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What are you afraid of? What causes you realfear, the kind that causes your heart to beat faster involuntarily,your stomach to sag like you've eaten lead, and your mind to lose itsreason and revert to the primitive reactions of fight and flight?Spiders? Snakes? Serial killers? Speaking in public? Or the worst, thething that freaks out almost everyone: scary clowns?Those are what I what I would

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The Windows Vista BootScreen is pointless, but Microsoft decided tohide a more visually appealing boot screen that can easily be enabledwith very little trouble. I’m not sure why they didn’t make the bootscreen better.If you really want a better boot screen, you can check out my article on creating a custom boot logo....Related Article...Technorati Tags: Technology, Microsoft, Windows, Vista,

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Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week. The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required

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The popular online hangout MySpace said Monday itwill experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clipscontaining copyright materials.MySpace is licensing technologyfrom Audible Magic Corp., which late last year obtained rights to asystem for scanning video clips and looking for signature vectors —such as a unique digital fingerprint — to compare with vectors storedin a database.

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As picture-taking mobile telephones and digital movie cameras grow ubiquitous, Internet users worldwide are being recruited as citizen news reporters. In December Yahoo launched YouWitnessNews, a website that posts offerings from users after the submissions pass muster with professional editors. Founded almost two years ago, news website NowPublic.com taps into legions of people that post

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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday will unveil a new version of its top-end e-mail phone for business users, replacing the signature side navigation wheel with a front trackball that first appeared last year on the consumer-oriented BlackBerry Pearl. Technorati Tags: RIM, BlackBerry, Wireless,

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Yahoo Inc. will sell branded advertising aimed atmobile phone customers outside the United States as part of theInternet powerhouse's efforts to build other revenue sources beyond theWeb.The new mobile marketing platform to be unveiled Monday willdeliver image-based ads to mobile phones in Mexico, Canada and 16 othercountries in Europe, Asia and parts of South America.The Sunnyvale-based company

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Minnesota and Texas may become the next US states to adopt the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as the required standard for their agencies, thanks to two state bills currently up for vote.The Minnesota Preservation of State Documents Act, if passed, would require that all documents "including text, spreadsheets and presentations" of the state be created in ODF. The XML-based document format is a

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With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.That would be a much faster turn-around than Vista, which shipped more than five years after Windows XP, but Vista was exceptional, said Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development

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With 35 million regular users and a reputation at the cutting- edgeof cool, the video-sharing site YouTube.com was the happening new mediacompany of 2006. It won Time magazine's award for Invention of theYear. Savvy media commentators joked: "The revolution will not betelevised. It will be YouTubed." Established giants of the digital era seemed to agree.

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Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: "The 'Wow' Starts Now," and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as with every previous version, there's no wow here, not even in ironic quotes. Vista is at best mildly

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Earlier in the week Steve Jobs released an open lettervia the Apple website addressing some “rubs” against Apple for having adigital rights management (DRM) that restricts iTunes music downloadsto be played on only iPods.In the letter Jobs describes how the DRM came to be throughrestrictions from the larger music companies who were concerned aboutusers pirating music through the iTunes website.

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Citing increased demand from Web developers and their clients, aCanadian Web hosting company Wednesday said it would begin lettingcustomers build and host Web sites running both Microsoft Windows andLinux applications at the same time.Toronto-based Netfirms has built its own clustering technology,which allows customers to manage Windows and Linux applications -- eachrunning on separate server

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IBM this week marched its virtualization agenda forward on two fronts, announcing new code for beastly mainframes and some labs-crafted software for thin x86 systems. Big Blue has spent a few years banging out about the idea of running hundreds of Linux virtual machines on top of a mainframe. It's a nice way to put a modern spin on grizzled kit. With release 5.3 of z/VM, customers now run

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Google's TV chief has admitted the internet is crap for TV. Speaking to the Cable Europe Congress in Amsterdam, Vincent Dureau told attendees: "The web infrastructure, and even Google's [infrastructure]...doesn't scale. It's not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect." Dureau, is head of TV technology at the ad giant. He candidly admitted that his own YouTube video

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There are new movements in the ongoing war over document formats this week, with Microsoft facing new challenges and Sun Microsystems possibly facing new opportunities. As Microsoft encounters resistance in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) process of approving its Open XML document format, Sun is moving to advance the competing OpenDocument Format (ODF). Sun announced a

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A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate lays the groundwork for a national database of illegal images that Internet service providers would use to automatically flag and report suspicious content to police. The proposal made by Sen. John McCain also would require ISPs and perhaps some Web sites to alert the government of any illegal images of real or "cartoon" minors. Failure to do so would be

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Continuing the endless quest for an alternative to Google, Fast Search & Transfer and Yahoo rolled out new search advertising platforms last week, each hoping they had the answer. Yahoo introduced the final piece of its Panama project, a new search marketing ranking model that takes ad performance into account when calculating where an ad will be placed on a page. Previously,

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Google has reportedly looked at acquiring AdScape Media, a small company, founded in Ontario and now based in San Francisco, that specializes in so-called in-game ads. Google did not return calls seeking comment, and an AdScape spokeswoman declined to comment on the talks.Though an industry insider who asked to remain anonymous said negotiations had stalled, such an acquisition would allow Google

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Gateway announced late Thursday that it will close its retail stores next week and lay off about 2,500 employees associated with the shops, or nearly 40 percent of its work force. The company, based in Poway, Calif., will continue its direct-sales strategy but plans to shut its 188 stores on April 9. Gateway recently acquired eMachines, and following the closing of the stores, the combined

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If the major record labels were as concerned about nurturing consumers of legal downloads as they are with preventing illegal downloads, maybe they wouldn't be in the financial downward spiral they're in right now. Every chance they get, the labels are trying to make it less appealing to purchase legal downloads. Steve Jobs, loving his gig as the most powerful person is the music business,

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Business owners often wonder whether or not they are in a strong or weak position when compared to their competition. The SWOT analyzes a businesses strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in order to help the owner/manager precisely where their business stands. The extended SWOT or E-SWOT compares the responses generated on the SWOT to determine an appropriate course of action. The

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Developer Factor 5 is no stranger to Nintendo consoles. The company's Rogue Squadron II launch title for GameCube arguably pushed the purple box hardware further than most, right out of the gate. In its time (and perhaps still today) the game is a looker.That said, the company's CEO Julian Eggebrecht was critical of first-generation Wii graphics while speaking with IGN yesterday. In short, he

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Canada appears to give in to telecoms lobby groups and give up on network neutrality. Apparently the Canadian press has dug up information that the Tory government is not going to introduce network neutrality.Frankly, as a Canadian, I am disgusted.Any company opposing network neutrality is doing nothing but trying to impose taxes on data traffic they do not own, and trying to make sure

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Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe is in talks with Sky, trying to get it to distribute content for PSP users. Programs that are broadcast by Sky in the UK and Ireland include 24, Lost, The Simpsons, Deadwood, and more. This partnership will be crucial for Sony's plans in educating the general public about the multimedia functionality of Sony's handheld.The service will supposedly launch by

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