Monthly Archives: May 2011

Android Market crackdown: Google appeals to console makers, pulls emulators (Appolicious)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

The Android Market has been a haven for many apps that wouldn’t have been approved in the iTunes App Store, marking the open standards Google (GOOG) touts, and highlighting Apple’s (AAPL) control over its own app marketplace. But Google’s been … Continue reading →

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EU to warn foot-dragging states on e-privacy law (Reuters)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) – The European Commission plans to call Britain and Denmark to account for dragging their feet on enforcing a controversial new law to protect people’s privacy on-line, a spokesman said. The move is a sign of how the … Continue reading →

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Will you let your unborn baby use your iPhone to pick its own name? (Yahoo! News)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

We’ve known for a while that technology buffs are popping up at younger and younger ages, but an iPhone app designed for unborn babies is a whole new concept. Kick to Pick is a 99 cent iPhone app meant to let … Continue reading →

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County pays citizens for horizon dotted with wind turbines (Yahoo! News)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

Sherman County, Oregon is home to farms like many in the United States, but the growers that dot the countryside are green in more ways than one. Along with crops and livestock, they farm wind, using the location’s notoriously breezy … Continue reading →

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Activision bets on online play for ‘Call of Duty’ (AP)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

NEW YORK – Activision knows it’s more fun to blast on-screen enemies into oblivion with friends, so this fall it’s launching an online service for its “Call of Duty” games that’s part Facebook, part player matchmaker and part organized sports. … Continue reading →

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Yemen truce ends in blasts, stokes civil war worries (Reuters)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

SANAA (Reuters) – Street fighting raged across the Yemeni capital on Tuesday after a tenuous truce broke down between tribal groups and forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, edging the impoverished Arab country closer to civil war. Global powers … Continue reading →

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Yemen security official: Islamists kill 5 soldiers (AP)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

SANAA, Yemen – Radical Islamists who overran a south Yemen town killed five soldiers in an ambush on Tuesday, security officials said, while fresh clashes broke out in the capital between security forces and fighters from the country’s most powerful … Continue reading →

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Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogenic (AP)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

LONDON – An international panel of experts says cellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans after reviewing details from dozens of published studies. The statement was issued in Lyon, France, on Tuesday by the International Agency for Research on Cancer after … Continue reading →

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AP Exclusive: Boy in Mladic footage looks back (AP)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

PROHICI, Bosnia-Herzegovina – The footage horrified the world: a grinning Ratko Mladic patting a young Muslim boy on the head and assuring him everyone in the Srebrenica area would be safe — just hours before overseeing the murder of 8,000 … Continue reading →

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Sky Express involved in 4 crashes in last 2 years (AP)

Written on May 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

BOWLING GREEN, Va. – The operator of a bus that overturned and crashed on Interstate 95 in Virginia has been involved in several crashes over the last two years and was cited for 46 violations for fatigued driving. According to … Continue reading →

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