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Internap Supports Alert Service
May 2, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internap Network Services announced on Friday that Send Word Now has selected Internap's performance IP and international data center colocation services.
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One Laptop per Child Appoints Chuck Kane as President and Chief Operation Officer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----One Laptop per Child, a non-profit organization focused on providing educational tools to help children in developing countries "learn learning," announced today the appointment of Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer.
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MCC Students Recycle Consumer Electronics
Some environmentally conscious students at MCC are helping the community recycle tech waste. Geoscience students, with help from a Rochester recycling company have a drive-thru set up at MCC all day Friday.
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Temporary cooling trend may offset warming
German scientists said temporary climate variations may temporarily offset the long-term global warming trend.Researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology said computer simulations and measurements of ocean temperatures suggest that global warming will weaken slightly during the the next decade.The findings are published in the journal ...
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Yahoo shares gain; report says talks with Microsoft 'intensifying'
NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - Shares of Yahoo Inc. pushed higher in late trades on Friday following a media report that merger talks between it and Microsoft Corp. are picking up steam.
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New software allows ISPs and P2P users to get along without getting too cozy
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 percent of Internet traffic worldwide. That level of use has led to a growing tension between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their customers` P2P file-sharing services, and has driven ...
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Current Newswire:
This new strategy involves VIA providing the open-source community with NDA-free hardware specifications, code, and other resources--in a similar fashion to what ATI/AMD and Intel have been doing for some time now.
Linux Today |
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Trial Starts Today in SCO Lawsuit over Unix Misuse
More than four years after filing a lawsuit about alleged misuse of the Unix operating system, the SCO Group will get its days in court, beginning today in Salt Lake City. The defendant will be Novell Inc., which SCO sued in 2004. SCO also had filed a lawsuit over Unix in 2003 against International Business Machines Corp. SCO's lawsuit against IBM claims the company had violated an agreement ...
Enterprise Security Today |
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Raising Yahoo Bid, Microsoft Steps Up Talks
In a breakthrough after a months-long standoff, Microsoft has increased its offer and intensified negotiations, a person involved in the talks said.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Last Call: Yahoo shares rise as investors anticipate deal
(AP:NEW YORK) Yahoo Inc.'s shares rose Friday in what an analyst attributed to investors' expectations that the company will eventually agree to be purchased by suitor Microsoft Corp., perhaps at a higher price than the software company is currently offering.
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CA ERwin® Data Modeler
Download the Windows Server 2008 Trial Develop, deliver, & manage rich user experiences & apps, provide a secure network infrastructure, & increase technological efficiency & value within your organization.
Database Journal |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Nov 2006 22:02 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Responding to the myriad complaints over ambiguities and outright uncool (that's a technical term) licensing terms, Microsoft has revised the Vista retail license to remove some of the most major causes of complaint.
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Surprising loss for Sun shows the heavy costs of MySQL
Despite his company racking up a $34 million loss this last quarter due entirely to its $1 billion buyout of MySQL, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz voiced optimism yesterday that its ownership of the open source database will start paying off.
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One Laptop per Child Becomes a Reality With Wavion Solutions in Uruguay
30/04/2008 07:08:00 Business Wire Wavion(TM), a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a new category of Wi-Fi Base Station, and the Technological Laboratories of Uruguay (LATU), the organization leading the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Uruguay, known as the CEIBAL Project (Basic Connectivity for Education), today announced the deployment of Wavion s solutions in ...
InfoBolsa |
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SSLC results on Monday
Bangalore: The results of the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination, held in the State between March 31 and April 9, will be announced on May 5 in schools. The results will be made available on the Internet in ...
The Hindu |
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Local Internet Marketing Firm Spams Google Maps Bigtime
In another case of major mapspam (discovered first by Imnotadoctor ), a SMB-local internet market firm, Big Local , has captured many of the top positions in the Google Maps "onebox" for the category "internet consulting." Below are some examples from various cities. Click to continue reading...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Sep 2005 19:50 UTC
Graphics drivers developed for Vista, Microsoft's next generation operating system, will be far more stable than their Windows XP-based counterparts , and not crash the operating system anymore, an executive of graphics chip developer ATI said.
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Last Call: Yahoo shares rise as investors anticipate deal
Yahoo Inc.'s shares rose Friday in what an analyst attributed to investors' expectations that the company will eventually agree to be purchased by suitor Microsoft Corp., perhaps at a higher price than the software company is currently offering.
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft Office isn't among the apps that will run natively on Intel-based Macs - and it won't be until the latter half of 2007, according to media reports.
OS News |
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Help! Scammers are attacking my computer
As the popularity of online shopping, banking, and investing rises, so too does the amount of personal information floating around the Internet.
Portsmouth Herald |
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Another Start-up, Another Desktop Virtualization Scheme
MokaFive, another me-too desktop virtualization company, this one started in 2005 by three Stanford PhDs and their professor, Moka chief scientist Monica Lam, is in the process of pushing out its widgetry, which works on Windows, Mac and Linux. It started going commercial a few weeks ago with a preview paid for by angel money supplied by Sun founder Vinod Khosla and Sun's old strategy chief Bill ...
SYS-CON Media |
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XP, Asustek, Lenovo, VMware and Virtualization
Pleading a newly found incompatibility with its Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS), Microsoft Tuesday postponed the web release of both XP Service Pack 3 and Vista Service Pack 1 - even if nobody knows anybody who uses RMS. It's unclear how long the delay will be. It says it's working on a filter that will stop Windows Update from offering either service pack to systems running RMS. Once it ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Tibco airs SOA plans
Tibco Software plans a number of technology enhancements based on its ActiveMatrix service platform for SOA, including accommodations for IBM's WebSphere application server and the Ruby programming language.
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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Bamberg 1 among districts getting tech grants for laptop projects
COLUMBIA – Fourteen school districts will receive $2 million for new or continuing laptop projects from the South Carolina Department of Education’s 2008-09 Enhancing Education Through Technology (E2T2) competitive grants program.
The Times and Democrat |
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SAP Flubs SaaS
SAP has run into a nasty little rollout problem with its new on-demand Business ByDesign widgetry, the stuff that's critical to its future growth and competes with, oh, say, Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Microsoft. Seems ByDesign isn't properly automated and so SAP's grand plan to get 10,000 small to mid-sized companies up and running on the stuff and generate $1 billion in revenue by 2010 has ...
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