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Internet traffic growth slowing, research firm shows
Despite prognostications that the Internet is about to collapse from the weight of traffic growth -- especially video -- international Internet traffic grew 53% between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61% the preceding year, according to a market research firm.
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New eBay Site Aims To Be Socially Conscious
The new site will sell fixed-price goods that purportedly have some positive effect on people and the planet.
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Desktop Takeover Embeds Rotating Images on Your Desktop [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application Desktop Takeover is like a rotating digital photo frame for your desktop, embedding user-defined images in an overlay on your desktop. The cool thing about Desktop...
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Google browser aided by Microsoft antitrust limits
Google Inc.'s new Chrome Web browser may get a boost from the efforts of states to bar Microsoft Corp. from abusing its dominance in the market.
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Microsoft adds management features, licensing options to desktop virtualization
Microsoft Wednesday moved to shore up its virtualized desktop story, adding new IT features to its application virtualization platform and introducing new licensing terms around various methods of desktop deployment.
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Google's Chrome - a First Blush Look
Chrome is Google's first attempt at adding a Web Browser to its suite of Internet Services. It's still in beta, and the first version is only available for Windows XP/Vista -- with a Mac version in the works. This reporter took a quick look to see what Google has done
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Review: Google Chrome lacks polish, and YouTube performance is dull
NEW YORK (AP) _ Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.
Hartford Courant |
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Judge: Law protects anonymous newspaper commenters
A District Court judge found today that the state shield law that protects reporters from disclosing anonymous sources also protects the identity of anonymous commenters on a newspaper's Web site. Judge G. Todd Baugh granted a motion filed by The Bill ...
Billings Gazette |
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Sept 5 honours go to unseen teachers in class of their own
One got Saint Gobain to sponsor school sanitation, another's teaching modules are on Intel site
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Dr. Frankenstein's Browser: The Strangely Obvious Ancestry of Google Chrome [Google Chrome]
We've posted our first impressions of Google Chrome, and after extended use most of them have held up. Chrome is fast, feature-rich and stable, not to mention highly usable. But Google's in-house...
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New home door locks can be controlled online
By CATHERINE TSAI DENVER (AP) -- What if locking the front door of your home while you're away were as easy as hopping on the Internet?
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Gisele Bundchen's Max Factor Campaign
Much like a dirty diaper (though the dreamboat was born potty trained), pictures from Gisele Bundchen's MAX Factor campaign have leaked all over the internet. You can see her baby-fresh face MAXed out here , here , and even here . The makeup company, approaching its 100th anniversary, was founded by Max Factor, a movie make-up artist. Could a film career be in Gisele's future? Maybe ...
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eDOORWAYS Explores Financial Restructuring
HOUSTON, BUSINESS WIRE -- eDOORWAYS Corporation (Pink Sheets: EDWY) is in high-level discussions with its primary creditor, The N.I.R. Group, LLC, about a restructuring of the company's debt. eDOORWAYS is seeking a possible restructuring, which will increase the financial flexibility of the Internet company.
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Man accused of igniting sleeping man's pants
A man was freed on $20,000 bond after being accused of setting another man's pants on fire. Joseph Hornsey, 21, was charged with aggravated battery. Madison County Sheriff's Captain Brad Wells said the 20-year-old victim had been drinking alcohol and camping in Hornsey's backyard when Hornsey lit the frayed strings on the man's pants. Wells says the alleged victim managed to put out the fire and ...
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Facebook borrows from NJ Attorney General
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that agreed to step up user protections following talks with 48 state attorneys general this spring, has become the largest site to display an icon designed to make cyber abuses easier to report.
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New home door locks can be controlled online
What if locking the front door of your home while you're away were as easy as hopping on the Internet?
Boston Globe |
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Gannett gains controlling stake of CareerBuilder
MCLEAN, Va. — Gannett said Wednesday that it bought a 10 percent interest in CareerBuilder from Tribune Co. for $135 million, giving it a majority stake in the employment Web site.
San Jose Mercury News |
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These Hyderabad techies hack from the right side
Shekhar K stirs to life only around midnight. With a mug of strong coffee in one hand he works the laptop preferring the quiet of the night...
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Avoid Lawsuits, Navigate the Murk of Downloading
Everybody likes free music but nobody likes to be sued. For people seeking free music online, therein lies the rub.
New York Times |
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Nude or glowing? These critters are made to order
IF IT WAS a hotel, it would rate five stars. Nestling on 18 hectares of former farmland outside Moss Vale, it cost $20 million to build, and when fully operational next year it will have 30 staff employed to meet every need of its guests.
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AtomicView updated to support Flash and iWork files
AntZero has released an update to AtomicView, a digital asset manager that allows users to organize and output images, video and sound. Version 1.1 incorporates support for more formats, such as EPS and SWF files, as well as iWork and InDesign documents. The program also sports a new interface for editing metadata, similar to the previous version, but cleaned up to make data entry more ...
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Lenovo ThinkPad SL300 gets examined up close
Filed under: Laptops Lenovo's new ThinkPad SL300 may not stand out too much from the ThinkPad pack, but it's budget-friendly price will no doubt help it attract its share of curious potential buyers, and NotebookReview has now offered a few pics and impressions to give them an idea of what they may be in store for. As you might expect, Lenovo had to cut a few corners to keep the ...
Engadget |
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Judge: Law protects anonymous newspaper commenters
A District Court judge found today that the state shield law that protects reporters from disclosing anonymous sources also protects the identity of anonymous commenters on a newspaper's Web site.
Billings Gazette |
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Microsoft, 12 Others Buying Into NHK Broadcaster, Nikkei Says
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. and Itochu Corp. are among 13 companies buying shares in Japan's first 24-hour English-language broadcast service, Nikkei English News reported, without saying where it got the information.
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Rejoice -- your tube is big enough after all [Mythbusting]
Comcast's announcement of a bandwidth cap for home users beginning in October has raised a recurring fear: Is the Internet being overloaded? It's not a new worry. Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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