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Study: Twitter is 40% 'pointless babble'

Also notable in data firm Pear Analytics' breakdown of tweet species is that there's less spam than expected.

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  Do browsers need a 'best-before' date?

  Security researchers have suggested that like food, browsers should have a best-before or expiry date. This comes after revealing that 637 million internet users are surfing with outdated and unpatched browsers, which puts them at risk from Web-based attacks.

• Study: Digital watermarking market growing

  Sales for technology for inserting digital watermarks and fingerprints into media files will quadruple by 2012, a new study finds.

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  Google joins Xerox as a verb

  Though you may have been "googling" people for years, the verb you were using was technically slang, until recently.

• Why would you want 3G?

  Although people are well aware of 3G technology, less people are actually considering using it. Could it be there just isn't the need? Should carriers be focussing their efforts elsewhere -- like regional areas?

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