Thursday, December 2, 2010

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Google Search Engine Now Detects Bad Businesses
PC World
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News In an uncharacteristically public way, Google has acknowledged modifying its search engine so it can identify businesses that provide bad service and lower their search results rankings accordingly. ...
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Amazon cuts off WikiLeaks
CNET
by Lance Whitney The controversial site, which has roused the ire of the US government for leaking classified information, is no longer being hosted by Amazon's Web servers as of yesterday. "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. ...
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Clearwire, AT&T take jabs at Verizon's LTE speeds, pricing
FierceWireless
Hours after Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) took the wraps off its LTE network, providing details on pricing and devices, the carrier's top rivals began taking digs at the effort. AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) noted the gap between Verizon's EVDO network and its ...
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BBC goes global with iPlayer subs, launching on iPad first
Ars Technica
By Chris Foresman | Last updated December 2, 2010 11:00 AM The BBC's online, on-demand video streaming service iPlayer will launch worldwide sometime early next year. Much to the dismay of expats around the world, iPlayer has been limited to UK ...
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Google admits trespassing in Pa., pays couple $1
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued. US District Magistrate Judge Cathy Bissoon on Thursday ...
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FCC's New Net Neutrality Plan: Has Anything Changed?
PC Magazine
For all intents and purposes, the main thrust of Wednesday's plan doesn't differ too greatly from the October 2009 proposal. An FCC official said yesterday that it is "fully consistent with the approach" laid out last year. ...
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Arsenic-Munching Germ Redefines "Life as We Know It"
ABC News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strange, salty lake in California has yielded an equally strange bacterium that thrives on arsenic and redefines life as we know it, researchers reported Thursday. The bacteria do not merely eat arsenic -- they incorporate the ...
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Micron unveils NAND flash with onboard error management
Computerworld
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - Micron Technology introduced a line of NAND flash memory products today that it says will lengthen the lifespan of solid-state storage by integrating error management through a special processor chip, and allow it to ...
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Judge "Berates" Prosecution in Xbox Modding Trial
Escapist Magazine
The judge in the case of a man facing a ten-year sentence for modding Xbox consoles tore prosecutors a new one yesterday, blowing up at them for proposing flawed jury instructions and trying to suppress possible illegal behavior on the parts of at ...
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