Major Advances In Knot Theory

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Science tries to explain why you love Apple (and hate Microsoft)

Why do people who love Apple hate Microsoft? Conversely, why do people who love Microsoft hate Apple? Science, that wonderful abstraction, may have an answer.

A professor at the University College London, Semir Zeki, has proposed the following: love is a blind emotion while hate takes conscious effort to produce.

Think of it in romantic terms: Why do you find that girl or guy attractive? You just sorta do; it’s hard to explain. But, why do you hate that girl or guy? I’m sure you have a laundry list of reasons.

We can apply the same logic to Apple/Microsoft. It’s a lot easier to explain why you hate Apple or Microsoft, but try explaining why you like Apple or Microsoft. “I don’t know, I just do.” Indeed.

I don’t know, it gets pretty cerebral pretty quickly. Y’all would be better served (and certainly better entertained) playing Fable II.

via CNET’s Technically Incorrect

Propaganda stamps

Perhaps we should take a moment to define the difference between a propaganda parody and an espionage forgery. In the former, one government will take the stamp of an enemy or occupied government and change the stamp in such a way as to make a political statement and perhaps cast aspersions at and ridicule enemy leaders or occupation forces. These stamps are designed to be recognized for what they are, an attack on the enemy. In the case of the espionage forgery, one government has produced a stamp that is a perfect imitation of the enemy stamp to be used to mail propaganda or instructions to people in the enemy or occupied country. These stamps are part of a secret operation and not meant to be recognized.

Cruel blue screen of death prank with revolting ASCII goatse

Make contributor Joe Grand (aka "Kingpin") shows his BSODomizer (www.bsodomizer.com) prank gadget in action. Complete plans are available or you can buy an assembled unit for $79.

What is BSODomizer?

BSODomizer is a small, battery-powered, mischievous electronic gadget that interfaces between a laptop or desktop and VGA monitor and flashes images onto the monitor at random time intervals or when triggered by an infrared remote control. When used to display a fake BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), the user will become confused and turn off his or her machine. Over and over again. Legitimate uses of the BSODomizer include monitor/projector/video calibration or a simple timer to remind the user to take a break from sitting in front of the computer. Various configuration settings are selected via on-board DIP switches. Created by Joe Grand (aka Kingpin) and Zoz.

If you have any video or pictures of BSODomy in action, be sure to let us know and we can post things on this page or link to your site. Have fun!

The lonely kiosk that’s a part of Microsoft’s $300 million ad campaign

We’re seeing more and more of what $300 million buys you—“you” being Microsoft and $300 million being its recently beefed up ad budget.

So, to the point: what does it buy you? In addition to the unfairly panned—though we like them, for the record—Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld commercials, it also buys you a small kiosk outside English Apple retail stores. The kiosk, emblazoned with Microsoft logos and, strangely, Deepak Chopra (is Mr. Chopra hip?), sits outside the store, waiting for passersby to say, what, exactly? Yeah, down with Apple!

Apparently Microsoft staffers are on hand to promote the company’s message. (Hopefully it’s not the same message as “Wait for Widows 7.”) You’re invited to upload photos and videos showing how you, too, are a PC. Spreadsheets and pie charts a-plenty, I suspect.

$200 Eee PC by next year?

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Looking to get an Eee PC for less than an iPod?  Sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it?  Well, in its quarterly investors earnings call, Asustek announced a great number of things, including the fact that the baseline Eee PCs will be lowered to $200 by the end of 2009.  It seems 1.7 million Eee PCs were shipped last quarter, and Asus is expecting 1.8 million to be shipped this coming quarter.  There is some bad news for some, though.

Along with the price announcement, Asus announced that the 7” and 8.9” models will soon be phased out in favor of the 10-inch models.  That’s somewhat sad to me at least.  The 8.9” is the perfect size I think, especially if the screens on the 8.9” and 10” are the same resolution.

Asus also announced that of those shipped, 70 percent of Eee PCs had Windows installed, and 30 percent were shipped with Xandros.  While Xandros isn’t the best Linux, the fact that it is so far behind Windows is somewhat depressing.  Installing another version of Linux is incredibly easy, though it does make sense that people want an experience more familiar to them.  Perhaps if Asus followed HP and Dell and released a modified version of Ubuntu on the Eee PC it might do better (Ubuntu Eee works extremely well, even if there are a few issues with it).

