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Google's computer programme: from search engine to operating system
Telegraph.co.uk
A relentless torrent of news has poured from Google over the last week. On
Monday the firm announced a phone, made in partnership with Samsung, that
it hopes will rival Apple's iPhone; next it announced the release of its
own operating system, ...
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Commercial rocket launch, splashdown a success
San Francisco Chronicle
The first of what NASA hopes will become a fleet of privately built rockets
and capsules successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning
in a major test for the commercial space industry. After twice circling the
globe, ...
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Verizon cuts daily prepaid plan to $1.99
FierceWireless
The numbers are in, and it's time to make sense of the data. ABI Research
analyst Michael Morgan checks out the world's 10 largest branded cell…
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) cut the price of its daily prepaid voice plan in
half, a move likely geared to ...
<http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-cuts-daily-prepaid-plan-199/2010-12-08>
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Apple Posts Update For MacBook Air Display Issues
UberGizmo
Some owners of the new MacBook Air have previously noticed some issues with
the display such as flickering horizontal lines sometimes appearing on the
13-inch model or displays being discolored when waking from sleep. The good
news is that Apple has ...
<http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/12/apple_posts_update_for_macbook_air_display_issues.html>
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AT&T coverage woes: What's the problem?
USA Today
This week a Consumer Reports survey confirmed what many iPhone owners
already knew --that carrier AT&T has some serious issues with its network.
CR said AT&T's customer satisfaction was the "worst" of the top 4
carriers--Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and ...
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iTunes rolls out 90-second song previews
CNET
by Steven Musil Apple has, as promised, begun extending the length of song
samples from 30 seconds to 90 seconds at the iTunes Store in the US Many
samples of the site's top-selling singles, such as The Black Eyed Peas'
"The Time (Dirty Bit)" and ...
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Apple Asked to Pay Up for Network Improvement as Operators Face Data Flood
Bloomberg
By Matthew Campbell and Jonathan Browning - Wed Dec 08 13:34:01 GMT 2010
European phone operators say Google Inc., Apple Inc., and Facebook Inc.
should help pay for network investments. Photographer Rupert
Hartley/Bloomberg Dec. ...
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WikiLeaks Emerging as Hydra-Like Web Entity That`s Hard to Kill
eWeek
Even as WikiLeaks continues to publish its thousands of leaked cables from
US diplomats the site is taking steps to stay online despite repeated
cyber-attacks, cancelled services and government action. WikiLeaks keeps
finding ways to stay online even ...
<http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/WikiLeaks-Emerging-as-HydraLike-Web-Entity-Thats-Hard-to-Kill-744023/>
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Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?
Fox News
A once fertile landmass now submerged beneath the Persian Gulf may have
been home to some of the earliest human populations outside Africa,
according to an article published Wednesday in Current Anthropology. In
recent years, archaeologists have turned ...
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