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Today, as we think about what we can do for Haiti , there’s no more pertinent message than in the words of this moving, soulful reading by Haitian author Edwidge Danticat — who reminds us of what Haiti has done for us. Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds us of the contributions of Haiti’s vibrant culture and people. This reading offers a timely message for today — as the nation struggles in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.

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Stories of Haiti: A reading by Edwidge Danticat

The TED Blog today spoke with Patrick Meier, who is part of the team at Ushahidi working to bring information about the Haiti earthquake crisis to Haitians (those inside and outside the country), the press, humanitarian relief workers, governments, and concerned people worldwide. (TED Senior Fellow Erik Hersman , TED speaker Ory Okolloh and TED Senior Fellow Juliana Rotich co-founded the organization.) Visit Ushahidi’s Haiti site at http://Haiti.Ushahidi.com/ > > Talk about you and your team’s immediate response to the earthquake in Haiti. I found out about the earthquake around 7pm

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Ushahidi aggregates, disseminates Haiti crisis info: Q&A with Patrick Meier

If you have been reading my thoughts here on the blog for some time now, you might be aware that I am a real supporter of hardware-based video telephony: I believe that if you truly want to do High Definition video calling, you must have a physical terminal and not a software client on your PC. Well, in the past few weeks I had my doubts about that statement above – PCs are getting cheaper all the time and their processing power is increasing, so why not just base our video conferencing infrastructure on software based clients

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Visual Communications Done By Software? Not That Fast [VoIP Survivor]

In this episode of Internet Business Mastery , we discuss The Julia Child Guide to Starting an Internet Business.  Plus, an cost-effective and easy mic for creating audio content. CLICK HERE to get immediate access to your 30 Day, no risk, trial membership to Internet Business Mastery Academy , where you will get full access to ALL of our courses, tools, and resources for creating your own internet business and escaping the 9-to-5. You will have access to the internet business courses, a Grill the Guru interviews, Success Book Summaries, Cubicle Escape Interviews, Checklists, and new video tutorials in the Million Dollar Rolodex.

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IBM 84 | The Julia Child Guide to Starting an Internet Business

Dania Beach, FL (Web Hosting Finds) October 16, 2009 – ResellersPanel, the leader in private label reseller web hosting automation, has recently announced the introduction of a dropdown toolbar menu, named Elefante Toolbar, which allows a direct installation of almost 40 open source PHP scripts on customers’ websites. The instrument is available in the File Manager, Domain Manager and Subdomain Manager sections of the customers’ Web Hosting Control Panel

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ResellersPanel Automates Script Installation

Farming has the power to lift up lives of the poor, says Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and co-chair of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is funding agricultural research for developing countries. Gates spoke this morning at The World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. “Helping the poorest …

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Microsoft’s Bill Gates Supports Technology in Agriculture to Fight Hunger

In an effort to expand its ranks, the Linux Foundation has improved its selection of perks for members. New perks include hardware discounts and the availability of a lifetime e-mail forwarding account at the linux.com domain. The LF was formed in 2007 when the Open Source Development Labs merged with the …

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Linux Foundation aims to boost membership with new perks

Ive seen it all, Now we have a mineral oil submerged cooling system by Puget Systems. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtufuXLvOok]  From Puget Systems Homepage: http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php “We built this system because with all the oil cooled projects out there, no one built a system that looked good and functioned well! After seeing all the other projects, we …

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Mineral Oil Submerged Computer

Samsung made a fairly tame showing at CES but we did bump into a rather sweet bit of integrated projection fun. The W9600 replaces last year’s W7900 , and, like its predecessor, the specs are pretty thin. We do know, however, know that it uses Texas Instruments’ WVGA chip for the projection, has a 5 megapixel cam, a completely beautiful touchscreen AMOLED display, and can project vids, pics, and even the phone’s interface.

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Samsung’s pico projecting W9600 gets a brief hands on

You’ll be familiar with the LG eXpo and its specs already — which include a slideout QWERTY keyboard and 1GHz Snapdragon under the hood — but we thought we’d go try the handset out for ourselves and tell you what we thought. Construction on this little machine was plenty sturdy to withstand the bumps associated with its unusual shape, while the keyboard slider mechanism had a reassuring feel to it. On the whole our impression was that you’ve got a middle of the road modern phone with a sales hook that depends on just how into projecting your images you are.

