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DigitalGlobe Launching Two New Satellites

DigitalGlobe, which provides satellite imagery for Google Earth and Google Maps, has announced it will launch two new imagery satellites in 2006 and 2008. Commercial satellital imaging company DigitalGlobe has announced that it will launch two new high resolution satellites in the next three years. DigitalGlobe announced details of the company’s next generation of imaging systems, WorldView I and WorldView

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Fire destroys Wallace and Gromit warehouse

Aardman Animations the company behind the new “Wallace and Gromit” film has said announced that its “entire history” has been destroyed in a fire at a warehouse containing props and sets, you would think that this would be a major blow to the company however Nick Park the creator of Wallace and Gromit, said the earthquake in South Asia helped

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10 Ways To Create Content For Your Weblog

Here’s another interesting article from About.com Top Ten Tips On Beating Bloggers’ Block You know that feeling… the awful sensation that you just can’t possibly blog about anything. Nothing inspires you enough. Everything seems too mundane. And, the more you think about blogging, the less you are inclined to blog. Indeed, if writers can get writers’ block, then bloggers can

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Sign up for Microsoft Mail Beta – Is this real?

Here’s a post from Neowin.net about a site that’s giving Mail Beta invites out, I’m actually in Mail Beta already so I can defiantly say that this site looks very dodgy to me! We think you’re going to really like the clean new look and other features — at least we hope so! We need your feedback to make sure

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Half-Life 2 Limited Edition Lithograph

Here’s the latest Steam News Update from seam, very interesting don’t you think! Speakeasy’s Gamecloud and the developers of Half-Life 2, Valve Corporation, have teamed up to help the American Red Cross in their hurricane relief efforts. Valve has produced 100 limited edition prints of a spectacular piece of art depicting the mechanical takeover of City 17 and the imposing

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Home movie of Kahuna Beta users

Now here’s a nice little post from Imran Qureshi’s Blog: Last week, a number of our beta users flew to Seattle to meet us and tell us what they think about kahuna. (Actually we also flew to Seattle since our team is based in Silicon Valley, CA.) It was a great opportunity for us to meet them face to face

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Google Lauches a RSS Reader

Google hasn now lauched a RSS Reader! Google Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web. You can: Automatically get the latest news and updates from your favorite sites. Sort your reading list based on what’s most relevant to you. Organize what you read with labels and stars. Quickly share