It’s really interesting how Japanese cars are really making it big in muscle car America. Toyota Prius is on top of the hybrid food chain as demand for eco-friendly and fuel-economic cars surge for the past months CNN reports.
A total of 187,000 hybrid vehicles were sold in the United States in the first six [...]

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I missed this bit since my news feeds are the most abundant in my feed reader. It’s already a few days old but still, I think it’s an important issue to discuss.
The business school of the University of Chicago is now requiring applicants to submit PowerPoint presentations together with their applications according to a [...]

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Google probably wants to stop all the headaches (lawsuits) that came with their acquisition of YouTube. Imagine acquiring buying something for $1.65 B and getting slapped with a lawsuit amounting to $1 B afterwards. Remember Viacom? Well, that’s what happened so it’s pretty much understandable why Google is just intent on developing an anti-piracy [...]

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For tech newbies, cookies aren’t the ones that Cookie Monster devour with amazing gusto. They’re little files stored in your computer containing preference data when visiting websites.These little bugger has been a source of much concern from privacy advocates since information like default settings and search tracking can be stored in these files.
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Seems like iPod junkies should take heed of experts’ advice to get indoors as soon as lightning and thunder is heard.
CNN reports of hit-by-lightning-while-using-their-iPods cases. The latest, a Canadian jogger who suffered burns, ruptured eardrums, and a broken jaw when he was hit by lightning and electricity traveled through the wires.
Several other cases have also [...]

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Speaking of Firefox, I just can’t wait for the release of Firefox 3. Unfortunately for me, it will still be a few months before I could get hold of the third major incarnation of my favorite browser. But since I trust that Mozilla is gunning for quality over a shippable (shit-able) format, I’m quite [...]

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After more than a decade of being the richest man in the world, Bill Gates is now relegated to the number two spot. The new guy - Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican tycoon.
By the latest estimates of total assets, Slim is now worth $67.8 B which places him ahead of former number two Warren [...]

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I deferred posting the news of the iPhone launch, since, well… I’m not too excited about it. So forgive me for letting my personal feelings affect a supposedly objective takes on technology and lifestyles.
I haven’t really been an Apple user. When the iPod craze came (and went?) I was the guy who never owned [...]

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And Google continues to deliver. Google Docs and Spreadsheets just got a spiffy new look and I’m loving it.
The once lame documents list is now sporting an Explorer-type folders and documents allowing you to see how your documents are organized. Folders have replaced your tags. For some reason, it brings familiarity back to management. [...]

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Update: And we are back with Illacrimo. Our intrepid designer just wasn’t happy enough with the way things looked, and had to go back and make it perfect.
I didn’t know that it wasn’t already, but then again, that’s why I am not a designer.
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We have a great three column theme for you called [...]

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Google is battling strong to be the preferred online collaboration tool with Google Apps and they might just come out ahead with these latest offerings. Google will make available mail migration, allowing administrators to transfer mail from an IMAP server into exiting Google accounts.
Aside from that, Apps will also feature the following:

Shared address book [...]

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It seems that made-for-Adsense (MFA) blacklisting is affecting the rest of us earning from Adsense. Digital Inspiration reports of a seemingly across-the-board drop in Adsense earnings by publishers. Coincidentally this is happening during the time when Google cracks down on MFA sites.
Adsense publishers report that earnings per click (EPCs) are down. Clickthrough rates (CTRs) [...]

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It’s a marketing war, I tell you. So probably I’m part of the reason why Microsoft and Windows Vista gained some points in the OS market share with my purchase of a laptop with a bundled Vista Home Basic (sucks!). In any case, my purchase made a stat point in Vista’s gain of 3/4 [...]

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The boons and banes of social networking.
Seven sex offenders were arrested for violating their parole by going online and posting profiles on social network MySpace. Data was provided to Texas police by MySpace. This is part of the preventive measures done by the State to curb the victim-finding activities of these sex offenders. Many [...]

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I have to admit that I use Yahoo! Messenger just a bit more than my other IMs. It’s simply because most of my contacts and friends also use Y!M as their primary IM. However, for e-mail purposes, I’m a hardcore Gmail user. I just think the simple interface and mailbox space can’t be beat.
Yahoo! [...]

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