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techradar.com - 46 minutes ago
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techradar.com —
There are generally three reasons why you'd want
to replace your hard drive: your original drive has
failed, you need more storage, or you're after a speed boost. Other than drive failure, you need to look closely at the reason why you want to upgrade. While hard drive capacities have grown in ...
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Guide: How to replace your laptop hard drive
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torrentfreak.com - 6 hours ago
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In Denmark, the local anti-piracy outfit Antipiratgruppen has
given up on trying to get illegal file-sharers convicted
and has announced that it will no longer take them to court. This decision is the result of Antipiratgruppen’s inability to ...
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Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free
googlesystem.blogspot.com - 10 hours ago
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Gmail Chat, the web-based version of Google Talk,
added last year voice and video chat . The
feature is now available in iGoogle and orkut , but it will probably be added to other Google services, as well. SFGate reports that Google will improve the ...
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Google Talk to Add Video Conferencing
gizmodo.com - 14 hours ago
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gizmodo.com —
We all know that Blockbuster kind of sucks
, but I had no idea that working there
was this bad. Amazingly enough, 29-year old Aaron Siebers stabbed himself then made up some phony story about being attacked by three skinheads in an attempted ...
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Blockbuster Employee Stabs Himself Because He Didn't ...
brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 14 hours ago
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The opening of a retail store near the
Louvre draws huge crowds in Paris Image: Yannvarenne Who
says Parisians are blasé? Tout Paris , it seems, turned out Saturday morning for the opening of Apple's ( AAPL ) first retail outlet in ...
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Apple invades France
kara.allthingsd.com - 15 hours ago
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Today, All Things Digital debuts a new feature
called “Almost Famous.” No, it is not about Kate
Hudson and rock stars. Well, you might meet geek rock stars to be. Focused on innovative, interesting or just plain odd start-ups, ...
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Meet Drake Meeting Brizzly: A Spanking New ATD Feature
engadget.com - 20 hours ago
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engadget.com —
Apple's applied for and gotten a ton of
patents this year, and while most of them are
fairly boring, we're intrigued by this recently-revealed application for a "Grab & Go" sync system -- and not just because one of the diagrams references ...
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Apple 'Grab & Go' sync patent application ...
blog.newsweek.com - 21 hours ago
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Every day tens of millions of people log
on to Facebook , the popular social-network site, and
spend time playing goofy online games. But watch out. Some people playing these games are getting fleeced by scammers, tricked into signing up for products ...
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Is Facebook a Paradise for Scammers?
brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 21 hours ago
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A rare visit with the man who designed
the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone Jonathan Ive.
From Gary Hustwit's "Objectified." "I guess it's one of the curses of what you do," says Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior vice ...
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Inside Apple's industrial design lab
gizmodo.com - 22 hours ago
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Remember that Walmart add featuring a $100 Xbox
? Well, Amazon is matching the offer, so you
can skip the crowds . There'll be other electronics deals running all day starting at 9 a.m. EST. [ Amazon via Cheap Ass Gamer ]
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Dealzmodo: $100 Xbox 360 at Amazon, More Electronics ...
cheapassgamer.com - 22 hours ago
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cheapassgamer.com —
Search Bar This search bar is a powerful
tool for navigating CAG. You can use it to
find the lowest prices on games, search members, forum and blog topics, and much more. After typing in what you are looking for, you can filter your results by ...
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Buy a Xbox 360 Arcade, Get $100 Credit
news.cnet.com - 24 hours ago
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Retweeting has become such an important part of
Twitter use that the social network announced on its
blog late Thursday that its rollout of integrated retweeting has finally begun. "We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small ...
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Integrated retweet on its way to Twitter
mashable.com - 25 hours ago
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mashable.com —
Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T
agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of
the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in others part of ...
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iPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 [RUMOR]
staynalive.com - 26 hours ago
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Awhile back I was surfing the Twitter developers
wiki and noticed 2 suspicious images uploaded by Ryan
Sarver , Twitter’s Platform Project Manager. One of the images looks like a very rough status message entry screen, with a toggle button ...
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Does Twitter Have An Internal iPhone App?
safaland.co.kr - 26 hours ago
goodlaptopbattery.co.uk - 29 hours ago
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Need a new Dell inspiron b130 laptop battery
or spare Dell inspiron b130 rechargeable batteries? Never run
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Dell inspiron b130 laptop battery
goodlaptopbattery.co.uk - 29 hours ago
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Need a new Dell inspiron 9400 laptop battery
or spare Dell inspiron 9400 rechargeable batteries? Never run
out of Dell laptop battery power when you wanna shoot more cherish pictures. This cheap Dell inspiron 9400 battery is rechargeable lithium ion laptop battery for Dell laptops,
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Purchase Dell inspiron 9400 laptop battery
technobuzz.net - 32 hours ago
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technobuzz.net —
GMail Backup is an application which allows users
to save their emails and restore if necessary. You
will need to activate the IMAP access to your mailbox, to do so, please open your Gmail settings and under POP/IMAP tab activate this option. The messages are stored in the local ...
