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Search For Missing Deaf Teen Suspended
SAN DIEGO -- Authorities still hope to learn the fate of a 19-year-old Vista woman whose been missing from a group home, even though the active search has been suspended, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
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New BlackBerry to change work culture
Ushering in a big change in work culture, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) have announced it would soon unveil new smartphones with a mobile software that allows access to business data for users ‘anytime, anywhere’.
Hindustan Times |
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Weekend Reading: Goodbye Microhoo!
Gauging how far Yahoo! shares will fall, plus much more required financial reading.
TheStreet.com |
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Pressure rises on Yahoo
Microsoft ’s decision to abandon its pursuit of Yahoo is set to trigger fresh rounds of talks between some of the biggest players in the internet industry as both companies look for alternative ways to boost their flagging online businesses, analysts and investors said over the weekend.
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Yahoo, News Corp talks 'cooled' - source
Yahoo Inc's discussions for an alternative deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp have "cooled" in recent weeks, one source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
The Economic Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Aug 2005 17:41 UTC
For the first time, the Windows operating system will wall off some audio and video processes almost completely from users and outside programmers, in hopes of making them harder for hackers to reach.
New Mobile Computing |
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New series
In recent weeks, Intel has launched a new series of low power processors under the name ‘Atom’ to fuel ultra mobile computing devices and the more compact notebooks.
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Recent Original Stories
"Nat Friedman has been one of the driving forces behind the development of the Linux desktop for a few year now. First with his own company Ximian, founded together with Mono chief architect Miguel de Icaza, after its acquisition now inside Novell.
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It looks like Microsoft came to its senses
People in Seattle used to throw fits about all the Californians coming here and mucking things up. Now it's going the other direction, judging...
Seattle Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Oct 2006 14:11 UTC
Apple Computer this week released to developers the first pre-release update of its next-generation Leopard operating system since the initial preview in early August.
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft dropped a bomb on ODF with its Ecma announcement . Today, it just bombed with the release of its promised 'covenant not to sue,' which it publicly posted just a few minutes ago.
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Microsoft withdraws proposal to acquire Yahoo
New York, May 4: Software giant Microsoft has abandoned its three-month old bid to buy Yahoo after the two failed to agree on acceptable price and... Microsoft had earlier offered USD 47.5 billion which translated into USD 33 per share but Yahoo wanted USD 57 billion or USD 37 a share.
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From Live Mesh to the Open Mesh
Marc Canter has written a series of blog posts outlining the issues, constructs, technologies, and standards required to build out an"open mesh."
CNET |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Jan 2007 00:43 UTC
"Once upon a time, when DOS walked the earth, the command line was the primary user interface for most of our computers. Then, Windows came along, and Microsoft seemed set on leaving the command prompt to dry up and wither into obscurity.
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by (Staff) on Thu 22nd Sep 2005 16:11 UTC
But what about *BSD? I call this mis-information. I'm getting too old for these Linux-vs.-Windows articles. More pragmatism, please. bsd and linux are supposed to be versions of unix or clones of... and both care a lot of code that is in unix... hmm...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Apr 2007 12:40 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"How many developers run for the post of leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project and cite as part of their platform a desire to make Debian sexy again? None that I know of - except Sam Hocevar who won the recent election for leader of the project.
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Jeremy Jaynes Gets One More Chance
n 2004 Jaynes became the country's first convicted spam felon under the Virginia anti-spam law. He's been appealing his conviction ever since, most recently losing an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court by a 4-3 decision in February. As I discussed in more detail at the time the key questions were a) whether the Virginia law had First Amendment problems and b) whether Jaynes had standing to ...
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Library to offer free computer classes
NEW CASTLE — The New Castle-Henry County Public Library is offering free computer classes at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the computer training lab this month.
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Game Review: Lumosity
A fitness program for your brain! As we age, several areas of our cognitive abilities begin to decline. Most people recognize that the older we become, reaction time, ability to multitask, ability to process new information, and attention/concentration begin to decrease in speed and accuracy. Lumosity is a fitness program for your brain!Lumosity is an online program consisting of...
Blogcritics.org |
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Yahoo and News Corp talks "cooled"
Sun 04 May, 2008 17:26
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Jul 2007 10:30 UTC
SWSoft, the company behind Parallels Desktop for Mac, is possibly violating the LGPL license by using LGPL libraries from the WINE project without providing access to the source code.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 20:54 UTC
Microsoft has hit back at critics , including IBM, which voted against approving the company's Office OpenXML format as an Ecma standard, claiming it is nothing more than a vendor-dictated specification that documents proprietary products via XML. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general assembly and said it will begin the fast track ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Aug 2007 18:15 UTC
Openbox 3.4.4 has been released . "Openbox is a minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. Openbox lets you bring the latest applications outside of a full desktop environment.
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Germany's first driverless mass-transit train goes to work
Nuremberg (Germany), May 4: Germany's first driverless mass-transit train went into operation Sunday without fanfare in the southern city of Nuremberg, with a computer in charge for the whole day.
New Kerala |
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PhilWeb to speed up rollout of more gaming terminals
Listed internet gaming firm PhilWeb Corp. is accelerating the rollout of its gaming terminals as it launches new games to attract more bettors.
Philippine Star via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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