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Anti-Skype software kills IM, P2P too — Bandwidth bandsaw released — LAST WEEK, Verso Technologies (www.verso.com) announced the rollout of a "carrier-grade applications filter" that can block so-called bandwidth drains such as Skype, P2P messaging, streaming media, and instant messaging.
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Called out for being a blackhat spammer? — A noted an interesting trackback this morning going to my YPN case study about one of the first sites showing Yahoo's Publisher Network ads, Womens-Finance. Primarily, he is accusing womens-finance as being nothing but a black hat spam site.
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Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with an inexpensive way to prevent digital cameras and digital video cameras from capturing that secret shot. — The technology they've devised detects the presence …

WHAT'S UP WITH AUDIO IN WINDOWS VISTA? — Steve Ball (the GPM for the MediaTech group (of which Windows Audio is a part)) discussed some of these changes in the Windows Audio Channel 9 video, but I'd like to spend a bit more time talking about what we've done.
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Part II: Gunfight at the 64-Bit Corral — When it looked like AMD was going to render Intel's multibillion dollar IA64 effort (aka Itanium) irrelevant with its brassy push into 64-bit computing using an extended x86 architecture, Intel responded with EM64T.

Apple's New Tablet - the iNote. — James R. Stoup from Apple Matters is responsible for a recent article titled: "Flash Based Laptops, Sooner Than You Think." He posits in his writing that Apple might extend a form of the iPod technology to a theme for desktops of consumer models …

CNN Hacks New TV Technology — Your impression when tuning in to CNN's The Situation Room for the first time is likely to be, "Geez, there's a lot going on here." — There is. And much of it involves technologies familiar to internet regulars, but mostly unheard of in the context of TV newscasts.
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Slingbox impresses — Ahh, it's nice to take a day or two off and catch up on sleep. Not to mention catch up with Maryam. — Yesterday before Maryam came home I setup my Slingbox. Oh. My. Gawd. This thing rocks. — I'm watching my TV from work. Don't tell Bill, OK?
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Intelligence in the Internet age — It's a question older than the Parthenon: Do innovations and new technologies make us more intelligent? — A few thousand years ago, a Greek philosopher, as he snacked on dates on a bench in downtown Athens, may have wondered if the written language folks …

Dell And Verizon Wireless Connect On Wireless Broadband — Media Contact Info — BEDMINSTER, NJ & ROUND ROCK, TX — Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) have teamed to lead the evolving convergence of computing and communications devices. This collaboration allows Dell customers …

Software Notebook: RSS gets its due at Microsoft developer conference — LOS ANGELES — It wasn't mentioned as often as Windows was, but one techie term was uttered with extraordinary frequency during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference here last week: RSS.

Apple Expo: Harman Kardon(R) Introduces Car Audio Solution for the iPod(R) — PARIS, September 19 /PRNewswire/ — Picture is available: — Harman Kardon, a leading provider of audio products for the home, computer and automotive industries, unveiled the European version of Harman Kardon Drive + Play …