May 7, 2008
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Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Zune update: first impressions--Zune 2.5 has fixed the most obvious problems with the software, but the new social features are buggy and the app is still a ...
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May 7, 2008
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America Movil, the largest mobile network operator and corporation in Latin America, said Wednesday it will begin selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Mexico sometime this year. As of last March, the Fort ...
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May 7, 2008
ZDNet Blogs / Mary Jo Foley
At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings f ...
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- Outside the Lines: Sun heading into the cloud
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May 7, 2008
Gizmodo: Apple / Mark Wilson
Starting May 9th, Sprint will begin a massive, $100 marketing campaign aimed straight at the iPhone's nether regions. Stacking its 3G Instinct against the iPhone, Sprint hopes to show that EVDO and GP ...
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May 7, 2008
Ars Technica / jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
Across the nation, academic freedom laws are trying to protect educators that "teach the controversy" about evolution. But two days of seminars on evolution reveal that the real controversies are ext ...
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Jangl , a Silicon Valley Internet phone company that also offers VoIP services via widgets on the web, is looking to be sold, and it will announce more news "this week." VentureBeat first learned something was up last week, when we heard reports about employees from Jangl applying for other jobs. ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's unique duck-billed platypus -- an egg-laying, furry animal with web feet that spends most of its time underwater -- is in fact part bird, part reptile and part mammal according to its gene map. ... SYDNEY (Reuters) - "Its probably the most...
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Research and Markets: Nintendo Recorded Strong Revenue Growth of 89.8% in Fiscal 2007 over 2006 Owing to Revenues from the Launch of Nintendo DS Lite and Wii, and Their Related Software ... DUBLIN, Ireland --(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets has announced the...
Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas' pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers. ... In the past seven years, Louisville-based Papa John's International Inc. has made a lot of dough from online ordering —...
Wall Street Journal - By Bill Gates - May. 8 (Opinion) - How important is access to information technology? A World Bank report released earlier this year found a very high correlation between the rate of technology progress and income growth.
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Current TV - By Adam Yamaguchi - May. 8 (Special Report) - China is building megacities like this at a pace and scale the
world has never seen before. Chongqing has 12 million people and counting.
It's part of the central government's plan to bring some of China's economic
boom to its impoverished interior province where three out of four Chinese
live. Vanguard takes you on a whirlwind tour of the city---from inside a
cramped boarding house where migrant workers to inside a starter apartment
of China's new class of yuppies; from inside ancient,...
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Washington Post - By Rick Weiss - May. 8 (News Report) - the platypus genome offers an unprecedented glimpse of how evolution made its first stabs at producing mammals. It tells the tale of how early mammals learned to nurse their young; how they matched poisonous snakes at their venomous game; and how they struggled to build a system of fertilization and gestation that would eventually, through relatives that took a different tack, give rise to the first humans.
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Scientific American - By Siri Carpenter - May. 8 (News Report) - psychologists have established that people unwittingly hold an astounding assortment of stereotypical beliefs and attitudes about social groups: black and white, female and male, elderly and young, gay and straight, fat and thin. Although these implicit biases inhabit us all, we vary in the particulars, depending on our own group membership, our conscious desire to avoid bias and the contours of our everyday environments...
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AT&T's iPhone website (under 'Plans' tab) has been updated to reveal that each iPhone plan now includes access to their "more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks all for use in the U.S." It was first revealed last w. ...
Google has long said that its best hope for future growth comes from mobile devices. Google moved to bring that future a bit closer. ... Google has long said that its best hope for future growth comes from mobile devices. The Internet search giant joined an industry...
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Profile Redesign - Detailed Specs & First Impressions — As most people in the Facebook developer community are aware, the upcoming Facebook profile redesign is the biggest and most far-reaching project at the company so far this year. Its impact on users and developers …
IBM, TSMC Land Orders to Manufacture 65nm Chips for Microsoft Xbox 360
What's the new Nintendo Channel do? It lets you download DS demos. It lets you check out stuff like trailers. Oh, and, if you let it, it'll quietly take stock of your Wii and your gaming setup, then... ... What's the new Nintendo Channel do? It lets you download DS demos....
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp. Web Unit Sees Revenue Drop, Admits It Won't Hit FY 08 Goals — It took a while, but Rupert Murdoch has finally acknowledged that News Corp.'s Web business won't hit the goals he laid out for it last August. Actually, he made Peter Chernin say it: “Let me begining by saying yes …
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