Category Archives: World & Business

Microsoft tried to buy Facebook (a years ago)

14th
Dec. × ’10
The rumor came from the publication of “The Facebook effect” by David Kirkpatrick. In it, the author reveals the attempts made by Steve Ballmer to buy Facebook in 2007. Clearly attempts were unsuccessful. But since there was only a rumor, this week at the conference “How to be acquired” in France, was asked to Fritz [...]
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2010 Ig Nobel Prizes

7th
Oct. × ’10
We have already made public the list of awards 2010 Ig Nobel , the prizes that recognize each year and twenty for research that even sound like a joke seafood, are real: Engineering: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, and Diane Gendron of the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, [...]
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Scary video of the interior of a cruise beaten by a storm

8th
Sep. × ’10
The year was 2008 when a luxury cruise company P & O Cruises , the Pacific Sun , was sailing the Pacific Ocean (with 1732 passengers plus 671 crew members inside) about 600 kilometers of the things New Zealand. Things were going well, the crew worked and talked lazy days while many of the passengers [...]
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Journalist kidnapped in Twitter alerts who is still alive from the mobile phone of one of his captors

7th
Sep. × ’10
Kosuke Tsuneoka , a Japanese freelance journalist captured in Afghanistan for five months, managed to send two tweets before being released as he showed one of his captors how to access the internet from your cell phone. In his first tweet , which was sent at 1:15 pm GMT on Friday, Kosuke Tsuneoka clarified that [...]
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How to remove noise from the party Vuvuzela World

15th
Jun. × ’10
So-called “Vuvuzela” or plastic trumpets that have invaded the World Cup and have exhausted almost all the spectators at matches. The German dubbed “Tube” was already tired of the unbearable “tuuut” that sounds insistently in the background and gave the job to find a solution to eliminate the noise of the vuvuzela. By analyzing the [...]
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Mastercard credit cards prove intelligent LCD screen and keypad

13th
Jun. × ’10
MasterCard announced the deployment of new credit / debit LCD and keypad (numeric keypad) built in an attempt to prevent further bank fraud. Card is issued by Security Nagra has the same appearance as a regular card but with a small screen and a button that generates a password OTP (One Time Password) that can [...]
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The Google Monopoly: City Streets

8th
Sep. × ’09
On September 9, Apple not only try and possible new iPods, not the wave of the Beatles, but also of Monopoly City Streets. This classic board come from the hand of Google to the world’s computers with Internet access. Players will begin with three million-fiction-and can buy any street around the world by using Google [...]
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Tropical Storm Danny formed in Atlantic

26th
Aug. × ’09
The fourth tropical storm of the hurricane season in the Atlantic basin formed today east of the Bahamas, the Caribbean and “could strengthen in the next 48 hours,” the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States. The NHC said in its bulletin from 15.00 GMT today that the storm’s center was near 24.9 degrees [...]
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Entertainment Weekly will include Video ads in the print edition of its magazine

23rd
Aug. × ’09
The printed version of the magazine Entertainment Weekly (a Time Warner property) will include audio and video advertising in its next edition of September 11, marking perhaps a new generation of interactive advertising with print journals, before they make devices like the Kindle market and become as practical as The Daily Prophet Harry Potter universe. [...]
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A Lockheed U-2 travels to the border between the atmosphere and space

8th
Aug. × ’09
Video: James May rides in a U2 spy plane [10:00 min] In this video, which lasts 10 minutes has no waste, you can see James May, the BBC program Top Gear, spy plane ride in a Lockheed U-2 to the boundary of the Earth’s atmosphere and space.
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