Life In A Misty City Across The Water
This time they're not going after Sony and it's rootkit. The State of New York is investigating PRICE FIXING by the RIAA and a possible violation of Anti-Trust Law. --- "Any evidence that executives had agreed to offer similar terms or wholesale prices to companies like Apple and Napster could trigger an antitrust lawsuit against the companies".
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Opening up the first Audio CD I bought in months, years even - I see a little leaflet inside dictating the terms of how I'm allowed to 'use' the CD. It goes on to hint that there's something embedded in the CD, something that sounds a lot like a variant of Sony's XCP technology.
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Cool war game using Google Earth. Players generate revenue to fund their armies. You can also start/join alliances and try for world domination. Nice idea and it's improving daily.
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The Washington Post announced today that it has agreed to develop programming content for a new radio station that will begin broadcasting in the Washington, D.C. region in late March 2006. Washington Post Radio will
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"How do fake drugs called placebos kill some patients' pain? Until now, nobody knew. As this ScienCentral News video explains, brain scans have let scientists observe for the first time how the placebo effect activates the brain's own painkillers--which could lead to better pain management."
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"..there were rumors this past weekend that Microsoft offered $80 billion for Yahoo. Yahoo was said to have rejected the bid as too low. On Tuesday, even though neither party would comment, talk of a potential Yahoo-Microsoft deal of some kind sent Yahoo shares up 4.4 percent. For the record, Microsoft has $40 billion in cash at hand."
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Techshout.com reports that a new, deceptive Trojan Horse program has surfaced. The program is engineered to produce fake Google ads that are formatted to look like legitimate ones. The ads are incorporated in Google AdSense, the program that lets website owners display ads from Googleâ??s list of advertisers.
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To investigate 16 of the most prevalent claims made by conspiracy theorists, Popular Mechanics assembled a team of nine researchers and reporters who, together with PM editors, consulted more than 70 professionals in fields that form the core content of this magazine, including aviation, engineering and the military...
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The Chattanooga Times Free Press has gone to press and delivered their daily paper with the lead story completely inaccurate. The story reports that 12 of the 13 miners made it out alive and even has quotes from "witnesses" that have to be completely fabricated.
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There have been found in the Mars pictures these "tubes". There are miles and miles of them ... some mostly buried ... a few completely exposed as in these pics. The diameter is tremendous ... 20-40 meters in general, about big enough to put two interstate highways through...Indigenous life? Very detailed info.
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Have scientists found Mozart's skull? Researchers said Tuesday they'll reveal the results of DNA tests in a documentary film airing this weekend on Austrian television as part of a year of celebratory events marking the composer's 250th birthday.
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Google Enterprise Search Facilitates Best Answers to Client Questions in Less Than .14 Seconds
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the global leader in mobility, today announced three new Bluetooth Headsets; the tiny and stylish Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-800, the powerful Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-900 and the sleek Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-200.
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Here are profiles from 2006 International CES exhibitors; breaking news releases are available at http://www.tradeshownews.com, Business
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Only three hours before the announcement, the families and friends had been told that 12 miners survived.
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