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[ICT]: After Fumble, Microsoft Redoes Phone Software
Feb 28th, 2010

Microsoft’s new mobile phone software, coming at the end of this year, offers “tiles” instead of icons, and has “hubs” for similarly themed functions.

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  • [ICT]: Twitter phishing hits BBC, and us
    Feb 28th, 2010

    An invitation to find out about better sex is spreading virally around Twitter – but only leads to identity theft and malware Thousands of Twitter users have seen their accounts hijacked after a viral phishing attack which sends out messages saying “this you”” or “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” and other sex-related “direct” messages. Among those who fell victim …

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  • [DT]: Similar advertising strategies used by indoor tanning and tobacco industries
    Feb 28th, 2010

    While the proven negative health consequences of smoking and tanning are undeniable, tobacco and indoor tanning advertisers would like consumers to think otherwise. In fact, a new study comparing the tactics used in advertising tobacco and indoor tanning products found several similarities in how these two industries market unhealthy products.

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  • [Geography: Physical]: Japan lifts all tsunami warnings
    Feb 28th, 2010

    Japan lifts tsunami warnings nationwide, almost two days after they were prompted by a powerful earthquake in Chile.

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  • [Science: Biology]: Root or shoot: Power struggle between genetic master switches decides stem cell fate, growth orientation in plants
    Feb 28th, 2010

    The first order of business for any fledgling plant embryo is to determine which end grows the shoot and which end puts down roots. Now, researchers expose the turf wars between two groups of antagonistic genetic master switches that set up a plant’s polar axis with a root on one end and a shoot on the other.

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  • [English: General]: Rhyme with a reason as poets line up to raise money for Haiti quake victims
    Feb 28th, 2010

    THE cream of the country’s poets took to the stage last night in a unique literary line-up to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

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  • [Geography: Physical]: At least 51 dead as hurricane-force storm batters Europe
    Feb 28th, 2010

    A VIOLENT storm battered France, Spain, Portugal and Germany yesterday, leaving at least 51 people dead.

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  • [English: General]: Here’s to the small print: The past and future of compact literature
    Feb 28th, 2010

    One of the strange by-products of the digital revolution that we are going through at the moment is that no one seems to know how big anything should be.

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  • [Geography: Physical]: High Country welcomes environmental flows
    Feb 28th, 2010

    A High Country town in the New South Wales South East is welcoming the latest water releases into the Snowy River.

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  • [Art]: Painting in a damp church is the missing half of a masterpiece
    Feb 28th, 2010

    The art historians’ hearts sank as soon as they got a proper look at the “Van Dyke” on the wall of a Wiltshire church. The painting they had travelled hundreds of miles to see was clearly an 18th-century copy.

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