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2010-12-11T08:43:00.001-08:00

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Science Fiction: The Limit Case — Crooked Timber
By John Holbo
We tend to assume science fiction is about portraying technological change – or potential technological differences from how things are now. But, logically, one of the possibilities is that things could be pretty much the same. ...
Crooked Timber - http://crookedtimber.org/

Levi Ben-Shmuel: God, Science and Open-Heart Surgery
By Levi Ben-Shmuel
As marvelous as the technology and skill set of a medical team are, there is an even more fantastic Force within us so vibrant and powerful that a person can withstand open-heart surgery and thrive.
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If climate science politics were a hockey game…oh, wait | Watts Up ...
By Anthony Watts
If climate science politics were a hockey game…oh, wait. Posted on December 11, 2010 by Anthony Watts. I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. -Rodney Dangerfield (1921 – 2004) ...
Watts Up With That? - http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Wind Tunnel Technology in Sports Science
In the run up to 2012 Olympic Games, British athletes are making use of wind tunnel technology to boost their performance and chances of gold medal success.
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The Neurocritic: Perspectives on Psychological Science: Blogs Don ...
By The Neurocritic
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science is a blog written by Andrew Gelman, a Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia. He was one of the first to blog about the paper in Suspiciously high ...
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2010-12-11T08:00:00.001-08:00

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How to Install Windows on Google's Chrome OS Notebook
PC Magazine
The fact that the Google CR-48 Notebook runs on an Intel processor implies that it can run Windows or some other full blown operating system. But how would you install Windows in the first place? That's not exactly clear. But we have the answer, ...
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2010-12-11T04:28:00.001-08:00

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Dual-camera Apple iPad on way - start lining up outside those stores now
New York Daily News
Apple's iPad suppliers are gearing up for a new round of production in early 2011, sources said Friday, with one saying the product will be a revamp of the popular tablet computer including cameras on the front and back. The iPad has taken the world by ...
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Biz Break: Facebook Places? Foursquare? Check out who's checking in
San Jose Mercury News
By Frank Michael Russell In this photo provided by All Things Digital, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley is interviewed Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco. (AP Photo/All Things Digital, Asa Mathat) ** NO SALES ...
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WikiLeaks Julian Assange: the most dangerous man in the world?
Telegraph.co.uk
By Neil Tweedie, and Jon Swaine 7:00AM GMT 11 Dec 2010 Julian Assange experienced something this week that he has not known since boyhood: a prolonged period without a computer. The editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks has spent the past four nights in ...
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Jawbone Releases Thoughts for IPhone
PC World
By Lex Friedman, Macworld Jawbone, the company behind accessories like the Icon Bluetooth headset and the Jambox speaker, has released its first foray into the App Store: Thoughts. The iPhone app attempts to mix texting with the soothing sounds of your ...
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2010-12-10T21:17:00.001-08:00

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Oracle wants $211 million in interest from SAP
San Jose Mercury News
By Brandon Bailey Turning up the heat in a bitter legal dispute, software-maker Oracle is asking a federal judge to order German rival SAP to pay $211 million in interest on a record $1.3 billion jury award for software pirating. ...
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Activists Say Web Assault for Assange Is Expanding
New York Times
By RAVI SOMAIYA LONDON — The online activist group Anonymous, which has been waging a campaign of cyberattacks in defense of WikiLeaks, opened new offensives on Friday as Internet security experts said that tens of thousands more supporters had ...
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Wolverton: An early look at Google's Chrome operating system
San Jose Mercury News
By Troy Wolverton Pictured are two frame grabs of how the new Google Chrome operating system browser window appears on screen. (Courtesy Google) Consumers have had two choices when it comes to computers: Macs and PCs. Now Google is about to offer a ...
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Geminids to shower meteor 'gems'
msnbc.com
According to the late meteor specialist Neil Bone, at 2 grams per cubic centimeter (0.07 pounds per cubic inch) on average, Geminid meteoroids are several times denser than the cometary dust flakes that supply most meteor showers. ...
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Mozilla patches 13 Firefox security bugs
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Mozilla on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a re-patch for a bug that was thought quashed in March 2010. Eleven of the 13 were rated "critical," the threat level representing bugs that hackers ...
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Apple disabled jailbreak detection API in iOS 4.2
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Less than six months after introducing it, Apple has quietly disabled its jailbreak detection API through the iOS 4.2 software update, according to a new report. Network World reports that the API, which was released in June as part of a ...
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Looking for the Real Mark Zuckerberg
New York Times
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN When my grandmother was old and frail, my job was to run movies between her apartment and the corner video store. It wasn't easy to choose movies for her. She was close to death, and she didn't want a film that might upset her. ...
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Sound off: PlayStation Home
GamePro.com
by Dave Rudden With PlayStation Home turning two this weekend, we wanted to find out the fondest memories from its users. Read on to learn what people love about the service. PlayStation Home turns two this weekend, an occasion we're celebrating with ...
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2010-12-10T18:38:00.001-08:00

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Crazy Coffee Science: Why You Should Salt Your Coffee and ...
By matt buchanan
In a two-part interview about the massive coffee section in the even massiver 2400-page tome Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, one of the co-authors, Chris Young, reveals why salt takes the bitterness out of coffee better than sugar ...
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Putting Climate Science in Its Place - NYTimes.com
By By ANDREW C. REVKIN
A blog policy aims to sustain discussion of climate science, but in the appropriate place.
Dot Earth - http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/

Your Favorite Science Fiction Yarns, Reinvented as Kids' Books
By Charlie Jane Anders
If only these children's books, based on all-time classic science fiction stories, actually existed — they'd be the perfect way to get your kids into Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who. As it is, they're a hilarious tease.
io9 - http://io9.com/

Digging Digitally » Anthropology not a science?
By Francis Deblauwe
Anthropologists have been thrown into turmoil about the nature and future of their profession after a decision by the American Anthropological Association at its recent annual meeting to strip the word "science" from a statement of its ...
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Anthropology: More a Hobby Than a 'Science'
By Hamilton Nolan
Anthropology debate! Brain hearing! Jock myth! Unique fingerprints! Estrogen breast-rogen! Smallest battery! And gay mice marriage! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—if you can call it that!
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2010-12-10T18:14:00.001-08:00

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Oracle Seeks to Add to $1.3B Fine Against SAP
ABC News
AP On Friday, Oracle asked a judge to add $211.7 million in interest to the $1.3 billion fine that a federal jury levied against SAP last month. The judge still needs to formally impose the fine. There is a possibility she could reduce it. ...
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Apple's iPad tops Time's top 10 gadgets of 2010 list
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Time magazine awarded Apple four slots on its 2010 top 10 gadgets list, naming the iPad the No. 1 gadget of 2010. Apple briefly fell from grace last year when Time magazine awarded the Motorola Droid the status No.1 gadget of the year, ...
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Geminid meteor shower expected to be heavenly show
USA Today
By Wally Pacholka, AstroPics.com via AP By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Flaming rocks will soon begin hurtling toward the Earth with the arrival of the annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the biggest of the year. The peak of the week-long shower will ...
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Chrome Web Store, HTML5 and the iPad: symbiosis at its best
Engadget
By Paul Miller posted Dec 10th 2010 6:29PM It's all coming together, folks. It doesn't take much of a gander at the Chrome Web Store to notice a trend: some of the flashiest, most mature "apps" are actually just in-browser versions of iPad apps. ...
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WikiLeaks Disclosures Prompts Defense Department Ban on USB Drives
eWeek
The clampdown by the Department of Defense will have implications for how United States troops abroad will communicate with folks back home. The Pentagon's new restrictions on removable media and file transfers may impact how United States troops ...
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2010-12-10T15:11:00.001-08:00

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Next-gen iPad rumored to get front-, rear-facing cameras
Ars Technica
By Chris Foresman | Last updated December 10, 2010 1:43 PM Apple may go whole-hog in the imaging department for the next-generation iPad by adding both a front-facing and rear-facing camera. Anonymous sources in the iPad supply chain speaking to ...
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Group finds 5 main flaws with proposed Net Neutrality rules
BetaNews
By Tim Conneally | Published December 10, 2010, 3:54 PM A group of more than 80 advocacy groups including The Media Access Project, Reporters without Borders, Daily Kos, Common Cause, and Nonprofit Technology filed a letter with the Federal ...
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Governments stonewall interwebs porn domain
Register
By Kevin Murphy in Cartagena • Get more from this author The bid to create .xxx – a top-level domain just for web porn – will be tied up in red tape for at least a few more months after national governments pressured ICANN to block its approval. ...
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RIM's BlackBerry rapidly lost Verizon share to Android
Apple Insider
By Daniel Eran Dilger Just over a year ago, Research in Motion's BlackBerry made up more than 90 percent of Verizon's smartphone sales. Its share is now below 20 percent, thanks to the heavily promoted launch of Android smartphones on the carrier. ...
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News: Woz Freaks Out Media with White iPhone 4
The Mac Observer
When Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak showed off a white iPhone during a recent media event, the press thought they were getting a look at the still-not-shipping version of the combination iPod and smartphone. Woz's iPhone turned out to be a modified ...
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EA Lists Mass Effect 3 on Online Store
Gamespy.com
By Mike Sharkey | Dec 10, 2010 The cat, she has been let out of the bag, and she's carrying detailed information about BioWare's highly anticipated third installment in the Mass Effect series. Not to be filed under rumor, the unintentionally released ...
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Mozilla Patches 11 Firefox Security Flaws
InternetNews.com
Open source browser vendor updates Firefox 3.6.13 to address at least 11 security vulnerabilities, including numerous threats to memory and a fix for OpenType fonts. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: The last time Mozilla issued a ...
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2010-12-10T12:52:00.001-08:00

