Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control

Commentary: A person who works with total focus has an enormous advantage over a workaholic who's “multi-tasking” all day, answering every phone call, constantly checking Facebook and Twitter, and indulging every interruption.

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Big Blue urged to open Notes and Domino

Ian Tree, the chief architect at IT consultancy Hadleigh Marshall Netherlands b.v. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has some free advice for IBM's Software Group: Take the Notes/Domino groupware stack open source with a community-developed programming model. The idea is to keep the Notes client and the Domino server relevant.

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EETimes.com - Server makers get Goooogled

Rackable, a system integrator that built Google's first 10,000 systems, launched a so-called CloudRack in late October, geared for big data centers. Early next year Rackable will ship for the enclosure its first 12V-only motherboards with two servers per board.

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Free Social Utility For Time-Based Relationships

This is how it works: you sign up for a TimeXchange account and create a new project, select your role in the project and then indicate if you are working by yourself or on a team. If working on a team, you can invite other users, indicate what level of control they have (can they approve timesheets, can they see budget and billing information),

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Online galleries are go - Technology - smh.com.au

http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/online-galleries-are-go/2008/12/29/1230399085342.html

Smartphones drive mobile markets

The last 12 months has seen the launch of iconic devices such as the iPhone 3G, Google G1, Blackberry Storm and Nokia N97.

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Top web applications

Web application always make our work easier but selecting the right web application is a tough job so here is the list of few top web application which will make your work easier and are very handy

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Learn the Identity of people screwing with your network

HOT News really. Don't you wish you knew the people who were fiddliing with your network. Enterprises, regardless of size, are increasingly realizing that their computer systems are vulnerable to as many security threats from within the company as from outside of it. Find out about this new technology called "identity-based UTM"

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All I wanted this year was the best smartphone ever

This year, all I really wanted for the holidays was the perfect smartphone. Not too much to ask for, right? You'd think, but all I ended up with was constant swapping between 3 (or more) devices, hoping to find some balance of features that worked for me.

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Blue Spruce, IBM's Next Generation Browser Platform: Review

ReadWriteWeb was given an exclusive first look at Blue Spruce at the Web 2.0 Summit, where we sat down with IBM's VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, Rod Smith, for a "show and tell" of what IBM claims will be the next evolution of the browser. What's more, it's fully open standards based - so it is squarely aimed at challenging the proprietary-

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Nintendo Wii to Have Video On Demand

Nintendo and Dentsu shall use the environment surrounding the Wii so that living rooms with Wii-ready TVs would become more of a fun area for communication among families and friends.

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20 Excellent Websites for Learning Ajax

Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technology that allowsfor for highly-interactive and responsive browser-based applications.By leveraging the XMLHttpRequest object, seamless communication withthe server can be achieved for a smooth and dynamic user experience.

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iPhone claims high-ranking spot on Flickr

The iPhone has risen to prominence on Flickr, rivaling most SLRs in popularity. These statistics from Yahoo cover the last 12 months.

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25 Resources to Get You Started with PHP from Scratch

PHP is a scripting language that is perfect for developing dynamic web pages and applications. You may be a PHP ninja, or perhaps you don't even know what PHP stands for. However, if you plan on or are involved in any kind of web development, you are bound to run into this fantastic and easy to learn web language.

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12 Blogs To Help Designers Learn Web Development

It is rare to find a talented web designer that is just as proficient at web development. Obviously, one can be successful at specializing in design only, but a web designer can only benefit from having a better understanding of what is going on behind the scenes.

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Vatican-approved app for the iPhone

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/vaticanapproved-app-for-the-iphone/2008/12/23/1229794373131.html

Make Your Copy Dance

Writing copy for the web is completely different than writing an article or report. Web surfers seem to have a very short attention span. I would fill my web pages with content and wonder why my visitors stayed on my site for an average of 11 seconds. Oh, Google loves it, but no one else did. After reading the posts on this blog I now know why.

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BlackBerry vs. iPhone - The Smart Phone Battle Rages On

Research In Motion (RIMM) and Apple (AAPL) continue their smart phone battle for the hearts and minds of consumers, according to the latest ChangeWave survey.

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Scrapplet: Powerful Social Web Canvases

There are a few sites out there that let you aggregate your entire online presence into a single place, but for the most part they offer little control over the way your information is actually presented. Today sees the launch of Scrapplet...

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App Developer Strikes E-Book Deals With Major Publishers

ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of major publishing houses, and is in talks with several others, to produce newly released and best-selling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

25 tips and shortcuts, from beginner to advanced to make you a better jQuery coder.

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25 Free Computer Science Books

There are lots of great sources of information available online, but nothing really beats the depth of knowledge that you can find in a book. Below is a selection of 25 of the best free computer science books that I’ve found online, with a brief description of each one

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Apple Becomes 2nd Largest Seller of smartphones

http://techfuel.co.cc/2008/12/20/apple-becomes-2nd-largest-seller-of-mobiles/

10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/15/10-useful-techniques-to-improve-your-user-interface-designs/

Access Google Docs from your Desktop

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/12/access-google-docs-from-your-desktop.html

Need a Ride? Check Your iPhone

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/21novelties.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers

The Communication Technologies Branch of the United States National Cancer Institute (part of National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services) has been conducting usability testing with people with disabilities, specifically blind and lowvision users, to

* understand the relationship between accessibility and usability
* understand how blind and low-vision users work with Web sites
* develop research-based guidelines for accessibility and usability
* assess the usability of specific Web sites for blind and low-vision users

http://www.redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html

Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/filtering-twitter-one-tweet-at-a-time/

Future of the Internet Mobile

A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.

http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp

Slipstream - A Software Secretary That Takes Charge - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/14stream.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

MIT students build mobile applications in 13 weeks

we will see more and more use of mobile phones as work tools.


