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WWE News: Big SmackDown Match Announced This Week, Cena Update, Linda McMahon Speaks
-- It was announced at the end of SmackDown this past Friday night that Jeff Hardy would be wrestling Vladimir Kozlov on the next edition of SmackDown. Both wrestlers are potential opponents for Triple H in the WWE Championship match at Cyber Sunday.
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Interest blossoms in point-click philanthropy
Several times a year, Heidi Hess and James Rucker of San Francisco go online, PayPal style, and redirect their wealth to their favorite charities. They are tactical philanthropists - part of a growing group of socially conscious givers in the Bay Area whose...
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An elephant just texted me - crop raid alert
KENYA - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighbouring farms. The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time.
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Internet-based Pacific TV in works
A new internet-based Pacific Island channel is set to be launched as a number of new stations are developed to bring Polynesian culture to a wider audience.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Barker issues online thank-you to fans
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker used the Internet to thank his fans for supporting his recovery from injuries suffered in a South Carolina plane crash.
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South Korea links Web slander to celebrity suicides
The suicide of Choi Jin Sil, the "national actress," has led the authorities to attack Internet rumor-mongering.
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Robot girl mix up
The internet has changed so many of our work practices - not least those of the media, writes Prof Noel Sharkey . A good or bizarre story can be picked up by every paper on the planet within hours. Some call this lazy reporting but I say a good story is worth repeating. The real problem with "cut and paste" journalism though is that it seems not to require much thought about the copied ...
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Canadian NDP Leader Praises P2P Communities
newtley writes "The New Democrats' Jack Layton has become the first leader of a major Canadian political party to acknowledge the importance of the Internet during a federal election. He's using YouTube to carry his message specifically to the online community, launching it on P2Pnet. 'We don't want to see hidden fees and gouging and service slow-downs all in the interests of promoting the ...
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Simulations shows how dust rings point to habitable planets
Washington, Oct 12 : Simulations developed by a NASA supercomputer have shown that dusty disks around sunlike stars point to planets that might be habitable.
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Indian origin scientist developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming
Washington, Oct 12 : A scientist of Indian origin, along with his team, is developing wireless transceivers and sensors that would collect and send data about soil moisture within a field, which would improve farming.
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Pandia Weekend Wrap-up Oct 12 2008
Search! Search! Search! What the Web had to say about it this week...
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ASUS at it again, calling out Gigabyte's excessive copper usage
Filed under: Desktops Oh ASUS, you bring us such joy. When this company isn't busy diluting its Eee brand, it l oves to pick fights with noted rivals, and this latest spat with Gigabyte (who isn't at all innocent in this war) is wonderfully trivial. Apparently ASRock, ASUS's budget motherboard wing, has taken it upon itself to inform hardware review websites like HEXUS of ...
Engadget |
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Going wireless without Wi-Fi
The GSM Association will market laptops in 91 countries that will be ready to connect wirelessly over a cellphone network, without having to be in range of a hotspot.
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Fayetteville woman became kid's TV celebrity
By today's computer-generated, HD-animated standards, "Romper Room" seems pretty tame stuff for kids. Just a show with a cute hostess, puppets and parades, and a "magic mirror" that didn't fool anyone.
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Soyuz spacecraft lifts off on space station voyage
By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press Writer. American computer game designer Richard Garriott reached space Sunday aboard a Russian rocket, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream as his astronaut father watched with pride.
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Visayan Forum, Microsoft step-UP against trafficking
Microsoft Philippines, in partnership with a nongovernment organization (NGO), Visayan Forum Foundation Inc., expands its battle against human trafficking and exploitation in the country through its step-Up initiative—Stop Trafficking and Exploitation of People Through Unlimited Potential.
The Manila Times |
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Computer game targets diabetic children
SINGAPORE: Managing diabetes could be as easy as child's play. That's what a computer game sets out to achieve. Through the fun of gaming, it hopes to help diabetic children understand and manage their condition.
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SECURE-24: Keeping others going has company surging
When the plug was pulled on southeastern Michigan five years ago, sending the area into a historic power outage, things kept humming at a Southfield company. Secure-24 did what it promised to do -- kept the computers going and clients' data and business operations protected despite the massive power interruption of the summer of 2003.
Detroit Free Press |
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Amazon and eBay battle for the top
For eBay and Amazon, the financial meltdown has arrived at a particularly crucial time. After years of claiming that their businesses were complementary, not competitive, the companies are now on a collision course.
International Herald Tribune |
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Computer game targets diabetic children
SINGAPORE: Managing diabetes could be as easy as child’s play. That’s what a computer game sets out to achieve.
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Oakland County news briefs: Off-road vehicle to aid firefighters
The fire department now has a new off-road vehicle, thanks to a successful grant. Last month, the department had its Polaris Ranger delivered. ALSO: Bring old computers, televisions to be recycled in Southfield; Rochester Program to teach kids about avoiding crime.
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Satyam denies World Bank barred it from offshore work
Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth largest software exporter, has denied reports that the World Bank has barred it from doing offshore work.
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Search company Ask.com makes some changes - does it matter?
Ask goes back to its roots, trying to give regular answers to natural language queries. In a market dominated by one search engine, such attempts do matter, Pandia argues.
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"Looking for an old PC RPG to play"
Recommend me something, it will be played on a shit laptop that chokes on SimCity 4 (ATI Xpress 1100 videocard). The engine that runs Baldurs Gate et all (Planescape, Icewind, etc) doesn't work on it for some reason. I need something to kill HOURS.
EuroGamer |
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IBM unlocks the gates to Beijing's Forbidden City
The only way to get a true feel for the Forbidden City, the vast moated palace built 600 years ago for China's emperors, is to peer into its grand multi-eved halls, cross its expansive plazas and stroll through its surprisingly intimate private gardens.
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