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BBC plans online children's world — A virtual world which children can inhabit and interact with is being planned by the BBC. — CBBC, the channel for 7-12 year olds, said it would allow digitally literate children the access to characters and resources they had come to expect.
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VTOR, Mashable!, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, Valleywag and 3pointD.com
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E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing' — In this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion — the concept of saving messages for delivery in decades, centuries or more. — The project, dubbed …
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Apple Special Event on February 20 — We have just gotten an anonymous tip from a source that indicates that Apple is planning a special event on February 20 to introduce Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), iLife '07 and iWork '07 as well as updated Mac Pros. Mac Pros will be available immediately …
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Google Germany goes kaput — Ich hatte meinen domain namen vergessen — Updated Google apologised on Tuesday after its German site disappeared overnight and was replaced by a page from domain holding company Goneo. — The search engine was resurrected at about 7.30am German time, though users still report some problems.
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Report: Google Doesn't Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down
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Vista Service Pack 1 is coming — Reckon you won't upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released? That's looking likely to be the second half of this year, according to Microsoft's latest email blast. — The company has put out a call for "customers and partners (to) …
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Flex 3 - The most important feature! — The Flex team is in full development of the next full release of Flex, Flex 3. The release is looking amazing but I wanted to reveal the most important feature today. Flex 3. targets the release version of Flash Player 9 and will be widely deployable …
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Interview with Mike Downey, Sr. Product Manager for Apollo
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TellMe Launches a Killer Mobile Product — If you have a cell phone that supports the new TellMe mobile application, you will never use 411 again to find a business. It launches today at 5 AM PST. — TellMe mobile is a free Java application that you install on your phone.
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Second Life: It's not a game — Fortune's David Kirkpatrick reports on why IBM's Sam Palmisano and other tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Last November in Beijing, IBM gathered 2,000 employees, with 5,000 more watching on the web …
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The not-so-shocking Intel/Sun alliance — (Intel is a sponsor of SVW) Monday's news that Sun will make Intel Xeon servers and Intel will promote Solaris shocked some observers. — Sun's former CEO Scott McNealy used to say nasty things about Intel's Itanium 64-bit microprocessor, a competitor to Sun's SPARC chip.
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Sun to Product Xeon-based Servers. …
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Campaign to Reduce Wikipedia's PageRank to Zero — When news spread that Wikipedia was going to add the "NOFOLLOW" attribute to all external links, in an effort to reduce spam, I suggested that the issue could be resolved if everyone linking to Wikipedia, added a NOFOLLOW and effectively reduce the value of a Wikipedia link.
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BBC talking to Google about providing video on YouTube — LONDON: The British Broadcasting Corporation said Monday that it was in discussions with the search engine company Google about putting some of the BBC's programming on the online video site YouTube.
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Wikio Secures $5.3 Million in Series A Funding — Blog and Media Search Company Receives Funding For Research and Development, and International Expansion — LUXEMBOURG—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Wikio, operator of the popular personalized Web information page announced today it has closed a Series 'A' round of funding totaling $5.3 million.
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In The Time Of "Me First": IBM Slowr? — Social applications are likely to be the major theme in software this year. IBM has been pushing hard in recent years, building on the huge installed base and share-of-mind in the enterprise software world, and now has launched a new product family …
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Google Personalized Home Page Adds Expand & Collapse Per Post — A DigitalPoint Forum thread reports that Google has made a slight change to the Google Personalized home page, by adding a little plus sign to the RSS feeds. Instead of just seeing the title, you can click on the plus sign …
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An interesting offer: get paid to contribute to Wikipedia — My first computer was a Mac Plus. Loved it. My second computer was an AT&T Unix PC running System V. Loved it long time. My third computer was a Sparc running Solaris or SunOS. Loved it. At work I run Linux, Open Office, Firefox, Eclipse, etc.
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Is SEO "rocket science?": A Q&A with Dave Pasternack — Is SEO "Rocket Science?": A Q&A With Dave Pasternack — Q: Your article back in October created a lot of controversy in DM News and the search engine blogosphere. What's everybody so angry about?
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Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music — As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to take.