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Six indispensable CSS tips and tricks I use on every project | d\'bug

Six indispensable CSS tips and tricks I use on every project | d'bug

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11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

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The Inquisitive Coder - Davy Brion’s Blog » Blog Archive » What It Takes To Be A Great Technical Lead

The Inquisitive Coder - Davy Brion’s Blog » Blog Archive » What It Takes To Be A Great Technical Lead

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99 Ways to Become a Better Developer | DeveloperZen

99 Ways to Become a Better Developer | DeveloperZen

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10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks › Yongfook - Web Producer

10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks › Yongfook - Web Producer

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My new IDE: NetBeans

My new IDE: NetBeans

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Mobile Distillery\'s Alembic and Celsius Coverts iPhones to other Smart and Feature Phones - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Mobile Distillery's Alembic and Celsius Coverts iPhones to other Smart and Feature Phones - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

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Most Popular Android Applications For November 2008 | Digital Media Diva | Fast Company

Most Popular Android Applications For November 2008 | Digital Media Diva | Fast Company

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OpenCalais

We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais.

Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.

http://www.opencalais.com/

Home ‎(OpenSocial Hackathon Sydney‎)

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Video

http://www.partuza.nl/

http://www.exoplatform.com

Great Google iPhone Apps Not Made by Google

http://mashable.com/2008/11/29/google-iphone-apps/

JetBrains Delivers Meta Programming System Beta

JetBrains Delivers Meta Programming System Beta

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Top 15 Free Mac Apps for Graphic Designers

Top 15 Free Mac Apps for Graphic Designers

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The Technology Chronicles : Cisco rallies around medianets to handle video traffic

The Technology Chronicles : Cisco rallies around medianets to handle video traffic

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A List Apart: Articles: Getting Real About Agile Design

A List Apart: Articles: Getting Real About Agile Design

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8 Ideas, Techniques

8 Ideas, Techniques & Tricks for your Web Design Toolkit - PSDTUTS

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Getting a grip on Python: six ways to learn online

Getting a grip on Python: six ways to learn online

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.Tel Them Where to Find You - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

.Tel Them Where to Find You - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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SourceForge.net: Pyjamas 0.4 Python Web Toolkit Released

SourceForge.net: Pyjamas 0.4 Python Web Toolkit Released

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Official Google Mac Blog: Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal

Official Google Mac Blog: Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal

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Home | The Dojo Toolkit

Home | The Dojo Toolkit

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Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode

Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode

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20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know - NETTUTS

20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know - NETTUTS

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iPhone vs. Android development: Day 1 | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 1 | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com

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Recommended Readings : Webster

Recommended Readings : Webster & Associates LLC

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Seven habits for writing secure PHP applications

Seven habits for writing secure PHP applications

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When Everyone Can Mine Your Data - Forbes.com

When Everyone Can Mine Your Data - Forbes.com

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Free Applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch - Chronometer, Stopwatches, Worldclocks, RPN Calculator, Money Management, Voice Recorder, Puzzles

Free Applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch - Chronometer, Stopwatches, Worldclocks, RPN Calculator, Money Management, Voice Recorder, Puzzles

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SitePoint » 10 Must Have Tools for Communicating with Clients

SitePoint » 10 Must Have Tools for Communicating with Clients

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Digg - Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services

Digg - Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services

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dafont.com

dafont.com

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GOM software - Free, Simple, Light, It just plays! - GOM Media Player, GOM encoder

GOM software - Free, Simple, Light, It just plays! - GOM Media Player, GOM encoder

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IPhone Apps: Gizmodo\'s 20 Essential iPhone Apps

IPhone Apps: Gizmodo's 20 Essential iPhone Apps

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SonyBMG Launches MyPlay on Drupal | drupal.org

SonyBMG Launches MyPlay on Drupal | drupal.org

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15 Free Tools for Web-based Collaboration - Six Revisions

15 Free Tools for Web-based Collaboration - Six Revisions

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Here Come The Pro Accounts

Here Come The Pro Accounts

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MTV Site Posts Every Music Video Ever

I hope you've got some time to kill, because the new MTV Music website is pretty much the coolest thing ever for music fans. At long last, the MTV name is being associated with music videos again, because the "music" channel has gone and put its entire archive of music videos online, all embeddable and in high quality.


http://www.mtvmusic.com/

Using Your Linux Computer As A Media Center (Part 1)

If you are a Windows or Mac user, you will be familiar with Windows Media Center or Front Row that both have the ability to turn your computer into a Media Center PC. Linux users don’t have such luck as most distros do not come with a media center application pre-installed.


http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/using-your-linux-computer-as-a-media-center-part-1/

World Toughest Phone Battered Live Online For Your Enjoyment

The folks at Sonim have done just about everything in their power to convince potential customers that their XP1 is the world's toughest phone. That includes running over it with cars and dunking it in beer baths. Their latest stunt involves hitting in with a hammer 24/7 until it breaks—and you can watch the entire thing go down online.

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Three Places To Shop For Android Apps? How Confusing!

Yesterday, T-Mobile stocked their stores with G1 handset, the first smartphone to feature Google's mobile operating system “Android.” Along with the device itself, the Google Android Market also went live.

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Forget AirSharing. Box.net Offers Free Cloud Storage on iPhone - iPhone Applications | AppCraver

Forget AirSharing. Box.net Offers Free Cloud Storage on iPhone - iPhone Applications | AppCraver

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Digg - New Gmail for Mobile 2.0 App

Digg - New Gmail for Mobile 2.0 App

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Sling Media - SlingCatcher

SlingCatcher's onscreen interface and remote control provide easy access to digital video from just about anywhere—from your Slingbox, from your PC, or from the Internet

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Microsoft starts distributing open-source Drupal

The single biggest distributor of Drupal just might be Microsoft. Microsoft's Web Application Installer comes with out-of-the-box support for Drupal, as well as a few other open-source applications. Microsoft once called open source a cancer. Now it's spreading the disease?

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How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers

(Or, How to sync an iPhone with one computer and manually manage music and videos on another).Normally it’s only possible to sync an iPhone with one computer. If you try to use a second computer you get the warning below that "the iPhone X is synced with another iTunes library. Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library"?

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50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials

This post serves as a collection of useful tutorials on working with AJAX in a wide variety of ways. You’ll find tutorials on working with forms, building shopping carts, creating chat features, working with log-ins and usernames and much more.

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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. When Microsoft and Apple were founded.


http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

slingcatcher

SlingCatcher's onscreen interface and remote control provide easy access to digital video from just about anywhere—from your Slingbox, from your PC, or from the Internet

http://www.slingmedia.com/go/slingcatcher

The Tech Lab: Hakan Eriksson

Mobile broadband promises to bring change to many nations

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Python 3.0 makes a big break

Typically, each new version of the Python programming language has been gentle on users, more or less maintaining backward compatibility with previous versions. But in 2000, when Python creator Guido van Rossum announced that he was embarking on a new version of Python, he did not sugar coat his plan: Version 3.0 would not be backward-compatible. N

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YouTube Founder Compares Online Video To Nascent TV Market

Hurley compares the current state of online video to the nascent years of television. In 1941

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Why Windows Mobile Is In Trouble?

