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And what was the most fundamental technology enabling “mash-ups” of desktop applications? The clipboard. And a set of common clipboard data formats. [...] So, where’s the clipboard of the web?

Russian rocket carrying 18 satellites has crashed soon after lift-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. According to mission control officials, the engines of the Dnepr rocket shut down 86 seconds into its flight.

Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating on hijacked home computers. [...] Top of the list [of nations where most spam starts its journey] is the US as, according to Sophos, 23.2% of spam originates there. [...] In the number two position was China which sends out 20% of junk e-mail. [...] Next in the list come South Korea (7.5%), France (5.2%) and Spain (4.8%). The UK was tenth with 1.8%.

Officials told Mr Fu's son, Fu Bing, that investigators had failed to find anyone else's footprints at the scene of the attack, and had concluded that he must have hit himself. The blow to the back of his neck was so severe that three of his vertebrae were broken, HRIC said.

Both girls had been "bagging" - inhaling mothball fumes - after encouragement from classmates. The twin who was sickest had also been chewing half a mothball a day for two months. She continued her habit in hospital because she did not think her symptoms were linked to the mothballs.

The large, carnivorous reptiles lived 115 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, when much of the continent was covered in water.