.1元，如图：
它3月初在纳斯达克上市的招股价是12到14美元，以昨天收盘价7.1元计算，差不多跌去一半
。
大跌原因是因为前任主管财务的CFO被爆曾经牵涉两个被美国证监会起诉的公司案件，有可能其职业操守有问题，这些事情在新华财经媒体IPO的时候没有告诉投资人。
因这CFO的不良记录，有人怀疑新华财经媒体IPO时候提供的公司数据的真实性。
股民买股票就凭公司财务报表，假如有造假，所有分析推测都是瞎掰。
震惊全美的安然事件就是因为财务报表造假，把一个年年巨额亏损的公司包装成一个高增长企业。
不像俺们中国股民，个个都说上市公司报表是假的，一样炒得很开心
，美国金融世界对这类作弊造假问题绝对是严刑以对的。
所以一爆出这消息，4天内，股价从12左右跌到7块。
尤其是昨天，单日跌幅扩大至18.95%就已经不是什么调整吓人了，原因是有个律师行已经代小股东向法院提出诉讼，控告公司隐瞒CFO的问题，导致投资人受损。
在美国碰上大小事情，例如车祸、人身伤害、投资问题等等，总会平地冒出些“见义勇为”的律师，他们不收委托人的钱，而是免费帮你打官司，打赢了对方赔偿时候才和当事人分钱。
这些律师的目标往往放在大公司、保险公司、有钱人等被告上，假如你要告的人有钱，绝对有律师求上门
。
这次立即有高效率的律师出动了，他们的目标是上市公司，就算上市公司本身IPO时候的财务报表经审查后没有问题，但雇佣一个有造假前科的CFO充当IPO经办人而不披露给投资人，这本身已经很容易告得入。
假如上市公司因此而要付出大笔罚款，必然造成非经营性亏损，股价也一样会跌，所以现在提前跌了。
这件事受牵连的，其实还有个A股上市公司外高桥，当初因内鬼挪用公款七拐八拐后得到了这间新华财经媒体的原始股（详见《新华财经媒体、开麦拉及外高桥的三角关系？》），现在该公司股票跌一半，估计外高桥手上原始股还没到解冻时间，这次资产受损了。
不过好像国内传媒都没怎么报道这件事，外高桥 近几天走势也没太大异常：
俺记得还有个A股上市公司好像也叫“新华”的，不知道有没有关联，查了下，原来是新华传媒 ，根据下面这段介绍好像完全和纳斯达克那家没有关系：
“解放日报报业集团和上海中润广告有限公司将以每股16.29元的价格把政策允许的所属传媒经营性资产全部装入上市公司，资产价值逾20亿元。”
有个KGS律师行正公开联系小股民，免费为其争取权益，假如你买了新华财经媒体(XFML)，希望这段信息能帮上你：
If you are a Xinhua shareholder or purchased shares in its IPO or shortly thereafter, and have information that might assist in our investigation, or would like to discuss your legal rights, you may e-mail or call KGS, without obligation or cost to you. You may contact Managing Partner Lewis Kahn of KGS direct, toll free 1-866-467-1400, ext., 100, or by email at lewis.kahn@kgscounsel.com. KGS focuses its practice on securities fraud litigation, and the firm’s lawyers have significant experience working on securities fraud cases that have resulted in significant recoveries for shareholders. For more information on KGS, please visit www.kgscounsel.com.
美国伊诺里亚洲一个4岁小女孩在对911进行了几百次通话攻击后，近日终于被警方找到了。法律部门称这个女孩在6月份总共拨打了287次911。最终在接线员承诺给她送一份麦当劳开心乐园餐后，她透露了自己的家庭住址。
这个女孩使用的是她妈妈的未经激活的手机。但是在美国，任何通信设备都是可以拨打紧急电话的，不管这个设备是否处于运营商的服务范围内。
结果警察并没有给这位小女孩带麦当劳,只是让孩子的母亲拿回了“攻击工具”–没有激活的手机.
4-year-old does denial of service against 911
Carpentersville (IL) – A four-year-old girl is in big trouble after calling 911 hundreds of times on a mobile phone. Law enforcement officials say the Carpentersville girl called the emergency number 287 times in June and as much as 20 times per shift. She was finally caught after dispatchers promised to deliver McDonalds food (Happy Meal?) to the house.
