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Video: Death of an analog TV
As the U.S. prepares to shift to digital television on June 12, [...]

Yahoo announced on Thursday that it is opening up its search platform to third-party developers. The company also says it will be supporting the semantic Web.
Yahoo plans to hold a developer launch party at its Sunnyvale, Calif., campus in coming weeks. It will launch a beta test program for a tool that developers [...]

Any gain in ratings was negligible, the Times report said. That said, Gossip Girl episodes had been available for purchase in the iTunes Store throughout the “streaming ban,” and it was certainly still possible to record them on set-top boxes.
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But with the second season of Gossip Girl premiering September 1, this means [...]

Now, dear readers, you know why the Macalope drinks.
It’s like beating your antlers against a brick wall.
Sure, some are still going to “fall off of a truck” in the Bronx every now and again and it might be possible to still get phones out of the store without a contract in other countries — all [...]

Consider this: Stand Up To Cancer [link includes an auto-play video], an organization dedicated to building interdisciplinary teams of experts to focus on solving specific cancer problems, has teamed up with eBay to auction off a number of “celebrity experiences” to raise funds for cancer research.
Love Spidey? Hate cancer? Of course you do.

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Attackers are using programming errors to hijack keyword searches by automatically attaching malicious HTML code to specific search queries. Unwitting visitors who type in the selected key words while performing a search at the affected sites are then redirected to booby-trapped Web sites.

Evers added that the Web is quickly becoming one of the most [...]

Webinar is “one more example of the significant ongoing trend for electronic technologies to add words to the language,” Merriam-Webster publisher John Morse said in a Monday press release about the 100 or so new words in the 2008 edition of the influential reference guide.

The 100 or so new words in M-W’s latest dictionary [...]

Now I’m afraid to touch the thing. It almost makes me want to go back to the corporate world. Sure, the paycheck, stock options, and medical benefits would be great, but I’d really be doing it for the IT support.
I was…until I realized it was time to be an IT person again.
Believe it [...]

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You might not be able to get Google-like profits, but at least you can treat your employees more like how Google treats its own employees. There’s a good lesson in there….
Most of the music on the iPods of UK youth has been pilfered. Surprising? No. There are two interesting factoids in the data, however:
“80% of [...]

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Using software and sonar the system can detect and differentiate between “malicious swimmers and divers” and other targets, such as marine life and debris, at up to 1000 meters, according to the British Columbia-based company. A processor “captures a wide acoustic swath” to positively identify and localize the threat, then notifies security (PDF).

The [...]