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Best Buy to trial launch Palm Pre on June 7th — Well lookie here. This one isn't 100% confirmed just yet but a ninja hit us up with what could be some pretty juicy launch details for the rumor mill's favorite handset du jour, the Palm Pre. Here we go — according to our ninja …
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Larry Page Delivers Powerful Commencement Speech At U of M [Video] — Earlier today I had the privilege to hear Google co-founder Larry Page speak at the University of Michigan. I found his commencement speech to be quite moving. He talked about how his parents first met at the University …
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Silicon Valley crown up for grabs — Silicon Valley's place as a centre of innovation and a major force in the global economy is waning. — So says Tom Siebel, hi-tech veteran and founder of Siebel Systems. — “I think Silicon Valley has been toppled from its pedestal,” he told BBC News.
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Why text messages are limited to 160 characters — Credit: Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times — Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. — As he went along …
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Controversial Web ‘Framing’ Makes a Comeback — When Digg introduced a new toolbar in early April that added a thin strip - known as a ‘frame’ - to the top of pages submitted to Digg, a publisher outcry forced the social media aggregator back down. It modified the new DiggBar so that only logged …
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Jacqui Smith's secret plan to carry on snooping — The home secretary has vowed to scrap a ‘big brother’ database, but a bid to spy on us all continues — SPY chiefs are pressing ahead with secret plans to monitor all internet use and telephone calls in Britain despite an announcement by Jacqui Smith …
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What The Trend: Finally, A Way To Make Sense Of Twitter Trends — For sure, Twitter Trends give visitors a great general overview of what the app's user base of millions are talking about the most at any given time, giving some insight in what's happening around the world.
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Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets — TOKYO - When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, they were already posted on another Web site …
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How OpenTable Could Actually Matter — Dot com meltdown survivor and restaurant reservation software company OpenTable had been a rumored IPO candidate for a while. Still, it shocked many when it finally filed its intention to debut on the Nasdaq back in January. What?
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Apple launches a revolution - and then gets overtaken — It happened when the Mac brought a mouse to every desktop. Now, with the iPhone, it's happening again — When a black-jumpered Steve Jobs bounded on to a San Francisco stage just over two years ago to give the keynote speech …
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When the Cellphone Teaches Sex Education — THE special cellphone, set on vibrate, begins to whir. Throughout North Carolina, anonymous teenagers are texting questions to it about sex. — “If you take a shower before you have sex, are you less likely to get pregnant?” asks one.
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Corporate Tweets and the SEC: Sometimes It's Better To Keep Your Mouth Shut — Last year, I covered the landmark SEC decision to recognize corporate blogs and potentially other forms of Social Media as a recognized form of meeting public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure) - in some cases.
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XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out — I've been waiting to get my hands on the Windows Virtual XP beta for Windows 7 ever since reading about it on Within Windows. If you're not familiar with it, XP Mode is built on Virtual PC and the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), and is designed …
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