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A social network for people who hate social networks

A new service code-named 'Garbo' promises to painlessly remove your digital footprint from Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and other social media. It's something we've needed for a long time.

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The Obama Administration is open for your questions

Yes, you too can be like the White House press corps and grill the president. Just submit a question to the new Obama Web site and hope you get lucky.

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Breaking open Google's big black box

Behold the power and majesty of the almighty Google algorithm. See how it glows even in the brightest sunlight and disappears when you try to touch it. Just don't ask how it works, cuz it's a big secret.

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Browser wars redux: Happy days are here again

IE8 comes out of beta, Chrome slips back in, and Firefox cranks up another rev. The browser wars are back and badder than ever. And that's good news for you and me.

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No news isn't good news

The Seattle P-I newspaper is no more. The era of getting our news via dead trees is likely to follow shortly. What's next? Net visionary Clay Shirky has some thoughts.

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Happy birthday, Hulu

Hulu, the joint video venture between NBC and Fox, is now one year old. To celebrate, it's becoming a social network. Get used to it; this is what all of TV may soon be like.

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Social media? Booming. Social media advertising? Not so much.

Social networks are exploding. But the ads that support them aren't there yet. Why? Because, as a new Nielsen Online report shows, people justs don't trust advertising.

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ZillionTV: Part Deux

Free video-on-demand direct to your TV -- is it too good to be true? I spoke with the founders of ZillionTV and got more info about both the good and (potential) bad of this service.

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ZillionTV: What's wrong with this picture?

Hollywood's new video-on-demand service promises to stream 'personalized' TV content to the boob tube over broadband. But while you're watching the set, ZillionTV may be watching you.

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Welcome to Utah, online porn capital of the USA

A Harvard researcher has surveyed the landscape of online adult entertainment and reached a shocking conclusion: The biggest consumers of Internet porn live in the most conservative states. Who knew?

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Did the blogosphere kill newspapers?

No matter how much they may pooh-pooh the mainstream media, the death of the daily newspaper is bad news for bloggers -- and everyone else.

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Microsoft brings you the Internet of things

The wildest, most innovative thing I saw at last week's Mobile World Congress wasn't a cell phone. It was a tiny, free app from Microsoft that could change how we use the Net.

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iPhone, SchmyPhone: Five wicked cool cells

Meet these five iPhone killers. OK, maybe 'kill' is too strong a word. Maim? How about viciously insult? At any rate, Apple's phone phenom has inspired a new breed of whizzy wannabes that are impressive, if a little vaporish.

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How green is your cell phone?

Samsung, LG, Motorola and others have come out with new eco-friendly handsets. But it's going to take more than a few carbon-stingy phones to make a real difference.

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Powering the cellular revolution, one windmill at a time

A revolution is brewing in cell tower technology that's as old as the earth itself. Solar power and wind turbines may bring 21st century communications to the emerging world without 21st century pollution.

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