Bits: Questions We Thought, But Didn’t Ask, in 2007

As the year ends, [The New York Times] ask the questions that perplex us the most.

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Create a keyboard shortcut to paste plain text in Microsoft Word and Excel

Last week I described the PureText utility that lets you paste plain text in Word and other applications via a keyboard shortcut. Unfortunately, you have to click the program's icon in your system tray before you press the shortcut keys. Thus you lose the speed benefit of not having to take your hands off the keyboard.

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FTC Chair's Impartiality Questioned

Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras should recuse herself from voting on the Google-DoubleClick deal because her husband works for the law firm representing DoubleClick, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy said Dec. 12 in an FTC filing.

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IBM: When it comes to energy use, eco-friendly rules

OK, Harry cornered the market today on politically laden postings. So, here I am with some suggestive stats from the data-minded folks at IBM, who have conducted a survey about energy among roughly 1,900 households in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands....

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Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly

Suppose, however, that you could leave the island compound of a social networking site and take your network of friends, and friends of friends, anywhere on the Web? This is what makes Google’s announcement last week of a new alliance of companies so enticing — the possibility that social networking will become ubiquitous.

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AT&T To Spy on Your Internet Traffic

AT&T is getting together with Hollywood studios and recording companies to develop technology to snoop on your Internet traffic in search of pirated material....

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IBM Going Green With Its Largest Data Center

IBM is doubling its Boulder, Colorado data center capacity by 2010, without increasing energy usage or carbon emissions.

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A “Green” Method of Web hosting

Affordable Web Hosting thats environmentally friendly. Affordable Internet Services Online Inc.(www.aiso.net) uses 120+ solar panels, solar tubes, AMD Opteron processors & more. AISO.Net is a true environmentally friendly hosting company that generates all of its electricity by the sun—not by energy credits.

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PC World - IBM Offers Blade Server For the Little Guy

The BladeCenter S system is packaged to include server, storage, input-output connections to a network and software integrated into a single chassis. IBM declined to provide pricing information but said it plans to begin shipping the product in the fourth quarter.



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