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IBM Climbs After Results Suggest Crisis Isn't Curbing Profit
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. , the largest computer-services company, climbed as much as 6.9 percent in late trading after saying that profit this year will hold up in the face of the financial crisis.
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Culture Feature: Gangbangers and Mash-Ups
If you can find a little hope not already invested in Nov. 4, then save it for Oct. 17. That’s when Chicago DJ duo The Hood Internet comes to Northwestern’s Sigma Chi house.
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Touch-Screen Asus Eee PC Netbooks come in 2009
The call for touch screen sporting Asus Eee PC netbooks came already early on and rumors about Asus releasing touch enabled Eee PCs have been swirling since January. Now Digitimes reports that Asus is planning to launch touch screen Eee PC computers in ...
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Govt to spend $6m on water allocations software
The Federal Government has announced it will put an extra $6 million into developing new software to help it manage water allocations in the Murray-Darling Basin.
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fnaceveiletjeux.com fait de l'audience
fnaceveiletjeux.com n'en finit plus d'attirer de nouveaux visiteurs et confirme sa place de leader de vente de jeux et jouets sur Internet en France sur le premier trimestre 2008. Sur le mois de juin, le site a cumulé selon...
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Exxon to Build $325 Million Battery-Part Plant in South Korea
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. , the world's largest oil company, will invest $325 million to build a factory in South Korea to produce a main part of lithium batteries used in power-hybrid cars.
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Africa: Bandwidth - The Petrol of the New, Global Economy
Until recently the experience of the Internet in Africa has been like having to eat a three-course meal by sucking it through a straw: time-consuming, unreliable and expensive, writes Russell Southwood of Balancing Act in this expert guide to what "bandwidth" is, how it is being spread and what it can do for developing countries.
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Ebooks Usage Trends And Statistics - The Springer Report 2008
Are eBooks being adopted? Is eBook usage increasing? Is the Amazon Kindle a total flop? Is the eBooks long promised revolution a rapidly disappearing fad or is this a new industry that is gradually finding its proper niche? What future awaits eBooks hardware and software producers and what should you expect in the near future from eBooks content providers? Photo credit: Springer ...
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Lehigh student may plead to threats
He admits he took women's laptops and underwear. A former Lehigh University sophomore admitted Wednesday stealing laptops and undergarments from a women's dormitory in January, and he still faces a federal extortion charge of threatening to post on the Internet photos of one victim in the nude.
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Electronics recycling nets $1,632 for school
Triton Regional High School's Music Parent Organization teamed up with Visiting Geeks, a Merrimac-based on-site computer repair company, to coordinate an electronics recycling fundraiser this past Saturday at the school. After just four hours of recycling, TMPO received a check from Visiting Geeks for $1,632.
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Range of predictions for Flyers this season
NOT THAT IT matters to anyone in the locker room, but scan through the Internet and have a look at what hockey watchers are saying about the Flyers.
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After another down day, how low will Yahoo shares go?
Yahoo Inc. shares fell to a five-year low of $13.20 on Wednesday before rebounding to close down 5.6% at $13.76, below even the lowest of the deflated price targets set by Wall Street analysts.
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Buying or Selling in Today's Market? Internet Paves the Path to Real Estate Success
(ARA) - Home buyers and sellers - the relationship may seem like it should be more adversarial than ever, given the current market. Coming at the real estate equation from opposite sides, buyers and sellers may feel they have little in common.
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Netbooks Will Boost Adoption of Linux, Says Novell CTO
Novell expects higher adoption of SUSE Linux from netbooks, though it expects that the overall Linux market is moving to...
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Microsoft Joins Study to Gauge Impact of Genetic Testing
Microsoft is co-sponsoring a study to see if people who learn about their genetic risk for disease actually change their...
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WebTech Wireless Announces Change in Year-End
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - WebTech Wireless Inc. , a leading supplier of location-based and fleet Telematics services, today announced that it is changing its year-end to December 31, with the first such year-end occurring on December 31, 2008.
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WebTech Wireless Announces Change in Year-End
WebTech Wireless Inc., a leading supplier of location-based and fleet Telematics services, today announced that it is changing its year-end to December 31, with the first such year-end occurring on December 31, 2008.
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Hawaii Tourism Chief Resigns
HONOLULU (KHNL) - Hawaii Tourism Authority's President & CEO Rex Johnson resigns after civil rights leaders push for his termination. Johnson quit amid allegations he forwarded pornographic, racist, and sexist e-mails to his friends, using his state-owned computer.
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Research in Motion takes on iPhone
NEW YORK -- Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.
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Mozilla adds geographic tagging to Firefox
Mozilla has released an add-on to Firefox that enables the browser to automatically pinpoint a user's location by communicating with WiFi signals so websites can provide customized content to users.
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Chinese creeps in on Korean language birthday
SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - As South Korea celebrated on Thursday the birth of its writing system, one of the country's leading school districts said it thinks its students should spend more time learning Chinese characters.
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Fire damages computer lab at Edgewater school
A fire believed to have been caused by a malfunctioning air-conditioning unit at South River High School in Edgewater last night caused nearly $100,000 in damage to a computer lab room and its contents, said a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. A group of parents were meeting in the school when the fire was reported at 7:06 p.m., but all got out safely, said Robert Mosier, a ...
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Police Reports
1 Burglary was reported at 4:17 p.m. Sept. 16 in the 10200 block of East Placita Cresta Verde. The nanny told deputies she discovered several outside doors open, and the house had been ransacked. According to the report, someone had kicked in a garage side door. Two motorcycles, a laptop computer, several tools, a PDA, $180 and a set of keys were among the items taken.
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Sheriff Fails To Bid Purchases
BENTONVILLE -- Benton County Sheriff Keith Ferguson failed to take out bids on nearly $195,000 worth of purchases for the jail food contract, jail computer software and vehicles in 2006, state auditors found.
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