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Bing Keeps Pecking Away At Search Share And Making Gains

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I gotta admit, Bing is doing some nice stuff. I still don’t use it, but I’ve seen some cool features. If they could just wean themselves off Silverlight, that’d probably help, too….

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Getting More Sleep Almost Certainly Staves Off Colds [Health]

Game addictions, all-night crams, and television catch-up marathons will probably cost you in Kleenex. That’s according to a recent (and cruel) study that exposed both under-slept and…

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Hacking Two-Factor Authentication

Back in 2005, I wrote about the failure of two-factor authentication to mitigate banking fraud:

Here are two new active attacks we’re starting to see:
Man-in-the-Middle attack. An attacker…

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Lightroom vs. Aperture

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A pretty rare (these days) example of Apple feeling the bite of someone else’s monopoly(ish) control.

InfoTrends survey of over 1,000 professional photographers shows Lightroom…

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September 21

Pantone offers color libraries for iPhone, mostly

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it’d be cool if you could calibrate your iphone screen.

Filed under: Graphic Design, App Review

While it’s been in the App Store for the last few days, Pantone is…

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AT&T Femtocell Website Comes Online - Comes in monthly $20 or $10 flavors

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That is a weak ass pricing structure - “We will let you supplement our crappy ass infrastructure using your own internet, and you can pay us $20/month for the privilege”??

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September 18

Palm Abandons Windows Mobile (Dieter Bohn/PreCentral.net)

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Wow, this is a ballsy, but great move for palm.

Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Palm Abandons Windows Mobile — Jon Rubinstein just made it official during…

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Jedi tossed out of supermarket for wearing hood

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“Jedi are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all went hoodless without going to the Dark…

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New 'Montauk Monster' Crawls Out Of Cave In Panama, Freaks Everyone Out

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With the animal lieing there dead, beaten to death with by a bunch of kids w/ sticks, it kinda makes you wonder where the word “monster” should be applied.