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Honey, I shrunk the party jet [Caption Contest]
Google hosted the latest Science Foo "camp" — a conference, really, but calling it a "camp" brings out the engineers — put on by O'Reilly and Nature Publishing Group. We know traffic on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag |
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Olympics could crash computer networks
14 August 2008 Businesses are being warned their computer networks could crash if staff log on to Olympic coverage all at once.
NZCity |
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You Call That Broadband? Group Decries Plodding Pace of US Net Speed
A nationwide study released Tuesday by the Communications Workers of America labor union found that Internet connection speeds in the United States have increased little over the past year. The nation's median data download speed gained just 0.4 megabits per second, it reported. At that rate, it will take more than 100 years before the U.S. attains speeds currently found in Japan, according to ...
E-Commerce Times |
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Starz Punches Vongo's Ticket, Retains $5.99 Starz Play
Starz Entertainment Tuesday said it will pull the plug on its struggling, stand-alone broadband subscription service Vongo next month, while continuing to operate under the lower-subscription-cost Starz Play brand currently distributed by Verizon.
MultiChannel News |
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Japan's chip industry seeks ties with Indian designers
Trade officials from Japan's Kyushu Island, the site of 650 semiconductor-related companies, are looking for software design partners in southern India.
EETimes |
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eBay eyes partial purchase of Gmarket
The company confirms discussions with Interpark to purchase almost 40 percent of Gmarket, an online retailer based in South Korea.
CNET |
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DPS lieutenant suspended on child porn accusations
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) - A lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety was suspended last Friday amid allegations of child pornography which was viewed on his work computer.
KXAN 36 Austin |
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American gives in, waives 3rd-bag fee for military
Facing a public relations nightmare, American Airlines said it would waive fees on excess baggage checked by soldiers traveling on duty, after being excoriated online and in the national media as unpatriotic and hostile to U.S. troops.
McClatchy Washington Bureau |
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SD Jumps 18 Spots On Internet Speed List
South Dakota jumped 18 places in the survey, from No. 50 in 2007 to 32nd this year with a download speed of 2.2 MBps
KELO Sioux Falls |
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Ebay seeking Gmarket stake
EBay is seeking to buy a minority stake in Gmarket, the US online auctioneer said, lifting shares of the South Korean online retailer by as much as 16%
TVNZ |
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Red-faced China enforces media blackout
BEIJING—China enforced a media blackout on the saga of the faked Olympic opening ceremony song on Wednesday and all references to the story were removed from Chinese Internet sites.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Huskers boot porn wrestlers
SUMMARY: Two Nebraska wrestlers, Kenny Jordan and 2007 NCAA champ Paul Donahoe, are dismissed from the team after posing for an online porn site.
Planet Out via Yahoo! News |
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Polis wins Colo. congressional primary
SUMMARY: Out charter-schools advocate and e-commerce mogul Jared Polis faces only token opposition in November to represent Boulder, Colo., in Congress.
Planet Out via Yahoo! News |
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Make Your Own USB Batman Spotlight When You Should Be Working [DIY]
Unless you are a race car driver or something, work is boring. This DIY project is slightly more fun than spinning around in your seat and does a good job of killing around 2 hours of time. And, when...
Gizmodo |
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Google Maps Captures Natural Wonders by Photoshop [Google Maps]
Geologists and people wasting time on the internet alike have failed to explain this particularly repetitious forest in Holland. A pretty clear result of a lazy/botched clone stamping in Photoshop,...
Gizmodo |
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Giz Explains: The Magic Behind Touchscreens [Giz Explains]
Touchscreens. They're everywhere, as if electronics makers aren't cool unless their phones or media players have them, and soon that will be true for laptops as well. Touchscreens aren't going to...
Gizmodo |
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Connell Wagner Partners with BST Global
BST Global, the leading global provider of business management software solutions for architectural,
wallstreet:online AG |
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Blast tests Mumbai, Aug. 13
(PTI): The US national from whose Internet protocol address a threat email was sent before the Ahmedabad serial blasts has been sent for lie detector test, police said.
The Telegraph |
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Google Reader Lets You Pick Your Friends [Google Reader]
If you were one of many people who were upset when Google Reader began automatically displaying your shared items to all of your contacts in Gmail Chat, this one's for you: Google Reader now allows...
Lifehacker |
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eBay eyes partial purchase of Gmarket
The company confirms discussions with Interpark to purchase almost 40 percent of Gmarket, an online retailer based in South Korea.
CNET |
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It's New trueWidget Wednesday: Six New Artists and More Than 50 Tracks "Up for Grabs" at trueAnthem.com
It's Wednesday and that means new trueWidgets will be released today at trueAnthem.com. This week, Bag of Toys, Brian Chartrand, The Distance, Matt Hartke, Killola, and This World Fair will release exclusive new music with trueAnthem, the breakthrough modern music label that is monetizing the social networking music scene.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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Poll: Bring back Chris Henry?
Under what circumstances should the Bengals consider giving former wide receiver Chris Henry another chance? Share your opinion by voting in our online poll.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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TECHBITS: Yahoo location, Remote, Reminders, Bill
(AP:NEW YORK) Yahoo Inc. is riding the wave of location-based services with the launch of a service intended to help users share their real-world location with their friends online.
INO News |
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Now, IIMs to announce CAT scores by SMS, email
The option of seeing the score on the website and receiving a formal letter from the institute still exists.
The Times of India |
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UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage
Barence writes "Big Brother Britain moved a step further today with the news that the Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded. Under new proposals published yesterday, the information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by ...
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