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Simple fingertip test may identify breast cancer patients at risk ...
By bjs
A gene target for drug resistance, a triple-drug cocktail for triple negative breast cancer, and patients' risk for carpal tunnel syndrome are among study highlights scheduled to be presented by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center ...
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Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Republicans and science
By DougJ
I'd like to beat this Republicans in science thing into the ground. First off, I 'll admit there is some real hostility to science from the fundies. But I don't think that conservative opposition to stem cell research is rooted in ...
Balloon Juice - http://www.balloon-juice.com/

December 10th: The Perils of Science News!
By kortney.hogan
Bio: Sandy looks at the science and the people in today's 9-5 pro astronomy world, delivering monthly here and also twice a week at Science20.com/skyday-- and launching the first personal science/music satellite via ...
365 Days of Astronomy - http://365daysofastronomy.org/

mental_floss Blog » Symphony of Science: A Wave of Reason
By Chris Higgins
In the seventh "Symphony of Science" installment by John Boswell, Carl Sagan sings: "Science is more than a body of knowledge: it's a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe. If we are not able to ask skeptical ...
mental_floss Blog - http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/

House votes to hold most science spending to 2010 levels - Physics ...
By Physics Today
Science: The three federal agencies that support the vast majority of academic research in the US—NSF, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science—would receive no more money in 2011 than in 2010 ...
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2010-12-10T11:14:00.001-08:00

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Faster Forward: First whispers of the second-generation iPad?
Washington Post
Apple component suppliers gave Reuters a Friday morning scoop on an Apple tablet that could be the next-generation iPad. Sources from five companies in the Apple supply chain spoke to the news agency's branch in Hong Kong. ...
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WikiLeaks, cyberwar and Julian Assange: Bernd Debusmann
Reuters
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What started out as a small group of activists operating a clearing house for leaked secret documents, WikiLeaks looks like turning into an international grass roots movement that needs no central figure to ...
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Military Ban Goes Too Far...and Not Far Enough
PC World
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld Pfc. Bradley Manning fired the shot heard 'round the cyber world when he shared confidential data with WikiLeaks. In response to the data breach, the United States military is implementing new policies governing removable media ...
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News: Costco to Stop Selling Apple's iPod
The Mac Observer
Costco will be phasing out its iPod line and iTunes gift card inventory over the next few months. The company said that the decision to drop the products was a mutual agreement with Apple, according to the Seattle Times. "In the past couple months, ...
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Nexus S and Gingerbread Phones to Get Full NFC Support Soon
ReadWriteWeb
By Sarah Perez / December 10, 2010 9:09 AM / 0 Comments This post is part of our ReadWriteMobile channel, which is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications. ...
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Firefox plugs drive-by download security holes
ZDNet (blog)
By Ryan Naraine | December 10, 2010, 10:25am PST According to Mozilla, 11 of the 13 vulnerabilities are rated "critical," meaning that they can can be used to run attacker code and install software, "requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing ...
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Best Buy Free iPhone Deal In-Store Only; Supplies Limited
PC Magazine
Friday's free Apple iPhone 3GS offer from Best Buy is an in-store only deal, and supplies have apparently been limited, a representative for the chain said Friday. Late on Thursday, Best Buy issued a statement confirming the promotion. ...
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In depth: Google's Cr-48 Chrome notebook
Computerworld
Google sent notebooks loaded with Chrome OS to beta testers. Our reviewer took a deep dive into the new OS. By Howard Wen Computerworld - My holiday gift giving season started early Thursday morning when the UPS guy pounded on my door and handed me a ...
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Connecticut Seeks Wi-Fi Data From Google
Wall Street Journal
By CHAD BRAY Connecticut's attorney general demanded Google Inc. turn over consumer personal data inadvertently harvested from wireless networks by its street-mapping vehicles. In a statement Friday, Richard Blumenthal said his office and the ...
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2010-12-10T07:54:00.001-08:00

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Analysis: Cyber attack protection not worth the cost for most
Reuters
By Georgina Prodhan and Marius Bosch LONDON/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Organizations can protect themselves to some degree against cyber attacks like the ones WikiLeaks supporters have carried out against Visa and Mastercard but it's a costly and ...
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Entertainment Dominates iPhone/iPad Apps In 2010
InformationWeek
Apple has released a series of Top Ten lists generated by downloads in the iPhone App Store. Few of the best-sellers are productivity related. By Eric Zeman , InformationWeek Apple broke down this year's lists into two segments: those for the ...
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November gaming sales good news for everyone buy Sony
Ars Technica
By Ben Kuchera | Last updated December 10, 2010 8:48 AM Wait a minute, do we actually have good news about overall sales for the US gaming industry in November? We certainly do! "November sales represent the best November on record in terms of new ...
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Oracle asks Apache to reconsider Java committee departure
Computerworld
By Chris Kanaracus and Joab Jackson IDG News Service - Oracle has asked the Apache Software Foundation to reconsider its decision to quit the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, and is also acknowledging the ASF's importance to Java's future. ...
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Military bans disks, threatens courts-martial to stop new leaks
CNN
By Noah Shachtman, WIRED "Unauthorized data transfers routinely occur on classified networks using removable media," a military order says. (WIRED) -- It's too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the ...
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Apple Suppliers Point to New Camera-Toting iPad in 2011
ABC News
By Kelvin Soh and Argin Chang HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Component suppliers for Apple Inc's iPad are gearing up for a new round of production in the first quarter, sources said on Friday, with one saying the product will be a revamp of the popular ...
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Apple's iPhone could be last standing in smartphone 'race to the bottom'
Apple Insider
By Neil Hughes Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will compete for presence on handsets in a smartphone market "race to the bottom," one that could leave Apple's iPhone as the "last man standing," one prominent Wall Street analyst ...
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Google Docs' Full Desktop Version Now Works on iPad
PadGadget
By Roberto | December 10, 2010 | no comments Throughout this year, Google has been working hard at making its online office suite compatible with iOS devices. However, most of the work was focused on making sure you could read your documents on mobile ...
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2010-12-10T02:51:00.001-08:00

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A Walk In The Cloud: My First Day With Google's Chrome OS
TechCrunch
As you've probably heard, earlier this week Google held a major event to launch the Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS, its new operating system that revolves almost entirely around web apps and browser extensions. There aren't currently any consumer ...
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We were right about the Ipad 2
Inquirer
By Nick Farrell REUTERS REPORTS that we were right when we predicted that the Ipad 2 will ship with two cameras. Hacks have been snuffling around Apple's Asian suppliers for hints about what is to come. For the record we predicted that Apple's next ...
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Author Pulls WikiLeaks E-Book from Amazon
PC Magazine
The author of a WikiLeaks-related e-book has removed the publication from Amazon amidst a controversy surrounding its sale. "We did not remove the title, and are verifying that it was removed from sale by the author," an Amazon spokesman said via ...
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Five years of Apple: 2005 iBook to 2010 MacBook Air
Apple Insider
By Daniel Eran Dilger Over the last half decade, Apple has radically changed what $999 can buy, with major advancements in the processor power, efficiency, connectivity, size, weight and quality of its entry level notebook. Five years ago, Apple was ...
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December 2010 Patch Tuesday will come with most bulletins ever
Ars Technica
By Emil Protalinski | Last updated December 9, 2010 7:18 PM According to the Microsoft Security Response Center, Microsoft will issue 17 Security Bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, December 14. It will also host a webcast to address ...
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Twitter 'popular for US minorities'
BBC News
African-American and Latino adults in the US who use the internet are twice as likely as whites to use the website Twitter, a survey has found. The Pew Research Center, a Washington-based think tank, found that 13% of Latino and 18% of African-American ...
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Winklevoss twins sued over company stake
msnbc.com
Cameron, left, and Tyler Winklevoss at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston this year. The Olympic rowers gained fame through the movie 'The Social Network,' about their business battles with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. ...
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2010-12-10T00:53:00.001-08:00

