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Boohbah is Suupah
2007-02-11 02:29:02
http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html This is the best way to teach your kid how to use a mouse and interact with a computer, if you are into that... http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html

Running out of bandwidth, what the hell happened to the dark fiber?
2007-02-11 02:29:02
http://today.reuters.co.uk/misc/PrinterFr iendlyPopup.aspx?type=internetNews&st oryID=2007-02-07T180029Z_01_L0767087_RTRI DST_0_OUKIN-UK-CABLE-WEBTV.XMLI think this could be a ploy by Google to let them in on their business, look over here, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. "Most of the IP (Internet protocol or data) traffic is peer-to-peer (file swapping), and most of that is video. Every year we have to invest substantially just to maintain the user experience. In fact it has actually decreased," said Spanish cable operator ONO Chief Executive Richard Alden. "People (Internet service providers) don't like to talk about (the fact) that just to stand still, they have to invest. But you cannot keep investing at the same clip," he added. Research group Gartner estimates that 60 percent of the Internet traffic that is uploaded from computers is peer-to-peer traffic, mostly from consumers swapping films and TV shows through select user groups and BitTorrent. Financi...
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coolass
2007-02-11 02:29:02
http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zbAK GGea Geogreeting allows you to spell a message using buildings found in satellite imagery... coolass.
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DRM Days Numbered? Jobs Musings on Music.
2007-02-11 02:29:02
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmu sic/From A VC: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmu sic/ Thoughts on Music Steve Jobs February 6, 2007 With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Let’s examine the current situation and how we got here, then look at three possible alternatives for the future. To begin, it is useful to remember that all iPods play music that is free of any DRM and encoded in “open” licensable formats such as MP3 and AAC. iPod users can and do acquire their music from many sources, including CDs they own. Music on CDs can be easily imported into the freely-dow...
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Worlds Biggest hack, Public Fails to Notice
2007-02-11 02:29:02
http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Internet-H it-by-Significant-Hack -Attack/story.xhtml ?story_id=0120013P95I0In a testament to the resiliency of the net, South Korean hackers took down at least 3 of the 13 DNS servers, traffic slows, the public fails to notice... Today's Internet Hack Attack: One of the Worst Since 2002 Although hackers launched an unusually powerful attack on the Internet that lasted as long as 12 hours on Tuesday, the hacker attack seems to have gone unnoticed by most Internet users. Experts said the hackers appeared to disguise their origin, although vast amounts of rogue data in the attacks were traced to South Korea. Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002. Experts said the unusually powerful attacks lasted as long as 12 hours but passed largely unnoticed by most computer users, a testament to the resiliency of the Inter...
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GE's Imagination Theater
2007-02-11 02:29:02
GE, the wonderful little company founded by our friend Thomas Edison thinks its time we get back to imagining things... Wacky... http://www.ge.com/imaginationtheater/
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Web 2.0
2007-02-11 02:29:02
The great web 2.0 directory, fun for the whole family. http://www.go2web20.net/
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Superbowl Ads 2007
2007-02-11 02:29:02
http://youtube.com/superbowlhttp://youtub e.com/superbowl Google seems to have dumped last year's link yesterday...
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Super Bowl Ads 2006
2007-02-11 02:29:02
Last year's Super Bowl Ads:http://video.google.com/superbowl.htm l Oh well, now links to the 2007 set...
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More Pipe Commentary
2007-02-11 02:29:02
Yahoo! Pipes and the mashup pipedream by ZDNet's Phil Wainewright -- Yahoo! Pipes chokes on common date formats in RSS feeds, which makes many of the simplest feed mashups impossible to achieve.
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The Zune Phone
2007-02-11 02:29:02
Zune Phone could be on the horizon. If Microsoft can do anything right they would give them away for free and make their money on service plans that piggy back on the popularity of the Xbox 360... Thanks Crunch Gear.
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Romanian Leader Credits Piracy
2007-02-11 02:29:02
Appearing with Gates at the opening of a Microsoft global technology center in Bucharest, he said. "Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the development of the IT industry in Roma nia ," he said. Cue sound of Microsoft PR jaws dropping.http://www.theregister.co.uk/200 7/02/02/romania_microsoft_piracy/ I& #39;m sure there are a great deal of tech geeks in this world that have taken a few short cuts in order to develop their skills, thoguh i don't know of many who would say it right in from of Bill Gates. "Yes Bill, I stole from you and other shareholders of Microsoft."
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