Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: McAfee shock horror Jessica Biel report

HTTP:: McAfee shock horror Jessica Biel report
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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Inept security outfit McAfee has “revealed” if you’re searching for stuff on actress Jessica Biel, “almost half the downloads you could click on will try to deposit malware (viruses, pop-up ads, spyware, etc.) in your computer,” says ABC News.nLast year, it was Brad Pitt.nAnd guess who can save you [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download Transmission 1 74 for Mac OS X

HTTP:: Download Transmission 1 74 for Mac OS X
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Handled by developer Eric Petit, Transmission is a BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, or uTorrent. The piece of software is open source, while most of the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. Transmission boasts a simple, intuitive interface designed to integrate tightly with any operating system. The program can be downloaded and used for free on any machine running Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later and is a Universal Binary, meaning both Intel and PowerPC Macs are supported. The latest version available, Transmission 1.74, adds better data recovery in the case of an OS or Transmission crash. Also on all platforms, a known issue exists â€" if a data file is moved, users are advised to stop the torrent instead of redownloading it. On the other hand, an issue that didn't list some peers in the resume file and in PEX has been addressed. More helpful torrent error messages and a newer snapshot of miniupnpc ar!
e just a couple of more changes with Transmission. Also, DHT now honors the bind-address-ipv4 configuration option, as far as all platforms are concerned. On the Mac front, Transmission adds 64-bit compatibility, as well as the following changes: - Queuing system will not exclude transfers with tracker warnings;
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Pingie: HTTP:: Music firms go after online lyric sellers

HTTP:: Music firms go after online lyric sellers
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p2pnet news view Music:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music are on your case for sharing music.nNow Peermusic, Warner Music’s Warner/Chappell and Bug Music have launched lawsuit against two companies for alleged copyright infringement of the second kind â€" the unlicensed use of lyrics online.n“The lawsuits alleged that LiveUniverse, Inc. and its owner [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Blast strikes centre of Kandahar

HTTP:: Blast strikes centre of Kandahar
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At least 35 killed as bomb destroys wedding hall in Kandahar.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Treat Yourself to Stay Thin Trainer Carly Zucker Says

HTTP:: Treat Yourself to Stay Thin Trainer Carly Zucker Says
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Carly Zucker, personal trainer with a solid reputation in the UK and, most recently, wife of Chelsea footballer Joe Cole, is in enviable shape yet not stick thin. Quite on the contrary, Carly is believed to have the body any woman would literally kill for, curvy yet perfectly toned. One of her biggest secrets to get it is treating herself to something sweet once a day, as she reveals in a new interview with Britain’s Mirror newspaper. The personal trainer says that, aside from mixing up the routine and even changing it altogether every once in a while to prevent boredom from creeping in, she has also learned from past mistakes that denying her cravings is the safest way to ensure that she gives in to them. Life is more fun and sticking to a diet is easier if she has something to wait for, like a reward at a certain moment in the day. This is why at noon she treats herself to something sweet, Zucker tells the Mirror. “I like to have a treat every day! It might be an !
almond croissant, a piece of chocolate or a cappuccino. If you don’t allow yourself treats, life is just miserable! Having something you enjoy in moderation makes you less likely to binge on junk and you’ll feel more motivated to stick to eating healthily and exercising the rest of the time. Just don’t o...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Canada adrift in a wireless world

HTTP:: Canada adrift in a wireless world
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Where does Canada stand with respect to the cost of wireless services?  That question recently generated a spirited debate when the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released new figures that ranked it as the third most expensive developed country.nCritics pounced on the report, calling the results ridiculous and [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Blue Label Telecoms the First to Debut Microsoft OneApp

HTTP:: Blue Label Telecoms the First to Debut Microsoft OneApp
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At the start of this week, Microsoft launched a new project designed to open up web applications and social networking websites normally reserved for smartphone users to owners of feature phones. Concomitantly with the introduction of OneApp, Microsoft also announced the first partnership, indicating that Blue Label Telecoms of South Africa was considered the launch partner for the new technology. The Redmond company noted that for the time being OneApp was available to feature phone users in South Africa, exclusively to Blue Label Telecoms’ mibli service. However, the service will be opened up to additional users in third world markets, although this will only happen starting with 2010. “We believe mobile technology plays a pivotal role in addressing people’s everyday needs and creating new opportunities for local industry to grow. We are excited to announce our first release of Microsoft OneApp with Blue Label Telecoms,” explained Amit Mital, corporate vice pres!
ident of the Unlimited Potential Group and Startup Business Accelerator at Microsoft. “Microsoft OneApp will be able to help people do things they couldn’t do before with their feature phone â€" anything from paying their bills to helping diagnose their health issues or just staying connected with friends an...
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Pingie: HTTP:: What s up with The Pirate Bay

HTTP:: What s up with The Pirate Bay
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- I just know I’m  going to be sorry for this, but there’s a lot I don’t understand about yesterday’s reported demise and today’s return of The Pirate Bay.nAccording to many and various reports, the guys principally behind TPB, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, sold the site [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Windows 7 RTM Language Packs Available for Download

