Openleaks To Rival WikiLeaks

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Former WikiLeaks deputy, Daniel
Domscheit-Bergto, plans to start
a rival web site, Openleaks. The
web site has no content on it except
a logo and the message "Coming soon!"

In an interview with the OWNI technology
web site, Domscheit-Berg didn't go into
reasons for his disagreement with WikiLeaks
but suggested it strayed from its mission.

"In these last months, the organization has
not been open any more, it lost its open-source
promise," he explained, adding that Openleaks
plans to provide the means for leaked
information to be published, without itself
being a publisher.

Domscheit-Berg, had been involved with
German hacker group the Chaos Computer Club.

Openleaks would begin trials in early 2011 and
turn to bigger media later, Domscheit-Berg
confirmed. It currently has 10 members.

Google's $6 Billion Bid

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Google is willing to pay around $6
billion for e-commerce coupon web
site Groupon per media sources. The
first payment will be 5.3 billion,
and 700 million will be used as
incentive to keep current employees
according to AllThingsD.

This offer comes as it's rumored that
Yahoo would offer $3 billion to $4
billion to purchase the company. It
turned out that the two companies
paired up as partners for Yahoo Local,
details have not been specified.

The social shopping network is two years
old, revenue is about $600 million.
Industry experts feel that figure will
grow.

Groupon's revenue is from offering members
big discounts from retailers. Retailers get
lots of traffic for their inventory.

Groupon is located at Groupon.com that is
localized to many major markets in both the
United States and Canada. Originally, it
launched in November 2008. Groupon first
arrived in Chicago, Illinois. It was off
to Boston, New York City and Toronto. As
of October 2010, Groupon now serves more
than 150 markets in North America as well
as 100 markets in Europe, Asia and South
America.

Groupon is reportedly thinking about Google's
offer.

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Google's Fashion Shopping Web Site

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will return.

Google created a new e-commerce web
site that improves how fashion is
presented and sold online.

Boutiques.com is a collection of
hundreds of virtual boutiques
merchandised by designers, retailers,
bloggers, celebrities and just people.

Shop for the style of the actress Carey
Mulligan or Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
to name a few celebrities who signed up
for the launch.

You can build your own boutique and amass
followers who can comment on your style.

For every boutique on the web site, there
are dozens of additional choices inspired
by a designer's or celebrity's style;
generated by algorithms with product
photos that are much larger/sharper than
on other shopping web sites.

The inspiration panel automatically adjusts
for your style.

The technology was developed by Like.com, a
Silicon Valley company co-founded by Munjal
Shah, which Google acquired last summer for
a reported $100 million.

Mr. Shah leads the team for Boutiques.com.

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange: Living In Fear

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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange is
living in fear of being arrested,
and has been running since the release
of secret United States military documents
related to the Iraq war via his web site.

Assange checks into hotels with false names,
dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas/floors. He uses
cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed
from friends, a United States daily, which
interviewed him last week, pointed-out.

"They called me the James Bond of journalism...
it got me a lot of fans, and some of them ended
up causing me a bit of trouble," he shared, feared
that the UK may act against him if the United
States decides to prosecute. This course of
action is being looked at.

"When it comes to the point where you occasionally
look forward to being in prison on the basis that
you might be able to spend a day reading a book,
the realization dawns that perhaps the situation
has become a little more stressful than you would
like."

On Friday, his online whistle blower web site leaked
nearly 400,000 secret United States documents on the
Iraq war. They gave graphic accounts of torture,
killing of over 66,000 civilians and Iran's role in
the conflict.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20101025063306writ.nb/topstory.html

Wal-Mart's Cheaper Medicare Drug Plan

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will return.

Humana Inc. is combining forces with
Wal-Mart Stores to offer a low cost
Medicare prescription drug plan,
nationwide.

Humana, based in Louisville, Ky., is one
of the largest U.S. health insurers and
second largest provider of privately run
Medicare health plans. It has the highest
exposure to Medicare among the major
national managed care businesses.

A typical Medicare prescription drug
beneficiary could save about $450 a year on
the lower premium, co-payments/cost- shares,
compared with average total costs for
Medicare drug benefit plans, the companies
pointed out. They referred to the U.S.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
figures.

The plan will go into effect next year at a
monthly premium of $14.80, which is the
lowest premium for stand-alone Medicare
prescription drug plans being offered
nationally for 2011 per Humana.

Microsoft's Halo Reach Game Exposed Too Early

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Halo Reach is scheduled for the
world's eyes on the 14th of
September, but showed-up on file
sharing sites.

The game is about players in the
role of an elite solider battling
for control of planet Reach.

This is the final chapter of the
series, which was developed by
Bungie for Xbox 360.

It's reported that the game was
exposed, leaked, after it was
opened to select journalists/
reviewers through Microsoft's
online Xbox store.

Videos of the game popped-up on
YouTube within hours of being
available.

"We are still investigating details
surrounding a claimed leak of Halo
Reach, and have nothing further to
share," Microsoft remarked.

People attempting to play unauthorized
copies of Halo Reach could face
sanctions, Stephen Toulouse cautioned
on Twitter- Director of Policy and
Enforcement for Xbox Live.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100824084009writ.nb/topstory.html

The End of Google's Wave

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The Wave has not seen the adoption we
would have liked, and elements of Wave's
technology- including drag/drop and
character-by-character live typing are an
open source. Users can "liberate their
content from Wave", Google explained in a
post last night.

Google stated it will stop development on
the Wave cross platform tool that was launched
in May of 2009.

The Wave design appeared to replace e-mail,
and other tools.

The problem was it didn't appeal to many, or
people didn't know about the Wave.

"Remember, we celebrate our failures. This
is a company where it's absolutely okay to
try something that's very hard, have it not
be successful, and learn from that," Eric
Schmidt, Chief Executive.

Unfortunately, The Wave was one of those
failures.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100805090512writ.nb/topstory.html

Household Cleaning Products Increases Breast Cancer Risk

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A new study pointed out that using
house-hold cleaning products increases
breast cancer.

Brody and her co-researchers conducted
telephone interviews with 787 women who
had been diagnosed with breast cancer,
and 721 women who didn't have breast cancer.
"We asked women about past use of cleaning
products in the past year, their typical
use," Brody explained.

Air fresheners and mold/mildew controlling
products were connected to increasing breast
cancer, Julia Brody, PhD, executive director
of the Silent Spring Institute, Newton
Massachusetts. She led the study.

"We found links to breast cancer for combined
cleaning products used, many different products
taken together, and air fresheners and mold and
mildew control products," she continued.

"For combined cleaning product use, the risk
is about twice as high for breast cancer for
women who said they used the most compared to
women who said they used the least."

Listing exactly how much of exposure could raise
risk is difficult to say, she admitted.

"This is a first look and there are cautions
about interpreting it," Brody said.

The article is published in the journal
Environmental health.