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PC World - On a flight from San Francisco to San Francisco that seemed loosely based on the Snoop Dogg film Soul Plane, Virgin America demoed its Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service this past weekend amid a cabin full of Web celebrities. (And, for some reason, me.)...(more)
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The instant knowledge provided by the Web is invaluable, as is the deeper communion provided by books. "On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf once wrote, "the world changed." Sometime during the early aughts of this century, it changed again. The Internet leveled our cultural landscape....(more)
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An abandoned anchor was responsible for cutting one of the undersea Internet cables severed last week, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cable's owner said Friday.
A FLAG Telecom repair crew discovered the anchor near where the fiber-optic cable was severed Feb....(more)
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CNET - For most Facebook users, it's common to receive a message from a friend urging them to visit a page containing a video. But one video currently making the rounds appears on a Google page and will not play unless a new codec is downloaded...(more)
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Naperville has flirted with creating a wireless Internet network before, and it has the leftover equipment to prove it.
But as crews began installing little white antennas Thursday in the downtown, the city at last appeared ready to join the Chicago-area communities offering residents free wireless Internet...(more)
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TOLEDO, Ohio -- Here in the battleground of all battleground states, the people in charge of this soon-to-end presidential campaign are Chris Myers and Katie Stoynoff. But Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have never heard of them. Myers, 33, is a lifelong Republican. Though...(more)
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Will Schwalbe, former editor in chief of Hyperion Books, is starting Cookstr, a new Web site, to showcase the recipes of both star chefs and lesser known cookbook writers.
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A Seattle company called SpinSpotter has produced a piece of software that gives an interesting peek at where the future of truth-squadding may lie.
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AFP - Germany's family minister Ursula von der Leyen announced plans to crack down on Internet child pornography by enlisting online service providers to block offensive sites, in an interview published Thursday.
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A team of Penn State scientists has discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. The microorganism's ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen...(more)
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With Facebook valued at more than $15 billion and LinkedIn at $1 billion, online social communities appear worth investing in - at least to a British startup, which is jumping into the fray with a networking site aimed at executives. Talkbiznow, available in...
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