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Bicycling Directions, Trails Comes to Google Maps

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:08 +0000

There’s nothing worse for a bicyclist than finding yourself a mile in to a two-mile stretch of shoulder-less, busy, highway-speed traffic with no alternative route. Before today, this was a common occurrence if you went to trusty Google Maps to get bicycling directions, but starting today, that has all changed.

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EFF: New Smart Meters for Energy Use Put Privacy at Risk

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:08 +0000

The ebb and flow of gas and electricity into your home contains surprisingly detailed information about your daily life. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment, allows the reconstruction of a household’s activities: when people wake up, when they come home, when they go on vacation, and maybe even when they take a hot bath…

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Government No-Fly List Includes the Dead

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:08 +0000

You may be dying, figuratively, to get off the government’s no-fly list, but death won’t guarantee removal. The government’s no-fly list includes the names of dead suspects, according to government officials who spoke with the Associated Press, to help catch people who may try to assume the suspect’s identity…

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How does a parent handle cyberbullying?

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:08 +0000

What’s a parent to do when their child is being bullied relentlessly by peers on Facebook? School administrators say they have no control over what happens outside of school.

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Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:08 +0000

The CEO of Lifelock, Todd Davis, became famous for advertising his Social Security number on television ads and banners painted on trucks promising his $10 monthly service would protect consumers from identity theft.

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HTML5 – New Old Semantics

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:07 +0000

Huge deal! The revolutionary modifications in HTML5 semantics bring the whole new coding (and indexing) experience. But is it really all that new?

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Top free troubleshooting tools for Windows

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:06 +0000

No computer runs perfectly forever. Somewhere along the line, something will go wrong. While each successive version of Windows has been that much more reliable and self-healing, that’s never been an argument to forgo a good collection of software tools.

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Screw Facebook: Suicide Machine to live on… in open source

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:05 +0000

Mortally wounded by legal assaults from Facebook, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” is no longer helping users of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace automatically dump their friends and wash their hands of those services. However, those behind the site are planning a last great act of defiance: Soon they’ll be giving away their code.

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When a Family Tragedy Turns Into a YouTube Sensation

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:05 +0000

It seems an ever-more common scenario: a death is captured in a photograph or video. The images are uploaded onto the Web. Within days, thousands, if not millions, of strangers have pierced their way into a family’s grief—gawking at the final moments of a life that were never meant to be public.

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Google Launches Google Reader Play for Apple’s iPad

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:05 +0000

Google Reader Play is a full-screen treatment that shows you an image, video, or text from websites that are popular on Google Reader. You can navigate from page to page with right and left arrows at the sides of the screen, or by selecting a site from the assorted options below. You don’t even have to be signed in to use it.

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