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News archive: 5th of July 2008 |
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Hello and welcome back to Mac Apps of the Week. We've got some pretty exciting pieces of software for you this week (all free), especially this hefty plugin which allows you to chat with the visitors to your website, ON your website, through an IM client. Check it out!Hab.laDesigned specifically for webmasters, ... |
5 July 2008
09:03 GMT |
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We all know that Apple's new iPhone 3G will be released on July 11 in the US (and other 22 global markets), so there are about six days left until then. Well, six days don't seem to be enough for some US iPhone fans, as the line in front of Apple's Store in New York has already begun to take shape. Acc... |
5 July 2008
08:05 GMT |
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Remember the 1989 power outage in the surrounding areas of Quebec, Canada, that left about six million people without power for nine hours? Well, the phenomenon itself wasn't determined by an electromagnetic pulse bomb, but by a powerful geomagnetic storm triggered by the solar activity. Nevertheless, both produ... |
5 July 2008
07:12 GMT |
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Just like Google, LinkedIn is also facing criticism in regards to failure of keeping private data safe. But while Google lost sensitive information due to burglary or court order, LinkedIn is accused of making a profit from user data. The company was founded five years ago and provided business networking services. ... |
5 July 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Now that Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 are available to end users, the focus is bound to shift on Microsoft. The Redmond company has been cooking Internet Explorer 8 for over a year now, and is approximately one month away from releasing the second Beta build to the public. Since Beta 1 was set up to give web developers ... |
5 July 2008
06:47 GMT |
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After the news of BlackBerry Bold 9000 being released in Canada on July 25, via Rogers, we now have an even earlier release date for RIM's flagship smartphone: July 21. Unfortunately for all the BlackBerry fans in North America, the Bold will be available starting this date only in Europe, offered by T-Mobile Ge... |
5 July 2008
06:40 GMT |
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Earlier this week, the French StreetView edition was launched; it is part of Google maps and it allows an Internet user to browse through the maps at street level. The French edition though has a long way to go as only the route for the Tour de France has been covered by Google. Out of privacy reasons, the faces of ... |
5 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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World War II and the Cold War era saw several thousands of nuclear tests being carried out throughout the world, including the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which literally put an end to hostilities in World War II. During that time, significant amounts of nuclear fallout have been produced,... |
5 July 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson will soon enlarge its (already large) family of Walkman phones, with a new model, the Sony Ericsson W595, also known under the codename of Sony Ericsson Linda. The W595 apparently comes as a successor of W580 - the slider released back in July 2007. The new W595 is also a slider and its design seems t... |
5 July 2008
05:17 GMT |
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The value of all the fake goods that are sold or auctioned online in the UK is of approximately £800 million per year. This is called e-fencing and it means that counterfeit or illegal goods are put out for auction on various specialized sites. These figures were brought to light by a study conducted by DLA Piper, a... |
5 July 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, but one thing is certain: it wasn't always this small. At least, that's what the data collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft during the beginning of this year reveals. In the early history of the solar system, when Mercury was much warmer than it is... |
5 July 2008
04:56 GMT |
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About one month ago, Acer announced a 24-inch full-HD display, classified as being a "world's first". We have not seen that on the market yet, but Acer says it has another wild beast in development, the 24-inch Acer G24 LCD monitor with a 50,000:1 contrast ratio. No word on where it will be available or how much... |
5 July 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Nokia's Aeon phone was presented almost two years ago, in the fall of 2006, as one of the best looking concepts to come from the Finnish company. Since then, we have not heard new things about it, thus we can't know whether Nokia is indeed working to transform the Aeon into a real device or this remains onl... |
5 July 2008
04:31 GMT |
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The construction of the 12 observation lines of the first underwater neutrino telescope, Antares, is now complete and for more than a month now, two of the observation lines have been operational, continuously looking for any sign of neutrino particles coming from out of space. Antares is part of the European Antares... |
5 July 2008
04:12 GMT |
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You may not have noticed, but starting with the 3rd of July, Google has modified its main page. Just bellow the "About Google" tab, there used to be "© 2008 Google". Now that link has been swapped for this one "© 2008 - Privacy". Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two founders of Google, opted for the term "privacy" no... |
5 July 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Although Nvidia is working hard on making its graphics cards strong competitors for the latest Radeon 4800 series released by AMD, some poll results published by HEXUS.community show thet GeForce 260 and 280 are far low in people's preferences. The answers to a question launched about two weeks ago revealed that... |
5 July 2008
03:56 GMT |
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