Posted on November 30th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Laptop, cell phone and iPod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive….
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida….
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the power plant and the technology behind it isn’t….
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From minor but insistent Lamarckian enhancement does greatness accrue.*
BY JOHN PHILLIPS
*We once heard William F. Buckley Jr. say that, and it sounded cool.
At the Z car’s U.S. introduction 40 years ago, Datsun wisely chose not to employ its domestic “Fairlady” moniker, which Yutaka Katayama knew would have been tantamount to calling, say, the Corvette the [...]
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Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed at 1:25 p.m. PST Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing a 16-day journey of more than 6.6 million miles.
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Space shuttle Endeavour landed safely Sunday afternoon at California’s Edwards Air Force Base after NASA waved off two opportunities for a Florida landing because of poor weather.
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WifiLocations is an application that enables the automatic starting of the Wi-Fi radio in Windows Mobile devices based on cell-ID positioning.
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
GPS-Action is a location-based application that uses GPS and cell-ID to perform custom actions for Symbian S60-based devices.
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Dangerously high wind and a stormy sky prevented space shuttle Endeavour from returning to its home base in Florida on Sunday, and NASA ordered the astronauts to take a detour and land in sunny California….
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