Welcome to Soop Portal Phoenix, the next generation of Soop Portal, the free open source virtual community software and content management system. Virtual communities built with Soop Portal software have nearly unlimited possibilities, not the least of which is the potential to change our world for the better by empowering critical discussion, democratic interaction, and collaboration across vast physical boundaries. Therefore, Soop believes its obligation is not only to the Soop user community, but also to our planet. We welcome you to Soop and we hope you enjoy your visit. Soop Portal presents your web community with a broad and rich feature set and Soop is supported by a friendly and talented development community. Soop Portal web community software is free and includes the following core features and functionality...
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:46:36 GMT PHP added to open-source NetBeans Sun burnishes scripting credentialsSun Microsystems has released its latest version of NetBeans, adding expanded support for dynamic languages.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:42:05 GMT Sun commits to JavaFX despite uncertainty Layoffs be damned!Adobe MAX Sun Microsystems has promised to deliver on JavaFX despite uncertainty in the wake of massive layoffs and a corporate re-organization.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:25:10 GMT EU tables green CoC for datacentres Regulating a uniform hue of greenwashThe EU is asking data centre owners and operators to "voluntarily" sign up to a Code of Conduct (CoC) which will include oversight of their energy efficiency in what could be green regulation through the back door.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:44:31 GMT Super Micro super ready for Intel Nehalem Xeons Boards galore, but still no chipsSC08 While there was plenty of talk this week at the Supercomputing 2008 trade show in Austin, Texas about the just-announced "Shanghai" quad-core Opterons, as well as GPU-powered personal supercomputers based on nVidia's Tesla co-processors, the hot topic at the show is Intel's forthcoming "Nehalem" Xeon processors, which will sport two, four, and eight processor cores.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:40:40 GMT Baidu sorry for medical scam ads The music machine rolls onUnlicensed music distributor Baidu has admitted taking money from unlicensed medical companies.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:51:36 GMT Computer virus quarantines London Hospital for second day Plucky Brits shrug off Mytob network blitzIT staff at three major London hospitals have spent a second day struggling to restore IT systems following a major computer virus outbreak.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:20:53 GMT NASA's curious climate capers Computer says: It's getting warmerThere have been a few red faces at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in recent days, to match the predominant color of its October global temperature map. Based at Columbia University in New York, GISS is the division of NASA that is responsible for global climate data and is used by the media in assessing global warming. After analyzing the data, GISS reported that October 2008 was the warmest October since reliable record-keeping began in 1880. But there was something very wrong with the numbers.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:14:38 GMT Celio extends 'smartphone terminal' line Bigger screens and keyboards for your phoneCelio is convinced that some people don't want to lug around a smartphone and a notebooks, so it’s expanded its Redfly smartphone terminal range by two models.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:08:49 GMT Filesharing ambulance chasers get into the gay smut racket Davenporn Lyons defends Army F*ckersThe law firm Davenport Lyons, best known online for accusing people of illegally filesharing on behalf of video games companies and threatening to take them to court if they don't pay hundreds of pounds, has now begun doing the same for producers of hardcore gay porn. It denied any plans to work for "adult entertainment" rights holders less than three months ago.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:29:54 GMT Academics warn of EU 'three strikes' back door plan Disconnection loomsEuropean law is introducing a "three strikes and you're out" law for ISPs to disconnect illegal file sharers "under cover of stealth", according to legal experts. The EU's telecoms reform package could guarantee the legality of such schemes.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:45:19 GMT BNP leaked list claims first victims Genie + bottle = foot + mouthThe first public sector employees are waking up to the fallout from the leaking of the BNP membership list yesterday.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:29:18 GMT Oz driver pulled with todger in pasta sauce jar Continued to crack one off 'while resisting arrest'An Oz driver has been fined AU$600 for "offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction" after cracking one off into a pasta sauce jar even as coppers attempted to subdue him with batons and capsicum spray following a "slow-speed" car chase through Newcastle, New South Wales.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:23:16 GMT Follow the Somali pirate scourge via Google mashup Indian navy sends buccaneer mothership to Davy JonesThe world's media continues to follow the long-running piracy problems in the Gulf of Aden, with interest stimulated by last week's fatal shootings by Royal Marines off the Yemeni coast and the reported sinking of a buccaneer "mothership" by the Indian Navy yesterday evening. Meanwhile, other seaborne raiders in the region successfully hijacked five merchantmen including a 300,000-ton supertanker loaded with crude oil.