The Spacebook, a large, heavier than ususal laptop with two screens, is hitting the markets this winter. The laptop is manufactured by Alaska-based company gScreen, and will likely weigh around 11 pounds (5kg). The laptop will feature either 16- or 17-inch screens, layered on...
" Researchers Recommend Routine Drug Screening for Children Who Come to ER With Apparent Life-Threatening Event By Kelli Miller StacyWebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD A significant number of infants tested positive for cough and cold medicines on a...
"The clipboard toting, clock-watching, quota-setting productivity expert, peering nosily over your shoulder at work, has been out of fashion in business schools for decades.Now he's back, in electronic form -- in the home office.In a budding trend some employment experts say...
"I was walking by the lengthy iPhone line outside the Apple Store in Soho on Sunday when I heard someone call out: “Turn in your old iPhone and get the new one free!” I turned around and saw a bearded guy...
created by stvalentine | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 282 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
If the Conservatives had their way, motorists in southern Ontario would get a dose of aggressive anti-Liberal sentiment with every fill-up. The firm that was to place the ads, however, is refusing to run them.The...
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Communist Defense Force, unite!"Russian Communist party members condemned the new Indiana Jones' film on Friday as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens."Actually, this guy has a pretty good point:""What galls...
"A wave of horrifying violence has swept the townships around Johannesburg in the past week, The Globe and Mail's Stephanie Nolen reported in an article Tuesday Xenophobic rage explodes in South Africa. At least 22 people are dead, hundreds injured and an estimated 4,000...
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"MORE than 60,000 Scottish football fans will invade Manchester for the Uefa Cup final in two weeks - despite thousands of them having no tickets. Glasgow Rangers admitted that although they only have an allocation of 13,000 tickets for the showpiece final at...
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Robert at Infoworld is absolutely right about CES. There wasn't anything that was truly exciting and new. There was incremental improvement in fidelity, size, speed and usability in many new devices...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 557 views | 15 recommendations | 3 comments
"Bill Gates, who built his fortune equipping the personal computer, predicts that the keyboard and mouse will soon become relics.
The founder of Microsoft Corp used his swansong to the technology industry on...
"All 56 people on board a passenger plane that crashed in south-western Turkey have died, the airline's chief executive has said.
Initial reports from rescue helicopter teams found no survivors, said Tuncay...
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""We will set up an outdoor cinema at several shelters in Blitar district in order to attract people to evacuate," said Kamtono, a local official from one of the two districts that would be affected by the volcano blowing.
"We are having big difficulties asking people to...
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24 hours later and the true extend of this nation's devastation is all dominating. As a visitor (permanent resident) of this great nation (New Zealand), I can feel the collective sorrow of its people. This nation...
created by Tom van B | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 644 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"Apple's latest iMacs suffer from a graphics card problem that causes the computer screens to lock up.Quality control problems once again, this time concerning Apple's latest iMacs, which seem to suffer from a graphics card problem that causes the computer screens to lock...
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"China is sending out two virtual police officers to patrol the Internet to combat online pornography and other "illicit activity", state media said on Wednesday.
The virtual officers, a man and a woman, "will...
created by Leonard Brody | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 826 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment