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Services help you schedule clients, patients online
Doctors, lawyers and dentists have largely missed the e-commerce boom. So have other service-based businesses like salons and interior-design shops.
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Introducing Tourist
Summer, we've heard, is supposed to be the time for travelling the world, seeing new sights, accumulating new experiences, and exploring new places. According to the first Google result for "travel quotations" (the extent of our research), Helen Keller said that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
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Star Turns - May 3, 2008
Miley Cyrus has apologised for a controversial Vanity Fair photo that was taken of her, as well as personal photos that leaked onto the internet. "I feel so embarrassed," she said. Despite her apology, Cyrus might not be too ashamed of her recent controversial photos.
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Recent Original Stories
Want to be able to access your machine anytime, anywhere? Can't be bothered purchasing a domain name and configuring Dynamic DNS? Microsoft has a solution: the 'Windows Internet Computer Name' - a unique domain name for your computer . There is one small catch though: you have to be using the next-generation networking protocol IPv6 which, although thoroughly integrated into Windows Vista, isn't ...
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Patni Computer postpones buy back offer
MUMBAI: SPA Merchant Bankers Ltd on behalf of Patni Computer Systems Ltd has announced that the commencement date of the buy back is postponed. The date would be notified later.
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Microsoft, Yahoo meet to avert hostile takeover
Representatives from Microsoft and Yahoo met on Friday to avert a hostile takeover, sources close to the meeting said. The talks were confidential and were conducted in a serious atmosphere, said the sources who refused to be named. ...
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Recent Original Stories
"A lot of bandwidth has been wasted arguing over the lack of usability in open-source software/free software.
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Microsoft suffered a stunning defeat
on Monday when a European Union court backed a European Commission ruling that the US software giant illegally abused its market power to crush competitors. The European Union's second-highest court dismissed the company's appeal on all substantive points of the 2004 antitrustruling.
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Recent Original Stories
The FSF today released version 3 of the GNU GPL , the popular free software license. "Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom.
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Tech briefs
Microsoft Corp. reportedly dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. on Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling. Microsoft increased its bid ''by several dollars'' per share, according to a New York Times report citing unnamed sources.
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Virtualization - Likewise Adds Oracle Linux & Mainframes
Likewise, pretty much the de facto standard in cross-platform authentication these days, has added Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, Oracle's version of Red Hat, to the list of some 110 Linux, Unix and Mac platforms that it supports on a Microsoft network using Active Directory. Oracle Linux now claims 2,000 customers give or take.
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A top 100 gush list minus the Google guys?
We couldn't decide what made us cringe more while reading Time magazine's fifth annual list of the world's 100 most influential people: some of the choices (Muqtada al-Sadr? Brangelina? Vladimir Putin?) or some of the obsequious log-rolling - even about several notable Bay Area techies.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Microsoft ups Yahoo bid
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. on Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker upped its offer beyond the original value of $44.
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Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public (AP)
AP - Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.
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World - Most relevant news
Is China attacking Belgian computers? BRUSSELS -- Belgian officials say an attempt to infiltrate critical computer networks appears to have come from China.
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Good news: The middle class is dying
This just in from my possibly apocryphal email pen pal Ed Anger, unapologetic curmudgeon. Ed wonders, "Why all the hand-wringing over the fate of Canada's middle class?" I think he was referring to this week's StatsCan report on middle-class income stagnation.
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Phone service investigates 911 mess
The family of an 18-month-old boy who died Tuesday night is wondering how their Internet phone service managed to keep track of their billing address - but their 911 service couldn't find them the night Elijah Luck stopped breathing and his parents called for an ambulance.
Montreal Gazette |
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Front Royal police officers to get computers in vehicles
FRONT ROYAL — The Town Council has allocated funds that will allow computer terminals to be installed in Front Royal Police Department cruis-ers. The panel passed the measure unanimously on Monday. Councilman Bret W. Hrbek was absent from the meeting.
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Bad birthday — 30 years of spam
Happy birthday, spam. P.S.: Now go away. It was 30 years ago today that users of Arpanet, a U.S. government designed precursor to the Internet, logged onto their accounts to find what is considered the first piece of unsolicited commercial e-mail ever sent. It was a pitch for a new computer.
The Monterey County Herald |
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Recent Original Stories
"If you're an OpenSolaris x86 user and are using a NVIDIA graphics card with NVIDIA's binary Solaris drivers, you can now enjoy Compiz on your desktop . Erwann Chenede has produced packages of Compiz 0.5.0 for OpenSolaris x86.
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Technology 'spark plugs' win Outstanding Teacher awards
Sometimes, Amy Fiorito said, it can be more difficult to work with adults than to work with students. Fiorito is a computer teacher for eighth-graders at Wellwood Middle School and a technology instructor for all of Fayetteville-Manlius' middle school teachers.
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Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public
HAVANA, 05/03 - Cubans are getting wired. The island`s communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-03 09:30 TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Consumer and retailing highlights to 09:15 BST
2008-05-03 01:43:53 Amazon sues NY over Internet sales tax collection
Interactive Investor |
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-03 09:35 TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Mergers and acquisitions highlights to 09:20 BST
2008-05-03 05:21:31 Microsoft ups Yahoo offer above $31 per share
Interactive Investor |
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Recent Original Stories
The theory behind open-source software is that it avoids many of the pitfalls - including cost - of closed alternatives. But Steven Buckley, who runs Christian Aid's common knowledge programme, prefers to buy software from the likes of Microsoft. Is this not odd for a charity?
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