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Entries from January 2008

Startup to Take Another Stab at SF Citywide WiFi (E-Commerce Times)

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Meraki, a wireless mesh network startup with dreams of bringing Internet access to developing countries, announced Friday that it will expand its “Free the Net” program, currently available in a few San Francisco neighborhoods, to cover the entire city and create a free municipal WiFi network.
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Tags: Business

Sears website shows everything you’ve ever bought

January 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Filed under: Security

In this age of questioning who has the rights to your information, Sears would like to join the conversation. We’ve discovered a Sears website that lists all major appliance and repair service records for your friends, neighbors, and anyone if you know their address.
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Buxfer: personal finance with support for iPhone, Twitter

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Finance, Web services

We’ve written about personal finance sites like Mint and Spendview before, but Buxfer has a few interesting features that differentiate it from the others. While it offers auto-syncing of transaction information with your banks and credit cards, budgeting, and expense analysis, Buxfer also has three key characteristics:

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Tags: News

Xinorbis: Hard core hard drive analyzer

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

digg_url = “http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/04/xinorbis-hard-core-hard-drive-analyzer/”; If you’re the sort of person who starts to feel like your new PC with the 250GB hard drive is running out of space about two days after you bring it home from the store, hard disk space analyzers can be your best friend. While we’re big fans […]

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Tags: Startups

Mass Events Labs Acquired By CMP

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Wikipedia lists “trade shows” as one of CMP’s products, and while this might be an odd way of putting it, the corporation’s fresh acquisition of Mass Events Labs acts to substantiate the underlying fact.
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Researchers Question Yahoo Answers

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Stanford University researchers analyzed 10 months worth of content from Yahoo’s popular Answers service to learn about the people using it and where it might go in the future.
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