Michael Santo
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Can't buy the company? Can't buy the search technology? Well, how about buying the talent? Wednesday Microsoft placed a full-page ad for "search jobs" in (gasp!) an honest-to-goodness hard copy paper, The San Jose Mercury-News. Despite the ubiquity of the San Francisco Chronicle, for Silicon Valley, the Merc is the paper."There are now very...
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Lenovo Asset Recovery Service Helps Businesses Go Green, Turning Computer Trash into CashEco-Solution Gives Customers Easy Way to Refurbish, Reuse and Recycle ComputersRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – June 17, 2007: Lenovo today introduced Lenovo Asset Recovery Services (ARS), a new set of services to help business customers in the U.S. and Canada...
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Typical of Firefox releases, a number of sites have begun leaking downloads to Firefox 3 (final). Naturally people will rush to these downloads and start downloading, as most of us are impatient. We say: don't do it! Why not? Well, don't you want to see Mozilla set a Guinness Book of World Records record? Mozilla is running...
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You probably remember the Megan Meier case, in which a teenage girl committed suicide after a MySpace romance went bad. The romance itself and the boy involved were in fact fictional, perpetrated as a vindictive prank by the mother of a former friend who lived down the street.A Missouri woman who prosecutors say drove a 13-year-old neighbour...
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Video:Gigabyte Geforce GTX280 (1Gb GDDR3) @ CPU3DNVIDIA GTX 280 & GTX 260 Technology Report @ TechARPGTX 280 review @ NeoseekerGeForce GTX 280 with QX9650 at 4GHz @ TweaktownNVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Graphics Cards by EVGA and PNY @ Legit ReviewsEVGA GeForce GTX 280 1GB Superclocked Edition Review @ Hardware CanucksNVIDIA GeForce GTX 280...
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You'll recall our earlier post about the AP's DMCA takedown notices against the Drudge Retort, over excerpts that most would consider "fair use," but that AP felt were infringing on copyright. AP has back off - some - but now wants to create its own guidelines for blog posting of excerpts.On Saturday, The A.P. retreated. Jim Kennedy,...
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Fake Steve Jobs, AKA Daniel Lyons, who was outed last year by the New York Times when his book was about to launch (hard to keep hiding under those circumstances), has decided to leave his real job with Forbes for a new real job with Newsweek.Forbes editor Dan Lyons, best known to most of you as Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving his employer after...
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You probably recall AOL's 2006 leak of search user data, which actually was more like a flood. AOL published the search logs of 650,000 subscribers, which eventually resulted in some heads rolling, after the smoke cleared. Why not take a tack from Law and Order and rip a story from the headlines, eh? And that's what director Michael Alltop...
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Video:Gainward BLISS 9800 GX2 Dual-GPU Version Review @ MVKTechASUS GeForce 9800 GTX TOP Edition @ TweaktownMotherboards and Chipsets:Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Motherboard Review @ DragonSteelModsZOTAC GeForce 8300 AM2+ Motherboard @ TweaktownASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI Motherboard on NVIDIA GeForce 8200 Chipset (Socket AM2+) @ Digit-LifeProcessors:asfdfMemory...
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Many have heard of Megan Meier, the teenager who committed suicide over a MySpace romance gone bad - one which turned out to be a hoax. Here we have another social networking death; is this a troubling trend?A teenager said to have been bullied on the social networking site Bebo has been found hanged in his bedroom.Blaming Bebo for his...
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Most sites love it when someone links to their story. As long as you only clip a short portion of the story, all you'll be doing, essentially, is driving traffic to the linked site.You would think that "most" would include The Associated Press (AP), but apparently not.Rogers Cadenhead has long run a site called the Drudge Retort at www.drudge.com....
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Don't worry, Rupert (Murdoch); MySpace still outdraws Facebook in terms of unique U.S. visitors. But in terms of worldwide visitors: second place.comScore statistics indicate that Facebook drew even with MySpace in April. At that point, the networks interested about 115 million users each. If we're allowed mentally to extend the...
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Video:GIGABYTE GeForce 9600GT TurboForce 1GB @ TweaktownChaintech GeForce 9600 GT 512MB OC Reviewed @ TheTechLoungeProcessors:AMD Phenom X4 9850 @ Digit-LifeMemory and Storage:VOX V1 External Hard Drive @ TechwareLabsSilverStone TS01 2.5" HDD Enclosure @ 3DGameManMemory Cards Roundup @ InsideHWPower:Atrix 500T Extreme 650W Review @ OCCSeasonic...
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We just received an RC3 for Firefox 3. Oh no! Sure it was a Mac-only change, but what does that do to the release date? Apparently, not much.The Mozilla Foundation has announced the release date for Firefox 3. It will be June 17th (yep, next Tuesday).At the same time, the Spread Firefox site trumpets that the number...
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Iron Man? Feh. How about Paper Man? A new process can create paper with tensile strength 1.6x that of iron.The new technology, developed by researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, takes ordinary cellulose and puts it through special processing. The end result is a paper, made out of normal wood...
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ASUS Announces First-Ever Republic of Gamers Convention--The official ASUS/Intel summer gaming event brings BYOC, BYOL, technologyworkshops and product exhibition into one massive gathering --FREMONT, CA (June 10, 2008) - ASUS®, a worldwide leader in Open Architecture Product and notebook design and manufacturing, today officially unveiled...
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Of course you'd love to know what that Google engineer makes. But the idea behind Glassdoor, a startup which launched in public beta on Wednesday at 12:01 AM EDT, is more than just that. In addition, the site wants you to review your company, and let people know just what you really think about your CEO, your workplace atmosphere, its politics...
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When checking out the specs on the Voodoo Envy 133 earlier, we were pretty annoyed by the Flash intro to the revamped VoodooPC site. That's precisely the reason for a feature such as this. Search for a site, and - if the site has a Skip Intro link on it - results will have a "Skip intro," which enables users to skip the Flash intro, directly...
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Video:MSI RX3870-T2D512E OC Videocard Review @ HardwareLogicMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte's GA-X48-DQ6 @ NeoseekerASRock X48 TurboTwins-WiFi Motherboard @ CPU3DMSI P45 Diamond @ t-breakASUS Rampage Formula Review @ OCCASRock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi Review and Thermaltake Armor+MX VH8000BWS review @ AMDZoneMemory and Storage:Western Digital...
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AMD Next-Generation OpenGL® ES 2.0 Graphics Technology Achieves Industry Conformance— Khronos™ Group Certifies AMD OpenGL ES 2.0 Technology, Designed for Mobile Phones, Handheld 3D Gaming and GPS Devices —SUNNYVALE, Calif. — June 11, 2008 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has reached a new milestone in the mobile graphics...
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In somewhat of a coup for them, Hulu, the joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp., has landed a few more shows for their burgeoning video vault, including both The Colbert Report and The Daily Show from Comedy Central.We had to check and make sure the press release wasn't a joke, but there are indeed full episodes from both programs...
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Those looking forward to the July 1st introduction of a teenage cell phone ban in California should start looking elsewhere for comfort. An Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study released on Monday, which took a look at the results of a 2006 North Carolina ban for drivers younger than age 18, showed that teenagers were just as likely...
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