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A double block of blood vessels to starve cancerous tumors ...
By bjs
A novel strategy of blocking the growth of blood vessels with antibodies should result in improved treatment of cancerous tumors. The growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing vasculature is called angiogenesis.
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Anthropology and science « Archaeological Haecceities
By Johan Normark
The decision to drop the word science is unfortunate and it is probably the result of it being associated with Western ideals and colonialism (at least according to postcolonial and postmodern anthropologists). ...
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At the Science Fair
As part of the community outreach in the IB program, Kevin decided to create an animated short to teach middle school children about the science fair. I have included an original song he created from the full length animated short. ...
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Wikileaks: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping ...
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2010-12-09T22:31:00.001-08:00

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We Want YOU, Say Hacktivists … but Is It Legal?
Fox News
By Jeremy A. Kaplan Join Operation: Payback suggests a video released by the anonymous group that has taken down MasterCard, Visa and other sites. But what exactly are you signing up for? Cyberactivism -- call it "hactivism" -- is sweeping the web. ...
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Google CR-48: First Look at the First Chrome OS Laptop
PC World
Google's prototype Chrome OS computer delivers little more than the company's browser in a box. By Edward N. Albro, PCWorld Curious about Chrome OS? Try this: Shut down every application on your PC except for Google Chrome. Maximize the Chrome window. ...
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Friend or foe? Google, indie book sellers team up
TMC Net
By AP , SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Struggling neighborhood book stores now have a new way to ring up sales, courtesy of a formidable new rival — Google (News - Alert). But it still may not be enough to help them keep their doors open. ...
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The Top iPhone & iPad Apps of the Year
Mashable
With more than 300000 applications for iOS devices, Apple's iTunes App Store is a marketplace of enormous proportion. Apple has released its annual iTunes Rewind feature and named its apps of the year, which makes this the perfect time to reflect on ...
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Android Sees 300000 Daily Activations, Rubin Says
eWeek
More than 300000 Google Android phones are being switched on each day, according to a Twitter tweet from Android creator Andy Rubin. Let's see what Steve Jobs has to say about that. Google Android creator Andy Rubin said Dec. ...
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Apple's iPad 2 to have front, rear cameras in early 2011 - rumor
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Component suppliers for Apple's iPad are planning to begin a new round of iPad production in the first quarter of 2011, with one source saying that the next-generation iPad will have front- and back-mounted cameras, a new report claims. ...
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Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception gets first screens
Destructoid
So Naughty Dog's rumored new Uncharted title is a real thing. It's called Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, and it was revelaed today by Entertainment Weekly of all places. Sony and Naughty Dog have released the first screens of the game, along with some ...
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Sony brings out a gun; thankfully it doesn't shoot real bullets
DVICE
Sony isn't the first name that comes to mind when I hear about a new gun, but then again, who would have thought the Japanese electronics company would become a major camera manufacturer a few years ago. Designed for first person PlayStation shooter ...
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Microsoft Leads U.S. Video-Games November Sales
Bloomberg
By Cliff Edwards - Fri Dec 10 01:14:51 GMT 2010 Customers wait in line to purchase the first Microsoft Corp. Kinect motion controllers for the Xbox 360 console. Photographer: Jeremy Bales/Bloomberg Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, helped by its Kinect ...
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2010-12-09T17:20:00.001-08:00

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WikiLeaks backers threaten more cyber attacks
Reuters
Photo illustration shows a figurine of Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website, in Naples December 6, 2010. By Georgina Prodhan and Jeremy Pelofsky LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cyber attacks on global companies seen as enemies of WikiLeaks ...
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Google CR-48: Unboxed and Started Up
Computerworld
By Edward N. Albro PC World - The CR-48 has landed! This morning, we received one of Google's first Chrome OS-powered laptops. As you'll see in our video, the CR-48 looks a lot like an old black Apple MacBook that's trying to sneak past customs -- it's ...
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Google: We're activating 300000 Android phones daily
BetaNews
By Ed Oswald | Published December 9, 2010, 4:16 PM Android activations have now surpassed 300000 per day which equals the number of activations for Symbian worldwide, according to data provided by Google. It also indicates that the now near-continuous ...
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Apple Rewind Ranks Top iPhone, iPad Apps in 2010
PC Magazine
Did you download Angry Birds, Facebook, or Plants vs. Zombies on your iPhone or iPad this year? If so, you're in good company. They were among Apple's 2010 Rewind, a list of the top paid and free apps downloaded from the App Store this year. ...
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Apple may drop NVIDIA for Sandy Bridge's IGP next year
Ars Technica
By Chris Foresman | Last updated December 9, 2010 5:26 PM Apple plans to drop NVIDIA in favor of Intel's integrated graphics in its upcoming Sandy Bridge processors for use in Apple's 13" laptops, according to a report from CNET. ...
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Geek was chic in online search for 2010
AFP
SAN FRANCISCO — Tech terms ruled when it came to queries on the world's leading search engine in 2010, with online stranger-pairing website Chatroulette and Apple's hip iPad tablet computer the hottest topics. Internet gadgets and services displaced ...
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Verizon Cuts Pre Paid Plan Daily Pricing, But Doubles Texting Rate
eWeek
Verizon Wireless cut the price of its prepaid daily voice plan in half, to $1.99, but doubled its per-text rate, to 2 cents. Verizon Wireless has cut the pricing of its prepaid daily voice plan from $3.99 to $1.99, as well as doubled the texting rate ...
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Best Buy Confirms: Free iPhones on Friday
PC Magazine
Best Buy is offering a free iPhone 3GS tomorrow to "qualified" buyers, the company confirmed via its Twitter account on Thursday. Although the term "free iPhone" should attract customers, the discounts might be best described as significant, ...
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2010-12-09T14:23:00.001-08:00

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Official Google Blog: Celebrating the second Computer Science ...
By A Googler
This week we celebrate and recognize the second annual Computer Science Education Week (December 5-11). We're proud to continue our support for CSEd Week and our commitment to Computer Science education. ...
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National Computer Science Education Week Highlights Need to ...
By Microsoft Blog Admin
News and Perspective covering the top stories, events and activities from Microsoft. The content for this blog includes the official information and stories from all of Microsoft's primary businesses.
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Outsourcing Science to Keep Results Untainted | Smart Journalism ...
By Matt Kettmann
As demonstrated by California's rigs-to-reef process, state governments are using nonprofit organizations to conduct research that will guide future policy without being tainted by it.
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National team of scientists peers into the future of stem cell ...
By bjs
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- -- Remarkable progress in understanding how stem cell biology works has been reported by a team of leading scientists, directed by experts at UC Santa Barbara. Their research has been published in the journal ...
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why politics and science still don't mix » weird things
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We're back to the Slate for today's post, not to take a look at another one of Carl Zimmer's reliably superb and thorough examples of how to do proper science writing, but to illustrate once again how trying to jam politics into science ...
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2010-12-09T12:53:00.001-08:00

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Anonymous attack on Amazon.com appears to fail
Computerworld
By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld - This morning's planned distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Amazon.com by Anonymous, a hacker group that has launched similar attacks against organizations it sees attempting to censor WikiLeaks, ...
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The Death of the Hard Drive
Fox News
By Jeremy A. Kaplan Stop worrying about when the hard drive in your computer will die. Google wants to kill it permanently anyway. The new Google Chrome operating system, which was unveiled Tuesday, as well as hints and suggestions from Apple and ...
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300K Android phones activated every day: Google
Christian Science Monitor
Android phones are shown at a conference in California. 300000 Android handsets are activated every day, Google said. By Matthew Shaer / December 9, 2010 Google exec Andy Rubin announced that 300000 Android phones are activated every day – an enormous ...
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Google wants to back up your Microsoft Exchange for less
InfoWorld
By Ted Samson | InfoWorld Google stepped up its relentless assault on Microsoft's desktop dominance today with the announcement it's offering a cloud-based email backup and disaster recovery service for Microsoft Exchange -- for around half the price ...
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Fake Amazon Receipt Generator Targets Unsuspecting Online Merchants
InformationWeek
Smaller retailers, swamped by the holiday shopping surge, may be particularly vulnerable to social engineering scam that attempts to obtain fraudulent refunds. By Kevin Casey , InformationWeek There's a new online swindle afoot this holiday season, ...
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Verizon Drops Daily Prepaid Plan To $1.99
PC Magazine
Verizon has slashed the base rate of its unlimited prepaid voice plan to $1.99 per day, down from $3.99. Text messages, however, now cost two cents to send and receive instead of a penny. "We regularly review all of our products, devices, ...
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Costco enters 'mutual agreement' to stop selling Apple products
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff Discount wholesaler Costco will no longer sell any of Apple's products, as the two companies have reportedly come to a "mutual agreement" to cease their partnership. According to The Seattle Times, Costco will phase out Apple ...
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Amazon: Here's Why We're Not Hypocrites For Selling WikiLeaks Book (AMZN)
San Francisco Chronicle
Amazon has caught a lot of flack today for selling the controversial WikiLeaks diplomatic cables in its Kindle store just days after kicking WikiLeaks off its servers for publishing those same documents. As Peter Kafka reports for All Things D, ...
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2010-12-09T09:20:00.001-08:00

