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Digg Recommended Flaw: 31% of Homepage submitted by 10 Users
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A look at the last 500 front page stories on Digg reveals that 10 submitters control a mind-boggling 31.4% (157 out of 500). Some of the names on the list are familiar to the front page, while a few have found new success using Digg's new Recommendation Engine.
The 50 Plus Acquisitions of Google
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Sure everyone knows about DoubleClick, but Google has bought a lot more than just that company. Ever who they all are. Check out this Wikipedia list.
Why Nonprofits Should Make Use of Social Networking Sites
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Simply Put - To get more exposure from a wider audience, that you never would've reached if it wasn't for Social Networking sites...
Voicemail is Dead. Please Tell Everyone to stop Using it
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Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they
’ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. But now an increasing number of people are just plain avoiding voicemail. It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it.
Do you see a black dot on your GMail too?
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What's up with the black dot that shows up on the top-left corner of GMail, do you know anything about it?
Bandwidth caps could lead to ISPs benefiting from piracy
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As Time Warner begins experimenting with bandwidth caps, which are commonplace in other countries, the possibility now exists that ISPs will benefit financially from their customers burning through their monthly limits to keep grabbing P2P content.
BitTorrent Tracker Hosting Illegal Says Dutch Court
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Leaseweb, the former ISP of BitTorrent trackers such as Demonoid, What.cd and Waffles.fm lost the appeal against the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN. The Amsterdam court concluded that Leaseweb has to permanently shut down the BitTorrent tracker everlasting.nu, and hand over the admin
’s personal information.
At Yahoo, a Threat from Within
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The central complaint revolves around slow decision-making, a long-standing issue. New services still must run a gauntlet of meetings and approvals that can delay them for months. "It was difficult to get things done," says Greg Yardley, a product manager who left earlier this year.
The Miraculous Machine that Can Reproduce Itself
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The RepRap is a printer of three-dimensional objects. It's like the desktop printer you might have at home, but instead of printing on paper, the RepRap makes hard copy in three dimensions out of plastic from models designed on a computer. It's an extremely powerful technology that could give people the ability to create virtually anything.
Survey: 10,000 Laptops Lost or Stolen at Airports Per Week
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More than 10,000 laptops are lost or stolen each week at U.S. airports, says security industry executive Richard Stiennon in a blog for NetworkWorld.com. He cites a survey conducted by The Ponemon Institute, a monitor of privacy and security issues.
Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears
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A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.
Indiana Gregg to The Pirate Bay: The Internet Police Are Com
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A little while ago we wrote about the exchange of emails between artist Indiana Gregg and The Pirate Bay. Indiana wanted The Pirate Bay to remove torrents linking to her work, which they refused to do. Now Indiana has a response for The Pirate Bay and file-sharers in general. It doesn
’t pull many punches.
Apple orders 50 million 8 GB NAND flash chips
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In a move that is believed to help Apple to secure low NAND flash memory prices as well as create artificial shortages for competitors, Apple has ordered 50 million flash memory chips for its iPhones and iPods from Samsung Electronics. Apple huge order is in place to support an increase in iPhone production.
No Google source code for Viacom, just 12TB of YouTube data
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As part of the discovery process in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, Viacom asked for an astonishing array of information: the source code for the search functions that power Google and YouTube, the source code for YouTube's new "Video ID" program, a complete set of every video ever removed from the site, databases containing information on
Report: Outdated browsers put 637m users at risk
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A group of researchers on Tuesday said 637 million web users are surfing with outdated internet browsers and are, therefore, at greater risk of web-based attacks.
Broadband Costs Too Much for the Masses
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Supply and demand only makes broadband worth it to a point. Market wants a cheaper price.
New nanowire storage ups memory: The end of just 0 & 1?
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Researchers have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two
—that is, "0," "1," and "2" instead of just "0" and "1." This ability could lead to a new generation of high-capacity information storage for electronic devices.
Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us ... Algorithms Exposed!
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Exposing how popular social media websites use algorithms to utilize user data.
Hulu To Earn Up to $90M In First Year
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To the average user, Hulu.com, the free web site that offers high-quality streams of TV shows and movies in the U.S., looks like a runaway success: the selection of available content is more than decent, Hulu's Collections make browsing related videos easy, HD videos have been made available, embed codes are provided for re-posting...
First look: Mozilla Weave 0.2 puts Firefox in the cloud
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Mozilla Labs has announced the availability of Weave 0.2, the third major release of its experimental Firefox synchronization add-on. This version brings a broader feature set, improved reliability, and streamlined notification support. Although it is still in the early testing stage, Weave is already effective and easy to use.
‘Absolutely No Possibility’ of Disconnecting File-Sharers
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Virgin Media, plagued by a recent flurry of bad publicity thanks to its policy of working with the music industry to warn file-sharers, has announced today that there is “absolutely no possibility” that it will disconnect its users from the Internet or hand over their details to the music industry.
A Month of Spam: Enlarge Your Inbox Today, Improve Sex Life!
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From April 1 to May 1, McAfee ran an experiment with 50 volunteers designed to measure just how much spam a person would receive if they actually registering at all the sites that request your e-mail address. The total amount of spam that comes flooding down the system is almost awe-inspiring.
Youtube to hand over all user histories and IP addresses!
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Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user's names, and IP addresses to viacom.
Study claims Windows usage market share could fall below 90%
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A new study released by Net Applications indicates that a decreasing percentage of the Internet population is using Windows as their operating system. It appears that Mac OS X could soon be listed in the double digit-range, while Windows could fall below the 90% mark.
Quebec lumped in with Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba?
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What could possibly account for the Canadian province keeping such company? If you guessed "contest rules," go straight to the head of the class.
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