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NVIDIA rumored (again) to be renaming its GPU lineup in the name of simplicity
Filed under: Gaming , Peripherals We won't even begin to suggest that NVIDIA is the only company out there with, shall we say, less than crystal clear naming schemes , but we're really hoping the latest whispers (which we've heard once before ) about the outfit are true. TG Daily has it that undisclosed "industry sources" have suggested that the GPU maker will be dropping the 8000 - ...
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Apple to make iTunes more accessible for the blind
Apple Inc. and the Massachusetts attorney general have reached an agreement that will give blind people equal access to Apple Inc.'s iTunes and iTunes U programs.
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State House debate airs Sunday
Voters who want to learn more about the two men seeking to replace termed-out state Rep. John Garfield can tune into a debate on public television and the Internet.
Rochester Eccentric |
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Sony Ericsson: Microsoft said no, no, no
How the X1 convinced Redmond to free Windows
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O2 denies rumors of special MacBook deal
UK telecom company O2 has denied rumors of a special MacBook bundle, according to a new report. An industry magazine, Mobile, had suggested that the company wanted to exploit its partnership with Apple, which originated with the first-generation iPhone. O2 was allegedly in discussions to begin selling MacBooks bundled with some form of Internet access, whether fixed or cellular; the notebooks ...
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The Scannable World, Part 3: Barcode Scanning In The Real World
This is the third part in a multi-part series about integrating the internet with the real world through barcode scanning technology. In the first two articles we looked at the history of scanning barcodes with your mobile phone, newspaper print ads, and a new effort to bring barcodes to web printouts. Now we'll look at other uses of the technology including scanning products in ...
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white papers
The economic devastation continues to create a lot of speculation as to what is going to happen to the IT industry and to the greater sales channel of VARs and other partners. At first, we didn't think we'd be hurt. After all, everybody still needs hardware and software, right?
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IT investors eye buybacks, earnings
As the U.S. financial services crisis roiled markets around the world, stock buybacks from bellwethers Microsoft and HP and earnings reports from Red Hat and RIM caught the eye of IT investors.
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'Eagle Eye' succeeds in silliness
There's a scene in the laughably overwrought cyber-thriller Eagle Eye where a computer has to be turned off and it doesn't to want to be -- computers in movies often have minds of their own, and they're often better ones than the screenwriters have -- so someone picks up a long pole and sticks it into the round camera that is the computer's eye.
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Burglar Targets Cell Phone Towers
SNELLVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Cell phone towers appear to be the latest target for thieves. Authorities recovered about $1.8 million in computer cards that were stolen from cell phone towers in the Atlanta area.
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Search Stats You Need to Know & The Bible of the Search Industry
In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: news from the search engines, today's in-depth look: search stats you need to know (August 2008), not-so-light reading: the bible of the search industry, and this week's free tips and tools. News from the search engines ...
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Fitch rates Microsoft lower than S&P, Moody's
Fitch Ratings has assigned Microsoft Corp. a long-term debt rating that is one notch below the very highest, breaking ranks with the other two major credit ratings firms, which gave the new debt issuer their peak AAA ratings.
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Business Briefs
The Tenet Healthcare Foundation and Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo recently donated $2,000 to the Liberty Tattoo Removal Program.
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Judge: Microsoft doesn't owe Alcatel-Lucent
Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA, a panel of federal appeals judges has ruled in what may be the last word on a long-running digital music patent lawsuit.
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Death Race
Loosely based on the 1975 cult classic Death Race 2000, Paul WS Anderson's new film is a turbo-charged action-thriller set in a bleak future in which the prison population is spiralling out of control and reality programmes continue to dominate television and the internet.
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Popular business directory searches
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The Weatherford Democrat |
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Kenyan witch-hunter blesses Palin in new Internet video
Video shows church preacher calling for witches, other Palin enemies to be defeated.
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Nokia Linux tablets go 3G, OMAP3
— Sep. 18, 2008 — Nokia's Linux-based web tablets may soon gain faster processors and built-in 3G cellular modems. Nokia executive Ari Jaaksi revealed today in a keynote at the Open Source in Mobile show that Nokia will add 3G/HSPA capabilities to an OMAP3-optimized Maemo 5 release for the tablets.
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GNOME Mobile architecture
Like the desktop GNOME, the mobile version is licensed under the GNU LGPL (Lesser General Public License).
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News and Features for Lake Isabella, California
Paul Monk, of Lake Isabella, is facing federal charges of having child pornography on his computer. Monk, 37, was arrested at his home Sept. 11, but has been released as part of a pretrial condition, according to U.S. Attorney David Gappa.
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BenQ's 3G-enabled, Atom-powered MID Aries2 (S6) boots up in Italy
Filed under: Handhelds , Wireless Is it really time to shine, BenQ, or are you just foolin' again ? Judging by a product page at Italy's TIM website and a fresh report from the Italian branch of Tom's Hardware , the S6 (or MID Aries2 , or BenQ MID ... gosh, we're so confused!) is finally ready to order. The Atom-based MID impresses with built-in 3G capabilities, 512MB of RAM, a ...
Engadget |
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Linux Today - Technology Review: Counting Every Vote
"California's secretary of state, Debra Bowen, believes that open-source software should be used in elections involving electronic voting machines, to protect against error and fraud."
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Student hacker drops out of Carleton
A Carleton University student has quit school after being hit with a fine and other sanctions for hacking into a university computer to steal identification and financial data from 32 student cards, then sending a report to the victims and the university detailing how he did it.
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Japan's online social scene isn't so social
Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's. It's got pictures of the funky Tokyoite modeling the clothes she designs in her spare time, along with her name, plus personal details...
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Alltel Wireless Rolls out Faster Broadband Network in Tallahassee
Alltel Wireless today announced that it is expanding its wireless broadband network with the launch of EVDO (evolution data optimized) Revision A technology in Tallahassee, enabling customers to upload files five to 10 times faster than before.
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