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Gmail Backup – Backup Gmail Account easily
appworld.blackberry.com - 35 hours ago
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> Entertainment > Gadgets > Help Movies by
Flixster Inc Get It Today FREE 129 reviews Latest
Reviews the point October 5 2009 Is to save time why? October 3 2009 What's the point of an app that just opens a website? ...
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BlackBerry App World
blogs.zdnet.com - 35 hours ago
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Javascript. The release of Closure Tools by Google
under an open source license is all about putting
more muscle behind Javascript, whose underlying Java language is under a cloud due to the Oracle-Sun merger. Web developers face a choice ...
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Why Google released Closure Tools
mashable.com - 36 hours ago
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mashable.com —
Two still mythical tablet devices, the Microsoft Courier
and the Apple Tablet , are probably the hottest
and most coveted devices that do not yet officially exist. To further fuel the anticipatory gadget lust, Gizmodo has scored an in-depth look at ...
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LEAKED: Microsoft Courier Tablet User Interface Details
youtube.com - 36 hours ago
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youtube.com —
This sample demonstrates the use of the DirectX
compute shader to simulate a large number of colliding
particles. A parallel bitonic sort implemented in the ...
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DirectX Compute Particles Demo Running on NVIDIA ...
groups.google.com - 36 hours ago
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- Google Home - Terms of Service -
Privacy Policy 2009 Google
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Google Groups
mozillalabs.com - 36 hours ago
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mozillalabs.com —
Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes
it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills
(HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. We are happy to announce that we have a winner for the Jetpack 0.5 contest . Given the fantastic group ...
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2009 » November
facebook.com - 36 hours ago
socialtimes.com - 36 hours ago
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socialtimes.com —
In an interview with Xconomy , Mussie Shore,
one of the developers behind Google Friend Connect, says
that “8 million communities have formed with Friend Connect”. What do those communities consist of? The same widget which shows up ...
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There Are Now 8 Million Google Friend Connect Communities
lifehacker.com - 36 hours ago
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lifehacker.com —
Got an interest in Google Wave but have
absolutely no idea where to get started? Try out
The Complete Guide to Google Wave, a new (free) book written and edited by my pal and Lifehacker emeritus Gina...
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The Complete Guide to Google Wave Is a Comprehensive ...
life.com - 37 hours ago
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life.com —
Continue to wherever it was you were thinkin'
of going. Previous 7 of 9 Next Superbad Anti-Whaling
Stealth Boat Email This Photo Share This Photo RSS Feed Rate This Photo Print This Photo Link To This Photo License This Photo 91 diggs digg it Black ...
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Whaling Stealth Boat
torrentfreak.com - 37 hours ago
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This March, IFPI – backed by several Hollywood
movie companies – gave Telenor, Norway’s largest ISP, a
warning: block your users from accessing The Pirate Bay within 14 days or we will take legal action. Without any legal basis, Telenor ...
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IFPI Loses: Telenor Will Not Block The Pirate Bay
google-latlong.blogspot.com - 37 hours ago
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Having the MTA in the transit layer will
certainly help me get my way around my new
hometown, as I start to familiarize myself with the nation's largest public transit system. I can even pull up the layer on my mobile phone while on-the-go (read more ...
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NYC subway system on Google Maps
blog.seattlepi.com - 40 hours ago
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Windows Live Messenger led Microsoft's Web properties in
capturing 14.5 percent of total time spent online in
September worldwide, handily beating Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other sites, according to analysis firm comScore.
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Microsoft tops Google, Yahoo, Facebook in worldwide Web use
allfacebook.com - 40 hours ago
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Facebook has continued to grow at an impressive
rate throughout the year, most recently announcing the 300
million user milestone. According to Facebook’s own advertising statistics though, the company is now beyond 325 million users and ...
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Facebook Surpasses 325 Million Users
engadget.com - 40 hours ago
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engadget.com —
We had a sneak peek at ASUS' BR-HD3
just a week few back, and rather than holding
out on us any longer, it looks as if the company has come forward to make things official. The O!Play Air HDP-R3 isn't a tremendous update from the previous edition, ...
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ASUS O!Play AIR HDP-R3 arrives with WiFi and card reader
comscore.com - 41 hours ago
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comscore.com —
Facebook and YouTube Combined Account for Nearly 10
Percent of Time Spent Online Globally RESTON, VA, November
6, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of online engagement at the top ...
