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Ning puts the handcuffs on porno networksThere's no more room for smut and naughty bits on build-your-own social network service Ning, according to a post on the company blog. Ning has announced that it will shut down its "Red Light District" of adult content, and on January 1 will formally ban it. "We are exploring ways for adult networks that will no longer be available on Ning to export their content in addition to their members," the post by CEO Gina Bianchini read. The reasoning, she explained, is that it's costly and problematic--something you just can't deal with in a recession. Advertisers don't like it, Bianchini...
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Paper Bottles Better Than Plastic For anyone who remembers drinking out of triangle paper cups, the idea of a paper water bottle seems, well, kinda flimsy. Brandimage, however, has come up with a design that's made of 100% renewable paper. The 360 Bottle recently won an IDEA, an International Design Excellence Award. Each day 60 million plastic bottles are tossed out with only 14% of plastic bottles recycled. The rest end up in the landfill. The 360 paper bottle, Brandimage claims, will decrease energy consumed throughout the product's entire life cycle. The paper bottles are shipped out in containers made of ecoboard. Before it...
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Tessera: ITC Finds No Infringement Of Wireless PatentsTessera Technologies (TSRA) shares have fallen nearly in half in late trading after the company announced that the Administrative Law Judge overseeing its patent infringement case before the International Trade Commission asserting violation of its wireless patents by a group of semiconductor companies had found no infringement. The company said that the Initial Determination of the judge upheld the validity of the patents, but found no infringement. Tessera had asserted infringement against the ATI Technologies unit of Advanced Micro Devices, Fresscale Semiconductor, Motorola, Qualcomm, Spansion and STMicroelectronics. Tessera said it is “disappointed” in the ruling and will review the decision...
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Carl Icahn Ups Stake in YahooCarl Icahn snapped up 6.8 million shares at a bargain-basement average of $9.92 this week, the Associated Press reports, citing SEC filings. The buying spree gave Yahoo's newest board member and most vocal critic a 5.5% stake in the company, which is looking for a new CEO in particular and a way forward in general. Icahn got his seat on the board after loudly arguing for a merger with Microsoft and the ouster of Jerry Yang, whose decision to step down last week heartened investors until Steve Ballmer said his Redmond-based company really, really had no interest any more in...
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Henry Nicholas unfit as co-trustee, ex-wife saysStacey Nicholas says in a probate court filing that the former Broadcom CEO squandered their joint assets. Henry T. Nicholas III's former wife accused the Broadcom Corp. billionaire Wednesday of squandering $60 million from their fortune on personal indulgences, including a $3.1-million limousine bill, and making misguided investments that have left her so cash-poor she can't pay her tax bill....
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Eco Gadgets: Recycled paper bottle for a greener planet Eco Factor: Water bottles made from recycled materials. Statistics show that 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away daily in the United States, 86% out of them become garbage and hence a threat to the planet. While convincing people not to use plastic bottles will take a couple of decades, the best idea is to sell stuff in bottles that are ecofriendly. Brandimage have created 360 Bottle made from renewable and recycled paper. These paper bottles are not only good enough for water but for any liquid. The company has received an IDEA award for the design. The Dark...
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KickApps raises another $14M to build social netowrksKickApps, a startup that enables customers to build their own social networks, has raised $14 million in a third round of funding. As every company in the world tries to add “social” features to their web site, the number of “white label” social network startups has exploded. In April, Ning, perhaps the best-known player in this field, raised another $60 million at a $500 million valuation. So for KickApps, the challenge is two-fold: To stand out in a crowded space, and to convince customers it’s more useful to build their own social sites than to connect to customers via existing...
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Flash mob for freedomLast Friday November 14th influential Brazilian bloggers, netizens and students participated in a flash mob at Paulista Avenue – São Paulo´s most famous street – against a bill that should punish cyber-crimes but has been considered by many as censorship and disrespectful to civil rights. The bill led by Senator Eduardo Azeredo is polemic mainly because everybody can go to jail. The vagueness and the lack of clarification in many of its articles have been causing alarm and even an online petition (with more than 120,000 signatures) was created to try to impede the sanction of bill by the House...
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360 Paper Bottle The 360 paper water bottle from Brand Image is an attempt to address 60 million plastic bottles thrown away daily in the United States (of which 86% become garbage). The paper vessel is made from 100% renewable food-safe resources, fully recyclable and versatile in a number of potential liquid categories.(more...)...
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Max Keiser: Who Could Have Predicted Revolution in Iceland? — In April 2007, I traveled to Iceland to investigate what was then being called a "miracle economy." The Icelandic people had one of the highest incomes in the world and Icelandic banks and companies were buying up huge swathes of the British High Street. How was a nation of 300,000 able to dominate over so much of the economy of 60 million? Everyone I met in Iceland gave me some improbably complicated explanation for the economic miracle, but I feared it was something much simpler -- hot money flowing from the global speculator class. If I was right in my...
