Archive for October, 2009

With Thursday’s launch of its new Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft is going back to basics. Rather than go for flash, the company is focused on making sure that all of its partners are ready to sell lots of PCs and copies of Windows 7.
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  • Make a few easy changes around the house for substantial savings.
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  • Technologies that let employees work remotely have given rise to a growing phenomenon — virtual internships.
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  • Thirty-two planets have been discovered outside Earth’s solar system through the use of a high-precision instrument installed at a Chilean telescope, an international team announced Monday.
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  • If you’re on Facebook, Twitter or another social networking site, you could be the next victim of cybertheft. That’s because more thieves are targeting sites like those that provide a gold mine of personal information, the FBI says. Cybercriminals “are very adept to using social engineering,” says one expert.
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  • The Ratchet and Clank video game franchise, about two intergalactic heroes fighting evil, has sold more than 16 million copies. Despite that, there are hints that the upcoming “Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time” may be the last in the series, an unusual occurrence for an industry in which sequels to popular games [...]

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  • The European Union has launched a digital library that offers documents dating to nearly 60 years ago, in 23 languages.
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  • As authorities confirmed the “balloon boy” saga was a hoax, they checked the vessel created by Richard Heene to see whether it could have actually carried his 6-year-old son Falcon.
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  • A university team from Germany has won the U.S. Energy Department’s Solar Decathlon for the second competition in a row, officials declared Friday. In second place was Team Illinois, and third place went to Team California.
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  • The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection. Hundreds of universities and business schools are making recordings of lectures and conferences available to the public via iTunes and YouTube.
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