Saturday 10 July 2010

Strangest Sights in Google Earth, Part II

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July 10, 2010
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Strangest Sights in Google Earth, Part II Mapping software Google Earth turns the planet into a massive scavenger hunt for weird, wacky, and the unexplained. Here are a few of the things that keep us scratching our heads.
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Judge Cuts File-Sharing Fine to $67,500 A judge significantly reduced the amount a jury awarded to the record industry in a lawsuit against a file sharer.
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Blizzards Real ID Snafu: 4 Lessons Analysis: After reversing its brief policy against anonymous community participation, Blizzard still has things to reflect on.
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Apple Opens 2nd China Store on Saturday A flagship store in the heart of Shanghai's financial district joins the first flagship store opened in Beijing.
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Under Pressure, Blizzard Retracts Real ID Policy StarCraft II and World of Warcraft message board goers will not be required to post with their real names after all.
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Tablet Sales Jump in Asia Analysts expect tablet shipments to triple in five years in most Asian countries.
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Restored Google China Search Site Very Limited in Features UPDATE: Google's restored search site doesn't provide much in the way of search services.
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Firefox 4 Beta 1: First Look Firefox 4's new Chrome-like user interface shines, but but the real change is under the hood with its HTML 5 support.
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Blizzard Retreats from ID Plan After Users Gripe Gaming giant Activision is bowing to its customers, who prefer anonymity when posting on World of Warcraft and StarCraft forums.
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Twitter Limits Access by Third-Party Apps Twitter is helping to combat outages by restricting the number of times third party apps such as TweetDeck and Echofon can access the service.
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Twitter Catches Cybercriminals and Google Foots The Bill With funding from Google, researchers at Texas A&M University are creating "honeypots," or fake accounts that are supposed to lure spammers to social networks.
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Next iPod Touch: 7 Must-Haves Got iPhone envy? Some of its best features may be showing up on Apple's refreshed music player.
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NSA's Perfect Citizen Program: What You Need to Know Here are key facts about the U.S. National Security Agency's plan to monitor and protect key elements of the nation's infrastructure.
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Twitter May Promote User Accounts For a Fee Analysis: Twitter won't talk, but reports say the microblogging site might offer businesses a way to buy followers.
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Can China and Google Play Nicely? Google is licensed to keep operating in China, but the decision raises questions about expectations, standards, and compromise.
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Facebook May Face Blowback The site's own statistics show its growth is slowing -- which could mean that while people aren't quitting, they aren't rushing to sign up.
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3D Coming to Adobe's Flash Adobe has started work on expanding 3D capabilities in the Flash Player.
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NTP Files Lawsuits Against Six Mobile Behemoths Heady with success after its legal victory over RIM, NTP files tech patent lawsuits against Apple, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola.
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Galaxy Beam Projector Phone Looks Worth the Wait Sales of the Galaxy Beam, the first smartphone with a built-in projector, begin soon in Asia. Hopefully U.S. customers won't have to wait long for it.
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Cloud Computing Will Surpass the Internet in Importance Cloud computing is the next stage of the Internet, assuming it can develop in an open manner, according to a speaker at a futurist conference.
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