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[Medianews] The Ink Tank: a daily roundup of editorial cartoons

The Ink Tank: a daily roundup of editorial cartoons http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/20090323_ink_tank/ http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/20090330_ink_tank/

[Medianews] A jewel in the crown loses its luster / The paper the Times Co. may shut down was once its prized acquisition

A jewel in the crown loses its luster The paper the Times Co. may shut down was once its prized acquisition By Keith O'Brien and Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | April 12, 2009 The Boston Globe Reporters marked the news of the sale the best way they knew how: They drank. Gathering in The

[Medianews] Keeping Up With Being Kept

Keeping Up With Being Kept By RUTH PADAWER The New York Times April 12, 2009 AT FIRST GLANCE, the Web site SeekingArrangement.com seems like any other dating site. Most of the men are looking for fit, sexy women, and most of the women want nice guys who can make them smile and laugh. But if

[Medianews] On Point: Facebook Culture

Facebook Culture Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM EDT Facebook just keeps growing. The online social network where people connect and reconnect, post their thoughts, their snapshots, their Facebook friends and latest fancies, had 100 million users last August. 150 million in January.

[Medianews] On Point: The End of ER

The End of ER Friday, April 3, 2009 at 11:00 AM EDT ER is over. NBC's path-breaking, long-running hospital drama - brainchild of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg - went out last night in a blaze of network hoopla and a final flurry of rushing guerneys and shouts for blood. TV critics

[Medianews] Electronic health records raise doubt / Google service's inaccuracies may hold wide lesson

Electronic health records raise doubt Google service's inaccuracies may hold wide lesson By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | April 13, 2009 WASHINGTON - When Dave deBronkart, a tech-savvy kidney cancer survivor, tried to transfer his medical records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to

[Medianews] Apple Updates Xserve with Twice the Performance

Apple Updates Xserve with Twice the Performance Features Next Generation Architecture and Intel Nehalem Xeon Processors CUPERTINO, California-April 7, 2009-Apple today announced an updated Xserve that delivers up to twice the performance of the previous system.* Using Intel Nehalem Xeon

[Medianews] The Ink Tank: a daily roundup of editorial cartoons

The Ink Tank: a daily roundup of editorial cartoons http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/20090406_ink_tankTheInkTankourdailyroundupofeditorialcartoons/ http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/20090413_ink_tank/ *** *

[Medianews] Apple Premieres Movies on the iTunes Store in Germany

Apple Premieres Movies on the iTunes Store in Germany Movie Fans Can Now Buy Rent Films on the iTunes Store MUNICH, Germany-April 16, 2009-Apple today announced that movies from major film studios including Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM),

[Medianews] Apple FY 09 Second Quarter Results Conference Call

Media Alert FY 09 Second Quarter Results Conference Call WHAT: Apple FY 09 Second Quarter Results Conference Call WHERE: Via conference call. The dial-in number for press is: (877) 604-9671 (toll-free) or (719) 325-4852 WHEN: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 2:00 p.m. PDT/5:00 p.m. EDT

[Medianews] xkcd

LINK BY LINK When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper By NOAM COHEN April 20, 2009 IT'S not exactly Quentin Tarantino directing Ibsen, or Jeff Gordon racing go-carts, but the idea that Randall Munroe, creator of the online comic strip xkcd - wildly popular among techies the world over for

[Medianews] Firefox 3.0.9 released

Firefox 3.0.9 Release Date: April 21, 2009 Release Notes http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.9/releasenotes/ Security Advisories http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ http://www.getfirefox.com/

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