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Aug 19

Microsoft's Pause Button for Email
View original story on: technologyexpert.blogspot.com  —  I wrote earlier about Microsoft's Office Labs project called "Search Commands" which helps users find Office commands that the Ribbon wants to hide from them. Here's another one, which purports to be a "pause button" for email, but actually offers a lot more than that.

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Yahoo!'s Buzz Opens to All
View original story on: technologyexpert.blogspot.com  —  Earlier this year, Yahoo! opened its Buzz social news service, and its been very successful, surpassing Digg in terms of unique U.S. visitors. One noteworthy difference between Buzz and other sites is that only approved publishers were able to submit stories. However, on Monday Yahoo! opened Buzz up to all publishers.

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LA Times/Bloomberg Poll: Obama 45% McCain 43%
View original story on: www.politicususa.com  —  A just released poll from the LA Times and Bloomberg shows that the race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain continues to get tighter, Obama now holds a narrow two point lead. Surprisingly, 17% of those surveyed said that the nation isn’t ready for a black president.

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Surprising (?) Feature Request for Windows 7: "Make Windows Faster"
View original story on: technologyexpert.blogspot.com  —  And no, they didn't mean make it faster with faster hardware. I wrote earlier about Microsoft's new Windows 7 blog, and in their second blog post, Microsoft (specifically, Steve Sinofsky) wrote about the myriad of comments and suggestions for Windows 7 they've received since the blog went live. And what caught their eye?

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McCain's McMansions: Who is Really Elite?
View original story on: snafu-ed.blogspot.com  —  A new Brave New Films video shows just who's really out of touch with Americans and who's really in the elite. The film, titled "McCain's Mansions: the Real Elitist" highlights various McCain homes in Arizona, California and Virginia, with one valued at $4.66 million, while contrasting the scenes with the story of Eileen Gillis, a woman who lost her home because, even with her and her husband work

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Prices rising at fastest pace in 27 years
View original story on: www.msnbc.msn.com  —  Wholesale inflation surged in July, pushed higher by rising costs for energy, motor vehicles and other products, according to government data released Tuesday.

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Obama: I Will Let No One Question My Love of Country
View original story on: www.politicususa.com  —  While addressing the annual VFW convention in Orlando, FL today, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama fought back against attacks on his patriotism, and laid out his foreign policy vision. “Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country. I love America, so do you, and so does John McCain..." Obama said.

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Apple Leads in PC Customer Satisfaction for Fifth Straight Year
View original story on: technologyexpert.blogspot.com  —  On Tuesday the University of Michigan released its annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) scores Tuesday for the PC industry, and Apple took the top spot for the fifth straight year. Dell was in second place, 10 points behind (85 - 75).

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Taliban Forces Kill 10 French Soldiers and Raid U.S. Base
View original story on: www.nytimes.com  —  Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting, one a complex attack with multiple suicide bombers on an American military base on Monday night, and another by some 100 insurgents on French forces in a district east of the capital, killing 10 French soldiers and wounding 21 others, military officials said Tuesday.

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Japan Warns Over iPod nano Fires
View original story on: technologyexpert.blogspot.com  —  It's been a bad few weeks for Apple. MobileMe issues, iPhone 3G connectivity problems, and on Tuesday Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reported that two new reports of minor fires due to suspected iPod nano battery overheating occurred in Tokyo this month.

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Japanese woman loses breast in hospital blunder
View original story on: www.physorg.com  —  A hospital in Japan said Tuesday that doctors mistakenly removed a healthy woman's left breast because of a mix-up in samples from tests for breast cancer.

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Obama vice presidential choice likely this week
View original story on: www.msnbc.msn.com  —  American voters should know this week who will join Barack Obama as No. 2 on the Democratic presidential ballot, a critical decision for the first-term senator who is fighting off Republican John McCain's bid to paint off him as untested and unready for the White House.

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MobileMe Users Get Another Subscription Extension
View original story on: technologyexpert.blogspot.com  —  All I can say is: I hope Apple gives iPhone users the same level of love to make up for the horrible 3G problems some of us (incuding me) have been having. In July Apple announced a 30-day extension to qualified MobileMe users; realizing just how screwed up things still are, Apple is giving users another extension. This one is for 60-days.

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Google launches "Free The Airwaves"
View original story on: technologyexpert.blogspot.com  —  Google's been chomping at the bit over "white space," which is unused spectrum that resides next to broadcast TV spectrum, for some time now. On Monday it, announced the launch of Free the Airwaves, a site promoting the unlicensed use of "white space" spectrum.

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College presidents seek drinking age debate
View original story on: www.msnbc.msn.com  —  College presidents from about 100 of the best-known U.S. universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.


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