How is the correct way to check backlinks?This is what I have learned from own observations and I feel like it would be good to share.First I can tell you that Google only shows a random fraction on the backlinks they know of - so it is totally useless using Google for this purpose.
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Chip from Chip's Tips shows us the most clean and effective way to redirect your wordress 2.x feed through feedburner.
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Don't write your interactive Web application in custom Javascript! The Web's Declarative nature needn't be broken just because you want two-way dynamic data instead of one-way documents on your site. Instead, write Declaratively to generic Javascripts, plugins and browser features such as Hijax, hInclude, XForms, SVG, XBL, etc.
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Sunday night August 12 is the peak of the annual and much beloved Perseid meteor shower. A lot of people don't know how easy it is to watch a meteor shower, and think it takes a lot of prep. Nope! Here's a simple list of what you need.
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Some really sick cars. Great descriptions too.
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Almost nothing was initially known about this bike as the picture was sent in to McMod without any more explanation than the following.
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There I go! Can't find my keys again. Just when I think I'm ready to hop in the car for another day's commute, my car keys, mobile phone, wallet, purse, reading glasses, and/or sunglasses can't be found. Whoops, where did I leave my coffee thermos?
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Japan has a drinking problem... but if you've got a thirst for adventure, it's where you want to be.
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China's current building boom is doing more than sucking up the world's supply of steel -- it's creating a stage for some of today's boldest architecture and engineering. Take a tour of the 10 of the most intriguing examples.
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Check this out. These are the sweetest hotels you will ever see.
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BARCELONA, Aug 10 (Reuters Life!) - "Galactic Suite", the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes. Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a three-day stay.
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Chandigarh, August 9: People using mobile phones for more than four years and longer than 30 minutes a day are at risk of developing hearing loss particularly at higher speech frequencies, a study conducted by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research has said.
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Interesting showcase of emergent technology from BBC News web site
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NASA discovered a worrisome gouge on Endeavour's belly soon after the shuttle docked with the international space station Friday, possibly caused by ice that broke off the fuel tank a minute after liftoff. Astronauts may have to patch it during a spacewalk.
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We review hundreds of websites and each month list the 100 best on the site. All the sites listed have been suggested by our visitors and independently reviewed by a panel of editors.
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Back when your parents were in school, they actually had to initiate in-person conversations if they wanted a social life. Of course, that was when they weren't walking two miles to school, in the snow, uphill -- both ways.
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GUY KAWASAKI, venture capitalist, business pundit and Apple’s first “evangelist,” posited that it’s “easy” to become an Internet millionaire, as long as you have a good idea. You don’t even have to work hard: a couple of hours a day in your underwear should be enough
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Google Inc. is shutting down a service that sold and rented online video, ending a 19-month experiment doomed by the proliferation of free clips on other Web sites like the Internet search leader's YouTube subsidiary.
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IT seems it's necessary to visit Venice every few years to reaffirm that a couple of things haven't changed. One, the world's favorite city hasn't yet sunk into the sea, and two, the food isn't nearly as bad as most “experts” report.
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A freshwater dolphin found only in China is now "likely to be extinct", a team of scientists has concluded. The researchers failed to spot any Yangtze river dolphins, also known as baijis, during an extensive six-week survey of the mammals' habitat. It would be the first extinction of a large vertebrate for over 50 years.
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This is by far the most comprehensive review of a huge variety of snack available in todays market. Have a look at them.
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By neogeo
Some interesting tips from microsoft on improving your wireless network, including trying multiple wireless channels to get find the clearest one and picking equipment from a single vendor.
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Ionut Chitu shows us 10 better ways to search Google Images.
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Beaches present digital camera owners with a number of wonderful opportunities as they are places of natural beauty, color and interesting light. However they also present a variety of challenges including camera damage, privacy issues and making large open spaces interesting.
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This is a collection of 10 useful tips to help you make your work more productive and easier. Many of them are for advanced users so I will not cover all the details on how to use specific functions in Photoshop. Anyway, I think these tips are easy to follow.