HTTP:: Windows 7 RTM Language Packs Available for Download
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Microsoft has made available for download the language packs for the gold development milestone of Windows 7. The Redmond company is attempting to help end users across the world tailor Windows 7 RTM to their specific language. According to the software giant, the language packs for Windows 7 have been released via Windows Update. In this regard, Windows 7 users will have to turn to WU in order to install extra languages into their copy of Windows 7 in addition to the default language. By offering the language packs through Windows Update Microsoft is following the same strategy that it did with Windows Vista. In this context, the company is restricting access to the language packs. And of course that the limitations also survived from Vista. Microsoft permitted only users of the two high end editions of Windows vista to install additional languages, Enterprise and Ultimate. The same is the case for Windows 7. “These language packs are available to our enterprise custome!
rs running Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate RTM versions only. Customers on the Windows 7 Release Candidate are not eligible for these language packs,” revealed Microsoft’s Stephen L Rose. Essentially, users running the RTM build 7600.16835 of Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate can go to Window...
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Pingie: HTTP:: No Street View Switzerland tells Google

HTTP:: No Street View Switzerland tells Google
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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Ordinary peope who don’t like Google’s Street View intrusions and the use of their homes for Google advertising have to suck it up.nBecause as p2pnet has observed elsewhere, when you’re an 800-pound gorilla …nBut Gargle says it’ll try to fix problems in Switzerland where Hans-Peter Thur, the country’s federal [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: PSP Gets 039 minis 039 Section in the PlayStation Store

HTTP:: PSP Gets 039 minis 039 Section in the PlayStation Store
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Sony had a lot of announcements to make at last week's GamesCon in Cologne, Germany. We've seen the PS3 Slim, the new services for the PSP and many other news reports, but one that managed to slip under the radar was the new “minis” section in the PlayStation Store, accessible to PlayStation Portable users everywhere, starting in October. This section will represent a new direction for Sony as it will be populated only with downloadable games for the handheld console and will have a 100MB size limit in order to ensure that everyone will get their games as fast as possible and will be able to play them wherever they want. Arriving on October 1, it will be available both in Europe and PAL regions as well as in North America. As you might remember, that is also the day when the new PSP Go will be released, making the launch of the new section that much more interesting for users of Sony's portable device. At the beginning, there will be 15 games that will span many genr!
es, including arcade, racers or even parlor games. The goal of the company and the studios involved in the development of these small titles will be to have more than 50 games by the end of the year. Innovation will be encouraged as many independent and small studios are currently in talks with Sony to ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Fedora 12 Alpha Released

HTTP:: Fedora 12 Alpha Released
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The alpha version of Fedora's 12th edition has just been released by the Fedora Project developers. Among the intriguing features that this alpha boasts we can find better support for webcams, IPv6 and system wide connections support for Network Manager, along with other networking improvements, the revamped power management will surely make laptop users rejoice and, an emerging trend for new distributions, Empathy is set as the default instant messaging client. Another detail worth mentioning is the completion of the PackageKit Command Not Found system, which will provide a method for the system to suggest packages when a command is not found, like Ubuntu currently does. This feature will be accompanied in future versions by a browser plugin that will aid the users when installing missing applications. The goodies aren't targeting the usual users alone; system administrators get their share of new software too. They will surely notice the all-around virtualization improve!
ments, like the addition of the Open Shared Root project software that enables multiple Linux systems to use the same root file system and the major features that were added to the Kernel Virtual Machine. Highlights of Fedora 12 Alpha: · Linux Kernel 2.6.31; · KDE 4.3; · Gnome 2.28; Release Schedule...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Early results give Karzai slim lead

HTTP:: Early results give Karzai slim lead
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Incumbent president takes narrow lead with 10 per cent of votes tallied in Afghan poll.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Dog Day Raxco Discounts

HTTP:: Dog Day Raxco Discounts
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Raxco hits its customers with a new wave of discounts for its products. This summer sale comes as an act against the Dog Days and aims at keeping your system cool and running. Slower access times translate into more heat being generated and a draggy computer. Counterattacking this involves maintaining the system in prime shape, and with the new 25% off offer from Raxco you benefit from underpriced products. The sale is available through August 31st and covers all Raxco products, whether they are destined for home users, businesses or corporations. Perfect Speed, the latest release from the company, is also included in the discount campaign, having its original price shrunk from $29.99 to $22.49. The flagship product, PerfectDisk Professional, which is currently at version 10, has a price tag $10 shorter than usual, being available for $29.99. All defragmenting solutions from Raxco are affected by the price cut, but the business products are those that shave off the big bu!
cks from the price tags. PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console, which allows centralized management across multiple computers, servers and virtual environments, suffered a $50 cutoff. The promotion runs all through August 31st and is available for any user. There is no catch, no gimmick. If you remember to type in the discount code (DOGDAYS25) after y...
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Pingie: TORRE: The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing

TORRE: The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing
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After initially being taken offline by Swedish authorities, and after its first escape route failed, The Pirate Bay has returned with all guns blazing. With a modified copy of one of Churchill's most famous speeches, The Pirate Bay team tells the public that they will defend the Internet, with or without the site.
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Pingie: HTTP:: The Pirate Bay reloaded Sort of

HTTP:: The Pirate Bay reloaded Sort of
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- At 6:31 am Pacific, The Pirate Bay was back online,nSort of.nBut all you could see was text. No logo. (http://thepiratebay.org/blog/171).nFor the hell of it, we did a search for Inglourious Basterds and up came another page, which produced.nSort of. nIt was trying to load but beyond showing the [...]
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Pingie: CNN.C: Partial results put Karzai ahead in Afghan vote

CNN.C: Partial results put Karzai ahead in Afghan vote
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Afghan election officials announced Tuesday that partial election results put incumbent President Hamid Karzai ahead of his main rival by a slim margin. Based on 10 percent of the votes counted, Karzai received 212,927 votes compared with rival Abdullah Abdullah who received 202,889 votes.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Chace Crawford on Gossip Girl Fame

