Where would be the best place to test out an unhackable netbook? The NSW department of education in Australia thinks that college is perfect . They plan on distributing netbooks, preloaded with Windows 7,and iTunes. They also have bios level tracking and security, allowing them to be remotely shut down on command. With 20,000 of these in circulation, we would think that we’ll see someone proving the “unhackable” statement wrong. We can only hope.
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Apple now has the support of a USB industry standards group in its battle to keep the Palm Pre from using the iTunes music service.The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) said in a statement Tuesday that Apple can block the Pre from connecting to iTunes. The group issued a letter to both companies warning Palm that further attempts to use iTunes would violate the group’s policy.The voice of the USB-IF is strong in this case since the group is responsible for issuing Apple the hardware vendor ID that lets its devices connect to iTunes via USB. Palm has used this process…

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This week was yet another big week for Facebook with the company reaching new milestones, employees leaving, and the official launch of status tagging. I’m also proud to introduce a new feature of our weekly roundup: a stop motion video produced by my sister, Megan O’Neill. This new addition is a complete experiment so let us know your thoughts on the new weekly video!

Facebook Reaches 300 Million Users
This week Facebook announced that they officially crossed the 300 million user threshold, increasing the rate of growth to record levels. In addition to crossing this significant milestone, the company announced…

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Vancouver-based Minefinders (TSX, Amex: MFL) reported that the first NI 43-101 compliant resource for its La Bolsa property in Mexico shows 360,722oz gold and 4.82Moz silver in the measured and indicated categories. The ounces are contained in 15.9Mt of ore grading 0.71g/t gold and 9.4g/t silver based on a 0.25g/t gold cut-off, Minefinders said in a statement. At the same cutoff, indicated resources amount to 2.84Mt grading 0.52g/t gold and 5.3g/t silver, or 47,436oz gold and 480,029oz silver. The calculations are based on the results from 165 drill holes. Further drilling is underway on the project, and a prefeasibility study…

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Can I really make money online? That is the most common question you will be asking yourself if you have decided to jump to the business of online money making. Let me starts off by defining the meaning of the phrase “make money online”. Make money online is an Internet Marketing approach conducted by anyone in the world who has the urge and drive to generate income by working at home.
Just by filling out a few online surveys from a legitimate companies can make you a few bucks, or maybe hundreds. But if you want to make money online…

Robert Scoble wrote a late night post over the weekend which suggests Twitter is worth between $5 and $10 billion dollars based on a sampling of businesses in approximately 8 cities. What sort of math was used to deduce this valuation? Absolutely none, but if you want to purchase shares at such a ridiculous valuation, Howard Lindzon will sell shares to you. Scoble’s post simultaneously hypes the already bloated Twitter bubble while making jabs at Facebook.

Back in March, Robert Scoble was saying the exact opposite. Scoble is pretty good at writing a headline which will drive a lot of…

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Yesterday morning Facebook announced changes to their Site Governance documents which as a number of people pointed out removed the ability of users to profit from their status updates. More specifically Facebook states that “you will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain”. While I’m assuming that this is supposed to be straight forward about selling things through your Facebook profile, part of me wonders why Facebook needed to make this explicit statement.

Haters Call It “Selling Out”
Excuse my slang but is there anything wrong with posting updates that generate revenue? While I believe the intention…

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When you find yourself in a bad credit situation it is easy to find hope in credit counseling agencies. You feel safe when someone says that they are a “non-profit organization.” But often, those that are offering help are only helping themselves.
Federal and state regulators are warning consumers that some credit counseling agencies are not what they seem. They may actually be using a non-profit status to avoid consumer protection laws. This gives them the ability to advantage of you, the trusting consumer.
What makes the agency non-profit? All they have to do is provide free education and counseling…

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