Epicenter

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• Comcast Tests Broadband Meter in Portland

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  Comcast has launched a trial of an internet usage meter in Portland, Oregon, which lets users keep track of their monthly data usage to make sure it stays under the cable service’s 250GB a month cap, the company announced Monday.Comcast introduced the cap on data usage after the company took a beating from the press ...
  2 hours ago

• Thousands of Sex Offenders Booted from Facebook, MySpace

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
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  10 hours ago

• Teeth-Whitening Company Sues Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Others

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  A dental whitening company that admittedly used deceptive ad campaigns to trick users into signing up for expensive subscriptions is now suing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for letting competitors run similar ads using its trademarked name.You’ve probably seen ads with the mom who discovered the secret to whiter ...
  6 days ago

• The Incredible Shrinking AOL: 2,300 More Employees To Be Cut

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  AOL plans to shed 1/3 of its employees after it is spun off from Time Warner on Dec. 9, according to an SEC filing. That’s about 2,300 staff.If it’s any consolation to the nearly departed, CEO Tim Armstrong has decided to forgo his 2009 bonus, which could have totaled $4 million, wsj.com reports.AOL cut 700 [...]
  1 week ago

• Anil Dash Crowdsources Social Networks to Inform Public Policy

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  Six Apart co-founder Anil Dash plans to reinvent the way the government listens to citizens – not through wiretapping, but by soliciting expertise on scientific matters through the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Expert Labs social network, which Dash announced Wednesday afternoon during a ...
  1 week ago

• Deadly flu spreads across Ukraine

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  The new flu strain, which I contend is spreading in Ukraine and Belarus, is characterized by a lightning form of viral pneumonia — very similar to what happened in 1918. The new flu virus appears to have profound tissue affinity for sialic acid receptors deep in the lungs, replicating in the alveoli. To put it [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Canada rocked by an earthquake of 6.8 intensity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Sandspit, Nov 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Canada was rocked by an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale on Tuesday morning. It happened at 15:30 UTC and at 7:30 am at the epicenter of the strong earthquake.The depth of the earthquake was 99 km. This is expected to cause some damage but right now details are [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Deadly flu spreads across Ukraine

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 136
  The new flu strain, which I contend is spreading in Ukraine and Belarus, is characterized by a lightning form of viral pneumonia — very similar to what happened in 1918. The new flu virus appears to have profound tissue affinity for sialic acid receptors deep in the lungs, replicating in the alveoli. To put it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Submits Second Proposal for Library of the Future

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 725
  Google and a coalition of authors and publishers are hoping a second draft of a legal settlement will clear the way through a thicket of copyright laws to let Google to build the library of the future. The second version, filed close to midnight Friday night in federal court, needs to placate the Justice Department ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ex-EBay Execs to Help the Lazy Resell Used CDs, Books

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 725
  Ebay stills rules as the online garage sale site, but auction upstart Glyde thinks it knows a better way to resell used books, CDs, DVDs and videogames. The company claims “anyone can sell in ten seconds” on Glyde, which makes it simple to list an item, suggests a price based on how used the media is and even ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouTube Amigos Univision

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 725
  Univision has agreed to put its television programming on Google’s YouTube, marking the first time these shows will have been available for online viewing outside of Univision’s own properties. Google hopes the deal will expand YouTube’s Hispanic audience, which grew 80 percent in the last year even before this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Singularity University: Road Trip!!

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  After four days in a classroom absorbing insights and information from the frontiers of science and technology, the Singularity University Executive Program busts out for a succession of field trips to real, live businesses. At their best, these places are harnessing rapidly evolving technology to a revenue model ...
  2 weeks ago

• Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  The late ’70s, when punk exploded and disco imploded, were tumultuous years for the music industry. A time bomb embedded in legislation from that era, the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, could bring another round of tumult to the business, due to provisions that allow authors or their heirs to terminate copyright grants ...
  2 weeks ago

• Twitter: Time’s ‘Person’ of the Year?

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  It was “You” once. So, why not Twitter?Once upon a time Time Magazine picked a “Man of the Year” to ensure a guaranteed big story in the often lackluster holiday season. That honor became a “Person of the Year” in 1981, when a man won anyway. Anyway, it was a long overdue fix since Time [...]
  2 weeks ago

• In Escalating War Against Verizon, AT&T Is Getting Tone Deaf

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  Just in time for the holidays, Verizon and AT&T are going to war: As it mounts a frontal attack on the iPhone with the Droid, number one carrier Verizon is also flanking number two AT&T about the extent of its 3G coverage. The stakes are pretty high since the iPhone is only available on AT&T [...]
  2 weeks ago

• In the 1930s over 11,000 banks failed.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Many depositors lost all of their funds. Back then most of those banks were state chartered and were quite small, so the number sounds much bigger than the problem actually was in dollar terms. Today we have seen a consolidation in the number of banks from around 11,000 ten years ago to around 8,300 in the summer of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Singularity University: Rearranging Atoms With Ralph Merkle

  
  eMediaOne — Authority: 149
  “If you rearrange the atoms in coal, you get diamond. If you rearrange the atoms in sand, you get silicon. How atoms are arranged is fundamental to all material aspects of life,” says Ralph Merkle, currently senior research chair at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. He’s a large, pear-shaped man who, as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Strong earthquake strikes Indonesia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  RABA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — A strong earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sumbawa region on Monday morning, according to seismologists.The earthquake happened around 3.42 a.m. local time, about 5 miles from Raba, a small town in the eastern part of Sumbawa island. The country’s seismological agency reported the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Singularity University, Day One: Infinite, In All Directions

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 725
  Singularity University faculty and administration: Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, and Kurzweil front and center A security guard checks my driver’s license as I drive into the entrance to Moffet Field, a disused naval airbase that hosts the nascent Singularity University. Night has fallen, but it still feels like ...
  3 weeks ago

• 5.6-magnitude quake jolts Tibet

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Beijing, Nov 8 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale hit Xigaze prefecture of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region early Sunday morning, a report said.The quake struck the area bordering the Ngamring and Saga counties at 4.08 a.m. and no casualties have been reported so far, a Xinhua report ...
  3 weeks ago

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