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Mobile Advertising & The Rise of Digital Coupons (Graphic)

Digg > Popular - 44 min 24 sec ago
Mobile is firmly establishing itself as a crucial advertising channel, and the companies who aren’t utilizing it look set to be left behind. More than two thirds of the population are in possession of a mobile phone, and it’s obvious to see why the direct nature of mobile advertising is so appealing to businesses.


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Ex-IW Heads West and Zampella To FIrst Public Appeareance

Digg > Popular - 44 min 25 sec ago
The industry hasn't heard much about Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella since their very public exit from Infinity Ward and Activision earlier this year. But now id Soiftware has announced the duo will be making a public appearance at their QuakeCon 2010, sitting in on a panel that's set for August 13 titled "Building Blockbusters"


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LA Pushing to Become Nation's Mass Transit Leader

Digg > Popular - 1 hour 14 min ago
The region famous for jilting the street car to take up a love affair with the automobile is trying to rekindle its long ago romance with commuter rail. If successful, the novel plan to borrow billions from the federal government, led by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, would result in the largest transit expansion project in the nation.


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Twitter User Sends World's 20 Billionth Tweet

Digg > Popular - 1 hour 24 min ago
Twitter, the social networking site which allows users to say something in up to 140 characters, sees its 20 billionth message sent.


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Firefighter saves same cat twice

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A firefighter who rescued a cat from a well in west Coweta on June 29 stepped up to rescue the cat a second time on Tuesday.


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Church plans Quran-burning event

Digg > Popular - 2 hours 14 min ago
In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.


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Richard Dreyfuss: Technology Has 'Killed Time'

Digg > Popular - 2 hours 34 min ago
Recognized for his roles in Jaws, American Graffiti, and Mr. Holland's Opus, Richard Dreyfuss has issued a call to action in our classrooms. Dreyfuss believes civic education is the foundation of public education; yet over the years, it has become more about memorizing facts and dates than understanding context and history.


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Get Ready For a Helen Thomas Statue

Digg > Popular - 2 hours 44 min ago
Thomas will be best remembered for demanding (at a Jewish heritage celebration) that Jews "get the hell out" of their homeland and relocate to Germany and Poland, where not long ago they were butchered by the millions. Maybe they can carve Thomas’ own words at the base of the statue?


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Recession was worse, deeper than previously thought

Digg > Popular - 2 hours 54 min ago
The recession was deeper than the government previously thought. The economy's plunge underscores why the unemployment rate surged to 10.1 percent in October, a 26-year high.


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Don't Try To Make Them Scrambled (PIC)

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Stem cells grow replacement joints in rabbits

Digg > Popular - 3 hours 24 min ago
Rabbits were able to regrow a leg joint using their own stem cells, say scientists exploring the cells' potential to replace artificial joints in human patients.


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Study Says Junk FoodDoubles the Risk of ADHD in Kids

Digg > Popular - 3 hours 44 min ago
Researchers, who examined the diets of 1,800 teens, found that “western-style” diets more than doubled the risk of an ADHD diagnosis, compared with a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, even after adjusting for social and family factors.


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Telemarketers Ignore Do Not Call List - Surprise? No.

Digg > Popular - 3 hours 54 min ago
The Federal Trade Commission announced a milestone this week: its Do Not Call registry has just passed 200 million numbers.


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Porn Industry Cashing in on iPhone 4’s Video Chat

Digg > Popular - 4 hours 4 min ago
It was only a matter of time before the porn industry took advantage of Face Time on the iPhone 4.


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Mars Rover Spirit May Never Wake from Deep Sleep

Digg > Popular - Sun, 08/01/2010 - 03:40
One of NASA’s six-year-old Mars rovers missed its winter wake-up call, prompting concerns that it may never recover from the frigid cold. During previous winters, Spirit was able to get to a sun-facing slope in Gusev Crater before the deep cold set in, a position that left it able to draw enough power from its solar cells to keep heaters turned on


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Baby Panda Factory:Breeding center mass-producing pandasPICS

Digg > Popular - Sun, 08/01/2010 - 03:20
With the help of British wildlife presenter Nigel Marven a Chinese nursery is leading the fight to safeguard the future of the world's most emblematic animal. The project is considered so sensitive that only a handful of Westerners — all veterinary specialists — have been permitted inside the sound-proofed, softlylit nursery at the giant Panda....


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Russian wildfires leave 25 dead, thousands homeless

Digg > Popular - Sun, 08/01/2010 - 02:50
At least 25 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by wildfires sweeping through western Russia.


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Mobile Phone Shipments up 18.5% compared to First Half '09

Digg > Popular - Sun, 08/01/2010 - 02:30
The healthy expansion is a sign that there is no recession, at least where smart phones are concerned, analysts said.


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Anti-P2P Lawyers Accused of Copyright Hypocrisy

Digg > Popular - Sun, 08/01/2010 - 02:00
The US Copyright Group has gone after 14,000+ P2P users in court so far this year. But, when it comes to its own websites, do the lawyers have a piracy problem of their own?


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Cruise liner 'kills' endangered humpback whale

Digg > Popular - Sun, 08/01/2010 - 01:40
A rare humpback whale has been found dead after it was hit by a luxury cruise liner near Douglas Island, Alaska.


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