News

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Anonymous recruits 'data army'
BBC News
'Coldblood', a member of the group Anonymous, tells Jane Wakefield why he views its attacks on Visa and Mastercard as defence of Wikileaks. The data war between companies that have refused to do business with Wikileaks and the online activists keen to ...
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Chrome Web Store: a solution in search of a problem?
Ars Technica
By Ryan Paul | Last updated December 9, 2010 7:26 AM Google launched its Chrome Web Store yesterday alongside its announcement of the Chrome OS pilot program. Google seems to think that the modern Web, which is increasingly capable of delivering ...
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Amazon Kindles cash from Wikileaks
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By John Oates • Get more from this author Although the documents are freely available, it seems an odd move from Amazon which kicked Wikileaks off its hosting service. Even odder Amazon's US Kindle store is not stocking the collection of documents. ...
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Uncharted 3 revealed, with details on story and structure
Ars Technica
By Casey Johnston | Last updated December 9, 2010 10:47 AM Some of the first details on the Uncharted series' third installment, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, have begun to trickle out. Entertainment Weekly spent some time at the developer Naughty ...
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Ars Technica

Google engingeering VP: 300000 Android devices activated daily
Digitaltrends.com
Google fires the latest salvo in the ongoing numbers war over mobile operating system popularity. Android powered devices continue to be activated at a fast pace, according to Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering. ...
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Company is first to return spacecraft from orbit
Newsday
By AP MARCIA DUNN (AP Aerospace Writer) Photo credit: AP Photo/Mike Altenhofen | This photo provided by SpaceX shows the recovery of capsule built by Space Exploration Technologies Inc. after it splashed down into the Pacific Ocean, Wednesday, Dec. ...
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Fake Amazon Receipt Generator Targeting Online Merchants
PC Magazine
Researchers at GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software, have uncovered a scam that generates fake Amazon.com receipts in order to dupe merchants into paying unwarranted refunds. The online tool asks for the details of the fake transaction to enter in ...
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Verizon Wireless Pre-Paid Plans Drop
TMCnet
By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor Prices are dropped at Verizon (News - Alert) Wireless – could this mean lower prices for all carriers? According to a Mobile Burn report, the carrier has dropped its unlimited nationwide calling daily ...
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Intel talks up tablets, phones, and corporate piggy bank raids
Ars Technica
By Jon Stokes | Last updated December 9, 2010 9:41 AM At the Barclays Capital Technology Conference today, Intel had real good news, and fake good news. The real good news is that the company's silicon will show up in 35 tablets and some smartphones ...
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2010-12-09T05:34:00.001-08:00

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Hacker Threatens More Attacks on Those Seen as WikiLeaks Foes
New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA LONDON — In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a "cyberwar," hundreds of Internet activists mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they ...
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Is Google Trying to Kill the CAPS LOCK KEY?
Tom's Hardware Guide
WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE INTERNET IF SUDDENLY THERE WERE NO MORE INANE SHOUTING OF NONSENSE? Yesterday's Chrome OS Notebook Cr-48 reveal showed that Google had different plans for where the caps lock key normally resides. INSTEAD OF DOING THIS SORT OF ...
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Google activating 300000 Android devices per day, for free
Apple Insider
By Daniel Eran Dilger Google's vice president of engineering Andy Rubin sent out his second tweet, this time announcing the company is now activating 300000 Android phones each day. That's unlikely to have passed Apple's current activation rate for iOS ...
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SpaceX Dragon Flight Earns Praise & Opens Orbital Doors
Wired News
By Jason Paur Yesterday's successful test flight of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft marks the beginning of a new era in orbital space flight. With a $1.6 billion contract with NASA, SpaceX is planning on delivering 44000 pounds of cargo with 12 flights to ...
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Verizon cuts daily prepaid plan to $1.99
FierceWireless
The numbers are in, and it's time to make sense of the data. ABI Research analyst Michael Morgan checks out the world's 10 largest branded cell… Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) cut the price of its daily prepaid voice plan in half, a move likely geared to ...
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Facebook and Twitter slam door on WikiLeaks avengers
CNN International
By Jolie O'Dell, Mashable (Mashable) -- Both Facebook and Twitter have closed accounts corresponding to Anonymous, a formerly 4chan-linked group organizing a string of DDoS attacks on organizations that refuse to work with WikiLeaks. ...
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MacBook Air flash storage torture tests
Macworld
by James Galbraith, Macworld.com As you probably know, the MacBook Air uses flash storage instead of the hard drives found in every other Mac. And while the initial results using our Speedmark 6.5 test suite showed that the Air's flash storage helped ...
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Internet Explorer 9 Will Protect Web Users from Being Tracked
PC Magazine
Microsoft's next-generation Web browser will see a release candidate "early next year," and it will include a unique, just announced privacy protection called Tracking Protection. The feature will give users control over which sites can send and ...
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Intel Smartphone Processors Coming In 2011
InformationWeek
Mounting a challenge to the dominant ARM processors, Intel CEO Paul Otellini says smartphones with the company's chips will be available from 'premiere-branded vendors' next year. By Antone Gonsalves , InformationWeek Intel says its challenger to the ...
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Windows 7 Slates Won't Be Home For Christmas
InformationWeek
Microsoft's failure to get consumer-friendly tablets in stores for the holiday season could result in a frosty year-end quarter for the software maker. By Paul McDougall , InformationWeek Back in October, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised new, ...
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2010-12-09T03:17:00.001-08:00

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Jigsaw Genetics - Science News
By scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)
DNA fragments in mother's blood allow scientists to piece together fetal genome, check for disease.
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2010-12-09T01:35:00.001-08:00

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Google's computer programme: from search engine to operating system
Telegraph.co.uk
A relentless torrent of news has poured from Google over the last week. On Monday the firm announced a phone, made in partnership with Samsung, that it hopes will rival Apple's iPhone; next it announced the release of its own operating system, ...
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Why WikiLeaks' Julian Assange might prefer Sweden
The Guardian
Why is Julian Assange so reluctant to return to Sweden, where the number of rape accusations is so much higher than most other European countries, but rape convictions are among the lowest? Awful as it is to doubt a woman's claims of sexual assault, ...
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Commercial rocket launch, splashdown a success
San Francisco Chronicle
The first of what NASA hopes will become a fleet of privately built rockets and capsules successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning in a major test for the commercial space industry. After twice circling the globe, ...
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Verizon 4G network zips, but all that data will cost you
USA Today
By Edward C. Baig You'd think a blazing fast wireless network was all good. The 4G (fourth generation) mobile network that Verizon Wireless (VZ) launched Dec. 5 certainly qualifies as pretty darn zippy. At least, it was a lot of the time I spent ...
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Apple Posts Update For MacBook Air Display Issues
UberGizmo
Some owners of the new MacBook Air have previously noticed some issues with the display such as flickering horizontal lines sometimes appearing on the 13-inch model or displays being discolored when waking from sleep. The good news is that Apple has ...
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European mobile operators say big sites need to pay for users' data demands
The Guardian
European mobile networks have called on companies such as Facebook, Apple, Google to help pay for network upgrades as the growth in smartphone use has made data demand soar. The call from major operators, including France Telecom (owner of Orange), ...
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Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?
Fox News
A once fertile landmass now submerged beneath the Persian Gulf may have been home to some of the earliest human populations outside Africa, according to an article published Wednesday in Current Anthropology. In recent years, archaeologists have turned ...
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WikiLeaks Emerging as Hydra-Like Web Entity That`s Hard to Kill
eWeek
Even as WikiLeaks continues to publish its thousands of leaked cables from US diplomats the site is taking steps to stay online despite repeated cyber-attacks, cancelled services and government action. WikiLeaks keeps finding ways to stay online even ...
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Donations Ban on iPhone Apps Irritates Nonprofits
New York Times
By STEPHANIE STROM The nonprofit world is stewing over the ban Apple has put on making donations on the iPhone via charity apps. No one, including Apple, has data on how many nonprofits have created apps for the iPhone. Organizations like the Monterey ...
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2010-12-09T00:58:00.001-08:00

