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BIMD: Back in my day ROFLACGU: Rolling on the floor laughing and can't get up ML2N?: Matlock tonight? OMGWTF: Oh my. Gee whiz. Tutti-frutti. MBDC: My bad. Damn cataracts. WIOLATS: Wore it out like a turn signal. GTALNINFTCW: Gee, thanks a lot, now I'll never finish that crossword.

Les plaignants étaient quatre entreprises anti-contrefaçon basées dans la capitale chinoise conduites par la Zhaoxin Information Technology Co., Ltd.. Ils ont insisté sur le fait que l'Administration générale de supervision de la qualité, de l'inspection et de la quarantaine (AGSQIQ), régulateur de l'industrie, avait violé deux lois chinoises, dont la loi antitrust, par ses efforts à généraliser un réseau en ligne connu sous le nom de Système de traçage, d'authentification et d'identification des produits (PIATS).

il avait supprimé l'ensemble des e-mails reçus pendant son absence. Avec un argument solide : si des messages vraiment importants ou urgents étaient dans le lot, les expéditeurs ne tarderaient pas à se manifester à nouveau, par e-mail... ou par un autre moyen. Relativisez !

Andrew Rasiej, the founder of Personal Democracy Forum, which monitors the intersection of politics and technology, points out that when networks judge their success by who got the biggest share of the television audience, “they are still counting horses while the world has moved on to counting locomotives.” The Web, in its infinite iterations, is eroding all 20th-century media.

“Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process. There is particular sensitivity about access to financial information as well as communications and Internet traffic that goes through U.S. switches.”

Skypecasts is one of the many features that we've developed to enable these conversations. What we've learned by watching how the product is used and through user feedback is that Skypecasts is not quite measuring up to our high standards and expectations for connecting and delighting our users.

lawyers all too often make business decisions based on what can be done legally, rather than what makes the most business sense, those options are all too rarely considered. In the past, there was often little that could be done for those impacted by such decisions. These days, however, things are quite different. Pissing off a large group of people, even if you have the legal right to do so, can often be a disastrous business move.

Autre gagnante de l'opération "mini-PC" : la communauté GNU/Linux et ses nombreuses distributions. En effet, la quasi-totalité des netbooks disponibles sur le marché est proposée avec un système d'exploitation préinstallé Linux et éventuellement un système Windows en option.

It means that when you tell people you write, read or listen to blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networks and online video - if they give you a funny look, it is now officially them that's a freak, not you.

The map also identifies the existence of two genetic barriers within Europe. One is between the Finns (light blue, upper right) and other Europeans. It arose because the Finnish population was at one time very small and then expanded, bearing the atypical genetics of its few founders.

Paul notes that the Guardian uses tools like del.icio.us, Google gadgets, Yahoo Pipes, and others to bring more content to their readers, and do so without having to develop their own software. None of them owned or built by the Guardian. But all of them do the job required, and well - for nothing. Culturally, this is a hard thing for many news organisations to do (”But we can’t control it!”), but increasingly, it’s something they’re learning tends to work better than unwieldy bespoke software. It’s cheaper - and importantly in these times, much, much quicker.

some companies have done this really well by having a person who's sort of their advocate on Facebook or LinkedIn. It's someone who really gets how the medium works, knows how to engage with people, and most importantly, comes across as a real person.

A Finnish Internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start a mass movement toward electric cars. The plan is to encourage the conversion of used gasoline-powered cars to run on electricity, with the first rollout due this year. The Finnish-language forum, eCars - Now!, claims to be first of its kind in the world, and is working in the tradition of the open source projects used in information technology -- like the Linux computer operating system, which was also started by a Finn.

The 2008 edition of the WKCI compares 145 regions across 19 knowledge economy benchmarks (full data for all indicators across each of the 19 benchmarks is contained in the accompanying Excel spreadsheets). This represents an increase of twenty regions compared to the last edition in 2005: nine from Europe, eight from North America, and three from Asia Pacific. These new regions were selected on the basis of a survey of a wide range of regions appearing to be become more internationally competitive. This year’s report also contains a special chapter on economic development in the three leading Chinese regions.

It's the information and email overload studies that trip my BS detector the most. While I agree that an overstuffed inbox and constant email monitoring can kill your day, this $700 billion a year cost to the American economy makes me raise one eyebrow high in doubt. Did researchers factor in how much time email actually saves people who use it?