HTTP:: Chace Crawford on Gossip Girl Fame
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Chace Crawford is a relatively new presence on the scene because it’s not long that “Gossip Girl” elevated him to the status of international male icon â€" and also this year’s hottest bachelor, according to People magazine. At 24 and still a lot to prove of himself in front of the cameras, there are moments when he feels he can’t take more of the pressure and constant attention, Chace admits in a new interview with Interview magazine. The interview also comes with a stunning photospread in which Crawford channels Viggo Mortensen’s character Nikolai in the 2007 film “Eastern Promises.” However, it’s the piece in itself that draws the most attention, as it shows that, despite his relatively young age and against all estimates, this is not just a spoiled brat looking to cash in on his instant fame, as some nay-sayers depicted him in the past. Quite on the contrary, Chace is the exact opposite of that. Just like a few other male stars of the young generati!
on (Robert Pattinson being the first that comes to mind), Crawford does not like the attention and he certainly loathes having to speak of himself. “I’m the biggest believer in not talking. I don’t Twitter or MySpace or Facebook. I want to keep to myself. I don’t want to be out there. ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Warner Music pays for rapper s PhD

HTTP:: Warner Music pays for rapper s PhD
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p2pnet news view Music:- On the right is an early picture of  Roxanne Shanté â€"-nâ€"- doctor Roxanne Shanté that is, courtesy of Warner music.nWell, not really courtesy because the record label, a member of the Big 4 corporate music gang, had to be forced into honouring its contract with Roxanne whose revenge, says the New [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Palestinian PM plans for statehood

HTTP:: Palestinian PM plans for statehood
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Fayyad hopes building new infrastructure and institution will force Israel's hand.
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Pingie: HTTP:: High Blood Pressure Causes Mental Impairment in Middle Age

HTTP:: High Blood Pressure Causes Mental Impairment in Middle Age
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A new scientific study has recently uncovered a worrying correlation between high blood pressure and the risk of developing memory problems in adults beyond the age of 45. Experts determined that people with high diastolic blood pressure were more likely to experience forms of cognitive impairment and memory loss in middle age than those who had normal readings until that age. The paper appears in the August 25th issue of the American Academy of Neurology's (AAN) journal Neurology, e! Science News reports. “It's possible that, by preventing or treating high blood pressure, we could potentially prevent cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to dementia,” University of Alabama in Birmingham expert Georgios Tsivgoulis, MD, who has also been the author of the new paper, explains. The expert is an AAN member as well. According to him, for each ten-point increase on the study scale, people became seven percent more likely to suffer from mental impairments, which is !
a very sharp rise. The new research analyzed more than 20,000 people aged 45 or beyond, and also took into account other factors that might trigger poor mental health, such as alcohol and tobacco consumption, age, education, other diseases, high cholesterol and the amount of exercises each of the participants engag...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Woman to be whipped for drinking beer

HTTP:: Woman to be whipped for drinking beer
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p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, won’t, after all, be whipped.nAt least, not until after Ramadan.nHer temporarily reprieve came after she was given the maximum penalty of a, “RM5,000 fine and six lashes of the rotan for drinking beer at a hotel,” says mysinchew.com.nRotan means rattan cane, and the story [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Corsair Unveils High Performance X256 SSD

HTTP:: Corsair Unveils High Performance X256 SSD
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Corsair is a recognizable brand in the high-end memory market, providing computer enthusiasts with reliable products that are designed to deliver high performance levels. The company has expanded its portfolio with a couple of Flash-based storage solutions, including high-performance Solid State Drives. Just recently, the Fremont, California-based memory vendor has introduced its latest addition to the SSD line, announcing the new Extreme Series 256GB SSD. Designed for high-performance computing, the new storage solution promises impressive read and write speeds, in the same 2.5-inch form factor as most SSDs on the market.“Since the launch of the Corsair Extreme Series SSDs in June we’ve had a fantastic response from customers who love the high-performance and reliability, and we’ve regularly been asked for even higher capacity models.” said Jim Carlton, VP of Marketing at Corsair. “The new 256GB Extreme Series X256 is a response to the growing popularity of high-!
capacity SSDs, and it joins our Performance Series P256 at the top of its range, for enthusiasts who want the fastest speeds and plenty of space available for their pictures, music, and videos.”The new Corsair SSD has been designed using the renowned Indilinx Barefoot controller and Samsung MLC NAND flash memory, a ...
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Pingie: CNN.C: New fraud claims ahead of Afghan vote result

CNN.C: New fraud claims ahead of Afghan vote result
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Last week's elections in Afghanistan have been marred "by widespread fraud and intimidation" which could cast doubt on the legitimacy of the vote, six presidential candidates declared Tuesday.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Kickstarted with Kickstarter

HTTP:: Kickstarted with Kickstarter
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “I love you. You’re the best. Seriously!!!! xoxo”n195 Backers $7,711 pledged of $2,000 goalnThat’s Allison Weiss on Kickstarter, which says:n“Kickstarter to fund her new EP directly from her friends and fans. They supported Allison with cash, and she’s rewarding them with cool stuff and behind-the-scenes updates.”nWith friends and the [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Resources Available