The girl used her mother’s deactivated mobile phone for the calls. All carriers in the United States must provide 911 access, even if regular phone service has been cut off.
起因：
今年3月初，以NGO版加速显卡驱动闻名的NGO小组推出了一款万用SLI补丁，可以允许 Intel、ATi、ULi等芯片组也能使用SLI。显然，nVIDIA不会允许这种做法。近日，nVIDIA向NGOHQ.com发去律师信，称他们违 反了数字千年版权法案(DMCA)。
nVIDIA称“SLI”是他们在美国和世界多个国家注册的商标，而NGO提供的SLI补丁侵犯了他们的商标权，容易引起消费者的误会。
NGOHQ.com迅速作出回应，提出了两点理由：一、SLI补丁来自华擎，并且早已移除；二、NGOHQ.com注册于以色列，而nVIDIA并未在以色列注册SLI商标，甚至没有在以色列设立办公室。
回应：
写得真痛快，说他们服务器在以色列，美国管不着，反暴力版权法的檄文啊，原文如下：
This is an official response to NVIDIA’s Unauthorized Distribution of NVIDIA Drivers on NGOHQ.com letter. Our servers are based in Israel. If you’re unaware, Israel is not a state in the United States. Israel is a small country in the Middle East. Therefore, the United States Copyright law and Section 106 do not apply here. This specific law applies only inside the United States borders.
Drivers for GPUs and MCPs are being offered freely by NVIDIA Corporation and millions of web-sites around the globe. If Guru3D, DriverHeaven, Techconnect Magazine, Laptopvideo2Go, Softpedia, DriverZone, FileForum and many other sites are allowed to distribute ForceWare and nForce drivers, then we don’t see any reason to remove it.
Our local law (Huk Zhoyot Yuzrim, 1911) permits us to distribute copyright software as long it’s intended for private/educational purposes and no-commercialism is involved. The software available in NGOHQ.com is being offered to the public free of charges. We are not charging money for the files or bandwidth, and no commercialism is involved with the distribution. The software available here is intended for home users and their private use. Therefore, the site fully complies with the local law (Huk Zhoyot Yuzrim, 1911).
We are offering drivers and free software; we are not distributing licensed software. Since no law is being violated, NGOHQ.com is fully complaint with the local law. You have no base for you accusations and you can’t threaten us with your own laws. Also, there is no DMCA law in our country. How come million sites are hosting your drivers, and we are the only one to receive legal threats?
Our modified software does not include code-level modification, only installation script modifications (INF) which is Windows script file. The installation script is not a part of the driver itself and NVIDIA Corporation cannot claim copyright ownership on these kinds of files. NGOHQ.com is providing notifications to the users and letting them know that the software is not being supported by NVIDIA Corporation. The user acknowledges that he’s/she is using the software at their own risk. You have no rights to claim ownership on installation scripts.
NGOHQ.com is fully legal and follows its state laws and Huk Zhoyot Yuzrim, 1911. NVIDIA’s drivers are being distributed on millions of web-sites on the internet. This attempt to force NGOHQ.com removal of this software is nothing but an attempt to continue the abuse toward NGOHQ.com. From our investigations, it seems that NVIDIA Corporation hasn’t sent this legal threat to anyone except NGOHQ.com.
From million of sites, NGOHQ.com is the only site who received legal threats. The real motive behind NVIDIA’s action is surely not the protection of their consumers, but to abuse NGOHQ.com due to unknown reasons.
We are modifying ‘driver .INF file’ because you’re using your software illegally as a tool to promote your new products. You’re removing INF file support for older product generations to promote your new products illegally, and using your drivers as tool for psychological warfare on your customers. Your actions are violating the United States Antitrust laws & Huk Hahegbliim Haiskiim Haisraeli and consumer rights. You’re also making false advertisements by claiming your software is Unified Driver Architecture, while it’s not.
NVIDIA is required to ensure that their products are working, and the software is bug-free. Instead of working on your drivers, you’re ignoring issues, requests and customer’s rights by dropping support and playing software tricks with them. The consumers are suffering in both desktop/mobile platforms because of your abusive tactics.
