Monday, December 20, 2010

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Amazing Spectacle: Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night
Fox News
By Joe Rao In this 2003 lunar eclipse viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., the
full moon changes color because it is being lit slightly by sunlight
passing through the Earth's atmosphere. For a few hours on the night of
Dec. 20 to Dec. ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/20/total-lunar-eclipse-monday-night/>
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Is Facebook preparing to hurdle the Great Firewall?
The Guardian
"It was just two nerds comparing notes," the spokesman said. "Keep the
speculation in check." But when those nerds happened to be the Facebook
founder, Mark Zuckerberg – recently named person of the year by Time
Magazine – and Robin Li – the head of ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/20/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-china-baidu>
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Has Steve Jobs made jailbreaking your iPhone/iPad too much of a hassle?
ZDNet (blog)
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | December 20, 2010, 5:04am PST Currently, any
device (iPhone, iPad or iPod touch) running iOS 4.2.1 can only be
jailbroken using a tethered hack. A tethered jailbreak means that the
device will need to be connected to a PC or ...
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/has-steve-jobs-made-jailbreaking-your-iphoneipad-too-much-of-a-hassle/10736>
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Nokia Rumored To Be Joining Forces With Microsoft On New Phones
The Business Insider
So far, the plan is said to be Nokia branded phones running Microsoft
software. Nokia would distribute the phones and sell them around the world.
Nokia has tried for years to make its own smartphone software and hardware.
Those efforts have yielded ...
<http://www.businessinsider.com/nokia-rumored-to-be-joining-forces-with-microsoft-on-new-phones-2010-12>
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Demand for Apple's iPad helps online computer sales increase 25 percent
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff Online sales of computer hardware increased 25
percent year over year in the first 47 days of the 2010 holiday shopping
season, thanks in part to the popularity of Apple's iPad. The iPad was
singled out in a new report released ...
<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/19/demand_for_apples_ipad_helps_online_computer_sales_increase_25_percent.html>
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