Saturday, May 06, 2006
AOL's 'AIM Phoneline' offers free local phone number
Apparently, AOL is about to unveil a free VOIP telephone number for incoming calls (with its AIM service). Outgoing calls will cost $14.95 a month, but it looks like that will be an "upgradable" feature. I wonder how long is will take before they run out of "free" numbers.
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Microsoft Quietly Launches Froogle Competitor
'Search is pathetic' - Bill Gates
Q: So how far are you behind Google?
GATES: Weâ??ll look back on this time and realize that search is pathetic. If I ask for something, I should get it, not a list of things to click on...
Itâ??s great for where it is, but it will get so much better. Thereâ??s no way to qualify results... by trusted sources. Sources I trust, that is.
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GATES: Weâ??ll look back on this time and realize that search is pathetic. If I ask for something, I should get it, not a list of things to click on...
Itâ??s great for where it is, but it will get so much better. Thereâ??s no way to qualify results... by trusted sources. Sources I trust, that is.
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'Search is pathetic' - Bill Gates
Q: So how far are you behind Google?
GATES: Weâ??ll look back on this time and realize that search is pathetic. If I ask for something, I should get it, not a list of things to click on...
Itâ??s great for where it is, but it will get so much better. Thereâ??s no way to qualify results... by trusted sources. Sources I trust, that is.
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GATES: Weâ??ll look back on this time and realize that search is pathetic. If I ask for something, I should get it, not a list of things to click on...
Itâ??s great for where it is, but it will get so much better. Thereâ??s no way to qualify results... by trusted sources. Sources I trust, that is.
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$149 Book-sized Linux computer
Recent price drop from the makers of this amazing little box. They are also running a contest for cool community projects.
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Smoking with young kids in vehicle banned under bill
Arkansas has passed a bill banning smoking in your own vehicle if you have children (7 and under) with you. Anti-smoking activists are pursuing an "informal, unorganized and quiet movement toward making it a criminal act to smoke around kids" under any circumstances, including in parents' own homes, which would be categorized as child abuse.
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Popular physics myth is all at sea
Does the ghostly Casimir effect really cause ships to attract each other? Some stories are just too good to be true. And according to physicist Fabrizio Pinto, that's exactly the case for an analogy routinely used by physicists to illustrate the mysterious Casimir effect.
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Goodbye BearShare!! Limewire and the rest soon to follow.....
Online file-sharing service BearShare, along with operators Free Peers Inc., is packing it up due to a $30 million settlement with the recording industry. The conditions of the settlement were agreed to by the P2P company to avoid further copyright infringement litigation.
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Awesome Rockstar inspired Xbox 360 case mod.
Awesome Rockstar inspired Xbox 360 case mod.
Microsoft's War-Plan Against Google
Microsoft will increase investments by 60% in MSN, Windows Live and its other online businesses to $1.6 billion next year as it escalates a battle with Google, its chief executive said Thursday.
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The problem with MPAA's shocking piracy numbers
One of this month's top stories will be the MPAA's startling revelation that even it had underestimated the threat of piracy. HOWEVER, the great US$6.1 billion figure looks to have a good deal of questionable padding in it, much like most other "studies" that purport to map real financial losses onto piracy, including its softer forms.
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A car that could save the planet -- fast
Silicon Valley's big brains think they can beat Detroit and Tokyo and save the planet -- all while doing 0 to 60 faster than almost anything on the road.
Also in this story, a photo gallery of the car with closeups, and a video of the X1 racing a Ferrari in a print. Creams it!
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Also in this story, a photo gallery of the car with closeups, and a video of the X1 racing a Ferrari in a print. Creams it!
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Apple slips, accidentally reveals existence of MacBook on website
Apple accidentally displayed some navigation graphics for the highly-anticipated MacBook on apple.com this morning. Could it's release be right around the corner?
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Free PDF download of magazine for older gamers issue #2
2old2play.com just put up issue # 2 of their print magazine, 2o2p Magazine, in PDF format. This months issue has an exclusive interview with Stardoc Games, a full history of the Legend of Zelda, an article on sex and violence in video games. and much more. It's also quite suitable for printing.
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The Universe is a trillion years old
If the universe has bounced through a long series of big bangs and big crunches for a trillion years, it could solve the puzzle of why thecosmological constant is a googol smaller than that predicted by particle physics theories
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Windows Tip: Rename Multiple Files with One Click
Picture this: You've dumped all those arcanely named photos from your camera to your PC. But rather than leave them with names like IMG0484.jpg, you'd like them to have descriptive titles like VacationToParis1.jpg. Here's the easy way to rename files in bulk!
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