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The director of SETI@home - a high profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life - has made a plea to his users for help in securing funding, despite denying late last month that the project was facing a cash crisis.
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Mobile phone services once again failed to step up in the face of calamity. The failure of the mobile networks, perceived by many to be especially useful in times of emergency, forced callers back onto land lines.
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