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Aloe Vera is a plant that looks like a cactus, but is actually a member of the lily family. It grows in Africa, Asia and the warmer parts of America and Europe. The particular kind of Aloe Vera used for natural remedies has the Latin name Aloe barbadensis and its leaves contain a gel that is rich in therapeutic properties. [..]
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Electronic Arts Inc. and Hasbro, Inc. today announced a strategic licensing agreement that will bring together two of the most powerful entertainment companies in an alliance which promises to transform the interactive family entertainment landscape. The strategic relationship grants EA the exclusive worldwide rights to create digital games...
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia will provide a free Internet filtering service and access to a hotline in a bid to thwart perverts seeking to contact children, Prime Minister John Howard said Friday.
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Lyrics performed by Pearl Jam criticizing President Bush should not have been censored from a webcast by AT&T Inc., a company spokesman acknowledged Thursday.
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The bodies of 16 passengers have been recovered after a plane crash in French Polynesia, the French High Commission and emergency services in French Polynesia confirmed.
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The gorgeous Jessica Alba has joined the first Mike Myers comedy in years, The Love Guru, which will co-star Verne Troyer and Romany Malco as well. This is the first original character for Mike Myers since Austin Powers and will start filming with Jessica Alba next month in Toronto. The Paramount film is already slated for a June 20th, 2008 release
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Former Spice Girl Mel B's new husband bashed the mother of his daughter and has been accused of cheating on another ex-lover, reports say.
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DALLAS - The “American Idol” auditions have often been called a laboring process, but one hopeful has given that term a whole new meaning.
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Complete with a corset-wearing pirate, a witch whose beauty is only skin deep, a cranky star and a dying king, "Stardust" is a wildly crowded and sporadically entertaining fantasy adventure. Based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling fantasy novel, it's reminiscent of "The Princess Bride" (if a bit less funny) in its fairy-tale whimsy, rambling storyline
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Rush Hour 3 will NOT be released in China! Why?!
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Remember all those PCs a few months ago that had stickers on them that claimed PCs were "Windows Vista Capable"? Everyone thought this meant that the PCs were, well, "capable" of actually running Vista. The suit's point is that those rebranded XP system were really only capable of running Windows Vista Home Basic. If that.
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The populations of at least 20 of Britain's rarest birds have increased by between 50% and 75% thanks to Europe-wide conservation measures, according to a 21-year research project. Extremely rare birds such as the bittern, Dartford warbler and red kite have been brought back from the brink along with numerous other birds across Europe.
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Moving to blunt Apple Inc.'s growing power, the world's largest music company is bypassing the iPod maker to sell thousands of songs in an unrestricted digital format through many other online music stores.
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Think Americans stuck in airports have to wait a long time for a flight? Try 22 years. That's how long astronaut Barbara Morgan, 55 — who blasted off Wednesday aboard the shuttle Endeavour for a planned 11-day mission — had to cool her heels before she got her first chance to fly.
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London - British authorities were testing for a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease on Friday, after cattle in a herd grazing several kilometres away from an initial cluster of cases were suspected of falling ill, raising fears the virus is spreading uncontained.
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BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter was forced down south of Baghdad on Friday, and two soldiers were injured
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You don't stay at one company your whole life, so your identity can't come from your company. Instead, it comes from the choices you make.That means it's absurd to feel like your employer controls your life, because your employer isn't even making a lifetime commitment to you.
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Yahoo! finds the best free games on the web
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Pay to play at Tournament.com and turn your frags into funds.
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Sixty-one stars from the Hollywood Walk of Fame — including those of Charlton Heston, Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Frank Sinatra — have been removed and stored while a $500-million hotel-shopping-housing project is built on Vine Street near Hollywood Boulevard.
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PARIS (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling and her French publisher said on Thursday they were worried about organized groups of translators, not individuals, after a boy was arrested for posting a translation of the last Harry Potter book online. Gallimard,...
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A fire has destroyed part of Italy's world famous Cinecita film studios in Rome. Eleven fire crews were needed to put out the blaze, which swept through an enormous building where film sets were being stored.