Without these ‘modified drivers’, your customers would file class actions against you. Your users are downloading drivers from our site because you fail to satisfy them, and you ignore them (Unfriendly control panel, Known 7800 GS issues and more)
This is not the first time that NVIDIA is trying to abuse this site. About a year ago, they sent another legal threat and requested to remove a patch that was made by Asrock. A few months ago one of their PR agents contacted their OEM partners and asked them not to provide samples, cooperation and support to NGOHQ.com, in-order to drive it out of business and to abuse this site, illegally. While NVIDIA is providing review samples and cooperation to other related sites to promote them, all we get is abuse, abuse, abuse and more abuse, and that’s after we provide support for their customers for free and from good will.
There is a very limited amount of websites who offer the same services for free. We don’t ask for anything in return but respect. Instead of providing us support, review samples, information and briefings, NVIDIA is sending us legal threats and abuse. Not only you’re not helping us, but you’re abusing us, yes! your own support site.
There is very a limited amount of sites like NGOHQ.com, and instead of supporting them, like you do with normal hardware sites, you’re abusing them, treating them without any respect and sending them ridiculous legal threats.
NVIDIA is working closely with our competitors. They are allowing them to host this kind of files, they are providing them betas to host, they are providing them review samples to promote their sites. Maybe NVIDIA is unaware to the US Antitrust laws, but we have all rights to provide competition in this area.
If NVIDIA is trying to take us out to promote their friends/our competitors, then NVIDIA is violating the US Antitrust Laws by preventing us from providing competition. We are allowed to offer competition if they like it or not. NVIDIA must respect open market, even if its website business. We have all rights to offer competition to the other sites, and we have all rights to offer ForceWare mirrors as well, like our competitors.
NGOHQ.com is providing unofficial support for its readers for free. If its software, tools, guides, reviews, information, drivers and news. NGOHQ.com is acting as an unofficial NVIDIA and ATI/AMD supporter on voluntary basis. We are providing help and support for you customers for FREE. We are providing workarounds and information for your customers as good will. We are not charging them for any fees and we don’t ask anything for return.
Our site and downloads section are very popular among your customers. These free downloads are consuming a massive amount of bandwidth and we have to pay for this bandwidth from our own pockets (18000-25000GB per month). We are also providing free bandwidth by mirroring these drivers, without quotes or any unpleasant content. We never received any kind of appreciation from NVIDIA about our hard work, these free services we are offering.
NGOHQ.com hasn’t violated any local law, the only ones who did violate, is NVIDIA with their continued abuse, harassment and attempts to drive NGOHQ.com out of business illegally. We will not remove the software; it is fully legally with our local law, while NVIDIA is violating the United States Antitrust Laws & Huk Hahegbliim Haiskiim Haisraeli by preventing us from running. If NVIDIA will continue abusing, harassing and illegally forcing their OEMs not to work with us, we will have no choice but to take legal actions against NVIDIA for Antitrust and Discrimination Violations.
We will also make sure to fill a complaint in the US DOJ regarding your abuse and possible antitrust violations. We will also tell them about the following:
* Possible use of illegal blackmail tactics against the press.
* Possible use of illegal The Way It’s Meant To Be Played program to gain unfair advantage and abuse the open market.
* Possible use of illegal false advertisement.
* Possible use of illegal viral marketing campaigns.
* Possible use of software support being used as tool to promote sales illegally.
* Possible Antitrust Violations against the state, consumers, press and your competitors.
NGOHQ.com reserves the right to offer competition and to offer support for FREE. Your claims are baseless and pointless. NGOHQ.com has the tools and rights to protect and defend itself, and even to attack if necessary. We’re not scared of you; we can fight back, so do not underestimate us.
We prefer to deny access to US rather then removing free software from our site. If Guru3D, Driver Heaven, Techconnect Magazine, Laptopvideo2Go, Softpedia, DriverZone and FileForum are hosting these files, we will continue doing so, and if NVIDIA tries to prevent us from offering competition, we will be forced to fill a Discrimination and Antitrust lawsuit against them, and use their own laws against them. We would like to finish this response with the following quote:
“Feel free to distribute and endorse Catalyst software. Just please let your users know that if they use modified drivers we aren’t able to support them properly. Keep up the good work in the community.” -AMD/ATI
