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Microsoft by the numbers!
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/06/25/microsoft-by-the-numbers.aspx-- Edited by barney on Sunday 27th of June 2010 11:01:34 AM
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New Bill Gives Obama ‘Kill Switch’ To Shut Down The Internet
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The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Secur...
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Google's Wi-Fi snoop nabbed passwords and emails
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The Wi-Fi traffic collected by Google's world-roving Street View cars included passwords and email, according to a report citing a preliminary study from the French data protection authority.
IDG reports that the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) has examin...
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10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google
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“Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” So began the “letter from the founders” penned by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the company’s securities registration form in 2004. Despite ever-increasing commercial success since that date, Brin and Page have kept to...
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FCC to consider first step toward broadband regulation
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on the first step toward reclassifying broadband as a regulated, common-carrier service, despite objections from many U.S. lawmakers and broadband providers.
The FCC, in a Thursday morning meeting, is scheduled to vot...
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Guests 'coming out of the woodwork'!
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Guests 'coming out of the woodwork'??? GuestJun 17 4:40 PM, 2010 United StatesVindicatedJun 17 4:40 PM, 2010 United StatesGuestJun 17 4:40 PM, 2010 United StatesGuestJun 17 4:31 PM, 2010 United StatesGuestJun 17 4:29 PM, 2010 United StatesGuestJun 17 4:29 PM, 2010 United StatesGuestJun 17 4:2...
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Is This Ad Safe?
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I'm not clicking on this ad: Has it been found safe?
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Ten Tips to Prevent Identity Theft
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How much information does someone really need to know in order to impersonate you to a 3rd-party? Your name? Birth date? Address? Armed with easily found information such as this, and maybe a couple other key pieces of information such as the high school you went to, your dog’s name or your mot...
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Five things Microsoft is doing right in 2010
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I’ve hit Microsoft pretty hard recently for its Windows debacle, its failed mobile strategy, and its missed opportunities in the enterprise space. I continue to believe that the company is in the midst of an identity crisis that it refuses to acknowledge.
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Starbucks to start offering free Wi-Fi and exclusive content
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In an initiative to get more customers into their stores, Starbucks announced yesterday, at the Wired Disruptive by Design conference, that they are going to start offering free Wi-Fi, powered by AT&T, starting July 1.
"Free Wi-Fi is in my mind just the price of admission — we wa...
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New Hotmail begins rolling out
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According to the Windows Team Blog, Microsoft has begun rolling out its much anticipated Wave 4 revision of its popular Hotmail cloud-based webmail service. Slowly but surely, users will begin seeing the new features. The upgrade will take place over the course summer. There is no word as t...
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Why website crashes are unavoidable -- at least for now
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First it was Twitter, which had "site availability issues" on and off this week. Then, on Thursday night, it was WordPress, the popular blogging platform that supports more than 10 million blogs, all of which went down for several hours because of a coding problem.
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12 big things we didn't see at WWDC 2010
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Like the lead-up to any big, annual Apple event, the weeks and months ahead of this year's WWDC brought the usual wash of rumors about new hardware, software, and online services.
The biggest unknown was not so much on the hardware side--as we all knew there was a new iPhone on the way (even w...
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Google to launch iTunes competitor as Google Music?
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At Google I/O a few weeks ago, Google teased the audience with a glimpse of a web-based iTunes competitor that would be a new section of the Android Market. Details were sparse during that time, but we may have found the name of the service through a new logo that is hosted on Google’s domain: Goo...
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RIAA asks court to close down LimeWire
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The music industry has asked a federal court in New York to order a shutdown of the LimeWire service, according to documents obtained by CNET.
Lawyers working for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the four top record companies, filed documents on Frida...
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Google releases top 1000 most visited websites
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Craigslist Crawler
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Handy tool for searching Craigslist -- no installation needed -- just click on link. Craigslist Crawler Fould this on my 'Love My Bus' forum.
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Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail with an Onslaught of New Features
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Microsoft has announced a huge slew of upgrades to Hotmail to make it more competitive with Gmail, and we have to admit the list is impressive.
With 343 million users, Hotmail is still the top e-mail service provider. Gmail is much smaller, with approximately 150 million users as of Septem...
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Too much technology: Was Obama right?
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Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
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How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to feed it?
A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a computer lab downtown on Mercer Street, decided to build a social network that wouldn’t force people to surre...
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10 Awesome Webcam Feeds From Around the World
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Googling the phrase “live webcams” may not return the most insightful or educational content available on the web, but there’s certainly some great stuff out there.
To save you the bother of trawling through such results, we’ve pulled together a list of ten fascinating webcam feeds from...
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5 Ways to Get Free Stuff On Twitter
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I love it when I can get free stuff. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a free sample of hand lotion, a free soft pretzel, or a free magazine subscription. I love free, and Twitter makes it easy to quickly find all kinds of freebies.
Here are five ways to use Twitter to get your fix of free stuff.[/qu...
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Gallery: Curious and curiouser emerging technologies
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Wow... these are so far out there! Unbelievable Emerging Technologies -- Edited by barney on Sunday 2nd of May 2010 11:26:42 AM
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Microsoft: HTML5 is the future of the web
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Microsoft on Thursday reiterated their support of HTML5 and H.264 for Internet Explorer 9. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer, posted on the IE blog that HTML5 will be the future of the web and that IE9 would only support H.264 for its video tag. For H.264, Hachamovitch...
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Microsoft's 10 worst products
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Despite enjoying huge success with Windows 7 and the Xbox 360, there are several other products that Microsoft would probably rather forget about...
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Third of phone owning U.S. teens send 100 texts a day
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Reuters is reporting one third of U.S. teenagers with mobile phones will send over 100 texts each day. This means texting has become the most popular form of communication for young people as discovered in a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
The study has found that since...
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Is Apple Ripping You Off?
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Gallery: Microsoft's shameless TV plug marketing
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Over the last week, through my usual television program viewing, I have noticed two episodes from two television series’ which include subtle advertisements for Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 and Bing as a part of the storyline.
What interested me was the shift from ordinary scheduled c...
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Alternatives to iTunes: how 5 rival music services match up
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How well do the current crop of online music services stack up against the iTunes Store?
When I did my inaugural round-up of iTunes alternative last year, I was looking for ways to avoid the high price of iTunes, and I succeeded. I found six rivals that offered significant savings—at least 1...
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Cnet's Most Popular Products - Cnet Video
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Check 'em out!
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