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There are always speculations that users have when it comes to easing out the search for them. It began with chains like Walmart in the real world but with the Web taking over at such a lightening fast pace, things like one stop library, auto centers, etc became reality and users loved the development. Smashbuys goes a step further and accumulates the entire range of products on a single page; the Home page that is.

Smashbuys displays various ten products from a wide variety of categories and not just that; it also lets you share the product with various services (like dig, Mixx etc). Provides you the popularity of particular link plus a brief summary about the product you browse through with a small window opening up and you can read more if it interests you. The products are popularised on the basis of how often it is recommended within a community, that is the more clicks made on a product end up making it more popular.

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ClickPass, a startup that has enabled the use of multiple accounts with a single set of credentials has recently joined hands to support additional third parties. This will surely provide a great flexibility in the universal login mechanism. The support for additional parties will enable Users to use their Hotmail, Yahoo, Google and Facebook passwords on any site that has ClickPass authentication System.

The new supported system is quite flexible and the user does not need any kind of accounts or efforts to use it. The sites that have been supported by ClickPass displays a small bar containing logos of above mentioned companies under their login box. Users only have to choose their desired service and logged in to it by typing in a desired nickname(display name). There is not even need of making a ClickPass account, thus the service with its features clearly depicts the true meaning of OpenID.

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Are you fed up of your excess weight gain and wanna loose it by having a simple and healthier diet? Or are you looking for a dietician that will guide you how to spent a healthy life by following a motto of "Eat Healthy, Live Healthy". Than try dietsinreview.com. As the name depicts, it offers a wide array of diet plans for every type of person.

The site is serving as a concrete diet platform for all the people who have got millions of questions mingling in their mind about diet. Be it a skinny and lean person who  always try to putt on some extra weight but fails as he really don’t know what is that  "lacking factor" in his daily diet or be it a person with few extra pounds. Well, the answer is simple, all needs a reliable counsellor whom you can trust upon. Without proper guidance it certainly seems impossible for a person to opt for a nutritious diet (after all, one rather then a dietician possess a proper knowledge of nutritions and calories that we ingest daily). So dietsinreviews serves the purpose.

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Bill Gates has finally retired from Microsoft, the software maker that ignited and remained a torch bearer of the PC era and a wealth machine like nothing else in its time. Bill had already left the executive position at Microsoft immediately after the anti-trust lawsuit and handed over the reigns of the software maker to his long time friend and Harvard fellow Steve Ballmer. But now he is officially retiring from day to day work life at Microsoft, where he currently served as the Chairman of the Board. On this occasion we would try to remember the legacy of this man by taking a look at some of the great products that Microsoft build during his time at the company.

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Airband Communications, a company that provides WiMAX fixed-wireless to the businesses in US, has raised $2.5 million in a round of funding. The Dallas based company is said to be the largest WiMAX fixed-wireless service provider in the country.

Company’s website reads:

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Just when we were put up with rumors of Microsoft acquiring Powerset, Microsoft reveals its plans at getting its hands at a Portuguese mobile application company MobiComp. The company has assisted pioneer technologies enabling backup and restoration of mobile data and posting social content to the websites.

This deal is set to amalgamate MobiComp’s expertise at creating innovative mobile data security and have a share at Microsoft’s plans to give experiences that help grow work and play amongst mediums like the cellular, Web and PC. According to a press release, Todd Peters, corporate Vice President in Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft said:

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With online data storage gaining massive popularity for its accessibility, security and ease of sharing, there are various services providing online data storage and with each offering slightly more or simply different features than the other. With tough competition and a lot to do for satisfying the users, Orb24 comes with a similar motto and a complete dedication to make your entire web-based storage safe haven.

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WordPress has been facing a lot of problems since the release of its version 2.5. A number of bugs have been discovered since then. Some of the modifications were so severe that users were waiting for the next better version i.e. 2.6. If you’re one of those users then you don’t have to wait for any long as WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 has been released. It is an improved version of WordPress 2.5. This time there wasn’t as much hype created as it was with the release of WordPress 2.5.

The new version has following features:

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TechCrunch is reporting that EMI has filed a lawsuit against Hi5, VideoEgg and ten other defendants alleging them of "massive and blatant" copyright infringements.

The lawsuit basically alleges Hi5 of posting musical videos on its social network without prior notice or permission of EMI. EMI has been particularly active in suing companies in the recent past, AllofMP3, YouTube, Apple, MP3Tunes, XM Radio and Infospace being some of the affected companies.

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