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www.cloudtweaks.comAmazon.com Acquires CLOUD.CO Domain Name Online retailer Amazon.com has acquired the registration rights to the single letter domain names A.CO, K.CO an
www.businessweek.comThe networking powerhouse aims to capture a fast-growing sector
gigaom.comThe sport of mixed martial arts combines the multiple disciplines of wrestling, boxing, and jiu jitsu into one combat sport. The cloud battle between VMware and Citrix is a metaphor for two highly trained MMA fighters stepping into the ring after a two-year training camp.
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www.networkworld.comInnovative vendors offering ways to make the transition to a cloud-based world less daunting- gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.comBoy, wouldn't it be great if could use a tablet device that's over nine inches in size to make phone calls? You'd be the envy of everyone! All it takes to fulfill this fantasy is an iPad, an app called Line2, and a $10/month service subscription. Of course it'll be a few days be …
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www.cnn.comYouTube has made another match for a U.S. Marine looking to score a date to the Marine Corps Ball.Owen Frager likes a link.
secretaryofinnovation.comAs a change agent you should consider that: Your work is primarily about the whole organism, not the cells, per se: Your work is not about you. It's never been about you…
www.sfgate.comBillionaire investor Carl Icahn, who offered to acquire Clorox Co. on Friday in a deal valuing the company at $10.2 billion, said he expects interest from other buyers and that he hasn't studied spinning off individual...
www.myfoxny.comWe hear a lot of complaints about security screeners groping airline passengers. But now, a Colorado woman is accused of putting her hands on a TSA agent at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix.
www.huffingtonpost.comMIDWAY, Ga. -- Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits. Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made
lifeinc.today.comHere’s one of the ways the recession and financial crisis has changed many people’s lives: They’ll be spending more years at the office. A new survey of Americans 55 and over finds that those older Americans now expect to retire at age 69, on average.
www.wired.comYou don't need to have 5,000 friends of Facebook to know that social media can have a notorious mix of rumor, gossip and just plain disinformation. The
www.independent.co.ukThe bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai's brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement's increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner cir
www.businessinsider.comNaturally, they're thinking of ways to hedge themselves too.
www.zerohedge.comAs was pointed out yesterday, courtesy of a blistering $80 billion cash burn in the first half of July, Tim Geithner managed to reduce Treasury cash balances from $130 billion to $39 billion. Granted this number will increase next week after this week's $66 billion in Treasury auctions settle, only- www.businessinsider.comNaturally, they're thinking of ways to hedge themselves too.
www.zerohedge.comGold and Silver Likely to Go Parabolic Due to ‘Global Shockwaves’ if U.S. DefaultsGold is some 0.5% lower against the U.S. dollar and most currencies today but is higher in Australian dollars as the Aussie fell on Australian and global economic growth concerns. Asian equity indices were mixed as are
www.businessinsider.comIt's worse than you think.
www.cnbc.comThe pros on Wall Street are betting Washington will strike an 11th-hour deal to avoid a U.S. debt default and downgrade, but if they're wrong, small investors and ordinary savers could be in for a real shock.
fragerfactor.blogspot.comDon’t Buy It is a new campaign, launched last month, against the renewing of the nuclear weapons system in the UK.It centres around three short films. Renewing is serious business. It isn’t the same as buying from a shopping channel, a colporteur or a market trader.In the UK it is about £90 billion
www.youtube.comBattersea Dogs & Cats Home has been giving lost, abused and abandoned animals a second chance for over 150 years. In that time we've cared for over 3million ...
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gizmodo.comThe Blackout of 1977 is one of the grimmer chapters of New York City's history. And you can tell by soccer star Carlos Alberto Torres' account. But the quality of the animation here gives his story real power and beauty. Not to mention Torres is the man.
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gizmodo.comWhile they don't come with gills, these goggles are good enough for any trip to the beach. Because they're made out of actual fish scales. Unique! Designed by Erik de Laurens, they're part of a project he calls Fish Feast. Now, if they did come with gills...- www.wired.comAlthough watching TV shows from the 1970s suggests otherwise, the era wasn’t completely devoid of all things resembling modern communication systems. Sure, the 50 Kbps modems that the ARPANET ran on were the size of refrigerators, and the widely used Bell 103 modems only transferred 300 bits per
- www.building43.comMany of the most popular social media applications predate the widespread adoption of smart phones. Consequently, the initial designs of these apps did not have the smart phone in mind. Mobli aims to unlock the potential of social media by
