Archive for February, 2009

Fossil skull of giant toothy seabird found in Peru (AP)

February 28th, 2009 by admin


AP - The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago was found on Peru’s arid southern coast, researchers said Friday.

Bolivia pins hopes on lithium, electric vehicles (AP)

February 28th, 2009 by admin


AP - To Bolivia’s president, it’s the great silvery-white hope.

Indonesia’s psychedelic fish named a new species (AP)

February 28th, 2009 by admin


AP - A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal reported. The frogfish — which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its aqua eyes to its tail — was initially discovered by scuba [...]

Giant seabird’s fossilized skull found in Peru (AP)

February 28th, 2009 by admin


AP - The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago was found on Peru’s arid southern coast, researchers said Friday.

Giant seabird’s fossilized skull found in Peru (AP)

February 27th, 2009 by admin


AP - The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, bony-toothed sea bird that died millions of years ago was found on Peru’s arid southern coast, researchers said Friday. The fossil is the best-preserved cranium ever found of a pelagornithid, a family of large seabirds believed to have gone extinct some 3 million years ago, [...]

U.S. Internet firms defend tighter Web management

February 27th, 2009 by admin


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet service providers like AT&T Inc are making greater efforts to manage traffic on their networks as they seek ways to avoid congestion caused by bandwidth-hogging services like video, industry officials said on Thursday.

Amazon to allow disabling of Kindle 2 audio

February 27th, 2009 by admin


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc, responding to criticism that a text-to-speech feature on its new Kindle book reader helps it sidestep royalty payments, plans to allow the audio function to be disabled.

Yahoo paid $79 million to financial advisers

February 27th, 2009 by admin


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc paid its financial advisers millions of dollars last year to defend the Internet company against Microsoft Corp’s unsolicited buyout offer, according to a filing.

What I’m not playing this weekend: Quake Live

February 27th, 2009 by admin


Don’t get me wrong: I do want to play this new, browser-based follow-up to Quake III Arena, one of my favorite first-person shooter of all time. …

Apple PowerBook goes boom; film at 11

February 27th, 2009 by admin


Just when you thought we were done with the whole exploding laptop battery thing… they pull us back in!
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