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Which Democrat wins an online primary?

Like Digg but can never get on the the front page? Try AddPile.com Presidential Primaries are so 20th century. Let’s spend a few movements at take a look at who’s the most popular Democratic Candidate online: According to Alexis.com, which tracks and ranks website traffic BarackObama.com is a clear winner ranking 9,008 with HillaryClinton.com taking [...]

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Sun, January 27 2008 » www » Comments Off

Rejected helicopter silencer turned into speakers

A technology developed by The British Ministry of Defense to silence helicopters has benefits for the consumer market. This new flat-panel surface can enable speakers to be placed on cell phones (making them thinner) and car roof liners (for stereo speakers).  The MoD sold the technology to a Cambridge-Based company called NXT.  They have crafted [...]

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Thu, January 10 2008 » tech » Comments Off

832 GB flash drive will be on the market by 2008

The hardware maker, Bit Micro, has recently announced that they are finishing on a 832 GB flash, solid state hard drive.  This along with other flash drive will improve a users experience. The E-Disk Altime 2.5″ drive will be a serial ATA drive with flash solid state technology.  The company will start to test the [...]

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Wed, January 9 2008 » tech » Comments Off

Vista is not doing as well as XP did in 2001.

Microsoft’s “new and improved” operating system, Vista, is less appealing to new PC buyers than Windows XP was during it’s first year on the software market.  Once one factors in the market size, which has doubled. Microsoft’s chairman, Bill Gates, was speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week and revealed [...]

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Tue, January 8 2008 » tech » Comments Off

Lost Star Wars Opening Scene

Sometimes it’s better if a scene stays lost.  This is a case for that.

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Fri, January 4 2008 » Video » Comments Off