olddotter noted that NASA’s Facebook page says “NASA’s newest module for the International Space Station will get a new name on April 14. The agency plans to make the announcement with the help of Expedition 14 and 15 astronaut Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams on Comedy Central’s ‘The Colbert Report.’ The program will air at 11:30 p.m. EDT.”
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 guardian.co.uk |
In Rescue of Captain, Navy Kills 3 Pirates
New York Times By ROBERT D. McFADDEN and SCOTT SHANE Navy Seal snipers rescued an American cargo ship captain unharmed and killed three Somali pirates in a daring operation in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, ending a five-day standoff between United States naval forces … Video: Kidnapped US Captain Freed, Pirates Killed The Associated Press US captain freed; Somali pirates vow to retaliate The Associated Press CNN – Washington Post – AFP – Bloomberg all 12,540 news articles Langue : Français |
 CTV British Columbia |
Police use profilers in search for Ontario girl
CBC.ca Investigators have brought in behavioural experts to help in the search for an eight-year-old southwestern Ontario girl who has not been seen since last week. Family of missing Ont. girl living 'minute by minute' CTV.ca Police continue hunt for missing Ont. girl The Gazette (Montreal) Toronto Star – Toronto Sun – Globe and Mail – CityNews all 445 news articles Langue : Français |
 Independent |
Bangkok protests 'under control'
BBC News The Thai PM has told the BBC that troops have the situation in Bangkok under control after a day of battles with anti-government protesters. Video: What Thailand's 'red shirts' want – 13 April 2009 Al Jazeera Thailand's Economy Threatened by Protests, Political Uncertainties Voice of America CBC.ca – Times Online – The Associated Press – Xinhua all 3,875 news articles Langue : Français |
Olipro writes “Most enterprises stated they won’t bother with Windows 7 for at least a year as they simply continue to distrust that compatibility issues won’t occur with their mission-critical software… The Million Dollar question will be whether the fact that XP upgrades to Windows 7 requires a clean install will prove to be Microsoft’s undoing.” I suspect that will change before they actually release the OS.
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Jamie noticed the news that Google Update is now Open Source. The article acknowledges the privacy and security concerns of an application that is always running in the background of your machine, and authorized to install new software. And Google made the logically obvious conclusion that releasing the source code would alleviate those concerns.
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freakxx writes “Microsoft has been slapped with a fine of 9 million Euros by German regulators over illegally fixing the price of its Office-suite in an anti-competitive manner during a retail-promotion fair. Microsoft has accepted the fine and decided not to take this issue to any higher level.”
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Crazzaper writes “There’s a lot of controversy over ISP capping with Time Warner leading the charge. Tom’s Hardware has an interesting article about how capping is the new form of DRM at the ISP level. The author draws some comparison to business practices by large cable operators and their efforts to protect cable TV programming. While this is understandable from the cable operator’s perspective, the article points out how capping will affect popular services such as Steam for game content publishing and distribution, cloud-computing and online media services. Apparently this is also an effective way of going after casual piracy.”
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 Globe and Mail |
Everyone's a suspect in probe of missing Woodstock girl
Toronto Star Tara McDonald addresses hundreds of people who came to a candlelight vigil in Woodstock for her daughter, Victoria Stafford. The 8-year-old known as Tori has been missing since Wednesday. Search continues for missing Ontario girl CTV.ca Family makes Facebook plea for girl's return Globe and Mail Canada.com – CBC.ca – The Canadian Press – London Free Press all 412 news articles Langue : Français |
 Times Online |
US captain's rescue raises stakes in piracy ops
The Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – The killing of three Somali pirates in the dramatic US Navy rescue of a cargo ship captain has sparked concern for other hostages and fears that the stakes have been raised for future hijackings in the busy Indian Ocean … Video: Kidnapped US Captain Freed, Pirates Killed The Associated Press Somali pirates vow revenge on US Aljazeera.net Xinhua – Voice of America – New York Times – BBC News all 12,005 news articles Langue : Français |
