The best bloggers and news sites seem to hyperlink like crazy. Usually its because they think they’re doing you a favor by referencing a related article, web page, company, etc. so you don’t have to hit up a search engine to find it yourself
From Mayo Clinic : May 11, 2010 — People use Twitter to share information: The latest news, current events, what people are talking about, even what’s for dinner. Now, people are using it to get access to health care.
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How Twitter Brings Patients to Mayo Clinic
Arlington, Texas residents – the All-New Arlington CompUSA is now open and ready to serve you right in your hometown! You’ll appreciate the great selection of products, including HDTVs, Home Audio, Computers, Laptops and everything inbetween, including parts – components for the DIY computer builder or upgrader. Check out the All-New CompUSA located at 1600 Interstate 20 W, Arlington, TX 76017. The all-new crew is ready to help you find the right product you are looking for, and fully enabled with Retail 2.0 means that product information is only a key-press away on every television, monitor, laptop, desktop and all handheld products like GPS, Cameras and Cellphones.
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Arlington TX CompUSA Now Open
This week Ray passes along the latest photographic news relating to Nikon and Nikonians: Nikon’s instant rebates continue Nikon’s new 200-400 may be shipping soon Nikon’s My Picturetown Round Two Nikonians photo contest winners Tenth ANPAT months away Brandy Fortune wins latest Welcoming Photo Contest David Metta wins April’s segment of Best of the Year Photo Contest Download Nikonians News Flash #154 (NPC-NF-2010-05-30.mp3; 3:02; 2.77MB; MP3 format)
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Nikonians News Flash #154
Shelly Wuerthner was the winner of the trip to attend the premier of the movie KILLERS ! But don’t fret, there is still plenty of time to enter the KILLER PC Sweepstakes for a chance to win a custom KILLER PC valued at over $11,000! To signup, just click on the banner below:
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Killers Premiere Trip Winner Announced
People in the IT and telecommunication industries are famous for their flexibility. Increasingly, the displays that showcase the images they bring to customers are, as well. Flexible displays are among the more interesting topics to cover because the
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Displays Bend Over Backward for Consumers
From BBC : A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said. An autopsy showed her death was caused by a long period of malnutrition. The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online.
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Couple addicted to the internet let their baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online
From WebMD : A new prescription lotion (Ulesfia) with benzyl alcohol treats head lice and is effective and safe for children as young as 6 months. The study shows it works by suffocating lice, a method that has long been tried with limited success using messy substances like petroleum jelly, olive oil, and even mayonnaise. Overnight “home remedies” such as mayonnaise merely appear to kill lice, but don’t because the bugs are able to close their spiracles long enough to survive
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New Treatment Effective in Killing Head Lice – benzyl alcohol lotion 5% (Ulesfia)
ZDNet’s Microsoft blogging guru (guru-ess?) Mary Jo is reporting on a rumor of Silverlight coming to the Apple iPhone. This is based on a WSJ report that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may make an appearance at the upcoming Apple World Wide Developers Conference. Some are speculating that Ballmer will announce some kind of add-on for Visual Studio 2010 to support development of iPhone apps using Microsoft’s tool suite.
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Silverlight on iPhone?
This week, we’re happy to interview the team that brings us Photo Mechanic , a great workflow tool from Camerabits software.
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ID#118: The Image Doctors
A quantitative content analysis was performed on 398 blog posts from a constructed 1-week sample of posts in WebMD, Yahoo!Health Expert Blogs, and independently hosted blogs. Most health and medical blog posts highlighted and provided commentary pertaining to medical issues found in external media such as books, television, Web sites, magazines, and newspapers Only 16% contained actual health or medical information. Distinct differences in patterns of content were evident between credentialed and noncredentialed bloggers, as well as different blog hosts.
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Medical blog content and relationship with blogger credentials and blog host
The key takeaway from the press reports about the release of the Federal Communications Commission’s annual report on mobile wireless competition is that the two main structures upon which the overall business is structured are moving in opposite
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The Competitive and Non-Competitive Mobile Wireless Industry
Printer News: Epson B-510DN Prints Up to 18 Color Pages Per Minute at Just 4 Cents/Page If the Epson B-510DN were a fullback on the gridiron, it would command respect. In the office, the inkjet printer may loom too large, but this second-generation laser-class business inkjet prints up to 37 pages per minute and holds 660 sheets of paper.
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Epson B-510DN Inkjet Printer Rivals Color Laser Printers
Printer News: HP’s P1102 Offers Laser Printing and Plug and Play Installation At an MSRP of $149, what can you expect from the HP LaserJet Pro P1102? For starters, pretty fast printing — 19 pages per minute. Also, HP Smart Install , which eliminates the need to install a driver — just plug and play (Windows only).
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Affordable HP LaserJet Pro P1102 Offers Low Price and Smart Install
I was going through a Microsoft drive-thru when I saw the dreaded Blue Screen of Death on the McDonalds computer screen. Not good. Check out the video: Part of the message reads: A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
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McDonalds Drive-thru Gets a Microsoft BSOD!
Buying a Pre-Owned Printer Makes Sense in Some Situations But Not All Refurbished, remanufactured, pre-owned, etc. — these are all euphemisms for “used.” When I ask people whether they would consider buying a used printer, I have heard responses ranging from “I never buy anything new” to “I never buy anything used.” Regardless of where you reside on that spectrum, buying a used printer is not about you, it’s about how printing technology fits your budget and needs.
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Should You Buy a Refurbished (Used) Printer?
It isn’t the Samsung Galaxy S, but the Samsung Champ is another offering in Samsung’s long tradition of these small and cheap featurephones that feature (no pun intended) touchscreens. Their newest is the Samsung Champ, and it looks to be the cheapest of the cheap, as it will only reportedly cost between $100 and $150 without contract
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Samsung Champ To Be Cheapest Samsung Touchscreen Phone Yet [2.4-Inch Touchscreen Featurephone To Be Only $100 Without Contract]
Some analysts say VeriSign’s Secure Sockets Layer business is a nice fit for Symantec, but others question how smart it is for the security company to get into the commoditized SSL certificate market.
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Can VeriSign deal make Symantec the Web’s identity broker?
Every day I hear about another exciting project that will be at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area , taking place this weekend, May 22nd and 23rd, at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. One project I can’t wait to see and play with is the Tangible Graffiti Wall , brought from Vancouver by Tangible Interaction ‘s Alex Biem. The Wall has been on display at various events, like the 2010 Winter Olympics, and we’re stoked it’s making its way to the Faire
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Maker Faire: Digital Graffiti Wall
webOS may be a critically acclaimed OS (that HP is crazy about), but webOS users had some issues with the mobile operating system last weekend when they couldn’t install paid or free apps purchased from the Palm App Catalog. The bizarre bug has been fixed, and was apparently related to the time-and-date in webOS
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Palm App Catalog Hit With Bug [Palm Users Unable To Install Apps After Strange Catalog Bug]