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Over 35 movies are now available to download on YouTube. Is it becoming the new Bit Torrent?
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Opinion by Michael Bracy and Jenny Toomey of the Future of Music Coalition, an organization pressing Congress to halt the efforts to redefine the fundamental structures of the Internet.
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This story comes via Gizmodo and eWeek, and its actually something new about the Blackberry other than a new product introduction. According to RIM CEO Jim Balsillie, the Blackberry may become, how shall we say, more mortal in the near…
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According to Dow Jones via Cellular News, Chinese factories are, as with everything else, ramping up the output of mobile handsets.
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HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc are the two new formats competing to be the high-definition video disc of the future. Each promises to provide much better picture quality than standard DVD. The formats are not compatible. HD-DVD players will not play Blu-ray discs, and vice versa. (Think Beta vs. VHS again.) You can buy the Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD player for
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ATI has decided on a name for its RV570 chip. Its name is the ATI Radeon X1900 GT. The ATI R580 chip which is the chip used in X1900 GT cards is already available on the market. As you can see they have the same name but ATI has decided to use the RV570 chip because it is much cheaper to produce.
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Google Inc., typically tight-lipped about the technology behind its data centers, builds its own servers to save costs and because standard products don’t exactly meet its needs, Google’s senior vice president of operations said.
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THE EU regulators has decided that it is going to fine Microsoft up to ВЈ1m.
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Here is a nice trick to teach you placing rotate icons next to your ads by increasing the clicking rate on Google ads or yahoo ads
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Companies earn bragging rights when they’re first out of the gate with a new product. But being a pioneer is fraught with risks. Prices can be obscene. Products too often arrive before the bugs have been worked out. Take the gorgeous, black $3,500 Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G notebook. It has a vibrant 17-inch widescreen display, built-in camera an
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Have an old hard drive that no longer works? As long as it still spins up chances are you could build a clock out of your old hard drive!
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We’re adding more equipment. We’re fixing bugs and making the system smarter. We know where the remaining pain points are… Behind the scenes look at what’s going on at Netscape.
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Jeffrey Harbers, who was one of Microsoft Corp.’s first employees, has died in a single-engine plane crash in Montana.
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The researchers found that it was possible to circumvent the Chinese intrusion detection systems by ignoring the forged transmission control protocol resets injected by the Chinese routers, which would normally force the endpoints to abandon the connection. – From article.
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The phone for the guy who JUST WANTS TO MAKE PHONECALLS, DAMN IT!
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You can’t make money blogging without a lot of return readers. This post looks at the ways you make your blog stick so you can increase readership.
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The FCC has just approved the first dual iDEN/CDMA phone that will use CDMA for regular phone things and iDEN for push to talk. For the full information about the phone, click on the link.
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An overwhelming site that collects photos, videos, games and art of everything mindnumbingly cute!
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Spain gets out the whip on peer-to-peer file sharing. For the full information, click on the link.
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Despite all of the rumors you may have heard, Microsoft is not planning to have an internal HD-DVD drive inside of their’s next-generation console, the Xbox 360. For the full details about the said, click on the link.
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A federal judge in California hinted on Friday that a parenting Web site that’s suing Google over a poor ranking in the search giant’s massive index would be able to proceed with its lawsuit.
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Peter Cullen, Microsoft’s chief privacy strategist, found himself in the front line in the wake of the software giant’s recent antipiracy controversy. He talks about his role at the company, and what’s in store for the future.
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Good article explaining why a computer is important to have after a hurricane and how to keep it safe during storms. I myself am a Katrina survivor and can attest to the usefulness of a computer after a hurricane for communication and something to do.
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Tutorialism.com is a site that’s very similar to the concept of digg.com but allows users to submit and vote for web design and programming tutorials.
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darkstat is a network statistics gatherer. Effectively, it’s a packet sniffer which runs as a background process on a cable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of useless but interesting statistics, and serves them over HTTP.
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10 common traits of publishers who make great websites.
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Yet again, another stolen laptop with confidential information on it is missing in action. A laptop containing personal information from thousands of blood donors — including Social Security numbers and medical information — was stolen from a local office of the American Red Cross, but officials said the information was encrypted.
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David Carr of The New York Times reports how Nick Denton of Gawker Media, “one of the overlords of the blogosphere” has put two of his sites for sale, is reorganizing others, and laying off several people.
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Alert goes out to Apple and Microsoft users. A fixed patch and new flaws in Microsoft software, a security update from Apple Computer and a promise of safer browsing with IE 7 or GreenBorder. Join Joris Evers and Robert Vamosi for this week’s Security Bites.
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Remember that agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo! to make their clients interoperable? It’s happening. Currently, Y! Mac messenger will work with Windows Live Messenger
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