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It is amazing and somewhat unsettling why you type in your own number and you suddenly see all this information about yourself that is available to everyone. I’m still not used to that. It definitely brings up the notion of “how protective am I with my personal information?”

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Perform a Free Cell Phone Number Lookup

HIV positive victims can now heave a sigh of relief atleast as far as finding a soul-mate is concerned. A special website will be soon launched with an idea of getting these victims hitched for a curtailed but loved future. This new website is called HitchIV.com and it has already got about 150 to 200 requests

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Relief For HIV Positive Victims – HitchIV.com To Get Them Hitched!

I can think of a million things I’m going to log with this … Data Logger for iPhone enables you to store and graph any data of your choosing along with a timestamp and geolocation. You might use Data Logger to store electricity meter readings, to create maps of pollution or temperature sensor readings around your neighbourhood, or animal sightings around the city.

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Data Logger for iPhone…

It comes as to no surprise to many people that HTC will be releasing the Nexus One Google phone. After all, it was HTC that released the very first Android phone, the HTC Dream. But before the Taiwanese company was ever a part of Google’s grand scheme to conquer the mobile phone industry, HTC was originally focusing on developing devices using Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system; and prior to that, the company had its own local hurdles to face.

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Tracing Ties – HTC and Google

2010 is looking like a very strong year for the Google Android operating system, and no other mobile phone manufacturer is on top of the game like HTC. Google has been busy working with HTC on the much-anticipated Nexus One mobile phone and HTC has an HTC-branded line of Android smart phones coming as well.

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HTC and the Coming Times

Thanks to a teenage Firefox aficionado from Tasmania, Australia, you can make your Firefox 3.5 or 3.6 look like mock-ups we’ve seen for Firefox 3.7 and Firefox 4.0. Tabs on top, ‘faviconized’ tabs, a new progress meter (in green), a stop-or-refresh button at the end of the URL bar, and a more Windows 7-friendly look are all part of the Strata40 theme

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Firefox gets a visit from the future

Google has decided to stop censoring search results in China, after discovering that someone based in that country had attempted to hack into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists. The company disclosed the move in a startling announcement posted to its blog late Tuesday. Google said it was prepared to pull its business out of China, if issues around the surveillance and its decision to stop censoring results could not be resolved with the Chinese government.

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Google to Stop Censoring Search Results in China After Hack Attack

In the mobile phone tracing or reverse cell phone look up industry there are a lot of web sites out there, so it’s hard to chose which one to use. And if you’ve been doing any research about it, it can get confusing.

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Mobile Number Trace – Weeding Out Undesirable Web Portals

Posted by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer (cross-posted from Official Google Blog ) Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.

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A new approach to China

Forget ‘What are your strengths and weaknesses?’ If you want to get the real dope on prospective employees, ask job candidates these seven questions. As noted by my BNet colleagues, Google releasing the Nexus One phone is a dangerous step. The problem I see is a classic one: The easiest..

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Bed, Bath & Beyond’s Prospects Excite Enthusiasm, Especially at Bed, Bath & Beyond

I saw these questions from one of our users: “What is the maximum number of participants in a Rondee? Does voice quality degrade with large numbers of callers?” As to the first, the formal limit is 40 but you will most likely be fine up to 50

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A couple questions about Rondee Conference Calling

For those that haven’t heard, LeafLabs’ Maple board is an Arduino-compatible microcontroller platform based on an STM32 ARM Cortex-M3 chip. The full feature list includes – Microcontroller: STM32 F103RB Clock Speed: 72 MHz Operating Voltage: 3.3V Input Voltage (recommended): 3.0V-18V Digital I/O Pins: 39 Analog Input Pins: 16 Flash Memory: 128 KB SRAM: 20KB 64 Channel nested vector interrupt handler (including external interrupt on GPIO’s) Integrated SPI/I2C and 7 Channels of Direct Memory Access (DMA) Supplies up to 800mA @ 3.3v Support for low power and sleep modes (

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Arduino vs. Maple – early impressions

The best way to receive a new handset along with the same number is to upgrade mobile phone. It offers the facility of acquiring a new handset. One can retain the same number

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Upgrading Mobile Phones – Stay in Contact With the Same Number and Provider

Wrapables.com is one of the leading online sellers of baby gifts, clocks, decor,  jewelry, bedding and pillows from top name brands such as, Dwell Studio, Bongo, and Hello Kitty. You can save on purchases from Wrapables.com using coupons, free shipping offers and promo codes from PricePickle.com.

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Find The Perfect Gift At Wrapables

A federal appeals court is reversing a lifetime internet ban imposed on a child sex offender also handed a 15-year prison term. The outcome highlights the appellate courts are all over the map when it comes to internet bans often imposed on defendants, especially sex deviants, once they have served their time. What’s more, the courts appear to be accepting the internet as a basic freedom to which convicts, even the worst of the worst, usually should not be denied permanent access.

