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August 03, 2008 Breaking News

Gautami train fire: Roshni Mukherjee's mom waits for a call

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:54:49 PDT
For Bhaswati Mukherjee, every minute now is like an excruciating hour. There is still no news of her daughter Roshni and son-in-law Hari Shankar (both are employees of Google India, Hyderabad), who were travelling on the ill-fated Gautami Express that caught fire in the wee hours of Friday, charring 30 to death.

Alzheimer's disease: A tangled tale

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:04:37 PDT
The International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease brought good news about the detection of the disease.

World's News Headlines Still Reeling with Doom and Gloom, but Economic and Business News Strongly Upbeat, New Metric Finds

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:01 PST
Although news organizations around the world worked to bring their audiences a good mix of stories and feature articles, on balance, the news for the first day of 2008 featured more negative stories...

Mail Seeks New Readers With NYC Edition In US Ad Grab

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:22:37 PDT
Associated Newspapers plans to publish a New York edition of its quintessentially English Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) and Mail On Sunday tabloids, PrintWeek reports. It is enlisting Newsworld to distribute there all week from September. Initially, the project will be limited to a UK edition targeting expats, "but a New York edition, complete with local content and advertising, is planned for the future". News publishers are clearly trying to expand overseas as the UK's ad market turns down and as

Coca-Cola Light Courtesy of Roberto Cavalli

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:32:43 PDT
OK, so we ‘heart’ Roberto Cavalli, and we always ‘heart’ Coca Cola light from time to time (especially if you’re a big coke addict!). And now you can have the best of both worlds, Coke with a touch of Cavalli. Fortunately though, it’s only ‘almost’ because for Fall’ 08 everyone would be able to enjoy this stylish Coca Cola Light in bottles designed by Cavalli himself. However, the limited run of 300,000 bottles will be distributed exclusively only in Italy from September through December. So

Masculinity and Square Enix: Where Is My Chest Hair?

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:59:40 PDT
It's no secret that the Japanese modern man has become pretty effete. But the trend has seeped into their video games, and thus gone overseas. Here we'll take a look at the lady-like lads brought to you by Square Enix. Straight men be warned: viewing this article might leave you with emotions that are weird and deeply confusing.

ABC News: Review: Blackberry Curve 8300

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:47:16 PDT
The new Blackberry Curve (starting at $150), however, offers enough new features to move the device out of the hands of working stiffs and into the pockets of many of today's mobile consumers. It's more than just an e-mail machine.

The Science of Online Lead Capture (Part 6)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:52:28 PDT
The Science of Online Lead Capture (Part 6) August 3, 2008 by Matt Jones comment In the last installment, I discussed website basics. I intentionally left off one part of the typical website: the capture mechanism or gateway. Some call it the form or registration page, but whatever you call it, it is the most important part of your site. As far as I’m concerned, it is more important than the website itself. Yes, I really said that. Let me repeat myself: It is more important than the we

Low value content is destroying your website

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:48:19 PDT
Low-value content is destroying the usefulness of intranets and public websites. It needs to be stored separately. Andrew Leung is a computer science researcher at the University of California. His team analyzed a large data/content environment over a three month period. Their findings included the following: More than 90 percent of the files were never accessed. Of those files accessed, 65 percent were only opened once. Most of the rest were opened five or fewer times About a dozen files wer


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