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Google Ocean, Get 1Gbps Downloading by 2012, End of beta is in sight for Windows 7, Flash on iPhone Hopes Dashed

2009-02-02T12:53:00.000-08:00

Google Ocean will let users explore shipwrecks and reefs
dailymail.co.uk — Google users will soon be able to explore the oceans from the comfort of their living room, thanks to an upgrade to their popular Google Earth software.
Korea to Get 1Gbps Downloading by 2012 !
i.gizmodo.com — While we're all celebrating Charter's 60Mbps broadband access here in the US, the Korea Communications Commission is spending $24 billion to secure 1Gbps access by 2012. 1Gbps allows you to download a 120-minute film in 12 seconds.

End of beta is in sight for Windows 7
techradar.com — Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be releasing any more beta versions of Windows 7, with the next release likely to be the firet release candidate of the eagerly anticipated operating system.More…

Flash on iPhone Hopes Dashed
pcworld.com — Adobe has confirmed that Flash capabilities won't be coming to the iPhone anytime soon. Company CEO Shantanu Narayen recently discussed the difficulties in bringing Adobe's most well distributed product to the iPhone. "It's a hard technical challenge, and that's part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating," Narayen told Bloomberg Television

Apple puts iPhone Nano and Netbook rumors to rest

2009-01-23T15:38:00.003-08:00

During Apple's earnings conference call yesterday, Apple COO Tim Cook fielded a wide variety of questions, but two answers in particular helped shed a bit of light on the likelihood that Apple would enter the netbook market or release a lower end iPhone.

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The First Windows Review Ever

2009-01-23T15:38:00.001-08:00

The following is an article that appeared in the December 1983 issue of Byte magazine. When I first created this site there was very little information about early versions of Windows on the web and no references to this article. It was almost as if there was some conspiracy to hide the truth about the age of Windows.

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See the original image at engadget.com — Steve Jobs taking a leave of absence from Apple engadget.com — CNBC cites health reasons....

2009-01-14T16:05:00.001-08:00

Steve Jobs taking a leave of absence from Apple

engadget.com — CNBC cites health reasons....

Jobs will step down as Apple CEO while he recuperates from a medical condition disclosed earlier this month; COO Tim Cook will stand in.

Hacker Charged With Selling Modems That Get Free Broadband

2009-01-12T18:21:00.001-08:00

In the first case of its kind, a Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges for allegedly selling hacked cable modems capable of stealing free, anonymous internet service from broadband providers.

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History of the Internet - How The Interent Was Formed (VID)

2009-01-09T10:43:00.000-08:00

History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.

http://vimeo.com/2696386?by=PICOL

Windows 7 Beta 1 shows off new task bar, more UI goodies

2009-01-09T10:29:00.001-08:00

Windows 7 is a solid, fast-performing, stable operating system that appears to be just about fully baked and ready for prime time. It appears to be feature-complete, unlike Vista. Based on the stability and speed of this beta, don't be surprised if Microsoft Corp. releases Windows 7 before 2010 rolls around.

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Windows 7 surprise: DivX built in

2009-01-03T15:08:00.001-08:00

No more trawling the web for the latest media codecs. Windows 7 comes ready to play all your favourite "downloaded" videos. It better late than never But Micro$haft should of had Divx and XviD Support starting from XP SP1.

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Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy

2009-01-03T15:05:00.001-08:00

The music industry has taken some extreme measures to counter piracy, but it hasn’t found the silver bullet yet. The key is to come up with a service that will fulfill the needs of music lovers, and one that would even be embraced by the most hardcore pirate. With Spotify, this might just become possible.

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Comcast sued for forcing users to rent their crappy boxes

2008-12-26T14:24:00.001-08:00

A California woman filed a class action complaint against Comcast, charging that the company is using its monopoly power to keep her paying monthly rental fees for decryption hardware. After only a few months, alleges the complaint, end users have already paid Comcast more than the box is worth.

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10 embarrassing moments in tech techradar.com — Technology is sometimes a complex concept, such that it can lead to some embarrassing moments

2008-12-26T14:20:00.000-08:00

10 embarrassing moments in tech

techradar.com — Technology is sometimes a complex concept, such that it can lead to some embarrassing moments. Whether it's an infamous presentation that went awry, a product that shipped long before it should, or just a goofy marketing gaffe, these low points in tech serve as a good reminder: make sure your stuff works.