Recently it was revealed that the newest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7.0, would be delayed until as late as 2010. The updated version, which the company’s partners had reportedly been hoping to have by early 2009, was aimed at giving Microsoft a bigger presence on the mobile stage. But delay or no delay...

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Start-up Siri developing new interaction paradigm for the We

In the midst of the financial meltdown and a contentious upcoming election, you might think the U.S. government and taxpayers are just funding wars, bank bailouts and bridges to nowhere or somewhere. But this is the same government that funded the Internet way back when and is also funding

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It's here- VoiP for iPhone.

Fring allows you to chat and interact with others on a variety of networks including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, ICQ. In addition, Fring offers voice over ip (VoIP) using the iPhone's WiFi connec

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New Cool Touchscreen Communicator Concept from Nokia

besides all of the exciting news today, I got an interesting information about new communicator device concept over at the internet. This concept really grabs my attention since it seems that it's gonna be an all-touchscreen phone that converts into a Communicator when the 'pencil box' form-factor is opened. Concept, Nokia, Communicator

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Replacing Fiber With 10 Gigabit/Second Wireless

Richard Ridgway, a senior researcher at Battelle, says that the technique could be used to send huge files across college campuses, to quickly set up emergency networks in a disaster, and even to stream uncompressed high-definition video from a computer or set-top box to a display. Whereas Wi-Fi and cellular networks operate on frequencies of. . .

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Pixelpipe - Free your media, upload and share anywhere

Why choose one when you can send your media through Pixelpipe and have it delivered to so many at the same time

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VideoSwiper - Mass Video Finder Embeds Shares and Uploads Th

Many webmasters are now running video websites as a way to generate new income from the Internet, the problem in most cases is time & content, VideoSwiper acts as a medium between you & other top video sharing communities to provide you with millions of embeddable videos to mass populate your sites with speed & targeted niche content.

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State of the Art - For Purists, a Cut Above in Movies - NYTi

These days, anyone born after 1980 expects instant delivery of entertainment. But the Internet movie scene is still dismal: the movies are overpriced, heavily copy protected and lacking subtitles, commentaries or extras. The selection is thin. And even if you go to the trouble of downloading, each movie deletes itself 24 hours after you start playb

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YouTube Rolls Out Post-Roll Video Ads

YouTube, which has never had trouble growing an audience but hasn’t yet figured out the trick for monetizing them thar eyeballs, is adding a trick from the old playbook: post-roll advertisements.

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Skype security flub leads to discovery of Chinese monitoring

Researchers have found evidence that Skype and Chinese partner TOM Online are monitoring text communications online for "sensitive" topics, and storing extensive logs on publicly-accessible servers. Not only is this a major security risk, it also raises questions as to what level Skype is complying with the requests of the Chinese government.

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Hands-On Nokia 5800 XpressMusic First All-Touch S60 Phone

The 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube) is the first touchscreen Symbian S60 phone from Nokia—a surprising fact considering how prominent touchscreens have quickly become over the last few years. And instead of rolling out the new touch-specific S60 Fifth Edition on a flagship N-series phone, Nokia has decided to position the 5800 as a music phone for...

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100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites

Whether you need to find a home, share a huge file, or throw a wicked curve with a Wiffle ball, you'll find these sites indispensable.

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Boxee for AppleTV

A developer on Tuesday released a free patch enabling Apple TV to play virtually any multimedia file with the insertion of a thumb drive into the box.Normally, Apple TV can only play video and music files that are compatible with iTunes or bought through the iTunes Store, but coder Scott Davilla's patch called Boxee essentially "Jailbreaks"...

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A complete List of business Networking Websites for CEO’S

A complete List of business Networking Websites for CEO’S and Entrepreneurs. The Internet provides dominant networking opportunities that let users to efficiently target their addressees by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn...

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Hands on: Nero's LiquidTV, TiVo for your PC

Nero announced LiquidTV today, a combination software and hardware product that brings TiVo and much of its glory to Windows PCs, complete with that great remote. Ars Technica spoke with Nero and went hands on to see how well TiVo software performs outside of its natural habitat.

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Bits: I.B.M. Puts iPhone in the Lotus Position

I.B.M. says its Lotus Notes messaging software works on the iPhone.

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Microsoft and Nokia Adopt jQuery for Development Platforms

Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Nokia is looking to use jQuery to develop applications for their WebKit-based Web Run-Time. Microsoft and Nokia aren’t looking to make any modifications to jQuery (both in the form of code or licensing) - they simply wish to promote its use as-is.

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Flash Video Glitch Allows Free Movie Downloads

A security hole in Adobe's ubiquitous online technology could open the door to swiping movies from Amazon's streaming video service.

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Access your Windows shared folders from your S60 Nokia phone

access windows shares and Samba folders from your nokia phone with this new free application

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‘Heroes’ Causes BitTorrent Boom

Two fresh episodes of the US hit series ‘Heroes’ were released Monday night. In the day that followed each episode was downloaded well over a million times by BitTorrent users all over the world, making it the busiest day ever on many torrent sites.

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Popular Open Source Version Control systems

Designers and developers can both benefit from using revision control systems to keep copies of their files and designs. You can instantly browse previous “commits” to your repository and revert to earlier versions if something happens. This article reviews some of the top open source version control systems and tools that make setting up a version

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Enterprise 2.0 Vendors need to get more serious about mobile

The truth is that the most successful Enterprise 2.0 applications will focus heavily on mobile and will take in to consideration the considerably different use cases related to how different functions use mobile devices

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Where Attention Flows, Money Follows

Almost anything else except attention can be manufactured as a commodity. Luxury goods are only luxuries temporarily. They quickly are counterfeited and commodified. Premium brands are only premium because they garner a surplus of attention.

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The Future of Computing Over The Next Few Decades

Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie offered a long term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing is heading over the next few decades. Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference, Mundie envisioned a 3D virtual world populated by virtual presences, using a combination of client and cloud services.