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The Bureau of Meteorology says river levels haven't been seen at this level for some time.Major flood warnings are current for the Lower Derwent and the Lower Forth.A moderate flood warning is current for the Huon and there's a minor flood warning for the Upper South Esk.
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By neogeo
Every day doctors order lab tests to help diagnose illnesses, but these tests can be a great mystery for many patients.
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Qian Hongyan, a girl in China, also known as the basketball girl, lost both her legs in 2000 and has been getting around with the help of a basketball (left image) until 2005 when doctors fitted her with a pair of artificial limbs.
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This style is flattering on any face shape. Note how the first layer begins at the cheekbone.
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What works for your long face type? Several looks work for you. If you have straight hair, you can create more width with bangs. Chin-length bobs and cuts are also ideal for you because they create the illusion of width.
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Unlike girls with long faces (see my picture above), you round girls can grow your hair long. Long hair elongates a round face and can be more flattering than short cuts.
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With the Backstreet Boys reformed and ready to embark on a reunion tour, it was inevitable they would be asked about the past. For Nick Carter, his past is ex-girlfriend Paris Hilton. So what does he think of her?
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A new computer virus - entitled, W32. Deletemusic - is posing a threat to MP3 collections around the world.Industry professionals have said that the worm will eat all MP3’s that it finds on a users hard drive, as well as any on an external memory device that may be attached to the computer.
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A videotape that was made of Anna Nicole Smith’s 1994 breast augmentation has been issued with a temporary restraining order by a Los Angeles judge.
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NME.COM is launching a new mobile service that will allow you to access all the latest music news, reviews, videos and blogs anywhere.With more music now on the move then ever before thanks to MP3 players, NME.COM will now match your record collection's mobility with a new mobile phone service.
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A gas explosion which flattened a house and killed an 80-year-old woman was caused by rodents gnawing through pipes running to her cooker under the floorboards.
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In 1995 128 strange events in the skies over the UK were reported by the public, but by 2006 that figure had dropped to 97. As a comparison, in the same period, human tourism to Britain increased by close to 10 per cent.
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The Russian handset vendor, Gresso is presenting a new collection - "Avantgarde", a mobile phone made of Gold and African Blackwood. The case of Gresso Avantgarde is manually manufactured and fastened with Gold screws.
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Psychologist Dan Gilbert challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want.
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By neogeo
So why would you use your money to feed a starving country, when you can pay $1,500,000 for a Box of Chocolates, or buy a $1.3 Million Cell Phone. Right?
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The average speed of an 8Mbps broadband connection is just 2.7Mbps, according to a survey released by Which?, the consumer rights group.
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By neogeo
To answer this question, it helps to first have a rudimentary knowledge of the planet's hydrologic, or water, cycle. The water cycle, in essence,
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Akamai monitors global Internet conditions around the clock. With this real-time data we identify the global regions with the greatest attack traffic, cities with the slowest Web connections (latency), and geographic areas with the most Web traffic (traffic density).
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PCAdvisor - Your web browser could well be the most useful – possibly even the most powerful – element of your computer. Despite the promises of chip makers and PC manufacturers, a web application such as Googlemail, running on a massive server farm thousands of miles away, can often be faster and more reliable than the best client-based program.
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By neogeo
Here is a list of some of the worlds worst air accidents
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Keth of Gspy points us to the Google Business Referral Representative job application page. Your mission? To assemble information on local businesses, and to convince them to add their listing to Google Maps (and to pay for Google AdWords ads). From the program FAQ:
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Munich, Aug 04: An international team of French and Brazilian astronomers have using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope Interferometer, detected a huge cloud of dust around a star.
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Ever carried your wife on your back across an obstacle course and then drank her weight in beer? Ever thrown oranges at helmeted men in chariots? Nope, neither had we - until we went in search of the world's weirdest festivals...
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The Whale-Haunted Waters of RurutuYou know they’re in the water long before you see them. The water fills with ghostly overtures, haunting arias and ineffable notes that resonate through the ocean and wrap around your body.
