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Google's other party plane revealed [Mine Flies Higher]
How did invited guests from the Bay Area for the Newsom-Siebel wedding make it to tiny Stevensville, Montana on a budget and at the last minute? On a private jet from Google, of course. But not the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Alan Patricof to Carl Icahn: You're stuck now [Yahoo]
Hypergenteel media investor Alan Patricof has graced portfolio company Huffington Post with an op-ed. He is archly polite in his open letter to new Yahoo board member Carl Icahn. But his message is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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"Screwgle" policy serves leftover Google ads to non-matching keywords [Online Advertising]
Google began testing Automatic Matching, which runs Google advertisers' text links on related keyword searches, not just exact matches, back in February. But a reporter for The Register explain how... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Google afraid of Cuil? No. Google afraid of Cuil's press releases? Hell yeah [Great Moments In Pr]
Now we get it: Publicists at Google knew that Cuil was going to launch today, with coverage in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. How did they know? Because reporters called... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Need for speed behind Comcast’s latest plan
Cable and broadband provider Comcast today said it has doubled download speeds of its fastest tier of Internet service.
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MacBook rumors swirling: glass trackpads, custom chipsets, ponies, ice cream
Filed under: Laptops An interesting wave of MacBook rumors hit today, for some reason, following up on these weird case images we saw a while back. First up, Seth Weintraub at Computerworld says the new machines will be manufactured in an all-new process out of one sheet of aluminum and feature glass multi-touch trackpads -- which seems entirely unnecessary, since there's no reason ...
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Microsoft's Mojave Experiment "promotes" Vista -- Ashton Kutcher-style
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops You may have heard that Microsoft is "like, totally serious, guys" about patching up Vista 's good name, and, well, so far they're off to a rocky start. After pushing up a few lackluster web ads, they've decided to trick users en masse to prove a point. They've termed the Punk'ing the "Mojave Experiment," which placed 120 regular computer users of all ...
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Laptops With Sensitive Information Stolen From Anheuser-Busch
Laptops, some with sensitive data, stolen from an Anheuser Busch office is in the hands of strangers. Some current and former Anheuser-Busch employees are being warned their personal information may be compromised. The laptops were stolen from an office *off* the brewery property but still in the St. Louis area sometime between Friday night June 6 and Monday morning June 9. Other businesses in ...
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Buffalo solders up 32GB and 64GB SSDs for Eee PC
Filed under: Laptops , Storage Those fine folks at Buffalo are working on 32GB and 64GB PCI-E SSDs for the Eee PC 901 (and others, we're guessing), to be released in September. That's all well and good, but what's even more exciting are the price points: 32GB will be retailing for around 16,800 yen (about $157 US) while the 64GB will go for 33,600 yen ($313 US). Sure, a storage ...
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Pirates RHP Snell gets rare win, beating Rockies
Ian Snell won for the second time in 18 starts, Nate McLouth homered and the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied for a 8-4 victory over Colorado on Monday, snapping the Rockies' five-game winning streak.
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60GB Xbox 360 pops up in Target -- where else?
Filed under: Gaming Amazon and Circuit City might have that new 60GB Xbox 360 SKU up for pre-order with delivery in August, but Microsoft's game console has always tended to pop up in Targets first , and this time out's no exception -- yep, there it is, hanging out in NYC. Anyone seen one poking around the dish towels and cheap-chic furniture at their local? Let us know in ...
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iPhone apps pirated, shared -- but not GPL'd
Filed under: Cellphones Seeing as Apple's FairPlay DRM has already been cracked for music and movies, it's not at all surprising that people are starting to poke holes in the FairPlay-based iPhone App Store. The first loophole is pretty simple, since it doesn't appear that FairPlay links the iPhone hardware to specific Apple IDs: just log into iTunes from any of the machines authorized to ...
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"Xbox Live Now Free for Select Games"
Currently, only three titles allow free online play: Universe at War, Shadowrun and Lost Planet: Colonies Edition. Other games, such as Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War, still require an Xbox Live Gold subscription for online multiplayer.
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U.S. Apple stores increase hours, staff
Apple recently updated its iPhone availability page availability page, stating, "To accommodate demand for iPhone 3G, all Apple Retail Stores will now open at 8:00 a.m. every day but Sunday. We're also adding staff to help you get up and running as quickly as possible." The demand for the iPhone 3G has been excessive and Apple's retail stores have ...
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Facebook hires Mozilla engineer
Mike Schroepfer, who led the development of the Firefox browser as Mozilla's vice president of engineering, will be one of four directors of engineering at Facebook.
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Ex-Googler launches rival Cuil search engine
A new search tool that has been launched claims to have 120 billion pages indexed, well over the 40 billion Google reportedly has.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Sep 2007 04:14 UTC
Here is an interview with Richard Stallman about a range of free software topics including GPLv3 and comment on the Microsoft patent issue. Stallman has a go at Linus Torvalds even suggesting that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Aug 2005 19:41 UTC
Richard Stallman, chair of the Free Software Foundation, said on Thursday that the Linux trademark fracas in Australia has distracted attention away from the real issue - that of freedom to distribute and change software.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Feb 2006 18:07 UTC, submitted by Peter Parker
"Microsoft may not make flawless software, but its proprietary strategy is hard to fault. In particular, Microsoft has mastered desktop lock-in, undermining users' confidence in any alternatives and creating a slew of minor difficulties that irritate those who do switch.
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Gaming Fuels the Online Content Market
Asia-Pacific's online content services market continues to see robust growth, thanks to online gaming. Even as it battles piracy concerns, revenues for paid online content rose 25.6 percent in 2007 and are expected to grow by 21 percent this year, reaching a market size of US$4.67 billion by end-2008.
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US Internet companies expand worldwide
NEW YORK (AP) - AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated icons.
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Quanta and Compal cautious on H2 laptop demand - paper
TAIPEI, July 29 (Reuters) - Quanta <2382.TW> and Compal <2324.TW>, the world's two largest laptop contract makers, turned cautious on laptop PC demand for the second half of the year due to a global economic slowdown, a local newspaper said on Tuesday.
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Quanta and Compal cautious on H2 laptop demand - paper
TAIPEI, July 29 (Reuters) - Quanta <2382.TW> and Compal <2324.TW>, the world's two largest laptop contract makers, turned cautious on laptop PC demand for the second half of the year due to a global economic slowdown, a local newspaper said on Tuesday.
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Online Threats Materializing Faster, Study Shows
The bad guys on the Internet are narrowing the time frame they need to unleash computer attacks that take advantage of publicly disclosed security holes, new research shows.
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Flipping Web sites, selling the niche
A wave of entrepreneurs are using free software to buy niche Web sites and fix them up with the hope of reselling them for far more than they paid.
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