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Facebook's Zuckerberg On Privacy, Profit of Social NetworkHartford Courant, United StatesBy Stan Simpson on February 27, 2009 9:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) I'm a newbie to Facebook, the internet social network that is all the rage, so I found this Matt Lauer interview with founder Mark Zuckerberg on the Today Show this [...]
It’s been quite some time since we’ve heard a good word from the folks at Gemei, but clearly, there was no resolution made upon the Chinese New Year that they’d stick to originality and stop ripping ideas from other PMP mainstays. Oh sure, the HD-660 isn’t exactly like anything else we’ve seen, but we’d wager [...]
While the Big 3 seem to be visiting Washington on an all-too-regular basis trying to secure funding for future success, $25 billion in loans set aside to promote electric car usage in America has been sitting untouched for nearly two years. As the story goes, the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan program was established in [...]
You’re already buying TVs, washing machines, cheap keyboards and cell phones at Best Buy, why not a $12,000 electric motorcycle? That seems to be the thinking going on at Brammo HQ, where an infusion of cash from Best Buy’s investment arm last year has now led to plans to sell the $11,995 Enertia at five [...]
Seems all’s not rosy in North American XpressMusic 5800-land, as tipsters and forums are buzzing with reports that the newly launched touchscreen isn’t connecting to 3G. We did a little spelunking on the newly launched set ourselves, and we can confirm that 3G appears to be a complete no-go — GSM works fine, but apart [...]
Web 2.0 Series: Web WiseRedmond Channel Partner, CAWatch for future features on topics such as Web 2.0 tools, effective e-mail newsletters and Redmond's latest marketing resources. — Ed.] In its first three years as a software provider for professional training and continuing-education companies, …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:The New York Times Expected To Launch Local Blog Network On Monday (Confirmed) — If this post on a local blog about Brooklyn has it right, the NY Times will be debuting a neighborhood blog project next week on Monday. Here’s the gist: … Still according to the blog …
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MSI’s Wind U120 has only been available for a little over a month, and already received a minor update of its own, but it looks like the company is already planning on adding a few more digits to the Wind line, with its upgraded Wind U123 apparently on track for a release April. While much [...]
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:Microsoft App-V Support for the Windows 7 Beta — Our MDOP customers have told us that they want to see Windows 7 Support for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) so that they can move ahead with their application testing for enterprise deployments of Windows 7 early on. We heard you [...]
The PaaS Era, Part 2: Who's In It All the Way?E-Commerce TimesOpen development platforms and their offspring — mashups — are behind the significant changes in CRM functionality that have been introduced over the last year or so. These are early days for Platform as a Service, though, and each vendor is …
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Aldermen at crossroads of Web 2.0Southwest Observer, ILAnd every other interactive Web tool he could think of. And he won by 121 votes, in a dramatic April 2007 runoff race. In just one day this week, a video produced by his staff in response to accusations from his opponent, Ted Matlak, "Won't be Matlak'd …
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You may scoff at netbooks for their perceived lack of horsepower, but what if that not-quite phenomenal cosmic power was itty-bitty enough to fit in your (necessarily oversized) wallet? Toradex has unveiled the credit card-sized Robin Z510 and Z530 computer modules, which manages to fit quite a bit in fairly small space. The two mainboards [...]
While RIM and Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo still don’t know why their BlackBerry Bold is feeling a little toasty around the keyboard, the duo has ruled out a likely culprit, the battery, as its unwelcome heat source. Word on the street is an estimated 30 people have issued complaints about the mobile device heating up [...]
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Using Facebook to assess the size of social networksScienceBlogsThere are some people who argue that the Internet increases the size of people's social networks by lowering the transaction costs of interacting with people. Facebook — as a dataset — is handy for determining whether this is true. …How Many Friends Can You [...]
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Cellular providers want Nokia to drop Skype from cell phones — Two cell service providers in the UK are supposedly up in arms over Nokia’s inclusion of Skype software on its N97 handset, and are threatening not to carry the device unless the software is ditched.
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