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By - Darren Straight

AltME – The Alternative Messaging Environment

Ok I was told about AltME “The Alternative Messaging Environment” last month and since then I have downloaded it but not posted about it here, so I thoght I would! The Alternative Messaging Environment AltME puts you in charge of your own Internet world… You decide who can visit, what they can do, how long they can stay. You control

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Google and Nasa in space venture

Now here’s some interesting news about Google! Web search firm Google has formed a partnership with US space agency Nasa in an effort to harness new technology which could boost the space programme. Google is to build a new office complex on the site of Nasa’s research facility in California, close to its own headquarters in Silicon Valley. The two

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First test for The Space Elevator is a success

LiftPort Group Inc, a private group, has successfully tested a robot climber a novel piece of hardware that reeled itself up and down a lengthy ribbon dangling from a high-altitude balloon at around 1000 feet in the air, this experiment is one small step to building a fully functional space elevator in the future. The location of the experiment itself

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ICANN to Ban Use of “WWW”

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to ban the use of www in domain names as recent studies show that office productivity is affected by workers having to type www when surfing a website. Requiring employees to type ‘WWW’ cost companies over $25 billion last year,” said ICANN representative Emil Scharnsdorf. “The average Internet surfer takes

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NerdTV

Well you may or may not of heard about NerdTV yet but they have just released their third show, basically NerdTV is a weekly online TV show that does a one hour interview with a key player in the Technology world like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak, I recommend you watch a couple of

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Opera’s web browser becomes ad free!

Opera’s web browser has now become a completely ad free browser after they announced they were removing the banners found within the browser and also removing the licensing fee. Why we’re going free Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. Opera’s growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has made today’s milestone an achievable

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