Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Smile of Approval Sufficient for Body Confidence Boost

HTTP:: Smile of Approval Sufficient for Body Confidence Boost
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Making a woman feel better about herself might have nothing to do with saying the little, white lies we’ve been hearing about since almost forever and that are usually recommended as socially acceptable. Instead, as a new study quoted by Medical News Today shows, it’s enough to smile in approval to tell a woman that she looks good and thus boost her self confidence. Body image in women is believed to be dependent on social acceptance, which is all the more true in those ladies who have a low self-esteem as regards their appearance. By means of the simple effect of “classic conditioning,” a smile of approval sends them the message that they look good, and are therefore accepted in society. At the same time, their body image receives an incredible boost, which makes lying to them redundant, the findings of the study indicate. “The positive effect we witnessed supports the idea that body satisfaction may be linked to the idea of social approval. Simply showing the!
se women photos of themselves followed by a smiling face â€" signaling social approval â€" increased their body satisfaction and self esteem significantly. This simple classic conditioning procedure may be a useful way to increase body and weight satisfaction, and it may be worth extending this experi...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Jennifer Aniston Denies Getting Implants for Fuller Bust

HTTP:: Jennifer Aniston Denies Getting Implants for Fuller Bust
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Earlier this month, reports in the media had it that former “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston might have had some help in the cup department, as photos showed she seemed to have a fuller bust than a couple of weeks before. Admittedly, sources said, she had either gotten implants or Macrolane injections. Aniston herself is now rubbishing these reports in a new interview with Hello! magazine, the print edition (story via here). Throughout the years, Jennifer Aniston has come to grow accustomed to the many stories on her personal life running in the tabloid media, in the sense that she no longer pays any attention to them and tries to ignore what is being said as much as possible, as she said so herself on countless occasions. However, the one about her turning to the doctor’s help for more definition in her chest is simply ridiculous, and she wants the world to know how she feels about that in the recent interview. “It’s such bull[expletive].” Aniston says of the !
current rumor that she’s had some form of enhancement for a bigger cup. “I normally ignore stories about me because they tend to take on a life of their own that has no connection with me, and I find that, no matter what I say or do, I can’t find a way to correct them. But it does get ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: MetroPCS Selects Vendors for 2010 LTE Launch

HTTP:: MetroPCS Selects Vendors for 2010 LTE Launch
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Unlimited, contract-less wireless communications service provider MetroPCS announced on Tuesday that it had selected the infrastructure and handset vendors for the launch of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadband services, slated for the second half of 2010. According to the company, Ericsson will be the infrastructure provider for its LTE network, while Samsung Mobile will be in charge with delivering the first LTE handset for the carrier. As many of you might already know, MetroPCS has been encouraging users to choose wireless mobility over landline services, and it is offering them unlimited, flat-rate, no-signed-contract plans. According to the company, the deployment of LTE should enable it to deliver enhanced Internet services to its users, so that they can experience a richer HTML browsing experience without having to stay connected to a wired network. “Ericsson is honored to be chosen by MetroPCS as their LTE/EPC infrastructure supplier for its LTE service!
launch,” said Angel Ruiz, president and CEO of Ericsson North America. “We look forward to using our leadership in LTE technology to help MetroPCS usher in a new era of communications and transform the mobile-broadband user experience for their customers.” Roger D. Linquist, president, chief executive o...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Skate 3 Announced by Electronic Arts

HTTP:: Skate 3 Announced by Electronic Arts
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Electronic Arts has announced that it is developing a new game in the Skate series, with the aim of releasing it to the public in May 2010. The main new feature of the third title in the series is the addition of team-based gameplay as players will need to build their own skating crews, compete against other groups and generally increase their skills and visibility in Port Carverton, the new location introduced in Skate 3. The EA franchise is in direct competition with the Tony Hawk series from Activision, which is getting a new title this fall.Jason DeLong, who is the senior producer on the game, stated that “The social and community aspects of the SKATE franchise are something we’ve always embraced, but we’ve never done anything to the scale you’re going to see in SKATE 3. We’re giving gamers a very unique experience by providing them with the tools they need to build their ultimate team or to create a team comprised entirely of their online friends. From there,!
it’s all about proving yourself â€" teaming up, and throwing down.”The cooperative gameplay will allow for complex interactions between the characters as they help each other perform tricks or as their hinder progress when they are not working in sync. The title is also set to introduce a new mode called skate...
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Pingie: HTTP:: EU 1 5m Afghan ballots suspicious

