Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Friday, April 1st, 2005
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/whatsnew.html
Google has announced that they will be increasing Gmail storage to 2 GB to celebrate their first birthday! They also boldly claim that their hope is to increase the storage limit regularly so as to provide virtually unlimited storage to their users.
Mmmmm... Google Grid.
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
http://news.com.com/Trill...37029&subj=news
I use Trillian everyday to chat with my colleagues who choose a selection of IM clients that have become a veritable Tower of Babble. But, according to C|Net LogicLibrary has discovered vulnerabilities in Trillian that could allow someone to execute malicious code on your machine.
According to LogicLibrary, the vulnerability ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...&partner=rssnyt
Portland's age demographics are switching. The pool of children is shrinking. In the last 10 years, Portland has grown by around 90,000 people, but enrollment in grammar schools is at an 80 year low.
Why? It seems that Portland is suffering from it's own success. The city ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005
http://www.bigboxreuse.com/
Every business in America has a shelf-life. Fortunes rise and fall, and the assets once owned by these capitalist titans fall to ruin, rotting away in the husk of the economy.
But not always.
Julia Christensen has documented how "big boxes" the Walmart, Home Depot, K-Marts buildings that have fallen on ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...6b4cd49&ei=5088
At Harvard, as well as Princeton and Boston U., students who are interested in having their dorm rooms cleaned for them can do so with the help of DormAid. Another gentle reminder of who is being trained to own the Plantation and who is being paid minimum wage to ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk...1438982,00.html
Reported in the Guardian:
At least 26 prisoners have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what US military investigators have concluded or suspect were acts of criminal homicide, the New York Times reported today. Citing military officials, the paper said the killings took place both inside ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co...1527388,00.html
Two weeks after US troops killed Nicola Calipari, Italys top intelligence officer in Iraq, as he escorted a freed Italian hostage to safety, Italian PM Berlusconi bowed to popular pressure and promised Italy would start withdrawing its 3,200 troops from Iraq in Sept.FolksonomiesUS kill Calipari Italy Iraq italian hostage Berlusconi ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi...sexruling14.TMP
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer has ruled that gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry in California. The case has yet to be heard by the state Supreme Court. However, this marks the first time a California court has ruled in favor of same-sex ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://abcnews.go.com/Tec...Story?id=538132
An Indian teenager from one of the country's most disadvantaged states appears to have fooled governments, the media and even the president.
17-year-old Saurabh Singh was treated as a national hero after announcing he had won NASA's "International Scientist Discovery" examination, which he said he took at Oxford University.
However, there is ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://www.chron.com/cs/C...ch/blog/3082956
Via the Houston Chronicle's TechBlog, AOL says that regardless of the recent flare up caused by the posting of parts TOS throughout the blogosphere, AOL Instant Messenger's terms of service do not imply that the company has the right to use private IM communications, and the section quoted applies only ...
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