HTTP:: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Resources Available
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 was released to manufacturing at the start of this week and is currently available for download from Microsoft. But the Redmond company is not offering customers only the management solution for virtualized datacenters, but also additional resources designed to streamline the deployment and usage of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RTM in certain scenarios. In this regard, one of the most important downloads customers can access along with the trial version of VMM 2008 R2 is designed to contain known issues that have survived the development process beyond the RTM stage. The System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Release Notes contain information related to problems customers might come across when test-driving the successor of VMM 2008. The documentation informs users that “after upgrading to VMM 2008 R2 from VMM 2008, the VMM agent on the nodes of a highly available VMM library server are not updated to the VMM 2008 !
R2 version until VMM runs a periodic library refresh. By default, a library refresh is run every hour. You cannot manually refresh a library server,” according to Microsoft. Customers can also download the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Cmdlet Reference, documentation offering Help topics fo...
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Pingie: HTTP:: UK caves to cartel anti P2P law

HTTP:: UK caves to cartel anti P2P law
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- British politicians have been having a hard time of it. They didn’t know what to do for the best â€" their best: try to please the people who who put them into office, or the corporate entertainment industry companies which apparently control them.nBut now they’ve decided.nHollywood and the Big [...]
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Pingie: TORRE: Ex Pirate Bay ISP Sabotaged Calls In Police

TORRE: Ex Pirate Bay ISP Sabotaged Calls In Police
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The ISP that supplied much of The Pirate Bay's bandwidth before cutting them off yesterday, is reporting that it has been sabotaged. Calling in experts and the police, Black Internet says the attack on them is intentional and has caused substantial damage.
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Pingie: HTTP:: More provinces join China lead checks

HTTP:: More provinces join China lead checks
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SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The impact of a Chinese lead poisoning scandal spread to another two provinces on Tuesday, threatening further cuts in supply from the world's top producer of the metal.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: Introducing Microsoft OneApp

HTTP:: Introducing Microsoft OneApp
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With OneApp Microsoft is working to democratize web-based applications and access to social networks with a focus on feature phone users in emerging markets. Popular mobile phone applications are generally restricted to smartphones, but OneApp is designed to break the limitations associated with the mobile phone versions of apps including Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger and Mobile Wallet. OneApp has been designed with mobile phone users in developing countries in mind, in an effort to provide them with access to the same applications and services as smartphone owners. Amit Mital, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group and Startup Business Accelerator, applauded the move. “OneApp is a technology that is going to help people do things they couldn’t do before â€" anything from paying their bills to helping diagnose their health issues or just staying connected with friends and family,” Mital stated. Just watch the video embedded !
at the bottom of the screen in order to get a more accurate idea of what OneApp is capable of bringing to feature phones. According to Microsoft, OneApp spans across both server and client, and the lightweight component for feature phones weighs in at just 150KB, with the web apps themselves at just 30KB. However, phone users don&rsqu...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Spectrobes Beyond the Portals Hints XXVI DS

HTTP:: Spectrobes Beyond the Portals Hints XXVI DS
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The Nintendo DS has seen quite a few franchises flourish on it and give birth to a very successful and profitable series. An example of such a thing is Disney's Spectrobes franchise, which has seen a huge success with the first iteration when it was launched a few years ago.Realizing just what it had on its hands, the company tasked the Jupiter studio with creating a sequel to it. This new project was finalized with Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals, which was released on October 7, 2008 in North America, while Japan received it on December 11, the same year, and Europeans on February 27, 2009.The game boasts some major improvements over the first title, while continuing the story of Rallen and Jeena, two space officers who have saved their native Nanairo system from the evil Krawls. The peace after the conflict is disrupted by the abduction of one of their friends, Aldous, by a Krawl superior officer known as Maja. The fact that mysterios portals are opening around the Nanair!
o system makes the missions even more difficult, but, thanks to new Spectrobes and a new species of Dark Spectrobes, Rallen and Jeena have what it takes to get it done.Here are some of its features:- New, revamped, three-dimensional perspective;- Players can take on the role of either ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Rune Factory 2 A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hints LXXVII DS

HTTP:: Rune Factory 2 A Fantasy Harvest Moon Hints LXXVII DS
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Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is a role-playing video game that features heavy simulation aspects. It was developed by Neverland and published by Marvelous Interactive and Natsume for Nintendo's hugely successful DS handheld video game console. It was first launched in its native Japan on January 3, 2008, and reached North American shores on November 18, the same year. As of yet, the game hasn't been released in Europe or in other territories.The title focuses on delivering a fantasy farm-simulation experience and is part of the very successful Harvest Moon video game franchise, which has sold extremely well on the Nintendo DS in all of its iterations. Rune Factory 2 is, of course, the sequel to the first Rune Factory, which has gained critical acclaim for the introduction of the basic Harvest Moon recipe into a fantasy setting and letting players explore the open world of the game.The title stays true to the Harvest Moon recipe, as in ten seconds, ten in-game minu!
tes will pass, a trademark of the series. The player can go on to grow crops, but wielding the farm tools can decrease their stamina. The classic mechanic of buying animals has now been replaced by the task of defeating monsters in dungeons, similar to a lot of RPGs present on the Nintendo DS....
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Pingie: HTTP:: Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 0 SP4 Released

