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Microsoft shutting down Soapbox video service

Microsoft plans to close MSN Soapbox at the end of August, pulling the plug on an online video-sharing service that competed with Google-owned YouTube.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1




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Teens migrating to Twitter -- sometimes for privacy

(AP) -- Teens don't tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool. That's been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Brazen, publicity-seeking hackers on attack spree

(AP) -- Can you be famous if no one knows your name? A new band of hackers is giving it its best shot, trumpeting its cyber-capers in an all-sirens-flashing publicity campaign.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

E-Book report: Nook is up, iPad still catching up

As the publishing industry wrapped up four days of digital talk at its annual national convention, Amazon.com's Kindle was seen as the clear, if not dominant, player in the growing e-market; Barnes & Noble's ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treat yourself, in moderation: How much is enough?

Humans, perhaps Americans in particular, tend to share a certain creed that goes something like this: If one is good, two are better.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Designing a city for safe protests

Civil protests, from peaceful sit-ins at the Pentagon to violent riots in Cairo, nonetheless share some common characteristics. To study how protests evolve in public spaces, Dr. Tali Hatuka, an architect and head of Tel ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hitler `Downfall' parodies removed from YouTube

(AP) -- Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Do-it-yourself biology: Learning to build a better microbe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building a cell from scratch is a lot more complicated than building a computer. But that's just what synthetic biologists, including many at MIT, are trying to figure out how to do.

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created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microsoft Tool Lets the Masses Create Apps, Web Pages

Microsoft has announced the alpha version of Popfly, its new application creation, mashup enabling tool and social networking software for nonprogrammers.

Technology / Software

created May 19, 2007 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Television programming execs in Vegas

The old saying, "Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," doesn't apply to this week's National Association of Television Programming Executives meeting at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center -- Jan. 24-26 -- with a special ...

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created Jan 23, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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