Wolfram Alpha Is Tired Of People Not Paying $US50 Dollars For Their iPhone App
The first problem with the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app was that it cost $US50. The second problem was that the site
Gizmodo Australia,
Thu Dec 03 16:01:41 PST 2009
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Comcast to Buy 51% of NBC, GE Goes After 49%
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Comcast and General Electric announced a joint venture yesterday to control NBC Universal, with Comcast coming out with the controlling interest. ...
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Fri Dec 04 11:17:35 PST 2009
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Health Policy Research Roundup
UCLA Center For Health Policy Research: Health Disparities Among California's Nearly Four Million Low-Income Nonelderly Adult Women - Using data from the 2007 California Health Interview Su...
News-Medical-Net,
Fri Dec 04 08:03:54 PST 2009
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Malware Could Grab Data From Stock iPhones
Ardisson writes "Swiss iPhone developer Nicolas Seriot presented last night a talk on iPhone Privacy in Geneva. He showed how a malicious application could harvest personal data on a non-ja...
Slashdot,
Thu Dec 03 22:26:46 PST 2009
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Modded Xbox Bans Prompt EFF Warning About Terms of Service
Last month we discussed news that Microsoft had banned hundreds of thousands of Xbox users for using modified consoles. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has now pointed to this round of b...
Slashdot,
Thu Dec 03 21:35:41 PST 2009
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DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court
Hatta writes with a snippet from MaxConsole: "Nintendo has today lost a major court case against the Divineo group in the main court of Paris. Nintendo originally took the group to court ov...
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Thu Dec 03 19:20:41 PST 2009
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Google Launches Public DNS Resolver
AdmiralXyz writes "Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service, called Google Public DNS. According to their blog post, Google Public DNS uses continuous record pre...
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Thu Dec 03 11:23:28 PST 2009
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Wolfram Alpha Is Tired Of People Not Paying $50 Dollars For Their iPhone App [IPho...
The first problem with the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app was that it cost $50. The second problem was that the site's iPhone web interface was nearly as good as the app, and it was free. Guess w...
Gizmodo,
Thu Dec 03 14:24:28 PST 2009
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CIT encourages use of Virtual Lab
Computing and Information Technology is encouraging students to utilize the Virtual Lab, a resource provided by CIT that students have seldom used or even been aware of in the past. The pro...
The Lamron,
Thu Dec 03 14:41:47 PST 2009
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DX11 Tested Against DX9 With Dirt 2 Demo
MojoKid writes "The PC demo for Codemasters' upcoming DirectX 11 racing title, Dirt 2, has just hit the web and is available for download. Dirt 2 is a highly-anticipated racing sim that als...
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Wed Dec 02 22:23:01 PST 2009
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Cameroon the New Hotbed of Malware
garg0yle writes "According to McAfee, more than a third of Cameroon domains (TLD of .cm) are infested with viruses or other not-so-fun party treats. Given that it's very easy to mis-type .c...
Slashdot,
Wed Dec 02 20:37:20 PST 2009
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SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently the most prolific of users in the SETI@Home community has resigned his job as a school technology supervisor after it was revealed he had the software...
Slashdot,
Wed Dec 02 12:53:01 PST 2009
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Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law
coaxial writes "In Denmark, it's legal to make copies of commercial videos for backup or other private purposes. It's also illegal to break the DRM that restricts copying of DVDs. Deciding ...
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Wed Dec 02 12:20:41 PST 2009
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NASA Nebula, Cloud Computing In a Container
1sockchuck writes "NASA has built its Nebula cloud computing platform inside a data center container so it can add capacity quickly, bringing extra containers online in 120 days. Nebula wil...
Slashdot,
Wed Dec 02 07:35:51 PST 2009
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Lessons From Implementation Of Mental Health Parity In California
Experiences in California may provide valuable lessons for implementation of the federal parity legislation, such as the need to monitor not only plan costs and coverage but also access and...
Medical News Today,
Wed Dec 02 04:31:47 PST 2009
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Viewpoint: Compromising on abortion
By some miracle, the United States managed to get through both a presidential election and Supreme Court justice nomination without reigniting the fight over abortion. But of course, that c...
The Michigan Daily,
Tue Dec 01 21:16:33 PST 2009
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Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience
trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blo...
Slashdot,
Tue Dec 01 16:05:51 PST 2009
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Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic
RasputinAXP writes "Verizon has changed their FiOS AUP effective yesterday, and added an interesting new clause to their specific examples that we're all familiar with: 'it is a violation o...
Slashdot,
Tue Dec 01 13:05:41 PST 2009
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Recycling Excess Heat From the Data Center
itwbennett writes "A new data center being built in Helsinki, scheduled to go live at the end of January, will generate energy and deliver hot water for the city. The data center is located...
Slashdot,
Tue Dec 01 11:38:28 PST 2009
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