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Amazon Kindle Fire to go 10-inch
2013-05-04 02:38:16| CNET News.com
Amazon started small. Now it's going big. The online retailer is expected to bring out its biggest tablet yet later this year. [Read more]
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Brazil: Amazon Indians occupy controversial dam to demand a say
2013-05-04 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Amazon Indians on Friday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralyzed work on the world's third largest hydroelectric dam for two days. Some 200 people from various indigenous groups occupied one of three construction sites of the controversial Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River on Thursday, halting work by 3,000 of the 22,000 workers on the project. They are demanding that the Brazilian government hold prior consultations with indigenous peoples before building...
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Climate Change is Already Affecting the Amazon
2013-05-03 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Tribal groups in Earth's largest rainforest are already being affected by shifts wrought by climate change, reports a paper published last week in the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The paper, which is based on a collection of interviews conducted with indigenous leaders in the Brazilian Amazon, says that native populations are reporting shifts in precipitation patterns, humidity, river levels, temperature, and fire and agricultural cycles. These shifts, measured...
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Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance
2013-05-02 05:34:14| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble.
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Will you soon pay sales tax on Amazon purchases?
2013-05-01 02:00:38| IT Services - Topix.net
A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto, Calif., Thursday, June 30, 0211.
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