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A plan to send more work abroad as the company angles for pieces of the high-speed rail and health-care handouts is stirring controversy Reports of deep workers compensation jobs cuts at International Business Machines (IBM) come at a potentially delicate time for the company—just as it is hoping
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Google is giving Gmail users the chance to change their mind and retract an email they have sent. The Undo Send feature lets you abort the delivery of any Gmail message within moments of sending it. Undo Send can be activated from the Settings/Labs tab in Gmail. Once the feature is activat
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Students at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) rolled-out their Web-based Campus Radio on Tuesday. With three shows gone by, it has mostly been a success - Rajat Chakravarty tells us, a third year aerospace engineering student at IIT Bombay, who is a major contributor to the project. "Th
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Microsoft says that IE8 is more secure, allows users to cut down on common tasks and will be an integral part of its forthcoming Windows 7 system. Although IE is still the most popular browser, it faces stiff competition from Google, Firefox, Opera and others. The release is Microsoft'
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Google has launched the UK version of its Street View service, which allows users to browse a selection of pictures taken along city streets. Street scenes in 25 UK cities from Aberdeen to Southampton can be viewed using the service. The Netherlands version of the service also launched
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A New telephone technology by Google:googlevoice Google's new googlevoice the telephone technology has a few rough edges but for many users, it could be a life-changing experience.googlevoice The service, a relaunch of GrandCentral, which Google bought in 2007, allows you to choose a local numbe
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Google has a short message for those wondering whether the search giant will soon buy micro-blogging site Twitter: "unlikely." That was Google CEO Eric Schmidt's response Friday when queried on the topic during a wide-ranging interview with journalist Charlie Rose. Schmidt said: I shouldn't t
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Amazon.com will let copyright holders opt out of having their books read aloud on the company's Kindle 2 book reader, in an apparent concession to concerns raised about the device's text-to-speech feature. An experimental feature on the device, which began shipping earlier this week, allows user
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The economy may be a shambles, but Brian Gentile's software company, JasperSoft, is doing better than ever. JasperSoft posted record revenue for the quarter that ended in October, and its customer tally rose 63% over the previous period. The gain is all the more notable considering the record cutbac
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It's been a long time coming, but OQO has finally gotten it right with the OQO Model 2+ UMPC. We spent most of our hands-on time with the device talking to a rep from Intel, who was crowing about the OQO Model 2+'s 1.86GHz Intel Atom Processor. We had trouble paying attention because we were so c
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