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When a guy watches TV and has to ask the person sitting next to them “what the hell is the difference between 3G and 4g? Better yet, what the hell is the “G”?” you know you are getting old. Well maybe you ren’t, but it does show that even people who spend a lto of [...]

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A month or so ago Limewire got shut down for some legal reason. In May, a judge granted summary judgment in favor of the music industry’s claims that Lime Group, parent of LimeWire software maker Lime Wire, committed copyright infringement, engaged in unfair competition, and induced copyright infringement. In October a judge issued an injunction [...]

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IF you use Facebook and Twitter (Twitter is the dumbest thing ever invented) you know that you can post your TWEETS to your Facebook page, but you can’t post your Facebook status on Twitter. Facebook also allows you to populate your contacts from your G-Mail contacts, but not the other way around. So…what is going [...]

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Apparently, it was in Beta for the last month, and the privilage to use the Beta? Paying an extra $2 a month. Hulu Plus officially announced as open is now being dropped to $7.99 per month instead of the $9.99 a month all the suckers paid last month. New users will get 1 week free [...]

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Something that I have never really given any thought to before was the relationship between the amount of search queries and stock prices. A study was performed based on historical search volumes from Google since back to 2004 and it was shown that the amount of search volume and trading volume of stocks are linked [...]

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Over the years we have probably all switched browsers several times to find the one we like best. Well most of us that spend any amount of time using the internet that is. There are still a vast majority sticking with the one they got when they bought their PC. Internet Explorer. Personally, I have [...]

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IF there was ever a company that you didn’t think made much sense to start making a phone it was probably Facebook. Sure companies like Google have certainly ventured into this arena, but social networking companies are now looking into it? TechCrunch published a story saying “Facebook is building a mobile phone…or rather, they’re building [...]

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Two weeks after 17 state attorneys general sent a joint letter to Craigslist demanding it remove its adult services section over concerns that the company could not completely block illegal ads, Craigslist replaced the section link with a black-and-white “censored” bar Saturday. What were the “adult services” on Craigslist anyways? Selling a mattress? I have [...]

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Is this the future of data storage? Researchers at Ohio State University have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data. According to researchers, this alternative to traditional microelectronics, so-called “spintronics” could store more data in less space, process data faster, and consume less power. [...]

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This may sound like a good thing for someone. I guess it may be for the person that originally got fine $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing THIRTY songs. Judge Nancy Gertner on Friday cut the damage award to $67,500 — three times the statutory minimum — and said the new amount “not only adequately [...]

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