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VIA’s new 8-bay barebones Network Storage Home Server, the NSD-7800 is now available to order. Pricing starts at $1219.95 which buys you 8 x 320Gb (2.56Tb in total) with other storage configurations also available. The server runs VIA’s C7-D processor at 1.5GHz, and bundles 1Gb of RAM, 4 USB

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Microsoft in partnership with rapper Common is looking to cater the crowd with their new line of clothing called “Softwear”. You can buy Microsoft Martix Tee at Urban Outfitters for $9.99. A BILLION PEOPLE CAN'T BE WRONGThis is Softwear by Microsoft. A clothing line that taps the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our

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The Author’s Guild recently objected to Kindle 2’s “text-to-speech” feature, which otherwise would undermine the billion dollar a year audiobook market. Amazon announced that it’ll let publishers decide whether they want the new Kindle e-book device to read their books aloud. While maintaining that the feature is legal, and that it would in fact increase

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In their Feb Weather Report, Yahoo! started rolling out some changes to search index with fresh web data and updates to crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms. The updates will complete in next few days; you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages in the index.

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In Dec 2008, Google Blog Search began indexing full contents. Since then, there have been numerous complaints of about “irrelevant, or outdated blog results, blogs are no longer indexed quickly, and Google indexing & including blogroll code in the link command results”. Google will be conducting “visual experiments early next month” that will start with the link: queries and focus on

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The latest SketchUp software lets you model your own underwater world! Just download SketchUp, go to 'Window' then 'Preferences'; choose 'Extensions' in the left column; toggle on 'Google Earth Ocean Modeling'; then Hit OK. Next import desired terrain from Google Earth, then choose 'Get Current View' in SketchUp. If you get 'Camera altitude too high' warning, just move closer to ocean floor. Next, under “Plugins”

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Last year, Microsoft announced plans to bring a limited version of its SQL Server database online, now the company plans to incorporate as many features from its flagship database into SQL Data Services (SDS) before the cloud-computing platform upon which it will run, Windows Azure, is released, according to an article on The Register.

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