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| Comcast Still Throttling BitTorrent |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 7:30pm |
| Comcast customers are still waiting for the nation’s largest broadband provider to make good on their promise to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic according to a recent survey:The Max Planck Institute tested the connections of 788 Comcast customers, 494 (62%) experienced a slowdown of BitTorrent traffic. Comcast is not alone though, well over 50% of the Cox subscribers that participated in the... |
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| Blabnote: The Voice-Only Social Network. Say W... |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 11:03pm |
| It seems a given that mobile social networking is going to be “the next big thing”, but squinting at tiny text is still a pain on today’s phones. To deal with this issue, Blabnote, a British startup that is currently in private beta, has created what may be the world’s first “vocal social network.” [...] |
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| New Comments System Released! |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 4:15pm |
| Hola! We’re excited to launch the new Comments system – we’ve listened to your requests and feedback and have incorporated many of your suggestions. Some highlights include:
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Comments are much more lightweight. Some submissions get hundreds of comments, which used to require a lot of bandwidth to load and even more CPU to render. The display [...] |
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| Erykah Badu: Freestyle Mac |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 3:07pm |
| She hadn’t released a new album in five years. But that spell ended dramatically when singer/songwriter Erykah Badu sat down in front of her MacBook and fired up GarageBand. The music surged. “I learned how to use GarageBand by trial and error,” Badu says. “It’s like somebody stuck a plug in the back of my neck and uploaded a program to learn how to use GarageBand. It was automatic. Everything ... |
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| Doctors' notes get clearer with speech recognit... |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 9:00am |
| Speech recognition technology is being linked to an increase in adoption of electronic health records as doctors find it easier to build more complete patient records than with handwritten notes.
   
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| 800-Horsepower Hybrid to Race 24 Hours of Nurbu... |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 7:30pm |
German boutique automaker Gumpert teams up with Lithium Technology Corp. to build the fastest hybrid ever. They're taking it to the 'Ring to prove "green" and "performance" aren't mutually exclusive.
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Posted in Wired Top Stories
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| Trim Down Your RSS Reading List By Removing Dup... |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 1:54pm |
| If you have been following RSS feeds for a long period of time, there may be duplicate feeds present in your news aggregator that have different URLs but point to the same content on the web. |
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| Aliph's New Jawbone Headset: Smaller and More S... |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 3:22am |
| Confession time: This is a quick headset review by a guy who's never liked headsets much. McCracken's First Law of Eyeglass Wearing correctly posits that it's impossible to comfortably hook more than one device behind your ear at one time....
      
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| Exabytes’ 7th Anniversary Web Hosting Promotions |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 2:43pm |
Exabytes is celebrating its 7th anniversary and rewarding its customers with 7 great deals.
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| 4 Free Digital Photography and Image Editing Re... |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 7:00pm |
| Many web workers are involved with digital photography, graphics and image editing. I know I am. There are a number of excellent, free resources available online for staying abreast of the latest news on these topics, and improving your skills. In this post, I’ll round up some of the best resources I’ve found.
While I don’t [...] |
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