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Video on Wikipedia

There is a new project from Open Video Alliance (openvideoalliance.org) which encourages users to add videos to Wikipedia. “The actual fact is that we’re just getting started,” Michael Dale from corp.kaltura.com pointed out. “There’s not a clear idea of how video will work and be used.” You can read more at videoonwikipedia.org.

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Online Games

Who spend hundreds of hours in front of the computer and play online games such as World of Warcraft? According to the study sponsored by PopCap, which looked at game players in the United States and the United Kingdom, the average player of online social games is a 43-year-old woman. You can read full results

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Browsers war on my PC

I have switched from WindowsXP to Windows 7. So far, so good, better that Windows Visa. Anyway, as a web developer I have to have all possible browsers on my computer, so I can check cross browser compatibility for websites I develop. I installed all of them (IE8, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) and I just

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No Google in China

This news is not a surprise, everybody were expecting this after a series of cyber-attacks from China. Google has drawn up a plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine. Google is now 99.9% certain to go ahead, even though Google has taken 30 per cent of the Chinese search market.

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120,000 iPads Sold

A group of stock investors from AAPL Sanity Board forum estimated how many iPad tablet computers Apple had sold on Friday. They calculated that Apple sold 120,000 of the iPad machines.

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Cybercriminals

According to data released by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), victims of cybercriminals reported losses of $559.7 million in 2009. It is more than double the tally for 2008.

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Biking with Google Maps

Google added biking directions to Google Maps. There are now more than 12,000 miles of trails included in biking directions and outlined directly on the map. There is also data on bike lanes and recommended streets for 150 cities across the USA.

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The search market

According to the latest data from comScore about the US search market in February: Bing had 11.5% of the search market (up from 11.3% in January), Yahoo’s had 16.8% (slipped from 17.0% in January), Google search growth to 65.5% in February from 65.4% the month prior.

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Children With Cellphones

According to a market research company Mediamark Research and Intelligence, the amount of children with cellphones has doubled since 2005. Girls have more cellphones than boys (21.8 percent of girls have phone and 18.3 percent of boys has this device). The children surveyed who had cellphones were 10 or 11 years old. The reported shows

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iPad launch date

According to an Apple press release, the iPad will be available in the U.S.A. on Saturday, April 3rd. By month-end the iPad will become available in other countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K.

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