The same percentages apply to the storage on the Eee PCs.  70 percent were shipped with hard drives, while 30 percent were shipped with SSDs.  It could just be me, but the idea of a netbook is not to have a lot of storage, and is something that you can carry around a lot.  Sure, the hard drives are sturdy, but there’s no moving parts with the SSDs which makes me very happy.

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A collection of iPhone costumes for your perusal

Halloween has come and gone as it tends to do every year and this year saw its fair share of Apple-inspired costumes. DVICE has compiled a list of what it’s judged to be the best iPhone costumes of Halloween 2008. There are some pretty good ones in there, like the MySpace guy up on the left there and the baby in an iPhone stroller on the right. The list also includes a dog wearing an iPhone, which looks kind of cool.

Most of the rest kind of all look like cardboard boxes with tin foil around the sides. Two guys made costumes with working screens (there’s a video here), although they actually wore them last year. Still pretty cool, though.

10 Best iPhone costumes [DVICE]

Doom9 Researchers Break BD+

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Acropolis Survived Many Earthquakes

Is Revver On The Fritz?

We’ve been getting a lot of tips from people who have been having problems reaching the Revver website lately, getting videos uploaded or playing the ones already hosted on the platform. We haven’t paid much attention to them so far, because every time we check, the site appears to be running smoothly and we experience no trouble playing videos.

But a quick glance on Twitter shows something is definitely up.

What’s worse than uptime issues, though, is that the company apparently has some trouble meeting payments. Rumors are circulating that employees haven’t been getting their paychecks on time either, adding to the assumption that Revver is now on its last legs.

Revver, founded in 2004, was one of the first video sharing sites to start sharing revenue with content creators. In September 2007, everything looked rosy when the company said it had managed to pay $1 million to video producers and their affiliates over a period of one year. By February 2008, the company was collecting debt, laying off staff and reportedly put itself up for sale.

Revver was in fact acquired nearly two weeks after our post, by MySpace founder Brad Greenspan’s LiveUniverse for “about $5 million“. Revver had raised a total of $12.7 million in two rounds from Comcast, Turner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Richards and William Randolph Hearst III.

But now it seems Revver is on the ropes once again, and may be headed for the deadpool soon. I also can’t help but notice that the LiveUniverse website doesn’t even mention the social video property anywhere, not even in its media kit.

We have an e-mail in with Greenspan asking for more information and will update the post if necessary.

Update: Greenspan checked in and says they are in the middle of major migration from a CDN/provider to a tier 1 & top technology provider which “should make the quality of Revver videos displayed better then ever” (could take a few days).

No word on the complaints about actual downtime and delay or lack of payments to content creators yet, so we’re sticking to the story.

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EU nations agree to push back CO2 auto limits to 2015

White Supremacists for Obama, Black Separatists for McCain, Janis Ian For The End of The World

I'm not sure what bigger picture I'm to extract from this brief Esquire piece by David Peisner, but it's an interesting read. He interviews several white supremacists (the sheet-wearin', Hitler-lovin' kind) and a self-described black nationalist who advocates resegregation of black and white people within the US. Three of the white guys he interviewed want Obama to win, the black person wants McCain to win. Hardly a representative sample of either camp, but it's an unusual glimpse inside a way of thinking you may find foreign. Snip:

NAME: Erich Gliebe

Who: Chairman, National Alliance

Likes: Third Reich, the movie Rocky

Dislikes: Integration, Jewish-controlled media

Career Highlights: Turning white-power record label, Resistance Records, into a million-dollar-a-year business juggernaut; an 8-0 record as a professional boxer under the nickname, "The Aryan Barbarian."

