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My Favorite
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Get ready for the
Wireless MAN, baby. Or short for
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network.
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All About The MAN
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According
to a recent survey, about 65 percent of Net users spend 10 minutes
or more a day dealing with spam. About 37 percent of respondents get
100 junk messages a day, and 63 percent get 50 or more.
Source:
Symantec and Insightexpress
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Alice Hill's Technology
Watch
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Herbal Hard Drive Cleaner
Now that we know that green tea is good for almost anything that ails us, how about things that ail hard drives? Yeah, you got it... John Lombardi, at Ventana Research based in Tucson, Arizona in the US, somehow figured out that the tannin in tea, mixed with a few other herbal ingredients, can be used to polish the read/write heads of hard drives. Apparently it works better than the compounds now used and it's environmentally friendly. Next week we'll discover a common household use for bananas and your sound cards...
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10:50 AM
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