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| Google Translate adds 10 new languages... |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 5:10pm |
| Posted by Jeff Chin, Product Manager...and that's great news any way you say it. Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in making information universally accessible. As part of the machine translation team within Google Research, I'm happy to report we've been hard at work to overcome this challenge. We've recently added translation capabilities for 10 new languages to Google Transla... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 ... |
Posted in Apple Hot News
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| Mozilla launches Firefox 3.0 RC1 early |
| Posted on 17 May 2008 at 9:00am |
| May 16 is technically the latter half of May, so Mozilla's Friday-evening release of the first release candidate for Firefox 3.0 is in some strange way... no, sorry, still earlier than anyone expected.

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| Movie Review: War, Inc. (2008) |
| Posted on 17 May 2008 at 6:59am |
Ingenuity is the mother of invention (or something like that). Since movies being harsh on the war in Iraq and on the current administration of the United States have been bombing (no pun intended)...
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Posted in The Critical Critics
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