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Wisconsin Department of Revenue eyes Internet sales to boost tax revenue
State officials want a major rewrite of sales tax rules to bring in $46.5 million more over the next two years, make it easier to collect taxes on Internet sales and reverse the effects of a recent high-profile court decision that opened a massive hole in the state budget. This is at least the fourth attempt to enact the so-called "streamlined sales tax" proposal, which could finally become law ...
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Sony's latest lightweights will have SSDs, play and burn Blu-ray
The smallest Sony devices to show Blu-ray movies on big and small screens aren't PlayStations. They're super-small, lightweight Vaio computers, and like a certain banned iPhone app, they have "I Am Rich" written all over them.
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T-Mobile Android G1 phones priced at $179, launch Oct. 22
Google's two founders appeared on stage this morning at T-Mobile's launch event for the G1 phone, describing it as essentially a smaller laptop computer that isn't too much trouble to carry with you.
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Ex-Lottery employee allegedly copied data
Associated Press - September 23, 2008 3:55 PM ET Corrected Version AUSTIN (AP) - A former Texas Lottery Commission computer analyst says he accidentally...
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Facebook Who’s really a “friend?”
Sometime in the last 18-24 months I set up accounts on My Space and Facebook, so I could communicate with my teenage sons when we weren’t texting. It felt a little funny. A few of the 20-somethings in the newsroom were like, “Carlin, YOU have a Facebook account? Whoa!” And they meant it.
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T-Mobile Android G1 phones priced at $179, launch Oct. 22
Google's two founders appeared on stage this morning at T-Mobile's launch event for the G1 phone, describing it as essentially a smaller laptop computer that isn't too much trouble to carry with you.
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GOOGLE, T-MOBILE LAUNCH MOBILE PHONE SOFTWARE
The first phone that harnesses Google Inc.'s ambition to make the Internet easy to use on the go was revealed Tuesday, and it looks a lot like an iPhone. T-Mobile USA showed off the G1, a phone that, like Apple Inc.'s iPhone, has a large touch...
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The Best PC Games to Ever Grace My Computer
There are a few games that make my body crave for more. Here is detailed breakdown of my top must-have games of all time.
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Monster Worldwide Elects Datalogic SpA Vice Chairman and CEO Roberto Tunioli to Board of Directors
Monster Worldwide, Inc. (15162;NASDAQ:MNST), the parent company of Monster(R), the leading global online
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Google Phone To Cost $179, Debut Oct. 22
The first cell phone running Google Inc.'s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard...
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HTC comes to party with Google
The Google-powered phone will be the next step in HTCs road to global recognition. (Over all, HTCs revenue, which it reports in Taiwanese dollars, was about $1 billion in the most recent quarter, a 29 percent jump from a year earlier.)
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Amazon's cloud queue service stumbles
Amazon 's hosted Simple Queue Service (SQS) has encountered performance problems this month that have prompted users to question its overall stability and its viability for commercial applications.
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Android is about advertising, not the enterprise
Even though three companies hosted the launch event and the software is backed by a consortium, the introduction of the first Android phone made it very clear that Android is about one company: Google.
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Google Android is about advertising, not the enterprise
Even though three companies hosted the launch event and the software is backed by a consortium, the introduction of the first Android phone made it very clear that Android is about one company: Google. Android is Google's attempt to dominate the mobile advertising market, just as it has dominated the online PC advertising market, said Craig Wigginton, industry leader for Deloitte's ...
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Ex-Lottery employee allegedly copied data
AUSTIN (AP) - A former Texas Lottery Commission computer analyst says he accidentally copied the personal data of more than 27,000 Texas lottery winners.
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Pa. Ex-coroner Gets Probation Over 911 Password
A former county coroner received probation Tuesday for giving newspaper reporters the password to a restricted 911 Web site, and the judge who handed down the sentence accused the journalists of violating their professional ethics.
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Ex-Lottery employee allegedly copied data
Associated Press - September 23, 2008 3:55 PM ET Corrected Version AUSTIN (AP) - A former Texas Lottery Commission computer analyst says he accidentally...
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The T-Mobile G1: Can You Say Paradigm Shift?
The G1 event has come and gone and it looks like we're seeing an epic paradigm shift in the mobile space. iPhone started the ball rolling and Android is about the finish the job. The change? Phones are now officially computers and the expectation for most users is that they behave in the same way a powerful laptop or desktop PC would perform, albeit in a considerably more compact package. I ...
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NASA ramps up weather research with supercomputer cluster
NASA’s Center for Computational Sciences is nearly tripling the performance of a supercomputer it uses to simulate Earth’s climate and weather, and our planet’s relationship with the Sun.
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Government Computer News
Microsoft Corp. has announced that the High Performance Clustering (HPC) Server 2008 has been released—both to manufacturing and the general public.
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US leads the world in computer attacks
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 23 September 2008 at 20:43:00 China a distant second The United States is leading the world in the number of computer attacks that originate from within its borders, according to new data from SecureWorks....
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Monster Worldwide Elects Datalogic SpA Vice Chairman and CEO Roberto Tunioli to Board of Directors
NEW YORK----Monster Worldwide, Inc. , the parent company of Monster®, the leading global online careers and recruitment resource, today announced that its board of directors has elected Roberto Tunioli, Vice Chairman and CEO of Europe’s Datalogic SpA, as a member of the board effective immediately.
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US leads the world in computer attacks
The United States is leading the world in the number of computer attacks that originate from within its borders, according to new data from SecureWorks.
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Ex-Lottery employee allegedly copied data
Associated Press - September 23, 2008 3:55 PM ET Corrected Version AUSTIN (AP) - A former Texas Lottery Commission computer analyst says he accidentally...
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ALGOR FEA Software Certified for Autodesk Inventor 2009 Software on 32- and 64-Bit Systems
ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of design, analysis and simulation software, announced that Autodesk® has named ALGOR finite element analysis software as a 32- and 64-bit Certified Application for Autodesk® Inventor® 2009 software.
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