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Apple beginnings deliveries of “time capsule”

Corporation Apple has started deliveries the preordered devices called Time Capsule, which allows to carry out reserve copying of the data through a wireless network, writes The Register.
Time Capsule is intended first of all for work with the new system of reserve copying Time Machine which has been built-in in the operational system Mac […]

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Scientists have revealed new disease of the century

Internet-dependence is a new illness of the century. It passes from mental sphere to physical one, as orthopedists have started to talk about extension of computer mouse syndrome - occupational disease of computerniks.
Psychologists warn that online-dependence can destroy human life. For today only in Germany about 2 million people suffer from Internet-dependence: they perceive […]

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Google has checked the Internet for malicious software

Over three millions webs-pages on 180 thousand sites try automatically install on the user’s computer malicious software, is said in the report “All your iframe are point to us” made by Google safety experts.
The most part of malicious software is stored on the Chinese webs-servers. On some of such servers Google has found out up […]

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Research: Three years of life is spent on the Internet

Active Internet users spend on the average three years of their life for aimless web browsing.
Such are the data of the survey carried out by British organization AOL. Daily the user spends in a network for about four hours.
55 % of the respondents have admitted that they spend a quarter of this time in vain. […]

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Wiki’s founder has presented the search system

One of the founders of Internet - encyclopedia Wikipedia – Jimmy Wales - has presented open search Internet - system Wikia Search based on wiki-technologies.
The developer of a new search system informed, Wikia Search enables users to write independently small articles on interesting for them topics.
Wikia Search, in opinion of its founders, will be […]

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In 2008 Japan introduces the new generation of broadband Internet - communication

Since March, 2008 Japan introduces the new generation of broadband Internet - communication through fiber-optic lines (NGN) which will allow to transfer greater volumes of video and audio data will be commissioned, to talk over a videotelephone and to watch films online.
On January, 15 the Ministry of Internal Affairs and communications of Japan published the […]

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US Internet users will be connected to the super-high-speed line

Corporation Comcast during the exhibition CES in Las Vegas has declared development of DOCSIS 3.0 technology, which will give access to the Internet at speeds up to 160 megabit a second, informs Associated Press.
Expansion of DOCSIS 3.0 will begin already this year. It will allow Internet users to download HD feature film for a few […]

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China has come out on top in terms of connections to the broadband Internet

China has come out on top in the world by amount of the connected subscribers to the broadband Internet, transfers agency Xinhua referring to words of the computer science deputy minister Jiang Yaoping.
122 million people, living in China, have broadband access to the Internet, which is the biggest index in the world.
It is necessary to […]

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Google creates a new online encyclopedia

Google has declared development of own online encyclopedia. Founders of the new project assert that it will rival popular Internet-encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Google’s management has already charged a number of experts with preparation of the first materials for the encyclopedia.
Incomes from the advertising placed on pages of the encyclopedia Google’s management is going to share […]

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By 2010 speed of the Internet can decrease

Experts from the American company Nemertes Research have conducted the research and found out that by 2010 network work speed can decrease essentially because of growth of broadband Internet users.
The main reason of slump in speed, in opinion of experts, is the quickly growing amount of the information which is stored in a network. […]

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