Linux Commercials and Internet 100 Oldest Dot.Coms TLDs

2008-12-22T14:14:00.000-08:00

I'm Linux: Linux Commercials Coming Soon To Television

gizmodo.com — A video contest is being held to showcase "just what Linux means to those who use it, and hopefully inspires many to try it." It's up to you to assemble an ad that will rival those of the high-honed ad agencies contracted by Apple and Microsoft. More…

The Internet's 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains

pcworld.com — The Internet's been around in some form for decades. It wasn't until the mid-80s, though, that the Web as we know it started coming together -- and those precious dot-com domains started getting snatched up.More…

Mac vs. PC...the Transformers version

2008-12-22T14:11:00.001-08:00

Who needs Justin Long when you've got these badasses?

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The Pirate Bay Launches Free Mobile Video Converter

2008-12-21T17:26:00.001-08:00

The Pirate Bay Launches Free Mobile Video Converter

torrentfreak.com — The Pirate Bay has established itself as the largest BitTorrent tracker, and helps to distribute millions of files a day. Today, the Pirate Bay team adds yet another service to its arsenal, a free video converter that allows users to put their favorite movies and TV shows on almost every mobile device

How Company Logos Look In A Recession (PIC)

2008-12-21T17:21:00.001-08:00

How Company Logos Look In A Recession (PIC)

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RIAA Stops Lawsuits, But Not the Threats

2008-12-19T14:30:00.001-08:00

RIAA Stops Lawsuits, But Not the Threats

torrentfreak.com — For years the RIAA has been filing lawsuits against thousands of individuals who allegedly shared copyrighted music. Following recent court setbacks, the lobby group has announced it will stop mass lawsuits. Instead, it will focus on cutting deals with ISPs to disconnect ‘IP-addresses’ that repeatedly share copyrighted music

High-Definition Television Promises Sharper Crap

2008-12-19T14:22:00.001-08:00

In the most dramatic leap in television technology since the advent of color in the 1950s, on Monday the FCC approved a 10-year plan to shift to digital, high-definition TV, technology which will make barely watchable crap far sharper and more detailed than ever before.

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There was in fact sort live HD VHS tape format. The other improved standard, called Digital-VHS (D-VHS), records digital high definition video onto a VHS form factor tape. D-VHS can record up to 4 hours of ATSC Digital Television in 720p or 1080i formats using the fastest record mode (equivalent to VHS-SP), and up to 40 hours of standard definition video at slower speeds.

Bush Condemns Free National Wi-Fi

2008-12-12T14:58:00.001-08:00

Bush Condemns Free National Wi-Fi

fastcompany.com — In another nod to his alleged "free-market" principles, President Bush has expressed disapproval of the free nationwide Wi-Fi proposal being considered by the FCC and Congress.

Google Expands Street View: You Really Can't Hide Anymore

2008-12-10T15:32:00.000-08:00

Google Expands Street View: You Really Can't Hide Anymore

mashable.com — Google pushed out a massive update today, doubling the amount of terrain covered in the US. In addition to incorporating street level photos from Memphis, Birmingham, and Charleston, Google added photos from several whole states that previously hadn ’t been touched: Maine, West Virginia, and North and South Dakota.

101 Most Essential iPhone Apps of 2008

2008-12-09T12:52:00.000-08:00

101 Most Essential iPhone Apps of 2008

maclife.com — It seems like only yesterday a young Steve Jobs sheepishly took the stage and announced that the iPhone and iPod touch would have native third-party applications. Now it's December, and the App Store boasts over 10,000 apps and Apple reports over 300 million downloads. Here is a list of the 101 most essential iPhone Apps.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

2008-12-09T12:51:00.001-08:00

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

en-us.www.mozilla.com — This is the fourth development milestone and second beta release of Firefox 3.1, the upcoming version of the Firefox web browser

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

2008-12-09T12:49:00.001-08:00

This is the fourth development milestone and second beta release of Firefox 3.1, the upcoming version of the Firefox web browser.

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Even Google's AI knows who the worst band in the world is

2008-12-09T12:48:00.001-08:00

Its Creed. Not kajagoogoo Alaskashow Favorite Band of All Time.

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No, THIS is why we love digg

2008-12-09T12:46:00.003-08:00

Sorry, I just had to..

