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Article | 2/05/2009 Gmail Labs' 5 best and 5 worst Features
Google's announced a new addition to its list of Gmail Labs offerings: a built-in Google Search feature. The option, once activated, adds a Web search...
Article | 30/04/2009 Twitter quitters just don't get it
A Nielsen report this week revealed that Twitter has an uncanny knack for hemorrhaging users. In fact, some 60 percent of new users bail on the servic...
Article | 22/04/2009 When the Web got it wrong
Did you hear? Britney Spears had a fatal run-in with a pretzel, a guy named Homosexual ran in the Olympic 100-meter dash, and President Obama attended...
Article | 28/04/2009 Four online alternatives to Microsoft Encarta
As you may have heard, Microsoft plans to pull the plug on the Encarta Web sites and software later this year. Bummer! I can't say I used the service ...
Article | 17/04/2009 If Spam Equals Tons of CO2 What's the Carbon Footprint of Cyber Porn?
A McAfee study estimates 62 trillion spam e-mails equal 33 billion kilowatt hours of electricity or about as much carbon as 3.1 million cars consuming...
Article | 17/04/2009 Kutcher and CNN Battle for Millionth Twitter Fan
Electronic Arts will make you a star in its upcoming video game The Sims 3 and give you a free copy of every single game EA makes in 2009 if you're As...
Article | 14/04/2009 Twitter attracting techie labs
As Network World's Alpha Doggs network research blogger, I've been searching Twitter in recent months for vendor, university and government labs and r...
Article | 7/04/2009 Free services to streamline your social networking experience
These seven social networking services -- including Digsby, NutshellMail, Ping.fm, and Spokeo -- make managing social sites a lot easier.
Article | 7/04/2009 11 free ways to beef up your Web browser
Make Internet Explorer and Firefox more useful with List.it, IE7Pro, VideoDownload Helper, Zigtag, and other add-ons and services.
Article | 26/03/2009 Top 10 MySpace apps Down Under
MySpace.com unveils the top 10 apps that Aussie's go to for their entertainment fix.
Article | 26/03/2009 Fatal flaw for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible
The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 - a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications prot...
Article | 27/02/2009 Safari 4 browser beta is innovative, fast, fun
Apple's decision to offer a public beta of its new Safari 4 Web browser -- available for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista -- caught the tech world by...
Article | 24/02/2009 What Google says can make or break your career
Social media experts, an IT staffing firm and pros at Microsoft, IBM and Dell reveal ways to boost -- or bust -- your reputation
Article | 18/02/2009 Tweet to compete
If you still think Facebook is for twentysomethings clinging to their college years and Twitter is for people with too much time on their hands announ...
Article | 17/02/2009 9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers' Favourite Pick-Up Lines
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is the criminal art of scamming a perso...
Article | 17/02/2009 Don't be fooled by Google's phony 'beta' label
A typical release cycle for software development includes something called the beta-testing phase. The idea is to improve the product by enabling user...
Article | 3/02/2009 Rich Internet apps that double as desktop apps
Finding a single development environment for all purposes has so far proven an unattainable goal. But with the advent of rich Internet applications (R...
Article | 31/01/2009 How secure is Safari?
Apple's Safari, released for the Windows platform in June 2007, is the second newest browser on Windows, behind Google's Chrome. (Naturally, Apple's b...
Article | 28/01/2009 How to safeguard your online security
Social networks are fun to use, helpful for job hunting, and great for keeping in touch with friends, business contacts, and relatives. The downside: ...
Article | 28/01/2009 How to stop operating-system attacks
Your PC's operating system is under constant threat of invasion, whether the attacker's aim is to spread malicious malware or to convince you to buy p...

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