"Obama might be a better candidate for our cause because he’s racially conscious. One of our big things in the National Alliance is to raise the racial consciousness of our people. Young whites in universities, they’ve been stripped of any kind of racial identity. Obama may be a racist in a positive sense for his people--that will awaken a lot of the whites, knock some sense into them. They’ll see that non-white Americans are allowed to be proud of who they are, to be racially conscious, to talk about their people or their community without being attacked as being racist. Let’s face it, white people aren’t going to fight for their causes, for their kind with a white president. I don’t think McCain even acknowledges that a white race exists. He’s all about granting amnesty to illegal aliens. The fact he wants to keep us in wars in the Middle East for 100 years, that’s not a good thing. I give Obama credit, he seems to have stuck to his guns as far as pulling the troops out of Iraq. He’s a very intelligent man, an excellent speaker and has charisma. John McCain offers none of that. Perhaps the best thing for the white race is to have a black president. My only problem with Obama is perhaps he’s not black enough."

Incidentally, remember how earlier this year, SNL re-ran its first episode ever, hosted by George Carlin, on the occasion of his passing? Ms. Ian, surprise white supremacist enemy number one, was the musical guest. Her stripped-down acoustic performance was simple, moving, beautiful, and timeless. Video clip below: At Seventeen, from the aforementioned album. Consider it a unicorn chaser, and enjoy. It is, at heart, a song about being a stranger in a world that doesn't reward strangeness, and prevailing anyway. That's something the bigots can't take away from us.

Fallout 3 Launches Amidst Controversy

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Hundreds queue for new Nintendo console (AFP)

AFP - Hundreds of people queued to be among the first to buy Nintendo's latest games console on Saturday, as the Japanese electronic giant unveiled the DSi, featuring a built-in camera and enhanced sound.

Like never before, US voters plug into power of the Internet (AFP)

AFP - Barack Obama and John McCain have relied heavily on the Internet for their US presidential campaigns but it's not just the candidates who have tapped into the power of the web this election.

Hot gaming news for the week of 10-26-2008

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• Gaia’s Halloween Hysteria lasts ‘til October 31, 2008
• Man hacks Chrono Trigger to propose to girlfriend
• Gamertell Review: Penguin United’s 4x Quad Charge Station for WiiMotes
• Fable 2 patches coming soon, missing Limited Edition codes in the mail
• Rock out with your tongue out with the Gene Simmons Axe Guitar

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whereIvote.Com Unveils Candidate Profiles, Directions to 330,000 Polling Places

Will Online Video Kill Tivo?

Elevator Pitch Saturday: Search Socially With Scour

It’s Elevator Pitch Friday Saturday, which means another startup has created a video that’s worth showing you. This week’s presentation comes from Scour.com, a meta social search engine.

Scour searches and displays results from Google, Yahoo and Live Search all at once and enables each of its members to vote each listing up or down based on its relevance to their keyword as well as comment on their experiences with the site. In addition to the combined results Scour offers a kind of get-paid-to-search scheme based on points in a way similar to Microsoft SearchPerks. Users earn a point for each search, vote or comment they make and can claim a $25 Visa card when they’ve reached 6,500 points.

Founded in 2007, Scour was originally named Aftervote.com. Almost exactly 1 year later, Aftervote was acquired by Internext media, owner and operator of the ABCSearch Network and re-branded to Scour.com.

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whereIvote.com Unveils Candidate Profiles, Directions to 330,000 Polling Places

Non-Partisan Website shows choices, aides Get Out The Vote Efforts WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Aristotle International, the non-partisan election...
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Indonesian Mud Volcano Caused By Drilling

