Picasa Exploited by Spammers in their Latest Spam Campaign

Softpedia.com published a report on 11th January, 2014 quoting a warning by security experts as "spam emails purporting to be from ‘Picasa’ are currently targeting innocent Internauts." Notably, Picasa is an image managing system owned by Google. The spam emails entitled "We add new photos to your album" informing recipients…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 4:00 pm

Polyps Can’t Hide From This Colonoscope

Improve outcomes and efficiency with the RetroView high-definition video colonoscope from PENTAX Medical. The Retroflex’s enhanced retroflex bending section folds down tightly, allowing GI specialists to visualize more hidden polyps and gain easier access to the distal side of polyps during EMR and difficult polypectomy. Its graduated stiffness technology allows…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 11:00 am

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM1 review

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM1 at a glance: 16-million-pixel, four thirds-sized Live MOS sensorMicro four thirds lens mount3in, 1.036-million-dot TFT LCD touchscreenLumix G Vario 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6 Asph Mega OIS kit lensSensitivity range of ISO 200-25,600 (125-25,600 auto extended)Comprehensive Wi-Fi connectivityStreet price around 629 with kit lensSee sample images taken with the Panasonic…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 11:00 am

Lena Dunham’s Surprising Jezebel Shout-out on ‘Girls’

The heated controversy over Jezebel’s $10,000 bounty for nonphotoshopped pictures of Lena Dunham from Annie Liebovitz’s cover shoot for Vogue is about to take an ironic turn. For those who have not been following along: Jezebel editors wanted to see photos of what they surely expected to be yet another example…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 11:00 am

Flickr, Google+ and Shutterfly: How cloud photo services match up

About a year ago, I lost hundreds of photos and videos when my computer was stolen. Im determined not to lose my picture files again. Ive already backed everything up to an external hard drive, and have been looking at online photo storage services as an additional option. Unlike external…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 11:00 am

Student Research, Creativity Fêted

Imagine being able to showcase the best your campus has to offer across all disciplines the arts, sciences and humanities all in one space. Such things are possible at Wabash College, where today the school hosted its 14th annual Celebration of Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work. Shoulder to shoulder,…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 11:00 am

Boys’ basketball: Jake Lindsey scores 31 points to lead Olympus over Mountain …

(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) Olympus head coach Matt Barnes reacts to a bucket that allowed the Titans to stretch out a late lead against Mountain View. Olympus defeated Mountain View 73-64 in Orem, Friday, January 24, 2014. Boys’ basketball: Jake Lindsey scores 31 points to lead Olympus over Mountain View Orem…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 11:00 am

Canon works with Melville community to iron out traffic concerns

Originally published: January 22, 2014 6:34 PM Updated: January 22, 2014 7:56 PM By DEBORAH S. MORRIS deborah.morris@newsday.com Photo credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas | The Canon USA headquarters looms above nearby homes in Melville, where traffic has been one of the concerns for neighbors. (July 31, 2013) Canon, the camera and imaging giant that last summer…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 6:00 am

Upside of Kodak stock woes: nice IRS deduction

An Eastman Kodak Co. stock certificate from August 1992.(Photo: Staff file photo) Eastman Kodak Co.’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy ended last year with shareholders seeing their stock disappear in an instant. But there’s a way for shareholders to make at least some lemonade out of those lemons by writing off their…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 6:00 am

Upper St. Clair slips past Canon-McMillan

It only had lost two of its past three games — a far cry from a gut-wrenching drought — but one word came to Danny Holzer’s mind Friday night when he talked about the situation his Upper St. Clair team was in — desperate. Minutes after a 56-47 victory against…

Posted on: January 25, 2014 6:00 am