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• U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?
• MIT's EurekaFest Showcases High School Students' Problem-solving Prototypes
• FDA confirms E. coli found in Nestle cookie dough
• Venture Capitalists V. Founders: Battle At Mochi Media
• Laptop battery claims start heading toward class action lawsuit
• Report: Worst may be over for US tech market
• Too Busy To Read Tweets? Try Twitter For Busy People
• Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran
• Adobe shuts down for a week
• YouTube To Broadly Release Call-To-Action Overlays, Allows Linking Off-Site
• Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head
• Hackers blamed for wave of fake death tweets
• Top Domains posted on Hacker News
• RIAA: Jammie Thomas snubbed our settlement 'overture'
• Web Site Story: CollegeHumor's Epic Internet Musical
• Amazon Cuts More Affiliates To Avoid Sales Tax
• Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years
• No more beta: Skype 3.0 for Windows phones
• Notorious phone phreaker gets 11 years for swatting
• Mozilla's Weave: (Too far) Ahead of its time
• A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics
• A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums
• eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable?
• Airbus 310, carrying 153 people, crashes into Indian Ocean
• Encrypt data in Linux/Unix
• How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos
• FREE Ipa Wonderland
• Video Interview: PlanetTutor
• See The World in HD
• Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index
• Toyota's mind-controlled wheelchair boast fastest brainwave analysis yet, most stylish EEG cap
• Grow VC Launches as Company / VC Matchmaker
• U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?
• The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault
• British music boss: we should have embraced Napster
• (@atul) Building a crash-proof internet - tech
• A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums
• eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable?
• Airbus 310, carrying 153 people, crashes into Indian Ocean
• How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos
• Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index
• The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault
• British music boss: we should have embraced Napster
• peHUB Google Cofounder s Wife Advertises Her Company On a Blimp
• MediaDefender Virus Scam Targets Torrent Site Users
• Introducing The Computer of 2010
• Vista 7: Disablement as a Business Model
• 9 Essential Steps to Disaster-Proof Your PC
• Upgrade RAM To Computer Is Easy
• 14 Concept Appliances That Need To Be Made

U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back? Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:15 PM PDT ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?  — In the quest to open government processes to citizens, collaboration and participation were identified as explicit goals in a presidential memo iss...

MIT's EurekaFest Showcases High School Students' Problem-solving Prototypes Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:30 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch MIT's EurekaFest Showcases High School Students' Problem-solving Prototypes  — EurekaFest is a yearly event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that showcases the prototype inventions of high school students from...

FDA confirms E. coli found in Nestle cookie dough Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:01 PM PDT Megite: Technology / Reuters FDA confirms E. coli found in Nestle cookie dough  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday confirmed that it has found E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in a sample of N...

Venture Capitalists V. Founders: Battle At Mochi Media Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:00 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Venture Capitalists V. Founders: Battle At Mochi Media  — Mochi Media , the fast growing Flash game advertising network and payments platform that we covered last week, is in the midst of an internal battl...

Laptop battery claims start heading toward class action lawsuit Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:22 PM PDT VentureBeat / DigitalVenturebeat Laptop battery claims start heading toward class action lawsuit  — A couple of weeks ago, Advanced Micro Devices blew the whistle on the claims made by computer manufacturers about battery life for laptops. The chi...

Report: Worst may be over for US tech market Posted: 29 Jun 2009 04:30 PM PDT YahooNewsTechnology / AP Report: Worst may be over for US tech market  — AP - As bad as the technology market fared in the first quarter of this year, the worst may be over, at least in the United States, Forrester Resea...

Too Busy To Read Tweets? Try Twitter For Busy People Posted: 29 Jun 2009 04:15 PM PDT Mashable / Mashable Too Busy To Read Tweets? Try Twitter For Busy People  — Spending too much time reading friends' Tweets? Only got 5 mins and you'd need an hour to get through em all? No worries: you can now speed-read...

Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran Posted: 29 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT Slashdot / Slashdot Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran  — fast66 writes "After hearing about Nokia-Siemens sale of Internet-monitoring software to Iran, US Senators Schumer and Graham want to bar them from...

Adobe shuts down for a week Posted: 29 Jun 2009 02:45 PM PDT Techmeme / Mercurynews Adobe shuts down for a week   —  Adobe shuts down for a week Adobe Systems has shut down its North American operations for the week, as part of a cost-cutting effort that the com...

YouTube To Broadly Release Call-To-Action Overlays, Allows Linking Off-Site Posted: 29 Jun 2009 01:45 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch YouTube To Broadly Release Call-To-Action Overlays, Allows Linking Off-Site  — Tomorrow, YouTube is going to release a very important addition to its suite of advertising products, and it has the potential to have a huge impac...

Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head Posted: 29 Jun 2009 01:15 PM PDT Mashable / Mashable Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head  — In the space between a long-form blog and a short-form Twitter account, there are mini-blog services like Posterous and Tumblr that seek to make bl...

Hackers blamed for wave of fake death tweets Posted: 29 Jun 2009 01:00 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Hackers blamed for wave of fake death tweets  — Hackers are suspected to have broken into Twitpic accounts belonging to Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, and P. Diddy to post false death announcem...

Top Domains posted on Hacker News Posted: 29 Jun 2009 12:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Searchyc Top Domains posted on Hacker News  —

RIAA: Jammie Thomas snubbed our settlement 'overture' Posted: 29 Jun 2009 12:15 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews RIAA: Jammie Thomas snubbed our settlement 'overture'  — Thomas-Rasset's lawyers told music industry she'll only discuss a deal that doesn't require her to pay or admit guilt.

Web Site Story: CollegeHumor's Epic Internet Musical Posted: 29 Jun 2009 12:15 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Web Site Story: CollegeHumor's Epic Internet Musical  — CollegeHumor has outdone itself again. Just a few days after unveiling Bing, the better way to Google , the site has released Web Site Story , a f...

Amazon Cuts More Affiliates To Avoid Sales Tax Posted: 29 Jun 2009 12:07 PM PDT PaidContent / Paidcontent Amazon Cuts More Affiliates To Avoid Sales Tax  —  Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ) understandably does not want to collect state sales taxesand in order to avoid them it's cutting loose thousands o...

Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:30 AM PDT Slashdot / Slashdot Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years  — selven ws one of several readers to send in the news that Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. "Bernard Madoff's victims gasped and ...

No more beta: Skype 3.0 for Windows phones Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:30 AM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews No more beta: Skype 3.0 for Windows phones  — Skype has shucked the beta tag to version 3.0 of its VoIP application for Windows Mobile phones. Result: gratifying features for communicating with...

Notorious phone phreaker gets 11 years for swatting Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:07 AM PDT TheRegister / TheRegister Notorious phone phreaker gets 11 years for swatting  — End of the (party) line A notorious phone phreaker has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after admitting he took part in a scheme that...

Mozilla's Weave: (Too far) Ahead of its time Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:02 AM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Mozilla's Weave: (Too far) Ahead of its time  — Mozilla Labs' Weave project does an admirable job of synchronizing the Firefox experience across one's computers, but this may not be solving the r...

A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:45 PM PDT NYTimesTechnology / NYTimes A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics  — There is now somewhere to take some of the 99.1 million television sets that sit unused in closets and basements.

A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Dennogumi A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums  —  Today, a major upgrade of the KDE Community Forums took place. The change brings quite a number of changes to the forums themselves, and it's a fu...

eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable? Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / BlogZiggytek eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable?  —  California's Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar is used to playing the role of a Terminator hunting humans but now he's about to terminate the existen...