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How Android Hurts Microsoft

The Android-based G1 is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's worst fears bundled together in a tidy package: Google, Web applications, open source and a platform alternative to Windows. Worse: easy access to Google's plethora of online services—including Calendar, Contacts, Gmail, Google Talk, Maps Street View and YouTube—via single sign-on.

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45 Drupal Sites You May Not Have Known Were Drupal Based

Drupal is an open source CMS system (Content Management System) that allows anyone to build fairly complicated dynamic website applications. A question we get asked here at Social CMS Buzz is what popular, well known websites use Drupal as their system, the answer is lots with Nike, Universal Music, Warner Bros, Yahoo and Adobe being just a few.

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Analysts: Android mobiles to sell faster than iPhone?

Analysts are predicting such an interest in the amount of Android-powered mobile phones that 400,000 could be sold by 2009.That would equate to over 130,000 per month,given the fact we only have a quarter of the year left & given the teeny amount of marketing on these phones compared to the iPhone pre-launch,it would certainly be a feat to achieve.

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Gphone Cute Pics revealed

Check out the new cute pics of Google Phone - Gphone

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Interview with the BBC’s Future Media Director

Interesting interview with the BBC's Future Media Creative Director about mobile usability.

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Use Hulu, Pandora, or the BBC iPlayer from any country

Awesome.

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3 Products That Will Change 2008

There are 3 products that will change 2008 for the web. Two are mobile products and the other is a online graphic tool for artists. The three are: Flixwagon, Aviary and GoMobo. You will use these apps in 2008.

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What makes Web shoppers click

Perhaps, the customer became frustrated with the typing in their shipping information. Maybe the person got cold feet just as it came time to type in a credit card number. Maybe the customer was never able to find the right product in a vast catalog of products.

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DECE - Lipstick on the DRM pig

Over the past few hours there’s been a lot of chatter about the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) consortium that everyone is a member of, except Apple. Is DECE a genuine move to make digital content easier to handle for the end user or is it just a feeble attempt to claw back some market share from Apple?

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15 Ways They Could Get People to Actually Watch TV Again

Our generation spends more time on the internet and gaming then they do just about everything else. Hell, you're probably on the internet right now. As a result, ratings are down all over, so the question is, what would the networks have to do to get us to watch again? Some ideas, courtesy of the generation they're losing.

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Why cable operators want to become wireless ISPs

Comcast talks up its investment in Clearwire, a WiMAX-based ISP. Cable operators like Comcast and Time Warner have been battling wireline telcos for years, but wireless offerings will allow them to turn their attention to an emerging threat to their entire business: wireless phone companies.

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Google - The future of search

The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the 10 years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of

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Live: Twenty Questions For The Venture Capitalists At TechCr

Erick Schonfeld and Mark Pincus just took the stage at TechCrunch50 to ask twenty (or so) questions to top venture capitalists, most of which were submitted by readers.

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Leadership and Management of Distributed Collaboration

This isn't just about motivating distributed teams. Distributed teams have higher coordination costs without a clear direction. This is similar to Eugene Kim's point that "there is no such thing as collaboration without a goal."

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How Search Will Revolutionize Social Networking

Social networking is on fire. eMarketer predicts that in the US the category will reach 44.3% of Internet users by year's end.

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40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box [PICS]

Over the last months we have seen a strong trend towards more individual web designs. These designs use realistic motifs from our regular life. In the showcase below we present 40 creative out-of-the-box layouts which break the boring structure of typical 2- and 3-columned, boxed layouts.

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The Golden Age of Streaming

The shift seems to be from ultimate quality to ultimate utility, to fit the data into the time available to consume it. Streaming content is far more efficient than downloading, since you don’t need to cache all the material you don’t get around to seeing.

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The DVD Download Business, Part 1 to part 8

Mark Fritz | In Part 1 of a 4-part series on DVD downloads and their impact on the optical media market and distribution of entertainment content, we'll look at some of the major DVD and digital movie download vendors and how the market is initially shaping up.

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iPhone: Trouble in the App Store

It’s been a confusing week for both sellers and buyers at the App Store — the venue for third party software that is the best thing to happen to the iPhone (except maybe the price cuts) since it arrived more than a year ago.

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How To Demo Your Startup

After doing 2,500 minutes of demos (40 hours) this year and many more last year for the conference, a lot about what makes for a great demo and what makes for a horrible demo. Since demoing your idea is a key to your success as an entrepreneur

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10 Tips: Cell Phones & Limiting Radiation Exposure

here is a new warning about the health dangers of cell phone use. The director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers has issued the new advisory.

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Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

he announcement this week that Google released a beta version of a robust cloud computing platform called Google App Engine that lets anyone build apps on Google's renowned and highly scalable infrastructure underscored

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GitHub... the next Sourceforge?

"In other words, what makes GitHub special is the social aspects. With so many high profile projects already on board, it's easy to imagine GitHub could be the next SourceForge."

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Drupal - Best CMS I have ever seen

Drupal is an open source Content Management System (CMS). Few weeks ago I discovered Drupal and have started loving it. Lots of grate sites have developed using Drupal. One of them is Ubuntu.com. It is also used by new Sun HPC portal. Watch the following interview of Scott Mattoon, Chief Architect, US Western Region, Sun Microsystem, INC.

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Nokia Tube to take on Apple's iPhone

The colourful, multi-functional Apple iPhone has proven itself as an instant hit in the high-end phone market all over the world thereby challenging other mobile handset makers like Nokia to come up with such products. Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacture has announced to launch a new iPhone like product named ‘Nokia 5800 Tube’...

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Adobe Releases Media Player 1.0, Launches Adobe TV

Today, Adobe is releasing the 1.0 version of its Media Player (AMP) software to the public. The player, which is an offline Flash video manager comparable to the Veoh player, was first released as a beta on the Adobe Labs site last September. AMP runs on Adobe's cross browser Adobe Integrate Runtime (AIR).

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Slax - your pocket operating system

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

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Free Unlimited File Hosting

FileAdded is a free large file sharing service. Store your file on our fast dedicated server. When another service give you limited download limit, FileAdded gives you unlimited download limit.

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Justin.tv is hiring Python Hackers

The site is growing every week, and just signed a contract for a 2gbps in the colo.

