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Taking pee out of a swimming pool
Joe Rogan’s character on Newsradio stated it well: Dude, you can’t take something off the Internet… that’s like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool. A high-profile case has again proven that point. In February 2007 the AACS processing key was…
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MySpace takes on Google News and Digg
MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure. This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape, which rely on readers to submit…
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eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon
High-flying startup StumbleUpon has been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since at least last November. Recently we’ve heard that talks have heated up again, with Google, AOL and eBay as potential suitors. A source with knowledge of the deal now says the company has…
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Izimi: Internet Publishing for the Masses, Not Workers
There are all sorts of tools for sharing files without having to choke your email server or upload them to your own web host account. Pando supports emailing huge attachments by using a special version of BitTorrent to serve up the file in p2p fashion. Box.net, Xdrive, and…
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Pipe Dreams: Who Will Unclog the Information Superhighway?
Those amusing YouTube Latest News about YouTube video clips that Internet Free How-To Guide for Small Business Web Strategies – from domain name selection to site promotion. users send to friends gobble up large chunks of bandwidth and may cause the net to crash, some…
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Google to Sell Online Software Suite
Google Inc. will begin selling corporate America an online suite of software that includes e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and calendar management, escalating the Internet search leader’s invasion on technological turf traditionally dominated by Microsoft and IBM.…
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Microsoft Hits 100 Million IE7 Installs
Microsoft announced Friday it has hit the 100 million installation milestone for Internet Explorer 7, a figure that makes the new browser the second most used behind IE6. Web analytics firm WebSideStory reports that 25 percent of all Web surfers in the United States are now…
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Netflix offers instant access
Netflix 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. The company plans to unveil its Watch Now feature Tuesday. But only a…
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First HD-DVD Movie Leaked Onto BitTorrent
The HD-DVD has been cracked, and high definition content is now being distributed freely over BitTorrent. We all knew this would happen sooner or later, looks it was “sooner”. The first HD-DVD to be uploaded to BitTorrent is Serenity, the Firefly movie. It hasn’t even been a…
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Microsoft Offers Online Trial of Windows Vista OS
Microsoft Virtual Labs launched a new Test Drive site to help give exposure to the Windows Vista operating system. The test drive site allows anyone to launch and try out various scenarios in a completely isolated, sandbox environment before they purchase and install the…