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Tom Wolfe Blames Money Crisis On 'The Computer' [Bonfires]
Halfway through a cranky discussion with the Observer on New York real estate development, Tom Wolfe turned with relish to the topic of the ongoing financial panic. The enthusiasm was understandable...
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Philip Barbour Moves to Sixth in Class AA Computer Ratings
PARKERSBURG - After winning its third straight game, Philip Barbour moved up two spots to sixth in this week's Secondary School Activities Commission's Class AA high school football computer ratings released on Tuesday..
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Sandisk Extreme IV Compactflash Card Ships At Double Capacity And Increased Speed
24 September 2008 Dubai - SanDisk today announced that it is now shipping an upgraded family of SanDisk Extreme ® IV CompactFlash ® (CF) memory cards to better meet the needs of professional digital photographers.
Zawya |
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Unisys CEO quits under pressure from shareholders [Joseph McGrath]
Two decades after the merger of mainframe makers Sperry (maker of the UNIVAC) and Burroughs created Unisys (then the second-largest computer company after IBM) and a decade after Unisys blew its... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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German mobile Internet revenue set to soar -study
Revenue from data services on mobile devices in Germany is expected to more than triple to $8.3 bn by 2012 and sales from mobile advertising are seen rising at the same rate.
The Economic Times |
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TMO Quick Tip - Web Site Down? No, It's Just You
It's always a pain when you try to visit a Web site and it just won't load in your browser. Since calling or emailing your friends to find out if they can see the site gets annoying for everyone, it's nice to know that there's an alternative to checking a Web site's status that's free and saves you from...
The Mac Observer |
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Poll suggests economy key issue for undecided voters
Associated Press - September 24, 2008 7:23 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - You could say undecided voters are a tough crowd in tough times. An AP-Yahoo News poll takes a look at the 18% of...
KATC 3 Lafayette |
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Who's to Blame for Bill O'Reilly Hack?
Other than the hackers, it looks like no one, unless it can be proven the hosting provider for the popular radio and TV personality was negligent.
InternetNews.com |
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The G1 Quandry: Open Yet Locked
A splashy launch event can't mask potential challenges facing Google handset.
InternetNews.com |
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Paradigm Establishes Cyber Forensics Academy
Paradigm Holdings, Inc. , a provider of comprehensive information technology and business solutions for federal government enterprises, has established an internal cyber forensics training academy to address the growing needs of the U.S. government in defensively and proactively dealing with the problem of cyber crime.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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TNS Media Intelligence Reports U.S. Advertising Expenditures Declined 1.6 Percent in First Half 2008
NEW YORK----Total measured advertising expenditures in the first six months of 2008 declined by 1.6 percent as compared to the same period in 2007, according to data released today by TNS Media Intelligence, the leading provider of strategic advertising and marketing information.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Is Internet Radio Saved? Not Exactly
The recording industry and a group representing digital media reached an agreement Tuesday regarding royalty rates for certain online music services, but the controversial issue of rates for Internet radio stations like Pandora has yet to be settled.
All About Jazz |
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Soffront CRM Supports Recurring Activities and Opportunities
Soffront Software Inc. (www.soffront.com), the leader in mid-market CRM software, today announced a new feature to version 8.7 of its popular software--the capability to setup recurring opportunities and activities in daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly patterns. Sales, marketing and customer service teams can now increase efficiency and productivity by automatically creating recurring events, ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Infected software fakes on the rise
More malware now masquerading as legitimate copies of popular software and tricking users into installing Trojans, warn security firms.
ZDNet Asia |
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Uptime Institute Now Accepting Entries for the Green Enterprise IT Awards 2009
SANTA FE, N.M.----Uptime Institute , today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy and global strategic consultancy McKinsey & Company are partnering with the Institute for this year's Green Enterprise IT Awards program.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Peter Drucker's mantras for success
Each time you read something Peter Drucker has said, there's the sensation that a flash bulb has gone off inside your head. This is because the Drucker-isms, as the legendary management gurus's mantras as known, are something you've always known; but rarely heard put so succinctly.
rediff.com |
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Esquire E-Ink Cover Hacked (To Death, With Knives and Fire) [Enhanced Interrogation Techniques]
When the much-hyped Esquire E-Ink cover finally shipped to newsstands a few weeks ago, we were kind of underwhelmed. Using conventional methods, the sectioned panel isn't really hackable in any...
Gizmodo |
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On the Internet, everybody knows your dog's name
If you suspected there were some security holes in all your password-protected online accounts - banking, e-mail, etc. - you would be right. And Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate who just had her Yahoo e-mail hacked, would agree.
CNN Money |
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Largest ANSYS International Conference To Date Underscores Increasing Value of Engineering Simulation
SOUTHPOINTE, Pa.----ANSYS, Inc. , a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that its 2008 International ANSYS Conference: Inspiring Engineering, the largest such event to date, offered attendees a wealth of opportunities to learn about best practices for using simulation as a critical element of both product ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Sprice.com enters India
Travel search engine Sprice.com has launched a dedicated website for India. On the decision to launch its operations in India ( http://www.in.sprice.com/ ), the company stated that the Indian online travel market "has changed the old paradigm, providing customer a sophisticated online retail and shopping experience, and simultaneously enabling access to fragmented travel supply market."
eyefortravel.com |
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Lottery winners' data copied
AUSTIN -- A former Texas Lottery Commission computer analyst said he accidentally copied the personal data of more than 27,000 Texas lottery winners, but Lotter ...
The Bryan-College Station Eagle |
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Google Introduces an iPhone Rival Open to Whims
The $179 T-Mobile G1 is the latest in a string of challenges to Apples popular iPhone.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Online critics take aim at $700 billion financial bailout proposal
Skepticism of the Bush administration's financial bailout plan, which would put the total bailout cost at around $1.8 trillion, is growing, and crossing normal ideological lines.
CNET |
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Galaxy 19 Launch Successful
PEMBROKE, Bermuda, BUSINESS WIRE -- Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, announced today that at 5:28 AM EDT the Galaxy 19 satellite was successfully launched aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Dell's 17-inch Precision M6400 powerhouse breaks loose for retail
Filed under: Laptops Well, hiddy ho Dell Precision M6400 , nice to finally meet you all retail-like. The 17-inch (LED back-lit 1,920 x 1,200 pixels covering 100% of the RGB color gamut) Mobile Workstation capable of playing host to 16GB of memory, a Core 2 Duo Quad Core Extreme processor, and up to 1TB of data (2x 500GB disks in RAID 0 or RAID 1 configs) is now up on Dell's website. ...
Engadget |
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