HTTP:: EU 1 5m Afghan ballots suspicious
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The European Union presidential election monitoring team casts doubt on final results.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Shell runs oil sands mine as protest enters day 2

HTTP:: Shell runs oil sands mine as protest enters day 2
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc said on Wednesday its Muskeg River oil sands mine in northern Alberta was operating at full production as an environmental protest at the site entered its second day.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: EU suspects large Afghan poll fraud

HTTP:: EU suspects large Afghan poll fraud
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The European Union presidential election monitoring team casts doubt on final results.
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Pingie: HTTP:: The Unusual Way to Create Manage and Explore Mind Maps

HTTP:: The Unusual Way to Create Manage and Explore Mind Maps
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Ever since ancient times, people have been trying to express their thoughts and feelings in various ways, and one of the most important is writing. But time passed by, technology evolved and soon we found out that computers could help us express our thoughts more than we even imagine. And this how came the idea to create mind maps, which are simple or complex diagrams that can be used to represent ideas, works and various tasks, usually centered around an idea or object.Mind maps have various shapes and people tend to accommodate them to their own domain. But most of them have a central issue, put in the center of the diagram that evolves afterwards in a brain-shaped diagram, full of branches and child nodes. MyThoughts is a mind mapping piece of software available only for Mac OS X 10.5 or later that will try to take the basic idea of a mind mapping diagram and make it evolve with the help of modern day needs and graphics.The LooksMyThoughts has a clean, intuitive and very!
easy-to-use interface that will be accessible even to people that do not use diagrams a lot. You can access various actions like thoughts and child trees right from the program interface and that makes the diagram creation process a lot easier. The preferences are also very easy to access, so you only need to think about the diagram and the program wil...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Shell runs oil sands mine as protest continues

HTTP:: Shell runs oil sands mine as protest continues
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday its Muskeg River oil sands mine in northern Alberta was operating at full production as an environmental protest at the site entered its second day.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: It Will Be Windows 7 SP1 to Go Against Google Chrome OS

HTTP:: It Will Be Windows 7 SP1 to Go Against Google Chrome OS
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In the second half of 2010 Microsoft’s client operating system will have a new rival platform hungry for a piece of its market share. The Linux-based Google Chrome OS will be generally available to customers worldwide in H2 2010, and it will fall not on Windows 7 RTM, but on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to neutralize the new threat. However, so far Microsoft seems little worried about the upcoming Chrome OS from the Mountain View-based search giant; it seems poised to take netbooks by storm in approximately one year. Microsoft General Manager Charles Songhurst revealed confidence in Windows 7’s quality and inherent ability to hold its ground against Chrome OS, via Beyond Binary. According to Songhurst, Google will have to do a lot more than simply offer a new, cheaper, Linux flavor, rebranded as Chrome OS. The GM pointed out that the only way that Chrome OS would represent a threat to Windows 7 was if it was sensibly better than the latest iteration of the Windows client.!
The Windows 7 general availability deadline is set for October 22nd, 2009. Microsoft traditionally takes approximately one year to develop the first service pack for a Windows client release. In this context, by the end of 2010, early 2011 at the latest, the Redmond company will have already offered end users SP1 for...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Tackling climate change could earn Africa 1 5 billion

HTTP:: Tackling climate change could earn Africa 1 5 billion
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LONDON (Reuters) - Using Africa's vast agricultural resources to help tackle climate change could earn the continent $1.5 billion a year, a World Bank head said on Tuesday.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: Driven Cheats III PS2

HTTP:: Driven Cheats III PS2
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Driven is a videogame developed by BAM! Europe Studios Ltd. and published by BAM! Entertainment, Inc. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and also for the Game Cube from Nintendo in 2001. It is classed as a racing title played from a first and a third person perspective and is based on the movie with the same name starring Sylvester Stallone.The game allows players to choose a pilot and to attempt to win the racing championship they take part in. Each of the playable pilots has certain attributes that affect the overall performance of the car. There is also an option to enter The Zone, which allows for better performance as long as the player makes no handling mistakes on the racing track. The release has an Arcade mode, a Career mode and multiplayer capabilities. The game received rather poor reviews from specialized magazines and was a commercial flop when it was launched.Driven is loosely based on the movie bearing the same name, produced in part by S!
ylvester Stallone, who also played an important role in it. The inspiration for the movie and the game came at the Italian Grand Prix, which the star attended. The F1 wanted nothing to do with the project so CART races were used to illustrate the racing. The movie only made around 30 million dollars on a budget of about 72 million dollars. The outcome of the mo...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Megan Fox Threatens to Kill Brian Austin Green