HTTP:: Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 0 SP4 Released
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Microsoft has made the fourth service pack for Dynamics GP 10.0 available for download. As of August 24th, 2009, the Redmond company is allowing existing version 10.0 of Dynamics GP customers to access the finalized version of SP4. The software giant has managed to outdo itself when it comes down to the delivery of Dynamics GP 10.0 SP4. The service pack was initially scheduled to hit a tad later this month, and the August 24 release means that Microsoft actually beat its own deadline for the official release (via Mariano Gomez, MVP Maximum Global Business, LLC). Existing Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 customers will find that the Redmond company has dealt with a number of issues that affected previous releases of the business management solution. At the same time, SP4 is designed to add new features to Dynamics GP 10.0. International ACH Transactions (IAT) as well as the evolution of Extender forms and detail forms are now available via Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack !
4. Following the integration of the latest service pack, the Dynamics dictionary build number will be bumped all the way to 10.00.1368. Microsoft informed that a problem that survived into the final version of Dynamics GP 10.0 SP4 would cause the OLEPath in the Dex.ini to change from a custom location to the default local path. Customers tha...
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Pingie: HTTP:: BioBrowser Reveals 3D Models of Complex Proteins

HTTP:: BioBrowser Reveals 3D Models of Complex Proteins
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Perhaps the greatest problem with treatments available today for most conditions is the fact that they address the symptoms and not the root causes of the conditions. Analyzing the interactions of proteins, which occur at very tiny scales, scientists need powerful observational tools. However, not even the most advanced ones can offer a complete and clear picture of what goes on inside cells. A new piece of simulation software, dubbed BioBrowser, will provide researchers with a powerful tool of modeling 3D proteins in real time from now on, ScienceDaily reports. Severe challenges face experts in tests aimed at determining the 3D structure of proteins. Being able to view them from all angles is extremely important for two simple reasons. First off, it becomes a lot easier to assess the efficiency of antibiotics, by observing where they bind on the tiny structures. Second, the same line of reasoning applies to extremely toxic pathogens, which utilize weaknesses in proteins i!
n order to corrupt them, and force them to act against the invaded organism. In the most widely used piece of software today, the quality of the images obtained is fairly low, and leaves a lot of room for improvement. That is not to say that it doesn't do the job. It's a lot better than having nothing to work with. But Austrian resea...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Iran resumes opposition trial

HTTP:: Iran resumes opposition trial
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Court begins fourth hearing of opposition activists accused of post-election unrest.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Discovery Launch Delayed by Bad Weather

HTTP:: Discovery Launch Delayed by Bad Weather
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Despite the forecast showing 80 percent chances of good weather for Tuesday morning, Mother Nature played a bad joke on NASA mission controllers and the seven-astronaut crew preparing to board space shuttle Discovery for the STS-128 assembly flight to the International Space Station (ISS). In the wee hours of the morning, rain fell on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, breaching the ten-mile radius around the launch site, which is necessary if mission controllers are to authorize a shuttle flight. The take-off has been scrubbed for today, with Discovery scheduled to make another attempt on Wednesday morning, at 1:10 am EDT (0510 GMT), the BBC News reports. According to eyewitnesses, lightning strikes fell within only a few miles of the launch pad, which prompted controllers and NASA officials to abort the launch sequence just minutes before the scheduled take-off time. The delay couldn't have come at a worse time, after the spac!
e agency just narrowly allowed the shuttle to fly today, after concerns that its foam insulation, located on the external tanks, might fall during this mission as well and strike the shuttle's sensitive heat shield tiles. Once in orbit, there is little astronauts can do to repair them, although basic tools became available to shuttles after th...
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Pingie: HTTP:: OCZ Rolls Out New P55 Ready Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kits

HTTP:: OCZ Rolls Out New P55 Ready Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kits
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With motherboard makers having already started announcing the debut of their first P55-based motherboards, it comes as no surprise that all the other hardware vendors are also showing support for the new mainstream platform. On that note, the San Jose, California-based OCZ Technology has announced today the debut of its new low-voltage DDR3 memory, specifically designed to provide users with support for the new Intel P55 Chipset and the upcoming series of Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3 socket LGA1156-compatible processors. The new DDR3 memory will be available in dual-channel kits, boasting a capacity of 4GB.“OCZ is excited to introduce a complete range of new DDR3 dual channel memory kits that are engineered specifically for Intel’s cutting edge P55 platform,” commented Alex Mei, CMO for the OCZ Technology Group. “These gaming kits make use of high quality hand screened chips to deliver exceptional performance and stability at surprisingly low voltages when paired wi!
th the latest Intel processors and chipset.”The memory vendor has released several new memory kits, available as part of the company's Gold and Platinum lines of low-voltage memory modules. Available in kits of 2x2GB modules, the new DDR3 memory from OCZ can be found in several configurations, boasting d...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Summit Denies Fifth Twilight Movie

HTTP:: Summit Denies Fifth Twilight Movie
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Over the weekend, Boo Boo Stewart, the 15-year-old actor that will be playing wolf Seth Clearwater in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” revealed that Summit Entertainment was thinking of turning Stephenie Meyer’s four books into five films. Shortly after he spilled the beans on what was probably supposed to be one of the biggest secrets of the franchise, Summit infirmed the report in a statement to Us Magazine. Boo Boo Stewart enthused about meeting the entire cast behind one of the most successful film franchises of the recent years, especially Robert Pattinson, who plays vampire Edward Cullen, since he already knew Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) from school. The young star also revealed that Summit was thinking of making five movies, presumably dividing “Breaking Dawn,” the last book in the series, in two. While not exactly denying that this is its intention, Summit is saying the timing for Stewart’s statement is just not right, especially since it is yet to con!
firm the fourth film, let alone a fifth. “We appreciate our young actor’s enthusiasm for the franchise and his role, but his comments about the number of films were unfortunately uninformed and not accurate. However, the fans should rest assured the we’re working with Stephenie Meyer to bring ‘Breakin...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Chinas Hunan Guangxi check lead smelters

