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It may be the funniest thing Microsoft has done since Windows Vista....but this time they want people to laugh. The company is going the spoof route in its first batch of ads for the new Windows 7 phone software. The commercials poke fun at smart phone addiction....showing people wandering in a daze, eyes glued to their smart phone screens. The solution to their problem....you guessed it, another smart phone.
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One little Tweet could cost Terrell Owens some big bucks. There was a post on his Twitter account an hour before yesterday's game between Owens' Bengals and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers....and even if TO didn't post it himself, it still violates the NFL policy against players using social media, beginning 90 minutes before a game. His teammate, Chad Ochocinco, was fined $25,000 for Twitter violations before and during a preseason game in August.
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It's a brother act that's really out of this world. If all goes according to plan, the only space sibling team will be hooking up in orbit. And not only are Scott and Mark Kelly brothers, they're identical twins. Scott took off Friday on a Russian Soyuz rocket to begin a five and a half month mission as the next commander of the International Space Station. Mark is the next commander of the space shuttle Endeavour, scheduled to lift off in February and hook up with the space station March 1st.
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The scariest thing about your iPhone is no longer the bill. The creative forces behind a horror movie called "Mental Scars" have created the first horror magazine app for the iPhone. Geeks + gore = "Deadzone".
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The federal government wants to say "plug 'er in" instead of "fill 'er up". The General Services Administration is asking auto companies to bid on supplying 100 electric cars. It's a symbolic (and small) step....but the government says it would help them determine how federal agencies could best use electric vehicles. The request is part of an administration plan to increase the number of green vehicles used in federal jobs.
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Call it a status upgrade for the effort to legalize marijuana in California. Facebook co-founder Sean Parker has made a $100,000 donation to back California's Proposition 19. And co-founder Dustin Moskovitz made a $20,000 donation....on top of $50,000 he previously contributed. A spokesman for the Drug Policy Alliance says "What's interesting here is that (Parker) is a member of the generation that really gets it. We think he's pivotal to the future of drug policy reform in the country".
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The nation that started the "let's ban the Blackberry" trend has now decided it won't ban the Blackberry. The United Arab Emirates has reached a deal with Reseach in Motion, just days before it was about to begin blocking messaging, email, and Web services on the smart phone over security concerns. So far there's no indication what concessions RIM made...but in its statement, the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority acknowledged "the positive engagement and collaboration of Research In Motion (RIM) in reaching this regulatory compliant outcome". The ban would have affected a half-million UAE users and foreign travelers passing through the busy Dubai airport.
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Imagine a college student without a cellphone or a laptop....no email, no social networking. A significant number of students say that wouldn't be so bad. While a new poll found that 57 percent of students say being without that constant connection would make them more stressed, 25 percent said it would actually be a relief. They feel pressure to instantly answer emails and texts, and they get nervous when their own messages don't get an immediate reply.
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Smart cars. Smart phones. Smart cities? That's the star of the show this week at Caetec, Japan's premier electronics show...and it takes "going green" to a whole new level. Using no fossil fuel. Solar, wind, and nuclear power are distributed to buildings, homes, and electric cars through "smart grids".....drastically reducing or even eliminating carbon emissions, and as a result fighting global warming. And possibly becoming Japan's next big export.
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What's advertised as "eco-friendly" isn't always consumer friendly, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC today released new guidelines for making claims about environmentally-friendly products.....and says if companies want to claim they're being green, it can't just be in an attempt to make more green. The new Green Guides...which have been updated for the first time since 1998...contain specific recommendations on when to use words like "degradable" and warnings about misleading messages through the use of seals of approval.
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How many times have we heard about someone being robbed when answering an ad on Craigslist? But every once in a while, instead of "buyer beware" the story ends with "buyer battles back". Case in point....a would-be robber in Western New York will now have plenty of time in prison to think about how a feisty victim and a pair of good Samaritans foiled his plan.
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The big story for USA Today is what's happening at USA Today. Job cuts. Big changes as the nation's second-largest newspaper puts less emphasis on its print edition and more on sending content to mobile devices. 35 newsroom positions are being eliminated now, and about 100 more are expected to go by the time the cutting is done. USA Today's print edition is selling fewer copies with less advertising. As the paper cuts positions it's also shuffling them to provide more content to more people who get their news through mobile phones and computer tablets like the iPad.
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The White House is going greener. Solar panels will be installed by next spring, and will heat water for the first family and provide some electricity. President Obama, who has been a big supporter of renewable energy, has been under pressure to lead by example. It's still unclear how much the project will cost and how much fossil fuel-based electricity it will replace.
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You know how nice and warm your legs get when you have your laptop computer sitting on your lap for an extended period of time? That warm glow could actually be a skin condition. Medical reports say long-term laptop use can lead to "toasted skin syndrome", a mottled-skin condition also caused by overuse of heating pads and other heat sources that aren't hot enough to cause burns. It can cause permanent skin darkening, and in rare cases can cause damage leading to skin cancers.
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Move over Silicon Valley, here comes.....Buffalo? Where the weather might actually be a big advantage. The recent opening of Yahoo's state of the art data center, which uses the region's cooler climate and a high-tech "chicken coop" design to dramatically lower energy costs....is getting a lot of attention in the industry.