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IBM and Linden Lab to create enterprise-safe virtual worlds

IBM is announcing a partnership with Second Life producer Linden Lab today to create an enterprise-class version of Second Life behind a corporate firewall.

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Facebook Launches Translations for Everybody

Want to help Facebook translate their site into over 20 languages? Now you can! While it’s not in every language (still missing Hebrew and perhaps a few others), the applications is now available to the general public. Previously the application was invite only. Some have suggested that this mean an imminent launch in multiple other languages.

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Mollom: new FREE anti-spam filter for websites.

Latest from Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. Features include spam filtering, detailed statistics, image and audio CAPTCHA challenges, high-availability infrastructure. Drupal integration provided, API available for other applications.

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File Qube - Free online storage

Great service to store and share files online. 150Mb file size limit, members can upload files up to 500Mb. File Qube powered with ajax multi-file uploader, web-based file manager, sharing widgets and more. It's really simple to use, runs as smooth as a desktop application and looks really cool! Ah, and it almost ads-free ;)

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Don't Fear Failure, Learn from it

Whether your own mistakes or those of others, there's lots to learn. Unless you are extraordinarily lucky, you will experience failure just as I have. Treat it as an education rather than a disaster and you'll be that much stronger for it.

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Picking a Platform: 5 Issues to Consider

presenting 5 dynamics that you should consider when picking a platform.

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Chris Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project

The project would also be committed to best practice in DataPortability with OpenID, OAuth and even support for OpenSocial: The bottom line is freedom and flexibility - the freedom to choose, the freedom to grow, the freedom to leave (and take your profile data with you, or easily transfer it to another system). The flexibility to add features

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Create PHP Based AJAX Web Applications With Ease - Symfony F

Symfony is a free web PHP frameworkIt is very powerful tool to create web2.0 applications filled with rich AJAX effects.

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Nokia Nseries PC Suite graduates from Beta Labs | IntoMobile

"(...) The 300+ MB heavy suite is actually a collection of applications (Nokia Lifeblog, Content Copier, Nokia Application Installer, Nokia Multimedia Player, Nokia Music Manager, One Touch Access, PC Sync, Nokia Photos, Nokia Map Loader) that "seamlessly link your Nokia Nseries multimedia device and your PC."

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See The World's Lightest Cell Phone

The Guinness World Records named the Modu phone as the lightest cell phone in the world. At just 1.5 ounces and 2.8 by 1.4 by 0.3 inches, the Modu is a full ounce lighter than the already miniature Pantech C300. Without a doubt, it's the tiniest cell phone I've seen outside of Zoolander.

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HP UMPC 2133 specs revealed - april 7 launch ?

here is what hp throws in the umpc market .

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The 25 Most Valuable Blogs

25 most valuable blogs according to 24/7 Wall Street.

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Nokia’s Very Own iPhone: N98 Concept

This great concept starts with denial from Nokia, as it seems we’re not going to see this phone getting released. Too bad that N98 has to remain a Photoshop image, since we’ve yet to see a decent touchscreen rival branded Nokia for that over-hyped iPhone. The list of specs of this N Series swan song goes something like...- 7.2 MP ca

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Samsung Anycall Haptic Phone. IPhone better watch your back!

Samsung's latest introduction, the SCH-W420/W4200 is a slender, iPhone-like handset with a 3.2" touchscreen, a lively user interface, and the kind of force feedback that the LG Prada phone could only dream of.

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Top 10 MP3 Players (Flash-Based)

These are the top flash-based MP3 players today, but ratings and rankings can change quickly due to pricing and technology changes, so check back frequently for the latest info.

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Biggest Unix Cheat Sheet

A collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users.

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Techmeme: Amazing Tech News Aggregator Without the Blog Spam

Quick load time? Check. No blog spam? Check. Good RSS feed? You better believe it. Really great supplement to Digg's front page for ther latest tech news and information.

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What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 -

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions.

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Aptana: open source IDE for iPhone

In an AjaxWorld Conference this week, Aptana had one of the more impressive presentations on how easy it is to develop Ajax applications for the iPhone.They presented open source Aptana Studio IDE. It is a full Ajax development environment and it is available as a stand-alone as well as an Eclipse plug-in.

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Kiss Microsoft Project Goodbye!

If you use Microsoft Project, you might want to seriously consider three alternatives that run completely on the Web. In addition to supporting more contemporary features right now, and getting updated with even newer gadgets more frequently than Microsoft can muster, these products, being completely Web-based, offer much more robust collaboration

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Wacky Apple patent application shows dual-screen 'iPhone 2.0

ok i have said my next phone should be a candy bar sized phone, that will open up from the side not the top. also needs nipples for the keyboard when it shows on the screen.

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iPhone crushing LG LH2300 announced with 800x480 resolution

LG loves to bring drama to the mobile arena. When it comes to iPhone competition you can now add the LG LH2300: 3 inch 800×480 touchscreen, 3G enabled device to the list. The LG LH2300 packs more resolution than the iPhone as well as 3G connectivity, T-DMB mobile TV receiver, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD and a sleek design. To ma

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All New Tech Support Forum Uses Videos To Fix Your PC

A brand new tech support forum actually helps you by making custom videos for free to help you solve problems with your computer and computing related needs. Great site that hopes to help many certainly worth checking out. Having fixed many issues with computers via the standard forum I found having a support video to show me is so much better.

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New IBM Software Brings Web 2.0 to Mobile Phones

IBM announced that the Lotus Expeditor software platform is extending desktop computing and Web 2.0 capabilities to mobile phones.

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Nokia 3555

The launch of this phone was delayed due to U.S gov . T-mobile officially announced that the infrastructure of it’s 3G network is ready and will be online until Q2 of this year . Nokia 3555 looks like 6555 design and includes a TFT screen of 262K colors , and a second display with 98 x 65 pixels resolution .

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Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload

These days, it seems everyone has an opinion about how to deal with information overload, especially when it comes to email management. There are numerous methodologies, best practices, tips, and tutorials available, but are any of them really effective? We'll explore that question as we delve into the top _ email management methodologies.