HTTP:: Chinas Hunan Guangxi check lead smelters
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hunan, China's second-biggest refined lead producing province, is checking lead smelters in the wake of lead poisoning in Shaanxi province, an official at the provincial environment authority said on Tuesday.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: Scientists Turn the Body into a Bioreactor

HTTP:: Scientists Turn the Body into a Bioreactor
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In some serious heart conditions, patients' only hope for survival is related to receiving a heart 'patch,' a piece of engineered cardiac tissue, which is grafted directly onto their hearts. However, in order for the transplant to survive, it must receive a steady supply of oxygen and nutrients. In an attempt to solve these demands, scientists from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel-Aviv University, and Soroka University Medical Center, in Israel, have developed a way of essentially transforming the human body into a bioreactor, capable of growing working blood vessels in a bioengineered cardiac patch. Their attempts, which are detailed in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), may pave the way for other research groups to create the first bioengineered materials capable of identifying, sticking to, and healing damaged heart tissue. The issue is that, first, they need a scaffold for the new cardiac patch. Onto this !
scaffold, new cells must then be grafted and grown, which is done in an external bioreactor. Two main types of cells could be placed on these 3D scaffoldings, the team reports. Most importantly, stem cells that have the ability to differentiate into any type of cardiac cells are needed, and then muscle cells, which could directly benefit ...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Karrubi publishes detainees rape account

CNN.C: Karrubi publishes detainees rape account
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Despite threats to arrest him, Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi has gone public with a first-hand account from a detainee who says he was raped in a Tehran prison.
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Pingie: HTTP:: New IE8 RTW Downloads Wave Available for Business Users

HTTP:: New IE8 RTW Downloads Wave Available for Business Users
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Microsoft is pushing forward with the availability process of Internet Explorer 8, with a new wave of downloads scheduled to hit today, August 25th, 2009. The Redmond company announced since the end of June 2009 that it would start serving IE8 RTW to business users by the end of August, and the bits come right on schedule. The gold build of Internet Explorer 8 will be offered to all companies leveraging the software giant’s update server distribution solution designed to help administrators manage Microsoft Update releases across corporate networks. “Starting Tuesday August 25, 2009, Internet Explorer 8 will be made available as “update rollups” via WSUS (Windows Server Update Services). This is critical for customers who manage their desktops via WSUS; they need to be aware of these updates and make necessary preparation to insure there are no unintended upgrades to Internet Explorer 8 on their desktops,” revealed Kevin Dean, Microsoft technology specialist, Ed!
ucation. Ahead of August 25, WSUS admins had the option to disable auto-approve for “Update rollup” packages in Windows Server Update Services. In such scenarios, IE8 would only be offered to machines across a network after the updates were manually approved by the administrator. Business users...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Modern Society Affects Our Sharing Habits

HTTP:: Modern Society Affects Our Sharing Habits
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In almost all aspects of our existence, sharing plays a central part. From parents taking care of their newborns, and providing them with everything they need, to helping a stranger on the street, the habit has shaped over millennia who we are and how we interact with each other. A recently published investigation has looked at how the modern world influences this behavior in our species, and has tried to unravel the complex mechanisms behind it, ScienceDaily reports. The research, which appears in the latest issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, essentially shows that societal changes affect the very nature of sharing as we know it. “Sharing is a fundamental consumer behavior that we have either tended to overlook or to confuse with commodity exchange and gift giving,” Russell Belk, an expert at the York University, in Toronto, and also the author of the study, explains in the paper. One of the main focuses of his investigation is to assess the differences betw!
een sharing, gift-giving, and exchanging marketplace commodities. “Rather than absolute distinctions, I see these as categories that share fuzzy boundaries. Although both sharing and gift-giving have some elements that often (but not always) make them more communal, loving, and caring than marketplace exchange, sharing differs...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Multitasking Affects Focus Abilities

HTTP:: Multitasking Affects Focus Abilities
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In modern-day society, multitasking is one of those traits that are encouraged at the workplace and in private life, in spite of the fact that no one really knows what its effects are in the long run. It is only now that scientists are beginning to analyze the implications of this phenomenon, in several benchmark studies, whose results have been only recently published. They show that people who multitask are significantly worse in situations requiring focus and attention than their not-multitasking peers. In the recent studies, experts analyzed the behavior of students who were engaged in a large number of activities at the same time, such as answering instant messages, using their e-mail, speaking on their phone, holding video-conferences, and reading web text. In tests that required a great level of attention and focus, they fared significantly worse than their peers who were not distracted by that many actions done at the same time. Even participants themselves admitt!
ed that performing so many tasks all at once had modified the way they thought, and left them permanently and mildly distracted. Several studies concentrated on the influence that doing their homework in front of the TV had on children's homework abilities. They discovered a clearly negative correlation between the two, and urge parents not to...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Mystery Morning Glory Clouds

HTTP:: Mystery Morning Glory Clouds
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The Northern Australian Gulf of Carpentaria is every year the host of one of the most remarkable and strange atmospheric phenomena in the world. Dubbed the Morning Glory, it consists of rows of tubular clouds, which can span more than 1,000 kilometers in length. Although a beauty to behold, they cause problems for airplanes flying in the area even over windless days. Scientists have been studying them for a long time, but, until now, they have only found out that the peculiar formations are a form of roll clouds and nothing more. Theories on how the Morning Glory forms abound, but some of them have no contact with reality to speak of. Others make a little more sense, although the international scientific community has yet to reach any consensus on the issue. It can be best observed in autumn, in the skies over and around the town of Burketown, Queensland (population 200). Some of these formations can grow to a height of one to two kilometers, and can travel as fast as 35 !
miles per hour. As it moves over the land, the phenomenon causes a lot of disturbances in the regular flow of air, Wired reports. For instance, it generates sudden wind squalls, and intense low-level wind shears, as it rolls past. According to some measurements, a sharp pressure jump is also recorded at the surface, inconclusive with other readings col...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Envoys call for return of ousted Zelaya

