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Multichannel audio specialist and futurist Fabienne Serriere is a Franco-American hardware, software and embedded interaction designer. She believes in a gorgeous technologically morphable future. Her interests include hardware hacking, wearable computing, and large scale music system design.

Member Since: April 20, 2006

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eBay pulls U.S. ads from Google's AdWords

Gadgets & Tech – Online auctioneer eBay Inc. has pulled its advertising from search company Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the United States, an eBay spokesman said Wednesday.

View Story Discuss (2) (theglobeandmail.com) 337 days ago by newstrackern

Voted for on June 15, 2007 10:04am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 101 votes / 8 sinks

Hamas captures Fatah security HQ

News – From the article: "Hamas militants have seized the headquarters of their rival Fatah's Preventive Security force, tightening their control over the Gaza Strip. Witnesses said Hamas had raised its flags over the compound in Gaza City, amid reports 14 Palestinians, mostly Fatah security workers, were killed. Gun battles continued elsewhere in Gaza with Hamas targeting Fatah's security and political command centres."

View Story Discuss (118) (news.bbc.co.uk) 337 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 14, 2007 08:40am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 135 votes / 10 sinks

Flickr censors Germany, suffers backlash

Do No Evil – From Flickr: "SafeSearch is a feature that allows you to control what turns up in your searches on Flickr, and it's on for everyone by default. Note: If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won't be able to turn SafeSearch off." A full revolt is going on at Flickr over this censorship.

View Story Discuss (41) (flickr.com) 337 days ago by Fabienne

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Yahoo stockholders vote against anticensorship proposal

Gadgets & Tech – Yahoo shareholders voted down a proposal that would have forced management to adopt stronger policies regarding government attempts to limit Internet access and to curtail freedom of speech in countries where Yahoo operates.

View Story Discuss (1) (linuxworld.com.au) 337 days ago by schestowitz

Voted for on June 13, 2007 07:51pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 140 votes / 4 sinks

Sacred Shiite shrine devastated

News – Insurgents blew up the remaining two minarets of the Askariya Mosque, a holy Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra that was badly damaged in a similar attack in early 2006, a Samarra Police official told CNN. There was no immediate word on casualties.

View Story Discuss (420) (cnn.com) 338 days ago by newstrackern

Voted for on June 13, 2007 09:22am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 30 votes / No sinks

'Racist dog' behind job discrimination

Careers & Jobs – A Belgian businessman rejected a Nigerian job applicant because the businessman said his own dog was racist and would bite non-whites, Belgian media reported on Saturday.

View Story Discuss (1) (metro.co.uk) 339 days ago by corey.spring

Voted for on June 12, 2007 12:46pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 134 votes / 11 sinks

Iraq Makes Slow Progress On Meeting U.S. Targets

News – "Slow as a turtle" was how one Iraqi lawmaker on Tuesday described Iraq's faltering progress in meeting political benchmarks set by Washington to encourage national reconciliation and end sectarian violence.

View Story Discuss (92) (reuters.com) 338 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on June 12, 2007 12:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 120 votes / 7 sinks

Apple announces 3rd parties can write Web 2.0 apps for iPhone

Gadgets & Tech – From the blog post: "Along with all the Mac OS X-related announcements at WWDC today, Apple also announced a solution, of sorts, to the 3rd party apps conundrum surrounding the iPhone. Both on stage during today's WWDC keynote and in a press release issued this afternoon, it was revealed that the iPhone will allow 3rd party apps..."

View Story Discuss (19) (tuaw.com) 338 days ago by Fabienne

Submitted and Voted for on June 12, 2007 12:02pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 29 votes / No sinks

Qwest CEO Notebaert to Retire

Money – Richard Notebaert, who took over as head of Qwest Communications as the telecommunications company coped with an accounting scandal, said Monday he will retire as chairman and chief executive officer.

View Story Discuss (4) (breitbart.com) 339 days ago by MyWayOnNow

Voted for on June 12, 2007 11:29am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 76 votes / 1 sink

Answering "What is your greatest weakness?"

Careers & Jobs – We talk to a lot of job seekers. No other interview question seems to strike fear into the hearts of man more than "What is your greatest weakness?" There is no need to worry, it is an easily tackled question. You just have to know what the interviewer is looking for and how to appropriately phrase your answer.

View Story Discuss (16) (emurse.com) 339 days ago by alexrudloff

Voted for on June 12, 2007 08:25am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 74 votes / 4 sinks

BEA: Adventures in the Book Trade

Books – Outside the Jacob Javits Convention Center, it was another scorching day in Manhattan. Inside, an estimated 36,000 editors, booksellers, authors, journalists, and publicists would soon be commingling. Welcome to Book Expo America, the publishing industry's annual romp, where the written word is the most desirable commodity on earth.

View Story Discuss (4) (newsquake.netscape.com) 339 days ago by JamesMarcus

Voted for on June 12, 2007 08:22am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 98 votes / 2 sinks

Serb jailed over ethnic cleansing

News – The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs of murder, torture and persecution Tuesday and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign of non-Serbs in Croatia.

View Story Discuss (30) (cnn.com) 339 days ago by newstrackern

Voted for on June 12, 2007 08:15am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 83 votes / 5 sinks

Hamas gunmen attack Fatah HQ in Gaza City

News – From the article: "Hamas gunmen stormed a Fatah security headquarters in Gaza City on Tuesday, moving Palestinians closer to civil war, minutes after the Islamist group's deadline for Fatah to quit key facilities expired. After the deadline passed, witnesses said gunmen from Hamas's armed wing attacked against a large security compound of Fatah's national security forces in Gaza City."

View Story Discuss (102) (uk.reuters.com) 339 days ago by Fabienne

Submitted and Voted for on June 12, 2007 07:46am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 81 votes / 3 sinks

Apple Releasing a Windows Browser

Gadgets & Tech – Apple takes another step in taking over the world with a Windows version of the Safari Web browser.

View Story Discuss (22) (nytimes.com) 339 days ago by clickman

Voted for on June 12, 2007 07:43am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 140 votes / 4 sinks

Success for Mars rover bag test

Science – From the article: "The project to design and build a European rover to send to Mars has passed an important milestone. Engineers have demonstrated a vented, or dead-beat, airbag technology that could be used to cushion the vehicle's landing on the Red Planet. An effective entry, descent and landing system will be critical to the success of the ExoMars mission, as it is known."

View Story Discuss (33) (news.bbc.co.uk) 340 days ago by Fabienne

Submitted and Voted for on June 11, 2007 07:26am

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