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Facebook Ipo

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Reacting to yesterday’s Wall Street Journal scoop that Facebook was looking at the April to June 2012 timeframe to raise $10 billion in an IPO, reporters and analysts were quick to point out their lack of surprise. As many noted, Facebook is required to file financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission when the number of private shareholders tops 500. Facebook has indicated that it will exceed that number by the end of the 2011 calendar year, meaning that the company would have to file with the SEC by April 30, 2012, whether it is public or not. Yet even after citing this fact, the tech media has lifted Facebook’s IPO talk to “cacophonous levels,” in the words of VentureBeat. It could be the IPO offering amount cited by The Journal: $10 billion. An offering of that size would raise more money than any other technology IPO, says Bloomberg, which lists the current record holder, Infineon Technologies AG, at the comparatively puny amount of $5.23 billion

Cloud Computing

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many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling servers. Concentrated in one place, the servers produce enormous heat. The additional power needed for cooling them — up to half of the power used to run them — is the steep environmental price we have paid to move data to the so-called cloud. Nick IluzadaResearchers, however, have come up with an intriguing option for that wasted heat: putting it to good use in people’s homes. Two researchers at the University of Virginia and four at Microsoft Research explored this possibility in a paper presented this year at the Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing. The paper looks at how the servers — though still operated by their companies — could be placed inside homes and used as a source of heat. The authors call the concept the “data furnace.” They acknowledge that it is more likely that data furnaces, if adopted, would be placed first in basements of office an

Islamic New Year in Kuala Lumpur

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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has launched a fleet of women-only taxis, an initiative that follows pink-coloured train coaches and buses aimed at shielding women from harassment, reports said Sunday. Fifty women taxi drivers have started plying greater Kuala Lumpur on an on-call basis, and the government hopes the number of special taxis will expand to 400, The Star and the New Straits Times dailies reported. Heng Seai Kei, deputy minister for Women, Family and Community Development, was quoted as saying the taxis made travelling safer for women, as well as providing jobs for women who wanted to be taxi drivers. "We hope it will reduce the number of rape and robbery cases involving taxi drivers and female victims," Heng was quoted as saying at the launch of the service. Late last year, Malaysia's state-owned bus company began running female-only buses on several routes in Kuala Lumpur during peak hours to help counter sexual harassment on crowded public transport . They fo

Nokia N9

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We’ve had our own look at this device in the full Nokia N9 review but WOW, did we miss out on how amazing the device could really be. OR it is possible that whoever is in charge of setting up ad spots in China has such a visionary eye that we can only dream of such glory here in the states. The commercial features Bingbing speaking some rather powerful convictions on how she is an individual and has the uniqueness to bust apart her peers. Some of the situation might be lost in translation here, but there are subtitles for you non-believers. Notice also that there’s a pack of fighting folks outside this woman’s door, they who we can only assume are each Agent Smith from the Matrix wearing the masks of the Gladiator otherwise known as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius. Then again the exact specifications of the masks do seem to match the mask of rapper MF Doom as well. Some sort of conspiracy we must assume. All this said, feel free to appreciate the commercial for w

India gold down 0.5 percent

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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India gold futures fell half a percent on Friday afternoon, retracing to a level seen earlier in the week, following a similar trend overseas , though a weaker rupee cushioned the fall. Silver extended losses for a third day. * The most-active gold for December delivery on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) was 0.48 percent lower at 28,411 rupees per 10 grams at 2:23 p.m., after hitting a low of 28,377 rupees earlier, a level last seen on Nov. 21. * Overseas gold edged down below $1,700 an ounce, heading for its second straight weekly fall. The rupee, which plays an important role in determining the landed cost of the yellow metal, weakened on Friday. * Physical buyers stayed on the sidelines in the middle of the wedding season, which will last peak in December and continue till April. * “There is no demand in the market…Gujarat has imported only 2 tonnes in November as against 12 tonnes last year,” said Haresh Acharya, head of bullion desk, Parker B

