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“This talk is probably going to be different from most of the talks you've attended before. Before I get started I'd like to make everybody is aware that this talk is going to contain some satire. By its nature, being source...

“It’s indicative of the changing form of entertainment consumption (torrents, youtube, etc) and of the recession (why buy a $30 movie? Will you ever get $30 of value from it?). And it’s more than just movies – it’s music, newspapers source...

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“NEW YORK – The many Bernard Madoff investors who withdrew money from their accounts over the years are now wrestling with an ethical and legal quandary. What they thought were profits was likely money stolen from other clients in what source...

“ At a CES presentation today, Palm announced its next-generation smart phone platform, called webOS. "It was built with developers in mind," said Palm CEO Ed Colligan in describing the new platform. Any web developer can use CSS, HTML, and source...

“The economist has a special report on innovation. Their report is spearheaded by a bar graph (sorry, cannot link to it and cannot repost here due to copyright laws) showing results from IBM (The global CEO study 2006), based on source...

“I am sure most of you bloggers are familiar with the term pingback, and are most likely familiar with the service called Twitter. What do they have in common? Well if it was a few days ago I would say source...

“One half of the eye points upwards to capture the tiny amount of sunlight that makes its way this deep - this half contains a lens, and is similar to a human eye. It looks for shadows passing above the source...

“Today we’re announcing the availability of the Web-based AWS Management Console, which in this first release provides management of your Amazon EC2 environment via a point-and-click interface. A number of management tools already exist: for example a popular Firefox extension source...

“I like Obie, but he has drunk the Kool Aid. We are doomed. He’s listening to the advice of those very same world renowned egonomists who never saw the current mess coming. How could those who never saw it coming source...

“ What does it cost to host an e-mail account? It seems like a simple question, but a remarkable number of enterprises surveyed by Forrester had no idea of how to answer that question. A new report by the research source...

“ Ever since the low-fare search engine QPX, all ITA Lisp projects have born names starting with a #\Q: QRES, QUUX, QUISP, QUAKE, QUICKET, QREDIT, QUEPASA, QULTIVATOR, etc. At the same time, we wanted "ITA" to appear in the name source...

“Improving tiny machinery The team, including researchers at the National Institutes of Health, has not yet levitated an object, but Capasso said he now knows how to do it. "This is an experiment we are sure will work," he said. source...

“Burger King has put out some interesting campaigns as of late ("Whopper Virgin," "Subservient Chicken"), but this one piques our interest because of how gleefully it pokes fun at our social-networking obsessions. "Now is the time to put your fair-weather source...

“Liveris has a tough juggle ahead of him to complete his company’s $15.3 billion acquisition of Rohm & Haas. Ever since Liveris beat out rival BASF to win Rohm in a bidding war in July, he has touted Rohm’s ability source...