HTTP:: Megan Fox Threatens to Kill Brian Austin Green
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In the past, Megan Fox talked about her fears of being schizophrenic like Marilyn Monroe and meeting her end while still young just like the original silver-screen icon, as well as about her rather unorthodox ideas regarding a relationship. According to her own words, as cited by PageSix, Fox also tends to become violent in certain occasions, threatening to kill on-and-off boyfriend Brian Austin Green once. Fox has often described her relationship with the original “90210” star as out of the ordinary, but, in all fairness, she has never said anything even remotely close to the aggressiveness she reportedly speaks of in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine. In her own words, the “Transformers” beauty has a very bad temper, for which reason she doesn’t have guns around the house because she would be too tempted to shoot Brian when she goes on a rampage. “My temper is ridiculously bad.” Fox, 23, tells Rolling Stone, the October issue, as cited by PageSi!
x. “I’ve had to say to Brian, ‘You have to go and stop talking to me, because I’m going to kill you. I’m going to stab you with something, please leave.’ I’d never own a gun for that reason. I wouldn’t shoot to kill. But I would shoot him in the leg, for sure.&r...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Graphene and Gallium Arsenide Make the Perfect 039 Couple 039

HTTP:: Graphene and Gallium Arsenide Make the Perfect 039 Couple 039
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Undoubtedly, the electronic circuits that will make up the appliances of the future will be a long way away from the equipment we see today. New materials, new technologies, a combination of organic and inorganic molecules, and a higher degree of miniaturization will change the aspect of circuit boards forever. Efforts around the world today are focused on finding the best-suited, new materials for the job, and a recent investigation by experts at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), in Germany, seems to show that graphene and gallium arsenide are the winning combination.This conclusion was reached only five years after graphene was first synthesized. Back in 2004, a team of experts at the University of Manchester discovered this extremely thin carbon compound, which has some peculiar physical, electrical and chemical properties. For the PTB team, the experiments that sought to combine materials in novel ways couldn't have any other ending. Graphene is simply pe!
rfect for gallium arsenide, a semiconductor material that supports a wide degree of manipulation and tailoring of its electrical properties.GA is today the starting point for a very wide range of the world's fastest electrical and opto-electronic circuit components. The German researchers we...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Travel Comfortably with World Traveler

HTTP:: Travel Comfortably with World Traveler
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One of the most enjoyed services available for most of the Symbian smartphone users, World Traveler, developed by Psiloc, comes up with a new, innovative, open platform, which greatly eases the whole process of travel, being either recreational or a business trip. The latest 1.0.3 version offers some free and premium services under the form of plugins, which can be added to the application. Besides the five-day weather forecast for more than 5,000 cities provided by Foreca, users will be able to track down the flights they need and be alerted, all within one single user interface. All this can be only acquired if they have an Internet connection available on their device, as World Traveler will ask them for an access point whenever it updates the weather or flight schedule. The first time you start World Traveler, the application will pinpoint your location and set the default city accordingly. Other free or premium plugins include: World Clock, which can display up to fou!
r cities, Currencies, which automatically converts using your location into about 184 exchange rates, World Map, in the form of a 3D globe that shows the whole day-and-night cycle on the planet. You can choose to install or remove certain plugins available for World Traveler, by using the Plug-in Manager, which has been integrated into the application.
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Pingie: HTTP:: OCZ Unleashes the Z Drive SSD

HTTP:: OCZ Unleashes the Z Drive SSD
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OCZ Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance memory and Flash-based storage products, has announced today the official debut of its new Z-Drive, a PCI-Express Solid State Drive that has been specifically designed to meet the performance requirements of today's enterprise computing clients. With the announcement, the San Jose, California-based company has introduced two new models, the Z-Drive p84 and the Z-Drive e84. The difference between the two is that the former is built with an NAND MLC-based solution, while the latter offers a performance boost with an SLC-based configuration.“Traditional enterprise storage technology typically requires overly complex infrastructure as well [as] costly maintenance, and is often unable to deliver the level of performance required by OEM applications,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. “The new OCZ Z-Drive is an all-in-one high performance plug-and-play bootable PCI-E solid state drive !
that addresses these challenges head on, and meets the demands of the complete range of enterprise storage and data access requirements. The Z-Drive is designed not only to be higher performing and more reliable than conventional solutions, but also to significantly reduce both the maintenance and overall TCO for our clients.”The Z-Dri...
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Pingie: HTTP:: p2pnet World Headlines Sept 16 2009

