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11 Powerful Firefox 3 Add-ons to Replace Standalone Apps

jasonbartholme.com — Firefox add-on developers have created some impressive applications that can replace larger, bloated programs. These add-ons can help if you have a small amount of precious hard drive space or you are on a tight budget and don’t have cash to fork out for applications.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Pirate Bay Cop Not to be Investigated

torrentfreak.com — The Pirate Bay, often attacked by the Swedish establishment, but never beaten. However, their faith in the judicial system has plummeted after prosecutors have stated that Jim Keyzer, a police official investigating the Pirate Bay, has done no wrong by working for Warner at the same time.More… (Tech Industry News)

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US Pirate Party Study Shatters MPAA Claims

torrentfreak.com — While the Pirate Party might be well known in Sweden, and heard of elsewhere around Europe, it’s not really taken off in the country that prides itself as being ‘the land of the free’. Unperturbed, the US Pirate Party has soldiered on and with the preliminary release of data from it’s first study, it’s hitting back at the media lobbyists.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Bank of America to support Firefox, finally

networkworld.com — What? Bank of America doesn't already support Firefox? No, at least not officially. Mozilla calls the situation "pretty unusual" when talking about "most major Web sites, and certainly major banks." BoA says it will be adding Firefox to its list of officially approved browsers soon, although even that promise remains somewhat vague.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Digg's Recommendation System: More Details on How it Works

technologyreview.com — To keep recommendations from being all over the map, the system calculates connections for each topic separately, so that two users who share an interest in video games won't be thought to have, say, like opinions on political stories. To keep recommendations diverse, the system shows only a certain number of stories from each compatible user.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Nvidia supports PhysX effort on ATI Radeon

tgdaily.com — You gotta love this industry. 12 days ago, we reported about a website making progress in getting Nvidia’s CUDA platform and PhysX to run on ATI Radeon cards. Here is an update to a fascinating story that may soon bring PhysX support to your Radeon graphics card. More… (Tech Industry News)

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Google Launches Lively, Virtual World Across Social Networks

mashable.com — Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web.More… (Tech Industry News)

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