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For Cyberchondriacs, the Internet Is the Enemy
Cyberchondriacs Can Spend Hours on the Internet Looking Up Diseases[see more details in abcnews]
Singer Amy Winehouse Weds in Miami Beach
Singer Amy Winehouse Marries in Miami Beach[see more details in abcnews]
Wayward Whales to Be Left Alone for the Weekend
Next Week, Maybe, Plan B: Banging Steel Pipes Under Water[see more details in abcnews]
BBC
Madeleine film aired at Cup final
A film asking for help in the search for missing girl Madeleine McCann is shown before the FA Cup final.[see more details in BBC]
news.com
No more rumors: Blizzard announces Starcraft 2
Blog: Blizzard has announced Starcraft 2 in the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, Korea.[see more details in news.com]
The Pirate Bay sees buried treasure in streaming video
Blog: Caution! This blog post is corny! Very corny![see more details in news.com]
New York Times
A Fire-Breathing Laptop Powered Up for Entertainment
The Hewlett-Packard Pavilion HDX has a 20-inch screen and can handle HD DVD discs and HDMI video.[see more details in New York Times]
A Point-and-Shoot Camera That?s Quicker on the Shutter
Canon?s new PowerShot SD850 IS Digital Elph includes optical image stabilization to help smooth out shaky situations.[see more details in New York Times]
Estonia Computers Blitzed, Possibly by the Russians
Estonian officials declared that their country is the first to fall victim to cyberwarfare.[see more details in New York Times]
Internet Giants Vie to Snap Up Web Ad Firms
Microsoft?s $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive signaled its struggle to build an Internet ad business on its own.[see more details in New York Times]
In Time for Summer Parties, an Amplifier Geared for MP3
Ion Audio?s latest retro-forward device weighs 25 pounds and is housed in an aluminum case with wheels and a collapsible handle.[see more details in New York Times]
Share Your World With the World by Pressing a Button
Pure Digital Technologies has modified its low-cost Flip Video camcorder by adding one-button instant uploading to video-sharing Web sites.[see more details in New York Times]
technologynewsdaily
Biofuel From Trees Developed at UGA
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�The exciting thing about our method is that it is very easy to do,� said Tom Adams, director of the UGA Faculty of Engineering outreach service. �We expect to reduce the price of producing fuels from biomass dramatically with this technique.�
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Nanotechnology Supercomputing Center
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The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), the result of a $100 million partnership involving Rensselaer, IBM, and New York state, is designed to continue advancing semiconductor technology to the nanoscale, while also enabling key nanotechnology innovations in the fields of energy, biotechnology, arts, and medicine.
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Ads-to-cell phone screens set for rapid growth (Reuters)
Reuters - The more than $500 million mobile advertising market looks set to multiply in just a few years, helped by new technologies and the spread of more advanced phones.[see more details in yahoo]
Branson criticises changes in French mobile phone system (AFP)
AFP - Richard Branson, head of phone company Virgin Mobile, was quoted Saturday as saying a new French system allowing subscribers to change mobile operators in 10 days was still too lengthy a process.
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Catholics say blog spreads BBC "slander" to Italy (Reuters)
Reuters - Italy's leading Roman Catholic newspaper lashed out at bloggers on Saturday for spreading "slander" by posting a BBC documentary that alleged a Church cover-up of child sexual abuse.[see more details in yahoo]
Google to Enhance Search Appliance (PC World)
PC World - Google Inc. is developing an open source architecture to improve its Search Appliance's ability to index data in content and document management systems and collaboration platforms.[see more details in yahoo]
Kimono retailers go digital (Reuters)
Reuters - Japanese are getting reacquainted with the kimono, helped by a host of Web sites that are succeeding where pushy sales people and kimono schools have failed.
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Microsoft pays $6B for online ad company (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp., not wanting to get left behind rivals in an online advertising boom, agreed to pay $6 billion in cash to acquire aQuantive Inc. on Friday, a leading agency for Internet ads which also has powerful technology that serves display and banner ads to other Web sites.
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