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Flickr adds video support
Posted on 04.09.08 by templeton @ 4:03 pm

Flickr users can now add video clips alongside their photos, a much requested and much anticipated feature that has been promised for over a year.

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An Open Source Class-Five Telephony Switch
Posted on 04.09.08 by templeton @ 4:02 pm

Open source projects have revolutionized operating systems, web servers, web browsers, and so why not carrier switches? The FreeSwitch open source project released its Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday providing and by early accounts the software rocks.

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New Kraken Worm Evading Harpoons of Antivirus Programs
Posted on 04.09.08 by templeton @ 4:02 pm

Researchers at Damballa Solutions have uncovered evidence of a powerful new botnet they’ve nicknamed Kracken. The company estimates that Kraken has infected 400,000 systems, which would make it twice the size of Storm during that botnet’s hayday.

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Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 faster on Mac OS X than Safari 3.1
Posted on 04.08.08 by templeton @ 8:44 pm

Previous benchmark tests that I
’d carried out on my Mac mini had shown that Safari 3.1 was the fastest browser for the Mac OS X. Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 changes that.

Using the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test my testing shows that Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 holds a 7% lead over Safari 3.1.

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New style MacBook and MacBook Pro’s coming soon.
Posted on 04.08.08 by templeton @ 8:42 pm

Apple Inc.’s existing MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks will be the last of their breed, as both product families are destined for major design changes upon their next refresh, AppleInsider has learned.

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The Idea Factory That Spawned the Internet Turns 50
Posted on 04.08.08 by templeton @ 8:17 pm

DARPA has compiled a number of impressive achievements in the past 50 years. It pulled together researchers who created the blueprint for the Internet. It sponsored the inventor of the computer mouse (the first was carved from wood and had one button).

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224 Mbps for $1.58 a Month!
Posted on 04.05.08 by templeton @ 2:08 pm

“This project will offer 60 million users unlimited high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps (megabits per second) at a cost of only around RM5 (US$1.58) per user per month, which is the fastest and cheapest in the world,
” he said. BPL modems use existing electrical power lines to deliver high speed Internet access and data transmission.

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