Airbus 310, carrying 153 people, crashes into Indian Ocean Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT HackerNews / Bbc Airbus 310, carrying 153 people, crashes into Indian Ocean  —

Encrypt data in Linux/Unix Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Unixmen Encrypt data in Linux/Unix  —

How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Telegraph How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos  —  To create real tilt-shift photos, you need to buy a special lens which can cost over 1000... (Design)

FREE Ipa Wonderland Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / YokoipaBlogHr FREE Ipa Wonderland  —

Video Interview: PlanetTutor Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Icanhasstartup Video Interview: PlanetTutor  —

See The World in HD Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Seehd See The World in HD  —

Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Techdirt Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index  —

Toyota's mind-controlled wheelchair boast fastest brainwave analysis yet, most stylish EEG cap Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:22 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget Toyota's mind-controlled wheelchair boast fastest brainwave analysis yet, most stylish EEG cap  —  Mind-controlled wheelchairs are becoming all the rage these days, but before you start letting your thoughts wander elsewhere, this latest from re...

Grow VC Launches as Company / VC Matchmaker Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:15 PM PDT ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb Grow VC Launches as Company / VC Matchmaker  — Don't you hate it when your friends set you up and all they can say about your blind date is that he's / she's "nice". Your mind races. Is he / she...

U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back? Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:15 PM PDT ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?  — In the quest to open government processes to citizens, collaboration and participation were identified as explicit goals in a presidential memo iss...

The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Computerworld The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault  — A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes

British music boss: we should have embraced Napster Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Arstechnica British music boss: we should have embraced Napster  — The head of UK music trade group BPI says that the major labels made a mistake by not doing a deal with Napster a decade ago. Such a deal was never...

(@atul) Building a crash-proof internet - tech Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:48 PM PDT Twitter / Newscientist (@atul) Building a crash-proof internet - tech  —

A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Dennogumi A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums  —  Today, a major upgrade of the KDE Community Forums took place. The change brings quite a number of changes to the forums themselves, and it's a fu...

eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable? Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / BlogZiggytek eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable?  —  California's Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar is used to playing the role of a Terminator hunting humans but now he's about to terminate the existen...

Airbus 310, carrying 153 people, crashes into Indian Ocean Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT HackerNews / Bbc Airbus 310, carrying 153 people, crashes into Indian Ocean  —

How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Telegraph How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos  —  To create real tilt-shift photos, you need to buy a special lens which can cost over 1000... (Design)

Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Techdirt Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index  —

The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Computerworld The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault  — A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes

British music boss: we should have embraced Napster Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Arstechnica British music boss: we should have embraced Napster  — The head of UK music trade group BPI says that the major labels made a mistake by not doing a deal with Napster a decade ago. Such a deal was never...

peHUB Google Cofounder s Wife Advertises Her Company On a Blimp Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:48 PM PDT Twitter / Pehub peHUB Google Cofounder s Wife Advertises Her Company On a Blimp  —

MediaDefender Virus Scam Targets Torrent Site Users Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Torrentfreak MediaDefender Virus Scam Targets Torrent Site Users  —  During the last few days a virus scam targeting torrent site users has reappeared. Internet users receive an email informing them they have been m...

Introducing The Computer of 2010 Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Forbes Introducing The Computer of 2010   —

Vista 7: Disablement as a Business Model Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:08 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Boycottnovell Vista 7: Disablement as a Business Model  — "Microsoft makes money from artificial limitations embedded in its software " - [Vista DRM] seems a bit like breaking the legs of Olympic athletes...

9 Essential Steps to Disaster-Proof Your PC Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Maximumpc 9 Essential Steps to Disaster-Proof Your PC  —  On the following pages, we show you how to prepare for everything from acts of God to hacker attacks, and every other mishap you're likely to enco...

Upgrade RAM To Computer Is Easy Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Clicktechnews Upgrade RAM To Computer Is Easy  — Almost every workplace/household would have a computer available, but with so many better bigger programs coming out we've to constantly be able ...

14 Concept Appliances That Need To Be Made Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:08 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Mybadpad 14 Concept Appliances That Need To Be Made  — Concept appliances give us a peek into the future.

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