Apr 15 2009

US food aid ship escapes Somali pirate attack – The Associated Press


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US food aid ship escapes Somali pirate attack
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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) – Somali pirates fired grenades and automatic weapons at an American freighter loaded with food aid but the ship managed to escape the attack and was heading Wednesday to Kenya under US Navy escort, officials said.
Video: American Ship Damaged in Latest Pirate Attack The Associated Press
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Apr 15 2009

Pirates Fail in Attack on US Ship – New York Times


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Pirates Fail in Attack on US Ship
New York Times
By MARK McDONALD HONG KONG – An American cargo ship was attacked by pirates armed with grenade launchers and automatic weapons in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, but the attackers failed to take over the ship, which was able to continue with its delivery
Video: Somali Pirates Hijack 4 Ships, Take 60 Hostages The Associated Press
US ship attacked by Somali pirates Xinhua
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Apr 14 2009

Tyler Bell On Yahoo’s Open Location API

blackbearnh writes “Yahoo! has been working for a while to promote a unified system for referring to places, through their Where On Earth IDs. Using a WOEID, you can query Yahoo’s publicly available APIs to find out things like what cities are in a county, or what counties border each other. In an interview for O’Reilly Radar, Tyler Bell, the product lead for the Yahoo Geo Technology Group, talks about their Open Location program (not to be confused with openlocation.org, a different group altogether.) He also talks about how privacy concerns interact with the increasing use of personal geotracking, and the troublesome problem of what to call places. ‘I’m not even going to tell you about the problems we had when we accidentally called Constantinople Byzantium, just slipping back about 800 years there accidentally. That’s a very sensitive issue. Any company dealing with geography is going to have to address it somehow. So I’ll be very candid in how Yahoo addresses this. I mean first, our stated goal is to capture the world’s geography as it is used by the world’s people. We don’t see ourselves as the definitive authority on how a place should be called.'”

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Apr 14 2009

Congressman To Introduce Anti-Download Cap Bill

Time Warner Cable plans to test its controversial, new scheme to have users pay by the gigabyte in Rochester, New York, but the area’s freshman congressman calls usage caps greedy and plans to introduce legislation to stop it. Support this, and let these ISPs know what’s in store for them if they try this in your area.

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Apr 14 2009

NASA Taking Ethernet Into Deeper Space

coondoggie writes “While Ethernet technology has gone places no one would have envisioned 36 years ago, NASA today signed an agreement with a German Ethernet vendor to build highly fault-tolerant networks for space-based applications. TTTech builds a set of time-triggered services called TTEthernet that is implemented on top of standard IEEE802.3 Ethernet. Its technology is designed to enable design of synchronous, highly dependable embedded computing and networking, capable of tolerating multiple faults, the company said.”

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Apr 14 2009

Somali pirates seize 3 more ships – CBC.ca


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Somali pirates seize 3 more ships
CBC.ca
Somali pirates seized another ship in the Gulf of Aden in a nighttime raid on Tuesday, in a brazen response to recent US and French military operations that have killed five of their colleagues.
Video: Maersk Crew Departs Ship; Replacements Arrive The Associated Press
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Apr 13 2009

New Somali Government Hails Obama’s Promised Piracy Fight – Voice of America


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New Somali Government Hails Obama’s Promised Piracy Fight
Voice of America
By Peter Clottey The new Somali government has expressed delight in President Barack Obama's promise to help fight the escalating piracy problem off the Somali coast.
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Apr 13 2009

Sliding Boxes and Captions with JQuery

Learn how to use JQuery animations to slide captions and images in and out of view. Don’t distract your visitors, show them only what they need to see. Come check out what you can do to juice up your site.

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Apr 13 2009

Apple placed chip order for 32GB iPhones

Apple has reportedly ordered 100 million units of 8 gigabit and 16 gigabit NAND flash chips, with the majority of the sizable order is expected to be applied toward the 16 gigabit (Gb) NAND, signaling that a 32 gigabyte (GB) iPhone is in the works to debut in June, said Daniel Amir, a Lazard Capital Markets analyst.

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Apr 13 2009

iPhone Jailbreaking Still Going Strong

snydeq writes “Despite the productivity promises of Apple’s forthcoming 3.0 firmware update, jailbreaking should continue to push the iPhone’s productivity envelope, as users increasingly demand the Holy Grail of smartphone power use: applications that run in the background, InfoWorld reports. Copy and paste, video recording and streaming, Internet tethering, and content search are just a few of the features over which iPhone users have sought to jailbreak their devices — a practice Apple itself has done little to crack down on. Jailbreak apps circumvent hardware and software restrictions that Apple says ensure a consistent, responsive user interface and optimal battery endurance. In particular, jailbroken phones can run apps in the background, a capability Apple reserves for its own apps but prohibits in third-party programs. Jay Freeman, creator of the Cydia iPhone installer and Cydia Store, however, believes a free-market approach is the best way to satisfy power users’ demands for features without compromising the performance of their iPhones. And given Apple’s App Store overcrowding, it seems likely that jailbroken phones and app venues like Cydia Store will continue to be popular with iPhone customers and developers, even after the 3.0 firmware ships.”

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