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A recent Digg article linked to a space.com page about the 10 Strangest Things in Space. all but 2 of the items were not pictures at all but computer simulations or artists impressions. So here to correct this injustice to phenomena everywhere I present the REAL 10 Strangest Things in Space - or at least in my opinion.
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Geodesic Information Systems today announced Mundu IM – iPhone Edition, specifically designed and optimized to work with the Apple Safari web browser on the iPhone. Mundu IM - iPhone Edition gives users access to seamless chat across leading IM services AIM®, MSN®, Yahoo®, and Google Talk®, through a single chat window.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007: Ever thought of zipping yourself away in your favourite bunker with a drink of your choice? Or for that matter have a great time with your pals, with the best of your party gear.
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Google has joined the fight to save Linux from an army of patent-waving Microsoft lawyers.
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I have to admit, I went into the whole Blu-ray issue with an attitude. Among other things, it's a massive conspiracy to quash my Inner Tightwad.I'm cheap. I'm not an early adopter. I like my stuff to work the first time. I prefer function to style. And I don't like to pay for stuff that can be had for free.
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Let us know what you think about this....
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"A 59-year-old German woman has had most of a pencil removed from inside her head after suffering nearly her whole life with the headaches and nosebleeds it caused, Bild newspaper reported Monday. Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was four."
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Older laptops are beloved for their simplicity and durability, but more often than not, the battery isn’t holding a charge, and the laptop requires an AC adapter to be used. It’s time for older laptops to get away from the wall! Today, FreshBattery introduces its Legacy Power line of new batteries for more than 1,500 older laptop models.
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We live in an era of plastic. All around you is plastic. I bet not 5 minutes go by without you touching something made of plastic. Even your food and drink come wrapped in plasti
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Pictures and some specifications of Dell’s upcoming 17” gaming notebook, the XPS 1730 have leaked onto the web. Naturally the screen is a 17” and available CPU’s include a wide range of Core 2 Duo’s up to the 2.6GHz Core 2 Extreme X7800.
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Imagine a 300-page history of the United States that spent the first 290 pages on events up to and including the Civil War, then zoomed through everything else in the last 10 pages. According to Doug Gale, who I met this week at EDUCAUSE, that’s more or less how the history of the Internet has been written.
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Steve Jobs is on stage at Apple's headquarters introducing the new iMacs. I am sitting in the second row and prohibited from taking photos unless I move to the back row with the professional photographers snapping away with motor drives. Steve looks the same as last time so you aren't...
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T-shirt innovators Last Exit to Nowhere offer a spiffing range of film-themed tees.The slogans blazoned across this range are all fictional tech companies or locations from some classic sci films.
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Wibree is not a product or a gadget, it's a technology that complements today's existing form on wireless connectivity for devices such as Bluetooth. It's a product of the Nokia Research Center to create a lower energy-consuming wireless technology.
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Rabid road warrior, busy soccer mom or simply want anyone over 50 to think you're a few marbles short of a Chinese checkers? We rate the best Bluetooth headsets for business and leisure.
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So following my comments on adMob last week, I would like to thank adMob fan who sent me a very graphic, abusive and …. Well…. email full of **** words – informing me that adMob was indeed better than ***.
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Hilarious!This is the best short collection of relatively unseen, strangely entertaining, YouTube videos that I have ever come across! - A Must See!
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Planet earth can be a strange place, full of intriguing geological quirks and natural oddities.
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Most Entertaining Place to Shop: West Edmonton Mall
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Pictures of 14 weird and wonderful concept cell phones that will never go into production.
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Techeblog presents a list of Top 10 Strangest phones. We have made a few modifications to the list and compiled our own list of 5 Strangest Mobile phones of all.
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iPhone widgets service : Plusmo announced the availability of its free and customizable mobile widgets service to users of Apple's new iPhone. A custom interface gives Apple iPhone users access to more than 20,000 Plusmo widgets - most of them created by users. Plusmo enables people to extend social networking through mobile devices.
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Concerned parents will be happy to know that Disney Mobile is looking out for their kids and the entire family by introducing the new Samsung DM-S105 and DM-S110 on the Disney Mobile network.
