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Full story: Dean Koontz comes to Second Life
Suspense and horror fiction novelist Dean Koontz is coming to Second Life on March 15 as the virtual stop on the promotion trail for his latest book, “The Good Guy.” Publisher Random House’s Bantam Dell imprint has teamed up with Second Life developer Electric Sheep to hold a live reading and Q&A session, audio streamed into […]
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #222: March 12, 2007
Content summary: Shel’s recap of New Communications Forum; with Lee Hopkins taking a sabattical, we’re looking for guest reporters; Reuters sign in Times Square to feature PR Newswire photos; YouTube, Viacom and the removal of videos; Second Life: the taxman cometh; win at blogging by promoting your rivals; Microsoft customers irate over US daylight saving […]
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Full story: Skynet’s mission
The British military’s Skynet 5 satellite has been launched into space. The spacecraft is part of a £3.2bn system that will deliver secure, high-bandwidth communications for UK and allied forces. Skynet? Sounds familiar: Skynet is a machine network that has gone on a mission to terminate all humans in a global war. Skynet was originally […]
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Full story: Project Red Stripe: A Model-T Ford in any colour as long as it’s smokin’
An interesting idea from The Economist – Project Red Stripe: Project Red Stripe is a six-member team comprised of The Economist Group’s employees that has been brought together with the task of creating an innovative and web-based product, service or business model by July 2007. In addition to the research which the team is conducting […]
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Full story: Summer time woes from US time change
Summer time doesn’t officially start in Europe for another two weeks, when clocks go forward one hour in the early hours of Sunday March 25. In the US, though, they’ve started summer time early this year when clocks went forward one hour yesterday. The US change also affects the end of summertime there, which will […]