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Gmail Finally Adds a To-Do list

2008-12-09T12:46:00.001-08:00

It is called “Tasks” and is now available in Gmail Labs (click on the beaker icon next to “Settings” on the upper right hand corner of Gmail). When you enable Tasks, it appears as a link in the left-hand column under Contacts. Click on the link and a box pops up.

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Yikes New ·got some news? story category UDP BitTorrent client Will Destroy The Interwebs!

2008-12-01T12:09:00.000-08:00

From Dsl Reports

Over the weekend, we noted that uTorrent has released an alpha client that uses UDP for P2P traffic delivery. UDP makes up roughly 2% of all Internet traffic today, and generally isn't used for data delivery because it doesn't guarantee either the delivery or the quality of the data being delivered. While the migration to UDP could potentially make filtering of P2P more difficult, at least one Slashdot poster argues the decision is a business one aimed at actually making BitTorrent more friendly:

The Simpsons mocks (m)Apple

2008-12-01T11:58:00.000-08:00

The Simpsons mocks (m)Apple

engadget.com — Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening's long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery -- a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store

AT&T To Start Metered Broadband Billing

2008-11-03T19:59:00.001-08:00

AT&T To Start Metered Broadband Billing

dslreports.com — AT&T is testing metered billing in Reno, applying caps ranging from 20GB to 150GB per month on existing tiers of service. Users who go over these totals will pay an additional $1 per gigabyte, per month.

Microsoft parks "I'm a PC" booth outside Apple Store

2008-10-31T19:28:00.001-07:00

AppleInsider reader Tom submits the following photo, which shows a large Microsoft-branded kiosk parked outside a shopping-center-based Apple retail store.

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From $603,000 to $1 In 60 Seconds

2008-10-31T19:24:00.001-07:00

Never mind the probabilities or the greed, this is the all-time biggest bonehead move in Deal Or No Deal history.

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Google Chrome Apparently Rejects Google ... Screenshot

2008-10-04T12:57:00.001-07:00

You would think that Chrome wouldn’t return errors on Google properties… right? I get the following error when trying to access my Google AdSense account (which I find laughable)!

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Nintendo Solves Wii Storage Problem

2008-10-02T15:26:00.001-07:00

Wii announced today it will begin selling an executable SD card for its console.

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Nintendo Announces DSi

2008-10-02T15:24:00.001-07:00

DS Lite--making it 12 percent thinner than its forbear. In turn, the screens have become larger at 3.25 inches--17 percent bigger than the original 3-inch LCDs. As for the new additions to the console, Nintendo has packed a 3-megapixel camera

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Bailout Doesn't Pass

2008-09-29T14:00:00.001-07:00

Stocks plunged after the House of Representatives failed to pass a bailout proposal aimed at shoring up America's financial services industry.

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Deletionpedia: where entries too trivial for Wikipedia live

2008-09-24T12:06:00.001-07:00

On the Internet, nothing is forgotten, including 60,000+ Wikipedia articles deleted from the site this year. The "Deletionpedia" is a great place to see that list of minor Star Wars bounty hunters, but do we really need to remember everything?

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Official Google 10th Birthday Site

2008-09-24T12:03:00.001-07:00

Features a cool interactive timeline that lists major milestones in Google history, as well as all the various birthday logos!

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Palin's Email Account Hacked (PHOTOS)

2008-09-17T22:33:00.001-07:00

The group known as Anonymous, which earlier took on Scientology, has published screenshots of e-mail messages and images that it says came from a private e-mail account belonging to Governor Sarah Palin at gov.palin@yahoo.com. The data has been published by WikiLeaks.

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I got this in the mail today from AIG ... seriously [PIC]

2008-09-17T22:22:00.001-07:00

If you don’t think this is funny perhaps you need a blood test to check for an irony deficiency.

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Best Buy to acquire Napster for $121 million

2008-09-16T14:38:00.001-07:00

In May, Napster openly challenged Apple's iTunes Store when it launched an a la carte download service filled with DRM-free tracks that are compatible with both the iPod and iPhone. The service offered 6 million songs and was billed as "more than 50 percent larger than any other MP3 store" and not only the "largest major label MP3 catalog in the in

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Websites We Visit: How They Looked 10 Years Ago

2008-09-16T14:37:00.003-07:00

Here are some of the top tiers brand in the technology industry with their website on the Internet for more than a decade. Let’s take a look how their website looks like 10 years ago, comparing with that they have now. Full list after jump.

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History of the Rick Roll

2008-09-16T14:37:00.001-07:00

Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner.

