'Avatar' will hit Blu-ray and DVD on Earth Day, April 22

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Jury sides with VirnetX in Microsoft patent-infringement case

A Texas jury has sided with VirnetX in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft. — full article at blog.seattlepi.com

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The Weekly Gossip Roundup: March 7- 13, 2010

Our Weekly Gossip Roundup where we recap the craziness in the celebrity world, entertainment news and gossip. Some of this week’s highlights include Jersey Shore’s... — full article at anythinghollywood.com

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Celtics Played A Basketball Game - Not Sure What Detroit Was Doing?

Celtics 119 Detroit 93 Recap — full article at ginosjungle.webs.com

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Media Engineers At New York Times And CNN

The Guardian.uk has an article about how the New York Times and CNN are becoming technology companies. How the New York Times and CNN try to keep up with the tech companies "The New York Times is now as much a technology company as a journalism company," its executive editor Bill Keller said recently. ... While CNN.com closely collaborates with technology companies like Facebook, Apple or Google, the New York Times anticipates technical change in-house with the help of its research and development department. ... "We made an experiment and put an RFID chip into the phone, the computer and the television. The chip was there to track the user's reading. When a user stopped reading a story on the phone as he or she arrived at work, it opened it again on the desktop. When the user entered the living room, related videos to the story were presented on the television screen," explains the NYT's Nick Bilton. ... CNN has launched an iPhone application, redesigned its website and reached out more to social media. CNN was among the first TV broadcasters to understand the full impact of social media on television, and teamed up with Facebook for the presidential inauguration. ... Today, CNN's iPhone app is as much a news-making as a news delivering application, and as the iReporters can add their telephone number, email and location to their report, CNN's editors can get back to them or even assign them to certain content CNN is looking for. ... ...it looks like the news organisations that tear down the wall and build a bridge between editorial and technological thinking will be most likely to survive. I'm glad to see these types of stories. For the past five years I've been writing about the need for 'media engineers' - part software engineer and part media professional. And also 'media architects' the people the create the media technology infrastructure for media companies (BTW every company is a media company.) Media engineers will be better paid than software engineers because you need a broader skills set. - - - Please see my PearlTree on 'media engineers.' [PearlTrees is an SVW client and its a great media technology that organizes web pages in a visual way.]

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I can't get contains to work on a href, replied by ekbworldwide

I'm on an full page ad I want to skip - there's this link: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Panasonic--Best-Buy-To-Push-3-D-TV/story.xhtml?story_id=0200029Q08EG&full_skip=1"><!--b-->Go Directly to NewsFactor.com<!--/b--></a> _____________________ // #1 using the text of the link 3-D-TV%2Fstory.xhtml%3Fstory_id%3D0200029Q08EG var input = document.evaluate('//a[contains(.,"Go Directly to NewsFactor.com")]',document,null,XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE,null).singleNodeValue; if (input) { location.href = input.href } Result - success. _____________________ // #2 using the href var input = document.evaluate('//a[@href[contains(.,"&full_skip=1")]]',document,null,XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE,null).singleNodeValue; if (input) { location.href = input.href } Result - failure. Why doesn't it work?

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Elmore Leonard, At Home In Detroit

The crime writer has more than 40 books to his name and dozens of films made from that source material. Leonard gives NPR's Noah Adams a tour of his hometown, with stops at some of the places that taught the writer about the language of crime, and at his writing desk at home. Full story on NPR Elmore Leonard's writing desk at his home near Detroit. Leonard writes each page of his books by hand, on canary yellow paper.

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