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VentureBeat It looks like all the positive buzz round Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system paid off in sales. Windows 7 sold 234 percent more copies during its first few days on the market than Vista did during the same period of its release, according to research by the NPD Group.NPD’s data covers the week of Oct. 18 to 24 — Win (Read More)

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Download Squad Filed under: Internet, BrowsersWeb designers and standards advocates have tried everything to kill Internet Explorer 6, but it just refuses to die. In fact, Microsoft has extended support for the aging browser until at least mid-2010, and longer for some versions of Windows. However, there is strong evidence that people are (Read More)

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TechCrunch A Facebook developer named Yvo Schapp has uncovered a massive security flaw present on both Facebook and MySpace that would give hackers the ability to steal all of your account data, including your photos, personal messages, and basically everything else you’ve ever put on the social networks, without you ever realizing it (Read More)

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mashable Imagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak. Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man now!This is the picture we’ (Read More)

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Seth's Blog The problem with "everyone" is that in order to reach everyone or teach everyone or sell to everyone, you need to so water down what you've got you end up with almost nothing.Everyone doesn't go to the chiropractor, everyone doesn't give to charity, everyone has never been to Starbucks. Everyone, in fact, lives a decade beh (Read More)

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Submitted by Badgergravling from Google Reader: I've got no qualms with the News International corporate site claiming that each of their newspapers is a leader in their field - the audience figures speak for themselves, especially in print.I just wonder, if I'd been putting the banner graphic together, whether I'd have picked The Sun's thoroughly debunked "UFO hits wind (Read More)

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Submitted by Badgergravling from Google Reader: In a shocking series of photographs, Seattle-based Chris Jordan has documented the impact that an abundance of plastic waste in the Pacific ocean has had on the albatross population...Jordan's latest project, Midway: Message from the Gyre, simply shows a series of dead albatross chicks. But as each one decomposes, it offers (Read More)

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Submitted by Badgergravling from Google Reader: Good morning.I am writing to inform everyone of a vital new initiative here at Absolute Radio, designed to make all of our afternoon tea-times just a little bit less stressful. Several departments have had input into the development of this critical policy. Basically, there are never any mugs in the zoo after lunchtime, bec (Read More)

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::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon It must suck to be the middle-man today. Everywhere they turn, it’s bad news. Democratization this. Circumventing that. There was a point not that long ago that the middle-man provided great value. The record companies brought music to the masses. The media created channels for the news to get through. The Blockbusters of t (Read More)

2 days ago

140Char This Twitter crowdsourcing experiment was set up by regular 140char.com contributor Lauren Fisher over on her agency site at SimplyZesty, so here’s an explanation from Lauren herself:Using Twitter to crowdsource the world in 72 hours.Well not exactly the world, but England, America and Ireland at least. That’s the challenge (Read More)

4 days ago

MobileCrunch Whenever you hear about bugs and exploits being discovered in the iPhone’s browser, Safari, it’s usually the doings of some masterful meddler who devoted hours to unearthing any flaws they could find — not some user casually tapping around the application. Apple’s pretty good at keeping things locked down, and the iPhone’s (Read More)

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TechCrunch [Sweden] The Swedish government is following in the footsteps of the Finns (well almost), as their IT-ministry is now promising that 90 percent of all Swedish homes will have access to a 100 mbit/s broadband connection before 2020.According to Swedish IT-minister Åsa Torstensson it isn’t possible to function in the informat (Read More)

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Submitted by Badgergravling from Google Reader: ...written for almost every imaginable use are available on the net for free. Called shareware, the model is simple. Download whatever software you want for free, try it out, and if you like it, send some money to the author. Dozens of entrepreneurs have made their million dollars selling goods by this protocommercial metho (Read More)

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Submitted by Badgergravling from Google Reader: The sacking of Professor David Nutt (cf) from his role as chairman of the British government’s Advisory Council on the “Misuse” of Drugs has provoked much comment, but none, I think, so chuckleheaded as that by AN Wilson yesterday, in which he trots out Hitler and the Spanish Inquisition to prove that science is not to be t (Read More)

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readwriteweb According to once-secret, now-leaked sections of the new, plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, global Internet users and ISPs might be in for a world of hurt in the near future.A U.S.-drafted chapter on Internet use would require ISPs to police user-generated content, to cut off Internet access for copyright vi (Read More)

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