Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Gmail To Get More Social: WSJ

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is set to release a new module for Gmail that will allow the popular webmail service to display a stream of status updates from your friends. Sound familiar? Yes, it sounds very similar to Facebook and Twitter, and to a similar feature added to Yahoo! Mail last year.

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Apple Open To iPad Price Cuts If Sales Disappoint

In a research note to clients, Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope notes that Apple has plans to cut the price of the iPad if sales disappoint. The information was gleaned from a discussion with Apple executives. They were CFO Peter Oppenheimer, VP Eddy Cue, and SVP Ron Johnson.

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Google Airs Super Bowl Ad

As expected, Google aired a Super Bowl ad on Sunday. That was one huge expense, but at least they didn’t specifically pay for the ad itself to be produced. It had been sitting on YouTube for three months.

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IBM begins Power server upgrade to battle HP, Sun

IBM is beginning a long-awaited upgrade to a range of servers and other hardware to make them more energy-efficient and competitive than rival products by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems Inc.

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2 Year-Old Chained to Pole in Beijing for Safety

Chen Chuanliu is an unlicensed rickshaw driver in the city of Beijing who felt the most secure way to keep his two-year old son Lao Lu from being abducted is to chain him to a lamp post with a thick chain and padlock. A month prior his four-year old sister was abducted, a grim reminder of the prevalence of child abduction in China.

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Satellite could predict Katrina-style solar storms

Researchers say a new NASA satellite could help predict powerful solar storms that cause havoc on Earth.

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Report: China shuts down hacker training Web site that collected $1 million in members’ fees

Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.

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Alaska Dentist Fixes Injured Eagle’s Broken Beak

An Alaska dentist has given a bald eagle a unique beak – using a temporary crown, sticky poster putty and yellow highlighter.

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In Utah, company aims to store energy in air

A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and solving one of the most vexing problems facing the clean-energy industry – how to store power.

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