Category: Technology
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If you had to live on a deserted island…
…and could take only one of the following, which would you take? 1.Computer and Internet access 2. Large supply of books 3. TV 4. Radio 5. Cellphone 6. Newspaper subscription And the result according to Yahoo…it should be noted that the researchers even had a difficult time attracting guinea pigs for their Internet-deprivation experimentthey had…
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Microsoft anti-spyware
I downloaded and tested Microsoft’s latest add on for Windows. It’s still in Beta, but is worth a look. For once I’m impressed, it picked up some spyware that Spybot and Adaware SE had both failed to detect. You can get it here.
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Why There's No Escaping the Blog
Fortune magazine has rated blogging as the number one tech trend to watch for in 2005. The article serves as a great overview of the blogging scene. Go read it.
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Amazon donations
Go here, and click refresh every few seconds….amazing.
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Foreign Policy Hacked
Looks like Foreign Policy has been hacked… …in fact its a new worm that uses Google…
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Virtual island sells for $26,500 in cyber assets
This story appeared on Slashdot and New Scientist. If the momey can be exchanged for US dollars, did he really ‘buy’ anything at all? And it seems he could end up making a profit, by selling off assets. That is if the game is successful. And if it’s not he could just convert the money…
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Microsoft halted in phonetic domain crusade
Good news for haters of the Beast of Redmond. Domain arbitrator WIPO, meeting in Spain, has decided that Microsoft is not entitled to the domain “mocosoft.com” despite the fact that some of the same letters appear in both companies’ names. The site hosts a long list of downloadable applications. The decision comes on the back…
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Don't use Google desktop search in your business, warns Gartner
You have been warned.
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Google in Klingon
This one for all the trekkies out there!
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Firefox a liberal browser?
This one from Kevin: Steeph steps forward with the following data based on the usual small sample size beloved of home-brewed bloggish research: *72% of right-leaning blog readers use Internet Explorer compared to only 60% of left-leaning blog readers. *89% of right-leaning blog readers use Windows compared to only 80% of left-leaning blog readers. I…