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• Fox News Says Hackers Hit Its Twitter Feed - Wall Street Journal
• Final space shuttle flight crew arrives for launch - Reuters
• "Apple cloud be a target, too" says hacker group Anonymous - International Business Times
• Microsoft to Partner With China's Leading Search Engine - New York Times
• Why Should Anyone Buy the HP TouchPad Instead of the Apple iPad? - PCWorld
• Realtime Search On Hiatus While Google And Twitter Figure Themselves Out - Washington Post
• Strange clues hint at a new Samsung Galaxy S II running Windows Phone 7 - Engadget
• Warming oceans could melt ice faster than expected - msnbc.com
• Global warming pause linked to sulphur in China - 3News NZ
• Pacific rare-earth discovery: Actually just gigatonnes of dirt - Register

Fox News Says Hackers Hit Its Twitter Feed - Wall Street Journal Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:32 PM PDT Globe and Mail Fox News Says Hackers Hit Its Twitter Feed Wall Street Journal Fox News said hackers broke into one of its Twitter accounts early Monday morning, sending fake messages about President Barack Obama, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised government and corporate websites around ... Fox News Twitter account hacked, claims President Obama killedTechSpot Fox News falls victim to Twitter hacking, claimed Obama was deadGant Daily Tech wrap: Apple, Fox News hackedReuters Blogs (blog) BBC News -CNET -New York Times all 958 news articles »

Final space shuttle flight crew arrives for launch - Reuters Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:29 PM PDT CTV.ca Final space shuttle flight crew arrives for launch Reuters Space shuttle Atlantis STS-135 crew (L to R) commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley, mission specialist Sandra Magnus and mission specialist Rex Walheim wave American flags after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida July ... As shuttle era ends, questions loom for shrinking astronaut corpsWashington Post Last 4 shuttle astronauts arrive for countdownKTUL Fourth of July Things to do: International Space Station Visible to Naked EyeChristian Post WESH Orlando -International Business Times -New York Times all 1,022 news articles »

"Apple cloud be a target, too" says hacker group Anonymous - International Business Times Posted: 04 Jul 2011 01:47 PM PDT Globe and Mail "Apple cloud be a target, too" says hacker group Anonymous International Business Times Anonymous, the hacker group which is credited with high-profile breaches like PayPal, MasterCard and Visa, in support of whistleblower website Wikileaks has now broken into an Apple server. ... Anonymous Hacks Apple, Causes Little to No DamageOS News Hackers target Apple serverCNET Arizona police confirm third attack by hackersVictoria Advocate Reuters -KFDA -Albuquerque Express all 182 news articles »

Microsoft to Partner With China's Leading Search Engine - New York Times Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:41 AM PDT Globe and Mail Microsoft to Partner With China's Leading Search Engine New York Times SHANGHAI — A year and a half after Google pulled its popular search engine out of mainland China, partly over concerns about censorship, its rival Microsoft has struck a deal with the biggest Chinese search engine, Baidu.com, ... Microsoft signs search pact with China's BaiduCNET Microsoft's Bing To Provide Some English Search Results On BaiduWall Street Journal Microsoft's Bing Will Power Baidu's Chinese Search SitePCWorld Times LIVE -Register -Voice of America all 139 news articles »

Why Should Anyone Buy the HP TouchPad Instead of the Apple iPad? - PCWorld Posted: 04 Jul 2011 12:41 PM PDT The Guardian (blog) Why Should Anyone Buy the HP TouchPad Instead of the Apple iPad? PCWorld My review of HP's TouchPad is up over at TIME.com. My take is pretty much the same one as the consensus of the crowd that's published reviews tonight: very nice interface, aging hardware (even though it's a brand new ... Apple iPad 2 vs. HP TouchPad: 10 Reasons to Buy iPad 2eWeek With Palm operating system, HP Touchpad tablet packs a punchOttawa Citizen Glossy White HP TouchPad Tablet Coming In August With Better Specs.Tablets Planet Business Insider -Engadget -ITworld.com all 79 news articles »

Realtime Search On Hiatus While Google And Twitter Figure Themselves Out - Washington Post Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:28 PM PDT USA Today Realtime Search On Hiatus While Google And Twitter Figure Themselves Out Washington Post By TechCrunch.com, Sometime on the morning of July 3rd, Google Realtime Search mysteriously went offline and, assuming it was just another example of things breaking on a holiday weekend, most tech publications ignored it. ... Google Loses Access to Twitter Stream, Suspends Realtime SearchMashable Google Realtime goes dark after Twitter agreement expiresVentureBeat Google disables Realtime searchCNET msnbc.com -USA Today -ReelSEO Online Video News all 200 news articles »

Strange clues hint at a new Samsung Galaxy S II running Windows Phone 7 - Engadget Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:33 PM PDT Reuters India Strange clues hint at a new Samsung Galaxy S II running Windows Phone 7 Engadget The image above is unfortunately just a Photoshop special, designed to sucker you in. But there is evidence to suggest that a WP7 version of the overwhelmingly popular Galaxy S II might be just around the ... Samsung Releases Kernel Source Code For The Galaxy Tab 10.1vAndroid Police Invading Apple's orchard: Samsung sells 3.0 million Galaxy S II handsetsThe Tech Herald Samsung Drops Countersuit, But Raises Stakes against ApplePCWorld PC Magazine -Wall Street Journal -BetaNews all 309 news articles »

Warming oceans could melt ice faster than expected - msnbc.com Posted: 03 Jul 2011 05:20 PM PDT CTV.ca Warming oceans could melt ice faster than expected msnbc.com This view of the seaward edge of Antarctica's floating Ross Ice Shelf shows a region where the ice is cracking and may produce an iceberg. By Jennifer Welsh Ice sheets simmering in warmer ocean waters could melt much quicker than realized. ... Warming ocean could melt ice faster than thoughtThe Associated Press Global Warming Worse Than Thought, Warm Water the CulpritInternational Business Times More science fiction from the University of ArizonaTucson Citizen LiveScience.com -ZME Science -RedOrbit all 196 news articles »

Global warming pause linked to sulphur in China - 3News NZ Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:38 PM PDT 3News NZ Global warming pause linked to sulphur in China 3News NZ Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth's temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record. The answer seems counterintuitive. It's all the sulphur pollution ... Sulfur pollution cites as cause of climate change pause; warming now seems to ...Washington Post all 111 news articles »

Pacific rare-earth discovery: Actually just gigatonnes of dirt - Register Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:22 AM PDT Moneycontrol.com Pacific rare-earth discovery: Actually just gigatonnes of dirt Register There has been a lot of excitement over a recent paper by Japanese researchers who have discovered billions – hundreds of billions – of tonnes of rare earths under the Pacific Ocean. ... Rare earth minerals find in Pacific could spark Japan-Hawaii stand-offTelegraph.co.uk Rare-Earth Reserves Found in Pacific OceanWall Street Journal Japan finds rare earths in Pacific seabedBBC News Mashable -AFP -iT News all 164 news articles »

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