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Convention Buzz Detector -- Republicans Day 1
Hurricane Gustav may have curtailed the festivities for Republicans gathered in Minneapolis on Monday. But online there was a major first-day convention buzz, though it may have been unwelcome.
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Supplies for Soldiers is seeking donations
WORCESTER - Before LauraLea Dube goes to sleep, she makes sure her computer is running and that she is logged on to AOL Instant Messenger. The chime of an incoming message from her son serving in Afghanistan, Army Spc. Stephen Warren, 23, prompts her to hop out of bed and chat.
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Google Apps To Add Business Video Sharing Tools
NeeTeeVee reports Google is going to be adding video sharing tools to Google Apps for businesses this coming Monday. Paid users of Google Apps will be allowed to upload videos with no time restrictions but a maximum size per upload of 300 MB, for a total of 3GB per account and unlimited video views. Click to continue reading...
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NEC puts out rotating EA221WM computer LCD
NEC added just its second EA series display on Tuesday through the MultiSync EA221WM. The 22-inch panel is billed as one of NEC's more complete models with support for pivoting the LCD into portrait mode as well as height, swivel, and tilt adjustments. It also carries a four-port USB hub, hidden stereo speakers and both HDCP-encrypted DVI as well as regular VGA inputs for its video sources.... ...
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Google considering a move to OpenSolaris?
Google is apparently considering a move to OpenSolaris. Here's why that consideration won't go far.
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Apple refurbs: MacBook roundup, Mac accessories
Currently Apple's online store is offering refurbished Mac Book Air models in four configurations: the 1.6GHz model with 2GB of memory and 80GB hard drive is $1,499; the 1.8GHz model with 2GB of memory and 80GB hard drive is $1,699; the 1.6GHz model with 2GB of memory and 64GB solid state drive is $2,099; and the 1.8GHz model with 2GB of memory and 64GB solid state drive is $2,299. All three ...
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Google's Picasa Adding Facial Recognition
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces by Stephen Shankland reports Google's adding facial recognition technology to Picasa. Picasa users will be able to label their photos with names. Google will then start to automatically suggest other photos that look similar to the ones you already named. Mike Horowitz, Google's Picasa product manager told News.com: Click to continue ...
Search Engine Land |
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29West to Engage Slow Desktop PCs in Fast Messaging
Ultra Messaging Desktop Services allows diverse desktops to use 29West's messaging backbone.
Wall Street and Technology |
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Waiting For Google Chrome To Launch
Obviously the big story of yesterday and today in the technology world is the impending launch of Google's open-source browser Chrome. It will likely be available for download here later today. ( TechCrunch and Google Blogoscoped have a few screenshots.) There are dozens and dozens of stories on Techmeme. Click to continue reading... ...
Search Engine Land |
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CITOC Builds Virtualized Application Infrastructure on VMware Virtualization Platform
VMware announced that CITOC, a provider of managed and hosted IT solutions, has standardized on VMware's management and virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure, as its application environment for internal systems and client solutions. read more
SYS-CON Media |
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Google updates Picasa Web Albums site
Google adds face-recognition and other news features to it Picasa Web Albums photo-sharing Web site.
Macworld |
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CW's Shows Go Mobile
NEW YORK The CW is the latest TV network to add a mobile video component, following networks like NBC and CBS. Its wireless application protocol (WAP) site, wap.cwtv.com, was placed in a beta test for mobile video in the beginning of August and is expected to officially launch as the fall season gets under way.
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ToneFXs juggles iPhone ringtones, system sounds
A developer called Efiko Software says it has released ToneFXs, a new app for jailbroken iPhones. The software attempts to diversify the sounds an iPhone uses for regular functions, primarily ringtones. Users can for instance choose to shuffle their ringtones, picking from a pool which can be chosen while an iPhone is on the go....
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iPhone game combines jigsaw puzzles and Tetris
Maverick Software has released a new iPhone/iPod touch game titled Jiggy. As a cross between a jigsaw puzzle and Tetris, Jiggy challenges players to put together a puzzle from falling pieces, racing against time to get them placed in the right sports before the pieces stack up to high. The game features 35 increasingly challenging puzzles and has skill levels for all, including a "kid mode" that ...
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Scientists Develop New Method to Investigate Origin of Life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus settling the debate once and for all over which of these life forms came first.
PhysOrg |
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Five9 Debuts Call Center Software Community on TMCnet
Five9 today announced the launch of the Call Center Software community with Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) as the newest addition to the TMCnet global online community program.
Centre Daily Times |
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Judge orders music downloader to pay RIAA $40,500 [Copyfight]
Arizona's Jeffrey Howell did several dumb things on his way to being ordered to pay the RIAA a $40,500 fine for downloading songs such as "Waiting For A Girl Like You," "Money For Nothing," and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Google Chrome Download supposed to start in about 2hours
Google is holding a press-conference at 11am PDT in their Mountain View head quarters. The download of the Google Chrome Browser should begin around that time. The Google Chrome announcement yesterday is still driving most tech news today. Henry Blodget...
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News, Music, Weather, Music, Car Racing Among Topics of Ten New Wi-Fi TV Stations Going Online Today
Wi-Fi TV Inc. (Pink Sheets:WIFT), www.Wi-FiTV.com, is adding ten new live TV station links with Live Chat capability to its roster, which includes many exclusive and original stations, today. All the stations may be viewed for free with a high speed Internet connection from anywhere in the world, and a quick one-time online sign up (which does not even require retrieving an email) is all that ...
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Zend mixing PHP, AJAX for RIAs
With an upgrade to its software development framework for PHP scheduled for release today, Zend Technologies is mixing in client-side AJAX capabilities with server-side PHP functionality. Zend Framework 1.6, the company's open-source framework, integrates with the Dojo Toolkit for AJAX. Developers thus gain front-end rich Internet application capabilities via Dojo (version 1.1.1 of ...
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Yahoo's Facebook rival to close
The search engine announced the closure in an email to Mash's members and advised web users to save any data posted on the site they wish to keep. Mash was launched in September last year as Yahoo's answer to Facebook and MySpace . It differed from other social networking sites by allowing users to edit each others' profile pages and change the layout of their friend's pages.
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Supplies for Soldiers seeking donations
WORCESTER - Before LauraLea Dube goes to sleep at night, she makes sure her computer is running and that she is logged on to AOL Instant Messenger. The chime of an incoming message from her son serving in Afghanistan, Army Spc. Stephen Warren, 23, prompts her to hop out of bed and chat with him.
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People getting wary of posting personal sex tapes online
Melbourne, Sept 2 :: While amateur porn tapes are blamed for the decline in the sales of mainstream porn industry, experts claim that soon people would be cautious of posting explicit material online.
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Child porn man 'wanted found out'
A man downloaded child porn images because he believed his family would accept his suicide, a court hears.
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Ai Media Group Launches Full Suite of Online Advertising Services
Ai Media Group launches today with a team of experienced professionals ready to offer unique digital advertising solutions including "traditional" search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) as well as promotional campaigns for video, mobile, emerging digital media, widgets and social networking.
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