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The Way of The Warrior Geek: Protecting Yourself
If you commute to work in anything other than a tank, you know it's a dangerous world out there. Time to protect yourself and your gadgets.
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Chatroulette founder: All Your Chats Are Belong To Me watch!
Given the general Silicon Valley obsession with openness and the decentralisation of the social graph, Andrey’s plan to ...
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Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Team Up Against Facebook Connect
A consortium of companies including Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Meebo and more announced tonight that it will launch a new system on Monday that will let website owners discover which social networks a site visitor uses and prompt them automatically to log-in and share with friends on those network. The system is called XAuth .
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Google Turns to HTML5 for Gmail’s New Drag& Drop Attachments
Google continues to use HTML5 to push its web apps into the future. The latest bit of HTML5 to feel Google’s love is drag-and-drop support, which is now a standard part of Gmail. If you’re using Google Chrome 4 or Firefox 3.6, you can now simply drag a file from your desktop onto a message window and Gmail will automatically attach the file.
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Is YouTube’s Safety Mode Safe? Not Very.
YouTube's Safety Mode filter, which is intended to filter out violence and other material inappropriate for children, has been available since February. How well does it work?
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Apple: An Evil Empire in the Making?
Is Apple CEO Steve Jobs secretly the Dark Lord of the Sith in a black turtleneck?
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Google Boosts Open Video by Funding ARM Theora Codec
Google has providing funding to the TheorARM project, an open source Theora decoder that is optimized for the ARM architecture. In an about-face, the company now wants Theora to be the Web's baseline video codec...
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I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing
News Corp boss hails iPad as potential saviour of newspapers, but says industry must stand up for itself and charge for content.
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Yelp Changes Advertising Policies in Response to Lawsuit
Yelp says businesses will no longer be allowed to choose which reviews appear first in their listings. Also, the site will begin including separate links to show any reviews that are removed.
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IT Salary Survey 2010 Results
Trapped between flat salaries and ever-increasing workloads, IT professionals are about to explode, according to a survey of nearly 5,000 IT workers. IT staffers are being hit with a double-whammy -- more work and flat pay. Not surprisingly, job satisfaction for some is falling.
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