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15 Jul 2009 20:55

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Biz, Tech: The stock market is totally in love with Intel right now

  • Late Tuesday, Intel announced that they had estimated current quarter sales of $8.5 billion, which totally blew analysts’ numbers out of the water. Even better, their previous-quarter sales managed to top analysts’ numbers, too. Good to see someone’s doing really well.
  • cause
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15 Jul 2009 12:57

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Tech: We’re convinced USA Today is trying to run us out of business

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  • This shot of brilliance was put together by USA Today as a way to present all the headlines of the day like a deck of cards. Flip them over, and it reorders them. Our management isn’t going to like this, guys.source
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15 Jul 2009 10:53

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Tech: Microsoft’s Office 2010 ad proves they have a sense of humor

  • MS instantly earns brownie points for this wonderful ad about their best product. We miss you like a brother, Clippy.source
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15 Jul 2009 10:09

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Culture, Tech: Twitter, the game show = Game show, the stupid idea

  • In this choose your own adventure type journey, the players rely partially on the influence and knowledge of their twitter followers and supporters, the strength of their teamwork, and their ambition to advance them from spot to spot … and bringing them one step closer to that final tweet.
  • From a pitch on a Twitter-inspired game show called “FinalTweet” • This game show, BTW, would pit teams of young entrepreneurs against non-profits for the hopes of winning a $100,000 grand prize. Wow… what a stupid idea. WOW. • source
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14 Jul 2009 16:39

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Offbeat, Tech: The newest iPhone app: a purity ring pledge

  • That’s one way to show you’re committed.
    A company in the UK has jumped on the iPhone bandwagon in the holiest way possible – by creating a virtual purity ring application. For “just 59p”, or $0.99 this side of pond, you can take a vow of abstinence and display a silver ring on your screen. Well, you’ve gotta give them points for being entrepreneurial. source
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14 Jul 2009 13:04

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Tech: Here’s a couple of notable software versions, supernerds

  • 23 The highest software version – that honor goes to Broderbund’s Print Shop, which has been getting new versions nearly as long as we’ve been alive source
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14 Jul 2009 10:59

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Tech: Major Web sites like YouTube and Digg are dropping IE6 support

  • The Google-owned video service recently started displaying on IE6 a message that they would be dropping support for the browser soon, recommending that users switch to Chrome, IE8 or Safari, a message met with cheers by some. (Including us!)
  • While Digg isn’t nearly so hardcore about the switch, they have been investigating it, and will likely be ditching login support for IE6. They found that many IE6 users can’t upgrade because companies are lazy and built on crappy, poorly-made IE6-only Web apps.
  • YouTube
  • Digg
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14 Jul 2009 10:21

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Tech: Microsoft might again offer a Windows upgrade companies don’t want

  • 59% of companies don’t plan to upgrade their machines source
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13 Jul 2009 10:58

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Tech: Cornell researchers have tracked how Internet news memes blow up

  • 2.5 hours after a big story hits, it blows up on the blogosphere source
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13 Jul 2009 10:37

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Tech: It’s official: We live in the future. This Twitter iPhone app proves it.

  • HOLY. FREAKING. MOTHER. OF. GOD. This application can’t be real. TwittARound, an augmented reality application, grabs all the Tweets around you and shows where they are around you, almost like a compass of useless chatter. (Someone with this app, guess which coffee shop we’re in.)source
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