Technology, sour economy breed, feed Internet scams
Ute Schnetzinger thought the bride was demanding. Only later did the Richardson, Texas, florist learn she was bogus.
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Insignia digital camcorder (short review)
Product: Insignia 5-megapixel high-definition digital camcorder (model: NS-DCC5HB09).
Consumer & Gadgets
May 6, 2009
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How to get reliable swine flu information online
With blogs, Facebook, Twitter and lots of other sources, information about swine flu is traveling at light speed.
Internet
May 6, 2009
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Presto offers alternative to hibernate and sleep
In this day and age of instant gratification, we don't like waiting for anything. Some of us can remember having to wait when we turned on the television as the tubes inside warmed up and the picture slowly faded into view. ...
Software
May 6, 2009
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Latest Flip is bigger, but better
Since its debut in 2007, the Flip video camera has turned millions of people into filmmakers by providing a foolproof way to shoot videos and upload them to the Web.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 6, 2009
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Amazon's larger Kindle for textbooks, periodicals
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. will release a larger - and more expensive - version of its Kindle electronic reading device that is geared toward periodicals and textbooks.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 6, 2009
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Songs raise awareness about aquatic invasive species
A new initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is using music to raise public awareness about aquatic invasive species in the state.
Environment
May 6, 2009
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Star crust 10 billion times stronger than steel, physicists find
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys.
Astronomy
May 6, 2009
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Why policy changes during Obama presidency will be more significant than during Clinton, Reagan eras
Unlike the post-election disappointment that has followed many election outcomes, the Obama presidency will likely break through a structural bias in American politics favoring the status quo and bring about significant changes ...
Social Sciences
May 6, 2009
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Physicists Detect Single-Electron Tunneling with Quantum Dots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting the coherent motion of a single electron is a challenge, for the simple reason of scale: the timescale of the coherent motion of a single-electron wave function is in the picosecond regime (one ...
