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No one is surprised that CIOs are the highest paid IT professionals, with a projected average annual salary of between $126,750 and $210,000 in 2008. But, 30 other IT titles also are projected to have average annual salaries that will top $100,000 next year, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology 2008 Salary Guide.Robert Half […]

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With the rise of Facebook still not subsiding, Yahoo introduces a new social networking platform called Kickstart. However, Yahoo claims that Kickstart is different from the current social networking platforms available. The site is intended to be more of a “networking” space and less of a “social” hangout. In other words, Yahoo designed Kickstart […]

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In the next 18 month or so, a new nano-tech device will be made commercial which will eventually phase out flash based memory storage in your portable devices.
A new type of memory device may “out-store” your current thumbdrives, flash cards and even store more than your conventional hard disk drives. The best part is […]

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Berkeley (CA) - A group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have set a new miniaturization record by making a fully working radio from one carbon nanotube.

The carbon nanotube, which is a tiny rod made out of carbon atoms, is less than 10,000 times thinner than a single human hair. The UC […]

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You Don’t Try Before You Buy–We all want to believe all the propoganda from people selling us something we don’t need. So why would you want to be able to test-drive an operating system via liveCD before you install it. Tell ‘em you don’t need any guarantees either, you’ll take it as-is, sight unseen.
Installation of […]

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Google announced some news at its Analysts Day, which may excite some — it will be releasing a completely rewritten, optimized and improved version of GMail. The version’s goal is reportedly to raise customer satisfaction to 70 percent.
Such a high satisfaction rate, particularly for a free email service would be very impressive. […]

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