LinkedIn Signal, which is currently in limited beta, allows users to sort through Twitter updates of LinkedIn members (you opt in by syncing your accounts) and the site’s own updates on a very granular level.

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With 80 million members, LinkedIn is steadily growing as the go-to professional social network. And as the company reportedly readies for an IPO within the next year, all eyes are on LinkedIn to see if the company can scale.

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Microsoft believes its “aggressive push into the consumer market has been given a further boost” with the official launch of Windows Live Essentials 2011 — a free suite of programs for photos, movies, instant messaging, e‑mail, blogging and family safety. Microsoft describes its launch of Live Essentials 2011 as “the latest chapter in a veritable Continue reading →

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The first transoceanic broadcast of an experimental high-definition standard is conducted by the BBC and Japanese broadcaster NHK.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The amount of time children spend reading books for enjoyment decreases as they use cell phones and other mobile technology, but e-books might just bring them back to literature, according to a report released on Wednesday.

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At the Web 2.0 expo in New York today, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor announced that 2 million websites have added the “Like” button and Facebook’s other new social plug-ins, which were launched five months ago. Facebook also confirmed the stat in a Tweet.

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Apple has fired the latest salvo in a long-running patent row with rival Nokia over smartphone technology

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The Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Africa (ISPA) has welcomed the recent focus that ICASA has placed on finalising regulations that will spur competition in the country’s telecommunications market.

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Kobo, a global eReading service, has announced the new Kobo Wireless eReader, adding WiFi connectivity, upgraded hardware with faster performance, longer battery life, and a sharper eInk screen.

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Microsoft Security Essentials at one year and 30 million PCs Today is the first birthday of Microsoft Security Essentials , the company’s free anti-malware software for consumers and small businesses.

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Does anyone else cringe at the use of quit in the commercial that says: 44% of … users were quit during weeks 9 to 12 of treatment. The context screams for quit as a verb, not as a predicate adjective: 44% of users … had quit after nine weeks. The OED’s entry for quit “in Continue reading →

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I thought I knew the meaning of warble and garble. If asked to define them, I’d say that warble means “to sing melodiously” and garble means “to distort spoken words,” or “to distort the sense of something written.” These definitions from the OED suggest that I’m on the right track: warble: v. intr. To modulate Continue reading →

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RenameMaestro can perform multi-step file renaming, supporting a wide variety of file metadata including MP3 ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags. RenameMaestro is a file renamer for Windows. Creating multi-step actions, you can add custom text, or constant or auto-incrementing numbers, letters, or times and dates. Other functions include deleting text, finding and replacing text, and changing Continue reading →

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Used with some discretion, warped text can draw attention to parts of your PowerPoint 2010 presentation. Looking for yet another way to make text stand out in your Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation (and you know you are)? Perhaps you might like to warp a slide title so it is arranged in a circle, wave, or Continue reading →

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Configure Outlook 2010 to play a reminder sound of your choosing. As tasks / calendar items become due in Microsoft Outlook 2010, it warns you by displaying a “Reminder” dialog box and playing an alert sound. If you tire of this sound, why not insert your own? You can use virtually any sound file as Continue reading →

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