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Facebook Benefits Extroverts Most
Both real life and virtual social interactions such as on Facebook are harder for introverts, new research shows.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Aug 2005 18:46 UTC
When Apple Computer announced in June that it planned to move to Intel chips, one of the companies left in the lurch was Terra Soft Solutions. This week, Terra Soft is announcing it has filled some of the void created by Apple's move.
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America Airlines to test broadband connectivity on Wednesday flights
The Dallas Morning News reports that American Airlines passengers traveling between New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles Wednesday will have the opportunity to browse the Internet along the way in a dress rehearsal for inflight broadband provided by American and technology provider Aircell LLC.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jun 2008 23:04 UTC
One button, two buttons, three buttons, ten million buttons. Beige, black, white, red with polka dots. Glow-in-the-dark, see through. Right-handed, left-handed, both. Vertical for RSI patients, trackballs for weirdoes like myself, Apple's puck mouse for sado-masochists.
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PEER 1 Announces With Network Upgrade
Vancouver, BC, June 25, 2008--(T-Net)--PEER 1 Network Enterprises (TSX: PIX), a leading provider of online IT infrastructure, has completed a comprehensive, standardized network upgrade to 10GB/OC192. The upgrade strengthens the IT platform needed for online business growth and new technologies, as well as helping to enable continued innovation in the market.
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Nokia rolls out over-the-air firmware updates with the N78 release
As regular readers know, I spend more time on my mobile phones than I do on a PC or notebook computer so being able to use my devices without connecting them to a computer is important to me. In the past, I have always had to make sure I had...
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Court: Towns satisfied Wisconsin open records law
MADISON — Three municipalities did not break the state's open records law when they refused to give a real estate listing service access to a computer database, the Wisconsin Supreme Court said today.
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Airband Communications Completes WiMAX Expansion in Phoenix
PHOENIX----Airband Communications Inc., the industry’s leading fixed-wireless company for businesses in the United States, today announced expanded coverage of its high-bandwidth solutions in Phoenix.
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Yahoo! Mail! vuln! fixed!
Buddy hacker account compromise risk plugged Yahoo! has fixed a vulnerability that left users of its popular webmail service at risk of having their login credentials stolen.…
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Coats cracks it open at THSBCA game
Before Sunday’s 35th Annual Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 4A/5A All-Star game Sunday, the last time Plano West senior Jason Coats had stepped on the field at Dell Diamond was eight days earlier when the Wolves won the state championship.
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Next New Adds Yahoo, Hulu to Net; Break.com Launches Video Platform
The unfettered syndication of Web video content continues, as both niche producer Next New Networks and young male-targeted Break.com have announced expanded distribution strategies.
Mediaweek |
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Internet-Based Care Aids Blood Pressure Control
Dr. Beverly B. Green, at the University of Washington, and colleagues tested whether high blood pressure could be managed over the Internet without the need for visits to a doctor.
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C-FB ISD superintendent tries her hand at blogging
Dr. Annette Griffin is a frequent reader of blogs on teaching and learning, so she decided to try her own hand at blogging. Griffin, the superintendent of Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District, began drgriffinsblog.blogspot.com earlier this month as an opportunity for parents and students to write and communicate with her.
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France to Tax Internet, Mobile Sales to Fund Ad-Free Public TV
June 25 (Bloomberg) -- France will ban prime-time advertising on public television as of Jan. 1 and plans to tax Internet, mobile-phone and commercial-broadcasting companies to replace the lost funding, President Nicolas Sarkozy said today.
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Service From Google Gives Crucial Data to Ad Buyers
Google’s new service will allow media buyers to identify sites where their display advertisements might work best, judged on criteria like demographics and traffic.
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Charter Won’t Track Customers’ Web Use
The pilot information-gathering program, meant to offer advertisers the ability to tailor ad placement based on individual viewing habits, is being dropped on customer concerns.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Durbin to head up humanity hearing
Social bookmarking allows users to save and categorise a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. This is different to using your own browser bookmarks which are available using the menus within your web browser.
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State's vital records site now in Spanish
SPRINGFIELD - All vital records now can be requested in Spanish via www.idph.state.il.us , the Illinois Department of Public Health Web site, by clicking on "Nacimientos, defunciones y otros registros."
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Finisar Corporation’s Allen division goes green
They’ve held recycling programs before, but Allen’s Advanced Optical Components (AOC) hopes that its next program goes beyond being “just a program” and changes the outlook of other businesses on being environmentally sound.
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Fire tears through barn
Social bookmarking allows users to save and categorise a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. This is different to using your own browser bookmarks which are available using the menus within your web browser.
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Mall cell phone kiosks get hit to tune of several thousand dollars in Indian River, Brevard counties
Employees at the Sprint kiosk at the Indian River Mall said they discovered at 10 a.m. Saturday that 29 cell phones and a laptop computers had been stolen, worth more than $14,000.
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Residents question tree removal
Rowlett citizens are up in arms over the possible removal of pecan trees from Pecan Grove Park as part of the Coyle house relocation project. People voiced their concerns at a recent town hall meeting and the topic has been creating a stir on an Internet forum dedicated to Rowlett issues.
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Palm Beach Post to cut staff by 300
The publisher of the Palm Beach Post said Wednesday it will cut 300 workers from its payroll of 1,350. ''A prolonged slump in our advertising revenues, increased competition from the Internet and an overall difficult economic environment have combined to make this type of cost reduction necessary,'' Palm Beach Post Publisher Doug Franklin said.
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Brooke Hogan Explains Controversial Photo
Brooke Hogan, 20, sees nothing wrong with photos showing dad Hulk, 54, applying lotion to her butt that sparked a flurry of Internet gossip in April. "I know I'm a grown woman, but it's like he's touching an old car," the singer tells Us Weekly in its latest issue, on newsstands now. "He used to change my diaper!" she adds. (See stars' bikini controversies.) In the new issue of Us Weekly,...
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Belarusian journalists protest media ban
Dozens of Belarusian news Web sites on Wednesday filled their pages with grim black banners to protest a new media law that will severely restrict the last source of independent information in the repressive ex-Soviet state.
Miami Herald |
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