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Computers go on sale to general public in communist Cuba
HAVANA - Cubans are getting wired. Computers went on sale to the general public on the communist island today and potential consumers were lining up outside store windows...
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NY priest sentenced in child porn case
Associated Press - May 2, 2008 12:05 PM ET CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A Long Island priest who admitted he collected hundreds of child pornography images off the Internet has been sentenced to...
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MindTree acquires majority stake in Aztecsoft
Bangalore, May 2 : Global IT service firm MindTree Ltd is acquiring around 33 percent equity (1.5 million shares) in Aztecsoft Ltd for Rs.1.72 billion ($43 million) for a majority stake in the Bangalore-based software firm, the company said here Friday.
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Yahoo shares jump as Microsoft decision awaits
Redmond isn't likely to announce any "big" market-moving news until after the bell closes--at the earliest.
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Sprint Nextel hires new CFO
Beleaguered wireless carrier names a former Eastman Kodak executive as its new chief financial officer as it tries to get back on track financially.
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School bullies at it again!
SIBU: A video clip showing three local teenage boys assaulting another boy and forcing him to eat a piece of stone is in the Internet – YouTube.Com. In the three-minute footage, the bullies, believed to be secondary school students, beat up the boy in a garden in a residential area here.
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SerVonic releases version 5.75 of IXI-UMS
According to serVonic, the communication software can now be used in modern computer centre operations. Additional flexibility has been provided to the software in the form of support for international character sets and fax pro in countries where different characters are used.
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iTunes movies to be available day of DVD release
The change will beef up the number of new titles available in the iTunes online store and help the service compete better against DVD retailers.
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Digging Into Google Earth Takes Some Heavy Lifting
Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels to the southern reaches of the world. Then a light bulb clicked as I was exploring Google Earth: Why not use that? Google Earth is a mapping product much more powerful than the typical Web-based map service.
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Macworld Awards 2008
The first version of Freeway, back in 1997, entered a drag-and-drop web authoring market with few real competitors. Adobe had PageMill, Macromedia had yet to launch Dreamweaver and Microsoft’s web strategy was still in flux. Back then, we lauded Freeway for its design-centred approach to page building, offering a DTP style workflow aimed squarely at non-coders.
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Manatee man accused of stealing computer secrets
MANATEE - Investigators arrested a self-described computer expert Thursday in the theft of trade secrets, according to a Manatee County Sheriff's Office report.
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Search In Pictures: Yahoo Baby, Google Megaphone, Alanis Morissette
In this week's Search In Pictures , here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Click to continue reading...
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Sezmi to Compete With Cable and Satellite TV
New service to use Internet and digital broadcasts to undercut rivals for cable-like programming.
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EconSM Video: Keynote Q&A: Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Internet Group
On Tuesday we had our second Economics of Social Media conference and, as promised, we'll be posting videos here of all the sessions. Below, our Keynote Q&A with Steve Wadsworth , president of Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE: DIS), interviewed by Kara Swisher of AllThingsD. Aside from admitting to Disney's early internet failings during the last boom, Wadsworth touched on the importance of ...
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Weekly Search Buzz Roundup - 05/02/08: Google Ad Scores Revealed, PageRank Update & META Keywords Don't Matter
Is it really May already? I guess time flies when you're working hard. Or something. The latter part of the week was a bit slow, but we still have a lot of great news for you, starting with a PageRank Update! Google PageRank Update That's right, my friends, we've observed a Google Toolbar PageRank update and some people are very happy to see it. Still, as commenter Rob Abdul points ...
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Recent Original Stories
"More than half of the 1.2 million lines of code for the real-time kernel technology have been moved into the mainline Linux kernel over the past year, Tim Burke, the director of emerging technologies at Red Hat, said at the Linux/Open Source on Wall Street conference on April 23."
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Recent Original Stories
Mad Penguin has published an excellent interview with Techmeister Leo Laporte. It's a two page review in which Leo discusses the possibility of a UNIX owned future.
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SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - Jenna Raby had bought an Ikea table, but found herself unable to put it together. She wanted to find someone to help her, but was afraid to use Craigslist.org, the internet marketplace for swapping goods and services.
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Opening Glance: most Internet software, services stocks rise
Internet software and services stocks mostly rose with the broader market Friday morning, which gained after the Labor Department reported employers cut fewer jobs than anticipated in April.
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Sun Grows OpenSolaris Toolkit
Sun Microsystems is pushing out a new tool that lets developers build an OpenSolaris storage server in 10 minutes, as part of its three-year-old open source storage community effort.
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EconSM Video: Keynote Q&A: Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Internet Group
On Tuesday we had our second Economics of Social Media conference and, as promised, we'll be posting videos here of all the sessions. Below, our Keynote Q&A with Steve Wadsworth, president of Walt Disney Internet Group , interviewed by Kara Swisher of AllThingsD.
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SAP and RIM Usher in a New Era for Enterprise Mobility
SAP AG and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced a co-innovation partnership to usher in a new era in enterprise mobility. SAP, the leader in enterprise software, and RIM, the leader in mobile connectivity for the enterprise, have joined forces to change the way people work, by enabling anytime, anywhere mobile access to SAP enterprise applications through the widely adopted BlackBerry® ...
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Computers go on sale to general public in Cuba for 1st time
Cubans are getting wired. Computers went on sale to the general public on the communist island on Friday and potential consumers were lining up outside store windows to gawk and consider buying. President Raul Castro's government had authorized the sale of...
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Horse Fans 'Race to Recycle' at Churchill Downs
Mayor Jerry Abramson; Steve Sexton, President of Churchill Downs; Pat Franc, President of ARCO Aluminum; and Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corporation today announced a joint project that will re-energize the recycling program at the historic racetrack in time for the Kentucky Oaks and Derby races.
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Computers go on sale to general public in Cuba for 1st time
Fri, May 2, 2008 (8:42 a.m.) Cubans are getting wired. Computers went on sale to the general public on the communist island on Friday and potential consumers were lining up outside store windows to gawk and consider buying.
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