World scientists conclude drilling, not earthquake, was the cause of east Java mud volcano at international debateA resounding vote of international petroleum geologists from around the globe concluded that the mud volcano was triggered by drilling of a nearby gas exploration well.This may have implications for compensation of the local population affected.Lusi started to erupt in East Java, Indonesia, on May 29th 2006, and is still spewing huge volumes of boiling mud over the surrounding area. It has displaced around 30,000 people from their homes and swamped 12 villages.The cause of Lusi was considered at a debate this week at an International conference in Cape Town, South Africa, which concluded with a vote between 74 world-leading petroleum scientists who considered the evidence presented by four experts in the field.Some 42 scientists voted that gas exploration well, Banjar-Panji-1, which was being drilled by oil and gas company called Lapindo Brantas, was the cause.Only 3 scientists voted for the alternative explanation – that the Yogyakarta earthquake two days before the eruption, whose epicenter was 280km from the mud volcano, was the cause. Some 16 scientists voted that the evidence was inconclusive and 13 that a combination of earthquake and drilling were the cause.The vote, taken this week at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Conference in South Africa, follows months of scientific investigation and analysis published by some of the world's leading experts in their field. Key reasons supporting drilling rather than the earthquake as the cause include:the earthquake was too small and too far away to have had a role.the well was being drilled at the same time and only 150 m from the volcano site.the well took a huge influx of fluid the day before the eruption, resulting in pressures that the well could not tolerate.the pressure measured in the well after the influx provides strong evidence that the well was leaking and even evidence for the initial eruption at the surface.One of the speakers, leading geologist Professor Richard Davies of Durham University, UK, commented: "The conference allowed us to present new data on the pressures in the well the day before the eruption and these provide a compelling tape recording of the well as it started to leak.''"We were particularly grateful to Lapindo, the company involved in the drilling, who were widely applauded at the meeting for their willingness to take part in the discussion."Prof Davies added: "I remain convinced that drilling was the cause of the mud volcano. The opinion of the international scientists at the event in South Africa adds further weight to my conviction and the conclusions of many other leading scientists who have studied Lusi."Susila Lusiaga a drilling engineer and part of the Indonesian police investigation team said: "There is no question, the pressures in the well went way beyond what it could tolerate – and it triggered the mud volcano."Michael Manga, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, said: "The key observation from an earthquake perspective is that there were many much larger and quite a bit closer earthquakes that did not trigger an eruption'."The Yogyakarta earthquake was simply too small and too far away to initiate an eruption."Lusi is still flowing at 100,000 cubic meters per day, enough to fill 53 Olympic swimming pools.Recent research by Durham University UK, and the Institute of Technology Bandung in Indonesia, showed Lusi is collapsing by at about 13 m per year and sometimes 3 m overnight and could subside to depths of more than 140 meters, having a significant environmental impact on the surrounding area for years to come.---Image 1: The main vent of the Lusi mud volcano taken within a few months of eruption. Credit: Durham UniversityImage 2: Satellite image of the Lusi mud volcano. The white plume in the center of the picture is steam from the central vent of the volcano. Credit: Ikonos Satellite Image, copyright CRISP NUS 2007/2008
Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 1 Nov 2008 | 3:35 pm

Second China Gives Foreign Service Workers First Look

Image Caption: A hostess introduces a visitor to a teahouse in Second China, a virtual city aimed and educating and preparing foreign service or other government professionals for their first visit to China. Accessible through the popular online world Second Life, Second China offers an array of virtual experiences to users who want to familiarize themselves with the sights and experiences they will encounter as first-time visitors. These include meetings, visits to teahouses and other Chinese cultural institutions, even a taxi cab ride.
Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 1 Nov 2008 | 3:30 pm

MILESTONE: 1,000 Giant Bluefin Tuna Tagged

Image 1: Dr. Michael Stokesbury of Dalhousie University tags a giant bluefin caught in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off Nova Scotia, Canada. The fish, estimated at 1,250 pounds, was released with the 1,000th electronic tag deployed through the Tag-A-Giant research campaign. Credit: Tag-A-GiantImage 2: The giant bluefin tuna destined to carry the 1,000th tag deployed through the Tag-A-Giant research program is measured by the team prior to tag and release. Credit: Tag-A-Giant
Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 1 Nov 2008 | 3:24 pm

Totlol: The New Saturday Morning Cartoons

If you have kids and Nickelodeon (or Nickelodeon.com) just doesn’t cut it for you all the time, tune into Totlol. It’s children’s Web video for the children of the YouTube generation. In fact, Totlol was built by one developer in Vancouver, B.C. (Ron Ilan, father of two) entirely on the YouTube platform. It is a collection of thousands of child-appropriate video clips from YouTube, chosen by parents, and rated by toddlers.

Totlol uses the YouTube API and reskins all the videos with its own player (much like we do with Elevator Pitches). Viewers can rate and collect videos. Collections act like playlists. Plop your child in front of the computer, and it plays all the way through (not that I would ever do that, of course).