HTTP:: p2pnet World Headlines Sept 16 2009
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[Canadian government Perverts want to look at you & your kids private parts] CATSA orders invasive body scanners for Canadian airports PrivacyLawyernAccording to the Edmonton Sun, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority is ordering seven whole body scanners for use in airports. The scanners are controversial because they result in a “virtual strip search” so [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Wedding of the Year

HTTP:: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Wedding of the Year
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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, whose romance has, so far, somewhat mirrored the love story of their characters in “Twilight,” Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, are thinking of getting married and have already started hammering out the details. At least, that’s what the cover of the upcoming OK! Magazine issue seems to hint, deliberately not distinguishing between the actors and the characters. As Twilighters must already know, this is the third consecutive cover OK! dedicates to Robert and Kristen and, just like the other two, this one too also makes no difference between the real-life stars and the fictional characters. In other words, it is conceived in such a way as to lead fans to believe that they’re reading about the two stars when, in fact, they might be learning more details of the wedding in the story. “Twilight Wedding: OK! gives you the intricate details of the upcoming big-screen ceremony, based on imagery in Stephenie Meyer’s cult vampire ser!
ies. And just like in old Hollywood, a real-life wedding might not be far off â€" so far, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s relationship has mirrored Edward and Bella’s.” OK! says of the upcoming issue. However, while the text does shed some light on what the issue will includ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Olivia Wilde in GQ on Being the Hottest Woman Alive

HTTP:: Olivia Wilde in GQ on Being the Hottest Woman Alive
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Olivia Wilde is Thirteen on the critically acclaimed medical drama “House M.D.,” but, as her male fans must already know, she’s also Maxim’s hottest woman alive for this year. As it happens, this is an accolade that not only makes Wilde want to hide in the privacy of her own home for at least a couple of weeks, but also something she feels she does not deserve, as her interview with GQ Magazine clearly reveals. Featured in the mag in a stunning photoshoot where she mostly wears close to nothing and a winning smile, Olivia Wilde, the usually shy star, has also been gracious enough to sit down for an interview in which she talks about fame, life in the spotlight and married life. Fame, Wilde says, has come quite unexpectedly and has left her not knowing how to react, but that’s not to say she has reason to complain. After all, things could be worse: she could be like Robert Pattinson, whom she doesn’t envy in the least bit right now, the star points out. “Wi!
lde was ranked number one in Maxim’s Hot 100 list of the most beautiful women in the world, an honor that flattered but made her reach for the stemware. ‘The day they announced it, I hid in my bathtub with a big glass of wine,’ she says. ‘Anytime anyone describes you with a superl...
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Pingie: HTTP:: UK unions sign up with Hollywood Big Music

HTTP:: UK unions sign up with Hollywood Big Music
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Some British trades unions have joined entertainment cartel vested interests in a bid to force the UK government into taking on the role of a taxpayer funded corporate copyright enforcement agency.nYesterday French president Nicolas Sarkozy embarked on the latest of his many unsuccessful attempts to impose Hollywood- and [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download uTorrent 0 9 2 for Mac OS X

HTTP:: Download uTorrent 0 9 2 for Mac OS X
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µTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client now available for Mac OS X as well, has been updated to version 0.9.2 beta. The software follows the rules of a protocol such as HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). BitTorrent can be used to deliver any type of file. However, BitTorrent is purely a content-distribution method, and does not incorporate any technology to differentiate between content that is legitimately shared and content that is pirated â€" just like a web browser. µTorrent version 0.9.2 brings support for PPC, and UDP tracker support. uTP now supports window sizes smaller than the packet size. Other major changes include the addition of a upnp host cache to speed up the upnp nat resolution on certain routers and reduced uTP overhead slightly by ramping up packet sizes at lower rates. Over two dozen fixes have been incorporated in this release as well, including a race crash in low level network read and write; a 100% CPU usage bug; a UDP-tracker crash when dns resol!
ution would fail; a rare crash in low level network read and write â€" just to scratch the surface of the changelog. BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT') is a protocol (a set of rules and descriptions of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly, by permitting the download of the file and the upload...
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Pingie: HTTP:: 50 Cent Offers to Give Kanye West a Black Eye

