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- Cellular Abroad National Geographic phone (Motorola V180)
- A cell phone can be a great asset when traveling abroad. You can make travel arrangements, check in with local friends or fellow travelers, and you can keep in touch with family back home. And as more U.S. residents continue to pack their phones for international trips, they face a...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, National Geographic, Motorola Inc., phone, Cellular Abroad
- Product reviews 2008-09-05
- National Geographic POD (zip)
- National Geographic POD is a simple application that downloads the latest National Geographic picture of the day and sets it as the background.
- Tags: National Geographic, Max Duncan, National Geographic POD
- Software downloads 2007-03-19
- No CD-ROM residuals for National Geographic artists
- No CD-ROM residuals for National Geographic artistsAt LastAn 'intellectual property' story that makes sense! United States copyright law permits revisions and re-releases of copyrighted material in this manner. National Geographic is within their legal rights to distribute electronic facsimiles of the original magazines without paying extra royalties to contributors, provided...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, National Geographic, CD-ROM
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
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- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Wind: A sound investment in unsound times?
- The first intra-state public offering associated with the development of community-backed wind farms in Dodge, Olmsted and Mower counties in Minnesota has been completed in just four months. The project managers, National Wind and High Country Energy, reported this week that the offering pulled in 60 Minnesota...
- Tags: Minnesota, Investor, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Election Talking Points: A discussion place
- Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...
- Tags: Mortgages, Palin, Election Talking Points
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Guess Apple won't have to shut down iTunes after all. Apple had warned that if the royalty rate for music downloads increased, iTunes would become unprofitable and they might pull the plug. But the Copyright Royalty Board handed Steve Jobs, as well as...
- Tags: Board, Apple Inc., Royalty, Apple iTunes, Corporate Governance, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Track the Presidential election polls with your iPhone
- While you may not be able to watch tonight's V.P. debate on your iPhone, you can sure keep up with the polls. Poll Tracker '08 (iTunes link US$0.99) is an iPhone application that's a dream for election junkies and politicos of all stripes. Poll Tracker '08 is...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Election, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- Obama releases iPhone campaign toolSay what you will about his politics but this manis on the ball. His fund raising via the web has been a smashing success. Now this tool for the iPhone. He knows what he's doing. He's not arrogant he's confident.Pagan jimDoes it...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, McCains, Obama, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?
- It's the other battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley and this one, more like a showdown between the record labels and Apple, could determine the future of music on the iTunes Store. The Washington-based Copyright Royalty Board is expected to rule, by today, on a request by...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, Apple iTunes, Pricing, Marketing Research, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole
- A lame-brain lawsuit to stop the Large Hadron Collider is dead. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor has dismissed the suit because U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over the world's biggest atom-smasher based in Switzerland and France and built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Lawsuit, CERN, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- How to read your FBI file
- How to read your FBI fileGood well-balanced articleNothing one-sided here. Those evil Bushies will stop at nothing when it comes to knowing everyone's secrets, won't they?Hey, pal, EVERYBODY thought Saddam had WMDs, even your heroes Kerry, Kennedy, and (shudder!) Pelosi. Seems that Saddam went to great lengths to convince...
- Tags: Federal government, FBI
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- How to read your FBI file
- As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...
- Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?Whitelist.With one home office and 100 branch offices, they all go through two different Squid proxy servers to hit the Internet. I have a file, named white by the way, that contain the URL's they are allowed to hit. It would be nice...
- Tags: INTERNET, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, whitelist, blacklist guy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- There is no pony plan for health care
- There is no pony plan for health careUntil the greedy Pharmaceutical Companies are reeled in...There is no hope for fixing health care in the US.It MUST start with the banning of Pharmaceutical Advertising on TV. The billions paid for those ad's are paid by patients needing the meds IF...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, surcharge, pony plan, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!RE: Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!One can only home apple shuts iTunes downMusic Industry to AppleLOL!disagree strongly"one appeal of the iPod is how easy it is to buy music for...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, music industry, music
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!
- The National Music Publishers' Association wants to see an increase in the royalty rates paid to its members for songs purchased through online music stores. Apple doesn't like the sound of that. Could Apple really shut down iTunes? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
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