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Old School Digital Car Dashboard Roundup Is an LED Light Show [Clips]
Motive mag takes a look at the digital dashboards of the 1980s; a time where men were men and computer technology barely made anything fancier than some green LEDs. Despite this handicap, auto...
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Who's watching what you do on the Internet?
WASHINGTON Google and Microsoft officials told lawmakers today that the personal information you pump onto the Internet isn’t so private and is being turned into advertising dollars.
Orange County Register |
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'Not a Site, but a Concept': Tapping the Power of Social Networking
Companies like Hewlett-Packard, Ernst & Young and Del Monte Pet Foods have more in common than one may think: They are all savvy participants in the growing trend of consumers' use of social networking technologies to access information and get what they need. According to speakers at the recent Supernova conference in San Francisco, too few companies study how people actually interact with the ...
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Microsoft, Google Demand Privacy Legislation
Tech giants' people tell Senate committee than privacy rules should be firm, simple and clear.
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Rogers lowers cost of data plan for iPhone on eve of Canadian launch
MONTREAL - After consumer complaints about the costs of running an Apple iPhone on the only Canadian network capable of connecting with it, Rogers Wireless (TSX:RCI.B) is cutting the price of the touchscreen phone's data plan to $30 a month for a limited time.
Canoe Technology |
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Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Market Forecasts Target Year 2020
Global telecommunications revenue is projected to hit nearly $5 trillion by 2011, with growing demand for high-volume data applications driving both business and consumer markets. This and other revealing trends will be addressed through TIA's important new initiative to produce unique market intelligence for companies in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry.
Centre Daily Times |
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FairPoint Expands Internet Service
FairPoint says it has expanded high-speed internet access for customers.
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Two-way photo transfer for iPod and PCs
CopyTrans has announced CopyTrans Photo for transferring photos between iPods and Windows PCs. The software allows two-way transfer, allowing users to not only carry photos uploaded from a PC, but also to download photos off an iPod onto other PCs. CopyTrans Photo supports drag-and-drop file transfer and works with any photo-capable iPod, including...
MacNN |
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Google's Reputation, Number One
In the Reputation Institute's third annual public opinion survey, it ranks Google's corporate reputation number one among the 150 largest U.S. companies. The survey includes the top 150 U.S. coporations based on annual revenue, and this was the first year Google was included in that list. The survey is broken up into seven key "reputation dimensions"; Innovation, Workplace, Governance, ...
Overclockers Club |
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Study finds addictive drugs easily ordered online
(AP:WASHINGTON) More than three-quarters of Web sites that sell highly addictive medications do not require customers to provide a prescription, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Comcast and Vonage to work together on 'protocol agnostic' Internet
Common sense might tell you that Comcast's pledge to stop throttling Internet customers for the protocols they use would immediately help Vonage. But a new agreement may make sure Comcast's alternative doesn't end up hurting it.
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Congress looks to address privacy concerns over online ads
A Senate committee heard testimony from the online advertising industry on Wednesday, as it attempts to address worries that some practices may violate users' privacy.
BetaNews |
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Senate Grills 'Wiretapping' Ad Firm
Google and Microsoft escape senators' ire while start-up NebuAd takes the heat.
Forbes |
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Critical flaw rocks the internet
Computer security experts have worked for months in secret to fix a critical flaw in the internet which would have given hackers free reign to direct unsuspecting web surfers to dangerous websites.
Stuff |
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Rules To Keep children safe from Cyber Bullying
TelstraClear has joined with an international e-learning expert and cyber safety advocate to launch a program to assist parents in ensuring their children are less vulnerable while online.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Dec 2006 11:38 UTC
In 2002, both KDE and GNOME released their last major revisions; KDE released KDE 3.0 on 3rd April , while GNOME followed shortly after with GNOME 2.0 on 27th June . For the Linux desktop, therefore, 2002 was an important year.
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Amid hype, Apple iPhone expansion also runs risks
To sustain that momentum and keep fickle consumers and Wall Street happy, the company needs a dramatic second act with the next generation of iPhones, which roll out Friday with faster Internet access and lower retail prices.
KATU Portland |
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Loose Tweets Sink Fleets, Congressman
US Representative John Culberson (R-TX) tweeted loudly in the spirit of Paul Revere: "They want to require prior approval of all posts to any public social media/internet/www site by any member of Congress!!!" read more
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Recent Original Stories
"You've built a linux desktop. You've mounted the learning curve to configure the hardware (or paid someone else to do so) and you are able to do your own work on the machine. You've discovered that if you can point and click you can run a modern linux OS on your desktop.
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Rogers caves on iPhone pricing, sort of
Rogers has bowed to public pressure and temporarily lowered the price of internet usage on Apple's hotly awaited iPhone, which is being released in Canada on Friday.
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Google Introduces a Cartoonlike Method for Talking in Chat Rooms
Google’s new online tool allows people to embody a cartoonish online avatar and have text-based conversations with other Internet users in virtual chat rooms.
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Cops raid cyber cafes
Cases were slapped on two cyber cafes in central Calcutta on Wednesday for not following the guidelines laid down by police.
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Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey
An anonymous reader writes "You probably knew that the Deep Blue supercomputer beats chess masters, and that last weekend a software robot defeated four poker champions. But you may have missed this one: a GE Fanuc robot is taking on humans at air hockey. The robot is powered by a special PC-board that can instantly switch between 8-bit and its 32-bit modes. The 8-bit version lost to most human ...
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Wholesale Inventories Rise, Led by Computers, Metals and Farm Goods
While consumer borrowing increased in May, a decline in stockpiles puts distributors in a good place for scaling back production slowly in the face of a struggling economy.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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For iPhone, the ‘New’ Is Relative
Apple’s iPhone 3G, which will go on sale on Friday, comes with just a few new bells and whistles.
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