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Letter to editor: SSD clarification
In a recent article, I was quoted stating that IBM Corp. and SanDisk Corp. ''do not believe that NAND is capable of supporting higher reliability enterprise class'' SSD applications."
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Bold Café-Laptop Theft Foiled in Oakland
A customer at a College Avenue café was working on a laptop yesterday only to have it snatched through the open window by thieves. But thanks to an alert witness, the story has a happy ending (well, not for the thieves), according to a bulletin just received from the BART police.
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Bold Café-Laptop Theft Foiled in Oakland
A customer at a College Avenue café was working on a laptop yesterday only to have it snatched through the open window by thieves. But thanks to an alert witness, the story has a happy ending (well, not for the thieves), according to a bulletin just received from the BART police.
East Bay Express |
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Microchip in $2.3bn offer for Atmel
Microchip is offering to pay $5 per share for Atmel, which makes special-purpose computers called microcontrollers along with analog and digital processors, memory chips and wireless chips.
Financial Times |
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KpackageKit: Future of Package Managers on Your Desktop
[ Thanks to michuk for this link. ] "PackageKit definitely opens new possibilities with package management, among them automatic installation of drivers, cliparts, applications to handle a given mimetype… Some work is going on, but the lack of standards is sometimes slowing it down."
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Pandora Open-Source Handheld Now Available for Pre-Orders
The Pandora was created to be a handheld gaming platform, but it's keyboard and powerful processor allows it to be used for productivity apps, too.
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Apple rebounds after saying rumors of CEO heart attack are false
Apple Inc. rebounded in Nasdaq trading after the computer maker said unconfirmed reports this morning that Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs had a heart attack and was hospitalized are false.
Asbury Park Press |
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New legislation may help ensure email privacy
Homeland Security’s outrageous policy of unwarranted search and seizure of electronic devices such as laptops at the border is being called to task, by Senators Feingold, Cantwell, Wyden, and Akaka through the Traveler’s Privacy Protection Act of 2008 (S. 3612), a most reasonable piece of legislation that would reign in the police state a bit and give us back a little bit of the “land of the ...
IT World |
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white papers
The U.S. National Credit Union Administration introduces a another type of scam called vishing. This was included in an Internet / email fraud alert to all credit unions.
IT World |
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Apple Rebounds After Saying Reports of Jobs Heart Attack False
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. rebounded in Nasdaq trading after the computer maker said unconfirmed reports this morning that Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs had a heart attack and was hospitalized are false.
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Foldable computer screens coming soon
RESEARCH from the New Journal of Physics reveals what could possibly be the future of television and computer screen technology.
The Inquirer |
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Using Apple’s online iPhone buying program
Apple now lets you begin the process of buying an iPhone 3G online so that you can streamline the credit check process used by service-provider AT&T. Peter Cohen takes the online buying program out for a spin, as he upgrades to a new phone.
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EDS, an HP Company, Signs Agreement with Posten to Manage Computing Environment
SOLNA, Sweden----EDS, an HP company , today announced that it has signed an agreement with Posten, one of the Nordic region’s largest messaging and logistics operators, to host the company’s end-user computing environment.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Cincinnati games have playoff implications for local teams
If you're a fan of a Dayton-area, Division I, Region 4 team, these are the Week 7 Cincinnati-area games you might want to keep an eye on since they will affect the computer points race:
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Corporate Leadership: Losing focus
My thanks this month to Vistage/TEC resource Dave Crenshaw who has snuffed out the very popular management myths associated with multi-tasking. Do you remember this challenge that some companies used to give to a prospective manager? The task was to sort through a pile of in-basket material.
Small Business Times |
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Latin America booms for Red Hat
Latin America was Red Hat's fastest-growing region last quarter, driven by a desire for low prices and an ability to make fast IT decisions.
CNET |
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The Online Information Source for the Medical Device Industry
With the widespread adoption of minimally invasive surgery across many different specialty areas, the need has arisen for the small-scale tools to perform these precision-dependent procedures. Similarly, a rising demand for smaller, portable equipment has placed new constraints on device design.
Medical Device Link |
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Game day: Oct. 3, 2008
Prior to departing -- Ryan Stanzel's Thursday blog takes satisfaction, if not credit, for leaving on time -- for Columbus, a few Wild players participated in the above photo shoot. Today, Stanzel's blog lets you know which ones will play tonight
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Early Glance: Computer companies
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top computer companies are up at 10 a.m.: Apple Inc rose $2.35 or 2.3 percent, to $102.45. Dell Inc rose $.31 or 2.0 percent, to $16.10.
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14:29 (BST), 03/10/2008 Runes of Magic Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS The success of Fantasy Massively ...
The success of Fantasy Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games is unbroken. Now Frogster is proud to present the first success message regarding the highly anticipated ( http://www.runesofmagic.com).
gamesindustry.biz |
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14:30 (BST), 03/10/2008 Geo-Political Simulator Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS For the first time on PC the ...
For the first time on PC the Geo-political Simulator Game (GPS) is an ultra-real simulation of our world and its politics, from now until the end of the century.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Big Ten Network Fans Cheer LiveCast App
Fans spend an average of 40 minutes per visit on an interactive application called LiveCast on the Big Ten Network Web site, according to Jacked Inc., the application designer.
MultiChannel News |
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Big Ten Network Fans Cheer LiveCast App
Fans spend an average of 40 minutes per visit on an interactive application called LiveCast on the Big Ten Network Web site, according to Jacked Inc., the application designer.
MultiChannel News |
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CERN unveils computer grid linking 7,000 scientists
GENEVA (Reuters) - CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the world to crunch data on its huge experiments.
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Kingston teams up with Intel to supply SSD drives
Memory maker Kingston has joined up with chipmaker Intel to produce flash-memory based drives for popular-brand notebooks and servers, according to a Thursday report. Traditionally, Kingston has made flash memory cards for consumer electronics devices such as digital cameras, which make up a quarter of the companyís business. Under the deal with Intel, Kingston will resell drives made by Intel, ...
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