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HTC Calls Android Phone "Dream", Feels LIke One Already

More details of HTC's Google phone are emerging, it seems. The handset is to be called "Dream", will be touchscreen and have a large QWERTY keypad. So, what else do we know? And, more importantly, when is it coming out?Well, the HTC handset is around five inches long and 3 inches wide with a keypad that either slides or swivels out to make

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9 MySpace Apps Worth A Look

MySpace has launched their initial platform applications, and we’ve picked out nine of the initial crop to give you a sampling of what they’re bringing to you. So, prepare for the onslaught! By the way, if you thought MySpace pages were already crowded enough with various things, it’s about to get a whole lot worse!

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Komodo Edit: An Open-source Scripting Environment

ActiveState announced the release of Komodo Edit 4.3 last week, the first version of the cross-platform programming tool to be distributed as open source. Komodo Edit is now tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL, just like Firefox.

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The Psychology of Human Misjudgment

A pretty interesting article........

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Web 3.0 Demo The Future WebTech will bring Cross-Linking

This is a sample. Push buttons on the right to see what we can do with our technology.How works Cross-Linking right now @Web2.0?

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YouTube Seeing AdSales Stymied-Marketers' Attribution Fears?

YouTube, the largest video haven on the Web, is oft described as a potential gold mind - both for its owner, Google, and for the advertisers that tout products and services beside (or, now in some cases, inside) the playback window.

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ProBlogger.net Top? Create a Video Tutorial and Help Others

Video tutorials can be created simply with screen recorder software. This will only record your screen and your voice.By the way:What do U think about ProBlogger.net?

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24 Great Niche Web Design Galleries

CSS galleries can be a great source of inspiration, but if you’re looking for something in particular they can be a bit of a nightmare. Since niche galleries have a tighter focus it allows them to be more detailed. Below you’ll find a list of niche galleries, that focus on things from color schemes, to layout, and specific content types.

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24 Hours in the Life of IT Professionals

5:30 AM: Dragged to consciousness by alarm clock. Pulled out of wonderful dream where Vista desktop upgrade went without a hitch. 3:30 PM: VP of Sales stops in office to show off new iPhone. Wants IT to support it.

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Eclipse to stress component, runtime efforts

The efforts will be featured at the EclipseCon 2008 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Conference highlights also include a presentation by an executive from Eclipse holdout Microsoft on Wednesday

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How the Mayan Calendar Works

For the people of ancient Maya, calendars were just as important to daily life as they are to people today. In this article, you'll see how the Mayan calendar came to be and the meaning behind each type of calendar the Mayans created.

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3 Powerful Offshoring Tips

Tips for creating and managing offshore programming teams.

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Best Tools for Mobile PC Users: Hotspot Hot Stuff

Uber-mobile bedouins rely on Wi-Fi to get their work done. Here, we share a comprehensive list of their favorite tools--from software to laptops and accessories--for working from public hotspots.

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Nokia N810

The countdown for CTIA started , after CES , CeBIT and Mobile World Congress, very important events of this year , now we have CTIA 2008. Looks like Nokia will launch a new phone called N810 .It might be just a rumour , but we will know for sure on 1 april , when CTIA starts. N810 will have WiMAX support , a very powerful CPU ...

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Must Know Shortcut Keys for Designers

A must know list of very handy shortcut keys for any blogger or designer that is serious about time…You must learn these shortcut keys!

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The Best Tools for Visualization

here are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best:

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Why Apple Will Dominate Next Generation Computing

Last week Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple Town hall meeting and announced the iPhone SDK. This powerful platform that Apple uses to create beautiful applications for MacOS and iPhone is now completely open. The enterprise and SDK solutions will go hand-in-hand to propel the iPhone to be THE handheld device of the future.

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Visualizing tagging behavior in Nicovideo [Nico Nico Douga]

Project Description:In Japan, Nicovideo (Japanese call this service Nico Nico Douga) is a known user generated content service similar to YouTube. Users in Nicovideo create new videos by remixing and adding new features to existing

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Another Touchscreen Phone But Wait, This One Has A Surprise!

Check out this concept mobile phone called the Mooon+. One too many “o’s” in there but I appreciate the clean design. It’s got that big gorgeous touchscreen, sleek design, sexy metal accents, and a digital camera. So what’s the big deal right? The mouth piece detaches and turns into a bluetooth headset.

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Acquia Unveils Roadmap to Commercial drupal

Acquia provided new details on plans to deliver a commercially supported distribution and value-added network services based on the wildly popular Drupal open source social publishing system.

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Google Calendar Sync

Want to use a web-based calendar but can’t because of syncing, or lack thereof? Google Calendar Sync was unveiled tonight allows you to sync your Google Calendar with your Outlook Calendar. The program works both ways and should prove useful for anyone who fancies having their Calendar data available wherever they are.

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20+ Free Web Design Ebooks And Guides

Even though there are plenty of books available in stores on almost all aspects of web design, you don’t need to spend a dime when you can get all the basic information for free. The following list of free web design ebooks and guides will get you started building accessible, usable, and useful web sites in no time.

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What Makes a Great Video Blog?

In case you hadn’t noticed, video is kind of a big deal on the interwebs, now. It may have put the thought in your mind to do a video blog or start adding videos to your current blog.

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Apple TV vs. Vudu vs. Xbox 360: Video Download Battlemodo

If you've been wondering how to compare the video-download options of Apple TV, Vudu and the Xbox 360, I think today is your lucky day.

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10 Tips For Improving Your Appointment Setting Skills

Your appointments may be big group meetings, one-on-ones, or even job interviews. You may even be skipping the face-to-face aspect of meeting and be taking conference calls or using Skype. No matter what type of meeting you’ve scheduled, though, these tips can help you improve your appointment setting skills.

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Top 15 Concept Cell-Phones

Concept Phones are great, as they give you an idea about what designers can do when they don't have to be concerned about the mundane stuff. Here's a list of Top Ten concept phones that might or might not meet Realism.

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Text To Speech News and Blogs

No time to read the day’s news on your homepage before hopping in the car and rushing off to work? Check out what Pimp My News, a new text-to-speech service which converts your favorite news and blog sites into audio

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artists need only 1,000 True Fans to make a living

The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches. — But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators

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Microsoft's Silverlight goes mobile with Nokia

Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft’s Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant’s rich media development framework.

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Google launches Google MOBILE Gears

Google is bringing offline apps to mobile phones - and this has nothing to do with Android.Google Gears, which allows developers to create apps that run on Firefox and Internet Explorer when offline, is supposed to launch later today under the name Mobile Gears.

