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Virtualization Journal - Microsoft’s in the Market for European Search Engineers
As should come as no surprise, Microsoft is going to build an enterprise search R&D center in Norway around its Fast Search & Transfer acquisition. It says it will add 50 R&D workers to Fast’s 300 employees. It will be Microsoft’s third R&D center in Europe and part of Microsoft’s post-Yahoo strategy. It’s also planning to open a new European Search Technology Center (STC) with arms in Paris, ...
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Microsoft's Virtualization GM: "Our Customers Are Ready and Looking for a Long Term Virtualization Investment"
"Virtualization is an emerging industry," says Mike Neil, Microsoft's GM for Virtualization, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. "But given the increasing demands on IT and decreasing resources and funding allocated within businesses, customers are ready and looking for a long term virtualization investment," Neil continues. The Q&A with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan covers a ...
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AMD's Virtualization Play - Shanghai Due After Istanbul
AMD’s first 45nm chip, the Shanghai version of its quad-core Barcelona server processor, is reportedly in full production. The company has reportedly pulled in delivery of two-way and eight-way models from Q1 to any minute now. Shanghai evidently means a 20% improvement over Barcelona at the same frequencies and a performance-enhancing increase in cache size to 6MB. It only supports ...
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Saturday last day for BMV voter registration :But you can still register Monday at other sites, online.
If you were hoping to register to vote at your local Indiana License Branch, Saturday is the last day to get that done.
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Labor report indicates squeeze on tech sector
The economic slowdown has started to squeeze the technology sector. So far this has not led to wide-scale job cuts, but a slowing demand for computers and other electronics may already be weighing on some payrolls. Computer and electronics manufacturers did not grow their work forces at all in September, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. In comparison, such companies ...
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Pat O'Malley sentenced to 15 months in obscenity case
Former Cuyahoga County Recorder Patrick O'Malley had pleaded guilty to a single count of obscenity on May 15 and resigned his county office the same day. The sentencing brings to a close an investigation that began in 2004 when authorities found images of bestiality, bondage and other sexually deviant acts on a computer taken from his house.
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Trucker suspended for behind-the-wheel TV viewing
A court has suspended the license of a truck driver who careened down a highway while watching episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" on a laptop computer atop his dashboard.
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Steve Jobs 'heart attack' story makes 'citizen journalism' look bad
Apple rebounds After Saying Reports of Jobs Heart Attack False
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Leadtek intros SpursEngine-packing PCI-E card
Filed under: Desktops Well, it looks like Toshiba isn't just keeping its Cell-based SpursEngine chip confined to its laptops and super-resolution DVD players , as Leadtek has now also taken the wraps off a PCI-E card that'll let you add some of that "faster than real-time" HD video transcoding to your desktop PC. Dubbed the WinFast PxVC1100, the card promises to encode and decode ...
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Microsoft Sends Suite Magellan to Portugal
Microsoft has made a deal with Portugal to put Windows XP and Office 2007 on inexpensive notebooks aimed at Portuguese primary and junior high school students.
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Trucker suspended for behind-the-wheel TV viewing
Fri, Oct 3, 2008 (10:54 a.m.) A court has suspended the license of a truck driver who careened down a highway while watching episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" on a laptop computer atop his dashboard.
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Apogee Upgrades The Symphony System with The Symphony 64 PCIe Card
Today at AES, Apogee Electronics (booth #916) unveiled Symphony 64, a 64 channel, 24bit/192kHz PCI Express card made to interface Apogee's X-Series and Rosetta Series converters directly to Apple's Mac Pro.
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Apple deals: refurb Macs $1,500 or less, more
Apple's online store is currently offering a range of refurbished Macs priced at $1,500 or less. Three MacBook configurations are available: for $899 is the 2.1GHz model with 1GB of RAM and 120GB hard drive; for $1,099 is the 2.4GHz model with 2GB of RAM and $160GB hard drive; and for $1,299 is the black 2.4GHz model with 2GB of RAM and 250GB hard drive. The MacBook Air with 1.6GHz processor ...
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Internet Commerce Association to Participate in Emergency Summit on the State of Kentucky's Domain Seizure Order
FRANKFORT, Ky. & WASHINGTON----The Internet Commerce Association, a non-profit trade organization representing domain name investors and developers and the direct search industry, today announced it will be participating in an emergency Summit on the State of Kentucky’s unprecedented, wrongful seizure of 141 Internet gambling Websites.
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US online health companies merge to take on WebMD
Two of the largest online health companies in the United States announced Friday that they were joining forces to take on the leader in the field of Internet medical advice, WebMD.com.
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Hovercraft launched outside WSU Ogden - News
Weber State University students from the Computer and Electronic Engineering Technology Department designed a hovercraft to be used by the military for moving target practices. They tested the vehicle Thursday afternoon outside WSU Ogden Campus Building 4.
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World's biggest computing grid launched
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world`s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind`s biggest data challenge from the earth`s most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centers from 33 countries to analyze and manage more than 15 million ...
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Union goes green - News
The people who directed the renovation of the Shepherd Union Building at Weber State University had other things in mind when they were bringing in the new computers and pool tables: brand-new recycling bins.
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Online College Classes Gain Acceptance
Right now, over 650,000 Ohioans are attending college somewhere in the state, but not all of them are doing it in a traditional classroom.
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Bugs & Fixes: Finding 10.5.5's Bug Fixes
Based on news reports, it would be difficult to overestimate how many bugs Mac OS X 10.5.5 managed to fix. Macworld reported...
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Craigslist Founder: Web Can Still Help Gov't Better Connect
Craigslist's founder calls on the U.S. government to better use the Web to increase transparency and accountability.
PC World |
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First Look: More CS4 App Previews
"Big" doesn't quite cut it when it comes to describing the size and scope of Adobe's Creative Suite 4 updates. With CS4, Adobe...
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StoryMill 3.1
Some tasks seem impossible in their scale. Climbing Everest. Running a marathon. Writing a novel. Thanks to Mariner Software's...
PC World |
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Using Apple's Online IPhone Buying Program
I'd promised myself I wasn't going to get one, but Apple's Buy iPhone 3G program proved too darn convenient, and I found...
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Apple Upgrades ITunes, Apple TV Software
Apple has introduced iTunes 8.0.1, ushering in bug fixes, improved performance and more.
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