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Google Maps Lifts Veil Over Cheney`s Residence

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday January 30, 2009

Hope and change has come to Google Maps. The official residence of the vice president, obscured until Dick Cheney's last days in office and residence, now shines in satellite sunlight.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Google

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Google and partners set up online testing lab for home broadband connections

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday January 29, 2009

Google Inc. and two nonprofit partners Wednesday launched a Web site that lets consumers test their Internet connections to reveal possible interference and traffic management by service providers.

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HOW TO: Survive a Social Media Revolt

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday January 29, 2009

It often stuns me to see how poor social media entrepreneurs and their executives are at listening to their communities, communicating with them, and generally using the communities' feedback to improve their services. A quick glance at the top three sites in three of the fastest growing sectors within social media will exemplify this point.

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Social Networks > Other Social Networks

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8 Mobile Technologies To Watch

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday January 29, 2009

Research firm Gartner unveiled its list of mobile technologies to watch in the next two years, and the list places a heavy emphasis on things that will soon be integrated into smartphones.

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > General

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How Many Engineers Does It Take To Make Hotmail Work In Google Chrome?

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday January 29, 2009

With yesterday's release of IE8 RC, I was reminded of an annoyance my partner had when I first installed Google Chrome because she was unable to use her Hotmail (short for the official name Windows Live Hotmail and not to be confused with Windows Live Mail) account properly using the new browser. I checked if the e-mail service - among the most popular webmail services in the world - was working better now that Chrome is a couple of months old, out of beta and - admittedly slowly - taking bits of market share on a daily basis.

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Internet Browsers > Google Chrome

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Google Gobbled Up 90 Percent Of All U.S. Search Growth In 2008

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday January 29, 2009

Google ended the year with 63.5 percent market share of all search queries performed in the U.S., estimates comScore. And that market share has inched up steadily from 58.5 percent in January, 2008. But the market share numbers mask the absolute growth in searches and how Google has ben able to Gobble up all of that growth.

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Facebook: 276% Growth in 35-54 Year Old Users

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday January 29, 2009

In October 2007 I wrote about "Facebook Demographics Direct From Their System" that gave an account of Facebook's democraphic composition using a few statistics that might be interesting to marketers. Ten months later we followed up with "Facebook Demographics 2008 Update - It's Getting Older In There" which showed that fastest growing group, the 35-54 year old segment, grew at a rate of 172.9% in that period.

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Social Networks > Facebook

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Panasonic`s Lumix Digital Cameras support Face Recognition

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday January 28, 2009

Lumix Digital Cameras:

Digital still cameras with powerful zooms, stylish designs and advanced features like Face Detection, Optical Image Stabilization and Scene Selection.

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Technology > New Feature/Release

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Gmail Adds Offline Support

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday January 28, 2009

One of Gmail's most requested features - offline support - is now available in testing. In other words, you can now use Gmail without an Internet connection, just like you can with desktop mail clients like Outlook.

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Windows 7 to Ship in Multiple Versions?

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday January 28, 2009

This shouldn't surprise anyone, but there's now evidence that Windows 7 will ship in multiple editions, following trends set by Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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Operating Systems > MS Windows

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Digg Poaches New Head Of Sales From Yahoo

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday January 28, 2009

After not being acquired by Google last year and announcing some cutbacks last week, Digg is rolling up its sleeves and getting to work. The company has hired Tom Shin as its new head of sales from Yahoo, where he was one of the top sales people and head of the Northwest sales region. His job is to build a sales team at Digg go after advertising dollars more directly., something CEO Jay Adelson recently underscored as a big goal of the company in 2009.

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Popular Websites > Digg.com

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Western Digital Launches 2 TB Green Hard Drive

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday January 28, 2009

Western Digital on Tuesday introduced a 2-TB hard drive to its environmentally friendly Caviar Green product line.

WD believes many consumers are ready for such a large capacity drive to store video, pictures, audio, and other files in their expanding media libraries. Quoting market intelligence firm Trend Focus, the hard-drive maker claims about 10% of 3.5-inch drives sold today are at the 1-TB level or higher.

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Hardware > Hard Disks

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Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer drives

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday January 28, 2009

The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications. Once enabled, any disk that uses the specification will be locked without a password -- and the password will be needed even before a computer boots.

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Technology > Security

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Blood Frontier: It`s bloody fun! (new release)

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday January 28, 2009

Blood Frontier is a Free and Open Source game, using SDL and OpenGL which allows it to be ported to many platforms; you can download it for both PC (Windows, Linux, BSD) and Mac. You can also obtain it through subversion repository and live on the bleeding edge of development.

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Technology > Gaming

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Suse Studio: Linux customization for the masses

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday January 27, 2009

One of the great promises of software is its infinite malleability: software can be whatever you want, so long as you have the skills necessary (and legal rights) to modify it.

Despite this promise, software has long sought to replicate physical goods: mass-produced with customization, if any, coming post-sale by a system integrator or other consultant. This has helped churn out billion-dollar software companies such as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft, but it has failed to satisfy customer demand for a tailored fit.

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Linux Distros > Suse

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Hands on: testing the KDE 4.2 release candidate on Windows

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday January 27, 2009

Ars takes the KDE 4.2 release candidate out for a test drive on Windows. The popular open source desktop environment has moved beyond Linux and is becoming increasingly robust on other platforms. Even KDE's Plasma desktop shell is now Windows-compatible.

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Operating Systems > MS Windows

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Microsoft: H-1B workers among those losing jobs

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday January 27, 2009

Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting a "significant number" of foreign workers as part of the layoff of 1,400 employees last week, a number that is due to reach 5,000 over the next 18 months.

The company isn't detailing how many of the the workers losing their jobs are in the U.S. on a visa, however.

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Apple`s iLife 09 to ship Tuesday

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday January 27, 2009

The latest version of Apple's iLife--shown off at Macworld earlier this month--will ship Tuesday.

The new software comes with updates to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand that Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller detailed during Macworld. For example, you will now be able to sort photos by the faces of your subjects in iPhoto and take $4.99 lessons from famous musicians in GarageBand.

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Netflix 4Q profit up 45 pct, defying recession

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday January 27, 2009

Netflix Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit climbed 45 percent to surpass analysts' estimates Monday, propelled by the widening appeal of its relatively inexpensive DVD rental and Internet streaming service during a budget-crimping recession.

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Technology > General

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Verizon Launches VoIP House Phone Hub

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday January 27, 2009

The benefits of VoIP have convinced a large number of consumers to drop traditional landlines in favor of Internet-based phone services. Going after these users, Verizon has introduced the Hub, a home VoIP phone that incorporates lots special features by way of its constant Web connection. The main unit is designed for the center of the household, though other handsets for other rooms will be available.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Verizon Communications

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