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Getting out of awkward situations is a fake phone call away using a new iPhone application. As its name implies, Fake Calls simulates receiving a phone call shortly after launching the app. You can name the caller as anyone you...
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Contrarian Profits submits:By Irwin GreensteinEnergy investors may find themselves at odds in weighing whether to put their money into fossil fuels or green alternatives. Two separate articles in Friday’s Wall Street Journal provide a good backdrop...
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In case you forgot there's a big RED announcement happening this week on November 13, RED CEO Jim Jannard is again lighting up the RED User forums with another cryptic tease. Saying nothing more than "Not sure what this means..." the outspoken exec lets...
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Filed under: Displays We could tell from the past couple of Dell LCDs that the Round Rock powerhouse was moving in this direction in terms of design, but it's the specifications that have us most captivated on this one. We've received word that the above...
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Dear Lifehacker, Help! I used to read Lifehacker very day, but fell behind on my daily dose after my personal life got extremely hectic. I got the BEST tips ever from you guys, Launchy, VLC, and countless little fixes that made using my Windows XP machine...
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Coal mining may be the most misunderstood industry in America. Many people think of it as a Dickensian endeavor, or consign it to the realm of old Loretta Lynn songs. They certainly don't have a coal bin at their home, and think of the industry as...
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Nov 10th 1:30am by ml@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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Likely FCC transition guy Henry Rivera wants minorities to get a bigger slice of the digital media pie. Read More...
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The great South African musician and human rights activist Miriam Makeba has passed away. "Mama Africa" was 76 years old, and died of a heart attack after a performance in Italy. Link to New York Times Obituary. Above: In 1960, a very young Miriam Makeba...
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Photo courtesy of the Road to Angkor In a baffling case of doublespeak, the world’s largest meat processing company Tyson Foods has publicly admitted to injecting chickens with antibiotics—but it’s suing the US Department of Agriculture in order to...
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Sniping, whining, and bickering isn't the way to to revive a party after a stinging defeat.
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Television static is now broadband gold. The Federal Communications Commission's decision to open up the 'white spaces' spectrum to unlicensed devices could usher in a new telecom revolution, say analysts. Like WiFi, the availability of free, unregulated...
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Kelvin Schulle submits:We all know China is still growing, but its GDP for 2008 was 9% in 2008 Q3, down from its previous double digit growth, citing impact from the global economy slowdown. Over the weekend, the Bank of China cut the GDP growth rate in...
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We have some bad news for people with pacemakers this afternoon. A new study found that headphone ear buds can make them a bit wonky. So, while you take a breather from Lauren Hill's Killing Me Softly, and drape those iPod ear buds around your neck, they...
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Any self-respecting gadget hound knows that China is responsible for packing millions of shipping containers with the consumer electronics we crave. What you may not know is what we ship in return: our waste for recycling. Of growing concern is e-waste,...
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Tabbloid is a free web based service designed to turn RSS feeds into a PDF newspaper. The web site requires no registration and the process is straight forward. Single or multiple RSS feeds can serve as the source for your PDF. You can opt to have the...