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Kongregate to launch Facebook games, raises $3 million from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
As part of the “indie” movement, Kongregate has been trying to do for user-generated video games what YouTube did for user-created videos.
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Local Web Chief Caught Between Internet Copyright Battle
It's a running battle on the Internet between people sharing copyrighted materials and those dedicated to stopping them. It can be rough when you're caught in the middle.
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Graphene-based gadgets may only be few years away
Washington, May 1 : It's only a matter of a few years before scientists develop graphene based computer and TV displays, for researchers at the University of Manchester have taken a step in this direction by creating tiny liquid crystal devices with electrodes made from graphene.
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Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web
Customers have appetite for social networking...
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Managed Systems and Newforma Outline IT Best Practices for New York's Small Businesses at Microsoft-Hosted Event
Managed Systems:
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Italians irate after all incomes posted on internet
The incomes of every Italian citizen were published on the web without any prior warning by the country's outgoing government, just days before it was due to leave power
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Missing link of electronic circuits 'memristor' discovered
London, May 1 : Electronics experts in California, US, have succeeded in proving the existence of a fourth fundamental unit of electronic circuits, known as the 'memristor', which could revolutionize computing.
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Tape showing Jolie snorting heroin up for grabs for USD 70,000
Melbourne, May 1 : A videotape allegedly showing Angelina Jolie snorting heroin is being auctioned on the internet for a whopping 70,000 dollars.
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TrustPlus Reputation Service Accesses eBay Feedback Data
Online sellers can now link their eBay feedback to the TrustPlus reputation service through a partnership with SageFire. TrustPlus launched last year, allowing users to connect with friends and friends' friends, creating direct and indirect connections with others. Now, according to TrustPlus founder and CEO Shawn Broderick, the company is able to include eBay feedback data as an input to its ...
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Microsoft considers increasing its bid for Yahoo!
Microsoft's directors yesterday considered upping its bid for Yahoo!
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Recent Casio Computer Co., Ltd. News
Tokyo, May 1, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Casio Computer Co. said Thursday its consolidated sales are expected to increase for the sixth straight year in fiscal 2008.
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Recent Original Stories
Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate for version 2.6.22 of the Linux kernel, noting that the changelog itself for this release is just too big to put on the mailing list.
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Club News
BEDFORD COUNCIL ON AGING: Mudge Way, Bedford; Help Your Balance At Home, Tues., May 6, 10:30 a.m.; Learn the Internet for a Job, Tues., May 6 and 13, 7 p.m.; Conservation Trail Walk, Thurs., May 8, 1 p.
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HP researchers build intelligent memory
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have developed a working unit of a memory circuit that has existed in theory for 37 years, which could ultimately replace RAM and make computers more intelligent by tracking data it has retained. The technology, called memristor, could allow computers to make decisions by understanding past patterns of data it has collected, similar to human brains ...
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Industry, Stanford hope to fix what ails parallel processing
Big hitters in the parallel processing world are working with Stanford University towards an ambitious goal: to provide the parallel computing platform for 2012. It's a tough task. Read More...
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Live Twittering The UK's Microsoft Live Search Executive Symposium
I'm in London today for Live Search's Executive Symposium, designed to educate key thought leaders, company executives and others about what Microsoft is doing in search and what's happing in search generally. I've twittered the morning sessions, which were interesting and full of stats. Below, the raw twitters. If time allows, I might clean this up and enhance later. If not, well, I hope you ...
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Is that a server in your pocket? - community blog from Paul Penrose
In his ever-informative BankerVision blog, Lloyds TSB's James Gardner reports back from the latest TTI Vanguard meeting on technology trends in Canada.
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News to know: Microhoo; Adobe; MacBook Air; OLPC; RIAA
Notable headlines: Microsoft: We'll raise our bid for Yahoo, but can't make up our mind yet. Techmeme Jason O'Grady: Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air Ryan Stewart: Adobe Open Screen Project Dan Farber: IBM...
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IT'S amazing just what you can buy on the internet nowadays. Try this one from the 'Used Nappy Company'. One mothercare shaped terry nappy suitable for a child from birth to potty. Now I know how old someone is at birth but aged 'potty' could be anything!
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Girls find IT studies boring, lag behind boys
Sydney, May 1: Girls, who may otherwise be quite computer savvy and at home with instant messaging, shun information technology (IT) as a subject in schools, because they find it dull.
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Ex-coach gets jail time in child porn case
ST. CHARLES – A man that used to coach gymnastics in St. Charles will serve jail time after admitting Wednesday to storing images of child pornography on his computer.
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WiMax: The next Wi-Fi?
WASHINGTON - A wireless technology that Sprint Nextel plans to launch within a year makes high-speed and secure Internet access possible from almost anywhere. Called WiMax,...
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Microsoft-Yahoo! - Microsoft Fails To Make Up Its Mind What To Do Next
Despite meeting yesterday, the Microsoft Board of Directors - according to the Wall St. Journal - has not decided whether its $31 a share offer for Yahoo!, which has fallen in value to $29 a share in line with a fall in Microsoft's own stock value, should be hoisted to $33 a share in an attempt to keep alive Redmond's two-year pursuit of the Silicon Valley based search giant.
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News Study: U.S. Tax Rebate Could Boost HDTV Sales But a further economic slump could stifle growth.
Washington, D.C. (May 1, 2008) -- The U.S. government's stimulus tax rebate could boost sales of High-Definition TVs and personal computers in the coming months.
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Analyst: HD DVD demise hasn't meant scramble for Blu-ray
NEW YORK — Sales of Blu-ray disc players haven't been helped by maker Toshiba's capitulation over producing the rival HD DVD format, research firm NPD Group said Wednesday.
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