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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• What is happening in .NET World?

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 169
  There was few of My Friends speaking about .NET not being a Free or Open Source Software, as a result I am dedicating this to all the people who talk about the same.Check the below products whats on offering and whats happening in the .NET World.1. Visual Studio Express EditionsThis is the Expansion and the limited ...
  2 days ago

• 微软发布英语学习引擎 – 英库 Engkoo

  
  LiveSino.net — Authority: 130
  根据 MSN 中国新浪博客 的消息，微软 MSN 发布了来自微软亚洲研究院的英语学习引擎 – 英库 Engkoo。用户可通过 Windows Live Messenger 的 “译”选项卡使用英库。而 MSN 中国资讯网（ cn.msn.com ）在 11月份就已推出了英库“词典”的链接： engkoo.com ...
  2 days ago

• Microsoft revamps Bing Maps

  
  Tech Mania — Authority: 137
  Microsoft has rolled out new tools for Bing Maps, which will provide users with an enhanced aerial and street-level views.The Bing Maps Beta version offers new viewing mode and an application gallery to enhance its virtual perspective of the world. The application gallery is expected to help users develop geospatially ...
  3 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
  4 days ago

• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  4 days ago

• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
  4 days ago

• Can there be a free Web if no one makes money?

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 146
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Paywall is suddenly a hot topic as free content turns many longstanding businesses — news among — to apparent ruin. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take this anymore . This week Murdoch repeated his call for paid services during a U.S. ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
  4 days ago

• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
  6 days ago

• Missed the recent 2009 Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces?

  
  The World Is My Interface — Authority: 121
  I posted about this conference previously, and thought Id provide links to more information about the people behind this conference.  Id also like to provide more information, such as video... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
  1 week ago

• The Droid is Killing it…and Bringing Android Along

  
  John Bresee — Authority: 130
  Image via CrunchBase The Droid is far more phone than I gave it credit for initially. It’s seems inconceivable but in the two weeks that the Droid has been available the Android OS has suddenly amassed 20% of the mobile internet traffic in the US . RIM , which is the DOS of mobile Internet , is ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft Pivot | a new Internet browser from Live labs

  
  WinSpark.net — Authority: 113
  Take a look to the Microsoft Live labs’ another great experiment “Pivot”. Its nothing but an Internet browser which works on the basis of IE but with the new attractive looks and cool features. Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are... Continue...... @ WinSpark.net
  2 weeks ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  2 weeks ago

• Round Table: Palm for sale?

  
  PreCentral.net — Authority: 684
  Welcome to Round Table, which is in fact not a table at all. Round Table is a continuing series on PreCentral where we pose a question to the staff and they provide their thoughts and insights. The question could be something simple like “what’s your favorite webOS app?” or something a bit more complicated, like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft Live Labs’ Pivot To The Web – First Look

  
  I'm Just Being Manan — Authority: 506
  I’m a big fan of Microsoft Live Labs. Actually Microsoft Labs itself. In case you didn’t know, Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference 2009 or PDC09 is happening. A lot of announcements have been made in the past two days and if something’s clear then it’s Microsoft’s intentions for the web. Azure, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsofts Bag-Based Computer Interface, For Poking [Interfaces]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 883
  Bag-based? Sack-based? Balloon-based? Balloon-boy-based? Theres no shortage of ways to describe Microsoft Researchs new tactile interface concept, which lets people interact with prods, pokes,...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft Develops Bag-Based Computer Interface, For Poking [Interfaces]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 161
  Bag-based? Sack-based? Balloon-based? Balloon- boy -based? There’s no shortage of ways to describe Microsoft Research ’s new tactile interface concept, which lets people interact with prods, pokes, massages and squeezes instead of clicks or taps. The bag you see above isn’t actually the core component of ...
  2 weeks ago

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