Microsoft Will Sponsor Your Windows 7 Kegger … If You’re Cool Enough
We know you’ve all been asking yourselves: “how can I celebrate the launch of Windows 7?” Luckily Microsoft has an answer for you — party! — but there’s a catch: only few are chosen. In order to be an official Launch Party host, you’ll have to apply, be reviewed, and hope to be approved. Please do not party if you are not approved by Microsoft. In all seriousness, you are set up with some nice schwag if you become an official host, including a special Signature Edition copy of...
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Bing and Ping: Share Search Results on Facebook and Twitter
Microsoft let everyone know about a forthcoming feature of their new search engine today. Bing and Ping, as they’ve lovingly dubbed it, will let you easily share search results with your friends on Facebook and Twitter as well as by email. At least at first, the sharing tools will only be available for searches that invoke “Instant Answers.” The examples given were football scores and airline flights, with other time-sensitive data and scenarios like stock prices, movie times, weather...
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What Keeps Us Online Late at Night: Porn, Games, and Chat
A study of online behavior conducted by security firm Arbor Networks reveals that the prime time on the Internet may be later than you’d think. It also reveals the habits of late-night surfers, which boils down to surfing the web and watching videos (a large amount of which are adult content), chatting and gaming. In what is perhaps the largest study of Internet traffic’s temporal characteristics, the folks at Arbor have used data from the Internet Observatory and analyzed weekday...
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