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World Economies hang by an Internet thread
With a 4th intercontinental Internet sea cable damaged, slowing Internet access throughout areas like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Pakistan, Iran and India it makes one wonder how far it could go. If the efforts were stepped up by a clandestine operation the world’s economies could be gamed and shut […]
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Mozilla Firefox for Mobile Phones PREVIEW
Mozilla has just revealed a first look at its new Mobile Firefox interface. Actually, Mozilla has designed two UI’s: one for touch screen devices, like most PDA’s, smart phones (and the iPhone, of course), and one for non-touch devices, like most cell phones.
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Why traditional ‘print’ media is doomed
If you’re lucky enough to get published in BusinessWeek, don’t link to the article - it’s prohibited by their User Agreement and they’ll ask you to stop. Most other traditional publications are nearly as bad. And they wonder why their businesses are failing?
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Mozilla confirms Firefox proof of vulnerability
Mozilla’s security chief Window Snyder has confirmed a proof of concept information leak flaw in Firefox–even fully patched versions.
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WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M
“While we were chatting, he let it slip that Automattic had raised a whopping $29.5 million in a Series B Round of funding, including a strategic investment from The New York Times Co. True Ventures led the round, which includes previous investors Polaris Ventures and Radar Ventures.”
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WordPress Boosts Free Storage to 3GB
In a move that will no doubt put pressure on competing blog platforms TypePad (from Six Apart) and Blogger (from Google), WordPress (from Automattic) is boosting free storage for all the blogs it hosts from 50 MB to 3 GB.
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Wikipedia goes video
Wikimedia is partnering with the collaborative video service Kaltura to start rolling out video to Wikimedia sites. Right now, the feature is available on the WikiEducator demo site, which is not affiliated with Wikimedia. But eventually we’ll start to see collaborative video hitting Wikipedia as well.
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Reopen closed tabs in Firefox with your keyboard
It happens to everyone, and it’s annoying. Sometimes the wrong tab gets closed in Firefox, but it’s OK. There’s a solution to the problem, and it comes in the form of…
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