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Stay Out of My Life, Google Street View! [COMIC]

2008-09-15T18:21:00.001-07:00

Google Street View gets up close and personal.

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Mozilla Updates Firefox 3.1 With Lot More Goodies

2008-09-08T16:00:00.001-07:00

Mozilla Corp. on Friday launched the second alpha of Firefox 3.1,adding new video support and boosting the speed of some JavaScript computations.Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2, code named "Shiretoko," will be the last in a short series of alpha editions; Mozilla has set a late-September code freeze for Beta 1, & will be available for the general public in Oct

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WTF Is In My Salad? (IMG)

2008-09-07T13:18:00.001-07:00

Holy crap....Check it out....I would be furious if that happened to me....WOW!

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On iTunes 8 and hunches; also iPhone 2.1 for Tuesday

2008-09-06T16:27:00.001-07:00

We have received word that iTunes 8 is finally confirmed for Tuesday's special event, and that it's also expected that iPhone 2.1 will land as well with some hidden features we don't know about.

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iPhone Might Be Able To Replace All Your Remotes

2008-09-05T14:41:00.001-07:00

The iPhone makes for a great universal touchscreen remote for everything from your AC to your living room blinds to your music collection.

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First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsof Ad Makes No Sense

2008-09-05T14:40:00.001-07:00

Besides the slick and probably expensive editing designed to make Jerry Seinfeld look like the more awkward of the pair, there's not a whole lot of special effects in this clip. In fact, there's not really a whole lot of anything, including laughs, info or pimping of Vista. It's kinda like Seinfeld's really long, really rambling Amex Superman ad

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FlashlightDVR (Not Real DVR) portable flashlight

2008-09-03T01:12:00.001-07:00

The Swann FlashlightDVR™ is a heavy duty, real working flashlight that also allows you to record video and take photos during the day or at night. Featuring strong aluminum construction the has 128MB of built-in memory and supports mini-SD cards up to 2GB Monitoring & recording concealed in a portable flashlight

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Google Chrome, a browser by Google

2008-09-01T18:45:00.001-07:00

This had been rumored for some time but now it's official -- Google is working on their own (open source) browser."Comic book" surfaces on the Web that introduces a browser called Google Chrome and names several Google developers.http://tinyurl.com/56uctc

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Got A Pirated Copy of XP? Expect to be Nagged

2008-08-28T15:58:00.001-07:00

Microsoft is introducing a new "feature" to Windows XP Professional. If you try to update with a bootleg copy, you'll see a few changes... Such as, the desktop background will be reset every 60 minutes & changed to a plain black background. Not to mention the addition of what Microsoft calls the "persistent desktop notification."

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It's official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1

2008-08-28T15:56:00.001-07:00

Comcast has finally announced that it will introduce 250GB per month bandwidth caps for all residential customers this fall. It insists that this is the same policy it always had, but with clearer limits.

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Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1

2008-08-25T15:30:00.001-07:00

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it's also become the

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Get “I Am Rich!” for $999.99 off the cover price

2008-08-09T17:56:00.001-07:00

No Jailbreak required! That’s right, now you too can pretend you were $999.99 richer a few minutes ago! Sure, it may not have I Am Rich’s secret piece of advice that may or may not have made you even richer, but I am 99% sure that advice was “Do not waste your money on expensive crap like this”.

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101 Classic Computer Ads [PICS]

2008-08-09T17:55:00.001-07:00

Boing Boing Gadgets has compiled a nice set of 101 classic computer ads.

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TWIT cartoons by Beltane

2008-07-31T17:43:00.001-07:00

This is an homage to our favorite tech guy and all the other Twits.www.toondoo.com Leo has seen the first few of these and liked them and said I should share them.http://www.toondoo.com/ViewBook.toon?bookid=64215

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Youtube to hand over all user histories and IP addresses!

2008-07-03T12:59:00.001-07:00

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.

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Oh Yes... There Will Be Blood

2008-06-27T12:36:00.001-07:00

The same could be said about the Movie Bambi Vs Godzilla I and II

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Trash those records, now we have tape!

2008-06-05T12:08:00.001-07:00

Back in the day, audiophiles listened to music on tape, but they were hard to change. Here's an orphaned tape format RCA was eager to sell you: 4 tracks of bliss in one easy-to -load, huge cartridge

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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

2008-05-18T00:19:00.001-07:00

In what is proving to be yet another high-profile Metro Wi-Fi failure, MetroFi, a San Jose-based startup that raised over $15 million from Sevin Rosen and August Capital, is close to shutting down, according to WiFi NetNews and MuniWireless, two blogs that follow the MuniFi industry closely.

