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Associated Press
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Apr 16, 08 11:40 AM CDT
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Divorce has a new weapon: YouTube. The former-actress wife of a millionaire theater impresario took to the Internet last week in a teary six-minute video in which she claims her older hubby is evicting her from their Park Avenue pad after years of refusing her sex despite owning porn, condoms, and Viagra, the AP reports. May not play in divorce court, but it's scored 287,776 hits.
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Newsweek
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Apr 16, 08 3:10 AM CDT
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He drinks milk out of his hollow, transparent guitar and hits power chords while singing the virtues of the white stuff. The frontman for "White Gold" doesn’t have a milk mustache, but the dairy industry hopes the ad campaign centered around the fake rock god will boost declining milk sales, Newsweek reports. Between 1981 and 2006, US consumption of milk dipped 14%.
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GMA News (Philippines)
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Apr 16, 08
he Department of Health (DOH) will investigate the complaint of a patient in Cebu whose delicate operation was filmed and posted by the hospital’s medical staff in the video-sharing site YouTube.The patient, a 39-year-old male, was admitted on January 3 at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, where he had to go an operation to remove perfume canister that got stuck to his anus during a sexual act.The video showed some hospital staff laughing while taking shots with their cell phones of the patient as he underwent the operation.As the doctor raised his hand holding the object, the other members...
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Wall Street Journal
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Apr 16, 08
In a bet on the future of professionally produced online video content, technology start-up PluggedIn Media Inc. is set Wednesday to begin letting users view for free near-DVD-quality music videos licensed from three of the four biggest music companies, along with information about artists and links to buy merchandise and concert tickets.The strategy represents a challenge to the notion that user-generated content -- the homemade clips that populate YouTube, MySpace and other popular Web sites -- is more lucrative or desirable than is high-quality content created by professionals.Additionally...
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Apple Insider
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Apr 15, 08 9:54 PM CDT
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Amazon.com’s digital music download store isn’t stealing iTunes customers—the six-month-old service is attracting a new consumer demographic, analysts say. A market research firm found that only 10 percent of Amazon MP3 customers surveyed in February previously bought iTunes music, AppleInsider reports. That’s a “healthy indication that the digital music customer pool can expand into new consumer groups,” an analyst says.
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MIT Technology Review
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Apr 15, 08 12:40 PM CDT
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A recent quantum computing breakthrough is a step towards creating a quantum Internet—which would be "automatically secure," a researcher told Technology Review . A Northwestern University professor has created a fundamental element of a quantum computer, a quantum logic gate, within an optical fiber, where previous gates used laser passing through air. This “could lead to distributed networks,” said one expert.
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Radar
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Apr 15, 08 7:43 AM CDT
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Critics in cyberspace can stay incognito, which makes them especially nasty. Radar lists the 10 most-scorned players on the web: Lori Drew: Her comments on a MySpace account drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide. John Fitzgerald Page: An online dater whose cruel remarks got world-wide coverage. Julia Allison: A sassy sex columnist who worked the web for a 6-figure gig.
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North by Northwestern
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Apr 15, 08
“Cookin’ with Coolio,” featured exclusively on YouTube, finds the rapper in the kitchen cooking up turkey and something with avocados. His kitchen fare may have some wacky names (see episode six, entitled “Tricked Out Westside Tilapia”), but the dishes never require Top Chef-level skill. But Coolio isn’t all rigid discipline! He brings that beloved brand of humor we didn’t know existed when he complained about “Amish Paradise” with him to the tiny, tiny screen. Joining Coolio is an annoying sidekick who repeats everything Coolio says (comedic gold!), and occasionally the cast gets really wacky...
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PC World
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Apr 14, 08 6:17 PM CDT
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Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft are in the final stages of developing new versions of their Web browsers, and Firefox 3 is the winner over spyware-susceptible Safari 3.1 and work-in-progress IE 8. The new Mozilla product has outstanding memory management and speed, boasts great groundbreaking bookmark features, and is impressively secure, Erik Larkin writes in PC World .
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New York Times
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Apr 14, 08 3:10 PM CDT
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Google and Salesforce.com have expanded their partnership in customer-management and office software, the New York Times reports, in an ongoing competition with Microsoft and its Office suite. Salesforce’s software will be further integrated with Google’s applications—a milestone in the search giant’s efforts to challenge Microsoft in business settings.
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New York Daily News
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Apr 14, 08 1:16 PM CDT
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TV shrink Phil McGraw is in the hot seat again after a staffer bailed out the suspected ringleader of a teen YouTube beating in exchange for an exclusive interview, the New York Daily News reports. America’s favorite unlicensed daytime doc, who dispatched a producing team to Florida last week to cobble together interviews, has since canceled his teen-attack special.
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ComputerWorld
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Apr 14, 08 12:50 PM CDT
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Paper is so last century. PC World has tracked down websites—like one that puts phone dictations on Google Calendar—that best support your OCD ... or totally forgetful ... nature: Remember the Milk is one intense task manager: It even lets others—say, your boss—add items to your "honey-do" list. Never forget another brilliant idea; text it to Backpack.
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New York Times
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Apr 14, 08 11:34 AM CDT
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Philip Parker calls himself “the most published author in the history of the planet,” but he doesn’t actually write any books; his computers do. Parker has created a series of algorithms that allow computers to cull publicly available information from the web and compile it into books on obscure topics, the New York Times reports. Need The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs ? Parker has you covered.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Apr 14, 08
A video posted by police on YouTube helped to trace two Englishmen who made off with flags flying in the Wyoming town of Jackson in honour of a fallen American soldier.The tourists took the two flags - the Stars and Stripes and a Wyoming state flag - from their pole in Jackson in the early morning of March 20 in what was an unfortunate prank after a night of drinking.A security camera shot the two men as they climbed up a snowy embankment to lower the flags, pulled them from the pole, and then stuffed them under their shirts and left.Police posted the video on YouTube in an effort to identify...
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New York Times
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Apr 13, 08 6:30 AM CDT
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A car thief in Calgary didn't count on rising to internet fame when he stole a rare Nissan Skyline GTR from a dealer, the New York Times reports. The owner posted a picture of the vehicle on an internet car lovers' forum and before long, his fellow forum members had not only spotted the car, they had photographed the suspect, found his details on Facebook, and called the cops.
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BBC
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Apr 11, 08 5:52 PM CDT
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Israel is taking steps to neutralize its newest security threat: Facebook. The army is tightening rules on wha