IPhone 4S in India

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Sachin Tendulkar stood on the brink of batting immortality only to retreat, plunging a milestone-obsessed country into depression and triggering a debate on his vulnerability against the pressure of expectation. NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The iPhone 4S, the final gadget unveiled during Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' lifetime, hit store shelves in India on Friday with a starting price of 44,500 rupees. At about four times the U.S. retail price where customers buy mandatory data-service plans, the phone may still find buyers among affluent young professionals in India who are snapping up iconic brands and luxury items. Airtel and Aircel are selling the 16 GB model for 44,500 rupees, with the 32 GB version priced at 50,900 rupees and the 64 GB model available for 57,500 rupees. Media reports last week said Indian fans were unhappy that the smartphone will be more expensive in India than anywhere else in the world. The final gadget unveiled during Apple co-founder Steve Job

Solar Eclipses

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Solar Eclipses . Before science began to explain the journey and paths of planets in the solar system and their circumnavigation around the Sun, the common belief amongst most cultures was of the end of days and portents to war, pestilence and famine. Today solar eclipse travel, solar eclipse pictures beamed by television across the world and animated solar eclipse graphics showing over the Internet and other media, have enabled a deep understanding of this awesome natural wonder to completely lose its earlier held mystical and demonic attachments. A rare solar eclipse, called a hybrid solar eclipse, is where seemingly the sun and the moon appear to exactly coincide. One of the last solar eclipse to create this effect was in 2005. Solar Eclipses In 2013 there will be both an annular and total solar eclipse hybrid which will pass through the Greenwich Meridian at 0º latitude, 0º longditude. This is a rare solar eclipse whose next occurence will not be before 2114. Wh

Google Music

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See more like this in News » Audio Google has announced a new service, Google Music, that's cheaper than both the $20 Amazon MP3, and Apple's $25 iTunes Match. With Google Music you can store 20,000 tracks online--not counting what you buy from the Android Market -- and the songs you purchase will play on both Android and iOS devices. With room for 5 disks, these expandable networking powerhouses provide everything your office need for backup, security, and speed. Back to School Deal from Fujitsu. Bring signal into your home, office or car with zBoost. Receive 20% off zBoost Signal Boosters.Editors' Picks Google's Next Targets: iTunes and Amazon Music Google Music, iTunes Match, and Amazon Cloud Drive: Digital Music Services Comparison Google Music Store: Strengths and Weaknesses in Catalog Google Music: 5 Things You Need to Know Get Started With Google's New Music Store Dealing with iTunes Match's 25,000 track limit Apple Releases i

Myanmar new elections

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Myanmar's main opposition party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi decided Friday to rejoin politics and register for future elections, signaling its confidence in recent reforms by the military-aligned government. The National League for Democracy party "has unanimously decided to reregister as a political party ... and will run in the elections," it said in a statement issued at the end of a meeting of senior members from across the country. "What we are doing now involves a lot of risk but it is time to take the risk because in politics there is no 100 percent assurance of success," Suu Kyi told them. The NLD had refused to register for elections last year – the first since 1990 – because of a restriction that would have prevented Suu Kyi from running . That restriction was lifted this year by a new nominally civilian government that took office from a long-ruling military junta after the November 2010 polls. At the NLD meeting, member after

Brooklyn Bridge

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Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose chants against corporate greed resounded in Lower Manhattan, marched peacefully across the Brooklyn Bridge, six weeks after mass arrests there thrust them into the national spotlight. Crowds that appeared to number in the thousands took part in yesterday’s events, which began with unsuccessful attempts to disrupt the New York Stock Exchange . Through the day, about 300 arrests were made, police spokesman Paul Browne said by e-mail. Seven officers and 10 protesters were injured, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a late afternoon briefing. “Most protesters have, in all fairness, acted responsibly,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP, said at Bellevue Hospital after he visited an injured police officer. “It is not an overwhelming number. The police were able to handle it.” The bridge marchers, greeted by honking cars and cheering people, were accompanied by

Twilight trailer

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Facebook finally admits

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Could Diaspora ever challenge Facebook and Google Plus? Facebook hit with unsolicited porn, violent videosFacebook buys e-mail prioritiser MailRankIn a series of interviews with USAToday, Facebook has finally revealed how it tracks users and non-users across the web, gathering huge amount of data as it does so. Says ABCNews/USAToday: Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason. Allegations from Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner that Facebook was creating “shadow profiles” of non-users were initially refuted by Facebook’s spokesman Andrew Noyes, who said categorically that “The allegations are false.” After months of equivocation, Facebook finally admits that it tr