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Title: WebbAlert - December 15, 2008
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Links: Tech Crunch's Layoff Tracker has now passed the 100,000 mark. Last week's biggest cuts came from Sony, Yahoo and CBS. I guess the silver lining is that soon there won't be anymore jobs to cut. Hooray.
A new survey has found that 20 percent of teens and 33 percent of young adults have posted nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves on the Internet. The other 80 percent still just send them through the mail.
New details have emerged regarding Sony's new touchscreen Walkman. If it looks simliar to that other music player that starts with an "i" and ends with a "Pod," that's because it is, even though it does sport some unique features.
Intel's former boss Andrew Grove is urging the company to get into the electric car battery business. The company has also been dabbling in solar technology. Geez, you'd think the tech industry was in trouble or something.
The University of Virginia, and several others, have teamed up with several automakers to develop highly detailed digital representations of human bodies to be used in virtual crash tests. It looks like my crash test dummy video game is closer to fruition than ever.
The Japanese company NTT Communications is testing a new research procedure that monitors the effectiveness of billboard ads by video recording people who look at them. The good news is that you can stop worrying about billboards watching you. The bad news is that you were right to be paranoid because billboards are in fact watching you.
Gamers might not be ready to swap their next-gen consoles for an iPhone anytime soon, but that's not stopping Apple from viewing their hand held devices as serious contenders in the gaming industry. The next question is whether or not Mario should start sleeping with one eye open.
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