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Review: CradlePoint CTR500 Cellular-Ready Travel Router
This petite router turns a cellular wireless data connection into Wi-Fi.
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U.S. District Judge Howard Munson dies
SYRACUSE — Former U.S. District Judge Howard Munson, who presided over trials involving tax protesters and an early Internet hacking case involving a Cornell University student. has died. He was 84.
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iPhone Users Frustrated With Mobile Portals of Popular News Sites, Keynote(R) Study Reveals
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN), the global leader in on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced the results of its first ever Keynote WebEffective(R) for iPhone study of actual user satisfaction of mobile Web sites. Keynote WebEffective for iPhone is a brand new way of conducting online usability studies of iPhone ...
Centre Daily Times |
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NEC LCD Technologies' High Luminance 21.3-inch UXGA LCD Module, Ideal for Medical Diagnostic Imaging
NEC LCD Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, today announced that samples of its new 21.3-inch (54 centimeters diagonal) amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) color liquid crystal display (LCD) module with ultra-extended graphics array (UXGA) resolution, part number ...
Centre Daily Times |
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The Sum of Your Facial Parts
A computer model can come up with the ideal you, but you may prefer your ?before? image.
New York Times |
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Some hospitals get new birth certificate process
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Some of Tampa's largest hospitals are modernizing the way babies get birth certificates. St. Joseph's Women's Hospital and others are starting to use a new portable computer system to generate a birth certificate in the mother's hospital room, speeding up the whole process.
Sun Newspapers |
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Tech Bytes: Blue Label laptops
In Thursday's Tech Bytes: Best Buy debuts Blue Label series. Plus, Netflix hiking prices.
KABC-TV Los Angeles |
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. Both companies announced their services, which use graphic images that represent players called "avatars," Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Fla. improves technology to track probationers
Until recently, when Florida probation officers went out to check on sex offenders wearing ankle bracelets, they had to leave an important tool in the office: the monitoring software that tracks the offenders.
Jackson County Floridan |
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Police: Man Posing As Officer Tries To Steal Laptop
Police said Tarine Gage, 21, entered the Hialeah Staples on West 49 Street wearing what appeared to be police-type clothing and a gun holster.
NBC 6 Miami |
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Hackers can clickjack your Webcam and mic, says Adobe
Adobe Systems Inc. warned users Tuesday that hackers could use recently reported "clickjacking" attack tactics to secretly turn on a computer's microphone and Web camera.
ITBusiness.ca |
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Microsemi Expands Power Management Portfolio With Advanced Controller for Multi-Voltage Systems
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 9, 2008 -- Microsemi Corporation , a leading manufacturer of high performance analog/mixed signal integrated circuits and high reliability semiconductors, today announced production of its LX1752 dual PWM controller optimized for systems requiring multiple low voltage, high current power supplies in set-top box, broadband modem, digital television, and data center equipment ...
GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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R.E.M., Blind Melon, Metallica, and Classic Rock Anthems Headline Launch Week Lineup for Guitar Hero(R) World Tour
With music ranging from one of the first and most influential alternative rock bands, R.E.M., to the timeless GRAMMY® award-winning rock anthem "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield, Activision Publishing, Inc. today announced a rich and diverse lineup of launch week downloadable content for the highly-anticipated Guitar Hero® World Tour.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Computer records at dump, breast cancer inquiry learns
Some of the records connected to hundreds of inaccurate breast cancer tests are likely buried at the St. John's dump, an inquiry has been told.
CBC |
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It's official. Geeks love high-speed wireless
Congratulations, Mr. Hesse and Mr. West. Baltimore has WiMax. But will it work nationally? And can you pay for a national rollout? These were some of the questions that Dan Hesse, Sprint Nextel's CEO, and Barry West, chief of the company's WiMax unit, faced yesterday during the event they organized to proclaim the first commercial launch in a major city of their ultra-fast wireless service.
The Kansas City Star |
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Global Stocks, U.S. Futures Rise as IBM, Dexia Rally; Yen Falls
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks climbed in Europe and Asia and U.S. index futures rose after International Business Machines Corp. reaffirmed its profit forecast and investors speculated the worst five-day plunge since 1987 was overdone. The yen and Treasuries fell.
Bloomberg |
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IBM's earnings strength calms tech jitters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM posted a higher-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and affirmed its full-year outlook, calming some fears that the financial crisis is sparking a meltdown in technology demand.
Yahoo! Asia News |
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
NEW 7:15 a.m. CHIBA, Japan -- Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. Both companies announced their services, which use graphic images that represent players called "avatars," Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show.
The Pantagraph |
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Qwest Delivers Web-Based Home Phone Management
Today Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) introduced Colorado customers to qHome(TM), the Integrated Message Manager, a new Web tool developed in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation that gives customers online access to their Qwest home phone service. qHome integrates a customer's Qwest Choice Home(R) phone service and Qwest High-Speed Internet(R) service through Microsoft's ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year.
Boston Globe |
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Adobe warns of 'clickjacking' attacks
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, Adobe has issued a security alert about its Flash software that is vulnerable to a practice known as 'clickjacking'. Clickjacking involves subverting a web page so that when a visitor...
vnunet.com |
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4 Softies and a Pizza Guy promote PDC 2008
Microsoft has added another spoof to its catalogue with a Channel 8 video that uses a new "boy band" to promote its Professional Developer Conference 2008 in Los Angeles (October 27-30). Attendees will get a free 160GB preloaded with Windows 7, among other things. The video takes us behind the scenes to an ad agency brainstorming session where a new boy comes up with a somewhat different ...
Guardian Unlimited |
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IBM's earnings strength calms tech jitters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM posted a higher-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and affirmed its full-year outlook, calming some fears that the financial crisis is sparking a meltdown in technology demand.
Reuters |
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Computers 'Taught' To Search For Photos Based On Their Contents
A new statistical approach that one day could make it easier to search the Internet for photographs has been given a patent. Its accuracy now is being improved with public participation. Called Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures, the system works by teaching computers to recognize the contents of photographs rather than by searching for keywords in the surrounding text, as is done with ...
Science Daily |
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New Data Resource to Advance Computer-Aided Drug Design
Advances in information technology have shaped not only how we find or share information, but also how we make new medicines. A project just funded by the National Institutes of Health plans to take computer-aided drug design to the next level.
National Institutes of Health |
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