Topic: VIDEO - on June 27, 2007 at 3:54:00 PM CEST
My iPhone Diary
David Pogue of The New York Times looks at the features of the new iPhone, as furtively as possible.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 27, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
Supercomputer steps up the pace
The world's fastest commercial supercomputer has been launched by computer giant IBM.
Blue Gene/P is three times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM.
The latest number cruncher is capable of operating at so called "petaflop" speeds - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 27, 2007 at 10:04:00 AM CEST
The Price of Gas Around the World
The next time you pull into the station for a fill-up, keep this in mind before you curse the prices: people elsewhere have it a lot worse than we do in America (and we tend to gripe about it the most, it seems!) Take Asia for instance -- Hong Kong averages a whopping $6.30 per gallon, with Seoul, South Korea not too far behind. Europe also pays well above what we do in America. London, Berlin, Oslo, and Paris are all well above $6 a gallon. On the low end of the spectrum, places in the Middle East like Kuwait City and Tehran, Iran pay under $0.50 for their gas. Big surprise there.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on June 27, 2007 at 10:02:00 AM CEST
Great Guerrilla Advertising
Guerrilla Advertising is an unconventional way of performing promotional activities. Usually very funny or subtle, it’s a great way to promote a business with a low budget and generate buzz. But you’ll need lots of creativity.
Here are some great guerrilla ads examples. They are simply brilliant.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 27, 2007 at 9:49:00 AM CEST
Thief asks for "time out" in police chase
Philippine police chased down an unfit thief on Tuesday after he ran out of breath and asked his pursuers for a "time out."
"He was panting and gasping for air when we caught up with him after a 500 meter sprint," Erwin Buenceso, one of the arresting officers, told local radio station dzBB.
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Topic: Phone - on June 27, 2007 at 9:45:00 AM CEST
rPhone
rPhone combines three delightfully diverse products into one awkward and cumbersome handheld contraption -- a revolutionary steam-powered satellite phone, a stylish French musicbox, and a vibrasonic multi-purpose tool that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a Sonic Screwdriver.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 27, 2007 at 9:42:00 AM CEST
1000 films to see before you die
Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.
Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 27, 2007 at 9:41:00 AM CEST
TorrentSpy filters pirated videos
As TorrentSpy continues to fight a lawsuit by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), founders of the popular video download site have announced a new filtering system that allows content owners to remove pirated material from the site’s search results.
The new filtering system, known as FileRights, automatically removes offending search links using a database of copyrighted works, CNET reports. Though the database is maintained by FileRights, the onus is on the content owners to keep it updated. Video search engine isoHunt, a TorrentSpy competitor, will also use the system.
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