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Google adds new privacy feature I was thinking of last week!

Gmail has introduced a new privacy feature that will let users see how many computers their account is open on, and also allows them to sign-out remotely.

Google Lets You Monitor Access To Your Gmail Account

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Google is fast becoming just another company

Google co-founder Sergey Brin said he had no sympathy for the parents, and that he was tired of “Googlers” who felt entitled to perks like “bottled water and M&Ms”.

On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble

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Internet body approves domain name big bang

Come 2Q09 and you’ll find thousands of new top-level domain names (TLDs), from .paris to .pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history.

Internet body approves domain name big bang

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Hackers Crack London Tube’s Ticketing System

Dutch security researchers rode the London Underground free for a day after easily using an ordinary laptop to clone the “smartcards” commuters use to pay fares, a hack that highlights a serious security flaw because similar cards provide access to thousands of government offices, hospitals and schools.

Hackers Crack London Tube’s Ticketing System

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Shape shifting skyscrapers with dynamic architecture!

The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another. According to the creators — this building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime; and would be energy self-sufficient and even feed extra power back into the grid!

Dubai plans ‘moving’ skyscraper

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Switching languages can also switch personality

People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study.

Switching languages can also switch personality: study

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Cloned immune cells cleared patient’s cancer

Cancer patient’s tumours vanished within two months after being injected with billions of his own cloned immune cells.

Cloned immune cells cleared patient’s cancer

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Adobe Buzzword

Adobe joins the online ‘Office productivity tools’ race with the launch of Buzzword! Other notable ones include Google Docs and Zoho. All these new offerings at attacking well at the tail end of Microsoft Office sales, and more so, since most people only make use of the most basic functions in these tools, most of the times. And there is OpenOffice for desktop users as well.

Adobe Buzzword online word processor from Acrobat.com

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Blogging made easy with ScribeFire

An amazing tool for bloggers that makes use of client APIs to publish/edit blog entries for popular blogging systems. Firefox only.

ScribeFire

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Why is MS after Yahoo and Facebook?

Who is more evil – Google or Facebook? Or, maybe you don’t care, but there is an ongoing battle for user data and user attention on the web 🙂

Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed