"A mineralogist at London's Natural History Museum was contracted to help identify an unknown mineral found in a Serbian mine. While he initially thought the miners had discovered a unique compound, after its crystal structure was analyzed and identified the researcher was shocked to find the material already referenced in literature. Fictional ( Read more... )

Boy jailed over clock change mix-up

A fifteen-year old boy in America was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat - because his school had forgotten that the clocks had gone forward.

Cody Webb was arrested last month, after Hempfield Area High School received a bomb threat on their student hotline - which ( Read more... )

http://www.rim.com/news/press/2007/pr-11_04_2007-01.shtml

Revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 was $930.4 million, up 66% from $561.2 million in the same quarter of last year. The revenue breakdown for the quarter was approximately 73% for handhelds, 19% for service, 5% for software and 3% for other revenue. Revenue for the fiscal year ( Read more... )

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Dershowitz uses his BlackBerry to fight anti-Semitism

ZDNet
By Russel Shaw
Apr 6 2007

You may have heard of famed attorney Alan Dershowitz. He's one of the top lawyers in the country.

Dershowitz is featured in the April issue of BlackBerry Connection newsletter, which I received via email yesterday. A self-described 'technophobe,' ( Read more... )

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The Daylight Saving change: no savings, no point
By Ken Fisher | Published: April 03, 2007 - 11:41AM CT Ars Technica

The US government's plan to boost energy savings by moving Daylight Saving Time forward by three weeks was apparently a waste of time and effort, as the technological foibles Americans experienced failed to give way to ( Read more... )

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