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We all know that Facebook and other social media channels can be a distracting influence, but a new study shows just how disruptive these activities can be. In a project that looked at the behavior …
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A few weeks ago, a site I work with began seeing a big rise in traffic - from a baseline of 10K visits per day to spikes of as much as 40K. The odd thing was that the traffic looked kind of human, …
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Tired of high tech designs that look hopelessly dated in just a few years? Longing for a more Victorian sensibility? You may need to get up to speed with steampunk, a design movement whose …
Conventional wisdom is that web-based applications are the Next Big Thing. Current apps like Salesforce.com's CRM show that critical business data and processes can be outsourced to third parties and …
How frustrated are you when you have to reboot your PC in the middle of the day? A full shutdown and reboot cycle can take a several minutes - instead of staring at your screen watching the icons …
I've been travelling for a few weeks, and have been catching up on stuff I missed while I was gone. One interesting article from last week was a detailed experiment by Infoworld writer Oliver Rist, …
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In a discussion at TechRepublic, Wardriving - Legal or not?, IT pros debate the legality and ethics of "wardriving". The practice involves looking for an open wireless access point, sometimes by …