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Scientists Use Stem Cells To Create Mice With Two Genetic Fathers ...
By Rebecca Boyle
Perhaps I'm wrong and the question of whether we should will be overcome by the so called right of same sex couples to procreate using whatever science will allow it. However, these and other questions may be the reason why this ...
Popular Science - New Technology,... - http://www.popsci.com/

Climate Science Survives Climate Diplomacy - NYTimes.com
By By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Negotiators fix a science error in a draft of elements of a climate agreement.
Dot Earth - http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/

New House Science Chair Has Zero Percent Rating From Conservation ...
By Ryan J. Reilly
Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), the oldest member of Congress, was officially confirmed as the next chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday. The Texas representative is a strong supporter of the oil and gas industry ...
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At last, the edible science fair | Harvard Gazette
Final projects were displayed Dec. 7 for the "Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter" science fair. Illustrating the tenacious bond between science and cooking, students used physics, chemistry, ...
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Sonic Screwdriver Could Produce Ultrasonic Force Fields To ...
By Rebecca Boyle
Drinkwater, a professor at Bristol University, is working with a youth science program called Big Bang to inspire young engineers. He said researchers are studying how to manipulate ultrasonic waves — sound waves humans cannot hear – to ...
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2010-12-08T21:54:00.001-08:00

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Pro-WikiLeaks cyberattacks show growing threat
USA Today
By Oren Dorell and Jack Gillum, USA TODAY A cyberattack by supporters of WikiLeaks against the MasterCard and Visa websites foreshadows a new generation of increasingly dangerous assaults on the Internet, security experts say. ...
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Google Chrome OS Has Enterprise Friend in Citrix
eWeek
Citrix Systems has pledged its support for Google Chrome OS in 2011. The company will pair its Citrix Receiver virtualization app with Chrome OS netbooks for its customers. Google's Chrome Operating System isn't yet ready for prime time on notebook ...
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Splashdown! A sense of space deja vu
msnbc.com
Alan Boyle says:SpaceX's Dragon capsule was launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket rising from Florida, and at the end of its flight the Dragon parachuted down into the Pacific Ocean, 500 miles off the coast of Southern California. ...
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Taking 4G to the track
Boston Globe
By Hiawatha Bray Sure, the first of these high-speed wireless data systems came to Boston in September, courtesy of Sprint Nextel Corp. and its subsidiary, Clearwire Corp. About the same time, T-Mobile USA revealed a speed bump in its own wireless data ...
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Twitter becomes a digital melting pot
San Jose Mercury News
By Mike Swift People have grown used to the idea of Twitter as America's stream of consciousness, but a new study suggests that the fast-growing microblogging service is also becoming a kind of digital melting pot for US adults. ...
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AT&T coverage woes: What's the problem?
USA Today
This week a Consumer Reports survey confirmed what many iPhone owners already knew --that carrier AT&T has some serious issues with its network. CR said AT&T's customer satisfaction was the "worst" of the top 4 carriers--Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and ...
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HP on SPARC/Solaris: "Larry Ellison bought a money-losing business"
Ars Technica
By Ryan Paul | Last updated December 8, 2010 6:15 PM HP and Oracle have been trading barbs in recent months following a spat over HP's ousting of former CEO Mark Hurd, who is now working for Oracle. Outspoken Oracle CEO Larry Ellison resumed ...
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2010-12-08T17:56:00.001-08:00

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Hackers Set Sights on Visa in Fight for WikiLeaks
Voice of America
Photo: AP Hackers have declared an Internet war in support of WikiLeaks, with groups of anonymous attackers disabling major credit card websites in retaliation for denying service to the controversial website. The group, going by the name "Anonymous," ...
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Dragon spaceship begins descent
msnbc.com
Alan Boyle writes:Two orbits into its spaceflight, SpaceX's Dragon capsule has fired its thrusters to begin its descent back through the atmosphere. If the Dragon makes it back for a splashdown off the California coast, its test mission will be ...
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Mozilla Kills "Do Not Track" Tool, Microsoft Adds One to IE9
DailyTech
IE 9 will soon get a "do not track" tool. Mozilla recently scrapped its currrent version of such a tool, under pressure from advertisers. In a surprising juxtaposition, Microsoft is the one defending users from overzealous corporate interests, ...
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Wireless Carriers Revive Dumb Pipe Idea
BusinessWeek
By Ryan Kim Like an old dog with no new tricks, European wireless carriers are resurrecting a failed wireline move and trying to extract more money from the likes of Google, Apple, and other Web and mobile companies that provide content over their ...
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Apple's iPhone game guru bids adieu
VentureBeat
Graeme Devine gave Apple a lot of credibility when he joined Apple to work on iPhone game technologies. But Devine told the game blog Kotaku that his last day at Apple was Friday. Devine said he was leaving the company to work on game development again ...
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Apple posts update for MacBook Air display
CNET
by Erica Ogg Apple today made a move to resolve some display problems that popped up among some of the first buyers of the redesigned MacBook Air. The Mac maker released a software update for the 11-inch and 13-inch Air meant to resolve a "rare issue ...
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Salesforce Outlines Upgrades To Force.com Application Platform
Wall Street Journal
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff announced Wednesday a variety of enhanced and new services to bolster his company's Force.com programming platform, used to write and run online software ...
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McAfee, Symantec accused of patent infringement
San Francisco Chronicle
Intellectual Ventures Management sued companies including Santa Clara's McAfee and Mountain View's Symantec, alleging infringement of more than 10 US patents. Intellectual Ventures, a patent-licensing firm based in Bellevue, Wash., seeks jury trials ...
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2010-12-08T14:02:00.001-08:00

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Google Chrome OS Promises Computing Without Pain
InformationWeek
Thomas Claburn 12/08/2010 Before a crowd of reporters and guests, Google provided an update on its forthcoming browser-based operating system, Chrome OS, and invited attendees and select early adopters to try Chrome OS running on an unbranded netbook ...
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SpaceX splashes down to complete successful demo flight
USA Today
SpaceX's Dragon capsule fell to a soft landing in the Pacific Ocean just after 2 pm to complete a hugely successful first demonstration flight. The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral at 10:43 am EST atop a Falcon 9 rocket and was deployed in orbit ...
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Salesforce to buy cloud firm to expand apps platform
Reuters
By Himank Sharma and Siddharth Cavale BANGALORE (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc agreed to buy Heroku, a privately held cloud-platform company, for $212 million in cash, to expand into the fast growing social media and mobile space. ...
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IPads Are Latest Weapon in Medical Sales
Wall Street Journal
By JON KAMP And ROGER CHENG Medical-sector companies are passing out thousands of iPad tablet computers to salespeople to spruce up their pitch to doctors, and at the same time giving Apple Inc. a crucial foot in the door to business customers. ...
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Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Sues Nine Companies — Who's Next?
paidContent.org
Giant patent-holder Intellectual Ventures has filed its first set of lawsuits today. While the first suits are against computer security companies and memory manufacturers, it's a safe bet that suits against [all forms of] internet enterprises are on ...
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Apple improves iOS push security, iTunes promo codes now work overseas
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff Apple on Wednesday made a few key changes for iOS developers, upgrading the security of push notifications and allowing international distribution of promotional codes. Also, some HD movies have appeared for the first time in the ...
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Google Latitude iPhone App Hits App Store, Swiftly Yanked
PC Magazine
Google is on a roll. After yesterday's announcement regarding the new Chrome OS operating system, Chrome Web Store, and more, Google quietly launched a Google Latitude iOS app today, but it quickly disappeared from the App Store. ...
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Study: Android users chew much more data than iPhone owners
Electronista
Android users are much more data hungry than their iPhone counterparts, Arieso said in a new study. Using the iPhone 3G as the baseline, Android was often more demanding for traffic in both directions. The Samsung Galaxy S would upload as much as 126 ...
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Custom iPhone Made of T-Rex Tooth and Meteor
Fox News
Looking for something "fierce"? The British jeweler who brought the world the $8 million Apple iPhone 4 has gone for something a little more prehistoric The newly designed iPhone 4 History Edition by Stuart Hughes is not only encrusted by diamonds, ...
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2010-12-08T10:40:00.001-08:00

