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Archive for July 25th, 2008

Power outages still affect almost 15,000 residents

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Davenport, QUAD CITIES — Mid American Energy reports almost 15,000 Quad City area residents are still without power Friday morning, 96 hours after a powerful thunderstorm struck the region Monday morning.
The biggest concentration of power outages remains in Rock Island and Moline where 10,000 customers remain without power at 3 a.m. Friday.
Rock Island library officials [...]

Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It

Friday, July 25th, 2008

 
iminplaya writes with a link to an excellent article at Ars Technica, extracting from it a few choice nuggets: “The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good — and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September [...]

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