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Android 4.0 ICS Update For Acer Iconia A500 And A100 Officially Confirmed

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Acer have officially confirmed the availability of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich firmware update package for the Iconia Tab A500 and Iconia Tab A100 tablets. The firmware update will begin to roll out on April 27th. The two slates were launched in April 2011, being among the first tablet models to feature Android 3.0 [...]

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Instagram: And now?

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Facebook, which has around 850 million users, just purchased Instagram, which has 28 million users, for $1 billion, or $36 per user, nearly all of whom are already Facebook users. Instagram is a photo sharing application for the IPhone. Instagram only recently created a version of their software for Android, probably because all of Instagram’s [...]

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Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

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You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and [...]

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Message from Anonymous Protect IP Act

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Dear citizens of the internet, Citizens of free speech, Citizens of the United States, We are Anonymous. Over the past month we have been examining the actions taken by the United States Chamber. We have paid close attention to one new bill in particular, the Protect IP act. This bill would allow the United States [...]

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PayPal Freezes Diaspora* Account, Disrupts Fundraising Efforts

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Diaspora* the open source social network that arose out of privacy issues associated with Facebook last year, recently reached out to the community for donations to sustain the network, which was all well and good until PayPal shutdown their account. “We’re sorry to say that PayPal has frozen our account, so we’re currently unable to [...]

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Women are most addicted to Facebook

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Its known that women are more social than men and here is a new study just to prove it. The study, commissioned by Rebtel, looked at the online habits of a group of 2,361 U.S. adults. For those internet users who chose to communicate with family, friends and work colleagues other than in-person, women led [...]

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The 10 most famous women on twitter, @Playbloy according

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Social networks are hot. Facebook and Twitter have become an Internet phenomenon, the latter being the most famous was the last time five years of its existence, and has achieved great popularity in various media which have become large Twitter microblogging users. The Playboy magazine , famous for his “bunnies at the Playboy Mansion,” had [...]

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Web Browsing Secure with Firefox

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Web-spying technologies like FaceNiff, Firesheep and Newstweek are out there showing the world just how easy it is to see what you’re doing online, but they’re amateurish in comparison to what real hackers could do to you if they catch you browsing unsecured websites. Luckily, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Tor Project have just launched an official 1.0 version of their HTTPS Everywhere extension for the Firefox [...]

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Mozilla fixes ten critical vulnerabilities in Firefox 6

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Mozilla has patched vulnerabilities deemed “critical” and “high risk” in Firefox, several of which could lead to remote code execution by hackers. Fixed Mozilla vulnerabilities related to memory management, heap overflows and unsigned scripts into Firefox 6 – published August 17. The latest version has been released only two months after Firefox 5, with 1,300 [...]

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Live and free: the final of the Copa America 2011

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The final of the Copa America 2011 will air on YouTube. Here is the channel to subscribe. This option is available everywhere on the planet! Everyone without restriction! Channel: youtube.com/copaamericalive   PS: And …, to think: Many YouTube videos are restricted in Latin America. South Africa 2010 World Cup was broadcast over the Internet under subcripciòn [...]

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Stumbleupon will soon be in Spanish

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Recently SU has launched a survey asking for views on some aspects of the launch of Stumbleupon International, including Spanish. According to reports advanced users who live in non-English speaking countries, SU is working on the translation of the interface. But given the nature of SU, not only besides translation but also the way to [...]

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Historypin, Thousands of old photos Geolocated

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      Historypin is another site for the curious, history buffs and those who like to look back and see how it has changed over the years. It uses Google maps to geotag old photographs sent by its users. They already have a large number of photographs that exceed 38000. One of the features [...]

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How to remove advertisements YouTube videos

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Only a few hours ago has been officially launched the Youtube video advertising and has already appeared the first Firefox extension that blocks in the manner of AdBlock Plus for AdSense . This extension TubeStop , which was originally created to prevent auto-play videos from YouTube , and according to its creator also blocks advertising videos . Attributed this to the publicity of the [...]

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Google Art Project

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a still from Google Art Project – Behind the Scenes The Google Art Project was launched at the end of last week.  It works on the same principle at Streetview – except you’re walking the galleries of different museums rather than the streets of specific places. The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and some [...]

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