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Live Webcast: Getting to Microsoft Office 365: The Right Migration for Your Business
If you've been stuck using bare bones, web-based tools, you'll appreciate the full featured collaboration in MS Office 365. Check out this live webcast to learn more about Microsoft Office 365,...
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Top sites limited by lack of languages
Over 95 percent of leading Internet companies are unable to correspond in any language but English, according to research Less than five percent of the world's top Internet sites are able to...
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Electronic oddities from an English eccentric (images)
In his off hours, David Cranmer relaxes by stuffing badgers full of musical instruments and conjuring strange noises from the innards of a pig. A look at his idiosyncratic oeuvre.
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What do you do with a BA in English?
Why does this make me think of my oldest son? He's an English major, of course!
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Google 'glitch' returns swearing if you 'define an English person'
Google may have to crank out the spanners again, as when users attempt to define what an English person is, offensive results are displayed in the number one spot.
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'OMG', 'FYI', 'LOL' and a love heart graphic enters Oxford English Dictionary
'OMG', 'FYI' and 'LOL' have entered the Oxford English Dictionary - including a love heart graphic, as a result of popular usage thanks to the Web.
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Roku adds Al-Jazeera English, USB Media Player channels to line-up
Roku has stepped up its program access offerings the additions of Al-Jazeera English and a special USB Media Player channel.
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U Write Bieber Not Beeber (Why English Teachers Must Hate SMS)
Imagine how fast Middle English would've evolved from its Germanic roots into today's slang-rich language if the early Anglo-Saxons had had text messaging and Twitter around.
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The language Google knows best is English
Google is taking Microsoft down with the tools of journalism.
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English was the first open source language
The process that makes English so rich and universal is an open source process. Yes, there are "authorities," but they mainly exist to validate what the culture has already done.
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Web addresses to extend to non-English languages
Non-English characters will soon point to websites thanks to the regulatory body, ICANN. Will this now make the Internet truly local?
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How to take clear pictures at night
With Halloween just a day away, you might be thinking about shooting photos at parades or your kids trick-or-treating. But most of those activities are at night, which could hinder...
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Own a Successful English Football Team!
Minor League Ebbsfleet United have a big day on their calendar on February 19th, with ownership of the club in the balance. The difference from all the other run of the mill sports stories is...
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Turn Facebook into English Pirate mode
Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and Facebook is playing along. Scroll to the bottom of your page, and change the language to "English (Pirate)": It's silly, but also kinda...
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Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners
An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales.
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7% of US teens do not do any writing in their English classes
82% teens say that the writing assignments they do for school typically range from a paragraph to around one page in length, according to Pew Internet Project. 12% say that most of their writing...
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Astaro calls plain English the open source vendor value-add
Plain English newspapers complain bitterly of the competition generated by open source and the Internet it is built on. Yet plain English is the real value-add commercial developers provide for...
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China allows access to English Wikipedia
Authorities have lifted a block on the English-language version of online encyclopedia, but politically sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square are still off limits. (From Reuters)
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Flickr expands beyond English-speaking world
Yahoo's photo-sharing site will work in seven new languages, and the company expects new members out of the expansion.
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Google makes web more accessible for non-English speakers
And for those who don't speak it natively...And for those who do but really want to access non-English websites.According to the Google Blog entry on the topic: "While machine translation is not...
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Text messaging and the death of the English language
Or Gaelic, I guess. CNN.com reported Thursday on an Irish study demonstrating that text messaging has a negative impact on written language skills in teens. While a true causal link was not...
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