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Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7

2008-05-16T07:15:00.001-07:00

New data on Comcast’s interference with BitTorrent traffic shows that the company misinformed the FCC this February. Comcast has always argued that BitTorrent upstream traffic was only blocked during periods of heavy network traffic, this turns out to be a lie.

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The Fight to Own Yahoo: Five Possible Scenarios

2008-04-11T10:55:00.001-07:00

Rumors are flying that Yahoo is teaming up with AOL, the long-suffering Internet division of Time Warner, as a way to stave off an unwanted merger.While many industry watchers still believe that Microsoft will gobble up Yahoo eventually, chances are it will have to pay a lot more for its meal. Here are five possible scenarios to consider.

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Mozilla: Final Version of Firefox 3 Will Ship in June

2008-03-27T14:00:00.001-07:00

Mozilla officially announces when Firefox 3 will be out.The final release of Firefox 3 is due in June, the company said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion with a small group of tech bloggers.During the event, the key members of the Mozilla team, including CEO John Lilly, gave a quick overview of the product release schedule for the next version of the open source web browser.According to VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer, the first Release Candidate will ship in early May. The RC1 stage is the point at which most of the larger extension developers re-work their code to be fully compatible with Firefox 3. So if your favorite extension isn't yet working, you'll only have to wait another month or so.Right now, the latest Firefox 3 release is beta version 4. The Firefox 3 betas have about 700,000 users right now -- a small but dedicated chunk of Firefox's entire user base of 160 million people. The public release of Beta 5 will be out the first week of April (the nightly builds are available for testing now), and that will be the last beta release before Firefox enters the release candidate stage.Hopefully by June all of the FF Developers will update their Plug-ins to be compatible with FF 3.0 as of now left than have are.

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Google: No kids allowed

2008-03-27T13:56:00.001-07:00

"Google's terms of service, while ignored by the vast majority of users, contain a pretty shocking clause: Under 18's are not permitted to use any of Google's web properties. Thats right kids - no search, YouTube, Gmail, news, or images."

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Give an Old Laptop New Life with Cheap (or Free) Projects

2008-02-23T16:29:00.001-08:00

Like a famed race horse or a classic book, you don't just throw away a laptop because it's banged up a little. With some free software, a little know-how and some creative thinking about your home network, nearly any old laptop can find its second wind, and today I'll run through some of the best ways to get it there.

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Photos: Dinosaur sighting: Commodore 64 - CNET News.com

2008-02-06T13:56:00.001-08:00

Follow along as TechRepublic gives a tour of a fine old relic it dug up.

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Official: 16GB iPhone available and 32GB iPod touch, $499

2008-02-05T18:20:00.001-08:00

Out of the rumor mill comes the 16GB iPhone, now official. Ever since the 16GB iPod touch was announced in September, we all knew it was just a matter of time until Apple could bung the same NAND chip into their chubbier iPhone. The Surprise is a new 32GB iPod touch for the same $499. Both are available immediately. So why did apple waited today to make the announcement. Steve should have made the introduced for the 16GB iPhone and the new 32GB iPod touch at this years Macworld in January.

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Click if your computer screen is dirty.

2008-01-24T17:03:00.001-08:00

Clean your computer screen through the internets!

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January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Day

2008-01-22T15:15:00.001-08:00

PLease no more myspace. . . . We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots I have delete, myspace over a year ago. To take part in the excitement. I am going to create another one than Delete it Again to join in the fun!!

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January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Day

2008-01-22T15:13:00.001-08:00

Talking About AT&T's Internet Filtering on AT&T's Own Show

2008-01-21T21:24:00.001-08:00

Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets was invited to talk about gadgets onThe Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored exclusively by AT&T for distribution on the online AT&T Tech Channel. I eventually did talk about gadgets, but in light of AT&T's shocking and baffling announcement of their plans to filter the internet, I thought.

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Apple Adds Five Apps To The iPod Touch -- For A Price

2008-01-15T21:30:00.001-08:00

It's not all love for the iPhone today -- Apple just announced that Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather are all coming to the iPod touch. New touch owners get 'em all for free, but all of you early adopters will have to cough up: the bundle is going to set you back a whopping $20.

