Jan 26 2009

Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation

Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we’ve heard from a source with of the deal. They’ve signed a term sheet with at least one venture fund to raise a new round at a 0 million valuation. We ar

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Jan 26 2009

Property tax revenue plummets with home values

California could pay the price for the foreclosure crisis for years to come, thanks to Proposition 13, the 1978 voter initiative that caps property taxes.

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Jan 26 2009

Obama: Economy plan means lower power bills

President Barack Obama on Saturday laid out more pieces of an economic plan he says would add 3,000 miles of electrical lines, increase security at 90 ports and double the United States’ renewable energy capacity within three years.

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Jan 25 2009

Bell Mobility to Launch CDMA-Based Palm Centro – Teleclick.ca

Bell Mobility to Launch CDMA-Based Palm Centro
Teleclick.ca – 24 Jan 2009
Canadian cell phone carrier, Bell Mobility, is planning to launch a CDMA version of the Palm Centro device on February 2. This affordable touchscreen smartphone comes equipped with a built-in MP3 player, mobile email capability, and a 1.3-megapixel
Palm Centro Migrates to Bell Mobility on February 2nd Mobile Magazine
Bell Palm Centro due February 2nd prices announced Phones Review
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Jan 25 2009

Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip

stefanparvu14 writes “Physicists in Switzerland and California have developed a new type of camera capable of imaging quantum correlations between pairs of photons. The details are presented in the current issue of the open-access publication New Journal of Physics. Unlike a conventional camera with a CCD imager, this camera is composed of Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) pixels implemented on a high-performance CMOS chip. One of the authors has provided more background for the non-physicist. Apparently, it could be used to verify the existence of Bose-Einstein condensates that are now starting to be produced in new ways.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Jan 25 2009

Bell Mobility to Launch CDMA-Based Palm Centro – Teleclick.ca

Bell Mobility to Launch CDMA-Based Palm Centro
Teleclick.ca – 24 Jan 2009
Canadian cell phone carrier, Bell Mobility, is planning to launch a CDMA version of the Palm Centro device on February 2. This affordable touchscreen smartphone comes equipped with a built-in MP3 player, mobile email capability, and a 1.3-megapixel
Palm Centro Migrates to Bell Mobility on February 2nd Mobile Magazine
Bell Palm Centro due February 2nd prices announced Phones Review
Unwired View – TreoCentral
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Jan 25 2009

Bell Mobility to Launch CDMA-Based Palm Centro – Teleclick.ca

Bell Mobility to Launch CDMA-Based Palm Centro
Teleclick.ca – 24 Jan 2009
Canadian cell phone carrier, Bell Mobility, is planning to launch a CDMA version of the Palm Centro device on February 2. This affordable touchscreen smartphone comes equipped with a built-in MP3 player, mobile email capability, and a 1.3-megapixel
Palm Centro Migrates to Bell Mobility on February 2nd Mobile Magazine
Bell Palm Centro due February 2nd prices announced Phones Review
Unwired View – TreoCentral
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Jan 25 2009

Bell Mobility to Launch CDMA-Based Palm Centro – Teleclick.ca

Bell Mobility to Launch CDMA-Based Palm Centro
Teleclick.ca – 19 hours ago
Canadian cell phone carrier, Bell Mobility, is planning to launch a CDMA version of the Palm Centro device on February 2. This affordable touchscreen smartphone comes equipped with a built-in MP3 player, mobile email capability, and a 1.3-megapixel
Palm Centro Migrates to Bell Mobility on February 2nd Mobile Magazine
Bell Palm Centro due February 2nd prices announced Phones Review
Unwired View – TreoCentral
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Jan 25 2009

Arctic trek to reveal true extent of melting ice caps (PICS)

The polar ice caps are melting – but how much ice is left? Three British explorers will set out on a three-month trip to measure this and will present their findings ahead of global climate change talks in December. Here is a collection of photographs of the preparations for the trek.

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Jan 25 2009

DAMM UWIN: Even They Were Surprised (PIC)

I’ve never won anything on a bottle cap, but I did win the Lebron James Bubblicious Shot Challenge, which is to this day a source of pride in my ability to win random drawings.

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