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LG eXpo projector hands-on

Okay, so it isn’t the HP Slate , but this Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered, Android-running Mini is definitely a departure from all the netbooks they’ve been putting out lately. At this point, this is just a concept and the white plastic chassis is far from pretty or final, and frankly it just looks like a last generation HP Mini. The 10-inch resistive touch display was responsive to finger taps from what we could see in our brief fondling

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HP Mini Android smartbook hands-on

Panasonic invited us to a sneak peak of 3D at its booth tonight and representatives from DirecTV were there showing off its new 1080p 3D HD demo feed . The quality was pretty good and quite enjoyable. There were no noticeable compression artifacts in the demo loop which included soccer, College Football, Avatar, Toy Story 3, and a few documentaries with awesome architecture and breathtaking views of mountains and ocean wildlife.

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Eyes-on with DirecTV 3D

You’ve read the PR , seen the press shots, and probably snickered a little at the quote from Ford’s Derrick Kuzak indicating that his company’s latest tech “will cause people to fall in love with their vehicles again.” After getting a chance to play with a few entrants into the company’s so-called Sync App Ecosystem, and getting behind the wheel of a MyFord-equipped mockup vehicle, we’re not laughing — but we are smiling.

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MyFord dash and Sync App Ecosystem hands-on

LAS VEGAS—-At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show , AMD today announced the shipment of its two millionth DirectX® 11-capable graphics processor to its technology partners, cementing AMD graphics as the standard for DirectX® 11 computing.

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Millions of DirectX® 11 Graphics Processors Shipped by AMD (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

LAS VEGAS—-AMD today introduced its lineup of next-generation DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium graphics, including ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics, the highest performance graphics for notebooks in the world.1 The entire family of DirectX 11-capable graphics consists of ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5800, ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5700, ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5600 and ATI …

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AMD Unveils World’s First Mobile Graphics with Microsoft® DirectX® 11 Gaming Support for Notebook Computers (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

User experience — the focus of any savvy consumer electronics company (though not all ) looking to differentiate itself in a marketplace saturated by imitators. Now an auto company is hoping to capitalize on this fundamental tenant of modern consumerism: Ford. With the introduction of MyFord, the Detroit institution will attempt to refashion the driver’s interface so as to more closely align with the rich graphic displays found on today’s consumer electronics

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MyFord Touch yields three screens and a Ford from Microsoft Auto 4.0

Those Intel Core i3 and Core i5 mobile processors we’ve been hearing about for quite awhile now are finally finding a home, and one of their first stops is Acer’s Aspire lineup. Notoriously known as solid performing and affordable rigs, both the new 15.6-inch Aspire AS5740 and 17-inch Aspire AS7740 will start at under $800. Not too shabby considering the $750 AS7740 configuration includes a 2.14GHz Intel Core i3-330M CPU, 4GB of RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium and a Blu-ray drive

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Acer rolls out new budget-focused Core i3 and Core i5 Aspire laptops

Aluratek hasn’t been one to really rival the mainstays in the digiframe and e-reader markets, but the outfit’s latest portable media player looks atypically slick. Boasting an expansive 8.9-inch display and an almost slate-like look, the Cinepal arrives with 4GB of inbuilt memory, an SD / SDHC expansion slot, 720p display and a built-in Li-ion good for up to six hours of continuous use.

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Aluratek tempts with 8.9-inch 720p Cinepal PMP

Dell ’s laptop and desktop lineups may hog all of the attention, but the company’s range of LCDs have proven to be contenders over the years. Not one to shy away from the professionals in attendance, the company has today released its first-ever WQHD monitor: the 27-inch UltraSharp U2711. Boasting a native 2,560 x 1,440 resolution, this beast just may pack enough pixels to sway you back into the single-monitor camp

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Dell goes pro with 27-inch UltraSharp U2711 WQHD LCD monitor (hands-on)

If you were worried that packing WiMAX into a MiFi-like device would end up bloating it by a thousand percent, we’re very happy to report that you’d be wrong. The Overdrive’s only marginally bigger than a MiFi and takes on a diamond-cut square shape (as opposed to the MiFi’s rectangle) while adding a monochrome LCD up front that can be triggered on by touching (but not pressing) the power button. Other than that, you’ve got a micro-USB port, a microSD slot…

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Sprint Overdrive hands-on