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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:29PM from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Wii System Menu 4.0 Released 94

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 27, 2009 @11:05PM from the storage-is-good dept.

dougisfunny writes "The Wii System Menu 4.0 has been released. It adds a number of features that people have been waiting for, including the ability to use SDHC cards, as well as the ability to download and play things directly off of the SD/SDHC card rather than the internal memory. This was announced at GDC09 by Nintendo's President Saturo Iwata in his keynote address. More information can be found at Nintendo's website."

Comment Student cluster in a similar situation (Score 2, Interesting) 185

by lizthegrey on Sunday September 21, 2008 @01:18PM (#25094235) Attached to: Re-purposing a Student Tech Service Group?

UGCS (http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu) has the same problem. The main draw of UGCS is the fact that accounts are permanent instead of only lasting until graduation, and that it permits many things that the campus IT department doesn't allow (e.g. CGI, colocation, substantially larger quotas, etc.) You might want to ask the other student clusters listed at http://www.student-computing.org/

Feed MP3 Patents In Upheaval After Verdict (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Friday February 23, 2007 @01:12AM

Microsoft was ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 format.

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