Colorado man, Alek Komarnitsky's, managed to fool the world's press agencies, by suggesting that surfers to his website could control the Christmas lights on his home. The story was initially picked up by local press - including several Colarado TV stations - before being reported online by Slashdot, the New York ...

 

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While the web continues to wonder if Google Suggest actually means anything of importance, Micah Dubinko in Web search, without the web points to an application of his on XForms site that allows similar action with a preloaded Javascript enabled dataset at: Xfi. The page contains a search ...

 

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In a move that sees Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft NET passport left for use only on its own sites, and those of close partners, online retail giant ebay has disallowed access via the service. Announcing that it would no longer be allowing users to sign in with a Microsoft Passport, users of ...

 

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Wordpress, an already established name in blogging software, is turning it's sights on community forum software, with the development of bbpress. According to their current frontpage introduction: bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. Most software in this space is focused on ...

 

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Today is the last day that Microsoft will officially offer support for the Windows NT 4.0 server platform. A operating system 11 years in use, patches and updates for Windows NT will no longer be publicly released after midnight tonight, having already had a year-long reprieve after original plans sought to ...

 

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Anti-spam company MX Logic reports that the current US legislation against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE) - also known as the Can-spam act - has so far failed to halt the amount of spam actually sent out from within the US. According to the report: Can-Spam didn't, survey says "The Can-Spam ...

 

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The battle to be the dominant format in the next generation of DVD technology gets fiercer. In a format war reminiscent of the video battle between betamax and VHS, two opposed technologies: Blue-ray, and High Definition DVD (HD DVD) are both poised to continue the DVD market to the next level. However, ...

 

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The convergence of PC and TV technology means that it is inevitable that one day the distinction between the two will be non-existent, with a combined device ni the home eventually functioning as both a TV and PC. However, as the world of internet TV gathers attention and so long as ...

 

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Despite a multi-billion dollar repair bill for the Indian Ocean earthquake, whose Tsunamis destroyed resorts and coastal assets across at least ten countries and killed at least 100,000 people, Asian stock markets continued upward surges. Stock exchanges in India and Indonesia - two countries particularly affected - broke records in what ...

 

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Gigablast following closely on the release of their user-built search engine for users, Gigablast have now released Gigablast Sitesearch tool. This allows webmasters to use Gigablast search technology to create a search facility for their websites. Although indexing is promised to occur at least weekly, Gigablast also suggest that ...

 

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Deutsche Bank has made a legal complaint over Yukos's filing for bankruptcy protection in Texas, complaining that Texas was "a jurisdiction in which Yukos owns no real or personal property and conducts no business operations." At the heart of Deutsche Bank's complaints is the fact that it lost out on fat ...

 

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SSL International - formed by a three-way merger between Seton Healthcare, Scholl and condom-maker London International Group, is being firmly tipped for a buy-out in 2005. With markets hot with the rumour that business intelligence firm GPW was sizing up SSL International for a corporate client, analysts now expect SSL to ...

 

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US Airways, a troubled airline in bankruptcy protection since 2003, has apparently e-mailed it's ground staff, asking them to volunteer to work for free on New Years Day. This is apparently in response to large numbers suddenly calling in sick over the Christmas period, resulting in the cancellation of hundreds ...

 

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The Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) has reported than as of 10:28am today, payments by debit and credit card overtook payments by cash in the UK. According to Cash gives way to flexible friend: Shoppers in the UK are expected to put ��269bn on plastic cards during the ...

 

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Footfall have released more encouraging reports on post-Christmas shopper activity, upturning poor figures oringally reported in Internet wins Christmas shoppers, but high street sales fail Boxing Day. Reporting on activity from December 26th to December 28th, consumer spending was up an overall 2,1%. this was despite Boxing Day custom being ...

 

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Jarvis, the troubled engineering and construction group linked to the fatal Potter's Bar rail crashe, has reported first-half losses of ��283 million - down from a profit of ��33.7 million in the same preiod last year. Losses had actually been reduced by the recent sell-off of assets, such as roads ...

 

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Novell has released a public beta of its Open Enterprise Server, that mixes its own NetWare with SuSE, an open source Linux distro. According to Novell beta mixes SuSE Linux, NetWare: Novell Open Enterprise Server will allow current customers to run a mixed network of NetWare and SuSE Linux ...

 

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The online search market is currently booming and dominated by the big three companies of google, Yahoo, and MSN search. As they continue to vie to increase market share, their continuing development has seen a string a new patents awarded and filed, as Gary Price helpfully and clearly lists ...

 

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The extensive promotional sales used in the run up towards the Christmas period appear to exhausted the consumer retail market, with very poor showings in the following Boxing Day sales. There were fears that the Christmas market itself would be sluggish, but high street traders pulled out all stops to create ...

 

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Variants of the Santy worm, which as reported in Santy: Automated attack on phpbb forums, have begun to surface, continuing a worrying trend of worms that automatically query search engines for suitable targets. Although the original Santy Worm was an application written in PHP, a major new variant written in ...

 

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