HTTP:: 50 Cent Offers to Give Kanye West a Black Eye
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Singer Pink told Matt Lauer she would have punched Kanye West had she been on the stage at the VMAs in Taylor Swift’s stead when he interrupted her. If Pink doesn’t get him, chances are Kanye might still get a beating, as rapper 50 Cent told Much On Demand that he would gladly give him a black eye with one of the Moonmen he had at home. 50 Cent was on Much On Demand the other day and, since he’s no stranger to public outbursts at award shows, the question of how he felt about Kanye’s rant also came up. All jokes aside, Fiddy said Kanye was completely out of line with his outburst, especially since Taylor Swift was new in the game and she completely deserved her moment in the spotlight â€" which is also what everybody else has been saying ever since the incident took place on Sunday during the award ceremony. “Even an apology can’t replace what it feels like for the very first time receiving that award. In Taylor Swift’s head, ‘My first award was Kanye Wes!
t.’ It’s damaging.” 50 said on the show about Kanye’s behavior, right after mentioning that his Grammy interruption was different from what Kanye did, for the simple reason that Evanescence already had won other awards. “I wish he would come take one of my awards so I coul...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Apple Brainwasher Extraordinaire Video

HTTP:: Apple Brainwasher Extraordinaire Video
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Few have bothered to note that an Apple keynote is also a brainwasher filled with adjectives like great, awesome, incredible, and the list continues. In this YouTube video, the “Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple” is shown as someone who is not an Apple fan sees the company. Apple has outdone even itself at this year’s iPod event, from a semantic point of view. Dubbed “It’s Only Rock and Roll but We Love It,” this year’s music event saw the introduction of three new iPods â€" one that does video, one that comes in a rainbow of colors, and one that can go up to 64GB of memory â€", a certain iTunes 9, iPhone OS 3.1 and other stuff. But, whatever Apple announces, and whatever Apple exec is on stage doing the presentation, certain adjectives just don’t miss from the company’s repertoire. As many of you have probably noticed, Apple products are always the world’s most... something, but they are also great, awesome, incredible, unbelievably easy to use and, !
of course, very useful, mind blowing, stunning, and let’s not forget smart, which has eventually turned into genius. It is worth noting that suggestion plays a very important role in Apple’s keynote presentations, and, while the products are indeed great, Apple exaggerates...
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Pingie: HTTP:: WSJ puts a price on mobile news

HTTP:: WSJ puts a price on mobile news
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Grasping Australian gazillionaire Rupert Murdoch, figures news is a commodity.nAnd that means people have to pay.n“News Corp is set to start charging online customers for news content across all its websites,” said the BBC recently.n“The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution,” said Murdoch, [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Kate Gosselin to Get Her Own Talk Show

HTTP:: Kate Gosselin to Get Her Own Talk Show
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The future for “ Jon & Kate Plus 8” might look a bit uncertain on TV right now, but that’s not to say Kate Gosselin will give up the spotlight without a decent fight, especially since, as of late, her popularity has gone up. In fact, Mrs. Gosselin is said to have enjoyed her two-day co-host duty on The View that she’s busily working to secure her own talk show, as E! Online has learned. Inside sources tell E! that Kate is looking to do something different from The View, yet in the same vein, in the sense that it will also be a morning show. However, given that she already has made a name for herself as a mother of eight on TLC’s show “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” she’s looking to capitalize on it by doing a mom-centered show, where two or more hosts would address problems and discuss issues mothers are confronted with on a daily basis. “If you miss Kate Gosselin’s run on The View this week, not to worry. She’s apparently gunning for her own ladies-on!
ly chatfest. And I hear Gosselin may already be cooking something up with a well-seasoned television veteran. Sources tell me that Telepictures â€" the media heavyweight behind Ellen DeGeneres’ and Tyra Banks’ hit shows â€" is looking to develop a View-like morning show with Gosselin and t...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Sleep Tied Directly to Memory Formation

