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Climate a weighty burden for EU

By Laurence Peter The Brussels summit provided a sharp foretaste of the hard bargaining the world can expect at the crucial Copenhagen summit on climate change in December. There is still an east-west divide in the EU over national contributions to climate targets, with former communist countries such as Poland and Hungary arguing against specific funding BBC News Climate a weighty burden for EU…

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Google’s Wave Might Find its Real Home Inside Company Servers

BY Kit Eaton 1 hour, 59 minutes ago Today it looks like Google’s expanding Wave to external servers. If your company has an internal communication problem. If no one else can help. Maybe you can try … the Wave team. The news has popped up over at TheNextWeb, speculating that Google’s literally on the verge of launching Wave’s federation server connects Fast Company Google’s Wave Might Find its Real Home Inside Company Servers…

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Cleaning up an Electronic Wasteland

Brett… : Grabbing a DROID as soon as I can and not looking back. Motorola’s back in the game with a… … : I did a video to explain Smart Grid technology a little clearer to everyone. It can be viewed at:… … : “G1…which may not update to Dougnut…” Actually I think you are thinking about Eclaire,… … : It looks from the Verizon site that Technology Review Cleaning up an Electronic Wasteland…

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How Google Voice Is Growing

BusinessWeek ’s review of information handed over to regulators shows the call-management service has more than 1 million users. It may be expanded abroad By Arik Hesseldahl In response to questions by US regulators, Google (GOOG) handed over information about the number of users for its Google Voice communication service and a list of the companies BusinessWeek How Google Voice Is Growing…

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Droid Shatters the Competitive Landscape

Not since the launch of the iPhone in 2007 has the announcement of a new product had as dramatic an effect on the competitive landscape of the smartphone business as did yesterday’s Verizon Wireless release of the Motorola Droid. The day after Droid, the handset, wireless networks, mapping, and navigation markets all look very different. Although the BusinessWeek Droid Shatters the Competitive Landscape…

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French Idealism Does a Face Plant

By STEVEN ERLANGER and MAÏA DE LA BAUME PARIS — Just as Le Corbusier’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris’s bicycle-rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change. A vandalized “Velib,” a public rental bicycle, in Bastille Square. Residents here can rent New York Times French Idealism Does a Face Plant…

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Another Murder in Russia’s Secret War

The death of a millionaire opposition leader in Ingushetia is just more evidence that the region is at war. BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | OCTOBER 30, 2009 A few weeks ago, I visited the home of Maksharip Aushev – the 43-year-old scion of a wealthy and politically influential family in Ingushetia – on the night of his youngest son’s wedding. It was a festive Foreign Policy Another Murder in Russia’s Secret War…

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Came across two interesting videos today A research project in Berlin where you use an iPhone to drive a real
car! Is this totally James Bond or what?!

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Translating websites is all the rage, all the companies are doing it.
Big and small

Localization is a big deal, and a big business online. The time when
you only had to read one audience (the “web) in one language (english)
is gone.

New players are joining every day, and Brasil is a major new player.
I’m lucky in that sense, I speak the language. It does upset me mildly when I see such obvious spelling mistakes
being made. I can live with the fact that Brazilian Portuguese is more
available online than European Portuguese (PT-pt). It makes sense.
Brasil far outweighs Portugal in population and number of internet
users.

But really, how good can a translation of a website be, if the
language is being spelled wrong?! There is no such thing as Portugese. It’s PortugUese.

Of course in the chase of this particular webpage, clicking the
"Portugese” (sic) link gets you nowhere. Why did they even bother? Oh well…

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Made these myself, tried to time the music to match the clouds, sun, etc. Still experimenting with time lapse videos…

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