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The "love song" of a 165-million-year-old insect is recreated from a tiny and remarkably intact fossil, say scientists.

Globe and Mail
Biz Break: Google gives in to pressure from India, Best Buy sparks Apple TV rumors
San Jose Mercury News
By Jeremy C. Owens A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad February 6, 2012. Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on ...
India orders Google, Facebook to remove contentUSA TODAY
Google is social climbingSydney Morning Herald
Internet giants pull content after warning in India courtsReuters
Wall Street Journal -Economic Times -PC Magazine
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New York Times (blog)
Start-Up Nicira Plans to Disrupt Networking Giants
New York Times (blog)
By QUENTIN HARDY | February 6, 2012, 8:33 am SAN FRANCISCO — Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon already turn millions of computers into single clouds of supermachines, managing the flow between personal computers of cat videos, e-mails and the ...
Nicira promises virtual networks will transform networkingPhysOrg.com
Meet Nicira. Yes, people will call it the VMware of networking.GigaOm
Netscape Founder Battles Cisco With Stealth StartupWired News
InformationWeek -CRN -VentureBeat
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National Geographic
Russians "Close" to Drilling Into Antarctica's Lake Vostok
National Geographic
As of five years ago, when this diagram was made, drillers had made a 2.2-mile (3.5-kilometer) shaft. Russian scientists are "very, very close" to reaching the surface of a freshwater lake 2.3 miles (3768) meters under the Antarctic ice, news reports ...
Russians reportedly hit buried Antarctic lakemsnbc.com
Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen 'Land of the Lost'?Fox News
Scientists cautious over drilling into Antarctic lakeHerald Sun
RIA Novosti -Christian Science Monitor
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Myjoyonline.com
Motorola Seeks Slice of iPhone, iPad Sales
Wall Street Journal
By IAN SHERR AND HARRIET TORRY Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. asked Apple Inc. to pay a potential royalty of 2.25% of sales for some iPhones and iPads last year, representing possibly billions of dollars in licensing fees.
Google Cheers As Motorola Strikes Blow Against Apple In GermanyForbes
Apple, Motorola lock horns in GermanySydney Morning Herald
Motorola makes Apple pull iPads and iPhones in GermanyBBC News
Fox Business -ZDNet -CNET
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Los Angeles Times
Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad Inspires Twitter Backlash
Mashable
Samsung has been hyping its campaign for its Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet hybrid for the past few weeks, culminating in an ad shown toward the end of Sunday night's Super Bowl. Whether or not you thought the ad was clever, you couldn't miss the ...
Samsung SuperBowl misses gigantic opportunity, fails sociallySlashGear
iPhone 4S Rival Alert : Samsung Galaxy Note Goes On Sale On AT&TITProPortal
How Samsung Screwed Up Its Super Bowl AdInformationWeek
CNET -Los Angeles Times -Washington Post
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Los Angeles Times
Smartphone shipments rose 61% worldwide in 2011, report says
Los Angeles Times
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles Global smartphone shipments grew massively last year as mobile handsets increased in capability and were made available at lower prices, according to International Data Corp.'s latest Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker quarterly ...
Apple pips Samsung to smartphone crown in fourth quarter, says IDCThe Guardian
Global Smartphone Shipments Jump 55%, Led by Apple's IPhoneSan Francisco Chronicle
NPD: Apple's iPhone 4S, 4 & 3GS were top 3 US smartphones over holidaysApple Insider
CNET -Mobile Burn -AFP
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New York Times
After Facebook's IPO, Payments Business Is Poised For Major Growth
Forbes
In April 2010, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg formally announced its Facebook Credits payments system at its f8 developer conference. But at the time, Zuckerberg downplayed the revenue potential of payments. In response to a question, Zuckerberg emphasized ...
Facebook filling the gaping hole in its mobile strategyGigaOm
Facebook owes users a cut of fortuneSydney Morning Herald
Report: Facebook Prepping Mobile AdsPC Magazine
News Quench -Financial Times -ZDNet (blog)
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Wired News
Audio: 165-Million-Year-Old Cricket Song Comes Back to Life
Wired News
By Brandon Keim Fossils of A. musicus wings and illustrations of its wing ridges. Images: Gu et al./PNAS A cricket song last heard 165 million years ago has been played again. To reconstruct the sound, paleontologists compared microscopic wing ...
Mating call of an extinct bush-cricket rings out again after 165m yearsThe Guardian
You Can Listen to a Jurassic Love SongDiscovery News
Scientists reconstruct cricket sound from dinosaur ageWorld Science
LiveScience.com -PRI's The World -Mongabay.com
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Computerworld