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An international team of researchers, composed of experts from the Rutgers University, in Newark, the US, and the College de France, in Paris, has determined for the first time the nature of the mechanisms that take place in the human brain during sleep, which cause learning and memory to form. The scientific proof comes after almost a century of studies, in which researchers have hypothesized that sleep plays an important role in memory and learning, but have never been able to prove this conclusively. The father of psychoanalysis himself, Sigmund Freud, believed that, whatever information and experiences the mind encountered during the day, the brain rehearsed during the night. In previous researches on the theme, it was proposed that a link had to exist between the brain region known as the hippocampus and the process of memory consolidation, but the exact mechanism through which this link became important was not understood. Experts from the team were finally able to de!
termine that in charge of converting short-term memories to long-term ones were transient brain events known as “sharp wave ripples.” These ripples essentially consolidate memory, and help transfer memory from the hippocampus, where it is temporarily stored, to a permanent location, inside the neocort...
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Pingie: HTTP:: SPB Brain Evolution Gets Updated to 2 0

HTTP:: SPB Brain Evolution Gets Updated to 2 0
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SPB Software, the worldwide leading mobile software developer, announced today that it had just released a new version of its SPB Brain Evolution game. According to the company, both the Windows Mobile Classic and Professional (touchscreen) versions of its title have reached version 2.0 and come with a series of new features to users. SPB Brain Evolution 2.0 includes twelve exercises now, which are meant to offer users the possibility to test their minds and to keep them in shape. The exercises are Sudoku, Numbers, Arithmetics, Quadronica, Guess Who, Memorica, Encyclopedia, Minesweeper, Matches, Balltracker, Geometry and Pairs. While the first ten exercises have been included in previous versions of the game, the last two are completely new, the company adds. The features list of SPB Brain Evolution 2.0 includes: - Two additional exercises mentioned above, Geometry and Pairs; - A new scoring and progress tracking system; - Sharing user's achievements online on SPB serv!
er; - Posting achievements to Twitter; - The new, finger-friendly interface that perfectly matches all the latest smartphones with bigger and more responsive touchscreens; - Native support for 800x480 and 400x240 screen resolutions. The SPB Brain Evolution game was launched on the market back in...
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Pingie: HTTP:: More Star Wars Games to Be Announced

HTTP:: More Star Wars Games to Be Announced
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LucasArts has been featured in the news quite a lot lately. The company first revealed the name and style of a new Xbox Live Arcade and PC puzzle platformer, called Lucidity, and now the president of the company seems to be revealing that his outfit is ready to announce some new Star Wars-themed videogames set to be developed by some of the big names that worked for the company in the past.Darrell Rodriguez, who is the president of LucasArts, has told GameTrailers TV that “a number” of new Star Wars videogames are being worked on. He then went on to mention the names of Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Ron Gilbert and Lawrence Holland, all well known game creators, before asking “Wouldn't it be great to work with them on some new things?”Recently, the publisher said, when announcing the re-release of the old TIE Fighter and X-Wing games, that announcements related to new titles in those series were not far away and the mention of Lawrence Holland probably ties in with th!
ose projects, as he worked on the initial releases.Other than that, it's not clear what LucasArts might be working on. At the moment, it is collaborating with BioWare on creating Star Wars: The Old Republic, a MMO set in the same time frame as Knights of the Old Republic, and also on a Republic Heroes title set...
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Pingie: TORRE: Pirated Teaching Materials Threaten Health of China s Youth

TORRE: Pirated Teaching Materials Threaten Health of China s Youth
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China's Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications Office has booked a huge victory by preventing the country's youth from accessing more than 4 million copies of pirated teaching materials. According to the vice director of the office, such materials "harm the healthy development of the country's youth."
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Pingie: HTTP:: Paragon Delivers Its Solutions through Samsung 039 s A Store

HTTP:: Paragon Delivers Its Solutions through Samsung 039 s A Store
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Paragon Software Group, the worldwide leading developer of software solutions for mobile phones and PCs, and South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced today a partnership aimed at delivering Paragon’s mobile applications via the newly launched Samsung Application Store. The software portal delivers access to a variety of applications developed specifically for their devices, which will also include Paragon's solutions, the two companies unveiled. “Paragon’s more than 120 products, especially the bestselling multilingual handwriting recognition software and multilingual ‘talking’ dictionaries, are already well known to Samsung mobile users. Making the best products now available at the Application Store will be an additional advantage to the user since a convenient shortcut to direct download is available right on the mobile device, allowing users to discover new offerings without any intermediate step,” said Kanghyun Kwon, Vice President of Samsung’s M!
edia Solution Center. For the beginning, Paragon Software Group will deliver through the Samsung Application Store the popular multilingual ‘talking’ dictionaries coming from top publishers around the world, including the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, and bilingual SlovoEd Engli...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Key Tenet of the Theory of Evolution Proved by Molecular Evidence

