Submitted by logicalextremes
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When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and p (Read More)
The Guardian:
Getting a place on a graduate training programme can be like tackling an assault course. One determined student talks to Nic Paton about clearing the hurdles ... and winningYou may not (yet) have to stand up and sing in front (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
After the freedom of university and living with her boyfriend, Lucy Tobin is back at her parents' house. But how do you have a grown-up relationship – including a sex life – when Mum and Dad are around? And how do they feel a (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The pharmaceutical industry has taken almost two years to disseminate important informationOnce your medicines regulator decides it should change the side-effect warnings contained in the patient information of a drug taken b (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
With five biological daughters, Anita Tedaldi was keen to adopt a little boy. But little did she ever imagine that it might not work outThe first time I considered giving up my baby, Dan, I was lying alone in bed. It was midn (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Linux Live: If you want to put your computer through the paces and get some feedback and benchmarks, you'll be hard pressed to find a tool more packed with tests than the Phoronix Test Suite Live CD. PTS Desktop Live is an Ub (Read More)
Mashable!:
Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader.Is your (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Linux Live: If you want to put your computer through the paces and get some feedback and benchmarks, you'll be hard pressed to find a tool more packed with tests than the Phoronix Test Suite Live CD. PST Desktop Live is an Ub (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
TweetMeme is launching Adtweets! Nick Halstead is at the Real-Time Crunchup in San Francisco today to reveal and demo our new, and exciting product! The idea behind this product was based around wanting to reward advertisers (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
from Google Reader:
It is Friday, so I am inclined to take the liberty of posting something outside my usual tag-line areas of interest (see tag-line above). While I was out in San Francisco I met a lot of people interested in applying network (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Sharing and hoping others can see the value the Trump Network is creating. In a time when many have financial stress and daily burdens of bills and worries, Donald Trump and the men from Ideal Health have created a vehicle to (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
from Google Reader:
Subtitled: Fabrication Optimization.We are positioning The Liberator as the world’s best, free (libre) CEB press. We are also positioning it as the world’s best CEB press – meaning that the proprietary counterparts will have (Read More)
Submitted by PinkLisa
from Google Reader:
SnazL and Flip.to are two of the first open source tools to bridge the gap between content and community. By allowing users to create and share their videos, photos and content from one central location, the user become the c (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your (Read More)
The Guardian:
Police rule out stranger attack but reject honour killing theory despite misgivings by Asian women's groupsEvery day, staff at Sunrise Radio were greeted with a smile from Geeta Aulakh, the receptionist who had dreamed as a y (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
The PogoPlug is one of the best plug and play NAS solutions available on the market, it’s simple to use, offers a nice clean and sleek design and users have been flocking to the devices over the last several months. Now the t (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
When you apply for a job, one of the first things that employers will do is take a look at your resume. Traditionally, this along with a face to face interviews were the steps to getting a job. With the ability to now get inf (Read More)
Submitted by Antonella
from Google Reader:
I recently started using Tumblr about a week and a half ago on the recommendation of my friend, Hiten Shah. I have to admit, that I was really skeptical about whether I would need / enjoy / find use for another microblogging (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. I’m taking some notes as we go.[Costolo talks about why they changed the question from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?"]Costolo: In user res (Read More)
Pakistan-World-The Times of India:
The CIA boss Leon Panetta today met Pak's top civil and military leaders to discuss the war against terror and sharing of information between Washington and Islamabad to boost the campaign against militants operating along th (Read More)