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The 9600 series is sort of a combination of the Bold and Curve/Javelin series for CDMA, though we don't know a whole lot about it yet.

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It’s crucial for the public opinion on the Semantic Web, to adress the immanent risks regarding privacy and ethics.

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Taking a different approach to Google's Latitude software, Yahoo has released a Facebook application called Friends on Fire that lets people share their location with each other.

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Microsoft has announced 27 more changes to its upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

The software giant, which seems to be increasingly in a rush to shove its next OS out the door, said today it had applied yet another set of tweaks to the release candidate of Windows 7 following gripes suggestions from beta testers.
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The RC is widely expected to land next month. However Microsoft, presumably mindful of delays, still hasn't confirmed an official date for the near-ready release of the operating system.

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Whrrl, from Pelago, which makes its debut in the app store today, integrates with Facebook Connect and instantly connects you with your FacebookFacebook reviewsFacebook reviews friends and makes it easy to add location-aware photos and posts and share them on Facebook or TwitterTwitter reviewsTwitter reviews.

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Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. College students can use it to expand their social circle, promote their side business, keep their coursework organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these tools will help you get there.

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Web 2.0 is no longer just for teenagers.
Social networking has clearly reached a tipping point. Sites like MySpace and Facebook boast hundreds of millions of members. Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated that platforms like YouTube and Twitter could transform electoral politics. Yet in corporations where such tools have been expected to bring profound transformations, there has been strong resistance to change.

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Officers: Are you sick and tired of excessive force lawsuits? Well cheer up. Taser has a plan to give your police department its own CYA reality TV show.

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Zemanta was for sure a break-through in annotation of blog entries. I’m running this service on my private and my corporate blog. It is easy to integrate in every common blog-software and it is really a save of time in my daily work. Unfortunaly it is avaible only for english blogs.

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Thanks to the work of the gang making time over at their Vaio P forum, the folks at Pocketables have been able to compile benchmarks of all the various configurations of the ultraportable. Including the three models available domestically (which all sport a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520) and the various 1.6GHz Z530 and 1.86GHz Z540-based machines available elsewhere, this ragtag group of benchmarksters have come to the conclusion that the main factor when it comes to the machine's performance is the disk drive type.

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One down side of surge protectors is they are typically down on the floor and difficult to reach. If you ever have to switch out something on a regular basis it becomes even more of a nuisance. Granted a lot of times your computer is on the floor too, but there are other gadgets besides your computer that stay plugged in.

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For some reason, whenever gadgetry and smiling cross paths, things tend to get a little creepy. Where the smile trainer was mostly a curiosity, the Orwellian implications of the Okao Catch technology were a bit much -- even for the hardened tech blogger. Sure, the Mimi Switch is quite clever: instead of relying on your fingers, this remote control uses an earbud containing infrared sensors that measure the inner ear movements resulting from various facial expressions.

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We have the latest demographic data on US Facebook user as of February 1, 2009. Before jumping into the details below, here are the highlights.

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Every once in a while, some new concept comes out that is actually a good idea. We have been seeing a lot of wrist watches that can act as mobile phones lately, but I think we are just creating those to fulfill some vintage Dick Tracy fantasy. This is one concept wrist phone device that won’t require you to talk to your wrist.

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After the claps comes the question, how do you do them? After some trial and a lot of error, here's an 8-step tutorial. On a Mac, the technology is pretty simple. If you're on a PC, sorry, we can't help.

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A virtual reality headset said to mimic all five senses to offer a user experience that's indistinguishable from the real world.

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"Social media is like teen sex," Kaushik tweeted. "Everyone wants to do it. No one actually knows how. When finally done, there is surprise it's not better."

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Below, we present Twitter Web Designer and Developer Toolbox, API and Tutorials, a series of tutorials, links, references, libraries and plug-ins that will help you do everything you’ve always wanted to do with Twitter.

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Mostly early adopters use RSS feeds, aggregators and alerts to get their news from the web, the majority of internet users still largely rely on search engines. Ensembli is a new kind of aggregator that leverages artificial intelligence to find stories relevant to the user tastes and interests, and the application can adjust better overtime since it learns more about the users preferences while users select or rejects the news proposed.

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CC:Betty is a free web service that acts as a personal email assistant. This new application create a visual space on the web of the user's email activity and display email conversations in a single view. It creates interactive maps from addresses, displays picture attachments in a gallery, stores video and audio files in a specific section where it can be played, takes note of written addresses and presents a graphical calendar.

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