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When Larry Roberts was overseeing the building of the Arpanet, the precursor to today's internet, he and his team were looking for a way for disparate university and government computers to communicate.
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Coffee is known to act on the brain Caffeine may help older women ward off mental decline, research suggests. French researchers compared women ...
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A FURIOUS motorist who took a circular saw to a traffic camera was left even angrier when a court heard it had not caught him.
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ABOUT 80% of married men face erectile dysfunction five years into their marriage because of having a single sex partner, China Press reported yesterday.
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MEXICO CITY: Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world's wealthiest man with riches of USD 59 billion, Fortune magazine said on Monday.
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MANAMA: The Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) and Intel Corporation have invited entries for the second Arab technology business plan competition. The competition was launched to promote regional technology businesses and foster entrepreneurship in the region.
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SURGEONS had to carry out a complex operation to remove a knitting needle that was embedded in the skull of a three-year old Bahraini boy, it was revealed yesterday. The boy was playing with his mother's knitting kit when he put the needle in his mouth, slipped and fell.
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The Robosapien is the first affordable intelligent entertainment humanoid of its kind. Developed by robotics physicist Dr. Mark W. Tilden, Robosapien is the first robot based on the science of applied biomorphic robotics, enabling him to act more like a human.
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Some people hate the boring cases that most PCs come in. And we mean hate. So they take matters into their own hands. Here are ten case mods that take the art form to a whole new level.
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While we've noticed a few DIY creations that fell in the "don't try this anywhere" category, the Go-llerblades just may take the cake
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Mexican archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar have detected underground chambers they believe contain the remains of Emperor Ahuizotl, who ruled the Aztecs when Columbus landed in the New World. It would be the first tomb of an Aztec ruler ever found.
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The film is based on the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini. It is directed by Mark Foster who helmed Finding Neverland and Monster’s Ball. The story follows a man who returns to his native Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule, to right a long-standing wrong and rescue the son of a childhood friend.
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There is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve, new research from consumer group Which? has shown.A survey by the organisation found that broadband packages promising speeds of up to 8Mbps (megabits per second) actually achieved far less.
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As a professor of computer science at the City College of San Francisco, Bowne wanted to find a way to make computer security accessible to the average student.
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San Francisco (dpa) - A month after the ballyhooed launch of Apple's iPhone, the luster is wearing off the most overhyped device of the new millennium. But fear not gadget lovers - there are whispers of a new cell phone to rock your world.
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Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD has introduced two new Opteron processors with higher clock speeds and has dropped the power consumption of the preceding flagship models with 3.0 GHz.
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Doctors are turning to graphic artists to help patients better understand their illness and course of treatment.The artists turn medical images from 3D anatomical scans into less formidable forms, suitable for patients.
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The evolution from ape to man is a complicated one, as there was not a direct line from our earliest ancestor to us, but a branched one, with many dead ramifications. In fact, during our evolution, at a certain moment, the Earth was populated by more than one hominid at a time. It appears that the stage was left just for us about 30,000 years ago.
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August 06, 2007 (Computerworld) -- An analyst who covers Apple Inc. said today that Tuesday's mysterious announcements will probably focus on an updated iMac lineup, a move that could push sales of the company's computers to nearly 2 million for the current quarter, an Apple enthusiast blog site reported.
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San Francisco (IDGNS) - VMware gave startup Parallels some competition Monday by releasing the first version of its software that lets Windows applications run on Apple's Macintosh computers.
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Sony on Monday announced the immediate availability of the 80GB PlayStation 3 model, offering a free copy of off-road racing game MotorStorm to all buyers of the $599 USD game console. The new PS3 is identical to the discontinued 60GB model, but features a larger hard drive.
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"Fake Steve Jobs," a blogger whose satirical blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" commenting on Apple, has attracted numerous readers for his parody of the Apple chairman as a megalomaniac and poking fun at an array of his tech industry peers. The New York Times finally revealed him as Dan Lyons.
