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The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

The number of nominations surpasses last year's record of 205 nominations.

The internet's nomination has been championed by the Italian version of Wired magazine for helping advance "dialogue, debate and consensus".

The director of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, told BBC Ne

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Twitter hold-outs are missing out on a wealth of news and discussion, writes Claire Cain Miller.

A common reason given by those who have yet to try Twitter: "I have nothing to say." The truth is, you don't have to post a message to get the most out of Twitter.

At its best, the social medium is a perpetual, personalised news service about topics of your choosing - whether health-care reform,

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Manufacturers making knock-off devices amid confusion about whether Apple will officially launch iPad in the region
Enterprising Chinese companies have already started making devices that look similar to Apple's iPad but run the Windows 7 operating system made by arch-rivals Microsoft.

Apple has not yet confirmed whether it will launch the iPad in China, fuelling potential

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By Andrew Hough - telegraph.co.uk

An American city, Topeka, has renamed itself “Google” for a month, as it bids for the chance to host the search engine’s new high-speed broadband network.
The city, the capital of Kansas, will unofficially be known as “Google, Kansas – the capital city of fibre optics” during March.
Officials in the town, which has a population of 125,000, came up with the

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By Harry McCracken - FOXNews.com

Seven useful Google services you may not have tried yet, from a free phone number to a cool new way to peruse the news.
For a company that's synonymous with one product--the world's most popular search engine--Google is far from a one-product company. Actually, it's a veritable idea factory, in part because it lets employees spend twenty percent of their time

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By ASHER MOSES - SMH

Facebook users will from next month be able to track where their friends are at any given time, while a new Twitter feature will plot tweets on a Google Map, according to reports.

At Facebook's yearly developer conference next month, dubbed f8, the social networking site plans to unveil a new feature allowing its 400 million users to share their current location with f

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By NICKY PHILLIPS - SMH

Lost in a big city? It is a familiar experience. So imagine if you could use X-ray vision to see what was on the other side of the building in front of you.

It sounds like science fiction, but researchers at the University of South Australia have developed mobile phone software that can achieve just that.

Christian Sandor explained the application worked by usin

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By Mark Ward - BBC

Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years.

By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them.

The move to the advanced format will make it easier for hard drive makers to produce bigger drives that use less power and are more reliable.

However, it might

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By Claudine Beaumont - telegraph.co.uk

Google is testing a new search service that will make it easier for people to find their favourite TV shows and YouTube videos, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The trial is being carried out in association with Dish Network, the second biggest satellite television provider in the United States. The new service enables television viewers to more easily

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The chatter on Twitter during the Academy Awards broadcast was often more entertaining than the show itself.

Here are 10 of the funniest Oscar tweets. Think of them as notes from the peanut gallery.

-"Shhhh. I'm live tweeting from directly under Sandra Bullocks chair." - Rainn Wilson (rainnwilson), actor.

-"Charlize Theron would like to thank R. Crumb and my 16-year-old id for des

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A Christian media company has devised a rosary bead application for the
iPhone, giving tech-savvy believers a convenient way of counting off their
prayers.

The Prayer Beads App has been launched in time for Easter and is available for £1.79 from the Apple store.

Inspired by encouragement from Pope Benedict XVI, the digital rosary beads sit on a lush bed of velvet.
The beads have b

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By PATTIE PEGLER - The Press

If you have any sort of online life, then hopefully you already use bookmarks or favourites to manage your most visited websites.

It saves time and effort typing in web addresses and remembering lengthy urls. However, to get the most out of any system you need to keep things organised.

At the most basic level you should have your bookmarks at least sorted al