Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
December 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post:
All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the [...]
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Tags: Censorship · Global Warming · Internet · Media · Technology · The Left · World
June 12th, 2009 · Comments Off
From Bloomberg:
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits.
“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them [...]
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Tags: Government · Money · Taxes · Technology · The US
September 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments
From FOX News:
The clock is ticking.
At 12:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, scientists on the Franco-Swiss border will flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile underground ring where subatomic particles will be accelerated to astonishing speeds and then smashed into each other.
It’ll be months before any usable data comes out from the experiments, but [...]
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Tags: Science · Technology
June 18th, 2008 · Comments Off
From Mozilla:
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 17, 2008 – Mozilla today released Firefox® 3, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox 3 is the culmination of three years of efforts from thousands of developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe.
Available today in [...]
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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology
June 16th, 2008 · Comments Off
From Power Line via The Rottweiler:
For several decades, the Democratic Party has pursued policies designed to drive up the cost of petroleum, and therefore gas at the pump. Remarkably, the Democrats don’t seem to have taken much of a political hit from the current spike in gas prices. Probably that’s because most people don’t realize [...]
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Tags: Energy · Government · Technology · The Left · The Right · The US
March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off
From The Advocate:
To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are — a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing [...]
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Tags: Health · Science · Technology · The US
April 24th, 2007 · Comments Off
At what point do Palestinian terror and missile attacks constitute a breach of a “ceasefire”?
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Tags: Hamas · Islamofascism · Israel · Media · Muslim/Islam · Palestine · Technology
July 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
A Hezbollah missile, manufactured by Iran, is fired into Israel every 11 minutes.
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Tags: Iran · Islamofascism · Israel · Lebanon · Muslim/Islam · Technology
March 13th, 2006 · Comments Off
SiteAdvisor has pioneered a new approach to Web safety by alerting you of spyware infections, identity theft scams, and sites which send excessive e-mail.
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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology
March 12th, 2006 · Comments Off
Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh, India. After a brief two year stint at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he transferred to the California Institute of Technology where he received his Bachelor’s degree, and then went on to receive his Master’s degree from Stanford University.
He launched the web-based email service Hotmail [...]
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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology
March 6th, 2006 · Comments Off
For decades, the nation had a heavily regulated, highly profitable national phone company run by AT&T and known as Ma Bell. The market is now knitting the pieces back together – for better or worse.
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Tags: Money · Technology
February 8th, 2006 · Comments Off
Several vulnerabilities have been reported in the Mozilla web browser.
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Tags: Technology
February 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off
Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to send queries as text messages over your mobile phone.
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Tags: Technology