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Cool Things You Can Do With Google
2007-05-22 10:46:00
No one would argue the fact that Googl e is one of the most useful sites on the Internet. Unfortunately, most people only use about 3% of its power. Smart Google users, on the other hand, know how to turn Google into a quick calculator, translate foreign sites, create their own customized search engine, and search for ...
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Vista?s Sights and Sounds
2007-05-21 12:56:00
When we say Microsoft Vista has some glitz, it’s not just marketing; the newest version of Windows sports some revamped video and audio functions designed to promote the digital arts. We got a hint of the new multimedia even before Vista shipped, as the updated Windows Media Player, and that first look offers a good introduction. Learn ...
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IBM?s Power6 Cranking Oracle at 4.7GHz
2007-05-20 16:54:00
The first public indication of IBM’s Power6 muscle has arrived courtesy of Oracle . The Register has spotted four 4.7GHz – yep, you read that right – Power6 chips cranking on Oracle 11i. The speedy chips confirm IBM’s boasting that Power6 would arrive near 5GHz. They also show that IBM’s customers have a lot to look forward ...
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Microsoft Buys aQuantive For $6B
2007-05-19 16:30:00
Microsoft is paying $6bn (£3bn) to buy digital marketing firm Aqua ntive in its biggest ever acquisition. The all-cash takeover will allow Microsoft to expand into the highly lucrative internet advertising market, that Google and Yahoo have targeted. Aquantive advises agencies and website publishers on putting adverts online, connecting buyers and sellers. The $66.50 per share offer is 85% ...
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iPod Docking System - Phillips AJ300D
2007-05-18 17:14:00
Phillips just released their new iPod docking entertainment system. It’s got a clean, stylish design with a built-in iPod charge and play dock. AJ300D includes the standard iPod dock connector and the connector for Philips’ Go Gear MP3 player. It also has a AM/FM radio with digital presets, a remote control and an auxiliary input for ...
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Joey, Mobile Web Service From Mozilla Opens
2007-05-16 06:54:00
San Francisco (IDGNS) – Mozilla developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on cell phones. The service, known as Joey, can help mobile users save time and money when accessing online content. While the service itself sounds relatively basic, its developers say users could essentially self-syndicate any online information or view videos that they couldn’t otherwise see on mobile phones. Using the Firefox browser on a computer, users select portions of Web sites, including images, text, and videos, and save them onto their personal Joey page. Later, the user can access that Joey page and all the stored items from a cell phone. It requires a phone with a browser and a data plan. Doug Turner, leader of the project, imagines many interesting uses for Joey. For example, a sports Web page may have a scoreboard showing the score of an ongoing game. On a PC, users can simply refresh the pag...
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The Future Of Firefox
2007-05-09 11:51:00
Mozilla CEO talks about her vision for the future of Firefox Behind the browser: Mitchell Baker, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, has taken Firefox from nothing to a $US55million per year business Mozilla’s CEO, Mitchell Baker, has been making the press rounds lately to drum up support and interest in Firefox, the company’s popular open-source web browser. Firefox ...
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Microsoft Wants To Buy Yahoo
2007-05-05 07:32:00
Analysts Cynical of Microsoft -Yahoo Deal NEW YORK (AP)—Speculation about a possible Microsoft-Yahoo tie-up met with skepticism Friday from analysts as reports that the deal was already dead began to surface. The reported takeover talks that sent shares of Yahoo Inc. up by 10 percent Friday were no longer taking place, the Wall Street Journal said ...
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Broadband Over Power Lines
2007-05-01 16:47:00
While broadband services have penetrated a large portion of the United States, many rural communities still have few options beyond dial-up. Forty-four percent of dial-up subscribers live in rural areas. Only 23 percent of rural residents subscribe to broadband services. This low broadband penetration is not due to lack of demand. The use of power lines ...
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Pocket Live TV: Watch TV In Your Pocket PC
2007-04-28 12:02:00
Pocket Live TV lets you watch TV on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC You can now watch 100 channels from 10 countries live on your Pocket PC phone. With Pocket Live TV, your phone becomes a portable TV. Watch your favorite channels right in the palm of your hand. Pocket Live TV is a software for ...
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Google Desktop 5 Speaks 29 Languages
2007-04-27 15:54:00
Google took a step closer on Thursday to being able to search everything: its desktop search application is now available in 29 languages, including Hindi, the company announced. Seven weeks after launching the English-language version of Google ...
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NoFollow No More, Let?s DoFollow
2007-04-25 17:10:00
Another good idea for love link. To all bloggers out there, Let’s DoFollow. What Does DoFollow Mean? It means that if you comment – even once – you get a linkback from me! Comments twice? Two linkbacks! If you comment enough to get on the Top Commentators list, you get the linkbacks from all of those comments ...
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Super Fast Internet Connection Over Cable TV Networks
2007-04-24 06:27:00
Demand for high-speed Internet access is forecast to grow sharply with the increasing availability of video on demand, teleworking and easier access to government services. However existing bandwidths will soon be inadequate as just one TV programme converted to the digital domain requires about 5 megabit/second (MB/s). The EUREKA (Belgium) project has resulted in super-fast ...
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iPhone Clone
2007-04-22 17:02:00
Chinese company Hua Long presents the IP2000 iPhone-like mobile phone. The Hua Long IP2000 has a 3-inch LCD display, a 2 Megapixel camera, integrated Media player supporting MP3, WAV, MIDI music as well as 3GP and MP4 video files. The IP2000 supports handwriting recognition, WAP, voice recording, GPRS. It measures 114*62*15.5MM and weights 125g. Samsung’s has its ...
