“Catastrophic” alerts have been issued in Australia after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said on Saturday. The unseasonably hot and dry weather combined with strong winds have led to blazes breaking out in the
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Google Co-founder Sergey Brin Fires Back at Google Book Search Critics
October 9th, 2009 |
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google’s Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization has stepped up to offer to scan the millions of out-of-print books and make them available to users. Brin argued against the claims that Google Book Search is a compulsory license and was sympathetic to concerns about user privacy. However, he sarcastically disputed Amazon and Microsoft’s notion that the deal stunted competition or limited consumer choice with respect to out-of-print books.
– Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google’s Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization has stepped up to offer to scan the millions of out-of-print books and make them available to users.
Google Book Search is the search eng…
Google Co-founder Sergey Brin Fires Back at Google Book Search Critics
October 9th, 2009 |
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google’s Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization has stepped up to offer to scan the millions of out-of-print books and make them available to users. Brin argued against the claims that Google Book Search is a compulsory license and was sympathetic to concerns about user privacy. However, he sarcastically disputed Amazon and Microsoft’s notion that the deal stunted competition or limited consumer choice with respect to out-of-print books.
– Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google’s Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization has stepped up to offer to scan the millions of out-of-print books and make them available to users.
Google Book Search is the search eng…
Coal fires up Indian farmers against power plants
August 2nd, 2009 |
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Rajni Ramakan Patil has a message for the energy companies that want to build coal-based power stations on the land that she and two generations of her family have farmed for more than 50 years. “Even if you give us gold, we won’t leave this place. This is our land,” she said. Rajni and five
Wildfires ravage Canada’s British Colombia
August 2nd, 2009 |
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Thousands of residents in British Columbia were ordered to leave their homes on Saturday as more than 500 fires raged out of control in the state, fueled by dry forests and record-high temperatures. “Our province is facing the highest levels of wildfire risk in memory,” Gordon Campbell, the
Mediterranean fires still burning
July 26th, 2009 |
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Firefighters in several parts of the Mediterranean are still fighting wildfires which began days ago and have left eight dead. Thousands of acres of woodland in Spain, France, Greece and Sardinia were destroyed by fires fuelled by high temperatures and strong winds.
Mediterranean fires still burning
July 26th, 2009 |
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Firefighters in several parts of the Mediterranean are still fighting wildfires which began days ago and have left eight dead. Thousands of acres of woodland in Spain, France, Greece and Sardinia were destroyed by fires fuelled by high temperatures and strong winds.
Quinn Plans To Run For Governor, Fires Shot At Emerging Rival Hynes (VIDEO)
July 24th, 2009 |
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Illinois’ accidental governor made his strongest statement yet about his future plans Friday.
Gov. Pat Quinn told Fox Chicago’s Jeff Goldblatt that he plans to run for governor in 2010, though he would not say when he would make an official a…
Spain battles 25 forest fires
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Strong winds continue to fan a series of forest fires in Spain. Hundreds of firefighters are struggling to contain about 25 separate blazes, some in protected nature reserves.
AMD Fires Back at Facebook
July 15th, 2009 |
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Weeks after a Facebook executive criticized AMD and Intel, saying that Facebook engineers had not seen the expected gains in performance in the chip makers newest processors, AMD officials are speaking out. While agreeing that benchmark tests that bet-ter reflect real-world situations are needed, the AMD officials also said that the chips their company is producing are among the fastest and most energy efficient, and are good for the smallest business to the largest server farms.
– In late June, at the Structure 09 conference in San Francisco, a vice president with Facebook took chip makers and OEMs to task, saying that the social networking site was not seeing the expected performance improvements from systems powered by the newest processors.
Jonathan Heiliger, vice preside…