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Opinion - President-elect Barack Obama has made history and will have the chance to go along that path further in future years. If we look at technology especially, we see the so-far probably most tech-savvy president being confronted with a country that is in dire need of changes that affect technology infrastructure, research and innovation in many ways to catch up with other countries. Silicon Valley has been complaining for years that government has neglected a technology-focused promotion of education, but besides with, what can the IT industry expect from the new president?

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As a returning resident of Tarrant County I want to say - Shame on You - to all the city officials of Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington and Mansfield Texas. I have owned a home in Mansfield for twenty years and during travels through the years looked forward to retirement. Key to that idea was realization of the plans laid out twenty years ago for public transportation between the cities of Dallas, Arlington, Fort Worth and Mansfield, Texas.

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The best known bank in Second Life is Ginko Financial. [10] As of this writing, Ginko claims to hold 114,398,068 Linden Dollars, the equivalent of $420,581. [11] Ginko promises 0.10 percent daily accrued interest, approximately a 44 percent annual return. [12] No real banks pay anything close to 44 percent annual interest and even top investment

College is about to get a lot more interesting for those who pursue their studies on line. While traditional correspondence courses offer students little interaction, a program being offered at Loyalist College in Ontario promises to make that virtually different.

Second Life received its own version of the nightly news this week with the launch of The Grid Review, a machinima news blog run by veteran directors moo Money and Nylon Pinkney which promises to run content ranging from "Peter Jennings to Jon Stewart."