Archive for March 5th, 2010

A mock funeral is being held in Colorado Thursday for an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser is actually still widely used, but Google’s decision to phase out IE6 may hasten its demise.
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  • We already connect with friends on Facebook to share photos, videos, text updates and Web links, but might we also use the service to exchange money?
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  • On January 12, a magnitude-7.0 quake struck Haiti just southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince. On February 27, an 8.8-magnitude quake hit Chile near that nation’s second largest city, Concepcion. That same day there was a 7.0 quake off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, and just this week a 6.4 quake hit southern Taiwan.
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  • The hard-boozing characters of “Mad Men” and the Muppets of “Sesame Street” were among the big winners of this year’s Shorty Awards, which honor the top micro-bloggers of Twitter.
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  • Two people were killed when unusually large and powerful waves crashed into a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea this week.
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  • Is Apple launching a patent war?

    First, there was the Macintosh. Then it was the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad. Next up in Apple’s arsenal: The lawyers.
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  • The Israel Defense Forces called off a raid after one of its combat soldiers posted information about the operation, including the time and place, on Facebook, the IDF said Wednesday.
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  • The Internet is awash with hate. It is the favorite tool of racists, anti-Semites, homophobes and other bigots. They host Web sites, upload videos and post comments intended to propagate the lies of prejudice, to recruit like-minded haters, to mislead children and to hurt minorities.
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  • Wind power provides a fifth of Denmark’s electricity, most of it generated by giant wind farms built on land and in the country’s coastal waters.
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