CNN.C: Envoys call for return of ousted Zelaya
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A delegation of foreign ministers led by the Organization of American States' secretary-general arrived Monday in Honduras in an effort to restore ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya, pictured, to office.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Augustinian Canon Enigma Solved by Sundial

HTTP:: Augustinian Canon Enigma Solved by Sundial
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British archaeologists working inside an abbey in Inchcolm Island have recently discovered a splintered sundial, which they believe may have originally been carved into one of the church's walls. The special kind of time-keeping instrument, known as a mass dial, was apparently the method of choice for keeping track of time in the Firth of Forth abbey, the BBC News reports. The new find may help explain how the Augustine order kept track of time. They were widely renowned for their highly synchronized activities, which required that the members of the order did the exact same thing at the exact same time. Therefore, knowing where they were during the day, time-wise, was of the utmost importance. Archaeologists now believe that the mass dial was used to calculate what time it was as sharply as possible, and that the order's rituals revolved around this instrument. The stone containing the carved dial was discovered by Hugh Morrison, a collection registrar at Historic Scot!
land, and Mary Markus, a medieval stone expert, while conducting preliminary preparatory work on a batch of 50 stones found at the abbey, which had not yet been analyzed. The instrument was found on two slabs of rock, which were most probably splintered by someone, or simply by the passing of time. “While sorting through...
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Pingie: CNN.C: OAS team pushes for Honduran leaders return

CNN.C: OAS team pushes for Honduran leaders return
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A delegation of foreign ministers led by the Organization of American States' secretary-general arrived Monday in Honduras in an effort to restore ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya to office.
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Pingie: HTTP:: US to probe CIA abuse allegations

HTTP:: US to probe CIA abuse allegations
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Investigation into interrogations ordered as new details of alleged abuse revealed.
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Pingie: HTTP:: US to probe alleged CIA torture

HTTP:: US to probe alleged CIA torture
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Investigation into interrogations ordered as new details of alleged abuse revealed.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Smoking Tied to Malnutrition in the Developing World

HTTP:: Smoking Tied to Malnutrition in the Developing World
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In rural Indonesia, smoking is a fairly common habit and can be met at every corner. However, because the region is so impoverished, there is little money for buying cigarettes, and a new study has revealed that most men who smoke there take money out of their families' food budget in order to satisfy their own needs, which contributes to children having a worse diet and imbalanced nutrition. The researchers, Steven Block and Patrick Webb of the Tufts University, say that the effects of smoking in this area, and others like it, go well beyond the harm that the men inflict upon themselves. The new investigation was conducted on about 30,000 homes in Java, Indonesia, most of which had occupants living well below the poverty level. The numbers are harsh. It would appear that in the basic rural family, where at least one smoker resides, up to ten percent of the family's budget goes on buying tobacco. Another 68 percent is spent on food, while the remaining 22 percent is spent o!
n other items that are neither food, nor tobacco. More details will be published in the October issue of the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change.“This suggests that 70 percent of the expenditures on tobacco products are financed by a reduction in food expenditures,” the autho...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Starcraft II Map Editor Can Create FPS RPG Videogames

HTTP:: Starcraft II Map Editor Can Create FPS RPG Videogames
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The bad news is that Starcraft II is not coming out in 2009 and millions of real time strategy fans will find they have to look to an unknown date in 2010 for the sequel to the most loved RTS in the world. The good news is that the people at Blizzard are showing off features related to the game that will certainly serve to enhance the hype surrounding it.We recently reported that players who create new maps for Starcraft II using the integrated editor would be able to charge for them if they believed that they had created something special that the official and free maps from the community did not offer.Now, Blizzard is saying that the editor is powerful enough to allow interested gamers to put together role-playing sequences and first person shooters with it, using the same tools that are employed by the game designers when creating the single player and the multiplayer maps that will be shipped with Starcraft II.At BlizzCon, the developers showed off three such custom map!
s, saying that they were created by some of the people working on the game in their spare time. One was a third person action-oriented RPG, another one played like a classic top down shooter based in space and another featured a new type of Zerg, specifically modified using tools that will be made public....
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Pingie: TORRE: Sweet Revenge As Warner Forced To Finance Rapper s Ph D

TORRE: Sweet Revenge As Warner Forced To Finance Rapper s Ph D
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After failing to keep up with royalty payments, Warner Music has been forced to honor a clause in a rapper's contract which said the music giant would pay for her education for life. Congratulations go out to the now Dr. Roxanne Shanté, the hip-hop talent behind the 1984 groundbreaker, Roxanne's Revenge.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Saturn Ring Formation Still Unexplained

