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[ICT]: Political aide calls for end to internet smear
Jul 20th, 2009

THE political aide responsible for a site featuring an online video depicting Conservative leader Nick Bourne as a vampire has called for an end to “snide attacks and smear” on the internet.

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  • [ICT]: Microsoft deal talk, optimism overshadow results
    Jul 19th, 2009

    Microsoft Corp will likely report the first annual sales dip in its history as a public company, but investors are looking beyond that for upbeat comments on Windows 7, signs of a tech sector recovery, and even a deal with Yahoo Inc to challenge Google Inc.

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  • [ICT]: Twitter, teenagers and tech trends
    Jul 19th, 2009

    The world seems all a titter that teens don’t use Twitter Was the whiz-kid correct’ Two teens give opposing views Teens spurning Twitter was one of the bombshells from 15-year-old Matthew Robson that the media highlighted in a report he wrote for investment bank Morgan Stanley. However, it wasn’t really breaking news that teens don’t use Twitter. • Last November, the Pew Internet and American …

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  • [ICT]: Browser Speed Tests: Latest Firefox Is Faster, but Not as Fast as Google Chrome
    Jul 19th, 2009

    When Mozilla released a new version of Firefox a couple of weeks ago, its developers promised a faster browser, and Firefox 3.5 delivers, racing past IE and Safari in our latest set of page-loading speed tests. But its page load times are still about two-tenths of a second slower than Google Chrome.

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  • [ICT]: Harvard Pals Grow Rich: Chronicling Facebook Without Face Time
    Jul 19th, 2009

    Ben Mezrich enthusiastically favors hot air over specifics in his nonfictionish book about the creation of Facebook.

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  • [ICT]: Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for Photos
    Jul 19th, 2009

    At a time when celebrities typically employ a team of professionals to control their images, Wikipedia is a place where chaos rules.

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  • [ICT]: Dumped by email
    Jul 18th, 2009

    HE fabulous FRANKMUSIK is fuming after being DUMPED via EMAIL by sultry Aussie singer HOLLY VALANCE.

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  • [ICT]: Marc Hershon: My Kindle Ate My Homework
    Jul 18th, 2009

    Amazon slapped my sense of ownership and control across the face yesterday when I learned they reached right into the Kindles of anumber of customers and deleted — irony of ironies — copies of George Orwell’s 1984.

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  • [ICT]: Bill Gates in bid to tame hurricanes
    Jul 18th, 2009

    The world’s richest man has joined the battle against the world’s most destructive weather. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, is backing inventors and climate scientists who claim to have devised a technique for diminishing the power of hurricanes.

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  • [ICT]: Yahoo rallies on renewed hopes for Microsoft deal
    Jul 18th, 2009

    Yahoo Inc. shares rose 4 percent Friday amid speculation it will team up with Microsoft Corp. in an online search advertising partnership aimed at mounting a more serious challenge to Google Inc.

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