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Search Pad: Making Online Research Easier — If you've ever used a search engine as a tool to help plan a vacation, research a purchase, or find health information on an illness, you know how difficult it is to keep track of the relevant websites and notes you find.
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Windows Mobile: What's coming when — Much was made of this week's slip-up by Motorola's CEO that Windows Mobile 7 is due in 2010 (something that's actually been expected for a few months now). — I've been curious about how Microsoft plans to try to catch up with its mobile-phone competitors given …
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Microsoft shifts execs to Windows Mobile, gears up for ... something — Here's another sign of something big — or at least something new — brewing behind the scenes in Microsoft's Windows Mobile division. — Confirming a tip we received, the company acknowledged this afternoon …
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Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up — SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, could ignore the call of the motherboard no longer. He is going back to work — this time at Fusion-io, a start-up company that tweaks computers to let them tap vast amounts of storage at very quick rates.
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Congress Changes DTV ‘Hard’ Date to June 12 — Bill also allows households with expired coupons to reapply — After heated debate by legislators Wednesday and a year and a half of broadcasters, cable operators and the government drilling the Feb. 17 ‘hard’ date into the hearts and minds of viewers …
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HP releases netbook interface for Ubuntu — Hewlett Packard has released a custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed for netbooks. For the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition, to be exact. Under the hood, the operating system is based on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. That means it can run pretty …
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Google Asks Time Warner for a $250 Million AOL Refund-Or Something Else? — Here's another eye-poke delivered to Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes (pictured) from Google CEO Eric Schmidt: The search company has asked the media giant to refund the money it invested in AOL three years ago.
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No Data Plan iPhone Is iPod Touch — BernsteinResearch analyst Toni Sacconaghi gets overly hung up a data-plan free iPhone in the new report. Toni writes: … I can beat that prediction. Apple already released a data-plan free iPhone, in 2007. Maybe you've heard of it? The iPod Touch.
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The great iPod migration
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U.S. Online Video Viewing Surges 13 Percent in Record-Setting December — Americans View 14.3 Billion Videos during the Month as YouTube Paces Growth — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released December 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing …
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ABOUT THE BLUE MONSTER TATTOO GUY LOSING HIS JOB AT MICROSOFT... A few people have pinged me about this story over the last couple of days, so I guess a blog post was in order. — A couple of years ago, I drew the Microsoft Blue Monster cartoon. It started taking on a life of its own inside Microsoft.
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Christians Bailing on GoDaddy Due to ‘Immoral’ Advertising — GoDaddy's famously risque Super Bowl ads always pull lots of eyeballs, but the company's latest spots may have resulted in a little too much attention of the wrong kind. — Entrepreneur Brian Harrell, who manages hosting services …
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AT&T Eyes Verizon Wireless Assets — On one hand, AT&T is fighting paying its employees more. On the other, its hoping to snag up assets that Verizon Wireless must divest as part of its merger agreement with Alltel Wireless. — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T is likely …
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Google's Cloud: 8 Key Questions — The GDrive and cloud computing sound great, but let's get some practical considerations out of the way first. — Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and virtually every other technology company are racing up to the sky and into the clouds.
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Bill Gates Unleashes Mosquitoes On Rich TED Conference Crowd — Bill Gates seems to be enjoying his semi-retirement. — At the TED technology conference in California, Microsoft's (MSFT) Chairman just let a bunch of live mosquitoes go into the audience. — From Twitter, we gather …
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A Juicy Shutdown — What a wild ride this has been! In the past year and a half, JuicyCampus has become synonymous with college gossip, and is more popular than I could have ever expected. We've expanded to more than 500 campuses across the US, and have more than a million unique visitors coming to the site every month.
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The Pirate Bay Maps Out its Tracker Connections — In the past few weeks The Pirate Bay has been struggling with an increase in visitors, and a corresponding load on their servers. Luckily, with a recent upgrade of the site's tracker servers, there is some room to breathe again.
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Sprint EOL list reveals target Palm Pre launch, plenty more — Sprint customers, have you found yourself wondering what Hesse & Co. have in store for you this year beyond the illustrious Palm Pre? Don't worry, you're not alone. While we can't post the list itself, one of our ninjas came through …
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Introducing the White Spaces Database Group — Since November's big vote at the FCC, some have begun asking when we'll start seeing consumer mobile devices take advantage of TV white spaces spectrum. — As the Commission made clear in its ruling, a working white spaces database must …
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Intel employee warns on Windows 7 netbook pricing, SSD drives — Intel blogger Josh Bancroft thinks Windows 7 “runs GREAT on netbooks,” but he foresees several serious problems with pricing and storage, according to a blog entry posted on an Intel website yesterday.
Thanks:ilamont
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Apple says 17-inch MacBook Pros will see further delays — Apple said Wednesday that it's facing unexpected delays related to its new unibody 17-inch MacBook Pros and won't be capable of shipping orders for at least another two weeks. — “Wrapping up the new 17-inch MacBook Pro is taking …
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Cisco's Q2 sees weaker sales, profits; no widespread layoffs planned — updated: Despite the uncertain economic challenges in the future and a quarter that saw weaker sales and profits from a year ago, Cisco Systems remains optimistic about its ride through the downturn and is looking ahead …
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AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image — NEW YORK (AP) — On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.
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UGC: Just a Loss Leader in the End? — by sarah lacy. — Back in the late 1990s, dot coms were all about the land grab. The idea was the more eyeballs and shoppers you got- POOF!- the more valuable you were. Never mind, the advertising market wasn't quite there yet and you were selling bags of dog food at a loss.
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Twitter Files for an IPO....'TWEET' as the Ticker Symbol? — I am starting this rumor if only for the reason to get some smart people talking about moving f**king forward with our public and private markets already. — Who cares that Twitter is not making money. Now is the perfect time for their IPO.
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App makes time lapse photography easy for iPhone — iPhone TimeLapse Test from digitalurban on Vimeo. — Here's a fun application. TimeLapse [App Store link] uses your iPhone's camera to take photos at regular intervals. You can have one photo snapped as infrequently as every 24 hours …
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Report: Most Spam Sites Tied to Just 10 Registrars — Nearly 83 percent of all Web sites advertised through spam can be traced back to just 10 domain name registrars, according to a study to be released this week. — The data come from millions of junk messages collected over the past year by Knujon …
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