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The LG Incite and post-iPhone phone porn There it was, this morning, creeping up in the Google Hot Trends ranking: the LG Incite. AT&T announced that the smart phone, which runs on its 3G networks and is equipped with Windows Mobile 6.1, is available in stores and online. And so the masses began to prognosticate. They wondered on Gizmodo whether the phone could be an iPhone killer. On Engadget, they compared it with other smart phones and debated how it would stack up. And on one phone site, they just posted photos of LG phones, presumably for the purpose of inspiring drooling. How did we get...
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First Security Bancorp's IPO: Bank Braving Terrible Market — Despite a lifeless IPO market and the suffering of bank stocks in particular, another local bank is hoping to raise millions from investors. First Security Bancorp in Mountlake Terrace unveiled plans Monday to raise $19 million to $30 million by selling shares for $10 each. Anchor Bank of Lacey said last month that it hopes to raise $38 million to $60 million. Presented By: Expedition Week Continues Tonight Seven nights of one great discovery after another continues tonight at 9P e/p only on National Geographic Channel. From the ancient pyramids to the ocean depths, from lost cities to outer space,...
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PHOTOS: Fossils Link Alaska to Eurasia Fossils suggest that much of Alaska was formed from a patchwork of small land chunks that collected against North America between 251 million and 60 million years ago....
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Editorial - Operating Systems Wear Lipstick for Their Dates In consumer electronics, the most complicated endeavor of mankind is a PC operating system. With 40-60 million lines of code and deeply nested routines, it it all but impossible for lay people to assess an OS based on anything but an intuitive feel. It's like sizing up a date gone bad. Or understanding......
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Meet NYC's Most Expensive Apartment: $65 MillionAre you freaking kidding us? The New York Observer: A 78th-floor penthouse at the Time Warner Center came on today for $65 million, which works out to a bewildering $7,831 per square foot. A bigger problem is that the monthly maintenance fees are $13,361 and the monthly taxes are $16,332, which means it costs an extra $356,316 per year to live there. On the bright side, the master bedroom suite happens to have an office, his-and-hers dressing rooms, his-and-hers bathrooms, and a gym, too. Then the condo has a 41-foot-long living room with floor-to-ceiling windows; a red lacquered corner library/office...
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Gulf war veteran research lackingWASHINGTON -- Even as possibly hundreds of thousands of veterans suffer from a collection of symptoms commonly called Gulf War illness, the government has done too little to find treatments for their health problems nearly two decades after the war ended, a panel commissioned by Congress said. The advisory panel of medical experts and veterans wants at least $60 million spent annually for research, calling it a "national obligation," according to its report, obtained by The Associated Press....
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Astronomers Take FIRST EVER Pics Of Other Planetary Systems [The Truth Is Out There] Huge astronomy news! For the first time EVER, galaxy researchers have taken pictures of planets orbiting a sun-star, much like our own. The first, taken by the much beloved Hubble Telescope, shows a planet orbiting the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis. The second picture, snapped by upstaging Hawaiian observatories Gemini and Keck, shows two young planets orbiting a completely different star located 130 light-years from us! Take that Hubble! But I warn you—like the ultrasounds your friends show you of their three-month old fetus—these pictures wow mostly because of what they...
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Cable industry group says the Web won't kill TVDavid Verklin, chief executive of Canoe Ventures, probably packed a big paddle for his trip to the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco. There the cable executive mapped out, to a room full of geeks, his industry's ambitious agenda for countering growing competition from online video. Among the highlights: Within 100 days, Canoe Ventures, a joint venture between the nation's top six cable providers, will roll out more targeted advertising in some markets. Within the year, Canoe will offer consumers new features. Verklin said cable operators have seen the threat and the opportunity as the industry morphs right before their...
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Canoe Ventures Wants Your DataWithin the year, cable companies are going to invade your privacy Google style. Canoe Ventures outlined its strategy today at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, where David Verklin, the CEO, outlined the cable industry’s answer to the competition from online video. The vision wraps compelling features for consumers around a hidden advertising and data gathering agenda. Within 100 days, better targeted advertising will be rolled out in some markets, and within the year consumers will see new features. Canoe Ventures is a joint venture between the top six cable providers and Verklin took to the stage to tell...
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How To Create Friendlier Random Passwords — One aspect of web applications which is almost always overlooked when it comes to accessibility is how easy any randomly generated string might be to read. If you’re lucky enough to have near perfect vision and have no learning or cognitive disabilities such as dyslexia, you mightn’t suffer from any problems reading randomly generated strings, but for many users distinguishing between zero and upper-case Os, ones and lower-case Ls, and even the letters b and d can be difficult. So, in a recent project which required me to automatically generate passwords on request, I decided to put this into practice...
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