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| Security goes to the movies: Iron Man |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 9:00am |
| Time once again for "Security Goes to the Movies," a leisurely look at the inevitable bleeding from the eyes that security folk experience when Hollywood takes liberties with tech, the laws of physics and other aspects of reality. Our shiny and metallic subject today is "Iron Man."
   
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| Site Traffic Comparison of Engadget vs Gizmodo |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 9:29am |
| Hitwise compares the traffic of Engadget vs Gizmodo - fierce rivals that are also the most popular gadget blogs on the planet. |
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| Comcast to Buy Plaxo |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 4:40am |
| Reuters reports that the second-largest U.S. ISP, Comcast, has agreed to acquire online address book and social networking site Plaxo for somewhere between $145 million and $175 million. "Comcast will use Plaxo to offer social network links across Comcast-connected devices from TVs to digital video recorders to, eventually, wireless devices, thanks to a new partnership with Sprint, Clearwire an... |
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| Creating a live survey for your site |
| Posted on 14 May 2008 at 4:54pm |
Have you ever wanted to poll your website visitors on their interests or ask them for feedback on your site content? Now, using a Google Docs spreadsheet, you can create a simple form, collect responses from your visitors in an online spreadsheet, and publish the results on your website -- in a few easy steps. All of the data will be kept in your secure, password-protected spreadsheet. Here's ho... |
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| CBS To Acquire CNET For $1.8 Billion |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 10:44am |
| “The core businesses of CNET Networks and CBS Interactive represent near perfect category symmetry in premium online content,”
Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive.
And that symmetry is apparently worth about $1.8 billion, which is what CBS just agreed to pay for CNET. The deals values CNET at $11.50/share, and puts a 45% premium on stock [...] |
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| Time Capsule off to a great start |
| Posted on 14 May 2008 at 5:01pm |
| “After about a month on the market,” reports Arik Hsseldahl (businessweek.com) “Time Capsule is proving to be far and away the market leader.” Hesseldahl notes that “Steve Baker of market research firm NPD called it the ‘dominant product in its category.’” |
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| 17 Drug-Free Ways to Stay Awake |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 12:37am |
| Staying awake is easy… 5 shots of espresso and 2 lines of cocaine is all you need. You’ll certainly be wide awake and wired, but you may also die from a heart attack a few hours later. In all seriousness, conquering drowsiness before it overwhelms your mind can be quite a challenge without the help [...] |
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| Animoto: When Using Amazon Web Services Gets Yo... |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 8:07am |
| Animoto, web app for creating videos out of photos and music has received funding from Amazon. The amount of money invested was not disclosed.
The service uses Amazon Web Services (S3 in particular) to scale its application which quickly gained tremendous popularity. For instance, the Facebook version of Animoto is one of the most popular [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Animoto: When Using A... |
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