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Chrome: 1% Market Share In Less Than a Day
While the early release of the Chrome comic might have changed the way Google went about launching its new browser, it definitely did not hurt Chrome 's early success. According to data from Net Applications , Chrome captured more than 1% of the browser market within its first day of release. Since then, it has been growing steadily and is now at around 1.5%, as both technology blogs and ...
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Top 10 Web Applications for FriendFeed
Over the last few months, a plethora of tools — addons, scripts, Web apps — have emerged using the FriendFeed API. Here is a list of the top 10 Web applications that you can check out to get the most out of the service. Which do you use? Tell us more in the comments. NoiseRiver NoiseRiver adds some neat extra functionality to FriendFeed, like rating other users and shared items with ...
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Report: Hulu a More Successful Business Than YouTube
Online video ad network LiveRail ( our profile ) has just released a 'State Of The Industry Report' for Q3 2008. It reports that video ad spending currently only represents 2.36% of all online advertising, but that it is expected to grow over 55% next year. Right now only 20.95% of internet video streams are being monetized. LiveRail also noted that NBC's online Olympics coverage failed to ...
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MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts
In what is heralded as the seeds of an Internet-age emergency broadcast system, MySpace has teamed with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spread news on hurricanes through users of the online social network.
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Another search warrant issued in Barclay case
State police say former Cumberland County commissioner Bruce Barclay used stealth software to spy electronically on a 22-year-old man.
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Chrome To Get Extensions - Just Not Yet
Even though we have quickly come to enjoy using Google Chrome after its launch yesterday, we still miss a couple of things from Firefox that Google's browser just doesn't offer yet. Most importantly, Google doesn't yet have any architecture in place that would allow developers to program extensions for it. For Firefox, the extension ecology that developed around it has a been a major ...
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Placecast Brings Location-Based Advertising to Eventful
Location-based advertising? You’ve seen that, right? Practically every other ad you see on the net is tied to your general location, which is derived from your IP address. Eventful , however, is a local events site, which means that the ads on it - now delivered by Placecast , described as “the world’s largest place-based interactive media company” - will truly be local, pinpointing your ...
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Confirmed: Chrome Is Coming To Android
Are you sick of Google Chrome news yet? We can't blame you, but you'll have to bear with us. It's not everyday that Google releases a brand-new web browser. The latest news regarding the much-hyped browser? It's coming to Android. According to Google Co-founder Sergey Brin , "a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack." Wow, did he just say that the Google ...
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Microsoft Office Live Workspace Celebrates One Million Users
Microsoft’s online collaboration space for Office users, where they can store, exchange and share their documents, now has one million users. We went through the most interesting features of Office Live Workspace when the beta opened up to everyone, and it is a solid effort. Its biggest advantage is the fact that it integrates into new Office products, which means that it’s very easy for ...
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Updated: Does Google Have Rights to Everything You Send Through Chrome?
Our coverage of the new Google browser Chrome over the past few days has touched on issues like browser performance and business implications for Firefox - but one thing we hadn't noticed until this evening was a curious section of the Chrome Terms of Service . digg_url = 'http://digg.com/security/Does_Google_Have_Rights_to_Everything_Sent_Through_Chrome';digg_bgcolor = ...
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What is FriendFeed’s Effect on Blogging?
There’s an interesting meme that was picked up by Duncan Riley over at the Inquisitr earlier this evening with regard to the effect of FriendFeed on traditional blogging. It’s an interesting meme and something I’ve been spending a not insignificant amount of time thinking about myself. I’m in the midst of writing a long series of long posts for my personal blog on journalism with ...
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Google and Privacy: A History
Google's finally gone and done it - they've built and released a browser , the most fundamental window to the computing experience of a new era. That's big news, but the small print is raising some concerns . What appears to be a recycled Terms of Service (from Google Docs) gives Google a long list of rights to reuse and share with other companies "any Content which you submit, post or ...
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Raptr Moves Video Games into the Activity Stream Era
Raptr is a new video game community launching this evening that aggregates users’ activities across desktop, Web, and console platforms. The end-result is a Friendfeed-like community of activity streams letting you know what games your friends are playing and how they’re performing on everything from Xbox Live to Facebook. Beyond that, social networking features and recommendation tools ...
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Old Ideas With a New Coat of Paint
After I read Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins’ post on Mashable last night about how Google’s Chrome is not a Windows killer something about the post started to get my thoughts going, but I couldn’t really put them into words at that point. Then I read a post today by Jackson West on Valleywag where he said: Mainframe terminals, or keyboards and monitors attached to a big piece of iron in a ...
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SanDisk boosts SD card speed by 50pc
NEW DELHI, INDIA: SanDisk Corp. has set a new speed record of 30 megabytes per second1 for SD flash memory cards with the introduction of the SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition line of SDHC cards.
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Samsung Looking At Buying Digital Memory Company SanDisk
Samsung Electronics is considering buying U.S. PC and mobile memory card maker SanDisk, according to a Korean online report , and then later confirmed by the company. After the report came out, Samsung spokesperson said: "We are looking at various opportunities regarding SanDisk , but nothing has been decided yet."
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C-DAC launches BOSS Linux version 3.0
BANGALORE, INDIA: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing , C-DAC has launched its Bharat Operating Systems Solutions (BOSS) Linux software version 3.0 developed by NRCFOSS (National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software).
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10 Tools for Running Stats Tracking in WordPress
There are numerous plugins to help bloggers insert tracking codes into their blogs. Google Analytics gets the most attention, and there are several others that are worth trying out that will keep you from having to make numerous edits to your templates to make sure you cover all the pages you want. Here are 10 very helpful tools for running stats tracking in WordPress. All of the following ...
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Fast Talk Question - Will redesigning its business laptops to come in rainbow colors be enough to make Dell a hit with ...
Will redesigning its business laptops to come in rainbow colors be enough to make Dell a hit with Gen-Y?
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Taking Back the Internet: Creating a Passive-Aggressive Income Stream
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Virtual world may render college road trips useless
Visiting colleges no longer means loading the family in the car to travel across the country. A campus tour is now a computer click away.
Republican-American |
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Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk
Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday.
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Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk
Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday.
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Virtual world may render college road trips useless
Visiting colleges no longer means loading the family in the car to travel across the country. A campus tour is now a computer click away.
Republican-American |
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Microsoft vs. Google in the Battle for the Stars
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