Ex-DNC Chief Apologizes for Gustav, God Comment
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Democrats Drop ‘Warroom’ at GOP Convention
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Obama: Let’s Hope Lessons of Katrina Were Learned
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McCain Suspends Most GOP Convention Events Monday
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Tim Gunn: Miley Cyrus’ Style is ‘a Little too Tart’
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Project Runways fashion expert Tim Gunn had some harsh words to say about the fashion sense of some of Hollywoods best known starlets, OK Magazine reported.
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Is The US Becoming A Part Of The Internet Backwater?
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For most of the life of the Internet the United States has played the biggest role in the development and managing of it. At one point all the data that flowed on the Internet went through the US and US companies. I don’t there are very many companies involved with the Internet infrastructure ever imagined a day would come where this wasn’t the case. That day however may very soon be upon us; if it already hasn’t started happening.
In the past week we have heard that Comcast is going to be introducing download caps which follows on the heels of Time Warner announcing trial runs of the same idea. Not that long ago universities in Canada were seriously considering moving the US based servers they were using for research for more localized options.
Their concerns revolved around the US Patriot Act and the immense powers for surveillance of activity within the US Internet infrastructure. It was also suggested that if this became more of a trend than just a couple of Canadian universities could the Patriot Act end up hurting business like Google.
Then today we have John Markoff from the New York Times writing a post about how Internet traffic is starting to bypass the US. It is his point that companies are more interested in their profit margins instead of creating technological advances regarding the Internet.
While companies like Comcast or Time Warner are trying to boost their bottom lines by any means possible without improving or advancing Internet connectivity the US is; quite rapidly in some cases, being surpassed by foreign countries. As John points out in his post:
Internet technologists say that the global data network that was once a competitive advantage for the United States is now increasingly outside the control of American companies. They decided not to invest in lower-cost optical fiber lines, which have rapidly become a commodity business.
He also ties in the fact that other countries are beginning to realize that the Internet is an integral part of their economic development. This means that they are wanting to start gaining control of how the Internet enters and leaves their countries.
Along with that there are growing concerns outside of the US about how it’s intelligence agencies believe that they need to have access to all the data that flows through the Internet. This doesn’t sit well with a lot of countries and as a result we are beginning to see a lot of the Internet traffic being routed around the US
Ms. Claffy said that the shift away from the United States was not limited to developing countries. The Japanese “are on a rampage to build out across India and China so they have alternative routes and so they don’t have to route through the U.S.”
Andrew M. Odlyzko, a professor at the University of Minnesota who tracks the growth of the global Internet, added, “We discovered the Internet, but we couldn’t keep it a secret.” While the United States carried 70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic a decade ago, he estimates that portion has fallen to about 25 percent.
This has to lead one to wonder what is going to happen to the US in the large global Internet scheme of things. When you consider that it is being run by companies who don’t appear to be interested in advancing the technology anymore and you have countries going around them for various reasons it doesn’t bode well for the country. More importantly where does this leave the US people as the Internet is obviously starting to leave them behind.
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Hazmat Exposure Prompts Lockdown of Hospitals
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One of two Missouri hospital emergency rooms reopened Sunday, a day after being shut down under quarantine when eight people sickened by a dangerous chemical’s release sought treatment.
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RNC Suspended
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Gustav halts convention programs
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Surging Closer
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Gustav’s cone of uncertain grows
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Solar lights in Baghdad
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Solar lights are brightening the nightime sky in Baghdad and making the streets safe. CNN’s Arwa Damon reports
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S. Korean Officials Say KDB Has Not Abandoned Lehman: Report
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Gustav Threatens Those Still Reeling From Katrina
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Emotional vigil in Mexico City
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Thousands affected by kidnappings march in Mexico City, Mexico, to demand peace. CNN’s Harris Whitbeck reports
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As Gustav Looms Big Easy Becomes Ghost Town
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Big Easy Repeating Deadly Levee Blunders?
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Have people from New Orleans forgotten the lesson from the past?
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Preparing for the storm
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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talks to retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore about preparations for Hurricane Gustav.
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Grand Isle shutdown
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CNN’s Ali Velshi reports from Grand Isle, Louisiana, where dozens of oil platforms have been shut down.
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Hospital ready for Gustav
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CNN’s Matt Sloane says Tulane Medical Center is evacuating patients and getting ready for Hurricane Gustav.
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Gustav rips through Cuba
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CNN’s Morgan Neill reports on the devastation on the western coast of Cuba after a visit from Gustav.
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Microsoft Tells Apple and Google to Wait Up; Hints at Skymarket
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So Microsoft saw Apple and the iPhone 3G and adjoining App Store pass its stoop slapping fives with its oh-so-cool friends, and executives in the Windows Mobile division perhaps thought it best to come up something with their own. Then, just last week, Google unveiled plans to introduce something called Android Market to complement its mobile software platform when it arrives sometime in the next few months. Now Microsoft is letting slip its own message about third-party unity. The company’s buzzword: Skymarket.
There isn’t much detail as to what Skymarket will be. One can venture a guess, though. Something in the vein of those other two labels up in that first paragraph there. What we can confirm is that, according to job listings discovered by istartedsomething, Microsoft is seeking both a “senior product manager” and “product manager - commercial integration.” Both would be tasked with pushing “the launch of a v1 marketplace service for Windows Mobile.”
This is admittedly good news, as it’s better for progress to be made in the industry within as many major mobile platforms as possible. But as Long Zheng writes, the Windows Mobile world has for a long while been living a heavily scattered existence, and only now has Microsoft seemed pressed to coalesce its personal universe. A universe purported to claim 18,000 applications, much of which is presumably best described as anti-matter. Or dark matter. Or just no-good matter. Which says quite a bit. An adventurous biggie, it is not.
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Gustav Shutters Refineries on Gulf Coast
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The looming threat to the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Gustav has halted about 15% of U.S. refining capacity Sunday.
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New Orleans empty
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CNN’s Jim Spellman says most of New Orleans is empty and the police are there to crack down on looting.
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Mass exodus of New Orleans
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CNN’s Nicole Collins reports on Hurricane Gustov’s path and what residents in New Orleans are doing to get out of its way.
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Nagin prepares for Gustav
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CNN’s Don Lemon talks to New Orleans Mayor Nagin about prepartions in the city for Hurricane Gustav.
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RNC police raids
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Authorities launch pre-emptive raids and arrests to prepare for the GOP convention. CNN’s Joe Johns reports.
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