Friday, September 24, 2010

Time Moves Faster Upstairs



Facebook Blames System Change for 'Worst Outage' in 4 Years
PC Magazine
Facebook blamed Thursday's 2.5-hour downtime on a change it made to its system, resulting in the worst outage the social-networking company had seen in four years. "The key flaw that caused this outage to be so severe was an unfortunate handling of an ...
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Facebook Founder Giving $100M To Newark Schools
FoxReno.com
NEWARK, NJ -- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is about to make a lot of new friends: The 26-year-old tycoon is pouring $100 million of his staggering fortune into Newark's blighted school system after hitting it off with the mayor of the ...
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Why The Social Network is great for Facebook
Fortune
Aaron Sorkin's new film The Social Network may be a work of fiction, but it will become Facebook's creation myth. That's not entirely a bad thing. I've known Mark Zuckerberg for a long time. We first spoke in the fall of 2005, just after his summer ...
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Inslee's Leadership Helps Bring About Breakthrough on Use of 'White Spaces'
TMCnet
(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash. (1st CD), issued the following news release: This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously approved new rules for the unlicensed ...
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Overseas manufacturer says CDMA iPhone 4 on the docket
TG Daily
Taiwanese manufacturer Pegatron has spilled the beans on the production of a CDMA version of the iPhone 4, all but confirming that the Apple phone is heading to Verizon in just a few months. CDMA is the name of the mobile network standard used by ...
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Time Moves Faster Upstairs
FOXNews
By Devin Powell The world's most precise atomic clock has confirmed a mind-blowing fact: Time is indeed relative, even varying based on which floor of a building you are on. It's 2 am, and the noise from your upstairs neighbor is keeping you awake ...
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Google, YouTube Win Copyright Ruling In Spain
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn A federal court in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday dismissed charges of copyright infringement against Google's YouTube brought by Spanish broadcaster Telecinco, the second major copyright victory for YouTube in the past few months. ...
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Faster Forward: Notes on three new Android phones
Washington Post
By Rob Pegoraro This weekend's column started out as a comparison of a few different Android phones. Along the way, it turned into a different story, one much less likely to make me new friends in the PR departments of the wireless carriers. ...
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