Quaker Snack Mix Baked Cheddar, Pringles Recalled | Salmonella Contamination

Two food substances have found their way to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissions recall list.

First up, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDS) announced that Quaker Snack Mix Baked Cheddar is under a Voluntary Recall due to possible health risk. Basic Food Flavors, Inc. of Las Vegas, NV initiated the recall concerning their hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) due to a possible Salmonella contamination.

EPA Head Says Going Green is Good for Greenbacks

Washington, D.C. – Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), made an appearance at the National Press Club today to talk about the increased need for green energy in the current economic climate.

Software patents are killing innovation

After hearing about the latest software patent disputes, I have increasingly become disgusted with the notion of being able to patent a piece of software. Patents were really designed to protect true innovations where a unique, original work has been created, not to be used to “sue for profit.

Windmills Green Jobs and Arnold

“I think it’s our responsibility as public servants to go and do everything that you can to work day and night to create those jobs, so I ask the legislature to take this seriously, they have a job, they are happy, so let’s go and create jobs for everyone else too.”

Google and Apple Headed For a Showdown

Well, it’s finally happening. The long-simmering hostility between Apple and Google is starting to boil over.

Millennium Bug finally strikes…

how can you sign into a machine which, for all intents and purposes, isn’t aware it even exists yet… In my playstations mind it won’t be invented for another few years.

7.0 Earthquake Hits Japan

Strong earthquake of 7.0 just reported minutes ago in Japan near the city of Okinawa.

Alleviating the pain of Windows

I have found myself with some spare time at work and I usually like to experiment and with newer, open-source computing technologies and software. I have a favorite project which goes by the name, Samba. Ostensibly, its developers envisioned their software package as having to do a “dance” with Microsoft Windows.

Tech Fun With a Purpose

Perhaps some of us thirty-somethings remember the kids magazine called Fun With a Purpose. You know, that kids magazine in the doctor’s waiting room? You don’t? Well, it was a magazine geared towards kids with stories and instructions for making models out of ordinary items that you might discard. The purpose behind such activities was to help foster and stimulate creativity, communication skills, and the like.

Apple to Consumers: We Own You

Everyone has recently heard about Apple, Inc’s latest censorship move to remove items that it defines as pornographic from its iTunes Store. Every iPod and iPhone owner knows that if you want applications for your device that you own, you must go to their store and abide by their policy. It is very creative marketing with an even more creative legal framework to force you into an unwitting marriage with Apple.

Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions of Years

Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of small, ancient galaxies that has waited 10 billion years to come together. These “late bloomers” are on their way to building a large elliptical galaxy. Such encounters between dwarf galaxies are normally seen billions of light-years away and therefore occurred billions of years ago. But these galaxies, members of Hickson Compact Group 31, are relatively nearby, only 166 million light-years away.

Governments agree to protect endangered sharks under UN-backed treaty

A landmark agreement to protect shark species threatened with extinction was reached today by over 100 countries signed up to a United Nations-supported wildlife treaty, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

As Anniversary of Recovery Act Nears, EPA-Funded Projects Yielding Results

As the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act nears, projects funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are yielding cleaner air, water and land, and new green jobs across the country. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in New York State, where EPA’s Recovery Act funding has spurred cleanups of toxic waste sites and leaking petroleum storage tanks, cleaner water, and projects to reduce air pollution from diesel engines. EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis today visited one such project, the cleanup of an abandoned gas station and repair shop in Albany, N.Y

The End-Point Security Philosophy

Most of my readers might recognize me from the Opinion & Editorial Section of WorldNewsVine. In the flesh and blood, I am an Information Technology Professional with experience that runs the gamut from help desk to systems administration to small business network design. I see an alarmingly disturbing pattern emerging in Information Technology Security: an emphasis on end-point security vs. the layered model

UN goes for gold on development goals during Winter Olympics in Vancouver

With the Winter Olympics kicking off today in Vancouver, a senior United Nations official is spotlighting the important role that sport can play in promoting development, as the finish line looms for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Obama Administration Supports Nuclear Power Plant Development

The Obama Administration will be announcing loan guarantees for a nuclear power plant next week. It will be the first such plant built in close to thirty years.

Nigerian Government loses N3.524bn annually to ghost workers

The Director-General, Due Process and e-Governance Bureau of Nigeria, Von Kenedi, has raised alarm over the corruption and multiple salary payment in Bayelsa State civil service stating that annually the government of Bayelsa State, Nigeria loses over N3.524bn to ghost workers on its payroll who are not physically seen or accounted for.

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