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links for 2008-01-31
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The true origin of the word ’spam’. Did you know ‘bacon’ is wanted spam like newsletters, etc? Doesn’t make sense, I know.
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The deal for the audiobook seller, another indicator of the online retailer’s confidence in the digital-content market, is expected to close midyear.
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Asus announces a desktop, an all-in-one PC, and an LCD TV in its Eee line.
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The next thing in your life to go wired could be your bedroom.
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The deal for the provider of digital audiobooks bolsters Amazon’s offerings of audio downloads.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian fixed-line operator Comstar UTS
said on Thursday it had started to build a mobile broadband network using WiMAX technology in Armenia. -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bidder on Thursday offered $4.71 billion for a key slice of wireless airwaves being sold by the government, triggering a condition that the spectrum be accessible to any device…
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I deliver my radical plan for a new Windows OS to one rather surprised Microsoftie.
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When it comes to peer-to-peer file-sharing, as soon as one site is shut down, another takes its place. The current darling of the …
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Don Reisinger thinks Apple may be in over its head with the iPhone. Is he right?
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Neat integration.
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EBay users are mad as hell and they’re not going to stop complaining about it. After a fairly challenging year, John Donahoe, who takes over as eBay CEO at the…
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As promised, Yahoo has launched its new OpenID provider service. Yahoo’s 248 million worldwide users now have a way to login to any site that supports OpenID.
links for 2008-01-29
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Amazon has defined its target countries or timing yet, but it’s coming.
links for 2008-01-28
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The Pulse from LiveScribe can synchronize notes and audio recordings, but it can also use its combination of sound and written input to perform other tasks such as language translation.
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Placing an add to kill someone on the internet. Sigh.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence satellite has lost power and could fall to Earth sometime in February or March, a government official said on Saturday.
The official, who spoke on condition
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After years of fighting peer-to-peer file-sharing companies, the major record labels have decided that if they can’t beat them, they might as well join them — in one case, anyway.
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Windows only Free clipboard utility Clipdiary doesn’t have all the bells and whistles like cross-computer syncing of managers like Ditto
links for 2008-01-27
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Microsoft has released a new build of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to about 15,000 testers, lending credence to recent speculation that the final code release is fast approaching.
links for 2008-01-26
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The second step is the reproduction of life has been completed. Scientists have synthetically recreated a microbe.
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A first look at what Windows Seven might become.
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Solid-state drives are increasingly an option for laptop purchasers — but while manufacturers are pushing the option, few consumers are taking the bait.
links for 2008-01-24
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The name of the actor, who died tragically on Tuesday, awkwardly comes out as “Tom Cruise” in Google’s English-to-Spanish translator.
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The 4G-X version of Asus’ popular sub-notebook, coming to the U.S. sometime in the first quarter, will have Windows XP standard.
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The Zune is catching up on the iPod slowly but surely. Microsoft announces yearly updates to their social networking site, quarterly updates to the player’s firmware and user customization of the device. Great.