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:17:35 GMT Transmeta takeover threatened by lawyers Attorneys corral shareholders for class action suitNovafora's takeover of Transmeta could be threatened by a class action lawsuit from disgruntled shareholders.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:04:48 GMT Spacewalking astronaut drops toolbag 'Steve, can you lend me a grease gun?'Space shuttle Endeavour mission specialist Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper yesterday dropped her toolbag as she and Steve Bowen worked outside the International Space Station, in the process consigning to oblivion "two grease guns, scrapers, several wipes and tethers and some tool caddies".… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:02:03 GMT Nikon Coolpix S710 compact camera Ridiculously easy to useReview The Coolpix S710 was one of four new compacts released by Nikon this autumn. It's the top-of-the-range model, so the person likely to buy this camera is someone looking for more than a basic compact but less than an entry-level DSLR. Will they be delighted or disappointed?… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:54:09 GMT Lame Mac Trojan limps into view Malware targets grumble-flick fansSecurity researchers have uncovered a rare example of a Trojan that affects Mac PCs.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:52:00 GMT Google tells the world how to talk Received Pronunciation not received, Scots scotchedGoogle's voice search is, it turns out, optimised for North American accents and has distinct problems understanding proper English as the BBC defines it - forcing English users to adopt the kind of dodgy accents not usually seen outside a karaoke night.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:43:26 GMT T-Mobile kicked for 'more minutes' ad But TV challenge acceptedThe Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against T-Mobile's claim that "You wont find more minutes for £30", but accepts that the TV challenge "See if you can find more minutes for £30" is OK.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:28 GMT Oz sex trade to spank parliamentary prudes Sex and politics do mixAustralians are having a Sex Party – and before you all start sniggering at the back, this time they could be serious. Because depending on your point of view, this is either a cynical use of politics by an industry worried about its bottom line or the beginning of a fightback against government that has lost touch with ordinary voters.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:08:56 GMT German bawdy house offers free entry for life Willing punters queue for promotional brothel tattooCologne überbrothel Pascha has been surprised at the number of punters rushing to avail themselves of its free-membership-for-life promotion - unsurprisingly since customers have to have the knocking shop's name tattooed on their arm to redeem the offer.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:03:38 GMT Collaboration: dream or nightmare? (There’s no F in Team)Wave after wave of collaboration software keep crashing on our organisational shores. but with the latest wave of social networking software, should we run for higher ground?… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:58:00 GMT Pininfarina B0 production schedule slips Well sorted for lithium, though'Leccy Tech The Pininfarina B0 – that's B 'zero', not B 'oh' – may be a few months late. The word from Pininfarina HQ in Cambiano, Italy is that the start of B0 production is now “scheduled for late 2009/early 2010” rather then being a dead cert for the end of next year.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:54:37 GMT Main BBC channels to be broadcast live via web TV licence requiredViewers in the UK will be offered broadcasts of BBC One and Two live online from 27 November, the BBC said today.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:54:05 GMT What next for virtualization after we sort our servers out? Virtual Insanity?When we asked Reg readers for their views on virtualization last year, we thought we’d found the voice of reason. We still do.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:53:17 GMT IBM gets into server transit business Goes Transitive for dynamic apps translationPut a Big Blue wrapper around your legacy apps and cut data centre operational expenses, floor space and energy costs. IBM has bought a company so it can migrate applications from competitor's boxes onto its own mainframes, PowerPC and Intel servers.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:48:23 GMT Premium-rate industry pushes into class Hay kids, let's do the show on a mobile phone!Budding entrepreneurs are to be encouraged to develop premium-rate content by the industry regulator, with free lesson plans and downloads from the Ministry of Sound to make ringtone creation part of the UK curriculum.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:31 GMT What's lurking in your data centre? Legacy IT - a burden or tech age-ism?It's a shame, isn't it. The term 'legacy' could mean such good things, but in IT we use it in the same condemning way we might refer to burnt out old warehouses, or rusting farm equipment. No system worth its salt wants to be considered as part of the legacy environment, and indeed, it's a CV decision as to whether people want to work with them, in development or support roles.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:30:16 GMT BT silences customers over Phorm Down banhammerBT has banned all future discussion of Phorm and its "WebWise" targeted advertising product on its customer forums, and deleted all past threads about the controversy dating back to February.… |
| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:28:33 GMT Most biometric checks will bypass ID database Will use data stored on ID cardsIdentity checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register… |
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