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The full story on Google Chrome OS netbooks
Seattle Times
This story ran in the print edition of The Seattle Times on Dec. 8, 2010. -Sharon Pian Chan Sticking a finger into Microsoft's largest business, Google said Tuesday it will start testing netbooks that run its competing operating system, Chrome OS. ...
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Operation Payback cripples MasterCard site in revenge for WikiLeaks ban
The Guardian
The websites of the international credit card MasterCard and the Swedish prosecution authority are among the latest to be hacked in the escalating technological battle over WikiLeaks, web censorship and perceived political pressure. ...
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SpaceX Launches First Commercial Orbiter
InformationWeek
Contractor could play key role in NASA's plan to turn launches over to the private sector. By Paul McDougall , InformationWeek Space Exploration Technologies on Wednesday successfully put a capsule capable of transporting humans to the International ...
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IE9 Will Let Users Control Tracking
NewsFactor Network
By Jennifer LeClaire Web surfers will be able to control web-site information tracking in Internet Explorer 9 with Tracking Protection, Microsoft says. Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch said the goal is to find the "right balance" between consumer benefits ...
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Android phones biggest network hogs: study
Reuters
Saying the health of the planet is at stake, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged nations meeting in Mexico to agree to steps to fight climate change that fall short of a perfect deal. Full Article A T-Mobile employee holds a new android-based ...
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Medical-Sector Companies Arm Sales Forces With Apple IPads
Wall Street Journal
By Jon Kamp and Roger Cheng Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Medical-sector companies are passing out thousands of iPad tablet computers to sales representatives to spruce up their pitch to doctors, and at the same time giving Apple Inc. ...
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Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control'
CNN
By Mark Milian, CNN Mountain View, California (CNN) -- The world has mostly caught on to Steve Wozniak's vision of having a computer in every home. But this digital lifestyle can sometimes turn rotten, he said last week. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple ...
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Salesforce to Buy Cloud Co Heroku for $212M Cash
ABC News
AP In a move to expand its cloud computing efforts into mobile applications and social networking, salesforce.com Inc. said Wednesday that it will pay $212 million in cash for Heroku, which hosts developers' "apps" on its site for a fee. ...
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2010-12-08T08:59:00.001-08:00

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Futuristic water bottle uses technology, science to let you know ...
By Chris Ziegler
The future is a scary place, yes -- but one thing we don't need to fear is being unaware that we're thirsty. Research and development.
Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/

Did Junk Science Motivate Nasa's 'New Life' Announcement?
By Nicholas Deleon
Oh, Nasa. If only you could invent a time machine and go back to when you actually had a budget. The agency's claim ...
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Big Dollars Available Through Arts & Science Council, Apply Now ...
By Bea Thompson
The McColl Award is a major Arts and Science Council funding source for local artists in Mecklenburg County. The time to apply is now. Heather Pontonio of the Arts and Science Council talked with News & Public Affairs Director Beatrice ...
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Argonne Labs' IBM-Powered Science Cloud « Data Center Knowledge
By Rich Miller
To test the applicability of cloud computing to scientific research, the Argonne National Laboratory deployed a high-performance cloud based on IBM System x iDataPlex compute nodes with Mellanox InfiniBand interconnects.
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University of Illinois awarded National Science Foundation grant ...
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Latino faculty at the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) are taking the lead to mentor the next generation of Latino scientists through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant ...
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2010-12-08T07:42:00.001-08:00

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Materials Science Institute
Founded in 1985, the purpose of the Institute is to study the structure and properties of materials, educate in sciences of the materials and serve as a ...
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2010-12-08T07:23:00.001-08:00

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Expect a Slow Rollout for Google's Chrome OS
PC Magazine
Developing software drivers is hard. From enhancing security and improving the speed of the operating system to fixing bugs, the work of the engineers behind Google's Chrome OS is never done. Or at least it won't be in some form, until 2011. ...
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MasterCard partially frozen by hackers in WikiLeaks 'revenge'
The Guardian
The website of MasterCard has been hacked and partially paralysed in apparent revenge for the international credit card's decision to cease taking donations to WikiLeaks. A group of online activists calling themselves Anonymous appear to have ...
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Microsoft Adds New Privacy Features to Internet Explorer
DailyFinance
By HUGH COLLINS Posted 8:15 AM 12/08/10 Company News, Technology, Microsoft Microsoft (MSFT) is adding extra privacy controls to Internet Explorer to limit the amount of information that users disclose while surfing the Web. The new Microsoft feature ...
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Private company launching test spacecraft for NASA
Washington Post
By MARCIA DUNN AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A private company is on track to launch a rocket and spacecraft Wednesday in a bold demonstration test for NASA. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - or SpaceX - is counting down toward a morning liftoff from ...
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What to Make of Database.com?
CRM Buyer
By Denis Pombriant Salesforce.com's new Database.com can be a little difficult to classify. Is this PaaS? I'd say it's infrastructure because a naked DB isn't enough to call a platform, but a naked DB is not so naked considering that it has to have a ...
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Google Maps Mobile 5: Offline Mode, Lower Data Use
Techtree.com
Google has demoed Google Maps for Mobile 5, a new version of its mapping software on the Motorola prototype tablet. GSMArena posted that these features will be coming to high-end Android smartphones like the Galaxy S, Droid/Milestone family and HTC's ...
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WikiLeaks nearly immune to takedown, says researcher
Computerworld
By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld - Massive network attacks and other punitive actions taken against WikiLeaks over the past few days only appear to have made the site and its contents far more resilient to takedown attempts, a security researcher said ...
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2010-12-08T04:12:00.001-08:00

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The Flying Trilobite: Science-Art Scumble #5
By Glendon Mellow
Science-Art Scumble #5. Scumble: "A painting technique in which semi-opaque or thin opaque colors are loosely brushed over an underpainted area so that patches of the color beneath show through." From The Artist's Handbook, ...
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Space Politics » Hall tapped to lead House Science Committee
Ralph Hall (R-TX) chair the House Science and Technology Committee in the next Congress. That pick will be voted upon by the full House Republican caucus tomorrow, but as the article notes, the vote is seen as a formality. ...
Space Politics - http://www.spacepolitics.com/

WikiLeaks: China's Science Secrets -Quantum Teleporation to Soft ...
By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff
Last year, The Daily Galaxy reported on China's eventual goal to extract Helium 3 from the Moon. The Wikileaks extracts shown below show that China's Earth- bound efforts in advanced esoteric science are equally impressive, ranging from ...
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Connected At Church, Happy With Life - Science News
By scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)
Religion aids well-being via church-based friendships, survey shows.
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Defending science | Civil Commotion
By Bob Felton
Defending science. Posted on December 7, 2010 by Bob Felton. A pack of nitwits who fashion themselves the Louisiana Family Forum — Why are organizations with the word 'family' in their name so reliably dishonest and stupid these days? ...
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2010-12-08T01:20:00.001-08:00

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Google launches Chrome OS operating system
Telegraph.co.uk
Google has announced a new operating system that will pit the search giant against Microsoft and Linux. Firefox vs Internet Explorer vs Chrome, the key fighters in the next browser war. By Matt Warman Consumer Technology Editor 6:27AM GMT 08 Dec 2010 ...
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Salesforce Unveils Database Product, Taking On Oracle
Bloomberg
By Aaron Ricadela - Wed Dec 08 02:40:27 GMT 2010 Salesforce.com Inc., the biggest seller of online customer-relationship management programs, introduced a product that may bring it into closer competition with Oracle Corp., the largest maker of ...
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Google eBooks Paves Way for Ad-Supported Media Cloud: Analysts
eWeek
Google eBooks, Google TV and perhaps even Google Music could form the bedrock of a great, ad-supported media cloud, analysts from Gartner and Forrester Research believe. Analysts believe Google's eBooks service could shake up the market Amazon and ...
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AT&T Says It Takes Negative Reviews Seriously
Wall Street Journal
By Ian Sherr Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)-AT&T Inc. (T) said Tuesday it is taking recent negative reviews of its network seriously, but insisted perception lagged reality. Speaking at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, ...
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2010-12-07T22:02:00.000-08:00

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Google Chrome OS Samsung, Acer Netbooks Coming in 2011
eWeek
Google is delaying launch of Chrome OS on netbooks to consumers until mid-2011, when Samsung and Acer will offer machines. For now, Google is offering Cr-48, a pilot device. Computers running Google's Chrome Operating system won't ship to consumers ...
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Internet Explorer 9 gets new anti-tracking privacy feature
Ars Technica
By Peter Bright | Last updated December 7, 2010 9:36 PM Microsoft has revealed a new feature that will ship with Internet Explorer 9 to help users avoid the online tracking that is now widespread on the Web and is used to power behavioral advertising. ...
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Google Books spanked by Amazon Kindle
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First Look On Monday, Google announced its semi-eponymous Google eBooks offering — its effort to challenge competitor Apple and chip away at the ebook dominance of Amazon. We installed the Google Books app on our iPad, played with it for a couple of ...
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Apple Must Distance Itself From ATandT: 10 Reasons Why
eWeek
News Analysis: AT&T has been called the worst mobile phone carrier by Consumer Reports. While Apple shouldn't end its relationship with AT&T, it's time for Apple distance itself by moving the iPhone to other carriers. When it comes to mobile phone ...
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RIM's Playbook the linchpin of a 10-year plan
CNET
by Tom Krazit Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis shows off the Playbook tablet on the sidelines of the D: Dive Into Mobile conference. SAN FRANCISCO--Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis hopes the company's investment in its QNX software will ...
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Don't expect Spotify in US this holiday season
CNET
by Greg Sandoval commentary Daniel Ek says he can't commit to a launch date for Spotify USA. Too late. Ek, Spotify's founder and CEO, did commit. Maybe he forgot that he and his underlings have repeatedly said the launch of a US version of Spotify, ...
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The rock star of Corporate America
MarketWatch
By Russ Britt, MarketWatch LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Steve Jobs is known as both mercurial and visionary, part rock-star CEO and part master salesman, a meticulous micromanager who can drive his employees to distraction — and one of the most ...
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OnLive to offer streaming movies, challenge Netflix
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cloud video game service OnLive said it plans to begin offering streaming movies and television shows, mounting a challenge to Netflix Inc. OnLive, a closely watched startup that allows users to play video games stored ...
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2010-12-07T18:52:00.001-08:00

