Gmail Gets A Panic Button

Have you ever sent an email, and just as it was going on its merry way, you realize you misspelled something or you sent it to the wrong person. This happens to me a lot on Gmail because sending an email is not always instant. And you have more chances to experience email regret as you are waiting for one to send.vWell, now you can take advantage of that delay to "undo" the message. (Not to be confused with Gmail Goggles, which is geared more at preventing drunken emails from ever being sent out in the first place). Just enable the feature in Gmail Labs in Settings (Scroll down, it is not at the top for some reason). It only works during that 5 second delay between the time you hit send and the time that Gmail actually sends the message.vWhat I like about this option is that it turns a bug into a feature. Gmail is really too slow, but now you can occasionally use that to your advantage.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/19/AR2009031903270.html

Ambulance called for Natasha Richardson was turned away

The first ambulance despatched to the actress Natasha Richardson was turned away in a fateful decision that could have cost the actress her life. A post-mortem by the New York medical examiner concluded tonight that Richardson, 45, died of “epidural haematoma due to blunt impact to the head” after falling during a skiing lesson in Canada on Monday. The Tony Award-winning actress, part of a celebrated British acting dynasty, was declared dead at 19:26 pm New York time (23:26 GMT) on Wednesday night after she was removed from life support. The death certificate listed the cause as “accidental.” Richardson fell in slushy snow during a lesson on a nursery slope at the Mont Tremblant resort, 80 miles north-west of Montreal. She did not hit any obstacle and no-one else was involved, the resort said. The instructor saw the fall and, following protocol, summoned the ski patrol to check her out. The actress, who was not wearing a helmet, laughed off the tumble, however. She said she did not want to see a doctor and was escorted back to her hotel room, where the ski patrol again recommended she see a doctor. An hour later, she complained of a headache and was rushed to hospital. Vital time may have been lost in treating bleeding inside her skull that pressed on her brain, doctors said. She appears to have suffered from what is known as “walk-and-die” syndrome in which the patient enjoys a lucid interval after a trauma to the head, but then suffers internal bleeding that kills by pressing on the brain.

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5940897.ece

IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems: sources

IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc, sources with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could bolster the technology giant against rivals in the high-end computer server and software markets. International Business Machines Corp is offering to pay over $6.5 billion, between $10 and $11 a share, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition. That would be double Sun's Tuesday closing price of $4.97. Shares of Sun jumped 81 percent to $9.01, while IBM shares fell 2 percent to $90.89 after the Journal reported that a deal was expected to be announced this week. Such a deal would be IBM's largest-ever acquisition, and lead to the creation of a massive technology firm offering both computer hardware, software and services. Analysts saw the move as part of a consolidation trend, as Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM and Cisco Systems Inc jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks. "They need to make sure that they have a suite of products, to be on the leading edge, so they have dominant share," said Zach Rosenstock, analyst at Wayne Hummer Wealth Management. "My feeling is that the good players with good technology and products will eventually get taken out by the bigger guys who have the means to do it and understand that it's easier to buy them than to mimic them through internal development."

Source: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090318/tc_nm/us_sunmicro_ibm_3

BREIN Plans to Move against NZB Sites

Ask just about anyone these days where the pulse of the file-sharing community is, and the most likely answer will probably be BitTorrent. Despite all the glory and power that BitTorrent has, however, it's tough to ignore one thorny issue that's beginning to grind into the entertainment industry: the newsgroups. For those who only know BitTorrent, the newsgroups are a tough sell. There's no uploading, no peer swarm, and of course you have to pay. All these things superficially appear contrary to what BitTorrent and P2P stand for. But there's little denying that once the newsgroups have you hooked, all other methods of file-sharing seem a bit juvenile. So it should come as little surprise that BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy organization pressing legal action against MiniNova, is preparing action against Usenet sites. "In 2009 BREIN goes on full strength ahead. Already 81 illegal sites were shut down in the first two months of this year. The Mininova case is set for hearing and BREIN will summon several sites exploiting Usenet. 'Sites who structurally link to illegal content have to take preventive measures or cease operations', says BREIN director Tim Kuik. 'The same goes for websites who host illegal content.'" Some of the big players in the Netherlands include the indexing sites alt.binaries.nl and nzbindex.nl. None of these sites are specifically mentioned in BREIN’s statement, and it remains unknown what sites may be targeted. Our questions about which Usenet sites might face legal action were not answered at time of publication. Indexing sites that host NZB files have come under increasing fire recently, with the MPA filing legal action against NewzBin.com late last year. However, ridding the internet of the Usenet menace is much more problematic than eliminating BitTorrent websites or trackers. There’s the news server at the heart of the newsgroup community, and with the ISP safe harbor provision protecting these entities, the newsgroups will be around long after their P2P contemporaries have vanished.

Source: http://www.slyck.com/story1840_BREIN_Plans_to_Move_against_NZB_Sites