Augusta, ME – Kindergarten students in the city of Auburn, Main, about 30 miles southwest of the capital Augusta are going to receive something many adults could only dream of getting, a new iPad. Though is may seem to be a far fetched plan to many, it may actually be an idea many states...
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New York City, NY – Yesterday retail giant Target Corporation and hotel giant, Marriott International were the latest in a long list of large United States based companies to publicized that the names and email addresses of their respective customers has been breached. The security breach which occurred last week was not a breach...
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Tags: alliance data systems, breach, data, epsilon, hilton, marriott, security, target, us history
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Columbia, SC – There is a debate going on in South Carolina headed by Democratic State Representative Wendell Gilliard as to whether or not prisoners should be allowed to use social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. Rep. Gilliard is hoping to get a bill passed which will allow prisoners to be...
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Tags: aclu, american civil liberties union, columbia, constitution, democratic, facebook, government, law, myspace, representative, sc, south carolina, twitter, united states, us, wendell gilliard
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Beijing, CHINA – When thinking of the term “good friends” the words “Google” and “China” will most likely not come to mind. However the term “enemy” might, as tensions between the two “super powers,” in their own right, have become more volatile. Yesterday Google lunched an accusation against the government of China saying that...
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Tags: america, android, beijing, china, china mobile, earthquake, google, government, japan, jasmine rallies, proxy servers, regime, search engine, smart phone, tsunami
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Cape Canaveral, FL – The Space Shuttle Discovery landed yesterday at 11:57am EST, following yet another flawless mission that sadly, was to be its’ last. No other space craft, or even non-space vehicle, has traveled the distances Discovery has. Discovery was used in some 39 missions, traveling over 148 million miles and spent a...
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Tags: atlantis, cape canaveral, commander, discovery, endeavor, fl, million miles, nasa, outer space, smithsonian institution, spaceship, steven lindsey
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The satellite named “Glory” which was launched early this morning crashed not long after blast-off, according to a statement released to the public by NASA late this morning. According to NASA the unnamed rocket as to which the satellite was launched in was unsuccessful in reaching orbit. Though it is thought to have crashed...
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Tags: $400, aerosols, climate, earth, forest fires, glory, million, mission, nasa, ocean, pacific, radiation, satellite, space, sun, volcanoes
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Everett, WA – This past Sunday Boeing did not just add new colors to the first Boeing 747-8i, now Boeing’s newest and largest Jumbo Jet, but a whole line of new features. The new features in the new 747 will include, though no limited to, a new cockpit, new wings as well as new...
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Tags: 747-400, 747-8i, a380, airbus, boeing, everett, germany, korean air, lufthansa, wa, washington
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