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Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers While you might not be a fan of Internet Explorer 8, there's no denying it's a better browser than its predecessors. One key upgrade in IE8 is its improved security and safety features - like SmartScreen. In case you haven't heard about it before, SmartScreen is designed to keep IE users from wandering onto malicious websites. Sites like those which repeatedly turn up in Facebook scams. And it certainly...  

DriveSafe.ly is an application that will read aloud your emails and text messages. In a time where new laws and regulations are coming to the forefront, this application is a fantastic way to stay connected and to “Drive Safe”. A free application demo can be found at Blackberry App World or at www.drivesafe.ly. The [...]  

Rating: Novarra puts some figures on our gut feelings We’ve always suspected that services like Twitter are driving up mobile internet usage, but Novarra has managed to put some figures on it. Would you believe that mobile click-throughs driven by shortened URLs have grown by 1,068 per cent so far in 2009? These figures have been extracted [...]  

A site that couldn’t hit the web at a better time, Spree.ly allows you to shop online with as many friends and acquaintances as you want, on as many online stores as you might feel like visiting. The site is very easy to use, as you don’t have to download anything and you don’t even have to register to get going to begin with.Read moreLearn more about Spree.ly in Dataopedia.comFind out how much Spree.ly is worth with Stimator.com  

www.scottro.com I added a page on my blog with my resume, but for some reason, it didn't work right. So, I deleted the page. But now all of my links to "comments" on posts are going to the wrong place. Example, the comment should go to http://scottro.com/?p=1926#comments, but instead, it's pointed to http://www.scottro.com/http:/www.scottro.com/resume#comments. The resume page has been deleted, but apparently, my links still want to go...  

There plenty of ways to share files over the Internet (I like Drop.io or Skype). But when you want to share something with the world, or a larger group of friends, the place to do that increasingly is on Twitter or Facebook. Today a new file-sharing service called Sayabit launched which turns your files into short URLs which can be passed around more easily. If the file is an image, then the Sayabit link (like http://sayabit.com/LV9llB...  

Atlantic OnlineOnline users bombard ObamaStraits TimesBEIJING - THE state of Barack Obama's marriage and Tibet are just two of the topics raised in thousands of questions submitted by Chinese Internet users ...Beijing gets the jitters as free talking Barack Obama flies inTimes OnlineObama chat may be uncensored, but many in China might not see itLos Angeles TimesA Blogger Briefing Ahead of Obama's China TripWall Street JournalWall Street...