Derailments close Australian rail routes

August 15, 2018 By

Sunday, February 1, 2009 Two train derailments in two days have closed railway lines in Australia. A Rio Tinto iron ore train derailled at Pilbara, on a spur of the […]

Murdoch’s News Corp. Ends Automated Censorship of MySpace

August 15, 2018 By

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 In December 2005, MySpace members discovered that mentions and links to content hosted by rival video-swapping site YouTube were disabled. Debate concerning this issue was apparently […]

News briefs:July 14, 2010

August 15, 2018 By

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Microsoft and Yahoo! link their instant messaging services

August 12, 2018 By

Thursday, July 13, 2006 Nine months after announcing the interoperability between their instant messaging (IM) services, Internet rivals Microsoft and Yahoo! began limited public beta (pre-release) testing of the program. […]

Minnesota oil pipeline explosion and fire kills two

August 6, 2018 By

Friday, November 30, 2007 A major oil pipeline in Minnesota exploded and caught fire, killing two workers. The pipeline carries oil from Saskatchewan, Canada to close to Chicago, United States, […]