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The ancient black smoker chimneys, which scientists unearthed in a Chinese mine, are 1 billion years older than similar fossils previously identified and are nearly identical to the archaea- and bacteria-harboring structures found today on sea beds.
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Call/Recall is a new arrival on the optical storage scene which we covered in a recent news story. It has a 1TB optical disk in prospect and is looking for a partner/licencee to manufacture and sell drives and disks.
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Building on their existing collaboration around mobile entertainment, Nokia and Microsoft Corp. have extended their cooperation to include support for Microsoft® PlayReady(TM) technology into the Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms.
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Police chiefs in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules - an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband.
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An Australian hacker supposedly managed to make outbound calls and SMS on his iPhone. Unfortunately it is not a foolproof hack as you cannot get incoming calls or SMS.
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Hack lets you save all your calls and could even lead to VOIP on the Jesus phone.Remember the iPhone Voice Recorder? The one that Steve Jobs promised back when he first showed off the Jesus phone back in January?
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This USB Fragrance Oil Burner has the shape of a standard USB memory stick.The Aroma USB stick is heated with power from the USB port. You can choose between rose, jasmine, peppermint and lavender fragrances.
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Amidst all of this not-exactly-forthright price cutting going on with the Xbox 360, it looks like Microsoft has finally launched a more organized method of detailing and tracking the process of sending your faulty US-based Xbox 360 back in for repair.
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If you fancy the hands-on of making your own electronics and want to save a few quid on your very own Nixie clock, MAKE has assembled not one, not two, but three alternatives in varying degrees of style, all at around £75.
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With Steve Jobs set to unveil the all new iMac tomorrow, pictures have found their way onto the ‘net apparently showing off the new machines in all their glory.
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...so I can't see it. But for those of you who can, head here. It promises cool images/approaches of the space shuttle and its support structures.
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Hackers are using a new technique to infect desktop PCs via compromised websites, while avoiding antivirus detectors, according to the SANS Institute.
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CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA began the countdown Sunday night for the launch of Endeavour after completing one final test to make sure the space shuttle's crew cabin was airtight."The team is ready. Endeavour is ready," said NASA test director Stephen Payne.
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Macropolitan came out from nowhere last year, and is now a key part of moves to get a mobile WiMax network up and running in the UK. We spoke to its head, Ryan Jarvis, a former BT executive and veteran of Wi-Fi hotspots.
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Apple, notoriously secretive about its supply chain, has never confirmed that German manufacturer Balda is making the iPhone's touch screen. However, industry watchers say the German company -- with production in Xiamen, China, via a joint venture with Singapore-based TPK Holding -- is the only company with the capacity to mass-produce the displays
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August 06, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- A Mozilla Corp. executive has vowed that his company can patch any critical vulnerability in its software within 10 days, a sign that Mozilla may intend to step up its efforts to improve security.
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Batelco is giving customers the chance to own the phone of their dreams by trading in their old mobile handset for a new one.This offer is just one of Batelco’s great deals for customers as part of their Summer Festival.
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Singapore Mobile Operator SingTel has launched a new service that will enable mobile consumers to locate content and information based on their current location.
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Scientists are working to improve the treatment of a fatal virus spread by sand flies in hot climates
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Simple surgery can turn a sexually passive female mouse into a rampant sex beast. The removal of an odour-sensing organ causes female mice to pursue and mount mice of either sex, and also show masculine mating behaviours such as pelvic thrusts.
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What is it about a cat's fur that makes us want to stroke it, and how do you create a rubbery grip that you just can't resist squeezing? An artificial finger that can gauge a raft of tactile characteristics for materials should help to find out.
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Loss of blood after an injury is a common cause of accidental death. In the US, for example, about 50,000 people bleed to death each year. The situation is particularly critical on the battlefield where uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of preventable death.
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New search sites make it easier than ever to dig up information on people, without their permission
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The way voice-over-internet protocol, or VoIP, connects two phones is quite different — and more efficient — than the way a traditional phone call works.VoIP gets its name from the fact that it uses the internet protocol (IP), a standard way of transmitting data over a network.
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