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CNET News Daily Podcast: Lines blurring between Netbooks, notebooks

Reporter Erica Ogg talks about why the differentiation between Netbooks and notebooks is disappearing fast.

21.08.2009. u 07:27 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

CNET News Daily Podcast: Lines blurring between Netbooks, notebooks

Reporter Erica Ogg talks about why the differentiation between Netbooks and notebooks is disappearing fast.

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Tom Vilsack's Farm-Country Tour: A Different Kind of Town Hall

Filed under: Economy, Energy, Obama Administration

Health care town-hall meetings are certainly stealing the spotlight these days -- but they're not the only game in town. Mostly unnoticed, a quieter series of town halls is taking place on a different crisis: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has embarked on a listening tour through rural America to hear about the problems facing farmers. And it's a good thing too, because back on the farm, all is not well.

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Clunkers Program Ends Monday Night

Filed under: Democrats, Economy, Obama Administration, The Capitolist

Clunker dumpers need to get busy. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Thursday that the popular cash for clunkers program will end at 8 p.m. Monday. LaHood said that the government is working toward "an orderly wind down" of the program after its success surprised even its biggest boosters.

Consumers blew through the $1 billion set aside for the rebate program so quickly that Congress moved weeks ago to add an additional $2 billion to extend it through its original November deadline. But nearly 500,000 cars and trucks later, the cash for clunkers is poised to end.

Under the program, owners of gas guzzlers can receive a $3,500 to $4,500 credit toward the purchase of a more fuel-efficient vehicle.

Several car dealers had already decided to stop participating because of the length of time it has taken to be reimbursed. For every customer who came in for the program, dealers had to absorb the credit on their own balance sheets until they're paid by the government.

President Obama Thursday called the early end to cash for clunkers a "high-class problem," saying, "It has been successful beyond anybody's imagination. And we're now slightly victims of success because the thing happened so quick, there was so much more demand than anybody expected, that dealers were overwhelmed with applications."

Obama said that the government has tripled its hiring to process cash for clunkers claims to repay dealers as soon as possible. "They will get their money, but we've got to process it properly," the president said. "It is getting fixed."

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Holiday unlikely to be restful for President Obama (Reuters)

Reuters - His healthcare reform plan is stumbling, the economy is still sputtering and violence is up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Who wouldn't want a break?

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Calling all spies: Has cell phone spy tech got your number?

When BlackBerry users in the United Arab Emirates received a text message from their service provider on July 8 instructing them to install an upgrade on their handsets, they had no idea the application also contained software that, according to BlackBerry's maker, would enable third parties to peek at private information on their phones.

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Twitter API getting location data

Developers will soon be able to write, read geolocation data in tweets. Could this lead to a larger departure from Twitter's SMS roots?

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Microsoft's curious lack of ambition in mobile

Microsoft is a great company, but can't seem to get its game together in the mobile market.

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PHOTOS: New "Green Bomber" Sea Worms Fire Glowing Blobs

New deep-sea worm species nicknamed "green bombers" fire glowing blobs to distract predators, a new study says.

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Govt decides on $50bn project 'next week'

A DECISION on environmntal approvals for the $50 billion Gorgon LNG project will be made next week, Environment Minister Peter Garrett says.

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Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All -- And Fast

But hold the champagne. As plastic decomposes, it releases toxic chemicals that can harm ocean life2”and possibly us2”a new study says.

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A New-Age Bicycle

It looks like a small rocket moving at the speed of a bicycle. This new form of transportation is better for the environment and great on gasoline. KCCI's Cynthia Fodor shows us the Velomobile.

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Woman 'didn't breach Packer's AVO'

A WOMAN claiming to be the sister of James Packer has walked free from court after charges for breaching an interim AVO protecting the media magnate's family were thrown out.

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PHOTOS: New "Green Bomber" Sea Worms Fire Glowing Blobs

New deep-sea worm species nicknamed "green bombers" fire glowing blobs to distract predators, a new study says.

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Cops vow to hunt drunk driver in India

VICTORIA Police are confident of tracking down a drunk learner driver who fled to India on a false passport only hours after reporting for bail in June.

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Pterosaur "Runway" Found; Shows Birdlike Landing Style

Caught in the act in the dinosaur age, pterosaur feet left behind footprints that show a hopping, birdlike landing, say discoverers of the first known pterosaur landing tracks.

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petak, 21.08.2009.

CNET News Daily Podcast: Lines blurring between Netbooks, notebooks

CNET News Daily Podcast: Lines blurring between Netbooks, notebooks

Tom Vilsack's Farm-Country Tour: A Different Kind of Town Hall

Clunkers Program Ends Monday Night

Holiday unlikely to be restful for President Obama (Reuters)

Calling all spies: Has cell phone spy tech got your number?

Twitter API getting location data

Microsoft's curious lack of ambition in mobile

PHOTOS: New "Green Bomber" Sea Worms Fire Glowing Blobs

Govt decides on $50bn project 'next week'

Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All -- And Fast

A New-Age Bicycle

Woman 'didn't breach Packer's AVO'

PHOTOS: New "Green Bomber" Sea Worms Fire Glowing Blobs

Cops vow to hunt drunk driver in India

Pterosaur "Runway" Found; Shows Birdlike Landing Style

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