Saturday, December 11, 2004

Sprint Near Deal to Buy Nextel for $34 Billion. A merger between Sprint and Nextel would create a powerful new cellular competitor with some 39 million customers. By By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and KEN BELSON. [NYT > Technology] 10:20:21 PM      Google It!.

Laptops a Hot Fertility Issue. Researchers find that men who place portable computers on their laps are inadvertently raising the temperature of their scrotums -- and possibly damaging their sperm. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News] 10:19:11 PM      Google It!.

Red Hat, IBM Partner to Certify Apps for Linux [Slashdot:] 10:00:11 PM      Google It!.

Using GPS to Track Teens [Slashdot:] 9:57:32 PM      Google It!.

ACS Sues Google Over Use of 'Scholar' [Slashdot:] 9:55:18 PM      Google It!.

Using the XML HTTP Request object [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:54:26 PM      Google It!.

National Library Service Plans Next-Gen Audiobooks [Slashdot:] 9:52:51 PM      Google It!.

Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloads [Slashdot:] 9:50:34 PM      Google It!.

Solar-Powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicles [Slashdot:] 9:49:33 PM      Google It!.

Photo Site a Hit With Bloggers. Flickr, an online photo service that lets people share pictures, is gaining a strong following among bloggers and digital camera enthusiasts for its speed, simplicity and open standards. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News] 9:48:07 PM      Google It!.