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Technician writes:
I have been following the fall of SCO stock. When I checked their stock tonight I found the anouncement of the delisting instead of a chart.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX
"SCOX has failed to meet NASDAQ Capital Market continued listing requirement(s)."
171237
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Mighty Pete writes:
You got to see this. http://tinyurl.com/33azpy How about burning salt water to create energy ? Hopefully someone will mirror this story on Coral before it gets slashdotted. There is actually a video of it here http://tinyurl.com/32q2de on WSEE.TV news. If it works it could be the cure for a lot of energy grief.
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ghoul writes:
According to this article Indian Railways has started the process of equipping railway stations with Wi-Max facilities. These will provide wireless access to within 5-6 km radius of railway stations as compared to the current 100-200 m radius of Wifi. I wonder why Google is using Wifi for San Francisco when WiMax is now available. This is another example of leapfrogging of technology. India never managed to roll out a complete copper landline system but ramped up mobile access so fast that there are now more mobiles than landline. Hence now there is phone connectivity and they have saved the cost of all that copper and fiber. Similarly they will save money on not having rolled out Wifi and going to WiMax directly. Also given that India has the largest network of railway stations in the world most villages do fall 5-6 km within the radius of a railway station so when this rollout is completed the entire country should have wireless access. Drawbacks — its not free and it wont work on moving trains
133865
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rat_axe writes:
Veteran actor Roscoe Lee Browne died last Wednesday April 11 of cancer. Movie geeks will remember him as the voice of Box the robot in Logan's Run (1976) with the memorable line "Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea." He also voiced Mr. Arrow in the animated Treasure Planet (2002).
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shadrach_au writes:
The Australian music industry has approached Internet service providers (ISP) to penalize people who illegally download music.
Under the plan, record labels would identify Internet customers who are illegally downloading and service providers would give them three warnings before cutting off their phone and Internet connections.
Recent research shows that 18 per cent of Australians regularly use filesharing programs like Limewire to illegally download songs from the Internet.
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cb_is_cool writes:
We've all heard the old cliche about having a "beer belly". Find out some of the facts regarding beer and related alcoholic beverages:
From the Article: An online expert for "The South Beach Diet" recently wrote: "This diet is constantly changing based on new research so some of the info in the book is out of date. One of those items, you will be happy to know, is the ban on beer ... One or two drinks [of beer] is unlikely to cause weight gain since it takes an extra 3500 calories over what the body needs to gain a pound of fat."
This sounds like something we can all drink to... :)
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Melkman writes:
Today the french TGV train set an new speed record. With 574km/h (357mph) it is the fastest train on wheels. Only the Japanese Maglev has set a higher speed record for trains with 581 km/h. Too bad they didn't push just a little harder. You can see a movie of the record here. Akamai should be able to withstand a slashdotting :-).
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pieggi writes:
I report you an article seen on 21talks.net (http://21talks.net/voip/3-roaming-fees) via voipblog.it:
"British mobile provider 3 has made an impressive step into the deregulation of the telecoms market. It abolished roaming charges for its UK customers in seven nations, meaning its UK users won't be charged for calling or receiving calls or text message on their regular cellphone when on trip."
The seven countries are Italy, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark.
The article links also a BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6263699.stm
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blogdig writes:
http://www.thebizofcoding.com/2007/01/why_yahoo_an swers_is_flourishi.html
The simplicity of Yahoo! Answers is at the source of its surging popularity. Anyone can ask questions or provide answers. Yahoo's Rating and Reviews platform gives Reputation points to participants. Highly rated answers build a participants Reputation incentivising good participation.
Google Answers on the other hand has been retired. It is no longer accepting new questions. When Google tried to build an online paid "Answers" product it made two mistakes:
1) Google blocked the Mass Participation that is typically required to build vibrant online communities....
