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Yahoo! offers unimited e-mail storage – Times Online

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Yahoo! offers unimited e-mail storage
Times Online -Mar 29, 2007
Times Online and AP. In another reminder of technology’s quantum leaps, Yahoo!!’s free e-mail service will provide unlimited storage space to its nearly 250 million users worldwide – a concept that seemed unfathomable just a few years ago.
Yahoo opens up Web mail APIsComputerworld New Zealand
Yahoo Mail goes all-you-can-eatComputerworld
San Francisco Chronicle - Motley Fool - Associated Content - My iPhone
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Fallen debris may be meteorite – Taipei Times

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Aljazeera.net
Fallen debris may be meteorite
Taipei Times -Mar 29, 2007
Flaming debris which fell from the sky near a Chilean airliner over the Pacific Ocean may have been a meteorite, New Zealand authorities said yesterday.
Rubbish is a ticking timebomb in the skyNew Zealand Herald
Plane's Meteoric Near MissSky News
Aljazeera.net - iTWire - Santiago Times (subscription) - Register
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Gold rush is on for virtual worlds – USA Today

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Brisbane Times
Gold rush is on for virtual worlds
USA Today -Mar 29, 2007
By Peter Svensson, AP. NEW YORK – Companies are flocking to market themselves in virtual worlds, game-like and usually three-dimensional online universes, but the long-term shape of this fledgling industry is far from clear.
Obama is First in Their Second LifeNew York Times
Cutting edge tech makes the virtual world your oysterPopMatters
OregonLive.com - News 8 Austin - Appscout - TechNewsWorld
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Miyamoto on Third-Party Development Teams – Aussie-Nintendo.com

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Miyamoto on Third-Party Development Teams
Aussie-Nintendo.com -24 minutes ago
April 01, 2007 – During an interview on Newsweek, Shigeru Miyamoto spoke on the difficulties of third-party games competing with those created by in-house teams at Nintendo.
Mario is sexier than Sonic: more on the Sonic/Mario Olympics titleArs Technica
Mario and Sonic in the Olympic GamesCVG Online
Indianapolis Star - GameSpot - Techtree.com - Eurogamer
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Microsoft confirms new Xbox 360 – Edmonton Sun

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Microsoft confirms new Xbox 360
Edmonton Sun -19 minutes ago
By STEVE TILLEY. It's been one of the worst-kept video game secrets of the past month, and this week Microsoft finally confirmed the rumours swirling around the Internet to be true: a new Xbox 360 model is on the way.
Roundtable #10: Updated Console Versions: Good or Bad?PSP Advanced
'Elite' systemPortsmouth Herald News
Indianapolis Star - Moneyweb - San Jose Mercury News - Monsters and Critics.com
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Microsoft Outsources New Halo 2 Maps – Wired Blogs

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Video Game Generation
Microsoft Outsources New Halo 2 Maps
Wired Blogs -Mar 30, 2007
Microsoft announced today that two new multiplayer maps for Halo 2, developed by Austin, Texas-based Certain Affinity, will be available April 17.
Halo 2 Fans Prepare for Battle as Exclusive New MapsMPOGD.com
Newsbriefs: Halo Maps, Fonix Results, Xbox Mod ArrestGamasutra
Monsters and Critics.com - San Jose Mercury News - Playfuls.com - IGN
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Cutting edge tech makes the virtual world your oyster – PopMatters

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Brisbane Times
Cutting edge tech makes the virtual world your oyster
PopMatters -9 hours ago
From being a flat presence on a computer screen, the Web is rapidly morphing into a three-dimensional virtual world. by Stevenson Swanson.
Obama is First in Their Second LifeNew York Times
Virtually realOregonLive.com
News 8 Austin - Appscout - Advertiser Adelaide - TechNewsWorld
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Deep Earth's Temperature Estimated at 6650 Degrees Fahrenheit – Korea Times

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Deep Earth's Temperature Estimated at 6650 Degrees Fahrenheit
Korea Times -23 minutes ago
The temperature of the Earth’s extremely deep interior was estimated at 6650 degrees Fahrenheit (3677 degrees Celsius), National Geographic News reported Thursday quoting scientists.
MIT Model Provides Realistic View Of OceanPlayfuls.com
Earth's Temperature 1000 Miles Under the Surface Hits 6650 Degrees FOX News
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Mozilla Updates Mobile Browser (PC World)

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PC World – Update: Minimo, the Mozilla mobile browser, became available this week in the midst of changes within the Minimo project that make its future uncertain.

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Will Apple TV touch off an iPod-style revolution? – Los Angeles Times

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Will Apple TV touch off an iPod-style revolution?
Los Angeles Times -28 minutes ago
Microsoft has a comprehensive plan to change the way you watch TV, listen to music and interact with home-made computer content. As we discussed in the last column, it is a pretty good plan – but one that may fall apart because of digital rights
Apple Launches Album-Centered Marketing PlaySci-Tech Today
Why I don't want to Complete My Albums on iTunesMobile Digest
Playlist - Siliconrepublic.com - Seattle Post Intelligencer - iTWire
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Bad behavior in the blogosphere – San Francisco Chronicle

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Montreal Gazette
Bad behavior in the blogosphere
San Francisco Chronicle -Mar 29, 2007
Death threats against a popular tech blogger this week have ignited an online firestorm about free speech, civility and sexism on the Internet.
Call for a Blogger's Code of ConductO’Reilly Radar
Call for code of conduct as tech blogger receives death threatsMonsters and Critics.com
Los Angeles Times - ZDNet - Salon - Philly Future
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Falcon Eggs Taken From Hazardous Nest – Playfuls.com

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Falcon Eggs Taken From Hazardous Nest
Playfuls.com -26 minutes ago
by News Staff. Researchers in San Francisco robbed a pair of peregrine falcons of their eggs because the offspring would likely drown if they hatched on the Bay Bridge.
Saving San Francisco's Favorite FalconsCBS News
Scientists Attempt to Rescue Falcon EggsFOX News
San Francisco Chronicle - All Headline News - Centre Daily Times
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Study: Dinosaurs' demise didn't spur mammals' evolution – Houston Chronicle

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Study: Dinosaurs' demise didn't spur mammals' evolution
Houston Chronicle -Mar 28, 2007
By MALCOLM RITTER. AP. NEW YORK – Maybe you learned this in school: The big dinosaur die-off 65 million years ago was a liberation for mammals, and they quickly produced a bunch of new species that included ancestors of humans and other modern-day
New theory raised on rise of mammalsBoston Globe
Dinosaur extinction didn't make way for usPeople’s Daily Online
ABC Online - San Francisco Chronicle - Telegraph.co.uk - Voice of America
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