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In light of Sony’s poorly managed rootkit fiasco, the introduction of the Reader for electronic books offers the company an opportunity to redeem itself, and put some exciting new technology in the hands of consumers. (The Reader is an updated version of the Librie, which was released last year in Japan. The product received bad press because of its high cost and its digital rights management software that automatically deleted purchased ebooks after 60 days.)
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Why does this not surprise me: Google is now in the radio business. It made news all over the place yesterday. If, as so often is said, content is king, then Google is not only king...it is quickly rising to the rank of emperor. Google gives access to a world of content and now they are starting to control the content channels, too. Maybe they’ll call it Roogle or Radioo.
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The facility would make the villain from a James Bond film envious — a concrete bunker with blast-proof doors carved out of a mountain on an island off the coast of Norway. Inside, the permafrost will provide a cool environment for storage of every known variety of crop seed.
The goal of the seed repository — construction is slated to begin next year — will be to ensure that a global disaster would not wipe out essential crop species. Currently, there are about 1,400 seed banks around the world, but many are located in politically or environmentally unstable areas.
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We’ve made some changes to our RSS feed that might mean people who previously subscribed will need to resubscribe, we apologize for the inconvenience. However, if you’re reading this post right now in your favorite newsreader that means you have nothing to worry about and may proceed as usual.
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For those still scratching your heads over what RSS is in the first place, FeedBurner provides a great overview of what it is and how to use it.
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The United States will soon pass a major milestone. Sometime later this year, the population of our country will reach 300 million people.
It took us 125 years as a country to get to 100 million people, reaching that number around 1914. It was in 1967, about 53 years later, that we passed 200 million. And now just 39 later, we will be hitting the 300 million mark. Experts predict it will only take about 30 more years to swell our population to 400 million. These facts seem impressive when you consider our country’s ever-shortening cycle to add the next 100 million people.
However, I couldn’t help compare our country’s population growth to some recent astonishing statistics I read about worldwide Internet growth. Based on figures from Internet World Stats, the Internet first surpassed 100 million users in 1998. By the year 2000, there were 300 million users, and by 2003, there were 600 million users. Recently, the Internet surpassed one billion users and it is adding a million new users worldwide about every four days. Most of those new users are not from the U.S., and most of those new users don’t speak English.
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