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The last thing the Internet needs: more solutions [Ted Dziuba]
Cherished crank Ted Dziuba, the cofounder of news-search startup Pressflip, still hates the Internet. His latest target: OpenID, a technology he accuses of being "too San Francisco" — all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Intevac shares jump after analyst upgrade
Shares of Intevac Inc. rose Tuesday after an analyst upgraded them, saying orders for its tools, which are used to manufacture hard drives, are likely to revive next year.
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Google TM ... Not just a search engine
Google Alerts: helps you keep up-to-date with the latest news, current events or the topic of your choice. Simply enter your search terms, choose options and enter your email address – it’s that simple.
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Google extends Google Apps with video
UK: Google has announced the release of Google Video for Business . This is an extension to Google Apps that allows business customers to share video in a secure corporate environment. It becomes part of the Google Apps Premier Edition.
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Spot a published piece that would fit this blog? Let us know about it, at blog@gothamgazette.com With a week to go before the Sept. 9 primary, Paul Newell continues his campaign to topple Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver . However Quixotic that quest might be, some people are willing to pay for it.
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Google Chrome Alone Can't Defeat Microsoft's Browser
Internet Explorer is safe as long as Windows remains dominant.
US News & World Report |
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New Picasa Service Recognizes Faces in Photos
Google photo sharing site can make it easier to tag and organize photos.
US News & World Report |
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Amazon Launches Social Music Site
Amazon.com has launched a Wikipedia style site dedicated to music and bands called SoundUnwound. The site features information from Amazon's retail site and from its Internet Movie Database. The site is currently in beta. On the SoundUnwound blog page it lists several ways users can navigate the site. "Explore connections between artists - band memberships, family, shared credits and more. ...
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Picasa to Feature Facial Recognition Software?
Picasa Gets Smart With Facial Recognition The Inquisitr has a post out saying that at noon today Google's Picasa is going to introduce facial recognition technology and a new downloadable Picasa photo editing program beta. read more
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Internet Summit '08
If you live in the Southeastern United States, you’re going to want to pencil in Internet Summit ‘08 in Chapel Hill, NC on November 19, 2008. read more
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Baby on Board?
Swift Boat season has begun. Politicians and Internet-connected supporters employ conjecture and circumstantial evidence to attack political rivals. This year, Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Governor and anti-abortion Christian lady Sarah Palin was the first candidate hit. In late August,...
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Apple's "Rock" event expected to unveil new iPods
Apple Inc is expected to unveil new iPod music players -- and possibly price cuts -- at a media event next Tuesday but may not launch a long-awaited update to its MacBook laptop computers until a later date.
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Chrome: Why Google Fears Microsoft
Sam Gustin says: Listening to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin answer questions following the company's demo of Chrome, I thought I detected a hint of something not usually associated with the Web search giant.Fear.Although Microsoft was the entity whose-name-shall-not-be-spoken during the demo, it was clear that the Redmond software giant was like a specter haunting the ...
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Teachers Shop Free for Supplies at Local Warehouse
Local teachers are saving tens of thousands of dollars a year, thanks to a unique community clearinghouse. At the "From Crayons to Computers Warehouse" in Reno, educators in Washoe County can fill their carts with anything they want free of charge.
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AT&T launches new service in 6 Ark. communities
Telecommunications company AT&T Inc. on Tuesday launched a combined television-Internet-telephone service in six Arkansas communities, prompting an already established provider to remark that it welcomed the competition and would work to raise the bar again.
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Mexican drug traffickers wage PR war over image
WASHINGTON — In Mexico, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo is feared and reviled as the godfather of Mexico's cocaine trade. On his Web site, however, he's portrayed as a family man and a savvy business tycoon.
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Review: Pangea Software Billy Frontier
Not so much. Like Cro-Mag Rally before it, Billy Frontier is an example of a game with a good 3-D engine and some ugly characters, here a bunch of out-of-place green aliens, orange bulls, and other oddities that take away from what is otherwise a decent “four games in one” title. There are two types of 3-D shooting scenes, which are like Konami’s classic Lethal Enforcers first-person shooting ...
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Software glitches strand RTD's access-a-Ride users
Robert Weinberg spent much of his life looking through his camera lens.
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Hands on with Google's Chrome browser
Years ago, rumors made the rounds that Google was working on a web browser of its own. But then Firefox came out and Google seems to love the 'Fox folks (and in fact last week extended an agreement giving them cash and engineering help through 2011), so most figured the GBrowser had fallen off the table. Imagine the industry's surprise then when Google Chrome was formally announced ...
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Freshmen at West Virginia college get free laptops
By distributing free laptops to all incoming freshmen, West Liberty State College hopes to create a mobile computer lab that follows students through school.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Composite Software to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
Composite Software provides a virtual approach to data integration. Hundreds of enterprises including five of the top six U.S. investment banks as well several Government agencies, such as the Office of Secretary of Defense and Intelligence, and software vendors including Cognos, Informatica and BMC, rely on the Composite Information Server to virtualize, abstract and federate data from ...
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Mike North to bring sports talk to Internet
Teams with Lettuce Entertain You restaurants Three months after walking away from CBS Radio's WSCR-AM 670 and with three months remaining until he's free to take a broadcast job elsewhere, sports talker Mike North said Monday that he is going to do a live, two-hour weekday show on the Internet site of Lettuce Entertain You's Wildfire restaurants for at least four months, beginning Monday. ...
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Come September: iPods
Apple has announced a press event for next week, with all signs pointing to iPod-related news. Christopher Breen dons his speculation hat to ponder what September 9 might bring.
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Web Age Solutions Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo
Web Age Solutions is a provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune 500. Web Age Solutions’ "Preferred Vendor" status with these global leaders is a result of our highly progressive approach to knowledge transfer and relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction. While many of Web Age Solutions competitors are just now getting their feet wet with SOA, Web Age Solutions has been ...
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Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
Brian Rakowski walks to the whiteboard in a small conference room in Building 41 on Google's Mountain View campus. A lanky, gregarious man in his twenties, Rakowski is the product manager of a top-secret project that's been under way for more than two years. The weekly Monday meeting of managers — or "leads," as Google puts it in its nonhierarchical way — will be one of the last before the ...
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