05 Jan, 2006
links for 2006-01-06
Posted by: Scott In: Uncategorized
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The investment firm Piper Jaffray raised its price target on shares of the Internet search provider to $600 from $445, a 35 percent increase.
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It is some sort of a video distribution deal which has been in the works for a while. Maybe content on demand, or finally a strategy and partnership that gives direction to Google Video.
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The Cloud, a UK-based company that operates wifi hotspots is planning to build city wide WiFi clouds in London, Manchester and seven other cities. The network, is supposed to reach a total of 4 million people, and would also compete with incumbent phone a
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Abramoff raised over $100,000 for the 2004 Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, but the campaign is “giving up only $6,000 directly from Abramoff, his wife and one of the Indian tribes that he worked to win influence for in Washington.”
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Blogger Paul Stamatiou has posted a how-to guide for creating and tracking your own torrent with popular BitTorrent client, Azureus.
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President Bush is donating $6,000 in campaign contributions linked to Abramoff to charity. He is donating money raised from Abramoff, his wife and a Native-American tribe he represented. But that’s a small fraction of the amount of money raised for Bush
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Stablized version of the Zapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination. Stabilized means the camera movement has been digitally edited out…the video is super-clear now.
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Governor Jim Doyle signed into law on Wednesday a bill that will require the software of touch-screen voting machines used in elections to have its source code opened up to public viewing. Municipalities that use electronic voting machines are responsible
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Cuba lay behind the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald and its agents provided the gunman with money and support, an award-winning German director says in a new documentary film.
