Image Source : Web Google has published a detailed, 49-page report that rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including the Google search home page. The result? It’s failing in a number of categories

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Google admits its SEO could use a little work

Intuitive 3D Desktop | Image Source : Bumptop.com BumpTop™ is a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. Like a real desk, but better. Now with awesome mouse and multi-touch gestures! Your desktop, your way Your desktop doesn’t have to be a boring graveyard for lost and forgotten files anymore! Transform it with BumpTop.

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Reinvent Your Desktop With Intuitive 3D Desktop

MacBook Spying Case | Image Source : Appleinsider.com FBI investigates, federal prosecutors subpoena documents in MacBook spying case, say reports. The parents of a Pennsylvania high school student have asked a federal judge to bar school district personnel from switching on cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops, calling the security feature “peeping tom technology.” In their motion Friday, Michael and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley, Pa., asked U.S. District Court Judge Jan DuBois to issue a restraining order preventing the district from remotely activating the webcams on student notebooks.

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Irate parents in Pa. say schools use ‘peeping tom technology’

On2 Video Compression Technologies | Image Source : On2.com Google has finished its acquisition of video-compression-technology vendor On2 Technologies, boosting its efforts in online video. The deal closed after gaining approval from On2 shareholders and was valued at $124.6 million, Google said in a brief statement late Friday.

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Google closes On2 acquisition for $124.6M

Image Source : womensrights.change.org The greatest threat to healthy female body image might just be…a computer program. That’s right : Photoshop isn’t just manipulating the colors and shades of the sky in the background, it’s manipulating the way we think about female beauty.

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Photoshop Disasters: Technology Used to Uphold Dangerous Beauty Standards

Battle Pandemics in a Digital World | Image Source : Superstock.com People concerned about contracting the H1N1 virus, or any other potential illness now have some new tools to help them keep tracking of pandemics and stay healthy. In the age when digital devices rule, consumers and health organizations can now stay up to date on the latest flu-related information with a few taps of a button, thanks to the increasing number of iPhone apps, social networks and informative Web sites dedicated to the cause. Users can now share information and track other health threats instantaneously.

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Using Technology to Battle Pandemics in a Digital World

Barbie Computer Engineer | Image Source : Escapistmagazine.com Barbie is no longer the less-than-intelligent blonde she once was, now earning her keep as a professional geek. Barbie has had over 100 careers since 1959, taking on the work of firefighter to astronaut, and Mattel has just revealed her latest. Barbie’s 126th career will be computer engineer, establishing her as an official nerd.

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Barbie Finds New Career in Information Technology

nullA series of mysterious music clips uploaded to YouTube over the last week have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and have bloggers excitedly guessing which artist is behind it. Is it pop princess Christina Aguilera? Scandinavian electronic duo The Knife?

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Who is iamamiwhoami? The making of a Web Mystery

February 14, 2010 marks the start of the Year of the Tiger on the Chinese Lunar Calendar. Celebrate the Chinese New Year holiday with great kids’ activities and crafts. Also learn about the history and meaning behind Chinese New Year symbols.

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Chinese New Year 2010

Global Greenhouse Gas | Image : Networlddirectory.com Part of a forest will be enclosed, heated up and pumped with CO2 to see who wins and loses if the planet heats up. Global warming has found a willing victim: a small patch of spruce forest in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota

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Global Warming: Survival Of The Fittest