Jan 27 2009

Internet Users Top 1 Billion, Most of Them Asian – PC Magazine


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Internet Users Top 1 Billion, Most of Them Asian
PC Magazine – 26 Jan 2009
by Mark Hachman Internet metrics company comScore on Friday reported that the number of worldwide Internet users in December topped 1 billion users, the first time that barrier has been breached.
Internet hits major milestone, surpassing 1 billion monthly users Computerworld
Internet usage breaks through the billion barrier The Tech Herald
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Jan 27 2009

Man 'finds US troop data' on MP3 – BBC News


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Man 'finds US troop data' on MP3
BBC News – 7 hours ago
A New Zealand man says he found confidential data about US military personnel on an MP3 player he bought from a thrift shop in Oklahoma.
Thrift store MP3 player contains secret military files CNN International
Burn after listening: Man finds military secrets on MP3 player guardian.co.uk
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Jan 27 2009

Kindle 2 for Valentine’s Day? – Christian Science Monitor


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Kindle 2 for Valentine’s Day?
Christian Science Monitor – 2 hours ago
By Andrew Heining | 01.27.09 Jeff Bezos isn’t giving any hints, but many indicators point to the rollout of a revamped version of Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader in two weeks.
Amazon holding press conference to announce launch of Kindle 2? Telegraph.co.uk
Amazon’s Kindle 2 Will Debut Feb. 9 New York Times
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Jan 27 2009

How Brain Scans Show the Trauma of War

MRI testing in America has revealed startling differences in the brains of soldiers with combat stress – and could take us closer to being able to identify those at risk.

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Jan 27 2009

Obama Officials Tells Citibank To Ditch $50M Plane Purchase

ABC News has learned that Monday officials of the Obama administration called Citigroup about the company’s new million corporate jet and told execs to “fix it.”

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Jan 27 2009

8 Customers Everyone Hates

If you’re on this list, anyone who’s ever waited on you or been in line behind you would like to politely ask you to die.

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Jan 27 2009

Israeli contacts Hamas Leader

Danny Mahlouf, a 70-year-old Israeli plasterer from Ashkelon, has a message for Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, and it’s personal. “Tell Ismail Haniyeh to lose the beard, and stop making trouble!”They go way back. In the late ‘80s, Haniyeh worked for five years as a plasterer in Ashkelon and Mahlouf was his boss, and were close friends.

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Jan 27 2009

25 Super Bowl Memes You’ll Be Sick Of

It’s Super Bowl week. The game is on Sunday, but by the time kickoff roles around we’re going to be so sick of the hype that nobody is going to care about the game. The memes have started coalescing, so here’s a little primer for every storyline that you will be sick of come Thursday evening once NBC’s pregame coverage starts…

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Jan 27 2009

Google Android: Favorite Features and What’s Yet to Come

We asked developers to share what they like and would they would like to see more of from Android, Google’s mobile operating system.

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Jan 27 2009

Genetic Influence In Social Networks Identified

Can’t help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part by our genes, according to new findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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