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AVG 9 Launches With Smarter and Faster LinkScanner, Free ID Protection Service

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 5, 2009 8:52 AM / 1 Comments

The latest outbreaks of Twitter and Facebook worms have once again shown that while antivirus and malware protection often focuses on dealing with threats once they have already landed on Continue reading »

Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service

Written by Sarah Perez / October 5, 2009 7:02 AM / 3 Comments

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Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices. Called the "Amazon Mobile Payments Service," the technology includes a set of APIs (application Continue reading »

Gmail Users Get Real-Time Updates in their Email Messages

Written by Sarah Perez / October 5, 2009 6:05 AM / 13 Comments

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Gmail user Dan McGee writes that he's found a new feature in his Gmail that places small favicons next to certain email messages in the inbox view. The icons have Continue reading »

Online Journalism Honorees Announced: Meet the Newseum's Latest Members

Written by Jolie O'Dell / October 4, 2009 10:01 PM / 1 Comments

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For the overworked, underpaid masses of highly competitive journalists, there is no salve for the battered ego that can match the healing power of the official, professional accolade. At San Continue reading »

TinyChat Goes P2P - Leverages Adobe's Real Time Media Flow Protocol

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 2, 2009 1:30 PM / 6 Comments

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TinyChat, the popular Twitter-centric video chatroom solution, just launched a P2P-enabled version of its service. While the regular TinyChat routes its videos through the company's servers, the P2P version uses Continue reading »

YouTube's Promoted Videos are Branching Out and Coming to a Website Near You

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 2, 2009 10:30 AM / 1 Comments

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YouTube's Promoted Videos - the video ads that often appear to the right of the currently playing video in YouTube and next to search results - are now coming to Continue reading »

Layar Augmented Reality Submitted to the iPhone App Store

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 2, 2009 9:46 AM / 1 Comments

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Amsterdam based SPRXMobile has submitted its much-anticipated Augmented Reality platform app Layar to Apple for inclusion in the iPhone app store, according to multiple messages from the company on Twitter. Continue reading »

Google Deletes Pirate Bay's Homepage From Search Results

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 2, 2009 9:23 AM / 16 Comments

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Thanks to a DMCA complaint filed with Google, the company's search index now doesn't feature the Pirate Bay's homepage anymore and the Pirate Bay's PageRank has been dropped to zero. Continue reading »

IBM Launches iNotes, a Gmail Competitor for Business

Written by Sarah Perez / October 2, 2009 8:30 AM / 10 Comments

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Looking for a more affordable and more stable hosted email service than Gmail? According to Lotus, that's exactly what their new hosted email system called iNotes can provide. The company Continue reading »

On Twitter, Information Beats Sentiment

Written by Sarah Perez / October 2, 2009 6:22 AM / 10 Comments

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Researchers at Pennsylvania State University recently revealed the results of a study which looked into how people were using Twitter to talk about products. Companies, of course, fear what a Continue reading »

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