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05 May 2008
Microsoft adds NBC, other TV shows to Zune (Todd Bishop/Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog)
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft adds NBC, other TV shows to Zune — Confirming the rumors, Microsoft says it will start selling downloadable television shows for its Zune device - including selected programs from NBC, the network that split from market leader Apple. — The move comes more than two years …
A Safer Way to Search
Today, we're announcing the beta release of SearchScan , a new feature from Yahoo! Search that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam. We've heard from users that security and privacy continue to be major concerns when they are online. ...
Free Wi-Fi, but Not for All - The battle between free … (Susan Stellin/New York Times)
Susan Stellin / New York Times:
Free Wi-Fi, but Not for All — The battle between free and paid wireless Internet access is starting to look like a draw. Or more accurately, a third variation is winning — a combination of the two. — Travelers want to log on everywhere at no charge, while hotels …
Under pressure, telecoms in Europe seek acquisitions
Deutsche Telekom is considering an offer for the U.S. company Sprint Nextel, becoming the latest to look to outside sources for growth and profit. ... European telecommunications companies are back on the prowl for big acquisitions. Instead of breathlessly announcing...Google’s PR Head Elliot Schrage Heads to Facebook
News, analysis and opinion about the digital revolution. Some of the advertisers and Web analytics firms used on this site may place "tracking cookies" on your computer. The Googlefication of Facebook continues, as Elliot Schrage, the search giant's vice president of global communications and public ...
Clank gets a Date
Also I and many PSP owners and fans agree with Mana Knight don't port this to the PS2! We need stand alone games on the PSP to drive sales, and the porting of R&C Size Matters to the PS2 killed the PSP sales big time! Last week we had the opportunity to officially preview PSP title Secret Agent Clank ...
Sucking up carbon dioxide to combat global warming
Los Angeles Times - By Alan Zarembo - May. 6 (News Report) - Here's a simple solution to global warming: vacuum carbon dioxide out of the air. Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University, said placing enough carbon filters around the planet could reel the world's atmosphere back toward the 18th century, like a climatic time machine. After a decade of work, his shower-size prototype whirs away inside a warehouse in Tucson, each day capturing about 10 pounds of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas as air wafts through it...NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Carbon Trading Blasted by Indigenous Groups
OneWorld - By Haider Rizvi - May. 6 (News Report) - The United Nations is facing scathing criticism from the world's indigenous communities for its attempts to promote carbon trading as a tool to address climate change concerns. "The UN is allowing companies who are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to continue to pollute," said Tom Goldtooth of the U.S.-based Indigenous Environment Network (IEN)...NewsTrust Rating: 3.2 average - Reviews - Review It
Lured Toward the Right Choice
Time - May. 6 (Review) - If you want people to use less energy, you could make it very expensive--or you could just let them know how much they use in comparison with their neighbors. When that bit of information was added to electric bills in San Marcos, Calif., heavy users quickly lowered their consumption, even though no one had asked them to. To borrow a term from behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein, the good people of San Marcos had been nudged.NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Family Science Project Yields Surprising Data About a Siberian Lake
New York Times - By Cornelia Dean - May. 6 (News Report) - Baikal is a place of unusual biodiversity, with many species found nowhere else. Among them are giant shrimp, bright green sponges that grow in shallow water forests and the Baikal seal, the world's only exclusively freshwater seal. In 1996, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or Unesco, designated the lake a World Heritage Site.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Myanmar Reels as Cyclone Toll Hits Thousands
New York Times - By Seth Mydans - May. 6 (News Report) - Officials said they would open the doors of their closed and tightly controlled nation to international relief groups. So far, most foreigners and all foreign journalists have been barred from entering the country.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
AP Launches Mobile News Network
Editor & Publisher - May. 6 (News Report) - The Associated Press today debuts its Mobile News Network, a multimedia news portal targeted at wireless users for accessing international, national and local news content anytime and anywhere from the cooperative and its members. The web application is optimized for use on iPhones and accessed directly at www.apnews.com or via iPhone web application pages at www.iphone.com/webapps...NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It
Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem
Scientific American - By JR Minkel - May. 6 (News Report) - Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which exploded during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crewmembers.NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 from source rating - Review It
Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t Better
New York Times - By Carl Zimmer - May. 6 (News Report) - "If it's so great to be smart," Dr. Kawecki asks, "why have most animals remained dumb?" Dr. Kawecki and like-minded scientists are trying to figure out why animals learn and why some have evolved to be better at learning than others. One reason for the difference, their research finds, is that being smart can be bad for an animal's health.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Oil-Rich Abu Dhabi Builds Renewable-Energy City
National Public Radio / Morning Edition - By Steve Inskeep, Joe Palca - May. 6 (Special Report) - In the desert of Abu Dhabi, a novel experiment in sustainability is under way. Over the next decade, a city of 50,000 residents will be built from scratch. And unlike any other city in the world, Masdar City will have no carbon footprint. Once it's built, the city will be powered entirely by renewable energy. But, the United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich nation containing approximately 10 percent of the world's oil reserves...NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 from source rating - Review It
Microsoft, chasing Apple, adds TV shows to Zune Marketplace
Microsoft Corp. said late Monday it will now sell TV shows, including popular NBC series, on the Zune Marketplace, a move that brings its selection of content for the digital media player a step closer to what Apple Inc.'s iTunes offers for Apple's much more popular iPod.Apple and Mac RAM Memory Upgrades Made Easy
Upgrading Apple and Mac computer systems with memory is now foolproof at http://www.TheUpgradePlace.com . Their new upgrade tool makes finding a 100% compatible memory upgrades for Mac and Apple computers a simple and painless process. Upgrading system memory still proves to be the least...The coming of .NET - This is the second part of a three-part … (Peter Bright/Ars Technica)
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
The coming of .NET — This is the second part of a three-part series describing how one developer became disillusioned with the Windows platform and was reinvigorated by the bright lights of Mac OS X. — In part one, I described how Apple turned its failure to develop a modern OS into a great success.