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Dekortage writes
"The New York Times has a report on probiotic food: food that has live bacteria in it. From the article: "[for Dannon's] Activia, a line of yogurt with special live bacteria that are marketed as aiding regularity, sales in United States stores have soared well past the $100 million mark.... Probiotics in food are part of a larger trend toward 'functional foods,' which stress their ability to deliver benefits that have traditionally been the realm of medicine or dietary supplements.""
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bharatm writes
"In a pathbreaking event heralding its arrival as a space power with capability to recover an orbiting satellite, India today successfully brought back a spacecraft to earth, giving a new impetus to the proposed manned mission to space in the next decade."
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bmcage writes:
Microsoft apparently hit the jackpot with their xbox 360 movie download. HD content a few clicks away. They are estimated to pocket $726 million by 2011.
The deals are flowing in, with now also contracts signed with AT&T, British Telecom, Deutsch Telecom and Swiss Telecom.
Will all competetion be too late to market?
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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....
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xtaski writes
"Dana Blankenhorn bluntly states a reality that many have known: 'The war is over and Linux won'. With Oracle and Microsoft putting Linux in the spotlight and positioning themselves to grow with Linux. 'A new report shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux against 23% for Windows. ... Over two-thirds of the respondents said they will increase their use of Linux in the next year, and almost no one said the opposite.'"
