Campaigners have saved some libraries from closure, and an inquiry begins next week – but councils are now under greater financial pressure than ever to cut services In the 12 months since a surge of public protest against proposed library closures was expressed in last February's Save Our Libraries Day, campaigning bibliophiles around the country have enjoyed mixed fortunes. There was rejoicing in Somerset and Gloucestershire, where library closures were quashed by a legal challenge, but in Br...  show all text

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Wer denkt, wir würden unsere Zeit nur mit Lesen verbringen, irrt. Neben unserem Buchclub haben Yvonne und ich zusammen mit drei Herren einen Filmclub gegründet. Heißt konkret, dass wir uns alle ein bis zwei Monate treffen, um uns drei Filme am Stück zu einem bestimmten Thema anzugucken. Bisherige Treffen: Dystopien: „THX 1138“, „Total Recall“, „Equilibrium“ Science Fiction: "2001 - Odyssee im Weltraum", "2010 - Das Jahr, in dem wir Kontakt aufnehmen", "District 9" Philip K. Dick-Verfilmungen:...  show all text

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This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Teamie's Shivanu Shukla and Ashwin Singh (left & centre) receive the US$10,000 cheque for winning the first-ever Startup Arena competition. Great work, guys! A full 19 startups entered our Startup Arena competition, but only one comes out alive… Well, with a huge cheque for US$10,000. And the winner is… Teamie. The educational collaboration platform was deemed the startup most disruptive a...  show all text

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Bug hunter credited with finding bugs in software from big tech firms is Norwegian teen.

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Panasonic warned it would suffer a Y780bn ($10.2bn) full-year loss, the largest in its 94-year history, becoming the latest Japanese electronics group to succumb to the effects of a strong yen, supply problems in flood-hit Thailand and escalating

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The Philippine military said it killed a man who is on the FBI most-wanted terror list and two other senior militants Thursday in a predawn airstrike.

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35 Jahre Haft waren der Revisionskammer des Völkermord-Tribunals in Kambodscha nicht genug. Deswegen muss der Leiter eines ehemaligen Foltergefängnisses der Roten Khmer jetzt lebenslang hinter Gitter. Mit dem ersten Urteil waren beide Seiten nicht zufrieden gewesen.

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U.K. telecommunications firm BT Group PLC on Friday posted a 41% jump in third-quarter net profit, aided by further cost cutting, lower finance expenses and new contracts, and said it will reach some of its earnings targets a year earlier than expected.

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Sind sie nun echt, die Lippen von Lana del Rey? Und würden sie auch anderen Prominenten stehen? Ein Blog hat es ausprobiert. Neil Young behauptet, er habe mit Steve Jobs einen besseren iPod entwickeln wollen, und von George Harrison ist ein Gitarrensolo aufgetaucht.

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FollowFriday is a tweeps ranking based on the #followfriday recommendations. Check who recommends you and bulk thank them or create a list

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Von Apples restriktiver Prüfpolitik ist Google noch weit entfernt. Allerdings hat das Unternehmen eine zusätzliche Sicherheitsebene für Android-Apps eingeführt: Eine Art Virenscanner namens "Bouncer" analysiert Handy-Software im Android Market - und das schon seit 2011.

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Misys and Temenos are in talks about a possible Anglo-Swiss merger that would unite two leading suppliers of software to banks. The UK-based Misys on Friday confirmed it was in preliminary discussions with Temenos about an all-share merger following

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Er galt als berüchtigter Folterchef der Roten Khmer, mindestens 14.000 Menschen starben unter seiner Aufsicht - nun muss Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch lebenslang hinter Gitter. Ursprünglich lag seine Strafe bei 35 Jahren, ein Gericht in Kambodscha erhöhte das Maß in Revision.

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State preservation officials warn that expected deep reductions, coming after decreases in the past two years, threaten some historic sites linked to Abraham Lincoln.

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motoBoerse.de: Motorradmarkt für gebrauchte Motorräder, Roller, Mofa, Moped und Quad-Bikes. Mit Motorradversicherung, Motorrad Finanzierung, ...

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Halfway to living up to its moniker with over 250 startups, 500 Startups held a series of demo days this week and last, where a group of 33 scrappy startups presented their wares to investors in both New York and San Francisco. As we are wont to do with these things, we visited the 500 Startups offices in Mountain View and interviewed the seven that we thought were the most interesting, from both an investor and consumer standpoint. The startups chosen spanned all sorts of market territory, from  show all text

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European stocks started largely unchanged from the previous session, as traders took to the sidelines ahead of key U.S. employment data which are seen as a barometer of health of the world's largest economy.

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Police in several Egyptian cities battled Thursday night and Friday with thousands of protesters angry at the government’s failure to prevent deaths at a soccer riot.

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Facebook testet derzeit eine neue Fotoansicht. Die Bilder sollen dadurch so präsentiert werden, dass sie stärker zum Kommentieren anregen. Dadurch soll...

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If you live near a Microsoft retail store, you can now pre-order a Nokia Lumia 900 with a $25 down payment, the Verge reports. Unfortunately, even if you do that, you still won’t know how much the device will cost when it finally arrives, probably in March. The Lumia 900 sports a 4.3″ AMOLED ClearBlack display with a 800×480 pixel resolution, an 8-megapixel camera (as well as a 1-megapixel front-facing one for video chat) and LTE/HSPA+ support. With a 1.4 GHz processor, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512  show all text

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We covered the launch of Summly an application that summarises text last year, but I recently caught up with Nick D’Aloisio, the16 year year-old programmer who came up with the application for a video interview. Its sounds almost boringly simple but the sheer amount of online content means the eco-system for these apps is rising. Formerly known as Trimit (which we covered back in July), Summly was developed by D’Aloisio from his bedroom in South London over a Summer break from school. Nick then...  show all text

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