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PR Firm Charged with Faking Game Reviews on iTunes Store

Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 by author-unknown

Gamers probably know better than anyone to be wary of glowing game reviews from seemingly “ordinary users” on the Internet, but now even the FTC is trying to make sure such “ordinary … Continue reading →

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Uranium Is Getting Some Glowing Reviews On Amazon

Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by author-unknown

By MG Siegler at TechCrunch:
Did you know you can buy uranium ore on Amazon? Well you can. It’s actually been on sale for a while — BoingBoing pointed it out back in 2007. But talk of it has recently started popping up around the Internet once aga… Continue reading →

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Neutrino mass less of a mystery thanks to deep space imaging

Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by author-unknown

Researchers are getting closer to nailing down the actual mass of neutrinos by studying their interaction with the Universe as a whole. A paper published in Physics Review Letters this week describes how the history of galaxy format… Continue reading →

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Photog detained by cops and BP security guard in Texas

Posted on Friday, July 9, 2010 by author-unknown

A freelance photographer who was taking pictures of a BP refinery in Texas was detained by a BP security official, local police and a man claiming to be with the Department of Homeland Security, according to nonprofit news org ProPublica. The photogr… Continue reading →

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The Gulf of Mexico is Awash in 27,000 Abandoned Wells

Posted on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by author-unknown

An example of an abandoned oil well.
File this under: it could get much, much worse, or it’s so bad that we finally want to fix it, once and for all. Your thoughts are welcome. Jeff Donn and Mitch Weiss write in the AP via Google News:
More than 27,0… Continue reading →

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Canada: Yes, same traffic-shaping rules apply to mobile data

Posted on Monday, July 5, 2010 by author-unknown

If your cable or DSL provider can’t block some low-bandwidth application like VoIP simply because it competes with one of their own offerings, why should mobile operators have the right to do so? In Canada, they no longer do.

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