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Microsoft new device manager software

Trying to keep up with RIM, MS is showing off their not yet released System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008. needs WM 6.1

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Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC

If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting?

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Kevin Rose Can’t Keep Up With E-mail

He can’t keep up with it all, and wanted to come up with a way to stop offending people who he never gets back to by sharing some of his e-mail data with them.

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Microsoft's Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails

"Today, if you e-mail things around, it's very typical for the information to go far and wide," Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in a 2003 address to a conference in Seattle. "The next thing you know, it's in the newspaper."

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Platform-as-a-service provider Rollbase launched today

Marketing its offerings as web-based software geared toward small- and medium-sized businesses. While the PaaS terminology conjures up images of Rollbase competing with something

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Trying to build the next BIG Web 2.0 Co.? Read this first!

An excellent post about what to do when all you have is an idea and no means to implement it yourself. You need more than just great web developers to make execution a success!

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Video Sharing Site CrunchyRoll Crunches Into $4.05 Million

CrunchyRoll recently removed all ads on the site and the blog post is worth reading. They are currently generating revenue from donations with badges for users who provide a donation

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11 Useful Email Addresses

"0. www@web2mail.com - Send an email with the URL of the web page in the Subject field (e.g. www.cnn.com) and you’ll soon find a copy of that web page in your Inbox. A perfect option when there’s no [WWW] Internet access in the area or access is restricted (for instance, you want to read the BBC homepage in China)."

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Nokia Shows Off Nanotech Mobile Phone Concept

Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the UK's University of Cambridge - has been put on show at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

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Hollywood and the internet - There will be blood

Hollywood is doing its best to ignore the internet. That is a big mistake. The internet may look unfamiliar and dangerous, but it could be the ultimate home-entertainment weapon. No trip to a thinly stocked retailer, no late fees, no waiting for a package in the post.

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12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them

There are loads of different types of clients out there and chances are at some point you’ll get to meet all of them. So let’s take a look through some typical clients and see if you recognise a few of your own in there! And the contractors

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8 steps to life change and success

Those who admire successful individuals and desire to achieve their own success want to know the steps they must take. There is no set path to success, it varies depending upon the person and the situations they face. However, these are 8 steps that you can walk to achieve a change in your life.

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Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them. Some technique is missing? L

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Buying The DVD: Unhelpful And Unethical

These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment ‘our way’: de-loused, delivered efficiently in economical, good-looking codecs. Because we rarely turn it on, it’s been easy to forget just how cynical, unsatisfying and downright venal television, as a distribution medium, has become.

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Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Many of the most successful web 2.0 companies understand this intuitively and it is reflected in their product management. Although they all have a general vision for their product, it does not spring full formed from their minds.

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51 Power User Ways to Reinvent the Windows Wheel

Forget what you think you know about Windows! Whether you use XP or Vista, these 51 tips and tweaks will give you a whole new OS

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12 Power Networking Questions

If you want to supercharge your in person networking skills, then these twelve questions are the foundational keys and the tools you will need to expand your network rapidly.

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Pen Style Personal Computer

You might’ve got one of these “hard-to-believe” emails and wondered if this is true or is this a myth. Take a look at those Pen Style Personal Computer pictures.

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How To Manage Feature Creep: 8 Simple Tips

Feature creep (also known as scope or requirement creep) is the term used for additional requirements that get tacked on outside of the original project scope. Here's some essential ways to help you manage feature creep on your own projects.

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doubleTwist makes DRM-stripping, sharing easy as pie

doubleTwist is a new venture cofounded by DVD Jon, the hacker who made a name for himself by cracking a number of prevalent DRM schemes. Except this time, he wants to help out average Joes and Janes free themselves from the complicated world of DRM by making it as easy as drag-and-drop.

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A Futuristic Mobile Device Mockup ... Pretty Cool [PICS]

The idea behind this concept is exploit the internet ability in a mobile device. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search all in one slim device.

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BBC's iPlayer nukes "all you can eat" ISP business model

The UK’s largest broadcaster finally launched its online video streaming and download service on Christmas Day. Plusnet - an ISP - has provided a preliminary analysis of the traffic and the results should send shivers down the spine of any ISP currently offering an unlimited “all-you-eat” service.

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10 Apps To Have For Your Symbian S60 Phone

I have 5.. now to down load the other 5

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The Analog Cell Phone Timeline (PIC)

As of today, the analog cellphone is no more. Here's the complete timeline of its development, since Greece in 490BC to February 18, 2008, the day in which networks are no longer obligated to provide with analog cellphone coverage.

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Mysteries Of Computer From 65BC Are Solved

The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck and recovered statues and other artifacts from the site.

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Watch DVDs on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc. with HandBrake

So you just bought an iPod touch or iPhone and want to stock it with movies from your DVD library. There are countless commercial utilities that promise to rip DVDs, but I recommend trying HandBrake. This open-source (read: free) utility for Windows (download), Mac (download), and Linux converts your DVDs for viewing on iPods, iPhones, Sony PSPs

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Windows Live Hotmail program manager's e-mail hacked

Windows Live Hotmail's Lead Program Manager had his e-mail account hacked... repeatedly. Welcome to the dark and rainy side of cloud computing.

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Intel and Nokia working on seamless WiFi / WiMAX

Along with Nokia, Intel is developing a technology with which a person could continue listening to Internet radio or watching online video without a disruption in service.

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Modu LEGO-Like Cellphone System Video Hands-On

Modu is a very small cellphone that carries your personal data everywhere and you can plug into "jackets", which are specialized hardware modules that transform it into all kinds of things, like multimedia players, a full-fledge PDA with full QWERTY keyboard, gaming handhelds, GPS and whatever you want. Seeing the concept work is quite cool.

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samsung mini projector goes mobile in March

Samsung returns with a hot little accessory. The MBP-100 mini projector casts a 20-inch display from cellphones or presumably appropriately jacked portable media players of all kinds. No details at the moment but it's expected to hit S.Korea in March and hopefully go global soon thereafter.

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Really, We Don't Want to Join Your Social Network

Dude explains why incorporating social networking functionality into an existing business' website isn't that great an idea.

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Microsoft Buys Mobile Developer Danger

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy cell-phone software developer Danger Inc., bolstering the company's stake in the growing market for mobile device applications.

