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Cubans can buy PCs -- but for most, progress does not compute
HAVANA (AFP) - Cubans have begun exercising their new right to buy personal computers, although the government has not freed up access to the Internet for the communist-ruled country's would-be consumers.
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Cubans can buy PCs -- but for most, progress does not compute
Cubans have begun exercising their new right to buy personal computers, although the government has not freed up access to the Internet for the communist-ruled country's would-be consumers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Nov 2006 13:15 UTC, submitted by Mola
Some more news on the Novell-Microsoft deal (I'm starting to suspect the free publicity is all what this deal was for, but anyway). Sun boss Jonathan Schwartz has joined in criticism of the Microsoft-Novell deal, saying it is bad for the open source movement.
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Fecal Face Dot Gallery thrives in S.F.
One recent Wednesday afternoon, John Trippe sits alone in the back corner of the Fecal Face Dot Gallery, responding to e-mail on his laptop. "Look at this," he says, pointing at a long list of unread messages. "And this is just my personal e-mail. I haven't...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 5th May 2007 06:08 UTC
"The news that Dell will begin making the fast-growing Ubuntu flavor of Linux available on some of its machines should be welcomed by consumers everywhere.
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Recent Original Stories
SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 24th Jun 2007 13:44 UTC
Federkiel writes : "People working with Apple computers are used to a very consistent user experience.
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Recent Original Stories
"If you run KDE, you aren't just stuck with the standard 'kicker' panel to operate as your app launcher and taskbar. There are a bunch of nice panel replacements that will spice up your desktop nicely. The ones that I've used and tested are kooldock, kxdocker and kiba-dock.
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What's a virtual high school?
To put it simply, Christine Shirley, a sophomore, is not a fan of Battery Creek High School. Unimpressed with her teachers and failing a class she believes she deserved to pass, she left the school a month ago in search of something better.
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Is Google Driving Down the Value of Domain Names?
Robin Cannon in Search Engine Journal asks the somewhat puzzling question, ‘ Is Google Trumping The URL? ‘ Apparently more and more people use Google to find websites than type in the URL in the address bar of their browser. As he says: read more
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Microsoft Increases Yahoo Offer to Over $31 a Share
Microsoft dangles a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling.
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Asus Eee PC 900 screen hacked into Eee PC 701
The new Asus Eee PC 900 with the larger 8.9 inch screen is expected in stores some when next week. Jkkmobile could not wait and managed to integrate a 8.9 inch screen in a currently available Asus Eee PC 701. Last year Jkkmobile already integrated a tou...
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Malaysian police raid blogger over murder article
A person uses a laptop in 2007 in Tokyo. Malaysian police raided the home of a top Internet blogger after he posted an article implicating the deputy premier and his wife in the murder of a Mongolian model, reports said Saturday.
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Janitors taking strike vote today in LA, OC counties
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Unionized janitors in Los Angeles and Orange counties are voting today on whether to authorize a strike. About 12,000 janitors will decide whether to allow their union leaders to call a strike that could affect several big companies, including Yahoo.
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Washington DC
DENVER , May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Comcast Technician Armando Gentry isn't installing digital cable, high-speed Internet or telephone service, but his efforts are of major significance to the company and the Denver community.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Oct 2005 12:23 UTC
Apple reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $430 million (E358 million), or 50 cents (E0.42) per share, on revenue of $3.68 billion (E3.06 billion).
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New circuit element devised
HP scientists realise the ‘memristor’
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Virginia to implement cybersafety lessons
Public schools throughout Virginia will soon begin offering safety lessons to help protect students from online predators, state officials say.Tammy McGraw, director of educational technology for the Virginia Department of Education, said by offering Internet safety lessons at all public schools, students will learn ways to protect themselves online, The Washington Post reported Saturday.One of ...
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Campaigning journalists serve to show up what's unacceptable
One of the financial journalists I have admired over the years is Deon Basson, who has worked for various financial publications, often exposing the unacceptable in the financial services world. He has started to publish a book on the internet, which he says will be published in print form in June, and is entitled Public Interest Warriors.
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The face behind a famous poster
When the war in Europe ended, the news flashed around Times Square. People danced in the streets. Strangers hugged and kissed. And an 18-year-old New York model waited for word from her Kiwi sweetheart.
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China's Online Gaming Market Up 71%, Hits $1.7 Billion [Hooray For The Grey Market]
Just about everything in the Chinese gaming market is on the rise, according to a new report by Niko Partners: with the exception of internet cafés (numbers are down thanks to a ban on issuing new licenses), everything is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Naked newsreading: Lewis streaks in
AND NOW FOR THE NUDES: Lisa Lewis, the face - and body - of Alt TV's Naked News Flash. No wonder she got the job. Lisa Lewis is so comfortable with her body that she strolled into her audition completely starkers and walked out as the nation's first nude newsreader.
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Malaysian police raid blogger over murder article
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian police raided the home of a top Internet blogger after he posted an article implicating the deputy premier and his wife in the murder of a Mongolian model, reports said Saturday.
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Recent Original Stories
Greg Kroah-Hartman's announcement for free Linux driver development included the necesssary legal framework to honor NDAs when creating GPL'd drivers.
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Cops suspect killers knew family well
THE TWO women were killed in a robbery attempt, possibly by someone they knew well, at their Kalkaji house on Friday evening. Police said the attackers had hacked Asha (60) and her daughter Alka (30) to death with a sharp, heavy metal object. Asha's younger son Gopal found them in a pool of blood inside their house in Block J, Kalkaji, around 7.30 p.m. on Friday.
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