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Sunday, 16th November 2008

Flash 10 for Mobile Devices

Adobe and ARM today announced that they are joining forces to bring Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR to ARM powered devices in a move that Adobe hopes will lower power consumption for mobile devices running Flash and AIR content, and make it easier for users to play video on a variety of devices. According to the statement, the partnership…

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Cartoon: The President's Blackberry

The news that Barack Obama will probably have to surrender his Blackberry during his time in office seems incongruous. With a torrent of suggestions flying for how the new U.S. president can use the Internet to govern, and given the role the Internet played in Obama's election, it's ironic that he may be spending much of his time disconnected…

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How to Permanently Delete Data from Your Hard Drive

According to the New York Times, a basic privacy measure that is often overlooked is the proper destruction of data on hard drives. An ongoing study by British Telecom says that most people don't realize that deleting a file doesn't actually remove the data from a computer. In fact, the BT research found that only 33 percent of second hand hard…

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Microsoft Opens Online Store in US: Charges More

In an attempt to cut down on its carbon footprint, Microsoft last week opened an online store in the U.S, making it the fourth country that offers downloads directly from Microsoft. Steve Ballmer hinted that an online store was in the works a couple of weeks ago during a speech to developers in Australia, but forgot to mention that consumers would…

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Saturday, 15th November 2008

President Elect Obama's FireWire Chats: Transparency Redefined?

Yesterday, President Elect Obama's transition team announced the weekly Democratic address will be posted on YouTube. Today we saw the first of these fireside chats go live on the new video wire (video embedded below). It's clear that Obama and his team are extremely competent when it comes to the social Web, but it might be useful to examine…

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