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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Hey, Silicon Valley people! Blue Lava Wireless, which makes Tetris for cell phones, was acquired for $137
million
...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The EU last year fined Microsoft $700
million
for abusing its near-monopoly in the software industry. Meanwhile, an EU Commissioner who could affect the amount of these fines was invited to a lavish...
Partly thanks to its sale of hybrid cars, Toyota expects to see its best first quarter in 48 years. GM expects to lose $850
million
that same quarter due to short term bets on "cheap" and "plentiful...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the fact that the virus i...
April 4 to 10, 2005
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62
million
years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
1,360 scientists from 95 countries say that two-thirds of the world's resources are "used up" in a four-year $24
million
U.N.-sponsored survey...
March 21 to 27, 2005
The movie "Meet the Fockers" recently became the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever, making almost $500
million
worldwide...
March 14 to 20, 2005
So far over 10
million
creations are under the Creative Commons license, the sensible alternative to traditional copyright restrictions...
March 7 to 13, 2005
A land sale of over 1,000 acres on Molokai by software
million
aire John McAfee could mark the beginning of the end of the island's way of life...
Let's see Starbucks use these new paper coffee cups that are decomposable and biodegradable. The U.S. Navy's ordered 20
million
of them...
It's likely that Axl Rose's next album, which has been in the works for 10 years at a cost of over $13
million
, is the most expensive album ever made...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
There are now at least 50
million
Web sites on the net...
Big art projects pay off - The Gates generated $254
million
in economy activity, with 4
million
visitors...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Boston resident Geoff Hargadon made a popular parody of the art installation "The Gates". His site got 4
million
hits, and he got a reception with the mayor, appearances in international newspaper...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Sales of $1
million
-plus homes in San Francisco grew an amazing 73% last year...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Amazon adds 20
million
pictures of storefronts to its Yellow Pages search...
The government is accusing DuPont of hiding materials that suggest that a chemical in Teflon leads to cancer and birth defects. Not only that, the chemical's been found in people's bloodstreams. Afte...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Since 2003 airport security screeners have stolen $36
million
in items from travelers. The Transportation Security Administration spokesman says, "We have a few bad apples. That is unfortunate. We'...
January 1 to 9, 2005
By the way, that $350
million
the U.S. pledged for the tsunami effort equals 42.27 hours of the war in Iraq...
Monsanto paid a $1.3
million
penalty to settle charges of bribing the Indonesian government to help facilitate the cultivation of its genetically modified crops...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Here's the latest on the $150
million
high-tech University of Hawai'i medical school being built in Kaka'ako...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Why doesn't someone in Hawaii go into the LIDAR 3D mapping business? Hollywood pays
million
s for LIDAR 3D models for use in movies, and to date there are no models of the islands...
The Library of Congress is putting 30
million
pages of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
Tyranny of the few: A $1.2
million
indecency fine levied against Fox by the FCC was brought on by only three people, of the
million
s that watched one show...
November 8 to 14, 2004
The story behind the five-year development of Half-Life 2, which could be one of the greatest PC videogames of all time and make over $700
million
in revenues worldwide...
November 1 to 7, 2004
This was all over the news - Americans are getting heavier, leading to tons of extra weight and fuel for airlines. And 3.8
million
more tons of carbon dioxide in the air...
"Ag-tourism becomes $35
million
business for Hawaii...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos ever produced?" Note that Eminem has sold over 25
million
albums...
Yes, the U.S. knows where Osama is. And he's still getting "only" $1
million
a year from his family...
The rock band Marillion asked online fans to contribute money towards new albums - and has raised almost $1
million
so far...
October 18 to 24, 2004
About Blake Ross, the 19-year-old lead architect of Firefox, the browser downloaded by almost 3
million
...
October 11 to 17, 2004
How Nobel-prize winner Wangari Maathai overcame beatings and jail to empower women to plant trees in Kenya. 30
million
trees later, here is her story...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Over the last 20 years 4,000 corrupt Chinese officials have fled with over $600
million
...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
A $230
million
acquisition of an RFID reader company. This technology is hot, hot, hot, people...
About Singapore's new world-class bioscience empire, including "Biopolis", a $300
million
center for molecular biology, bioinformatics, genomics, and nanotech...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Samsung's new 3
million
pixel camera phone...
Some personal stories of the 1.5
million
women vs. Walmart, the largest class action suit ever...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
All about the latest Rainbow Gathering, which attracted 10,000 and caused the Forest Service to allocate nearly $1
million
for management...
June 21 to 27, 2004
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
This guy won $5
million
...
Never mind the news you've read last week about the lack of sex in Japan. I'm curious about "hikikomori", a contributing condition affecting one
million
teen boys - they never leave their rooms...
May 17 to 23, 2004
A "talking toilet" gadget that scolds men if they put the toilet seat up sells over 1.6
million
units...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated
million
computers last week, 80% of which belonged to home users an...
The new $284
million
"Geek Palace" at MIT, designed by cutting-edge architect Frank Gehry...
April 19 to 25, 2004
With five
million
installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
April 12 to 18, 2004
This is the logical progression of hampsterdance.com, which took the net by storm five years ago, gathering over 60
million
visitors worldwide...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
United Airlines announced that more than 2
million
customers used their self-serving kiosks in a single month. No modern airline can survive without them. Actually, that could be a great business ...
Microsoft reports that 16
million
PCs were affected by the recent MSBlast virus, ten times more than previously thought...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Apple sells 50
million
songs over the Internet...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Hit Song Science (HSS) analyses music for its "hit" potential, comparing a song's qualities to
million
s of others...
Check out this video clip on HSS from NBC - it shows how musical desirableness is analyzed visually in a 2D graph of 2.5
million
songs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Heard of SCO, that company that's suing Linux users? According to an acknowledged memo, Microsoft may be funding them to the tune of $86
million
... but it is clear that Microsoft wishes to fund SC...
February 23 to 29, 2004
10
million
Pacific giant crabs are invading Norway's coast and destroying the local ecology. "But Glenn, a 30-year-old car mechanic, replied: 'It's true the seabed now looks like the Sahara but the...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Hoo boy, lots of news this week. You heard it here first, folks! Leaked Pentagon report warns climate change may bring famine, war "LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepared by the Pentagon warns tha...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The market for luxury cars (which cost up to $1
million
) is booming nationwide. "There are more rich people every day, and the spread between the people who have money and those who don't is gettin...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to take in account things such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a target 90
million
miles away...
December 22 to 28, 2003
One company expects 1.2
million
subscribers by year's end...
November 3 to 9, 2003
But some of these healers are refusing to divulge information, saying they are not fairly compensated for their information - which could make some biotech firms
million
s of dollars...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"New switching rules may trash
million
s of cell phones...
October 20, 2003
* 10
million
songs were sold in 4 months...
October 14, 2003
At $100
million
, it could be the most expensive attraction ever...
October 6, 2003
* It's a $600k project, with $1
million
in hardware donated by Sun Microsystems...
September 30, 2003
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300
million
for stealing songs by artists such as the rapper "Trick Daddy"...
September 15, 2003
The iTunes music store just sold its 10
million
th song! Yay...
August 25, 2003
* 30% (estimated) of China's Internet users (about 22
million
users...
July 28, 2003
There are now over 2
million
people in U.S. prisons, one for every 143 citizens...
July 21, 2003
When 70% of a population of 11
million
have high-speed net access, how does that affect the culture? Here's how it's affecting Korea.....
Status report: there have been almost 7
million
hits on the Star Wars Kid page, 38 cloned videos, and 3 more currently in the making. Hopefully people will scrape up enough to buy him an iBook (up t...