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Super Bowl XLVI sets new tweet-per-second record - Los Angeles Times
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:53:24 GMT

Los Angeles Times

Super Bowl XLVI sets new tweet-per-second record
Los Angeles Times
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles How major? Super Bowl XLVI was the most-watched program in TV history, as noted over on the Times' Show Tracker blog. Unsurprisingly, the NFL championship game was also big on Twitter. Millions of tweets were sent pertaining to ...
Twitter sees record activity during 2012 Super BowlBBC News
Super Bowl XLVI by the (Twitter) numbersGigaOm
Super Bowl Breaks Social TV and Broadcast RecordsMashable
Wired News -PC Magazine -Washington Post
all 208 news articles »
Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps - Mashable
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:06:34 GMT

Sydney Morning Herald

Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps
Mashable
Users of Facebook's apps — for Android, iPad and iPhone — may begin seeing ads as soon as early March, as the company looks to gain an addition revenue source before it goes public. Sources close to the matter say Facebook has already discussed ...
Report: Facebook to start mobile ads by Marchmsnbc.com
Facebook Reported Considering Ads in Mobile Users' News FeedsSci-Tech Today
Facebook looks to make mobile clickFinancial Times
Forbes -New York Times -PC Magazine
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Google limits Android support for CDMA phones - Register
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:59:52 GMT

TIME

Google limits Android support for CDMA phones
Register
Google is dropping full support for CDMA handsets running Android, leaving millions of customers wondering if their phones and tablets will be able to cope. Last Friday, Google posted a message on Google Groups to say that in the future, the Chocolate ...
Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad Inspires Twitter BacklashMashable
How Samsung Screwed Up Its Super Bowl AdInformationWeek
Samsung SuperBowl misses gigantic opportunity, fails sociallySlashGear
PCWorld -Washington Post -Los Angeles Times
all 331 news articles »
How Apple cuts costs in building its gadgets - CNN
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:45:31 GMT

The Atlantic Wire

How Apple cuts costs in building its gadgets
CNN
By Mark Milian, CNN Workers labor on a production line at Foxconn's Longhua plant, which employs 300000 people and makes products for Apple. (CNN) -- On the backs of iPods, iPhones and iPads, and on the bottom of Mac laptops, an inscription reads: ...
Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant cultureCNN International
CNN investigates Foxconn iPad factory conditions, Apple respondsApple Insider
iPad manufacturer Foxconn under fire again, Apple respondsCBS News
International Business Times -EBN -The Verge
all 81 news articles »
Lake Vostok drilling complete: Earth's oldest super-clean water system reached - SlashGear
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:16:47 GMT

SlashGear

Lake Vostok drilling complete: Earth's oldest super-clean water system reached
SlashGear
On the first of this month it was reported that scientists were about to complete a 30 year drilling expedition to hit a 20-million-year-old lake: this week they've reached the surface. This body of water called Vostok is Antarctica's largest ...
Russians "Close" to Drilling Into Antarctica's Lake VostokNational Geographic
Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen 'Land of the Lost'?Fox News
Scientists cautious over Russia's Antarctic lake drillingOutcome Magazine
RIA Novosti -Herald Sun -AFP
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(Updates with closing shares in last paragraph.) - BusinessWeek
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:09:51 GMT

The Guardian

(Updates with closing shares in last paragraph.)
BusinessWeek
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Global smartphone shipments surged 55 percent in the fourth quarter, as demand for Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S countered declines by Research In Motion Ltd. and Nokia Oyj, International Data Corporation said. Shipments advanced to 158 ...
Smartphone shipments rose 61% worldwide in 2011, report saysLos Angeles Times
Apple pips Samsung to smartphone crown in fourth quarter, says IDCThe Guardian
Android nabbing more than half of new smartphone buyersCNET
Apple Insider -Mobile Burn -Computerworld
all 119 news articles »
Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in 'Consumer Preview' - The Verge
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:43:36 GMT

Computerworld

Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in 'Consumer Preview'
The Verge
By Tom Warren on February 5, 2012 08:30 am 8Comments Microsoft has taken the bold step of removing the traditional Windows Start button from its Windows 8 "Consumer Preview." The Start button and menu were both introduced with Windows 95 over 15 years ...
Microsoft drops Start button from Windows 8, reports sayComputerworld
Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a ReligionGizmodo
Microsoft removes start button in Windows 8CNET
PC Magazine -SlashGear -BetaNews
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Jurassic cricket's song recreated - BBC News
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:36:31 GMT

BBC News

Jurassic cricket's song recreated
BBC News
By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature Night-time in the Jurassic forest was punctuated by the unmistakable sound of chirping bush crickets. This is according to scientists who have reconstructed the song of a cricket that chirped 165 million ...
Jurassic chirp: scientists recreate ancient cricket songAFP
Audio: 165-Million-Year-Old Cricket Song Comes Back to LifeWired News
Mating call of an extinct bush-cricket rings out again after 165m yearsThe Guardian
Discovery News -World Science
all 28 news articles »
ExoMars co-operation between Nasa and Esa near collapse - BBC News
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:08:25 GMT

BBC News

ExoMars co-operation between Nasa and Esa near collapse
BBC News
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News The American space agency looks set to pull the plug on its joint missions to Mars with the European Space Agency. Nasa has told Esa it is now highly unlikely it will be able to contribute to the ...
Has NASA Scuppered Europe-led ExoMars Mission?Discovery News
Commentary: Cutting NASA's budget would be a bad moveWashington Post
NASA is too poor to help Europe go to Marsio9
The Morning Journal -Space Daily -Sandusky Register
all 8 news articles »
Google Unveils 'Secret Lab' For Radical Ideas - InformationWeek
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:41:19 GMT

Fox News

Google Unveils 'Secret Lab' For Radical Ideas
InformationWeek
What 'skunkworks' projects are underway at Google? New website aims to bring together big thinkers and big problems, such as climate change and cancer. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google last week convened a private technology gathering for ...
Google Tackles 'Radical' Ideas Via 'Solve for X'PC Magazine
Solve for X: Google gathers top minds to solve everythingZDNet (blog)
Google wants to make sci-fi a reality with “Solve for X,” a conference for ...VentureBeat
Washington Post -Fox News -Digitaltrends.com
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 Word of the day 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:

propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity

Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.

"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America

Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.