Microsoft drops Start button from Windows 8, reports say
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft will scratch the 17-year-old Start button from Windows 8, according to reports based on a purported leak of the latest beta build. First reported by The Verge yesterday and then followed by other blogs -- all ...
Microsoft May Ditch Start Button in Windows 8PCWorld
Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in 'Consumer Preview'The Verge
Microsoft removes start button in Windows 8CNET
SlashGear -RedOrbit -PC Magazine
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Wired News
Gunning for Netflix: Redbox and Verizon to Launch Video Service This Year
Wired News
By Tim Carmody Verizon and Coinstar Monday announced a long-rumored joint venture, combining a new video download and streaming service from Verizon with Coinstar's popular Redbox kiosk rentals of DVDs, Blu-rays and video games.
Verizon, Redbox plan Netflix challengeReuters
As Studios Fight Back, Will Coinstar Box Itself Into a Corner?Wall Street Journal
How a Netflix-like service from Verizon and Redbox might workDigitaltrends.com
Tom's Guide -ABC7Chicago.com -Crain's New York Business
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Daily Mail
Upgrade eliminates Atlantis from Google Earth
Register
The latest update to Google Earth has resolved the software error that caused some to suspect the lost city of Atlantis had been found in the Atlantic Ocean. For the last three years, Google Earth has shown what appears to be a grid on the sea floor ...
Google Earth update erases underwater 'Atlantis'Fox News
Google Earth update sinks Atlantis (again)Digitaltrends.com
“Evidence” of Lost City of Atlantis Erased from Google EarthSlate Magazine (blog)
PC Magazine -UPI.com -msnbc.com
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The Province
Giants' Win Draws 12233 Tweets per Second
Wired News
By Jeff Beckham New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (No. 12) throws a final Hail Mary pass as New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul (No. 90) tries to take him down in the final seconds of Super Bowl XLVI. Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP The ...
Madonna's Super Bowl Performance Caused 10245 Tweets Per SecondBillboard.biz
Super Bowl 2012 Breaks Two Twitter RecordsPC Magazine
Twitter hits a peak of 12K tweets per second during Super BowlVentureBeat
Mashable -Washington Post -BizReport
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Fox News
Google unveils 'Solve for X'
Washington Post
Google has launched a Web site for something called 'Solve for X,' which is supposed to facilitate and present“moon-shot thinking.” From the Web site: “Solve for X is a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for ...
Google unveils “Solve for X,” a secret project to solve the world's biggest ...Fox News
Google's mysterious lab surfacing in WeSolveForX?Digitaltrends.com
Google Unveils New 'Solve for X' ProjectTIME
VentureBeat -androidandme.com -io9
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Los Angeles Times
2012 begins with highest January gasoline prices ever
Los Angeles Times
By Ronald D. White January is typically a month of falling gasoline prices because fuel demand traditionally falters in the slower travel weeks that follow the end-of-the-year holidays. Not so this year. The last month was the most expensive January ...
Gas Prices Expected to Hit $4 Per Gallon By MayFox Business
Gas prices continue to tick up; expect $4 a gallon by MayAtlanta Journal Constitution
Gas pump prices continue risingMemphis Business Journal
Bizjournals.com -WTAM.com -San Francisco Chronicle
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Macgasm
Who's the Smartphone OS Crash Champion?
PCWorld
Analysis: Apple claims its iOS is more stable, and Android gets the rap for crashes -- but a research report reveals the truth. By Ed Oswald, Technologizer The argument that iOS is a much more stable operating system than Android has been repeated on ...
iPhone iOS Apps Crash More than Android: ReporteWeek
UW Oshkosh students try their hand at app-buildingUW Oshkosh Today
Why Didn't Apple Advertise During the Super Bowl?Mashable
Computerandvideogames.com -Joystiq -Ars Technica
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The "consensus on climate change" is said to be cracking - again - but what's the evidence?

TIME
BTJunkie voluntarily closes file-sharing website
Computerworld
By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service - The BitTorrent search engine BTJunkie has shut down its website, the latest file-sharing site to take defensive action following law enforcement's shutdown of MegaUpload last month. BTJunkie said the move was voluntary ...
After Megaupload closure, BTJunkie shuts downAFP
Torrent search engine BTJunkie voluntarily shuts downArs Technica
BTjunkie Bows Out of the Piracy BusinessThe Atlantic Wire
TIME
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Alberto Contador is handed a two-year ban for a doping offence - and is stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title.

US space agency officials let their European counterparts know that it is now highly unlikely that America will participate in joint missions to the Red Planet in 2016 and 2018.