Tuesday, November 25, 2008

25-Nov-2008 PM clippings

Enjoy:

Sonim's XP3 is billed as the world's toughest mobile phone. No weasel words either; you get a 3 year unconditional guarantee with it:
http://www.gizmag.com/the-toughest-phone-in-the-world-just-got-tougher/10436/

Spammer Adam Guerbuez of Montreal is ordered to pay Facebook US$873m for unsolicited messages. Difficulty anticipated in collecting:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYeLMJqiFwKObQxk17xIA70-fI2AD94LFVU80

Samsung puts 256GiB SSD's into mass production, available now. The write speed has been increased to 200MiB/sec.:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9121010&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top

NASA Go for energy efficiency with their latest Juno probe, so that it can operate on solar power out in the dark near Jupiter:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-222

And finally. A sea slug that's part animal, part plant, having conducted genetic engineering on itself. It even looks like a leaf:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16124-solarpowered-sea-slug-harnesses-stolen-plant-genes-.html

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