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It Takes 7 Hrs and 51 Mins to Get From "Here" to "There"

2008-01-12T17:07:00.001-08:00

Only Google would know that Its in France.

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HD-DVD - Runs and hides from CES

2008-01-05T04:20:00.001-08:00

"....HD DVD group is canceling its CES press conference; tail severely between legs over today's explosive news that Warner -- the last "undecided" studio -- was going to the other side and doing Blu-ray discs exclusively."For now I am going to stick and Major other Geels out there with my Upconverting DVD Player. And let this Next Gen DVD Format War Just play out for another Year, Until there is a clear winner.

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Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

2008-01-05T04:15:00.001-08:00

That didn't last long! Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project seeking to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries.

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GeekLinks.net - Tech News From My World. to my Jaiku Page

2007-06-25T13:38:00.000-07:00

GeekLinks.net - Tech News From My World. to my Jaiku Page found over here.

Apple: 6G iPod & Apple's Future?

2007-04-16T13:23:00.001-07:00

"CNET rounds up what we're going to get from the next iPod and where Apple is heading as a company and as a business juggernaut. [They have the] 100GB widescreen video iPods, Wi-Fi-enabled iPods capable of on-the-fly movie downloads over the air, unlimited downloads from iTunes for a flat fee and the UK finally getting its content-hungry hands on movie downloads. Apple has dropped the 'Computer' from its company name, and is making significant advances into the media-distribution business. It's bringing video to everyone everywhere with iTunes movies and now Apple TV, and the rumours and speculation we've discussed promote the theory that Apple is setting itself up as a major player in the media-distribution industry."

8 CORE Mac Pro OFFICIALLY announced by Apple!!

2007-04-04T12:23:00.001-07:00

8-core or quad-core Mac Pro workstation Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world ’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.

8 CORE Mac Pro OFFICIALLY announced by Apple!!

AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested

2007-02-20T19:18:00.000-08:00

AMD officially launched their next speed bump in the Athlon 64 product line, in the form of a new 3GHz part branded the Athlon 64 6000+. This new dual-core Athlon 64 sports 1MB of on-chip cache per core and is designed for AMD's Socket AM2 platform. This chip is still built on AMD's 90nm fab node and is comprised of some 227 million transistors. It also carries a thermal power profile of about 125Watts. Unfortunately, in all the benchmarks seen here, it was still unable to catch Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 chip at 2.66GHz."

http://tinyurl.com/2semeo

In-car record players from the 1950's

2007-02-16T08:53:00.000-08:00

Record players were installed on a slide-out turntable beneath the dash and hidden behind a drop-down door that could be opened at the push of a button. I remember a old friend of mind who had one those In-Car Record players. Every time his car would go over a bump the tone air would skip all over place and it would ruin the player needle stylist!

Seagate to Release First 15k RPM 2.5-inch HDDs

2007-01-16T18:16:00.000-08:00

This afternoon, Seagate Technology made an unexpected announcement coming so soon after the Storage Visions conference in Las Vegas – a tag-along with CES. The company’s second wave of Savvio hard drives in the 2.5" form factor will be revved up from 10,000 to 15,000 revolutions per minute.

But as an indication that such revolutionary speed, literally speaking, may not yet be cool enough for notebooks where the company’s Momentus product line revs up to 7200 rpm, the 15K series is being billed for use in RAID storage batteries for the enterprise. There, Seagate says the new Savvios will run cooler than a typical datacenter installation, drawing 40% less power per drive while consuming about a third of the rack space.

http://tinyurl.com/24luf8

Netflix Starts Offering Flicks On The Net

2007-01-16T18:15:00.001-08:00

Beginning this week, some subscribers to DVD-by-mail service Netflix will be able to watch movies and TV shows on the Web. Netflix Inc. will start showing movies and TV episodes over the Internet this week, providing its subscribers with more instant gratification as the DVD-by-mail service prepares for a looming technology shift threatening its survival.

The Los Gatos-based company plans to unveil the new "Watch Now" feature Tuesday, but only a small number of its more than 6 million subscribers will get immediate access to the service, which is being offered at no additional charge.

Netflix expects to introduce the instant viewing system to about 250,000 more subscribers each week through June to ensure its computers can cope with the increased demand.