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Google delays netbook plans for Chrome OS to mid 2011
Apple Insider
By Daniel Eran Dilger Google's plan to bring a web-centric, open operating system to netbooks has been delayed until the first half of 2011 as the company continues to work on Chrome OS, originally expected to launch this summer. ...
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Honeycomb Demoed on Tablet; Coming 2011
Tom's Guide
Monday during the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Google's Andy Rubin surprised the audience with a tasty protoype tablet provided by Motorola sporting Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb. Rubin said that the OS is slated for a 2011 release and will support ...
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Microsoft, Spurred by Privacy Concerns, Introduces Tracking Protection to Its ...
New York Times
By TANZINA VEGA As the debate continues about a potential privacy system that would allow consumers to opt out of having their data collected online, Microsoft on Tuesday announced a feature for the newest version of Internet Explorer that would permit ...
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Consumer Reports: AT&T the 'worst carrier'
USA Today
Various reports around the Web today are highlighting a Consumer Reports survey pegging AT&T as the lowest-scoring cellphone carrier in the US on customer satisfaction. The results are based on a survey of 58000 readers at ConsumerReports.org. ...
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Google vs. Amazon: Clash of the booksellers
Computerworld
Google introduces new eBooks and eBookstore applications, while Amazon touts a new desktop e-reader. By Barbara Krasnoff Computerworld - Are you a fan of those 1960s Japanese monster movies like Mothra vs. Godzilla, where two enormous animals battle ...
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Steve Wozniak leads a Computer History Museum tour
USA Today
By Marcel Antonisse, AFP/Getty Images By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Those under 40 may remember Steve "Woz" Wozniak as the lovable computer geek doing the samba on Dancing With the Stars. But in Silicon Valley, he's high-tech royalty ...
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Salesforce.com Announces Database.com To Compete with Oracle
Wall Street Journal
By Jeanette Borzo Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff on Tuesday announced a database-as-a-service product that he hopes will take business away from Oracle Corp. ...
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Don't Belive What You Read: OnLive and Netflix
GamePro.com
by AJ Glasser Yesterday, news source Reuters ran a story claiming that streaming game service OnLive looked to challenge streaming movie and TV show service Netflix. Turns out, it's not true. We spoke to OnLive President and CEO Steve Perlman after ...
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FCC's pay-as-you-go Internet plan raises video, access questions
Washington Post
The Federal Communications Commission is a key regulator of the telecommunications industry and plays an important role in shaping US. technology policy. By Cecilia Kang As details emerge about the Federal Communications Commission's controversial ...
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2010-12-07T17:28:00.001-08:00

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Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » NYTimes Science ...
By Charlie Petit
After reading hints in this week science section, which is devoted entirely to puzzles, jumbles, encryptions, and other mind games and why (some) people love them, that such diversions are not necessarily time wasters, I went ahead and ...
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The Science and Entertainment Exchange: The X-Change Files: Win 2 ...
By The Exchange
To celebrate the film's release, The Exchange is giving away passes to our exclusive "The Science of TRON" screening, featuring a conversation with Joe Kosinski (Director, TRON: Legacy), Sean Carroll (Caltech physicist and TRON: Legacy ...
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Strategy, court specialization driving increase in smart-phone ...
By bjs
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The flurry of smart-phone patent suits at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is being driven by technology companies eager to capitalize on the speed and expertise of the specialized venue, ...
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India's Opto Circuits closes Cardiac Science buyout | MassDevice ...
By MassDevice staff
Indian medical device developer Opto Circuits Ltd. closes its buyout of Cardiac Science Corp. for $2.30 per share.
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How To Get Your Kids Interested In Science | Help & Teach Our Children
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How To Get Your Kids Interested In Science Learning science is not always easy for children. Often if it seems difficult, children will lose.
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2010-12-07T14:22:00.001-08:00

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Google Launches Chrome OS Preview
InformationWeek
The first Chrome OS netbooks will ship to a limited set of early adopters this week. By Thomas Claburn , InformationWeek In recent years, consumers have had three major desktop-oriented operating systems to choose from: Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. ...
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Kindle for the Web demos at Chrome event
Computerworld
By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - Amazon.com on Tuesday demonstrated its update of Kindle for the Web which will appear "in the coming months," allowing the full reading and annotation of Kindle books from a Web browser on any device and giving third ...
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Nexus S review roundup
Christian Science Monitor
Nexus S review posts are trickling in. Here's the latest impressions on Google's newly anointed Android phone. Nexus S review roundup: Outlets like the "pure Google" feel of the new Nexus S. By Chris Gaylord / December 7, 2010 The Nexus S arrives ...
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Will Verizon Pay to Keep the iPhone Out of Competitor's Hands?
PC World
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Rumors suggest that Verizon may pay a premium to keep the hot-selling iPhone away from its competitors T-Mobile and Sprint. In other words, they want to keep it exclusive to themselves and AT&T, and this may have helped ...
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Salesforce's Benioff: 'Ellison flunks vision test'
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Dreamforce 2010 Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, has fired back at Larry Ellison and his beloved Exadata for cloud computing, saying that the server fails the cloud test and that Oracle lacks a genuine vision. ...
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Zynga Scores Its Biggest Hit Yet With CityVille
Escapist Magazine
It looks like Zynga has another hit on its hands with CityVille, which debuted on Facebook last week and quickly became the studio's best social game launch ever. I suppose it's bad news for anyone hoping that the air might be out of the Zynga balloon, ...
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WikiLeaks ditched by MasterCard, Visa. Who's next?
Christian Science Monitor
WikiLeaks has been dropped by MasterCard and Visa. What's next for the controversial organization helmed by Julian Assange? WikiLeaks has seen corporate support for its practices slip away in recents weeks. First Amazon, and then PayPal, ...
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Mobiles, iPod touch killing off Nintendo DS, Sony PSP
Apple Insider
By Daniel Eran Dilger In contrast to all the "iPod-killers" imagined by Apple's competitors, new research quantifies just how much Apple's iOS platform has done to actually displace standalone gaming devices like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. ...
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2010-12-07T11:27:00.001-08:00

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U.S. Science Education: Standards of Mediocrity? - John Farrell ...
By John Farrell
It may be a coincidence. Monday saw the publication of this essay in Scientific American by Robert Fortner, highlighting a new NSF report on the continuing decline of US Science productivity. Fortner writes: Something important and less ...
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Research and Science Education Subcommittee Chairman suppprts ...
Research and Science Education Subcommittee Chairman suppprts nanotechnology strategic plan.
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The Autism Science Foundation | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
By Phil Plait
Alt-Med | [Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be posting some calls to action for donations and such. I don't want to overdo them, so I'm only putting up ones I feel str.
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Spotting the stupid in science… | Analysis & Opinion |
By Robert Basler
Bad news if you bought a bunch of stars as an investment, but good news if you are considering distant stars as vacation destinations.
Oddly Enough Blog - http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/

PISA: U.S. is mediocre in reading, math, science — Joanne Jacobs
By Joanne
Compared to other developed countries, U.S. 15-year-olds are average in reading and science literacy and below average in math, according to study released today by PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), which is ...
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2010-12-07T10:23:00.001-08:00

