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Can Facebook group change World Cup game result? The World Cup elimination game between France and Ireland was decided by a piece of blatant cheating. A Facebook group, more than 250,000 strong, wants it replayed. [Source: CNET.com News]

Chrome OS: There Will Be Local Storage Despite what Google says, not all data will be in the cloud.

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The Story Behind FAA's Flight-Plan System Crash When the Salt Lake City router went offline, only the system maintainer -- government telecom contractor Harris Corp. -- knew that the backup card was not immediately available, and that one technician, who hadn't come to work yet that day, had the key to the storage closet where the part was kept. Meanwhile, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of passengers were thrown off schedule.
- When the Federal Aviation Administration's national flight-plan filing system went down for four hours the morning of Nov. 19, disrupting the takeoffs of hundreds of commercial flights and throwing hundreds of thousands of travelers off schedule, little did anybody know at the time that the culprit ...

New RIM BlackBerry, Sony Phones Offer Big Cameras, Bigger App Stores The holidays are upon us, and new devices from Research In Motion, Sony, and other manufacturers offer users a host of new multimedia capabilities. RIMs BlackBerry line seems to be incorporating more consumer-style features such as dedicated music buttons with every passing generation, and Sony is embracing both Google Android and Windows Mobile 6.5 as the operating systems for its latest smartphones. Devices from other manufacturers such as Casio and Kyocera (with the Sanyo-branded Incognito smartphone) also offer a variety of new hardware and software features, including powerful cameras and navigation applications.
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0.4.2.1 after the long 0.4.2 (2009.11.20 18:32) The release of Kephra 0.4.2 thought me lot of things. Yes it was inevitable that after a long complicated internal rewrite, a lot of nifty bugs poped up all over the place. It took nearly 3 days to get a devent version for a rerelease.

It demonstrated also that my roadmap was to static and that the steps are to big. 0.4.3 will come much sooner and concentrate on only one issue: codings.

0.4.2.1 shows the first signs of that: a statusbar field to display the current coding. I used this opportunity to create the status bar from a config file and sync the position of context menus that change some values, displayed in the statusbar, with its status bar field. Thast was a lot for just one day. [Source: use perl Journal]

Hackers free Snow Leopard from Jobsian cage

Apple Atomness restored

Snow Leopard users are once again free to run the Apple operating system on hardware with Atom processors, courtesy of hackers in Russia.…

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IBM chase HP (and Sun) with tiny mem prices

AIX pipeline lubrication

In an effort to boost the amount of money that IBM is getting from competitive takeouts of Unix systems from Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, Big Blue has taken a sharp machete to the memory prices on its Power Systems, reducing prices by between 28 and 70 per cent.…

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Anti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market eldavojohn writes "Almost 6 years ago we discussed a vaccine to help people quit smoking as it entered human clinical trials. Now it looks like the finishing touches have been put on a deal that will go into effect once phase III testing of the drug now called NicVAX is completed. NicVAX was developed by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, who have agreed to license it to GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals; it is expected to complete phase III testing successfully. Others have fallen short of this goal, in pursuit of a smoking-cessation market expected to hit $4.6 billion worldwide by 2016. Nabi has also sold an experimental vaccine for staph infections; and in 2008 we discussed news of a cocaine vaccine."

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How smoking can ruin your Mac According to a report, AppleCare warranties can be voided if Apple deems the damage was caused by secondhand smoke. Appeals to Steve Jobs have, apparently, not succeeded. [Source: CNET.com News]

Techmeme Mobile launches for iPhone, Pre, Droid Popular tech news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new mobile version of the site for the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid. [Source: CNET.com News]