S.F. Finalizes Wi-Fi Deal With EarthLink, Google

2007-01-05T16:10:00.000-08:00

EarthLink Inc. and Google Inc. have finalized a four-year deal to provide free wireless Internet service throughout San Francisco after seven months of sometimes-tense negotiations that stalled the city's effort to ensure all its residents, visitors and businesses have easy access to the Web.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed off on the contract Friday, but the details still require the approval of the city's Board of Supervisors and Public Utilities Commission.

Google launched a free Wi-Fi service in August in its home town of Mountain View, making the 11.5-square-mile city of 72,000 people the largest U.S. community with free Wi-Fi throughout its borders.

http://tinyurl.com/tncf5

Warner Bros. new "Total HD" disc tries to settle Blu-ray/HD DVD war

2007-01-04T17:33:00.000-08:00

Warner Bros plans to announce a new single videodisc, called a Total HD disc, that can play films and television programs in both Blu-ray and HD DVD. They hope to make the new generation of DVD entertainment easier on the consumer by making movies and television libraries available in BOTH formats on a SINGLE disc.

http://tinyurl.com/y36snn

Get Ready for DRM-FREE 2007: Amazon, LimeWire, MySpace, eMusic, Yahoo Music

2007-01-03T15:07:00.000-08:00

More rumors are surfacing around Amazon offering DRM-free MP3s to compete with Apple's iTunes. Only this time the rumors include other MP3 download services and are coming from the mainstream press (does that make it more or less credible?). Looks like certain key executives have converted to the idea that digital downloads should be sold as unprotected MP3s.

http://tinyurl.com/y7ky4j

Hitachi to unveil ultra high-end storage array

2007-01-03T15:01:00.000-08:00

Code-named “Broadway,” the forthcoming storage array can be deployed with one Integrated Control/Array Frame and one to four Array Frames, which hold a maximum of 1,152 drives for a maximum internal capacity of 576TB and the ability to address as much as 256 petabytes of external storage. Now Everyone geek will have No accuse because now they will have access to an Virtual Bottomless Pit of Storage. So they can go out to purchase and download more crap 'until the cows come home' of digital media contains, for their Shinny brand new Raid 6 256 petabytes MAS!!

http://tinyurl.com/yzlstj

A peek at faster Power6, Cell chips

2006-12-29T16:03:00.000-08:00

IBM's Power6 processor will be able to exceed 5 gigahertz in a high-performance mode, and the second-generation Cell Broadband Engine processor from IBM, Sony and Toshiba will run at 6GHz, according to the program for the International Solid State Circuits Conference that begins February 11 in San Francisco.

For servers, IBM has said its Power6 processor, due to ship in servers in 2007, will run between 4GHz and 5GHz. But in the ISSCC program, Big Blue said the chip's clock will tick at a rate "over 5GHz in high-performance applications." In addition, the chip "consumes under 100 watts in power-sensitive applications," a power range comparable to mainstream 95-watt AMD Opteron chips and 80-watt Intel Xeon chips.

http://tinyurl.com/vxxt8

FCC approves AT&T-BellSouth merger

2006-12-29T16:02:00.000-08:00

The Federal Communications Commission approved the roughly $86 billion megamerger between AT&T and BellSouth on Friday, ending a bipartisan standoff.

The commission, which had been split between Democrats and Republicans for months on what--if any--conditions should be imposed on the merger, accepted conditions that AT&T had proposed in a formal letter sent to the commission on Thursday. The merger was approved by 4 to 0 vote.

http://tinyurl.com/y76ls5

Woz Gets Questioned by the Secret Service for Using $2 Bills

2006-12-29T15:59:00.000-08:00

While generously feeding these machines I tipped the waitress a couple of $2 bills. Waitresses in casinos and other places often exclaim at how much they like getting these and how their kids love them. I have tons of $2 bill stories that will make a whole chapter in my book someday. My $2 bills are real and legit but unusual.

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Saturn's greatest hits

2006-12-28T15:51:00.000-08:00

NASA is asking people to choose the best photograph taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it approaches its second anniversary at the planet Saturn.

NASA lets viewers vote for the best of the 15 photos listed.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

http://tinyurl.com/y6py7s

Vaporware '06: Return of the King

2006-12-27T12:07:00.000-08:00

Pull back the red curtain and dim the lights. It's the 9th annual presentation of the Wired News Vaporware Awards, our ode to the year's top technology products promised, hyped and scheduled, but not delivered.

