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startlink: 'iCarly' Combines the Internet With TV

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007. ICarly' Combines the Internet With TV. What if, just like Andy Warhol said we would, we gave everyone their 15 minutes of fame? Fifteen minutes is a long time, though, particularly in an era of truncated attention spans. So how about 15 seconds? That ought to be enough time to squirt milk out of your eyes on worldwide television. Or play a trumpet while jumping up and down on a pogo stick. Or use a blender to make a spaghetti-and-meatball smoothie, then drink it. It's the u...

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startlink: Hi-tech crime 'is big business'

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Friday, September 21, 2007. Hi-tech crime 'is big business'. Internet crime has become a major commercial activity, reveals a report by computer security company Symantec. The report said cyber crime had become increasingly professional and was now a multi-billion dollar industry. The underground economy has its own auction sites and marketplaces that sell valuable data such as credit card numbers and bank accounts. Http:/ news.bbc.co.uk. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hi-tech crime is big business.

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startlink: Broadband speeds under scrutiny

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Friday, September 21, 2007. Broadband speeds under scrutiny. Broadband speeds in the UK are much slower than advertised by internet service providers, a study by Computeractive magazine has found. Some 3,000 readers took part in speed tests and 62% found they routinely got less than half of the top speed advertised by their provider. It is the latest in a series of questions over the way net firms advertise broadband services. Regulator Ofcom said it was aware of the issue and was "investigating". Avatar...

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startlink: Nortel seeks revival through 'hyperconnectivity'

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Sunday, September 23, 2007. Nortel seeks revival through 'hyperconnectivity'. That's the essence of "hyperconnectivity," a term Nortel Networks has been trumpeting since the spring and that looms large over most developments at the communications equipment giant. But the trend it calls hyperconnectivity- Zafirovski and associates actually refer to it as a "megatrend"- gives more reason for optimism at a company that, by the admission of its own executive team, was only a few years ago able to offer "me t...

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Science: Quantum communication: atoms talk long distance

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Thursday, September 27, 2007. Quantum communication: atoms talk long distance. US physicists have coaxed tiny artificial atoms into communicating in an advance that may lead to super-fast quantum computers, the researchers said on Wednesday. Quantum computers hold the promise of being enormously powerful, capable of solving in seconds problems that take today's fastest machines years to crack. In the past, the best qubits could do was talk to neighboring qubits, much like the childhood game of telephone.

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Science: NASA asteroid probe launched from Florida

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Thursday, September 27, 2007. NASA asteroid probe launched from Florida. A pioneering spacecraft that could serve as a blueprint for future interplanetary transport blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on Thursday on a mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. The probe, called Dawn, will be the first to travel to and orbit two different celestial bodies, a maneuver that previously would have required far too much fuel to be possible. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Science: New plant and animal species found in Vietnam

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Thursday, September 27, 2007. New plant and animal species found in Vietnam. Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday. The new species were found in a remote region known as the "Green Corridor" in Thua Thien Hue province in central Vietnam, the international conservation group said. It's great news for Vietnam," said Bernard O'Callaghan, Vietnam program coordinator for ...

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startlink: Intel wants you to put the Internet in your pocket

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007. Intel wants you to put the Internet in your pocket. The next big thing for Intel is little. The company has used its Developer Forum, here, to extol the virtues of its forthcoming handheld device platforms for allowing consumers to connect to the Internet. Intel calls this “Internet in your pocket.”. How would an MID device differ from what Apple’s iPod Touch has to offer right now? Source: http:/ blogs.zdnet.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Avatars in our future.

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Science: FPL and PG&E team with Ausra on solar projects

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Thursday, September 27, 2007. FPL and PG&E team with Ausra on solar projects. Two of the nation's biggest power companies are teaming up with a solar start-up to create one of the world's largest solar power projects, which they say could make electricity at a competitive price. PG&E Corp, FPL Corp and solar thermal power generator Ausra Inc unveiled plans on Thursday for utility-scale solar plants which they claim will produce electricity at a price comparable with conventional fossil-fuel power plants.

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Science: Genome deciphered for elephantiasis worm

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Sunday, September 23, 2007. Genome deciphered for elephantiasis worm. Scientists have mapped the genome of a worm that causes elephantiasis in what they called on Thursday an important step toward developing new drugs or vaccines to fight the mosquito-borne disfiguring disease. Elephantiasis is marked by hideous swelling of the arms, legs, head, genitals or breasts. It is caused by small, thread-like parasitic worms that can live for years inside the human body and thrive in the human lymphatic system.