A new entrant into the mobile phone market is hoping to lure customers from the big three operators with the launch of no-frills plans — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The inspiring imagination of Antoni Gaudí undoubtedly reveals itself in one of his most poetic and artistic designs for a building, Casa Batlló. His synthesis of animal shapes, vine-like curves, hints of bone and skeleton, and his use of lustrous colored bits of glazed ceramic and glass create a masterpiece that will forever astonish its observers — via ArchDaily
This unique gift item is a book filled with 20 pages of fun, (mostly white) pages that provide for some imaginative activities. The book includes 5 Crayons (snowball white, polar white, frost white, igloo white and the popular Arctic white) — via Toronto Zoo
With more people working remotely, and entrepreneurs needing that extra room that the house just did not come with, the OfficePOD is a great solution. You would have the convenience of being at home while really being in a corner of your own backyard. Now that is a commute I could live with and gets me out of the house. Built from recycled, recyclable and sustainable materials have been chosen wherever possible, desk and books shelves are built in. The power is provided via a discrete and protected connection to the house or garage; IT and phone connectivity is generally wireless but can be similarly cabled. The POD is provided with a secure locking system of the highest quality — via 2Modern Blog
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Wikileaks has revealed plans to publish a new tranche of secrets, this one seven times larger than last month’s massive 400,000 military reports about the Iraq war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Army ants have a reputation for annihilating everything in their path as they march through the jungle.
But the most complete study of its kind has found that army ants are creators of whole worlds, not destroyers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Kryptos, the sculpture nestled in a courtyard of the CIA’s Virginia headquarters since 1990, is a work of art with a secret code embedded in the letters that are punched into its four panels of curving copper. It is perhaps one of the CIA’s most mischievous secrets — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A rare Chinese calligraphy scroll has fetched 308m yuan (£29m; $46m) – the second-highest amount paid for an artwork at auction in China, the state-run Xinhua news agency says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent “one of several threats” to the future of the world wide web, its founder, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The coalition appears to have shelved plans to introduce new protections for public sector workers who blow the whistle on dangerous, corrupt or incompetent practices, the Guardian has learned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Germany is to suspend conscription in July 2011 and switch to a volunteer military service, defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman bathhouse in Jerusalem’s Old City — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Novell has long since lost its position as a dominant vendor in the operating system market, but the vendor’s long, slow decline didn’t change the fact that Novell still has some valuable technologies.
The value still inherent in Novell was, to some extent, reaffirmed Monday by a definitive merger agreement in which Attachmate is expected to purchase Novell for $2.2 billion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The role of the PBX is changing in importance, but it’s still too early to issue a death certificate, according to Infonetics.
PBXs took a big hit when the economy faltered two years ago — sales dropped 25% in 2009 — and they have been struggling to rebound, says Matthias Machowinski, an analyst with Infonetics, but they are far from out, as Microsoft suggested last week with its announcement of its latest unified communications platform Lync 2010, a renaming of its Office Communications Server line — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A four-year-old boy from Essex using a metal detector with his father unearthed a gold pendant believed to date from the 16th Century — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The United States has launched a vast reconnaissance satellite reputed to be the largest eavesdropping device ever sent into space — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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