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Department for Culture Media and Sport - digital britain - interim report

Available for download here…

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M-Lab | Welcome to Measurement Lab

The goal of M-Lab is to advance network research and empower the public with useful information about their broadband connections. By enhancing Internet transparency, M-Lab helps sustain a healthy, innovative Internet.

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United States Patent: 7479949

Even without Jobs, Apple shareholders should find some comfort in the granting of a U.S. patent for multi-touch technologies… A bad day to be an non-Apple touchscreen phone manufacturer…

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Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia manual published on wikipedia.

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Inauguration Speech Generator

…A grassroots internet campaign helped Barack Obama get elected. Now he’s calling for the internet’s assistance one more time – to help him craft the best inauguration speech ever…

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LittleSis » Barack Obama

LittleSis is an involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited and maintained by people like you

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Jobs on six month leave-of-absence

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An interesting Twitter question..

Who has had the most success doing self-promotion or PR on Twitter?

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Google street view tracks down kidnapped child : Worcester Telegram & Gazette News

Then I Googled it,” he said.

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Project Palantir: Facebook Interactions Visualization - information aesthetics

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Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 » VentureBeat

After years of speculation about a google operating system for desktops, it happens underneath our noses…

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Following the New Year Zune disaster in which many of the Zune 30 devices were temporarily bricked, Microsoft provides some reassuring answers on Zune Insider

Q:  Will you update the firmware before the next leap year (2012)?

Yes.

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New Media Resolutions #6: Anthony Rose, Controller, Vision & Online, BBC

iPlayer boss makes some pledges for ‘09…

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Researchers Want to Team Up With ThePirateBay to Understand Youth Morals

New research in progress investigating the forming of social norms online. Researchers are attempting to recruit sites such as ThePirateBay as collaborators…

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LRB · John Lanchester: Is it Art?

John Lanchester discusses the broader cultural context of videogaming in the LRB

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BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC iPlayer now available on Mac

Finally, the beeb releases a beta of iPlayer for Mac and Linux… Just in time for Christmas Doctor Who…

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WEB WEB BOY

Keita Takahashi’s new project is finally dated. As the official site proclaims, “It’s hard to explain it in detail, so we will skip it here.”

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…and not before ensuring any pesky legal issues around ownership are nailed down…

EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO, Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Electronic Arts announce their ‘new’ I.P.

Guildford, UK – December 15, 2008 – An abducted soul, a lifetime of sins, a journey to the depths of despair. Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that EA Redwood Shores, the studio behind hit horror game Dead Space™, is making Dante’s Inferno™ – a third-person action adventure adaptation of the medieval epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

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Green heroes

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Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

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Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

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A Serious Man

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