So why not just watch these videos on YouTube? Totlol acts as a filter for these videos and presents them in a more child-friendly format. Every video on the site has been vetted at least once by a parent (hopefully). Ilan explains what he hopes to achieve with Totlol:

How do you take those lousy clips form YouTube and make them beter than any DVD collection you have?

Those who sign up as members are given extensive parental controls. You can block individual videos, and set time limits, for instance. Totlol launched last May, but Ilan just recently added Totlol a full-screen player for members that makes the whole experience more like TV. And he is adding more features all the time, such as an AgeOptimizer that “algorithmically optimizes the site content to a requested age group.”

For a video site built by one person, Totlol is impressive. And it shows how YouTube could give rise to hundreds of niche video sites with their own features and communities. Although, what Totlol is missing is a channel on YouTube itself, which would probably be the best way to recruit more toddlers and their parents to Totlol itself.

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Impressive Vertex hepatitis C drug data unveiled

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Schering-Plough says hepatitis C data positive

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The week in Microsoft: PDC, PDC, and PDC - Ars Technica

The week in Microsoft: PDC, PDC, and PDC Ars Technica - 20 hours ago By Emil Protalinski | Published: November 01, 2008 - 09:45AM CT Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the most-read stories of the week of PDC 2008: First look at Windows 7's User Interface. Microsoft's other new platform: Live Framework CNET News Microsoft Delivers Surface SDK eWeek Windows IT Pro - NewsFactor Network - DABCC.com (press release) - Microsoft Watch all 23 news articles

Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 1 Nov 2008 | 2:56 pm

Mining for minerals fuels Congo conflict (AP)

AP - The conflict in eastern Congo is being fueled and funded by a tussle for mineral resources that end up in cell phones, laptops and other electronics — deepening the stakes in a war that sprung out of festering hatreds from the Rwandan genocide.
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 1 Nov 2008 | 2:40 pm

Facts don't get in the way of Web political rumors (AP)

AP - With just days to go before the election, gossip, hearsay, innuendo and smears are flying through the Internet as gadflies and rumormongers hope to sway voters before they head to the polls.
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 1 Nov 2008 | 2:36 pm

WorldFriends Mixes Facebook With Match.com (And Dares Charging Subscription Fees)

WorldFriends, a social network with a focus on connecting internationally-minded people, was established as early as 2003 but has flown under the radar of the American blogosphere since then. The Tokyo- and Shanghai-based site, which now has nearly 2 million users from all over the world, did a soft (re)launch last week, mainly enhancing a number of networking features.

WorldFriends is walking a fine line between being a platform for dating, language exchange and making international friends. At first sight, WorldFriends actually looks much like a heavily internationalized version of your average dating site. The profile page, for example, features a member slide show (showing only female users if that is what you said you are interested in when signing up), a “New photos”-container (again girls only) and an “Your Ideal Match”-list.

But WorldFriends CEO Dominic Penaloza says the focus lies on cross-cultural networking, finding international penpals, getting travel tips and learning foreign languages (yeah, right). The site, which is available in English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, boasts over 110,000 language teachers among its registered members. About 65% of total message traffic between members is cross-border.

Perhaps WorldFriends’ most interesting aspect is the business model, which isn’t solely based upon selling advertising space. The site charges users via three different kinds of upgrades that essentially enables members to interact with each other in various modes. For example, users have to pay $24.95 per month to be able to initiate contact (emails, instant messages, voice chat or video chat) to all members (initiating contact with friends and friends of friends is free of charge). It costs $244.95 a year to be able to initiate contact with all members and enable all members to initiate contact with you free of charge. By way of comparison, business network LinkedIn charges $199.95 a year for its so-called Business and $500 for its Business Plus premium accounts. Premium members of Germany’s business platform Xing have to pay about $90 annually.

Penaloza says about 4% of WorldFriends members are paying for services, which certainly helped the site to reach profitability 3 years after launch. Currently the company is particularly active in Japan, where 33% of paid members are from. Penaloza says his price system is fair, particularly considering the $25 to $80 people in this country have to pay for a 60-minute English lesson.