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Major Security Update for Mac OS X
2007-04-20 15:13:00
Apple has released its major set of updates for its Mac OS X. The update fixes flaws in about 20 Mac OS X operating system services and components including the Mac’s AirPort driver software, Help Viewer, and Installer application. A dozen of which are critical flaws that can be exploited by remote attackers. One of the ...
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Intel?s New Penryn Chip Processor Will Push PC Speeds
2007-04-18 09:19:00
Intel Corp.’s Penryn processors will push desktop PCs to run 40 percent faster for gaming than the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme chip, a company executive said Monday, giving details on the new chip design planned to reach markets in the second half of 2007. Likewise, Penryn-powered workstations will deliver a 45 percent improvement for bandwidth-intensive ...
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Apple: Wi-Fi Capable iPod
2007-04-16 16:32:00
The news that iPod s equipped with Wi-Fi are imminent has raised speculation about how Apple intends to make use of the new wireless capabilities of its fastest selling device. Some commentators believe that wireless data transfer is the most probable use. However, this seems unlikely given previous comments from Apple. Music sharing – now that’s ...
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Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1 Billion
2007-04-14 17:27:00
Google has agreed to buy Double Clic k for US$3.1 billion in cash (nearly double the size of their YouTube Acquisition which was in stock), an acquisition that strengthens Google’s status as an online advertising powerhouse. This is bad news for Microsoft has they now fall even further back in the online advertising race. DoubleClick’s $300 million ...
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Technorati Favorite Exchange: An Interactive Experiment
2007-04-13 17:53:00
There is an ongoing Tech no rati Favorite exchange experiment around the blogosphere. I  am participating and hoping that my technorati rank will increase. The “favorites exchange” that Dosh Dosh is proposing is certainly interesting. If you’re interested in exchanging favorites in this way you can start the ball rolling by clicking and letting me know that ...
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Back In Time: April 1970 - Apollo 13 Tells Houston, ?We?ve Got A Problem?
2007-04-13 16:29:00
1970: Manned space flight has become so routine that it is easy to forget that it’s inherently dangerous to stuff astronauts inside a cramped capsule and blast them into the heavens on top of a Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 13 mission reminds us just how vulnerable we are. Apollo 13, with astronauts James Lovell Jr., ...
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Skype For Mac2.6 With Exclusive Feature
2007-04-12 07:04:00
Skype 2.6 for Mac Beta was released. They added few new features call Call-Transfer which was previously available for Windows Skype users only. A cool new feature that allows Macs users to transfer an ongoing call to another Skype user. This can be done by simply clicking on “More” in the call window of ...
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100 Million iPods Sold
2007-04-10 16:52:00
100 million iPod s have finally been sold, making it the most popular music player in the known universe, despite the fact Nokia claims more sales due to most of their phones playing mp3s. After 5 generations of iPods, 2 generations of iPod Minis, 2 generations of iPod Nanos and 2 generations of iPod Shuffles, Apple has ...
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Intel Launches Quad-Core Chip For Desktop Gamers
2007-04-09 16:57:00
Intel Corp. is launching a quad-core chip for desktop gamers on Monday, continuing a barrage of new products the company has announced in the past week. Intel Corp. is launching a quad-core chip for desktop gamers on Monday, continuing a barrage of new products the company has announced in the past week. The Core 2 Extreme QX6800 ...
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Free Topless Car Wash
2007-04-09 04:54:00
Isn’t it time for fun, have some laugh. For the mean time forget serious stuff. Just came across a site and watch this video and I think its worth sharing. You see a bunch of bikini clad babes holding up signs that read topless car wash ahead, what are you going to do? Even if your ...
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Prices For .com and .net Will Rise
2007-04-08 16:31:00
Two of the most popular domain suffixes are about to increase its fees charged for registering these domains; “.com” and “.net”. The annual levy for “.com” will increase 7% to $6.42, and the “.net” fee will go up 10% to $3.85. The per-name fees are what VeriSign collects from companies that sell domain names on its ...
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Firefox Coop Prototype Released
2007-04-06 12:35:00
Few days back, Mozilla released the details about The Coop, a new Fire fox add-on in development that will bring social networking to firefox. The addon will let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interesting content with one or more of those friends. An early Prototype Of FireFox Coop ...
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Google Desktop For Mac Has Arrived
2007-04-05 14:00:00
The first public beta of Google Desktop for Mac has arrived, providing integrated searching of local files and the web. “[W]e took the time to develop a product that deeply integrates into Mac OS X and maintains its high standards of usability,” wrote Google software engineer Mike Pinkerton in the company’s Mac blog. “This is a ...
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Speed Redefined - A World Record by TGV Train
2007-04-04 16:01:00
You’ve got to see this. How fast a TGV train can go?  
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How To Customize Windows Vista - Part 2
2007-04-03 10:31:00
Ever wonder how to customize Wind ows Vista . Fear not: PC Magazine team helps you navigate the control panel to make your computer fit you. Windows Vista provides myriad means of customization. By tweaking some of these settings, you can make the system easier or faster to use; you can make it more fun to use; ...
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Download Of The Day: Fresh UI
2007-04-02 17:05:00
Experience Windows tweakers’ heaven with this tool. Fresh UI is a kind of tweaker’s heaven: With it you can change scores of settings in XP, many of which you no doubt never even knew existed. Want to alter most any aspect of the Windows interface? Go ahead. Customize the Start menu? No problem. Change global menu ...
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