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Google Pushes Tailored Phones
Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market By AMOL SHARMA and KEVIN J. DELANEY August 2, 2007; Page A1 Google Inc. is searching for growth in cellphones. The company, which has made billions of dollars in Web advertising on computers, is courting wireless operators to carry handsets customized to Google products, including its […]
MoreThe Best Dangerous Science Jobs: Hurricane Hunter, Volcanologist
WIRED Erin Biba 07.24.07 1 Astronaut Since manned spaceflight began in 1961, 24 US astronauts have died in astro-action — 10 during launch, six during training flights, and seven on reentry. In 1971, three Soviet cosmonauts suffocated when a malfunction caused the oxygen to leak out of their ship. Then there’s that whole riding-an- explosion-into-space […]
MoreThe Journamalism of NPR Drives Lance Knobel Shrill!
He writes: Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Way short of “a detailed case”: NPR usually does a better job than most of reporting accurately and maintaining the appropriate skepticism about our country’s leaders but it let me down this morning. While I was shaving, they had a report on president Bush’s speech yesterday about […]
MoreA Hipper Crowd of Shushers
July 8, 2007 A Hipper Crowd of Shushers By KARA JESELLA Correction Appended ON a Sunday night last month at Daddy’s, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than a dozen people in their 20s and 30s gathered at a professional soiree, drinking frozen margaritas and nibbling store-bought cookies. With their thrift-store inspired clothes and abundant […]
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