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03 Aug 2008
Welcome to iPhone: Your Crappy Mac of Tomorrow, Today!
Mike Ash: I’ve come to realize that the iPhone platform is really pretty crappy in a lot of ways. And these ways are mostly not due to hardware limitations, but rather artificial limitations put in place by Apple.Xbox 360 Arcade dropping to $199 on September 7?
Filed under: Gaming We've been hearing whispers that an Xbox 360 price cut is in the works, and now we're starting to see some evidence -- VGChartz scored this image of an unknown retailer's inventory system showing the 360 Arcade dropping to $199 on September 7th.CCTV.com and Adobe Partner to Bring 2008 Beijing Olympics to Millions of Online Viewers in China
SAN JOSE, Calif. & BEIJING, BUSINESS WIRE — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a strategic relationship with CCTV International Networks Co., Ltd.(CCTV.com) to deliver the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games'...Time Warner Is Ready To Deal AOL Components (Merissa Marr/Wall Street Journal)
Merissa Marr / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Is Ready To Deal AOL Components — Time Warner Inc. has completed the internal work necessary to separate its AOL unit's dial-up-access business from its advertising and content business, the company is expected to announce Wednesday. Now it will get serious about plotting …
CDC Understated Number of HIV Infections
Posted on: Monday, 4 August 2008, 00:00 CDT By The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials...Little Outcry on Nuclear Reactor Proposal
Washington Post - By Lisa Rein, Christy Goodman - Aug. 4 (News Report) - Opponents hope to make the case in Maryland that despite safety innovations in the construction of nuclear reactors, a new plant would not be safe from a catastrophic accident or terrorist strike, would create evacuation problems and would add to the nuclear waste stored at Calvert Cliffs. "The question is, is this the best way for Maryland to meet its energy needs?" asked Michael Mariotte of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a Takoma Park-based watchdog group that has...NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Voting Rights Destruction (Part 2): Lack of Transparency
TruthOut - By Heidi Stevenson - Aug. 4 (News Report) - The following tale, which just happened in California's Monterey County during the June 3 primary election, is a case in point. Jim March, a member of the board of directors of Black Box Voting, wrote of this incident, "The collapse of transparency was deliberate and systematic, and violated state laws, the certification rules promoted by the California Secretary of State's Office and democratic principles in general."NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 from source rating - Review It
Weapons Plutonium Fuel Test Fails
Common Dreams - Aug. 4 (Press Release) - Citing the recent failure of an experimental plutonium fuel assembly test at a South Carolina nuclear plant, two watchdog groups today called on the Department of Energy (DOE) to suspend a risky, multibillion dollar program that would use 37 tons of surplus nuclear weapons plutonium for U.S. nuclear reactor fuel.NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 from source rating - Review It
Energy Crisis: Putting the planet at risk?
CNN - By Larry King - Aug. 4 (Interview) - (VIDEO - 12:52) Larry King talks about which presidential candidate's energy plan is best suited to end America's energy crisis. Includes interviews with Gov. Bill Richardson, Gov. Haley Barbour, Professor Robert Reich and Rep. Michele Bachmann -- as well as reformed oilman T.Boone Pickens. (see show transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/04/lkl.01.html)NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Cell phone cancer risk debated
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Tom Paulson - Aug. 4 (Special Report) - More than a decade ago, the University of Washington's Henry Lai and his colleague Narenda "N.P." Singh reported that cell phones appear to emit enough electromagnetic radiation to cause the kind of DNA damage to brain cells that can lead to cancer. Few paid much attention, and mobile phone use exploded. But the UW scientists said they became targets of an industry strategy aimed at discrediting and suppressing studies raising health concerns about cell phone radiation...NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 from source rating - Review It
China, the Olympics, and the Environment: In-Depth Reports
Scientific American - By David Biello - Aug. 4 (Special Report) - As the world's eyes turn to Beijing for the Olympics, China struggles to reconcile its rapid growth with the health of its people and environment. A series of nine articles covering everything from clean coal to the environmental impacts of the next Olympics in Vancouver.NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 from source rating - Review It
China Olympics Electronics Surveillance
Popular Mechanics - By Brian Krebs - Aug. 4 (Special Report) - Looking beyond Wednesday's crackdown on media access to the Internet at the Summer Games, IT consultants and encryption experts are preparing high-profile attendees and tourists for what's shaping up to be a high-tech headache in Beijing. As a private memo from the U.S. government warns travelers about vulnerabilities for personal electronics, the Washington Post's digital security reporter examines the potential for gadget hacking at the Olympics.NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It