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My first thought when seeing this story was that we already have this in most computers. You can have your PC shut itself down whenever you want if it isn’t being used in Windows at least. Have it hibernate, shut down, go to standby, whatever. In fact, I’m still trying to figure out how exactly [...]

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Straight out of 50’s sci-fi futures we have a man that is warning about the application of future robots. British robotics expert Professor Noel Sharkey, of the University of Sheffield, has called for international guidelines to be set for the ethical and safe application of robots before it is too late. Oh no!
Starkey believes that [...]

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Bear with me as I am always thinking about marketing in some way or another, but it occurred to me that the release of Home for the owner of the Playstaion 3 might be a place where you could do a bit of marketing.
Just looking at the idea initially is that “Home” is a [...]

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Not sure how many people ever went out and got Vista, but I know I still run XP on all of my computers. IT isn’t like this is a new thing anyways. Almost every new release of Windows has had enough problems that waiting an extra year or 2 to get the newer version has [...]

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It has been a long time since I had thought about search engines using a reward system for using their search engine to find information. Google has virtually taken over the web’s search throne, while Microsoft and Yahoo! are just trying to catch up, or get bought out by one or the other.
Frankly, I [...]

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Someone has been working there sales jobs pretty well lately. Even the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency are testing a social-networking site designed for use by analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. Interesting concept. At least how they are talking about it being a Facebook for spies and all. Of course none of [...]

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With the coming of Google Chrome, one has to ask….Do you really want a new browser? Isn’t Firefox virtually perfect for most people in every way? If it isn’t perfect, then isn’t Opera nice. Keep in mind…I don’t give a crap about Apple browsers. You can give your own shout outs to your Lion King [...]

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If you spend your days jerking off to stories about Apple and Google, then this one is a good one for you. Microsoft was finally outdone in their attempt to acquire Yahoo! search and advertising assets. The agreement between Yahoo! and Google will basically give 90% of the search advertising market to Google.
When it [...]

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We have seen computers reach astounding speeds, and you can’t even keep up with how quickly they actually do speed up. Things are quite different from the first Windows 3.1 computer I had, or even looking back to the days as a child when i had the Vic 20, Commodore 64 and 128. Today we [...]

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We were looking for a relatively inexpensive option to access data at home from our combined work office and decided to do a bit of browsing around the online stores to see just what would work for us recently. We didn’t really want to pay a monthly fee of any sort like the remote office [...]

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