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Comment Interesting article on Salon.com about Provigil (Score 1) 772

by RevPsycho on Wednesday November 22, 2006 @03:43PM (#16955794) Attached to: Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep

A Salon.com writer decided to try Provigil for five days to see how it affected him. It's hardly scientific, but it makes for an interesting read nonetheless.

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Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations 449

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 14, 2006 @08:47AM from the you-wouldn't-like-google-when-it's-angry dept.

rm69990 writes "Google, becoming more and more concerned about the growing use of the word google as a verb, has fired off warning letters to numerous media organizations warning them against using its name as a verb. This follows google (with a lowercase g) being added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in June. According to a Google spokesperson: "We think it's important to make the distinction between using the word Google to describe using Google to search the internet, and using the word Google to describe searching the internet. It has some serious trademark issues.""

Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video 286

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @03:47PM from the save-us-turboman dept.

Leonel writes "Borland Software's Developer Tools Group just announced the return of the Turbo line of products. With free and cheap versions, it's aimed at students, hobbyist developers, occupational developers and individual programming professionals. More information is available at the the Turbo Explorer website, including a video of the Adventures of TurboMan."

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