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Cisco beats estimates, stock jumps

Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers gave Wall Street a set of quarterly results investors could cheer about for the first time in over a year.

Nvidia's outlook beats Street, shares soar

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Nvidia Corp forecast a larger-than-expected jump in quarterly revenue and its CEO said the chipmaker's mobile business was accelerating, sending its shares skyrocketing.

Facebook Threatened by Anonymous Separatists

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Anonymous, the digital protesters who specialize in temporarily disabling targeted websites, posted a YouTube video July 16 threatening to destroy Internet giant Facebook. The video went viral the second week of August and now has over 1.4 million views. At the same time, the @anonops twitter feed, thought by many to be one of the official mouthpieces of the group, tweeted Operation Facebook was fake August 9. Anonymous has no central leadership or designated spokespeople, leaving analysts and F...
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Nvidia quarterly revenue beats expectations

Chipmaker Nvidia Corp posted second-quarter revenue slightly above expectations as it rushes to diversify its graphics expertise from PCs into more mobile gadgets, sending its shares up sharply.
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DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) is shown in this undated artist's conception, released August 11, 2011.

Military loses contact with hypersonic test plane

An unmanned experimental aircraft designed to glide down from the upper atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound lost contact with ground control on its second test flight on Thursday, a Pentagon agency said.
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Falcon Hypersonic Aircraft Launched, But Loses Contact with DARPA

A Minotaur IV Lite rocket lifted off with the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 Thursday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, successfully released the aircraft and entered the mission's glide phase. But contact with the plane has been lost.
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Cisco jumps as revenue outlook calms investors

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc surged 17 percent on Thursday, a day after it forecast a modest increase in current-quarter revenue, following months of uncertainty surrounding its business.
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UK May Disrupt Social Networks During Unrest

Britain is considering disrupting online social networking such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, a move widely condemned as repressive when used by other countries.
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Anonymous Threatens to Slash Facebook on Nov. 5

The hacker collective Anonymous has vowed to 'destroy' Facebook on Nov. 5, as Facebook is "selling information to government agencies" and "giving clandestine access to information security firms," according to a YouTube video.
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Falcon HTV-2: Military to Launch Fastest-Ever Aircraft

Speedier, perhaps, than even Superman, the fastest plane ever built, the Falcon HTV-2, can get from London, England to Sydney, Australia in less than an hour, all the while withstanding temperatures of almost 2,000 degrees C, hotter than the melting point of steel.

RIM BlackBerry 7 Product Cycle Scenarios

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is launching seven BlackBerry 7 handsets starting mid-late August, representing its largest product cycle historically, which is twice broader than last year's BlackBerry 6 product cycle, RBC Capital Markets said in a note to clients.

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