Feb 21 2009

Four-wheel forte – Globe and Mail

Four-wheel forte
Globe and Mail
Mazda, for example, once sold a minivan known as the Bongo Brawny in Japan, while Nissan marketed a line of commercial trucks called the Big Thumb.
Vitara means luxury, economy Canada.com
Inside Story: 2009 Suzuki Grand Vitara four-cylinder CanadianDriver
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Feb 21 2009

2010 Prius faces stiff competition – Globe and Mail

2010 Prius faces stiff competition
Globe and Mail
Toyota Canada is weeks away from launching the third-generation version of what has become arguably the single most important vehicle in the Toyota lineup, the 2010 Toyota Prius.
Lexus unveils luxury hybrid Metro Canada – Vancouver
Toyota envisages future Hybrid Carz Unlimited
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Feb 21 2009

Montreal scientists unlock mystery of early molecular mechanism – CBC.ca

Montreal scientists unlock mystery of early molecular mechanism
CBC.ca
Two Montreal researchers have proposed a new theory for a question that has long vexed evolutionary biologists: How did a mechanism thought to help build life self-assemble?
Life secret exposed: Scientists unlock mystery of molecular machine Science Centric
Mystery about origin of life solved Times of India
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Feb 21 2009

Bell scores Twitter texting – Canada.com

Bell scores Twitter texting
Canada.com
By Gillian Shaw 02-20-2009 COMMENTS(0) Digital Life Canadian tweeps who were upset when Twitter cut off their SMS service last November can get it back now.
Twitter slowly turning back on the SMS spicket VentureBeat
Twitter Restores SMS Updates for (Some) Canadian Users Mashable
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Feb 21 2009

BMW has all the right moves – StarPhoenix


The Gazette (Montreal)

BMW has all the right moves
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On the day the price of gasoline dipped below 70 cents a litre for the first time in several years, I had to fill up the turbodiesel-powered BMW X5 I was driving.
2009 BMW 335d The Gazette (Montreal)
Diesel Now Less Than Premium As Gas Prices Surge TheCarConnection.com
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Feb 21 2009

Last.fm really isn’t sharing user data with the RIAA

If you believe certain outlets, Last.fm is in bed with the RIAA and sharing your data with them. However, that’s not really the case…

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Feb 21 2009

10 Ways To Speed Up Torrent Downloads

Imagine being on the autobahn with the accelerator down and then you realize that you are driving a wrecked car. The plight is not so uncommon on the information superhighway too.

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Feb 21 2009

What does the ‘i’ in iPod and DSi mean?

Now and then you have to stop and wonder what the names of those everyday gadgets we often claim to not be able to live without actually mean?

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Feb 21 2009

Washington Times releases open source projects

The Washington Times has always focused on content. After careful review, we determined that the best way to have the top tools to produce and publish that content is to release the source code of our in-house tools and encourage collaboration.

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Feb 21 2009

‘Cybot’ Development For Network Defense

lwbrown writes with this excerpt from Government Computer News about a concept being explored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: “UNTAME is the product of a long-term program by the division’s Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Group to develop futuristic security functionality for increasingly large, complex environments. The cybots differ from traditional software agents in that they form a collective and are aware of the condition and activities of other cybots in the collective. ‘You give it a mission and tools to work with, such as mobility and intrusion sensors, and it uses those tools and cooperates with other cybots to accomplish the mission,” said Lawrence MacIntyre, one of the project’s developers.'”

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