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Submission + - Apple iPhone

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An anonymous reader writes: The scoop is on Macrumors.com front page.....apparently iPhone info was leaked. We shall see.

- Going to be coming out in January
- All phone providers
- "It's small as sh*t"
- Don't know anything about the Operating System
- The OS is supposed to be "cool"
- Doing some unique things
- Two batteries, one charger. One for MP3 portion and one for Phone.
- 4GB ($249) and 8GB ($449)
- Flash memory, Slide out keyboard
- Maybe touch screen?
Media

Submission + - BenQ marketing exploits 9/11

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, BenQ has an utterly despicable new advertising campaign which features a young man standing in what appears to be the rubble of the World Trade Center. The caption reads (in Chinese) "Though the world be destroyed, I will still believe in music." If you want to let BenQ know what you think about their marketing, there is a comprehensive list of BenQ's contact information here."
The Internet

Submission + - Geovirtual reality for sharing information

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Engineers and computer scientists at West Virginia University's GeoVirtual Laboratory (GVL) have developed what they called the VRGIS solution — short for 'virtual reality geographic information systems.' The VRGIS project combines several technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), location based services (LBS), and geographic information systems (GIS) with 'the power of the Internet to provide people with a portal to dynamically share information in a revolutionary new way.' For example, they've developed the augmented reality (AR) headset, a set of goggles which could be used by police officers to 'verify license information and do background checks against a variety of databases.' But don't worry, the GVL team also wants to offer these technologies to people like you and me. Here is a link to additional details and pictures about the VRGIS project."
Software

Submission + - Should Wikis really use a non-standard syntax?

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Django Dude
Django Dude writes: "Back in the 90s when the concept of Wikis was being developed, perhaps it made sense to use a different syntax than HTML. But now that the web has been around for awhile, does it make sense for Wikis to use another format? With BBCode for forums, Texturize for blogs, and Wikipedia's popularity making their syntax a "standard", the question is do we need another syntax? Can't we assume that HTML is almost like knowing your ABC's by now?"
Space

Organic Matter Found In Canadian Meteorite 226

Posted by kdawson from the seeding-gaia dept.
eldavojohn writes "From what sounds like the opening of an X-Files episode, Canadian scientists have reportedly found in a meteorite organic matter older than the sun at Tagish Lake in Canada. From the article: '"We mean that the material in the meteorite has been processed the least since it was formed. The material we see today is arguably the most representative of the material that first went into making up the solar system." The meteorite likely formed in the outer reaches of the asteroid belt, but the organic material it contains probably had a far more distant origin. The globules could have originated in the Kuiper Belt group of icy planetary remnants orbiting beyond Neptune. Or they could have been created even farther afield. The globules appear to be similar to the kinds of icy grains found in molecular clouds — the vast, low-density regions where stars collapse and form and new solar systems are born.' The article implies that life could potentially survive in these meteorites and maybe even travel through space — supporting the theory that life may have arrived on earth and evolved from that point on."
The Internet

Submission + - Yahoo Pushing IE 7 on FireFox Users

Submitted by El Lobo
El Lobo writes: Looks like things are heating up again in the browser wars.

Google has been openly supporting Firefox, so now Yahoo is displaying a new feature at the bottom of search results pages for FireFox users. Checkout the screenshot on:

http://searchviews.com/archives/2006/12/yahoo_push ing_i.php

It appears that Yahoo is pushing downloads of the new IE 7 from Microsoft and including itself as the default search engine installed in the file menu area.

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