HTTP:: Saturn Ring Formation Still Unexplained
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Ever since the 17th century, when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered that Saturn had rings around it, astronomers and astrophysicists have been trying to come up with a plausible explanation for how they were formed and why. To this day, the answer has eluded them, and each new scientific find about the planet, made with space telescopes or with the Cassini-Huygens space probe, only goes on to further deepen the mystery. Modern scientific means have allowed researchers to determine the fact that the multiple rings around the planet are made up of vast amounts of dust, ice and small rock fragments. Though they are only a few tens of feet in thickness, they are extremely widespread, and contain some 35 trillion-trillion tons of material inside them. They also possess the remarkable ability of regenerating themselves, if, for example, a space rock passes through. After the initial shock, the material mysteriously pulls itself together again, Space reports. Thank!
s to readings collected by Cassini and its Voyaged predecessors, it has now become obvious that the rings are in a process of constant evolution. Ring arcs have been photographed as forming in some instances, while one of the planet's many moons has been identified as emitting plumes of ice and dust, which contribute to the formation of new ri...
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Pingie: HTTP:: CIA report alleges detainee abuse

HTTP:: CIA report alleges detainee abuse
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US intelligence agents threatened terrorism suspects with violence, documents say.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Cereal Makers to Change Health Claims Under EU Crackdown

HTTP:: Cereal Makers to Change Health Claims Under EU Crackdown
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Cereal makers are about to take a serious hit as a new EU regulation is being lined up. Because of the many health claims that come on cereal boxes, which often omit to include the extra amounts of sugar, salt and fat, the Food Standards Agency in the UK and the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) will see that all cereal makers will no longer include health claims on the package unless they can also prove them scientifically, as Times Online informs. Major brands in the UK will be considerably affected by the crackdown, which will undoubtedly also take its toll on the £1.3-billion-a-year industry. At this point in time, the Efsa is investigating about 4,000 health claims made by various brands, some of which say they stimulate growth, improve digestion, offer a surplus of vitamins, and even protect the heart. All these are possible by means of extra ingredients that are, most of the time, not even mentioned on the package, because they contain high levels of fat, suga!
r or salt, well above the recommended limit. “Cereal manufacturers make a variety of health claims. Some are genuine, but other foods are heavily promoted on the basis of health claims for one ingredient, while unhealthy levels of sugar, fat and salt hardly get a mention.” Corinne Vaughan, deputy head of nut...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Sun Protection Facts Hats Umbrellas and Tree Shade

HTTP:: Sun Protection Facts Hats Umbrellas and Tree Shade
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Presumably, we all know by now very well that we must use sunscreen whenever we go out in the summer, both because sun damage is why our skin looks older and because it helps reduce the risk of developing skin cancer. However, there are other ways to stay protected as well, other than slathering sunscreen on our body every time we go out, even if this should remain our number-one priority, as Dr. Dore Gilbert, dermatologist at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, points out for physorg. In light of a new piece published in the Skin Cancer Foundation Journal, Dr. Gilbert weighs in on the protection items such as hats, sun umbrellas, clothes and tree shade offer from the rays of the sun. According to him, all are items that can shelter us from UV rays on a hot summer day, but their protection factor varies greatly. This, in turn, means sunscreen is also a must in order to be sure we’re taking all the necessary steps to protect the skin we’re in, as an older campaign mean!
t to raise awareness for skin cancer was saying. In this sense, hats are ideal to protect the face, the neck and the ears, even if they come with an SPF of 5. Dr. Gilbert calls them “lifeguard hats,” saying choosing the right hat is paramount to being protected. “That’s probably going to block about...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Sony Talks About No Backward Compatibility on PlayStation 3 Slim

HTTP:: Sony Talks About No Backward Compatibility on PlayStation 3 Slim
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The PlayStation 3 has had a pretty troubled lifetime up until now, particularly as regards the backward compatibility feature that made plenty of Sony fans rapidly adopt the highly priced console when it was first launched because it supported PS2 games. But after a short period of time, the Japanese company released a new version that didn't have that important feature and which didn't manage to attract quite a lot of fans. Now, with the introduction of the cheaper PlayStation 3 Slim, many people hoped to find that feature included but, as you found out in the article we posted about it, it will still be absent. The director of marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment America, John Koller, talked about this measure and how fans just didn't really want the feature, claiming that they would buy the PS3 in order to play PS3 games. “Now that we're at a point where we're three years into the lifecycle of the PS3,” he said, “there are so many PS3 disc-based games that !
are available that we think â€" and noticed this from our research â€" that most consumers that are purchasing the PS3 cite PS3 games as a primary reason.” “And it's not just like 50 or 60 percent. It's well into the 80 or 90 percentile range who are purchasing ...
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HTTP:: Rumor Mill Gran Turismo 5 Might Have 1000 Cars
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One of the things the public focuses on when comparing racing titles is the number of cars offered, especially when it comes to the bigger franchises that fight for the limited attention of the gamer.Microsoft launched a broadside when it revealed, at the E3 trade show earlier in the year, that its upcoming Forza Motorsport 3 was set to bring players 400 cars and 100 tracks to race them on. Now, Polyphony Digital and Sony are firing back by claiming that the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 is set to carry no less than 1,000 playable cars (that's not a typo, one thousand cars).The claim comes via a page, translated by GTPlanet, which originally appeared on the official site of developer Polyphony Digital. Since then, the original has been taken down, which means that either the 1,000 car figure is exaggerated or the information was not supposed to be out yet.The translation is also claiming that only 170 of the cars will have fully detailed interiors that will show the damage which !
the car receives, while the other 830 featured modes will only be showing exterior damage to the player. Apparently, Gran Turismo 5 will allow players to race using electric cars like the Prius, the Insight, and the latest hybrid car models, some of them not even being available commercially.When it comes to tra...
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