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U.S. Courts Split on Internet Bans

Noah Shactman just brought Israeli defense contractor Urban Aeronautics’ AirMule VTOL UAV project to my attention. The photo released by Urban Aeronautics, shown above, purports to show the first successful hovering flight of an AirMule prototype, secured against wandering off by guy-wires. Video would’ve been more persuasive.

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Real-life "landspeeder" prototype

Did you ever encounter a situation when you really wished you could surreptitiously listen to conversations taking place on other side of the wall or at some far off location? Well, I’m sure that for most of us the thought did occur at some point in our lives. In the past, electronics enthusiasts used radio bugs for this purpose.

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Cell Phone Bug – The Ultimate Mobile Phone Spy Tool

Most carriers are now delivering multiple types of services and applications for customers, or if not now, have plans to do so shortly, and the vast majority of these services are being delivered over IP. Many of these services, such as IPTV or videoconferencing, have bandwidth needs that are much more intensive than that of voice, so that the IP transport networks are increasingly dwarfing TDM infrastructure. Size has further advantages for the IP marketplace

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The Many Facets of Cost Savings

IHS Global Insight analyst Rebecca Lindland met with Reuters TV and text reporters at the Detroit auto show to discuss the industry, including electric and small cars, GM, Chrysler and Toyota, and auto shows past and future. About electric cars: “We will eventually see electric cars, mostly..

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Auto show-IHS Global Insight analyst’s thoughts

Sardinia is crossed from Cagliari (the regional capital) to Nuoro (one of the main cities) by the highway 131, and in its very heart, just after the detour to Nuoro, is Fordongianus, laid out on the wide plain of the Campidano Oristanese, where prehistoric remains blend harmoniously with the vestiges left by the Roman presence.

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Fordongianus: Roman Thermal Baths in the Heart of Sardinia

Microsoft patched a critical hole in Windows 2000 on Tuesday that could allow an attacker to take control of a computer if a user viewed a maliciously crafted Embedded OpenType font in Internet Explorer, Office PowerPoint, or Word. The security bulletin is rated “low” severity for Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003, and Server 2008 operating systems, according to the Microsoft advisory , which gave credit for discovering the vulnerability to a Google researcher. According to Microsoft’s Exploitability Index, the hole is rated “2″ which means “inconsistent exploit code likely” while “exploitation of systems running Windows XP and later operating systems is unlikely.” More technical details are available on Microsoft’s Security Research and Defense blog

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Fixes in for Windows 2000, Adobe Reader

As I research Google’s move into energy, I become fascinated by the idea that Google’s influence on our lives may just be beginning. Sure the Google Toilet ( video ) may not be a real product but analysis of Google’s potential in the smart grid market, coupled with the company’s Android operating system leads at least one analyst, Jon Arnold to see a bright future of collaboration between smart devices in the home and the electrical grid

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Google’s Energy Ambitions and Smart Grid Implications

Henry Ford Cottage Hospital in Grosse Pointe Farms will close its inpatient medical, surgical, rehabilitation and psychiatric units and convert into a large multi-specialty outpatient center by April 3, officials for Henry Ford Health…

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Henry Ford to convert Cottage Hospital in Grosse Pointe to major outpatient center

Complete noob question: I need to extend a single analog phone line over an IP link to an IVR device. What devices can I use to do this? Can I get two devices like the Linksys SPA2102, plug one in to the telco’s phone line and in to my IP network, and have the other one bridge that connection to the IVR device?

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Extending analog phone line over IP

Today’s column includes a rosy outlook from Tiffany & Co. (TIF), eco-friendly production plans from Ford Motor Company (F), a stronger-than-expected forecast from Hartford Financial Services (HIG), and a couple of bullish notes for Under Armour, Inc. (UA).

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Early Edge: Tiffany & Co., Ford Motor Co., Hartford Financial Services, and Under Armour

The underwear bomber’s Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports that would strip-search passengers down to their naked bodies. So to protest the use of the so-called Nacktscanner (naked scanner), members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a “fleshmob” of people who stripped down to their skivvies last Sunday and converged on the Berlin-Tegel airport. They posted a video of their protest to YouTube, with soundtrack provided by Muse’s song “Uprising.” The lyrics articulated their protest: “They will not force us.

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German ‘Fleshmob’ Protests Airport Scanners

While at MIT last week, I met Jonathan Ward, who’s working in the Machines That Make (MTM) group on an open source, low-cost CNC mill made from 26 parts on a ShopBot, called the MTM A-Z .