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Monday, October 6, 2008

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EBay cuts 1,000 jobs, to buy Bill Me Later

Company expects restructuring charges of about $70-million to $80-million as a result of the cuts, and buy Bill Me Later and two other sites

Will Apple's suit against B.C. school bear fruit?

Company threatens to fight for symbol

Rapping on physics: The nerds have co-opted cool

Katherine McAlpine's Large Hadron Rap has created a pop culture Big Bang

Obama has an iPhone app

The digital-media savvy Obama campaign strikes again, with a handy iPhone application for getting the votes out on election day

The spammers have spoken

Spam using political candidates as lures must surely be a reflection of who the most popular candidtes are in the run-up to the U.S. election, right?

Hey, pilgrim! You forgot your pop-gun!

Sid Meier's latest civilization simulation presents the European colonization of the New World primarily in terms of economics, delaying the satisfying action of the revolution for far too long


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MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Apple stock shaken by rumour

False report that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack briefly slammed Apple stock and raised fresh questions about the relationship between traditional and new media

AT&T still testing delayed BlackBerry

Carrier wants to avoid the chorus of complaints about performance that greeted the new iPhone this summer, RIM CEO says

Tech sector feels squeeze for labour

U.S. employers slashed their payrolls by 159,000 in September, the most in more than five years

How a Canadian cracked the Great Firewall of China

Forgotten password, creative hacking lead Toronto-based researcher to stumble onto surveillance network tracking Chinese dissidents

High hopes for high tech

With its traditional economic bases eroding, B.C. looks to Microsoft's new centre in Richmond as beachhead for the industry

Ig Nobel winners honoured

Annals of Improbable Research honours work on strippers, armadillos and Coca-Cola as a spermicide

Anti-scalper measures in place as 2010 tickets go on sale

Online process designed to give would-be spectators ample time to buy tickets

Googled!

Amateur cartographers are going high-tech to make the most unexpected online maps - and ticking off old-school mapmakers along the way

No heart attack for Jobs, Apple says

Report claimed Apple boss was rushed to the emergency room

Slick hackers wormed their way into Alberta's computers, report says

Hackers, possibly criminals from Asia or Eastern Europe, left signs that they had been inside Alberta's computer network

PERSONAL TECH

Minding your business

What do you really want to do with a cellphone? These six applications show how you can take better charge of your life than you ever dreamed

Prospects keep hand on stick, eyes on the screen

Meet the Phantom, which looks like a desk lamp connected to a computer. The NHL is very interested in it

Where the browsers are going

Today's browsers are no longer promoting their features, their makers are pitching them to developers, and Chrome's arrival shows the way they're all going

TQ@WORK

We've got your back

G4S Canada uses an arsenal of technology to make sure your employees stay safe

Coded for business

This could be the breakthrough year for XBRL, the programming language that will make sifting through business data a snap

Seven Wonders of the World (Wide Web)

There's no shortage of IT news on the Web. In fact, it can be hard to tell one tech site from the next. Here are seven that stand out

SCIENCE

U.S. spacecraft to peek at Mercury next week

Area bigger than the land area of South America will be seen for the first time by our spacecraft

Astronaut's diary goes on display

Diary survived extreme heat in the Columbia explosion, extreme atmospheric cold, and then was attacked by microorganisms and insects

TECH POLL

A study says happiness for men is surfing the Internet, while for women it’s having meals and spending time together as a family. Assuming this confirms your own situation, are you likely to change to make your mate happier?

Results & Past Polls

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