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Twitter, FB, Google hit by cyber attacks

August 31, 2009

Cyber attacks hammered Twitter, Facebook, and Google, disrupting the hip micro-blogging service and causing stumbles at the hot social-networking site while Google fended off assaults. Twitter was down for more than an hour early in the morning on Thursday, before the eponymous California firm got it back online. “The continuing denial of service attack is [...]

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Now, a mechanism to measure happiness of bloggers

August 29, 2009

Scientists at the University of Vermont have created a very basic remote-sensing hedonometer, which can measure a person’s happiness by picking out words in his or her blog.
The method created by Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth, a mathematician and computer scientist working in the Advanced Computing Center at the University of Vermont, show that Election Day, November 4, 2008, was the happiest day in four years and the day of Michael Jackson’s death, one of the unhappiest.

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MS moving Office online in duel with Google

August 28, 2009

Microsoft on Monday said that the 2010 version of its popular Office software will feature online collaboration as the technology giant duels “in the cloud” with Internet titan Google.

Microsoft made the announcement at the opening of a Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.

Next-generation Office, Visio, Project, and SharePoint Server programs to be released in the first half of next year are being given to tens of thousands of people selected to test the nearly completed software.

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Google to reveal PC operating system

August 28, 2009

Google is to announce plans for a personal computer operating system, according to the New York Times, in what will be another clash between the Internet search king and software giant Microsoft.
Details on the system were unavailable, other than it would be based on Google’s Chrome browser.

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Google users search more, very loyal: study

August 15, 2009

Search market leader Google Inc holds greater loyalty among its users, who conduct more searches a month than those on Yahoo! and Microsoft, new data issued on Friday showed, posing a challenge for the new team of rivals to Google. While Yahoo! Inc and Microsoft Corp lag far behind Google in overall search share, their [...]

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Oz website allows to SMS to outer space

August 12, 2009

An Australian website is giving texting an intergalactic touch and allowing users to send short mobile phone-type messages into space. From Wednesday and until August 24, people hankering for an out-of-this-world experience can visit www.HelloFromEarth.net to post messages no longer than 160 characters that will be transmitted to Gliese 581d, the nearest Earth-like planet outside [...]

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Looking for a job? Try LinkedIn or Twitter

August 12, 2009

Job-seeking in this 21st century recession may just have gone viral and mobile. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, about 6.7 million workers have been laid off according to latest statistics – at a time the popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have exploded, drawing millions of [...]

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