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While prevailing sentiment seemed to be that Google Wave is all but finished as a standalone product, Google has made a pair of big announcements about the service. Google's Alex North has published a blog post which seems to indicate that something different is going on.
Wave is not so much dead, as preparing to enter the second chapter of its saga. To...
How astronauts see Hurricane Earl . This image acquired by NASA two days ago :
How astronauts see Hurricane Earl . This image acquired by NASA two days ago :
American Samoa: The first U.S. state or territory to ban plastic bags. It's always been a leader, though. Huffington Post
I liked a YouTube video: Tim Hawkins sings songs that famous Rock Stars will be singing in their old age.
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that this was coming, but this morning Google and AOL announced a five-year renewal of the search deal between the two companies. Google will continue to power search across AOL’s content network and properties. The partnership will be expanded to include mobile search and YouTube.
Armstrong said in a statement “Today is another important step in the turnaroun...
Despite the recession, CEOs continue to pay themselves vast sums while expecting others to suffer - with those CEOs who slashed their workforces the deepest earning the most. As a new report puts it, "CEOs laid off thousands while raking in millions."
Been getting harassed via telephone by some vacation telemarketing place in Las Vegas. At first I set my phone to send calls from that one number directly to voicemail. Then, tonight, I re-discovered you can block callers in Google Voce and automatically give them the official "this number is no longer in service message." Yes. Here's what my blocked call log looks like now.
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When J.C. Boscan signed his first professional contract with the Braves on July 2, 1996, Chipper Jones was in the midst of his second full Major League season and a 29-year-old right-hander named John Smoltz was on his way to capturing the National League's Cy Young Award.
New Delhi (UPI) Aug 31, 2010
Bent on becoming a regional superpower, India is pursuing ways to develop laser-guided anti-ballistic missiles.
Dubbed direct energy weapons and developed by the Defense Research and Development Organization, the new weapons are intended to kill incoming, hostile ballistic missiles "by bombarding them with subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves," the Defe...
London (AFP) Aug 31, 2010
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) in London declined to discuss a report Tuesday that Britain and France could share their aircraft carrier capability, calling it early "speculation".
The Times newspaper claimed that Britain and France were preparing to share the use of their biggest warships.
Its front-page story, citing government department sources, said the plan ...
Six Flags Over Georgia is getting its 11th roller coaster for next season, a ride it bills as the park's first "euro fighter" coaster.
A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.
Google's Gmail Priority Inbox puts messages into three groups: important, starred and regular, with the important appearing at the top and the regular at the bottom of the stack.