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Finally getting the street cred that its creators have so long desired, the multi-platform, distributed computing network known as Folding@Home is to be recognized by Guinness World Records. According to the group, the network is now the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world. The system, which utilizes the power of [...]
Chicago drivers have a new way to pay for gasoline: with their fingertips.
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Counting down the hours until the Voyager makes an appearance on Verizon? If so, here’s something sure to tide you over. Apparently, the handset’s datasheet has made its way onto the intarweb, and it’s got just about every detail you could ever want — save for a price and pinpointed release date, of [...]
If you have managed to do any research on auto navigation systems I’m sure you’ve come across countless nifty features that these devices have in common.
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If you’ve ever owned a laptop for more than a couple of years, you’ve probably marveled at how ancient and clunky it looks next to the latest models.
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The Gphone rumors have been heating up lately, and things seems like they’re about to come to a boil. The Wall Street Journal, not generally known for wild rumor-mongering, is reporting that Google is in “advanced talks” with Verizon and Sprint and has made “significant progress” with T-Mobile, with an announcement of some [...]
Her cell phone has a custom ring tone. She frequents the Internet’s most popular social networking sites. She gets jittery when she can’t check her e-mail or post on her blog. She communicates with her family mostly by AOL instant messenger.
And she’s a 50-year-old nun.
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Yesterday Killfile was brought in for discussion on live national TV as a representation of us, the users who make Newsvine. He was of course the obvious choice, as even the most hawkish Conservative would agree, as he brought something more to the Vine.
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WooMe – a website for “speed introductions” that presented at TechCrunch40 but is still in private beta – is giving out one thousand invitations to our readers (redeem yours here).
You would be excused for mistaking WooMe for a speed dating website like SpeedDate.com (covered here). WooMe users are put into one minute-long webcam sessions with [...]
Mobile media company 4INFO has taken funding from the NBC-GE joint venture Peacock Equity and a signed a provider deal with NBC.
4INFO is the sixth Peacock Equity investment since the $250 million fund was established in April.
Under the deal, 4INFO will become NBC Universal?s preferred mobile SMS advertising partner, providing technology and services that will [...]
Mike Krasnow, F5 Networks? Product Marketing Manager, discusses BIG-IP version 9. Krasnow explains the benefits that organizations can expect by upgrading from version 4. In version 9, F5 has taken a quantum leap ahead with both their software architecture and hardware platforms to ensure that applications are not only available, but also [...]
IBM Corp. plans to announce Thursday that it will boost what it spends developing computer security products to $1.5 billion in 2008, reflecting an intensifying focus for the company.
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After sprucing up Ask.com earlier last summer, parent company IAC began spending $100 million this year on marketing to raise awareness of the Ask brand. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been seeing a lot of Ask.com ads on TV lately. (And I pretty much only watch TiVo, yet they are so ubiquitous [...]
A coalition of privacy and consumer advocacy groups are asking government regulators to create a “Do Not Track” list that Americans can use to block online advertisers from silently recording people’s browsing habits. Advertisers use the data to display targeted ads.
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Well, it seems blogging-fatigue and week of cough and cold has taken it’s toll on the blog. And all this while my email box is getting piled up with all the startups that want to be talked about. So here I am covering as many as possible.
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