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Auctioning New Species Names Brings Funds for Universities

Researchers at the Purdue University (PU) announced recently that they had some 7 new types of bats to find a name for, as well as one pair of Amazonian turtles, which were just recently discovered. They announced that whoever wanted to have the new species named after him or her could apply for the auction, a move t...

9 December 2008
08:56 GMT

Your Name Can Somehow Determine the Amount of Spam

Richard Clayton, a researcher working at the Computer Laboratory from the University of Cambridge, has published the findings of one of his latest studies, which aimed at determining whether the amount of spam someone receives depends on their names or not. Of course, the research was performed bearing in mind only t...

29 August 2008
08:21 GMT

Subscribe Today, Send Your Name to the Moon

Since most of us will probably never fly into space, NASA will provide you with the next best thing. A chance to send your name into space and have it spinning around that big chunk of rock orbiting Earth, we call the Moon. Until June 27, 2008 anyone willing to subscribe in the 'Name to the Moon' program ca...

6 June 2008
05:06 GMT

Keep Your Desired New Domain Name a Secret!

The domain names industry, if I may call it that, has been revolutionized a couple of years ago when real competition was allowed and besides Network Solutions, the monopolistic figure at that time, many other lower-priced competitors entered the market. Today, the once proud and all too costly Network Solutions is a...

11 January 2008
04:10 GMT

Google Going to Court Over Its Chinese Name

The Chinese people have a problem pronouncing "Google" and despite the Western world is turning the noun into a verb in all its dictionaries, the far East is incapable of even mentioning it aloud, because it lacks the translation of it into any of their Kanji. For that reason, Google China decided to go for the clos...

14 December 2007
09:35 GMT

Controlling Your Name on Yahoo Messenger

As I'm sure you know, Yahoo Messenger is one of the most popular instant messaging clients on the web as millions of consumers from every corner of the world installed it. Yahoo Messenger allows you to configure your name and nickname which will appear in your friends' contact list. Because of that, many of...

9 October 2007
08:27 GMT

Do You Know What 'Google' Means?

Google is one of the most popular brands on the Internet and this was proved by the numerous surveys conducted by the research companies. Because it is so famous, most of the Internet users are frequently talking about it just like about a person. But have you ever asked yourselves what Google means or at least where...

5 September 2007
16:21 GMT


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