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Microsoft Sites Captures Largest Share of Time Spent ...
blog.seattlepi.com - 41 hours ago
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on FOX Business
Network on Thursday night talking about the slowly recovering
economy. But his interview with host Neil Cavuto quickly turned to Google's continuing world takeover "I'm sure you come in peace," Cavuto said and how Google can avoid the antitrust ...
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Google CEO: Hopefully we won't repeat Microsoft's mistakes
wired.com - 41 hours ago
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wired.com —
Bob Davis picked up a five thousand volt
power supply on Ebay. Not having many things around
the house which required that kind of power, he turned it to more fun uses. Bob stripped the unit down to the supply itself, a huge 100 microfarad ...
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The Five Thousand Volt Soda Can Crusher
mashable.com - 42 hours ago
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mashable.com —
After a saga that simply defied explanation, the
eBay/Skype lawsuit has finally been settled. The founders of
Skype have returned to their creation. A recap of the story: eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion back in 2005. Skype’s founders, ...
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DONE DEAL: eBay Settles Skype Lawsuit, Founders Return
mashable.com - 42 hours ago
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mashable.com —
Twitter has just begun the rollout of Project
Retweet , Twitter’s official integration of the retweet. Retweeting
is when a user reshares interesting tweets from his or her friends using the RT syntax (e.g. “RT @mashable”). ...
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BREAKING: Rollout of Twitter Retweet Feature Has Begun
majornelson.com - 42 hours ago
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As some of you might be aware, those
under the age of 18 are not able to
access Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm in our public preview . I want to you let you know that this will remain the case when it launches to the world soon. We made this decision ...
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Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM and Xbox 360 Family Settings
fastcompany.com - 43 hours ago
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fastcompany.com —
A new study comparing streaming video services from
Amazon and Netflix found that most people surveyed didn't
even know they could stream video in the first place. Wait a minute: Didn't a study we reported on yesterday say that 90% of Netflix users ...
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Netflix Study Says No One Knows About Streaming Video. Huh?
readwriteweb.com - 43 hours ago
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The wildly popular nonprofit fundraising application Causes emailed
users of its MySpace app on Tuesday to tell
them that all Causes will be removed from MySpace on Friday morning, in three days. Causes was co-founded by Sean Parker, co-founder of ...
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Sean Parker's "Causes" App Nukes MySpace Installs Today: ...
connectedflow.com - 43 hours ago
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connectedflow.com —
New Mac OS X Flickr search client by
Fraser Speirs, with some clever Keynote integration . €15
for a limited time. ★
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Viewfinder 1.0
forbes.com - 43 hours ago
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forbes.com —
Tech darling relatively unscathed in past year; Google
fortune down $500 million in 12 months. Shares of
search giant up 80% since November lows. Announced debut of Chrome operating system in July; rival to Windows will be available to consumers late ...
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The Forbes 400 Richest Americans 2009
forbes.com - 43 hours ago
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forbes.com —
Google cofounder continues to dominate search business despite
facing strong headwinds. Stock down 30% in past 6
months, slicing nearly $4 billion from personal balance sheet. Company posted better-than-expected earnings in January; trimmed staff and ...
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The World's Billionaires 2009
marketingpilgrim.com - 44 hours ago
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marketingpilgrim.com —
Remember Twitter’s plans to make “retweeting” an official
function? Sure you do, the mock-ups looked like this:
Well, Twitter just announced the following: We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very ...
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Twitter Rolling Out Retweets, Rolling Over Trends Spam
marketnewslive.blogspot.com - 44 hours ago
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Twitter is a perfect fit for consumers and
businesses alike. With this powerful, easy-to-use communications platform, you
can quickly share information, gather intelligence, and build real-time and long-term relationships with customers and partners. Follow these tips to start seeing real value.
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Video: How To Use Twitter For Business
venturebeat.com - 44 hours ago
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venturebeat.com —
The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming.
Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360
bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year, ...
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How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber ...
reuters.com - 45 hours ago
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reuters.com —
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Contrary to popular
belief, the Internet and mobile phones are not isolating
people but enhancing their social worlds, according to a U.S. survey. The survey was sparked by a 2006 study by U.S. sociologists who argued ...
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Technology doesn't isolate people: U.S. study
arstechnica.com - 45 hours ago
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arstechnica.com —
OpenMoko's WikiReader is a unique gadget with a
single function. The simple handheld device stores the text
of over 3 million Wikipedia entries, enabling convenient offline access to the popular Internet ...
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Hands-on: OpenMoko WikiReader is simple, appealing
techcrunch.com - 45 hours ago
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techcrunch.com —
Twitter’s Trending Topics area is one of the
easiest things to game on the web. Even when
trends start out as real items, spammers often latch onto them with bogus tweets hoping to ride the wave and get some people seeing their spammy nonsense. ...
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Twitter Starts Curating Trending Topic Tweets
