Trading Shares in Milliseconds (Technology Review)

December 20, 2009

Today’s stock market has become a world of automated transactions executed at lightning speed. This high-frequency trading could make the financial system more efficient, but it could also turn small mistakes into catastrophes.

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The Salahis’ night at the White House and a contentious day after (Washington Post)

December 20, 2009

Case closed. That’s the verdict the White House has emphatically handed down on the embarrassing and troubling security breach a fame-craving Virginia couple performed during the Obama administration’s first state dinner, on Nov. 24. But eyewitness accounts, a Secret Service criminal investigatio…

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Iran’s Opposition Loses a Mentor But Gains a Martyr (Time Magazine)

December 20, 2009

Grand Ayatullah Montazeri, who died Sunday, was one of the regime’s most powerful critics precisely because of he was one of the country’s most senior mullahs

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The horror of virtual courts is upon us (Guardian Unlimited)

December 20, 2009

Jack Straw’s video links to magistrates’ courts threaten young and vulnerable defendants in jail Almost the moment Roman Polanski appeared on the screen in the courtroom, I suspected we might lose the libel case, which turned on whether the film director did, or did not, say to a young woman outside Elaine’s restaurant in New York that he would make her the next Sharon Tate. There he was, an …

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‘Avatar’ grosses Rs.6.75 crore on opening day in India (New Kerala)

December 20, 2009

New Delhi, Dec 20 : Acclaimed director James Cameron’s much-anticipated 3D sci-fi epic “Avatar” spelt magic at the box office in the big cities as well as smaller towns by grossing about Rs.6.75 crore (Rs.67.5 million) on its opening day.

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New on DVD: ‘(500) Days of Summer,’ ‘District 9′ and ‘Extract’ (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

December 20, 2009

The quirky romantic comedy “(500) Days of Summer,” the mind-blowing science-fiction epic “District 9″ and the witty workplace comedy “Extract” from “Office Space” director Mike Judge top this week’s list of new DVD releases.

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‘Avatar’ grosses Rs.6.75 crore on opening day in India (Calcutta News)

December 20, 2009

Acclaimed director James Cameron’s much-anticipated 3D sci-fi epic ‘Avatar’ spelt magic at the box office in the big cities as well as smaller towns by grossing about Rs.6.75 crore (Rs.67.5 million) on its opening day.

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More and more e-books being stored on the ‘cloud’ (San Jose Mercury News)

December 20, 2009

How e-books will evolve is still up in the air

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