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Linux Market Share Passes 1%!!

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Hitslink.com just releasted their april market share stats and linux passed 1% for the first time ever.

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Facebook Shuts Down Ku Klux Klan Page

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Facebook has shut down a Ku Klux Klan group set up by schoolchildren in the Isle of Man. The 'Isle of Man KKK' page urged members to cleanse the island of newcomers. Almost 100 youngsters had subscribed to 'Keep the Isle of Man white and free from foreigners' which carried a picture of a hooded Ku Klux Klan member.

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Google Becomes Default Location Provider For Firefox

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Many of us have been saying it for a long time: location based services are the future. But up until now they’ve been a distant, hazy future, because they’ve been so difficult to use. That’s going to change soon, and it looks like Google is going to be leading the way.

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Kindle users are old

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Someone at Cne, came up with the clever idea of running a poll to learn the age of people who use Amazon’s miracle book reader, the Kindle. What surprised Cnet and what should surprise anyone who looks at the results is that 50% of the people who use Kindles are over 50 years old. About 27% were over 60.

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Google Bulks Up Gmail With Built-In Search

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Google has added the ability to search Google directly within Gmail, a move that increases the centrality of the e-mail service and gives Google a new opportunity to show advertisements.

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ISPs and Copyright Holders Fail to Reach Piracy Agreement

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Copyright holders in Spain want ISPs to help offset the cost of piracy by imposing a surcharge on customers’ accounts. They also want ISPs to disconnect copyright infringers from the Internet. After many months in government mandated talks, no agreement has been reached.

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Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees

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Get more from this author Only Microsoft Developer Network members and technet members were offered keys, but Microsoft still had to make some changes to keep the site up and running.

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22 Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials

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You'll discover plenty of tutorials that deal with enhancing images, adding unique and impressive effects, and recreating digital replications of popular traditional photography techniques in this article.

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The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's

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Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service Adsense, in one day as well. ...

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Anti-DMCA crusaders fight for the right to crack DRM

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Every three years, the Copyright Office lets the public ask for exemptions to the DMCA's tough anti-circumvention requirements. Ars talks to three people who will be fighting for your rights to crack DRM, starting tomorrow.

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Canada Joins China, Russia in US List of Top IP Scofflaws

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Along with China, Russia, India, and Chile, the US Trade Representative's annual report gave some extra love to our neighbors to the north by elevating Canada from the regular "Watch List" to the "Priority Watch List" in adequacy of IP protections against piracy for the first time.

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Pirate Party Banned from Social Networking Site

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StudiVZ is a Facebook-style operation and it’s Germany’s largest web-based social networking site. With the European Parliament elections in sight, the website recently opened up to established political parties for election campaigning. Not for all parties though, as they chose to ban the Pirate Party.

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20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples

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In this article you’ll discover some terrific and unique JavaScript-powered navigation techniques and examples.

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Want The Biggest iPod In The World?

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Like many consumers, John Mayberry was looking to upgrade his iPod. The IT technician had 50,000 songs stored on his computer, but his 60-gigabyte iPod maxed out at 12,000 songs. And Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) wasn't helping. Last year the company discontinued its largest iPod, a 160GB model, citing concerns about its design.

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Pentagon uses Facebook, Twitter to spread message

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FORT MONROE, Va. - You don't often hear a three-star general using the word "friend" as a verb.

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Green Tech Upgrades That Boost Home Values and Reduce Bills

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Last week I provided a few basic green upgrades that can help you save money. This time around it's all about tech that will save money and potentially increase the value of your home.

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What's wrong with broadband in America

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From iTunes to Hulu, the last few years have seen an explosion of online video, much of it now in HD. The future of online is video, video, video. That future is assured, but there's real danger of that future being delayed, at least in the United States. What is the problem? Read on.

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Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained

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Picture this: It’s late at night, you’re sitting at your computer playing a game or working on a project when, suddenly, Windows freezes completely. All your work is gone, and you find a blue screen full of gibberish staring back at you. Windows is dead, Jim, at least until you reboot it.

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Computers Smarter Than Humans Are Inevitable This Century

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For 50 years now we have been inculcated by science fiction, so we have to take the blame for it as writers, I guess, that computers are inherently evil. Starting with HAL in 1968 (2001: A Space Odyssey), every computer that Captain Kirk every dealt with, The Matrix, the Terminator films ... all of this stuff preaches that AI, artificial intelligen

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How Facebook mucks up office life

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Imagine walking into a meeting and encountering not just your current co-workers, but all your colleagues and managers from jobs past, your spouse, your college drinking buddies, your Senior Prom date. It's not a nightmare, it's Facebook.

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