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As I predicted, Google won’t be sucking down Wi-Fi signals in its future Street View efforts in some countries: After the debacle of Google first saying it wasn’t collecting data from Wi-Fi networks, only scanning for readily available public information, and then discovering and admitting it had stored information, the company is taking a different tack. It’s restarting Street View photography in Ireland, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden, but vehicles won’t have Wi-Fi hardware on board , and the software has been vetted by a third-party to ensure there’s no component that might have collected Wi-Fi data still installed (even though removing the hardware might be seen as enough). I thought that the likely outcome for Google for its missteps was likely a very tiny amount of money in the forms of fines or voluntary settlement figures, but no criminal charges nor more than a technical slap on the rest–so long as Google agreed to stop scanning Wi-Fi signals, even if it promised to stop collecting data.

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Google Restarts Street View without Wi-Fi Scanning

Alaska Airlines has ramped up rapidly since its agreement with Aircell to use Gogo Inflight Internet: The airline has half its fleet–all 55 737-800s and 10 737-900s–equipped with in-flight Wi-Fi. The remaining 737-900s (2 of them) will be unwired in July, and the 737-400 and 737-700 fleets will gain service by the end of the year

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Alaska Airlines Has Internet Service in Half Its Fleet

by Dow Jones Newswires | Posted Friday at 1:04 p.m.. The Texas Rangers may be off the auction block, at least for now, after the baseball team withdrew its request to allow rival bidders to challenge a $575 million offer from a group of …

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Journalists have urged Zambia’s authorities to overturn the conviction of a newspaper editor in a case linked to a pornography trial for a photo of childbirth, media watchdog IPI said Friday.

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Journalists urge u-turn on convicted Zambian editor

This week Microsoft announced a new set of entry level certifications that may be of interest to many schools and colleges/universities. Personally I think that this is just the sort of program that many career/technical high schools have been waiting for.

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Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Certifications

Thomson Local & Google Local Search If your product or services is targeted at a particular locality, having it appear in Google local business result listing is very important to driving high quality targeted organic traffic to your site. Aside from the usual algorithm Google uses to rank what site is it displays before which, it displays about 6-7 local businesses right at the top of search engine result page, giving such businesses and significant exposure. There are a number of ways to get your business listed in Google Local Business Result, one is to submit your site to Google places, a second one which most SEO seem to argue gives you better ranking in Google Local Business Result is to have you business listed on Thomson Local.

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Thomson Local – Express Way into Google Local Search & Invitation to Cold Calling

Artificial intelligence app Siri has teamed up with Wolfram Alpha to greatly improve on query returns. The Apple-acquired iPhone app was already considered the mother of all mashups, but the inclusion of data from Wolfram Alpha makes …

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It’s no secret that Facebook has taken over the lives of millions, Mashable reported this week that Facebook is so prominent in the lives of young women that the first thing the majority of them do in the morning is check their page. But now, it’s moving from the screen of our Macbooks and Blackberries to the big screen.

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“The Social Network”: Facebook Movie to Hit Theatres October 2010

This morning’s IT Blogwatch rounded up the latest blog chatter about Microsoft’s decision to can KIN , its latest not-quite-a-smart-phone project. Yep, it’s a major embarrassment for all at Microsoft, including a certain Andy Lees, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Mobile Communication Business.

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Is it fair to blame Andy Lees for Microsoft KIN debacle?

DoubleSided: HP’s ePrint Technology Bypasses Drivers With Email; Google Also Has a Plan John Gage is credited with coining the phrase “the network is the computer” when he worked for Sun Microsystems well before the Internet became commonplace. If the statement wasn’t true then, it certainly is now as we all benefit from so-called cloud-based services ranging from online banking to word processing.

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Smartphone Owners Rejoice: HP and Google Introduce Cloud Printing

Digital Window has just released new functionality making it easier to access buy.at and Affiliate Window accounts from the new administration area, known as Darwin, in addition to the capability for affiliates to easily sign up to the sister networks from their respective management areas.

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The First Steps in Integrating Affiliate Window & buy.at’s Technologies

CABEM has a customer who uses Active Directory internally to authenticate users. A web application we wrote for them ties into their Active Directory setup using LDAP to authenticate internal users to the application, using their email as a login name

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Web-App Authentication in a Multi-Domain Active Directory Environment

Although many users are currently looking for smaller power supplies below 500W, there still is a demand for stronger ones, particularly if you are a gamer with Triple-SLI or Quad-Crossfire systems. Those planning on running NVIDIA's next generation “Fermi” will want a fairly beefy PSU, and the same goes for Folding@Home farms where you'd want a lot of stable power.

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Antec TruePower Quattro 1200W

It’s become a pretty frequent trend in recent years. The gods at Apple make something we can’t live without, we comply, purchase it, use it universally, live content for a short while with our new fangled toy, start to speculate about next big thing from Cupertino, wait anxiously for Steve Jobs to unveil the next big thing and tell us we have to wait 6 months to get our hands on it, get new product, repeat. So what were we all doing when Apple unveiled their AppleTV back in 2006?

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AppleTV- Apple’s Red Headed Middle Child

Printer News: HP Officejet 4500 Offers Affordable, High-Resolution Color Prints Via WiFi The HP Officejet 4500 All-in-One inkjet printer offers WiFi networking and prints color images at 4800 x 1200 dots per inch at up to 22 pages per minute. It prints in monochrome at 600 x 600 dpi at up to 28 pages per minute. That may sound impressive, but unless you regularly print in draft mode, expect much lower speeds

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HP Officejet 4500 All-in-One Printer Aims for Light Users

Energy Star Labels on Printers Save You Money and Help Protect the Environment Printers, like refrigerators, can qualify for an Energy Star label: a government-backed symbol that means the product will save you money and help the environment by reducing energy use. Printers earn the Energy Star label by meeting product specifications published by the Environmental Protection Agency ( Energy Star Program Requirements for Imaging Equipment , July 2009 version 1.1). The Energy Star specifications for printers cover personal, business, and commercial models, but not industrial printers that you find in manufacturing facilities.

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What Does the Energy Star Label Really Mean?

What interests me is the implications of this report on the need for and ways of providing research information. A change is necessary in order to find ways to involve and inform people in an age of blogs, Wikis, and Web 2.0/3.0 and Semantic Web. Further it is important then to be able to visualise complex data and uncertainty in combination with text, so that it is understandable and conveys the true meaning.

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Ways of providing openness in a web age

Yang terbaru Dari Photoshop CS5 Adobe Photoshop CS5 mengubah gambar digital dengan fokus yang kuat pada fotografi, terobosan kemampuan untuk pilihan gambar yang superior, sentuhan gambar, lukisan realistis, dan peningkatan kinerja. Dapatkan hasil tepat ketika membuat pilihan yang kompleks, menghapus setiap elemen gambar dan mengeditnya kembali, juga membuat gambar menakjubkan seperti kenyataan. Seleksi komplek yang dipermudah Pilih kawasan spesifik dalam gambar .

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Photoshop CS5

Google has just announced the launch of their new Google Profiles page that aims to allow users to control the information that others can see about them online. Google claims that a person can control exactly how they appear in the Google SERP’s just by creating a Google profile.

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Google Profiles: Control What Others Can See When Googling You

Dow Jones Newswires? Al Lewis breaks down a Harris Poll that show a large portion of Americans expect the economy to worsen this year.

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Poll Shows Stormy Waters Ahead