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This Weekend Facebook announced a new Facebook Felloship Program for 2010-2011. The program supports full-time Ph.D. students working on topical areas like Internet Economics, Cloud Computing, Social Computing, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Systems or Information Retrieval. Students must be enrolled in e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture and recommended by a faculty member. Deadline is Friday  February 15, 2010. Further information, the application checklist and instructions can be found here. It’ll be a tough competition. Good luck everybody!

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Today Google and HTC revealed their new phone called Nexus One. You can order the phone directly on google.com/phone, but by now it can only be shipped to the U.S., UK, Hong Kong and Singapore. Information about prices and availability is posted on Techcrunch.

Link: ustream.tv – Live from Google

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Even ten years after the launch of Google Search most people do not know how to specify their search string to get more qualitative results. This article provides some shortcuts to make search results more efficient, productive and powerful.

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From time to time we want to google something more precise or detailed and have to think twice about the search string. Here are the six most useful shortcuts for advanced googling. Notice that your results will be even better when you combine them.