When Facebook launched its Open Graph public at the f8 developer conference, I stood in front of hundreds of journalists and asked the first question: What was the timeline for development?

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But in setting a timeline for development of an Iranian nuclear weapon that is longer than the more urgent one usually cited by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr. Obama appeared to be tamping down any expectations for pre-emptive action against Iran while aiming to assure its closest Mideast ally of U.S. support.

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Many of our most successful products came out of hackathons, including Timeline, chat, video, our mobile development framework and some of our most important infrastructure like the HipHop compiler.

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Compared with the development of deepwater wells below the salt off Brazil, this timeline is amazingly speedy.

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But despite disagreements over the timeline, most analysts and industry insiders maintain two views: that development of the broadband market is inevitable, and that each technology won't necessarily succeed or fail at the expense of others.

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They've discovered a Stuxnet 0.5 version that may have been in development or active as soon as November 2005, two years before the commonly accepted timeline.

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