HTTP:: Key Tenet of the Theory of Evolution Proved by Molecular Evidence
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Intelligent Design proponents will need a lot of tinkering with logic and reason to get past the new finds made by an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Monash University. The new paper makes a hole right in the middle of ID arguments, which hold that molecular machines inside living cells are “irreducibly complex,” and therefore highly unlikely to have appeared naturally. The new investigations, published in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), prove that evolution is, indeed, the path through which these components appeared. “Our cells, and the cells of all organisms, are composed of molecular machines. These machines are built of component parts, each of which contributes a partial function or structural element to the machine. How such sophisticated, multi-component machines could evolve has been somewhat mysterious, and highly controversial,” Monash University Professor Trevor Lit!
hgow says. He adds that the PNAS paper provides a “blueprint” for a general understanding of how these complex components appeared inside living cells. “Our research shows that these machines, although complete and complex, were a result of evolution. Simple 'core' machines were est...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Nintendo Wii Price Cut Pretty Much a Sure Thing

HTTP:: Nintendo Wii Price Cut Pretty Much a Sure Thing
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Yesterday, we talked about how Wal Mart, one of the biggest retailers of gaming consoles around, had already prepared an advertising flier about a price “rollback” for the Nintendo Wii.We chalked that up as being just a rumor but now the evidence is mounting and the possibility of the Nintendo home console getting a price cut becomes much more of a sure thing.A new ad, this time coming from Toys R US, is also claiming that a reduction in the sales price is in the works and even spells the new tag as being 199 dollars, which is pretty much what analysts and gamers have been expecting. The ad seems set to run at the end of September so gamers might be able to get their hands on the cheaper console at the beginning of October.When Nintendo was contacted with the news of this price cut evidence, its only statements was the now classic “Nintendo does not comment on rumors and speculation,” a tune that the company should really change given the mounting evidence.A price p!
oint of 199 dollars would mean that the Nintendo Wii again becomes 100 dollars cheaper than the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 that Microsoft and Sony would like gamers to pick up. The Arcade version of Microsoft's console remains equal in price but it is relatively under specced for the needs of a g...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Jennifer Garner and Valslide the Hottest Celeb Approved Fitness Tool

HTTP:: Jennifer Garner and Valslide the Hottest Celeb Approved Fitness Tool
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“Alias” star Jennifer Garner has always been in top shape, especially while shooting for the spy-themed television series. Even after giving birth, she still looked amazing, managing to drop the baby weight in almost no time. She had a very strong ally, though, a little thing called Valslide, the latest and hottest, celebrity-approved fitness tool. Developed by celebrity trainer Valerie Waters, the Valslide actually consists of two foam-covered pads that make exercising harder, in a manner similar to vibrating boards, except that they are cheaper and portable. Because working out becomes more difficult, the workout time also shortens, while the results become visible in less time than if one were to hit the gym without them, it is being said on the official webpage of the product. “You immediately feel the results after using it the first time. It’s deceptively simple and incredibly effective.” Jennifer Garner is quoted as saying on the product. Other stars wh!
o have used Valslide and would vouch for its efficiency are Kim Raver and Poppy Montgomery. The product targets glutes, hips and thighs, but can also be used to work the muscles in the abdomen and while performing lunges, Valerie Waters says about it. Valslide also improves core st...
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Pingie: HTTP:: INQ Mini 3G to Come to 3 UK

