 ABC News |
Mass evacuation ordered in Swat
Aljazeera.net Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate Swat valley by Pakistan's military as it battles Taliban fighters in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Video: Pakistan Swat refugees seek help – 09 May 09 Al Jazeera Trapped by Taliban terror Times Online Telegraph.co.uk – Hindu – Daily Times – CNN International all 1,496 news articles |
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Dhalla abuse charges 'false'
Edmonton Sun By IAN ROBERTSON, SUN MEDIA BRAMPTON — Beleagured Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla surfaced yesterday after three days of silence and denied accusations she mistreated foreign caregivers at her family's Mississauga home. Dhalla a victim of campaign: lawyer National Post Domestic abuse Ottawa Citizen Canada.com – CBC.ca – Globe and Mail – Toronto Star all 545 news articles Langue : Français |
With the release of Silverlight 1.0 and its subsequent versions, a debate started among designers and developers regarding choosing between Flash and Silverlight. Silverlight faces difficulties in capturing the market because of the maturity of Flash. However, Silverlight has managed to keep up by including certain features that designers wanted…
Consider your mouse a fashion accessory or art? Here are 12 useful and unusual mice that may inspire you to upgrade.
Wired is running a piece on the big idea of Robin Chase — the founder of Zipcar — that we need to build our smart power grid on open standards and include cars as nodes in a mesh network. “‘Today in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers and tanks and airplanes are running around using mesh networks,’ said Chase. ‘It works, it’s secure, it’s robust. If a node or device disappears, the network just reroutes the data.’ And, perhaps most important, it’s in motion. … Build a smart electrical grid that uses Internet protocols and puts a mesh network device in every structure that has an electric meter. Sweep out the half dozen networks in our cars and replace them with an open, Internet-based platform. Add a mesh router. A nationwide mesh cloud will form, linking vehicles that can connect with one another and with the rest of the network. It’s cooperative gain gone national, gone mobile, gone open.”
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gollito writes in with news that Microsoft has released an open source alternative to Google’s BigTable file system, which is used on large distributed computer clusters. Matt Asay writes for CNet: “I also believe that Microsoft’s fear-mongering around open source cost it years of productivity and quality gains that it could have been delivering to customers through open source. I hope that reign of ignorance is over.”
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 Washington Post |
Most Santa Barbara fire evacuations being lifted
The Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) – Thousands of evacuees were told they could go home Saturday as a blanket of cool, moist air flowing in from the ocean brought a dramatic change, taming the wind-driven wildfire that had burned 80 homes along the outskirts … Video: Santa Barabara Jesusita fire evacuation Los Angeles Times California lifts fire evacuations BBC News Reuters – Xinhua – AFP – CTV.ca all 6,126 news articles |
 CTV.ca |
Dhalla abuse charges 'false'
Edmonton Sun By IAN ROBERTSON, SUN MEDIA BRAMPTON — Beleagured Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla surfaced yesterday after three days of silence and denied accusations she mistreated foreign caregivers at her family's Mississauga home. Dhalla a victim of campaign: lawyer National Post Domestic abuse Ottawa Citizen Canada.com – CBC.ca – Globe and Mail – Toronto Star all 545 news articles Langue : Français |
 Times Online |
Sri Lankans arrest UK news team
BBC News A British Channel 4 News team has been arrested in Sri Lanka after reporting allegations of abuse in camps for displaced Tamils, the broadcaster said. Manmohan hopes all segments of Tamils will be consulted Hindu Rights Group Says Sri Lanka Shelled Hospitals Voice of America Aljazeera.net – CTV.ca – Times of India – Times Online all 2,477 news articles |
According to new research from iSuppli, the use of SSDs (Solid State Disks) could allow “the world’s data centers to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by 166,643 Megawatt Hours (MWH) from 2008 to 2013.”
