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Different responses to disasters in Myanmar, China
via China News by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Two natural disasters in tightly controlled Asian nations this month have produced two very different responses: Myanmar's very slow reaction to Cyclone Nargis and China's speedy response to a killer ...
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Twitters sccops media in reporting China quake
via China News by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what is being touted as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news.
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Beijing reins in coverage of quake
via FT.com - China by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Powerful propaganda officials stressed the importance of 'correct guidance of public opinion' and ordered a strengthening of political consciousness among journalists
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Superdelegate endorsements for Wednesday 5/14
via 2008 Democratic Convention Watch by Matt on May 14, 2008
Another day another batch of superdelegates! Obama is up 2.5 to Clinton's 1 for the day.We added the first superdelegates last night as we were closing up shop after West Virginia and Travis Childer's huge victory in Mississippi. College Democrats of America's Lauren Wolfe (MI) and Awais Khaleel (WI) endorsed Barack Obama. Wolfe's vote only counts in our Michigan/Florida tables...
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AT&T to boost 3G speeds more than fivefold by 2009
via AppleInsider by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by Jonathan Bring it ON!!!AT&T said Wednesday it plans to boost the speed of its 3G wireless network to speeds of 20 megabits per second in 2009, paving the way for over-the-air downloads that are more than five times faster than what customers can achieve today.Speaking...
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Astak's five-inch eBook reader arriving next month, $150 price tag?
via jkOnTheRun by Kevin C. Tofel on May 14, 2008
There's no final price yet, but Astak's eBook reader with five-inch display might be the reader for folks on a budget. Rumors are that the device will arrive in the U.S. next month and could cost as low at $150, which if true, gets this type of device more in line with the consumer electronics market. That's not suggesting that a $399 Kindle won't sell; obviously it can and does....
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Wi-Fi could be coming very soon to flights — and you might just get it free (if you pay for iPass)
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on May 14, 2008
A couple weeks ago, I complained about the lack of Internet availability on airplanes. There is some positive news on that front — it’s coming, and maybe in a matter of weeks, according to PC World. Also, if you happen to be a users of the Internet access unifying service iPass, rejoice, because it may just be free for you.IPass is teaming up with Aircell Gogo, the company that is expected to...
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ReadBurner + Netvibes = More Shared Items Goodness
via SheGeeks by Corvida on May 13, 2008
If you’re tired of being left out of the ReadBurner democracy of having your shared vote counted, Netvibes users needn’t worry any longer. Today, ReadBurner has partnered with Netvibes for something special. Using the new APIs that Netvibes is soon launching for Ginger activity streams, ReadBurner will now pull in Netvibes shared items alongside Google Reader shared items. No...
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Powerset vs. Google: The Completely Premature Head-to-Head
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 12, 2008
As our network blog AltSearchEngines reported this morning, the long-awaited and much hyped natural language processing search engine Powerset launched this morning. Kind of. For now, the search service only uses Wikipedia and Freebase as source material for answers to your query. So it's not really fair to compare it to Google yet, but this is a search engine, and that means it will...
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Japanese smokers to face age test
via NewsOnJapan.com by BBC on May 13, 2008
A Japanese company is developing a vending machine that counts wrinkles and skin sags to check a smoker's age. (BBC)
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