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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Beijing unblocks BBC Chinese site

Beijing unblocks BBC Chinese site

Chinese authorities appear to have unblocked the BBC's Chinese language website, amid a row over internet censorship.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7535280.stm

NowPublic Lists Silicon Valley's Most Influential Web Voices

NowPublic Lists Silicon Valley's Most Influential Web Voices

The "crowd-sourced" list contains the most popular voices on the Web through sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and others.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/s

Icahn Says Won't Attend Yahoo Annual Meeting

Icahn Says Won't Attend Yahoo Annual Meeting

Investor Carl Icahn, who ran a heated proxy battle to unseat the Yahoo board and oust its chief executive, said he will not be attending the Internet company's annual meeting Friday.

http://www.infor

Cuil Needs To Fix Its Technology Before It Can Get Hot

Cuil Needs To Fix Its Technology Before It Can Get Hot

Search engine expert Stephen Arnold believes the surge of interest in Cuil shows there's a huge pent-up demand for an alternative to Google.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle….

Scrabulous Revived On Facebook With New Name, New Features

Scrabulous Revived On Facebook With New Name, New Features

Like Scrabulous, the new game Wordscraper allows players to choose seven tiles at a time to create words on a board that offers double word and triple letter points.

http://www.informat

Few businesses will reply to your online query

Waiting for a company to reply to your online query? You could be waiting a long time, with an Australian survey finding nearly 60 percent of large companies don’t respond to customer’s enquiries.

Undersea remains an archeological discovery?

Police divers checking a report of human remains off a Puerto Rican beach may have made an archaeological discovery: bones and possible artifacts from a colonial-era ship, officials in the U.S. island territory said Wednesday.

Eclipse inspires homemade observatory revival

World War II veteran and astronomy enthusiast Mikhail Levchenko built a large telescope in his backyard, inspiring his neighbors who now want to restore his dilapidated creation. From a garden bursting with roses, violets, burgeoning cabbages and broken furniture in the remote West Siberian town of Barnaul rises a rickety wooden tower capped with an aluminum dome.

Prysmian Supplied High Voltage Power Grid to Bring Energy to the Beijing 2008 Ol

Prysmian Supplied High Voltage Power Grid to Bring Energy to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Village

Prysmian also Supplied Cable Connections to the International Broadcasting Centre from where Italian Television Company RAI will be Transmitting Footage

MILAN…

Astronaut technology could prevent elderly falls

Erez Lieberman displays an "iShoe" insole he developed which contains sensors that can detect a wearer's balance. Scientists working to help astronauts regain balance after extended flights in zero gravity say they have found a way to use the research to help elderly people avoid catastrophic falls.