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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Gone through all of your privacy settings and now feel safer as a result? Read this and think again, because there are more things to take into consideration. by Zack Whittaker
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Even with interactive screensavers, mapping applications and games all designed for touch applications, I may have found the best use of touch technology yet. by Zack Whittaker
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Non-English characters will soon point to websites thanks to the regulatory body, ICANN. Will this now make the Internet truly local? by Zack Whittaker
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Facebook will now freeze profile pages of those who have died to ensure privacy and security to family and friends who grieve. Is Facebook the next generation memorial chapel? by Zack Whittaker
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Hardware 2.0 (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I've noticed that over in the TalkBack section of Zack Whittaker's post on his hard drive going belly up that a few readers have suggested a possible fix involving swapping the logic board of the dead drive with one from a working drive.
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Windows 7 is out in a matter of days. Things are looking optimistic, but what if... just what if, it fails as badly as Vista seemed to? Perhaps if we look at Vista's "failings", we can predict its global reception. by Zack Whittaker
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
According to the founder of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the double-slash in every website address was a "mistake". by Zack Whittaker
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
If optical media is dying out, then where does that leave flash drives? Could the cloud be the future of storage solutions, or can we not just reach a compromise? by Zack Whittaker
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Ed Burnette's Dev Connection (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
AT&T upped the ante in its war with Google this week with a blistering new letter to the FCC. In it, the telecommunications giant attacked not only the Google Voice service, but broadened its offensive to cover Google Search and Advertisements as well. Cue the John Williams sound track. (Image courtesy of Zack Whittaker) Robert Quinn, Senior VP of the Federal Regulatory division of AT&T,...
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Google Wave, the Facebook development platform and social network, along with cloud services providing applications running online - if we mix all of these together, could this redefine "operating systems"? Ponderings by Zack Whittaker
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Smooth Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... Obviously there will not be a great deal of integration with Office 2010. Although, according to Zack Whittaker, of the iGeneration blog on ZDNet.com , the first people to take full advantage of any integration between Office 2010 and Exchange 2010 will be Live@edu students and this will come in the form of the development of Outlook Live and Office Web Apps via SkyDrive: “Microsoft...
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
A campus-wide Vista upgrade to all PC's has left students angry, annoyed and unable to log on in a reasonable timeframe. Why couldn't they have just left XP running? Considerations by Zack Whittaker
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
In this day and age, why should I hold down the Shift key to get a very commonly used character - the @ symbol. Surely keyboards should have evolved since the Cold War? Rant by Zack Whittaker
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Windows 8 is at least three years away. Technology changes and develops on a daily basis. On this basis, would touch-only technology be a key feature of the next-generation operating systems? Article by Zack Whittaker