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Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 iPhone killing QWERTY

It's here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. SE's new XPERIA brand will focus on multimedia and mobile web communication. The X1 then, brings a 3-inch wide VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera (with photo light), A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, and quad-band GSM/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUPA... I want one

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LG Phones First to Support the DivX Video Format

LG Electronics and video compression provider, DivX have announced that the LG Viewty camera phone (LG-KU990) is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX format.

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Alltop Has All the Tops Stories, and Egos, Covered

Introducing Guy Kawasaki's latest startup, Alltop.

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U.S. Internet Users Viewed 10 Billion Videos Online in Dec

Wow...the numbers seem unbelievable!!!

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EQO Mobile

A New EQO Mobile IM client for your phone, no skype support though. Java based.

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Turn Your S60 Phone Into A Hot Spot

JoikuSpot, a new piece of software for the Symbian S60 smartphones, might be the best thing that’s ever happened to web workers, though it is likely to raise the ire of mobile operators.

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Nokia Audiobook software beta for S60 available

Here's a nice little freebie if you're a fan of audiobooks and have a Symbian S60 device: Nokia has a beta Audiobook application ready and waiting for you to download.

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Open Handset Group announces Linux based mobile phone

The open handset consortium, the LiMo Foundation has announced the on-schedule availability in March 2008 of the first release of the LiMo Platform - a Linux-based software platform for mobile handsets-together with the immediate public availability of the application programming interface (API) specifications.

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8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

"An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design..."

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4 Tools to Backup your Mobile Phone

Some services to backup your mobile phone [contacts list, calendar entries, text messages, browser bookmarks, phone settings, notes etc]

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101 Design Patterns & Tips for Developers

An excellent collection of useful tips on design patterns, refactoring and other programming tricks

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Nano (this is really cool)

I have no idea how to explain this...almost like an interactive timeline thing.....it's pretty neat....

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50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it's missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and more. Take advantage of these tools by asserting your company's presence online ...

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World's First Phone With Fold-Away Screen

New phone is the size of two business cards. This gadget is no bigger than other mobile phones by making a screen that folds up when not in use. The 5-inch display of Polymer Vision's "Readius" is the first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the that the device can fit into a pocket.

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Twitter Opens Their Messaging Platform

In the first post on the new Twitter Technology Blog, Alex Payne announced that Twitter is releasing their underlying messaging platform, which they call, “Starling”, to the community.

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Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

This article provides hand-picked professional Flash tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Most sources can serve as the entry point for further tutorials.

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Digg-like navigation bar using CSS

This tutorial explains how to design a digg-like navigation bar using a liquid design with rounded corners for links.

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IBM to launch Lotus Notes for iPhone & iPod touch

E-mail software from IBM will be made available on Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices under a new partnership that brings together two big rivals of Microsoft.

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Sink or Swim? The Top Moving Sites Of 2007

With 2008 now more than two weeks old, it’s a great time to look back at last year and see how the web has changed. What sites experienced a surge of traffic in 2007? Has anyone fallen off the map? We compared the top 1000 sites in December 2007 with those in December of the previous year to find out.

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Sign Of The Times: Web 2.0 Outsourcing Humor

Something that you don’t often see a lot written about in new media is the strong trend by startups to outsource a lot of their work. Digg for example was originally designed by Kevin Rose outsourcing the job on elance... "doubtsourcing" is a webcomic exploring the lighter side of "Outsourcing 2.0"

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Ultra-mobile future beckons for PCs

The desktop PC's days of dominance could be numbered as laptops and ultra-mobile PCs begin to reap the benefit of ever greater, and more efficient, computing power."Soon you will be able to have a connected experience everywhere you go," said Mr Moore.

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New sun-spot activity threatens mobile phone networks

A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even mobile phones, showed signs it was on its way late Thursday when the cycle's first sunspot appeared in the sun's Northern Hemisphere.

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Building a .com in 24 hours

This is about how I spend 24 concentrated hours spread out over 4 days during Holidays to build the online service Wigitize.com. What I tried to do for this project is use some new methods/tools out there to solve practical problems in my weakness area: design, frontend coding, system administration and SEO.

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Ten Common Objections to Social Media and to Respond

here is a list of the Top 10 Objections to New Online Tools and What You Can Say in Response. surveyed nearly 1300 friends on Twitter and got all kinds of thoughtful replies. Below is that list;

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SlingPlayer 2.0, SlingModem, and SlingCatcher details

The makers of the Slingbox are updating their software making it easier to flip channels and record clips. They've also announced the SlingModem, a cable modem with SlingPlayer features built right in. And the SlingCatcher which lets you stream internet video to a PC gets an updated release date.
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Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked--Multi-touch, Motion Gesture

This isn't Windows Mobile 6.1—which we've seen leaks of recently—but the next full version of Windows Mobile that fixes a bunch of problems we've seen with the platform. The huge changes are multi-touch gestures (including flicking, swiping and drawing on the screen), motion gestures (shaking the phone), Windows Vista-like redesign.

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Pointui Skins Windows Mobile phones, fixes the OS

Pointui, the app that sits on top of Windows Mobile 5/6 in order to skin it into something actually usable. It's so awesome that I actually made a movie out of it, including Jesus-style subtitles, so that you guys can see just how awesome it is. (Have I said that it's awesome?)

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5 Make it or Break it Characteristics of Web Designers 2008

The Independent Web Designer in 2008 | 5 Make It or Break It Characteristics2007 is almost over. Time to start thinking about the future.

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Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites 2007

Our 2007 picks are the best examples of what's new and exciting about the Web right now. Here we honor sites with exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience.

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Remote Desktop for Mobiles

Access your PC from your phone remotely. You can copy, cut, paste files or folders, send, receive e-mails, surf web and a lot of other things. Just download RDM+ to your PC

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New Digg Like Site for Designers

Check out this Digg like site for graphic designers, web designers, multimedia designers, interior designers, etc.

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Most Popular Content on Social News Sites

Ever wonder what kind of content is most popular on the various social news sites? Well wonder no more… We analysed over 500 front-page stories for Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us to try and determine what type of content is generally popular on each site.

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The Year of the New Mobile Operating System

The entrance of two new operating systems from well-known brands shakes up the plans of some mobile operators and indicates some fundamental changes in the mobile industry.

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