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50 Fantastic Bing Tricks for Students & Librarians
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Bing has made quite an entrance in the Internet search world. This new way of searching provides quick and easy shortcuts that don’t always require reading through lists of websites and clicking on each one to find what you want. Check out the following tricks to see how Bing can help students...
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i-Tunes Responsible for over 25% of all U.S. music sales
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Apple's iTunes Store has seen some pretty good growth in the last couple of years; it's currently the most popular online music store, and that apparently isn't all, according to Marke****ch. Just recently, iTunes managed to reach 25% (rising from 21% in 2008 and 14% the year before) of all m...
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Gmail overtakes AOL, becomes third largest email provider
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Well , sort of saw this coming:
Google's Gmail has surpassed AOL as the third most visited e-mail service in the U.S. and is poised to pass Windows Live Hotmail in about seven months.
Between July 2008 and July 2009, Gmail's number of unique monthly visitors in the U.S. increased from 25...
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Here comes another round of Mac vs. PC
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Hey, whatever floats your boat.......
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The Five Ugliest Tech Products (Cnet Video Clip)
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Niiice:
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Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Names (Cnet Video)
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Hmmm...... I won't be buying them...
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Google Voice and you: what it is and how you can use it
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Interesting.......
With so much news lately about Google Voice, those who haven't kept up on every tiny development have found themselves lost. What exactly is Google Voice? Is it a phone redirecting service? VoIP? Voicemail? All of the above? None of the above? Even some of our staff mem...
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HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-Ray to the gutter
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The demise of Blu-Ray is premature, methinks!
Just when Blu-ray thought it had clear sailing, a tempest has risen in the East: China Blue Hi-definition Disk (CBHD). Toshiba has licensed its HD DVD to them and it will be the unit world leader in HD optical technology in just 12 months.
Why?...
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Why the FCC wants to smash open the iPhone
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Hmmmm.... because they are allowed to?
Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T who rejected the apps. Nobody really knows. But the FCC launched an investigation last night to find out, sending let...
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Click! Apple's Netbook Future
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Apple in the netbook business? You bet...
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Microsoft's Long.Slow Decline
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Not sure that I believe this... looking at their stock, but hey...whatever! There were two interesting Windows-related news stories last week. First, Joe Wilcox’s story on a report from NPD claiming that 91 percent of $1,000-and-higher retail computer sales now go to Apple. Second, Micr...
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Skype in danger of being shut down......
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I don't use this, but many do: Back in 2005, eBay bought Skype from Joltid. The 2.6 billion dollar price tag did not include the "Global Index P2P software " that Skype is based on. Joltid is trying to cancel the license that Skype uses for this technology. If this happens, the Skype s...
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The first 10 free apps to install on a new computer
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Liking some of these:
It’s about that time for me again: my desktop is a couple years part its prime and my laptop just died (no display, no hard drive activity, no wifi, and a recent history of turning off suddenly for no good reason – those are all bad signs, right?), which means the near futur...
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40 Fantastic Time Wasting Websites
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If you have the time, we have the site!
40 Time Wasting Websites
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Get the most out of Gmail
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Nice guideline:
Gmail ushered in a whole new way of accessing and managing e-mail. Many people think that it's a major improvement over the old desktop-app approach. The following tips, tricks, and add-ons make the Gmail experience better still.
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The Decade's 25 Biggest Tech Flops
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I don't know many of these.. which is a good thing!
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Which one is Most correct ?
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Hi Which sentence is most correct ? A.Presently , we are not in the market for such mentioned Items . B.Currently , we are not in the market for such mentioned items. c.At the time being,We are not in the market for such mentioned items. D. or you may add your suggestion(s). Thanks in advance for any comme...
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MySpace set to offer webmail service
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Hmmmm... the field is getting crowded...
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Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
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I know that this doesn't really fit on this forum, but this guy was the News Anchor icon of all time. Cronkite became best known on CBS News during the 1960s when he established the prominent role of the television news anchorman for the network's newly expanded evening news program. "Wa...
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CNet's Top 10 Gadgets
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If I only had a few extra dollars......
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The decade's 25 biggest tech flops
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I remember lots of these........
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Microsoft to open stores near Apple's this fall
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I see a big turf war on the horizon...
Microsoft is planning to open the first of its planned retail stores next to existing Apple stores this fall.
Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer, told partners the news during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote on July 15. A nu...
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Despite Danger, Car Conversations Continue
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Foolish....... Texting still the norm... -- Edited by barney on Sunday 19th of July 2009 10:51:08 AM
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New Trojan Variants Evade Major Anti-Virus Engines
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Well, this isn't good......
Sunnyvale, Calif. – July 14, 2009 – Millions of email viruses bypassed major anti-virus engines during the second half of the second quarter, according to the Q2 2009 Internet Threat Trends Report by Commtouch® (Nasdaq: CTCH). Several successive and massiv...
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Apple demanded Microsoft stop its Laptop Hunters ads
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Battle of the Biggies....
Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote not only about the upcoming Microsoft Stores this fall to be placed near Apple stores but also about how Apple's lawyers wanted Microsoft to tak...
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5 Top Tech Disappointments
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Well....... here they are (flash video)!
Top 5 Tech Disappointments
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10 Full Featured Laptops For Less That $750
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If you are in the market for one of these......
Full-Featured Laptops for Less Than $750
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Farrah Fawcett Dead At 62
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Jackson themed malware spreading.....
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Not so good...... The sudden death of Michael Jackson quickly opened a window of opportunity for cybercriminals to capitalize on. With a malicious spam campaign, blackhat SEO search results poisoning which is serving scareware within the first 100 search results for Michael Jackson’s d...
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9 of the strangest software glitches of all time
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Hahahahahahaha.....
Writing buggy applications is a cinch--for decades, the world's software developers have been proving that with just about every program they release. Truly interesting bugs, however, are a relatively rare breed. I'm talking about the kind that cause technolog...
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