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Turn Off Unnecessary Windows XP Services

2006-12-21T10:22:00.000-08:00

Turning off unnecessary services in Windows XP can greatly reduce your exploit risk, while improving system performance. It's a good time to inject that often there are all sorts of "download optimizers" and other cute programs that vendors like to push on users. The first rule is "If you don't know you need it, you probably don't."

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Pandora Goes Social

2006-12-20T12:12:00.000-08:00

Tonight Pandora is releasing a additional features aimed at increasing interaction among members. These social features include listener profiles with musical preferences, bio information, etc. (previously listeners had only a list of bookmarked songs), as well as listener search and lists of users who are fans of particular bands.

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See real-time weather on a Google map

2006-12-20T12:11:00.000-08:00

Weather junkies, your site has come in. Weather Bonk gives you not only the local forecast, but also traffic webcams, monthly averages and live conditions overlaid on a Google map.

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New Mozilla issues security updates

2006-12-20T12:08:00.000-08:00

The Mozilla Foundation has issued "critical" security updates to vulnerabilities discovered in the Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client and SeaMonkey application suite.

Flaws were found in versions of the open-source software prior to both Firefox 2.0.0.1 and Firefox 1.5.0.9, as well as prior to Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 and SeaMonkey 1.0.7, Mozilla said Tuesday.

The vulnerabilities could potentially be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, to let malicious attackers launch a remote execution of code on users' computers, and to expose sensitive information, according to an advisory from security company Secunia.

http://tinyurl.com/y5akp7

Dish Network to Launch IPTV Service?

2006-12-20T11:59:00.000-08:00

The Satellite Guys forum floats the rumor that Dish Network may be exploring the possibility of starting their own IPTV service for broadband users. The rumor proclaims that the service (dubbed DishONLINE) will go live on February 15th, 2007, offering SD and HD quality movies, music, news and adult films. It looks like this portion of the Dish website has been gearing up for the IPTV launch. Of course, we're still waiting on the rumor that there would be a DirecTV blade on the Xbox360 dashboard.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/80418

Linking to Pirated Content Illegal Down under...

2006-12-19T19:07:00.000-08:00

According to an Australian court, linking to pirated mp3 content hosted elsewhere is illegal. Upholding a ruling from last summer, the ruling declared that Stephen Cooper, a retired policeman who ran the now-defunct site MP3s4free.net, and his ISP "[enabled] infringing copies of the downloaded sound recordings to be made." Cooper logged 7,081,899 unique visitors to his website in a little less than a year's time

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/80386

Digg Unveils New Features - Kevin's Blog Post Explains with Video

2006-12-18T12:36:00.000-08:00

New Digg Features O
’ Plenty
by Kevin Rose at 6am, Dec 18th, 2006 in Digg Website
Big update today. Tons of new features to share with you – many inspired by feedback you’ve given us over the last few months (thanks!). Check out this video ...
(( http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/18/digg-break ))

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Cisco -- not apple -- announces iPhone branded VoIP phones

2006-12-18T00:10:00.000-08:00

but Cisco, which has apparently had the trademark on the name since the 90s, is launching a line of Linksys "iPhone" VoIP devices (yes, that's right, lower case "i", uppercase "P"). Why wait until now to launch the iPhone name? We can't say for sure, but we imagine Cisco was probably trying to work behind the scenes to sell the rights to the name to Apple, but things didn't pan out -- but since "iPhone" is already a fairly ubiquitous brand without even being launched, hey, why not run with it?

http://tinyurl.com/ydje4h

The worst website ever made.

2006-12-15T13:59:00.000-08:00

In early 2001, Dr. Kamran Afzal created the worst website in history. (Maximum appreciation can only be achieved by viewing & listening with IE.)
(Maximum appreciation can only be achieved by viewing & listening with IE.) Unfortunately Users of digg Do not does IE! Ugh! I have to switch to my old windows 98 machines to fireup the old IE 6 to get the Maximum appreciation Experience of this site.
The theme music is so 80's cheesy!I can't wait for someone to do a music montage of this site on Youtube!!
SING ALONG!
doctaire kamran afzel is the greatest in the world, his formula is natural herbolic made in wall, this herbal had been air wall been has no side effect, then the doctaire kamran afzal is the greatest in the world.

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Who sent the first e-mail?

2006-12-14T14:12:00.000-08:00

For those of you who had asked themselves this question at least once until now, and for those of you who are just curious in finding out the answer, I have searched around and found a few hints.

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