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Piper: Android will be 'tested' once Apple brings iPhone to Verizon
Apple Insider
By Katie Marsal Android's growth in the US market will be put to the test if the iPhone arrives on Verizon's network in early 2011 as expected, one analyst believes. Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray on Tuesday sent investors a list of a dozen ...
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Google Must Make Tablets "Honeycomb Ready"
PC Magazine
Last night Google's Andy Rubin finally unveiled the tablet-friendly version of the Android OS last night. Rubin showed off Android 3.0, aka "Honeycomb," on a prototype Motorola tablet—and promptly threw the nascent Android tablet market into further ...
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IPad 2 to start shipping as early as Feb -report
Reuters
NEW YORK Dec 7 (Reuters) - Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) next iPad tablet will start shipping as early as the end of February from electronics maker Foxconn Electronics' factories in China, DigiTimes reported on Tuesday. The report, citing unnamed sources from ...
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Best Buy to sell Google Nexus S phone
Reuters
A woman carries a shopping basket at a Best Buy store in New York November 23, 2010. By Georgina Prodhan LONDON (Reuters) - Samsung's (005930.KS) Nexus S phone, based on the latest version of Google's (GOOG.O) Android software, will go on sale this ...
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Report: Amazon set to demo Kindle Web app
CNET
by Lance Whitney Amazon plans to demo a Kindle Web app today as it tries to play catch-up with Google's new e-book effort. An Amazon spokeswoman reportedly confirmed the demonstration in an e-mail to ComputerWorld, saying that the new Kindle Web app ...
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Google Chrome OS May Launch Today
Fox News
By Mark Hachman Google is hosting an event Tuesday in San Francisco, where an invitation "from the Chrome team" most likely augurs the introduction of Google's Chrome OS. The event will take place at 1 pm EST on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at an offsite facility. ...
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AT&T panned in Consumer Reports survey
Wireless Week
By CNET Tuesday, December 7, 2010 It's official: AT&T is considered the worst cell phone network in the US, despite the fact it keeps attracting new customers interested in the iPhone, according to a survey of nearly 60000 wireless consumers by ...
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What Salesforce's Database.com really means
InfoWorld
By InfoWorld Tech Watch | Eric Knorr What a URL! Database.com sounds like a service with grand ambitions of becoming the back end for the entire Internet, a notion that showman extraordinaire Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, would do little to ...
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MasterCard, Visa Europe Stopping Card Payments to WikiLeaks
BusinessWeek
By Peter Eichenbaum Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- MasterCard Inc., the world's second- biggest payments network, and Visa Europe Ltd. are suspending use of their brands by WikiLeaks, which released thousands of secret US military and State Department documents ...
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THQ Wireless and ngmoco team up for Star Wars Imperial Academy
GamePro.com
by James Fudge THQ Wireless and developer ngmoco announce plans this morning to develop and co-publish Star Wars Imperial Academy for Apple iOS systems. The game puts players into the boots of an Imperial Academy recruit whose ultimate goal is to ...
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2010-12-07T06:06:00.001-08:00

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Wikileaks defended by hacktivists
BBC News
It has hit sites that have refused to do business with the controversial whistle-blowing site with a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks. It mirrors similar attacks aimed at the Wikileaks site. Targets include the Swiss bank that froze ...
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Verizon iPhone may drop fewer calls than AT&T
msnbc.com
By Wilson Rothman What has been considered an inherent weakness in Verizon Wireless's long-awaited iPhone may actually prove to be a strength: Because it would use separate channels to carry voice calls and Internet data, it may in fact drop fewer ...
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Google targets iPad with Android 3 Honeycomb tablet yumminess
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By Bill Ray • Get more from this author Google's Andy Rubin has been showing off Honeycomb, the next version of Android and one with proper tablet support, explaining how Android applications will work across form factors. ...
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Salesforce.com unveils Database.com
Computerworld
By Chris Kanaracus IDG News Service - Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand service, Database.com, set to be announced Tuesday at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Database.com is partly powered by ...
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Japan probe reaches Venus, prepares to enter orbit
The Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese probe reached Venus on Tuesday and prepared to enter orbit on a two-year mission that would mark a major milestone for Japan's space program and could shed light on the climate of Earth's mysterious neighbor. ...
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Facebook revamp gives away even more info, warn pros
Register
By John Leyden • Get more from this author Security watchers have warned that Facebook's latest revamp will create the tendency to expose more user information. The redesigned profile, launched earlier this week and due to be rolled out gradually over ...
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Report: Apple Mac App Store Launching Dec. 13
PC Magazine
Apple is planning to launch its Mac App Store on December 13, an "inside source" told the blog Appletell. Apple has reportedly told developers to have their software ready as early as today, but Appletell's source did not think it would happen that ...
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On eve of Chrome store launch, Mozilla touts own Web app plans
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Hoping to steal a little thunder from rival browser maker Google, Mozilla late Monday said its cross-browser Web app store would launch early next year. Google is expected to announce the launch of its Chrome Web Store, ...
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High Stakes Loom Over SpaceX's Private Space Capsule Launch Test
Space.com
By Denise Chow The Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, is making final preparations for the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and new Dragon space capsule on what could be a groundbreaking test flight for the entire ...
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Blog site Tumblr back after 24 hours
CNN
By Jolie O'Dell The popular blogging/reblogging platform went down yesterday afternoon during some planned maintenance; the exact reasons for the outage are unknown, but Tumblr (Tumblr) has mentioned database cluster issues. Rumors aside, the downtime ...
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2010-12-07T02:36:00.001-08:00

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Google Launches Nexus S Phone With 'Gingerbread'
PC Magazine
Google, Samsung and Best Buy on Monday announced the Nexus S, Google's new flagship Android phone and the first device to run Android 2.3, codenamed "Gingerbread". The new phone is a slab-style, 1-GHz smartphone like Samsung's popular Galaxy S line. ...
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Amazon to introduce Kindle for the Web
Digitaltrends.com
Tomorrow, Amazon will announce additions to its Kindle service that basically match Google's eBookstore, feature for feature, spokespeople have said. Amazon probably isn't happy about Google's new eBookstore. In reaction to Google's e-book announcement ...
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Facebook Profile Revamp Features Friends
PC Magazine
Facebook said Sunday that the site has introduced a new version of its Profile pages, which allows users to feature friends and experiences that are important to them. According to Facebook, the site now leads off with a quick overview of basic ...
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Cracks delay SpaceX demo flight
TG Daily
The first demonstration flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 commercial spacecraft for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program has been postponed. The launch, scheduled for today, has been postponed by at least one day, following the discovery ...
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Google Exec: Android is Profitable
PC Magazine
Android's chief architect offers some good news about Android and some strong advice and some criticism for competitors. SAN FRANCISCO: Google doesn't charge its carrier-, OEM- and developer partners a dime for its mobile operating system, ...
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Analyst: Verizon Would Pay to Keep Sprint, T-Mobile Off iPhone
PC Magazine
Verizon hasn't officially nabbed the iPhone, but when it does, will it pay to keep other carriers out of the loop? According to a Monday analyst note, Verizon wants AT&T to be its only iPhone competitor. "We are hearing that [Verizon] does not want ...
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Smartphone, tablets will outship PCs by 2012
Afterdawn.com
Market research firm IDC has said today that the end of the PC-centric era is near, with tablet and smartphone shipments set to overtake PC shipments in 2012. IDC makes sure to note, however, that PC sales will continue to increase, as well, ...
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Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by the end of February 2011
Digitimes
Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) plants in Shenzhen, China have recently been notified they will ship Apple's iPad 2 within the next 100 days with initial shipments to reach 400000-600000 units, according to sources from Taiwan-based ...
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DecorMyEyes.com Owner Arrested on Fraud Charges
PC Magazine
Vitaly Borker, who ran the DecorMyEyes.com We site that became the subject of a New York Times expose, was arrested on counts of cyber-bullying and fraud, according to a report. "I've exploited this opportunity because it works," Borker told the paper. ...
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10 Things We Want to See in Chrome OS
PC Magazine
Thanks to a mysterious invitation sent out to the media last week, there's widespread speculation that Google will announce, or maybe even release, the desktop OS it's been talking about for over a year. The company has said that Chrome OS will launch ...
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Google Mobile Head Says Nexus One Too Ambitious
ABC News
AP By RACHEL METZ AP Technology Writer The head of Google's Android mobile operating software says the search company "bit off a little more than we could chew" with the sale of the Nexus One, a smart phone Google began selling online early this year ...
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ATandT Ranked Worst Carrier in US by Consumer Reports
eWeek
AT&T ranked as the worst cell-phone service carrier in the US, according to a new Consumer Reports survey. AT&T said it was taking the survey seriously. A Consumer Reports survey released Dec. 6 named AT&T "the worst-rated cell-phone service carrier," ...
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Google VP shows off prototype Android-based Motorola tablet
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Andy Rubin, the brainchild behind Google's Android mobile operating system, demoed a prototype Android-based tablet from Motorola on Monday at this week's D: Dive Into Mobile Conference. The prototype was running Honeycomb, ...
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The Special Keyboard for Chrome OS Laptops
Tom's Guide
Google has confirmed that it's going to reveal the first Chrome OS netbook tomorrow, but here we have a picture of what purports to be the keyboard that the laptop is going to incorporate. Obtained by Engadget, the leaked picture is said to be from a ...
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