comcast has announced that it will impose a monthly cap of 250 gb on customers internet usage. the company acknowledged it has been evaluating a specific monthly data usage or bandwidth threshold for its comcast highspeed internet residential customers for some time. today were announcing that beginning on oct.1 2008 we will amend our acceptable use policy ... and establish a specific monthly data...
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rumors of a secondgeneration kindle from amazon.com before 2009 have been greatly exaggerated amazon said friday. although many fans of the ebook reader have been abuzz this week with rumors that amazon.com planned to release an updated version of its kindle the retail giant will not in fact have a new device out before the new year according to heather huntoon an amazon.com spokesperson. dont bel...
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smart shopping carts have been around for a while but until recently they havent managed to gain much traction. now some momentum is building according to proponents of the computerrigged market baskets that with a swipe of a card can flash an alert that a customers favorite brand of ice cream is on sale display nutritional values of products and even point out the aisles where items are located...
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given my reputation as a mac expert i am often asked for advice about purchasing apple products. in recent weeks the question i have most often been asked is a disconcerting one i am thinking about buying an iphone. but i have been hearing reports about its unreliability. should i be worried should i wait for the problems to be fixed before i purchase an iphone should i not get an iphone at all my...
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teaching and learning have always had a collaborative element but wiki technology has in recent years made collaboration central to the method of many educators. since they can be edited by anyone with access to them education wikis are everchanging and evolving documents that ideally represent the wisdom of the student crowd. teachers are constantly finding new and creative ways to use wikis. one...
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aberdeens benchmark report optimizing wan for application acceleration found that bestinclass organizations are 69 percent more likely to outsource optimization of their wans to third parties as compared to laggards. this research also reveals that these organizations realize that the effectiveness of different wan optimization initiatives varies based on the types of applications being managed an...
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psystar has turned up the heat in its legal battle with apple. the small computer vendor first burst on the scene several months ago by audaciously offering for sale a line of mac computer clones called opencomputer. after a few weeks of silence apple unleashed its legal hounds on the startup seeking to shut it down for good. since then psystar has shown little sign of backing down from apple a c...
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xen.org the developer of the open source xen project on wednesday announced the release of the xen 3.3 hypervisor engine. the product is the result of a distributed development effort by senior engineers from more than 50 leading hardware software and security vendors. xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast scalable and secure virtualization engine for a broad ra...
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less than a week after a representative for orange in poland revealed that actors were paid to stand in line the night the iphone launched there another kerfuffle has arisen over applerelated marketing this time in the uk. the uks advertising standards authority has pulled an iphone commercial after it received complaints from two viewers that the ad was misleading. apple is having two issues one...
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mozilla labs launched a new prototype tuesday aimed at giving internet users new ways to create mashups of online content. dubbed ubiquity the technology is mozillas solution what it sees as a common and timeconsuming problem web surfers face when they try to compile information from the web. most people do not have an easy way to manage the vast resources of the web to simplify their task at hand...
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qik a company that has developed live video streaming services for certain smartphones has received a boost in its financial backing from netscape veterans marc andreessen and ben horowitz. the duo which have made a significant investment in the company are also joining qiks board of advisors. bhaskar roy cofounder of qik declined to tell the ecommerce times how much andreessen and horowitz have i...
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microsoft will receive nearly 21 million from immersion a company that develops tactilefeedback technology after the two companies agreed to settle a lawsuit. san jose calif.based immersion has developed tactile feedback technology which makes video game controllers vibrate when there is an explosion or some other game action event on screen sid parakh an equity analyst with mcadams wright ragen t...
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numerous flight delays caused by an electronic communication failure at a federal aviation administration facility drew new criticism for an agency that has been scrutinized over air traffic controller staffing levels and inspection standards for its groundbased equipment. the northeast was hardest hit by the delays prompted tuesday by a glitch at a hampton ga. facility that processes flight plans...
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enjoyhttpwww.microsoft.comwindowsinternetexplorerbeta upgrading notes please read the release notes compability issues hp smart web printing some versions google toolbar some versions driveletteraccess roxio some versions skype addin some versions visual studio .net version 7 real player 11 windows live mail netflix vb6.0 activex controls windoweyes hotmail logoff details are in the relea...
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who would like to bid the highest amount for the exclusive global rights to the new domain suffix .dubai under icanns latest policy such a suffix will create a powerful domain root that will corner some 180 services underneath it like go.dubai hotel.dubai job.dubai cars.dubai or fly.dubai. who would be the next global cyberbranding leader of this new millennium are auctions the right methods to se...
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over the last decade mainstream automakers with the right foresight have put their money on technologies like gasolineelectric hybrids in order to offer consumers what they desire more and more with each visit to the gas pump a more efficient personal vehicle. a little further out plugin hybrids that need even less gasoline will perhaps become a more common sight on the road further reducing users...
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profesar ipodburadaki bir haberde hala danyada ki bir aok okulda ipod yasaklanmaya aalaeaelaerken ganey carolina eyaletindeki bir ortaokulda planlanan yeni bir program gereaei tam okul aaeretmenlerine ve aaerencilerine birer ipod touch verilmesi daanalayormu.okul yanetimi programaen amacaenae ise aaerencilerin ilgi ve isteklerini teknolojik gelimeler doaerultusunda ele almak ve son teknoloji aranl...
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mozilla has announced the launch of a new feature for its firefox web browser designed to make it perform faster. called tracemonkey the feature is an evolution of firefoxs spidermonkey javascript engine and will be built into firefox 3.1 according to the company. to increase javascript speeds by an order of magnitude or more mozilla designed tracemonkey with a new type of justintime compiler. the...
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citrix has announced the upcoming availability of xenapp 5 the latest version of its application virtualization software. the new release formerly dubbed presentation server is part of the software makers effort to consolidate its product line around xenserver which it acquired with the purchase of xensource in 2007. the software boasts improved application start times the company said. it really ...
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what should photo imaging software giant adobe be focusing on in a web 2.0 world judging from some new products its not just taking on the likes of apples iphoto and aperture its learning to work and play well with social networks like facebook and digital media storage web sites such as flickr. those could be the chief takeaways from adobes announcement this week that it will be releasing photosh...
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microsofts upcoming internet explorer 8 will offer a new set of privacy features designed to give users more control over personal information the company has revealed. the inprivate feature will build in options for turning off history and cookie collection and will also allow users to see what external sites could access that data and then disable them from doing so. the move is drawing mixed r...
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with the release of its august 08 version rightnow technologies continues to shift both its platform and its lineup of products and features to web 2.0. this latest upgrade includes a customer portal that offers widgets video forums and blogs. its studio development environment now allows users to integrate the application with adobe dreamweaver. august 08 also has more collaboration tools such as...
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a highly popular scrabble clone already pulled from facebook in the united states and canada continued its tumble over the weekend as the online hangout extended its block of the game throughout most of the world. facebook said monday it was forced to disable scrabulous after one of scrabbles rights owners mattel made a formal removal request and the developers of scrabulous took no action themsel...
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a chapel hill n.c. middle school could become the first in the country to give an ipod to every teacher and student an experiment that would challenge teachers and administrators to ensure the handheld devices are used as learning tools not toys. its still not clear how the ipod touches would be used at culbreth middle school. click here for more info......
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portable electronics like smartphones and laptops arent generally known for their ability to withstand drops splashes and harsh conditions. yet the portable nature of these devices means theyre often in the line of fire swimming pools and toilets for cell phones dusty places like construction sites for laptops or even dairy farms with kicking cow hooves milk and well greenishbrown pies. some comp...
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