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...brand-new decade, and Microsoft is about to leapfrog Apple - and every other player in the cell-phone world - with the launch of Windows Phone 7 (WP7). (Get the latest gadget news and reviews on Techland...
...points out that the European Union ruled in 2006 that phone and Internet providers were required to keep all cell-phone and e-mail data for a certain period of time. "That just seems wrong and an invasion of privacy," he says. "We have not caught on to the implications of all these conversations being kept for so long." While he acknowledges that the app might also be a boon to teens who are in the habit of sexting, drunk texting or "running off at the thumb," he thinks lawyers and their clients and business executives involved in complicated deals...
...among people. It has been transmitted between humans only in rare cases, usually among family members in close conditions. But the fear has long been that if bird flu genetically mixed with human flu - in a process called reassortment, in which two flu viruses swap genes in an infected cell - it could create a new strain that is both deadly and transmissible, as illustrated by the new PNAS study. That's how many past pandemic viruses, including 2009 H1N1, were created, leading to new strains to which humans have no natural immunity...
...neutralizing his erstwhile chief of staff, and also dissolving Parliament ahead of legislative polls, he has pressed home his victory decisively. Unable to mount a credible opposition, Rajapaksa's critics will soon find their horizons curtailed. For Fonseka, they have already been reduced to the walls of a cell...
...provide the foundations for a budding friendship. Fledgling amity is almost always in desperate need of commonalities around which conversation can be sustained. A shared interest in “folk and myth” or “that new major…you know, the stem cell one” can lead to a prolonged discussion of class selection and Q ratings. Residence in the same dorm can spark listing everyone else that lives in the building, in hopes that a mutual friend can be identified. Better yet, discovery of a friend from one?...