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French newspaper Le Monde has published a graph of the dominant social networks across the globe. It shows which social networks are most used by different parts of the world. MySpace is still king of the hill in the U.S. and Australia, with LiveJournal being the dominant network in Russia. Facebook holds reign in Canada […]

Yahoo has officially launched its social news portal, Yahoo Buzz. Similar to most social news sites, Buzz users vote on articles they like. Stories with the most votes have a good chance of hitting the front page and could possibly hit the Yahoo home page as well. With a user base of over 500 million, […]

The Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge (UK) have just unveiled Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept phone.
The device was launched to demonstrate the possibilities for future mobile phones, specifically their flexibility which would allow users to transform their phones into different shapes. The concept phone also boasts two important features, transparent electronics and […]

Adobe has just announced that Adobe Integrated Runtime, more commonly known as AIR, is now available for download.
Having been available as a beta since last year, AIR has been used to create a wide variety of rich Internet applications for the desktop. For those wanting to see what’s possible with AIR, there are over 200 […]

Let’s kick off the week with with another hand-picked time waster. Today’s productivity cure is called Sushi Go Round. You’re a replacement chef given one week to prove you deserve to work in this restaurant.
The game is simple enough. Customers come in and place their orders, you take a look at the recipe book to […]

You might have noticed the absence of Brown Talks the last 2 weeks. There’s actually a really simple explanation - I forgot heh.
For those of you unfamiliar with this, Sundays at Brown Thoughts means no regular posts. Just one open post where everyone is invited to talk about anything they want.
Nothing is off-topic.
So, how have […]

Yep, the Brown Batch is alive and well in case you were wondering. It just took a little break as I managed to forget two Sundays in a row .
With the sheer volume of posts written every week, it’s almost impossible not to find great posts made by other authors. Let’s take […]

Sometimes even though you’ve got regularly updated antivirus and antispyware programs installed, something still gets through. When you get hit with a virus, there’s a danger that critical system files could be deleted or modified along with other files by the infection.
There’s an easy way to make sure none of your files get […]