HTTP:: INQ Mini 3G to Come to 3 UK
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Mobile phone users in the UK should soon be able to choose yet another attractive handset that is expected to become available in the country in early October on 3 UK's airwaves, the INQ Mini 3G. One of the most attractive features is the fact that it includes a native Twitter client, yet connectivity to other social networking sites is also available, including Facebook.In addition, the INQ Mini 3G provides users with access to Skype, instant messaging or ‘IMAP’ email services such as Hotmail, not to mention that all the social networking features packed inside this device come at a price much lower than that sported by other similar handsets. To be more precise, Omio notes that the phone will come to 3 UK customers for free on contract with a £15 per month Internet Texter plan, while being priced at £59.99 for prepaid users. The specifications list of the handset shows a 2.2-inch QVGA TFT landscape display, as well as a 2-megapixel photo snapper, 100MB of internal m!
emory coupled with a micoSD memory card slot that supports up to 8GB of additional storage space, a built-in HSDPA modem (to deliver high-speed wireless broadband both on PCs and Macs), Brew 4.0 and Java MIDP 2.0, as well as an active address book that sports integration with Twitter. The features of the INQ Mini 3G reportedl...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Designer Victoria Beckham Praised for Spring 2010 Dress Collection

HTTP:: Designer Victoria Beckham Praised for Spring 2010 Dress Collection
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Victoria Beckham has long crossed over from the music world to fashion, but it’s just now, with her third frock collection being presented at the New York Fashion Week, that she can truly be considered a bona fide designer. With it, the star has managed both to keep the personal note of the line and to integrate it in the trends, a thing that was too little obvious in the previous two collections, fashion critics say. Posh presented her third collection in New York and has been reaping praises for it ever since. The line is bold and, at the same time, true to her personality as a designer, comprising items that rely heavily on severe cuts and tailoring, as well as unforgiving designs. However, Victoria has also managed to make her creations more accessible by injecting in them more color and, with some of them, cuts that are outside her comfort zone, yet that still look impressive, critics say. Mrs. Beckham herself admits that her target customers are women just like !
her. For one, the designs continue to be just as unforgiving as those in the previous two collections, with cuts that only look good on women just like her â€" meaning, weighing about 47 kg and relatively tall. Then, there’s the price of each item, with some of them even going as high up as £3,900...
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Pingie: HTTP:: New Device Identifies Autism Very Early

HTTP:: New Device Identifies Autism Very Early
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Experts at the LENA Foundation have recently announced the development of a new device that can spot autism at a very early age. According to their press release, the machine is able to detect the disease in children as small as two years old, which is a progress from the 5.7 years usual methods take. It relies on identifying specific patterns in the vocalizations the small ones make at home, and does not require medical attention per se. The results will be available within a few weeks, as soon as sufficient data is collected, Technology Review informs. University of Washington in St. Louis experts have determined that the 5.7 years it takes on average for one to spot autism is a time frame several years longer than the time when such a diagnostic can first be made. “Intervention is most effective when the child is two to four years old,” the LENA Foundation child language research director, Jill Gilkerson, explains the advantages of the new device. She reveals that !
the apparatus is able to discern between infants growing up with autism, healthy children, and those with unassociated language delays with a 91-percent accuracy. The take-home kit consists of a questionnaire on the child's development, which the parents have to fill out, an audio recording, as well as an outfit for the child to wear...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Shell halts mining as activists protest oil sands

HTTP:: Shell halts mining as activists protest oil sands
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc has suspended production at its Canadian oil sands mine after environmental activists blockaded a massive dump truck and mining shovel to protest the impact of oil sands development, the company said on Tuesday.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: Nokia XpressMusic 5130 on T Mobile Starting with Tomorrow

HTTP:: Nokia XpressMusic 5130 on T Mobile Starting with Tomorrow
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile is reportedly getting ready to launch a new Nokia handset on its airwaves, namely the Nokia XpressMusic 5130. The mobile phone seems set to replace the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic on the operator's offering, and is expected to become available for purchase in two color versions, black / red and pearl white / aqua. The handset has been spotted into the wild before, yet now cellphonesignal has just brought it back into the spotlight, while also unveiling detailed specifications. For starters, we should mention that the Nokia XpressMusic 5130 comes with no 3G connectivity on board, which might not sound too good for some users out there.On the other hand, there are still a lot of features that the device is set to deliver and which can enhance the user experience, including the 2.0-inch display that boasts a 320 x 240 pixel (QVGA) resolution and support for 262k colors, the 2-megapixel photo snapper with 4x digital zoom, video recording capabilities, or th!
e multimedia player it has been packed with.The specifications list of the new phone shows Quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900, EDGE, GPRS connectivity, Micro-USB connector, 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector, Bluetooth 2.0, hands-free speakerphone, MP3 Music Player with support for .mp3 AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, MP3, Midi, WMA, WAMR,...
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