Google is buying video-sharing website You Tube for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares. So is this is a gamble or a winning investment? Is this the best business model for an internet start-up? Have a clever idea; build a large audience while burning through lots of money, and wait to be bought by Google? It has [...]...
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Preoccupation with September 11, prevalent throughout the world, is now appearing in computer games. While some U.S.-made computer games portray Arabs and Muslims as villains, Americans are the enemies in Arabic games.
In a game called Night of Capturing Bush, created by the Global Islamic Media Front following Sept. 11, armed Arabs fulfill their mandate by [...]...
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A decision by NASA to abandon Hubble to its fate was scratched in favor of a newer one to lengthen its lifetime.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin approved plans for a space shuttle trip to repair the orbiting telescope Hubble, scheduled tentatively for 2008.
Previous plans for a space shuttle trip to repair the 16-year-old Hubble were [...]...
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Saab, the Swedish luxury car maker, has introduced a new model running on bioethanol fuel to Turkey and other countries.
Compared to a similar model with a petrol engine, the price for this model is 1,500 higher.
Saabs 9-5 Biopower was first introduced in Sweden, said Ceyhan Eryalaz, Saabs head manager for business development. He added [...]...
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Software giant Microsoft started a service providing detailed 3D map searches, in a challenge to Google Earth.
Anyone who wants to obtain this online 3D map service, codenamed Virtual Earth 3D, can go to http://live.com and download it. The map service covers some major U.S. cities for the time being.
This service is available for 15 major [...]...
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Intel has perfected its next generation Intel Core 2 Duo technology while continuing its tests on the quad-core processor.
Intels General Manager for Turkey Ege Ertem said, The Core 2 Duo processors will never be infected nor break down, adding the new processors are more economic than the previous ones.
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A Japanese temp company has begun renting a new robot for use as a hostess or supervisor.
Designed as a host or guide, Ubiko, a special robot in blue and white with three legs, can respond to easy questions and provide information on several issues.
Ubiquitous Exchange, a firm supplying temporary workers to companies, is renting out [...]...
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Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, who launched a golf ball into orbit in space from the International Space Station (ISS), performed the worlds highest tee off. Tyurin gently hit the specially designed golf ball, with a mass of just 3 grams, which has been calculated to travel up to one million miles. The tee-time was delayed [...]...
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General Motors, the worlds biggest automaker, unveiled a new car that works on electricity.The Chevrolet Volt, with an engine based on E-Flex technology, draws energy from lithium-ion batteries that need to be charged every 65 kilometers.
The Volt has a three-cylinder gas engine and its batteries can be charged in 6.5 hours when plugged into [...]...
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For the first time Google carried a special day of Turkey on its logo in connection with the Childrens Festivities on the 23rd of April. Google Turkey stated that instead of the logo on the main page of Google Turkey, a specially designed logo was used on the 23rd of April, celebrating the National Sovereignty [...]...
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