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Comment It is all about advertising (Score 1) 184

What this guy really means as that advertising is changing. Searching is fine. Google quickly had to find a way to monetize search results and they grew into a advertising firm or sorts.
So yes from google's perspective as an advertiser it must be troubling to not have such a firm hold in the "social media" space.

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Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas 57

At the "Cosmology At the Beach" conference earlier this month, Grammy-award winning percussionist Mickey Hart performed a composition inspired by the eruptions of supernovae. "Keith Jackson, a Berkeley Lab computer scientist who is also a musician, lent his talents to the project, starting with gathering data from astrophysicists like those at the Berkeley Lab’s Nearby Supernova Factory, which collects data from telescopes in space and on earth to quickly detect and analyze short-lived supernovas. 'If you think about it, it's all electromagnetic data — but with a very high frequency,' Jackson said of the raw data. "What we did is turn it into sound by slowing down the frequency and "stretching" it into an audio form. Both light and sound are all wave forms — just at different frequencies. Our goal was to turn the electromagnetic data into audio data while still preserving the science.'"
Communications

Submission + - Samsung's UpStage looks to trump iPhone

bj writes: "PCWorld is running a story about Samsung's recently unveiled Upstage cell phone. Could it threaten the iPhone?

"Tired of waiting for Apple's iPhone? You might want to check out a potential rival that you can buy sooner: Samsung's innovative, super-slim, two-faced UpStage (M620), sold by Sprint Nextel. On the eve of the giant CTIA Wireless trade show here in Orlando, Florida, Sprint announced that it will begin selling the UpStage on April 1. Its price will be $300 — or $150 with a two-year contract, Sprint representatives say."
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Linux Business

Submission + - HP Sees Huge Linux Desktop Deals

Anonymous writes: With all the talk about Dell and desktop Linux, HP has quietly been cutting some deals to provide "multi-thousands" of Linux-installed desktops, and, according to CRN, is suggesting factory-loaded Linux PCs are getting closer by the day.

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