Consequently WorldFriends runs an office in Tokyo, which in July, almost unnoticed by Asian media, managed to close a significant partnership deal: Yahoo Japan agreed to become the first partner worldwide to adopt the new WorldFriends API (the site already has secured partnerships with over 200 websites, mostly through white label partnerships). Registered users of Nippon’s biggest web company can log into WorldFriends via their Yahoo Japan IDs and subscribe by using the Yahoo Japan Wallet payment service.

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Another Week, Another 18,885 Layoffs

Since our last update a week ago, we’ve added 18,885 job eliminations at tech and media companies to our Layoff Tracker. That brings the total to 38,538 layoffs across 108 companies over the past two months.

Some of the bigger reductions this week came from Motorola (3,000), Qwest (1,200), and Electronic Arts (600).  Among startups, there were job cuts at Revision3 (10), Emusic (10), Sugar Publishing (9), Aliph/Jawbone (25), matchmine (42, deadpool), and Gizmos (10).  We’ve also started adding media companies facing disruption from the Internet, including Gannett (3,000), Time Inc. (600), and Conde Nast (32), whose Portfolio magazine laid off nearly all of its Website staff.

If you know of any layoffs at a tech company, please submit a tip with the name of the company and number of layoffs. If it’s been covered, also send a link to the blog post or news article.  (For those more interested in who is hiring, check out our job board).

Here is the full list of layoffs from the past week:

Amdocs	October 27, 2009	St Louis, MO	500	3%	The Globes
Conde Nast (Portfolio)	October 31, 2008	New York, NY	32	20%	WSJ
Symantec	October 31, 2008	Nationwide	880	5%	Insider
YouSendit	October 31, 2008	Campbell, CA	14	20%	VentureBeat
Aliph (Jawbone)	October 31, 2008	San Francisco, CA	25	30%	Cnet
Sugar Publishing	October 30, 2008	San Francisco, CA	9	11%	TechCrunch
60Frames	October 30, 2008	Los Angeles, CA	6	40%	NewTeeVee
Motorola	October 30, 2008		3,000		WSJ
Electronic Arts	October 30, 2008		600	6%	Kotaku
Sonic Solutions	October 30, 2008	Novato, California	100		silicontap.com
Microsoft/Razorfish	October 30, 2008	New York	40	2%	TechFlash
Emusic	October 30, 2008		10	10%	Media Memo
Avelle	October 29, 2008	Seattle	10	20%	TechFlash
Qwest	October 29, 2008		1,200	3%	Bloomberg
NewACT	October 29, 2008	Israel	15	33%	TheMarker
Intrepid Learning	October 29, 2008	Seattle	10	5%	TechFlash
SupportSpace	October 29, 2008	Israel	12	50%	TheMarker
Time Inc.	October 28, 2008	Nationwide	600	6%	New York Times
Gannett	October 28, 2008	Mclean, VA	3,000	10%	Reuters
Avalanche Studios	October 28, 2008	Sweden	77	48%	GamesIndustry.biz
W2 (Racepoint Group and Digital Influence Group)	October 28, 2008	San Francisco, Boston, Washington, D.C., London	30	20%	Mass High Tech
Delver	October 28, 2008	Israel	5	20%	TheMarker
Smashface	October 27, 2008	Los Angeles, CA	3	33%	Company blog
Olista	October 27, 2008	Israel	15	30%	TheMarker
matchmine	October 27, 2008	Needham MA	42	99%	TechCrunch
Revision3	October 27, 2008	San Francisco, CA	10	30%	TechCrunch
Discretix	October 27, 2008	Israel	10	10%	TheMarker
Extricom	October 27, 2008	Israel	20	20%	TheMarker
yoomba	October 27, 2008	Israel	10	50%	TheMarker
Exanet	October 27, 2008	Israel	30	20%	TheMarker
Starhome	October 27, 2008	Israel	10	4%	TheMarker
Puding Media	October 27, 2008	Israel	5	16%	TheMarker
Gizmoz	October 26, 2008	Israel	10	30%	TheMarker

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UPDATE 1-Cameroon gunmen lift hostage threat - French radio

YAOUNDE, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A death threat against six French
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