"As Om notes this could spell trouble for messaging services like MSN but I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft isn’t working in a back room somewhere to try and build in XMPP support to Windows Live Messenger. The user base is just too big for them to ignore."
- Sean Kelly
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"Winston-Salem, NC (AHN) – Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body. What the findings mean is the antigens are not necessarily a predictor of the need for a prostate biopsy, which can lead to numerous health ailments in males."
- Sean Kelly
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"AUSTRALIAN super funds, once among the best performers in the world, have been among the worst since the financial crisis began, losing an extraordinary 20 per cent of their value last year and recovering just 1 per cent in the first half of this year."
- Sean Kelly
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"Microsoft announced that it was opening up its Outlook format and giving external programs access to mail, calendar and contacts."
- Sean Kelly
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"That's why a man like Hong Kong contrarian economist Marc Faber warns in his Doom, Boom & Gloom Report: "The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today."
- Sean Kelly
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"What would a webzine for geeks be without a top ten hottest list. Here you go guys (and girls), the JUL’s top ten hottest girls in tech."
- Sean Kelly
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"Google never says how many servers are running in its data centers. But a recent presentation by a Google engineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future."
- Sean Kelly
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@Optus am a 13yr customer. With no warning eg an SMS "bill is overdue" my sim card was nuked, 6 CS reps and 48hrs later still no service
""We are changing the way that humans communicate with each other," he says. "This profound shift is more significant than the invention of the printing press… A thousand years from now, humanity will look back at the late part of the twentieth century as the time when something big started.""
- Sean Kelly
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Why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors « The Jason Calacanis Weblog - http://calacanis.com/2009...
"If Braddick is even half right, we have 60,000 houses across the country that must be built in the next five years. The problem now looming is that a lot of the home builders are fully occupied extending or rebuilding your local school as part of the Rudd stimulus package."
- Sean Kelly
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Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You - Your Privacy Is An Illusion - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5378101...
"Google takes pride in its ability to retain data; Sergey Brin has an op-ed in the New York Times today holding Google servers up as more durable than the ancient Library at Alexandria. Meanwhile, every police department and district attorney's office in the country knows they can extract valuable data from the company. Google has little motive to fight much against these authorities. Not when it could be solving sexier geek problems like indexing books or launching real-time collaboration systems — and when it could potentially be minting billions on its next tech hit."
- Sean Kelly
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