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From PCWorld
Google is mapping the world one street at a time. However, some of those locations are not conducive to cars, let alone the Google Street Views van or even a smal car. Locations like Europe pose an extra challenge — how to navigate all of those tightly packed, tourist-clogged cobblestone street in historic city centers?
Well, for all of those hard-to-reach areas… [read more]
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From Reuters
AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. telephone company, plans to offer Web-based data storage services for corporations using “cloud computing” technologies developed by data storage equipment maker EMC Corp. The telecommunications giant will join International Business Machines… [read more]
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From VentureBeat
I don’t know anyone who still uses Yahoo Mail or Microsoft’s Hotmail for their webmail, but I realize that there are still plenty of you out there. In fact, according to data from comScore , there are far more Yahoo users and Hotmail users than there are Gmail [read more]
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From VentureBeat
Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees. Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.’s employees have now toiled at the company for more than two… [read more]
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From ChannelWeb
Google users are being targeted in waves of malware attacks that redirect their searches to compromised Web sites that will download malware and steal information. Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe, said that experts have seen… [read more]
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From Wired
So says the Apple-centric Hardmac, citing “informations from one of our sources”. The scoop says that the next-gen iPhone will look exactly the same as the current one from the outside, and that both the iPod Touch and the iPod Nano will gain cameras. We’ll be kind and say that Hardmac has scored one out of three with its guesses. Sorry: “informations”. The one feasible rumor here is that the Touch could get… [read more]
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The new search engine WolframAlpha is online. The search engine provides an easy interface to find the most important facts about any question. For example, you can check information about dates, cities, countries, names, stocks, or mathematics. You can access Worfram alpha right now here.
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From ArsTechnica
Internet Explorer dropped a significant 0.72 percentage points (from 66.82 percent to 66.10 percent) and Firefox jumped 0.43 percentage points (from 22.05 percent to 22.48 percent). Safari dropped a minor 0.02 percentage points (from 8.23 percent to 8.21 percent). Chrome once again moved further away from Opera: it gained 0.19 percentage points… [read more]
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From InformationWeek
NASA’s Atlantis astronauts embarked on their second spacewalk Friday afternoon. The astronauts were on schedule to wrap up by day’s end Friday after replacing batteries in one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s bays. STS-125 mission specialists Mike Good and Mike Massimino began the nearly 7-hour spacewalk just before 9 a.m. Massimino and six other astronauts launched Monday on an 11-daymission to service and repair the Hubble so it can work through… [read more]
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From AppleInsider
Apple may be planning to add camera functionality to a couple of its next-generation iPod models, according to a new report, which also claims that upcoming iPhones will retain the handsets’ existing form factor.
Citing tips passed on from one of its sources, Hardmac, the English-language version of France’sMacBidouille, says that when Apple refreshes its iPod touch and… [read more]
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