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Minn. Woman Gets New Trial in Music Downloading Lawsuit
A judge has granted a new trial to a Minnesota woman convicted of pirating music files.
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Oracle to sell computer hardware for first time
Oracle is expanding into the computer hardware business in an effort to make its database software run more efficiently.
Miami Herald |
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GNOME 2.24 Released
"GNOME 2.24 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalisation and accessibility support.
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Pentagon contest sparks ideas for better batteries
The final phase of a high-stakes military contest began this week in the California desert as teams tested battery systems designed to be powerful enough to sustain soldiers' energy needs but light enough for them to wear on their vests.
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Oracle to sell computer hardware for first time
Associated Press - September 24, 2008 7:33 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Oracle is expanding into the computer hardware business in an effort to make its database software run more...
KIFI Idaho Falls |
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Television - Technology
The first cell phone running Google's mobile software looks something like Apple's iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs.
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Pentagon contest sparks ideas for better batteries
The final phase of a high-stakes military contest began this week in the California desert as teams tested battery systems designed to be powerful enough to sustain soldiers' energy needs but light enough for them to wear on their vests. Read comments
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Dell to use greener displays for all laptops
Dell Inc. is switching to mercury-free light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, to illuminate laptop screens starting in mid-December, a move aimed making the computers softer on the environment and easier to recycle.
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Oracle to sell computer hardware for first time
Oracle is expanding into the computer hardware business in an effort to make its database software run more efficiently. CEO Larry Ellison unveiled his company's plans to sell a "database machine" in a Wednesday presentation at an Oracle customer conference that attracted nearly 43,000 people. It marks the first time in Oracle's 31-year history that the company has added hardware to its product ...
The State |
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‘Can you reset the Internet for me?’
WASHINGTON -- Computer help desks are used to fielding oddball requests but sometimes the questions leave even the best of them stumped.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Howie Nave blogs From Kuwait
The following are dispatches from Improv host, emcee, and radio announcer for KRLT-93.9 FM Howie Nave.
Tahoe Daily Tribune |
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Technology enhances school
This school year Congress Elementary School is enjoying the innovative learning opportunities created by tablet personal computers. The Congress School Board, Pat Fisher, Jim Thompson and Sergio Horcos, have been committed to bringing the world to the students of Congress through technology.
Wickenburg Sun |
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Dell pledges greener laptops
Dell has made a commitment to switch its entire laptop range to LED screens by 2010.
iTNews |
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‘Radar Roy’ becomes a business coach
Wickenburg area resident and entrepreneur Roy Reyer recently started another new business with the goal of passing on his unique knowledge of electronic commerce to others. “Radar Roy” has become the “Amazing Internet Coach.”
Wickenburg Sun |
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What is RSS?
RSS is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on Web sites you like. Instead of checking your favorite Web sites to see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell you every time they have something new.
The Katy Times |
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Advanced IT apprenticeship launched
A new advanced IT apprenticeship is to be launched this week that will allow trainees to gain experience of complex IT systems.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Lane Sues Mendte, Columnist, Newspaper
A former TV anchor sues her fired co-anchor and a gossip columnist, a month after the co-anchor admitted in court he obsessively hacked into her e-mails and relayed the information to the press.
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India Military Faces Manpower Shortage Thanks to Economic Boom
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Ashok Gowda quit India's army three years ago to build a software business. The reason: The country's economic boom may allow him to earn six times as much in the private sector as he got as a military engineer.
Bloomberg.com |
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The Digital Home Video: The PC business sucks
HP may need to downsize Voodoo, Alienware is a shadow of its former self, and the PC business is consolidating. Don Reisinger thinks it's bad all-around.
CNET |
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Against the Grain: Blind them with golf technique, not science
Nipan Maniar is senior lecturer in creative technologies at the University of Portsmouth. He argues that a golf computer game can help children learn maths and physics.
Independent |
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My Way: Inventor Mandy Chessell on how to succeed at work
Mandy Chessell is a master inventor and engineer at IBM Hursley, Europe's largest software development lab, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Independent |
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Naazish YarKhan: Weekly Date With Mic for "Siblings of Doctors" Comic
If you are of Indian or Pakistani descent, you know the drill. When you grow up you have to be either a doctor, engineer and lately, a computer programmer. If you're anything else, guess what? You're not worth much.
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Online Video Goes Back to the TV
Jason Miller and I were having a conversation a week or two ago about how set-top boxes might become the norm in the future, with online video becoming so popular. Because of that popularity, it only makes sense that people would like to transfer their online video viewing experience to their living rooms. read more
WebProNews |
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Hey! Critics! Leave them kids alone!
Venue owners and longtime music fans in Madison routinely bemoan the lack of students out at shows. There's much hand-wringing over "the kids these days" sitting slack-jawed in front of their laptops downloading songs instead of getting out and supporting the local music scene. But while it does seem like the High Noon Saloon might as well be the other side of the moon for much of the University ...
The Capital Times |
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Whitehall opens £4.5bn desktop procurement
The organisations want to set up two contracts, according to a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 24 September 2008. Although the two deals will be worth £4.5bn together, the document does not indicate how this money will be divided.
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