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<title><![CDATA[Secrets of Area 51: History, technology, and controversy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Area 51 is one of the most enduring mysteries and sources of speculation in American history. Located inside the Nevada Test and Training Range, the flat-dry lake bed known as Groom Lake has been the home to some of the nation's most advanced espionage and weapons technology, hair-raising tales of Cold War brinksmanship, and possibly much worse, according to a new book about the top-secret military base. Area 51 trivia  Area 51 reportedly got its name when, in 1951, the remains of the Roswell UFO (which crashed in 1947) were brought to the base The CIA has officially declassified the name Area 51, but Air Force personnel are still not allowed to speak the words  A nuclear bomb test conducted in 1957, Project Hood, was the largest aboveground nuclear bomb ever exploded in the U.S. Its fallout closed Area 51 for nearly a year. Howard Hughes had a hangar at the Area 51 base and received word of nuclear bomb tests nearly a full day before the public.  In writing &quot;Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base,&quot; Annie Jacobsen combed through thousands of pages of declassified material on American spy plane development, nuclear testing at Area 51, and the history of the CIA and Air Force's control of the base. In the course of her research, she interviewed dozens of men who worked or lived at Area 51 and are only now talking to one another and the public about their time there. She also interviewed one anonymous source who suggested a deeply dark side of the research conducted at Area 51: human experimentation and psychological warfare (and, of course, a high-level cover-up). I interviewed Jacobsen, along with Jim Friedman, who was a senior field administrator at Area 51 for 13 years, and TD Barnes, a radar specialist who lived and worked at Area 51, in Nevada near the edge of the enormous testing range and base. We drove up to the gate at Area 51, talked at length about the planes and other technologies developed there and dug into the controversy surrounding the most shocking parts of Jacobsen's book. The interviews and footage originally aired on CBS' &quot;The Early Show,&quot; and these three videos are extra footage and longer interviews about the topics covered in the book. First, a journey down the long Nevada highway and desolate dirt road that leads to the back gate at Area 51: the most intimidating gate you've ever seen. When we got there, there was broken glass on the ground, an ominous camera gazing down at us, and absolutely no one in sight. But I could feel the weight of eyes on me with every moment we were there (and I expected a blow-dart in the back at any second!). Secrets of Area 51: The road to Area 51 $lazy(window.GeckoVideoPlayer, CBSi.lazy.videoPlayer, function(){loadGeckoVideoPlayer({parentElement: 'universalVideoid50106289',flashVars:{autoplay: 'false',adTargetType: 'Page',adPreroll: 'true',contentType: 'id',contentValue: '50106289',playlistDisplay: 'over'}},'blogSmall')'})'Finally, the most controversial part of Jacobsen's book: the story of Area 51's most enduring conspiracy theory, the Roswell UFO. The only anonymous source in her book delivered still-classified details, if you can believe them, about a disc-shaped aircraft engineered by Nazi scientists and sent by Josef Stalin as part of a psychological warfare campaign--and worse. Secrets of Area 51: The alien controversy <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Skype says new CEO, shaky market will delay its IPO until at least July]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Concerns about the readiness of its CEO and a shaky market have Skype, the iconic Internet voice-chat service, saying it won&amp;'t hold its much-awaited initial public offering until the second half of the year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today. Skype&amp;'s IPO has been hotly anticipated since before it filed to sell $100 million shares to the public last August.A Skype spokesperson did not respond to requests for additional comment.The Journal quoted unnamed sources as saying that the company&amp;'s executive shakeup, including the naming of former Cisco exec Tony Bates (pictured) as CEO in October. In December, Skype suffered an embarrassing outage affecting tens of millions of users, raising questions about the stability of its service.Other worries about the health of the IPO market and a sluggish economy could have it sitting on its IPO until at least July, said the report.&amp;''Tony needs to get his feet underneath him and understand the business and the voice of the company,&amp;'' the Journal quoted a source as saying. &amp;''The intention is to go when Tony is ready and when the macroeconomic climate allows the company to go.&amp;''Still, signs that 2011 may be &amp;''The Year of the IPO&amp;'' may not be overly hyped just yet. Currently, 44 companies are registered to go public, up from 25 at this time last year, according to a study released by Dow Jones VentureSource during the first week of January, with more likely to come. Shares of Demand Media, a publisher of inexpensively produced online content, soared today following its IPO.Major tech companies expected to jump into the IPO fray this year include work-focused social network LinkedIn and group-buying site Groupon.In any case, when Skype does go, it will likely go big, analyts believe: With a name that&amp;'s familiar to most Internet users, Skype could see the biggest IPO sinceGoogle went public in 2004. Skype said it had 560 million registered users as of June 30, 2010, up 41 percent since mid-2009. But only 8.1 million of those users pay for the service &amp;8212' a statistic that could give long-term investors pause.Previous Story: LinkedIn wants your business cards, acquires CardMunchPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Internet telephony, IPOCompanies: SkypePeople: Tony Bates          Tags: Internet telephony, IPOCompanies: SkypePeople: Tony BatesRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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