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Twitter searches for the next step (The Guardian)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:06:39 GMT

On his Blogger.com profile page, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams describes himself as "a farm boy from Nebraska, who's been very lucky in business and life". That luck seemed to be running out in recent months, when Twitter - the microblogging and messaging service created by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Williams himself - struggled to cope with massive growth. Instead of their Tweets, users were frequently...

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Planet CNET Episode 11: Google's new View and a bigger Eye (CNET.co.uk)

shannon.doubleday@cnet.co.uk (Shannon Doubleday) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:25:02 GMT

We're tanned, rested and ready to go with another episode of Planet CNET, travelling around the world for the latest in tech and gadget news

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Panasonic DMR-EX88 DVD PVR: Don't let TV boss you around (CNET.co.uk)

ian.morris@cnet.co.uk (Ian Morris) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:54:01 GMT

If you hate sitting through adverts and being told what time to watch your favourite TV show then you'll love the Panasonic DMR-EX88, which flips the bird to the TV establishment

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Could a robotic dragonfly save your life? (Technology Blog)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:14:00 GMT

Bart Remes and his team at the Technical University of Delft have just produced the smallest-ever flapping wing robot ( ornithopter ) with a built-in camera. With a wingspan of just 10 centimetres, the DelFly could easily be confused with a real dragonfly. There's a video of it in action below. The small box in the bottom righthand corner gives a DelFly's eye view of the world. The DelFly should help...

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Google launches Knol as rival to Wikipedia (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:50:54 GMT

Google has today launched an online encyclopaedia to take on Wikipedia.

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50,000 people rush for personalised e-mail accounts (Times Online)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:27:53 GMT

An international rush for personalised e-mail addresses has seen more than 50,000 people register under the new .me domain name in just two days.

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DIY broadband (BBC News)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:58:29 GMT

The communities that are laying their own fibre

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'Extraordinary' hero's George Cross (Daily Express)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:48:29 GMT

A Royal Marine receiving the George Cross for throwing himself on a grenade has been hailed as the most "extraordinary hero" by the head of the British armed forces.

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GigaOM buys jkOnTheRun mobile computing blog (The Guardian Technology blog)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:40:01 GMT

Is the best future for an independent blog to become part of an agglomeration?

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Card fraudsters live in poverty (the INQUIRER)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:16:13 GMT

Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 17:44:00 Robin Hood, Robin Hood, have you got a pen? Sign here, thank you MORE CREDIT CARD FRAUDSTERS live in deprived areas of South East London than anywhere else in the UK, according to a marketing survey. The Saarf London area of Thamesmead tops the UK's card fraud charts, according to 3rd Man, a firm that provides an anti-card-fraud service....

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AMD confirms fab spinoff (the INQUIRER)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:16:13 GMT

Charlie Demerjian the Inquirer , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 17:57:00 Updated: Almost like we knew AMD JUST CONFIRMED our story about spinning off its fabs. Since it was uttered by newly-fabbed CEO Dirk Meyer in an Austin American Statesman interview, it is going to be hard to spin. Buried about halfway down the article, here, is the golden quote, "And Meyer says the company is...

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"Asprox computer virus" runs riot, hits the NHS, claims The Times (The Guardian Technology blog)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:30:25 GMT

The Times says the "Asprox computer virus" is infecting British web sites, but actually, it's just another escalating round of SQL injection attacks

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Xbox 360 price cut in UK (the INQUIRER)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:29:40 GMT

Dean Pullen the Inquirer , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 17:12:00 Console round-up Or get a free Elite from Dell IT SEEMS THE Xbox 360 is receiving non-official price-cuts in the UK. Xbox 360 Play.com is now offering the Xbox 360 Premium for a bargain £170 delivered. Or an Arcade for £150. This will probably not appease this analyst who's called for a 'proper' price-cut....

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The Tech Weekly podcast: virtual worlds and real ones (The Guardian Technology blog)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:31:36 GMT

The weekly podcast trips into virtual worlds. Unlike the real one you're in. You are, aren't you?

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WD makes enterprise Velociraptors (the INQUIRER)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:11:55 GMT

Charlie Demerjian the Inquirer , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 16:00:00 Goes after the SAS market WESTERN DIGITAL CAME out with the 10,000RPM 2.5-inch Velociraptor HDs last spring, and instantly took the enthusiast crown. Now the firm is aiming for the same niche in the enterprise space with the new Velociraptor WD3000BLFS....

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Green computing just broke its cherry (the INQUIRER)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:56:24 GMT

Rob Kerr the Inquirer , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 15:44:00 Giving the Mac Mini a run for... much less money CALIFORNIAN COMPANY CHERRYPAL has just produced the greenest of the green computers, pulling just a meagre two watts in power. It looks like a KVM switch, it has no moving parts, 80 percent fewer components as compared to other PCs and pulls in 112 fewer watts - with a cost...

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Nokia N96 spotted (the INQUIRER)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:56:24 GMT

Dean Pullen the Inquirer , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 15:49:00 September release confirmed for 3 HOT ON THE RELEASE of the 3G Iphone comes a sequel to Nokia's reigning king. The successor to the N95, the N96, will be released in September, on UK mobile network 3, according to T3....

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Access says Palm touched its OS (the INQUIRER)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:36:52 GMT

Fernando Cassia the Inquirer , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 12:37:00 So no Netfront 3.5 for Palm OS Centro and Treos expected MOBILE LINUX ghost-OS and micro-browsers firm Access Systems told the INQUIRER there will be no Netfront 3.5 browser for Palm devices unless Palm requests it, and that Palm has fiddled with its Garnet OS. Since we read on the firm's web page over here about all the greatness and...

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Network hijacker has change of heart (the INQUIRER)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:36:52 GMT

Emma Hughes the Inquirer , Wednesday 23 July 2008. 13:35:00 Childs hands back keys to the playground TEN DAYS AFTER he was taken into custody Terry Childs, a network administrator for the city of San Francisco has given up the all important access codes. Childs was taken into custody on July 13 after he reportedly locked administrators out of the city's system, meaning that information on law...

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So imagine that everyone's PVR starts seeding programmes via Bittorrent... (The Guardian Technology blog)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:09:57 GMT

Tom Loosemore of Ofcom gave a presentation about how to make more than just 0.00001% of TV available (and not through DVD box sets either)

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