More and more Americans are ‘vanity searching’ – typing their own names into Google – with many also using search engines to sniff out info about their friends, co-workers and romantic interests.
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Month: December 2007
Audacity: New Version Released To Beta
Audacity, the free open-source audio editor, has released a new update – 1.3.4 beta – with lots of new features. It’s used by many people and has many passionate followers.
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LG Viewty Shifts 310,000 In A Month
It may not have enjoyed the hyperbolic pre-release press frenzy of the iPhone, but it seems that LG Electronics’ Viewty phone has turned into a big European seller, with the company reporting that 310,000 units have been shifted since the phone’s European launch, just five weeks ago.
The company claims that around 6,300 LG Viewty mobiles were sold daily in western Europe (UK, France and Germany), with sales expected to take another hike with the recent release of the handset in the Asian and Middle East market.
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New York: Tech Report From The Streets
Based on nothing more than our wholly unscientific personal observations over the course of a two week stay in the Big Apple, we can declare that the Blackberry is far and away the number one phone in Manhattan.
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Opera Take A Double EU Pop At Internet Explorer
Multi-platform Web browser company Opera have filed a complaint with the European Commission citing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The approach is two pronged – abuse of Microsoft’s dominant position in tying its browser to the Windows operating system and, second, hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.
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Vibrating Bluetooth Bracelet
Besides Stereo bluetooth and the odd bit of file transfer, we’re sadly disappointed by the applications that people have put Bluetooth to … but today started to look up a bit, when we saw this Vibrating Bluetooth Bracelet.
Rather than wearing a silly lump of plastic on your ear, to let you talk when you phone rings, the LM959 Bluetooth vibrating bracelet from LM Technologies hangs on your wrist and vibrates when a call comes in, even when you’re up to 5m away from the handset.
With a charge time of 3 hours, the ‘up to’ 100 hours standby time sounds pretty healthy.
If this all sounds appealing … you’re going to have to hold your horses, as they’ve all sold out at the moment. If they do come back in stock, they cost £30 before.
Traktor Scratch Grandmaster Flash Signature Edition
Grandmaster Flash, godfather of scratching has been brought in to tell the world how great he thinks Traktor Scratch is.
For those of you who aren’t aware, it’s a system that lets you control you digital music files using vinyl, giving you all of the function of decks, with the flexibility of a huge digitised music collection.
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Ask Offer Users ‘Privacy Switch’
Ask.com is to allow users of its search engine to delete all of their queries from their server – a stark contrast to other major search engines, especially Google.
Tcho: Wired Mag Founder, Rossetto, Chocolate Business
We all used to love the early days when the new Wired magazine came out, right? The anticipation of the magazine which actually ‘Got it,’ alone in a world where all other magazines were clueless.
Well, after selling off Wired magazine and wired.com off for not nearly as much as he wanted to get for it, Wired founder, Louis Rossetto floated off to enjoy his life. Well now he’s back with a totally different business – Tcho, selling fine hand-made chocolate.
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Do 97% Of The UK Intend To Xmas Shop Online?
A recent survey has reported that 97 per cent of those who responded intended to do a ‘substantial proportion’ of their Christmas shopping online.
Having written about online activity for more years that we care to remember – six, as you’re asking – we know that there’s been a thirst for online shopping growing, the benefits are clear, generally lower prices and convenience being the most obvious.
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