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CNET News Daily Podcast: How will Web 2.0 weather current financial storm?
Economic downturn is likely to hit every sector of the U.S. economy, including the formerly frothy Silicon Valley tech industry. Rafe Needleman stops by to talk about what we can expect from Web companies.
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Boise-based tech company cuts workforce by 15 percent
BOISE -- Micron Technology Inc. will cut about 15 percent of its work force around the globe as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations, the company said today. The bulk of the job losses will be...
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Scottsdale hosts electronics recycling day
Scottsdale's Solid Waste Management Division will recycle old or discarded electronic items from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
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.
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Microsoft to issue 11 security patches on Tuesday
On Thursday, Microsoft announced four security bulletins for next week. The announcement is intended as a heads-up for IT departments before Patch Tuesday. Four fixes are considered critical, six important, and one is moderate as ranked by the software giant.
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Best Buy launches collectively customized 'Blue Label' laptops
How would you describe your 'ideal laptop'? Starting with new Toshiba and HP models, Best Buy is now offering an exclusive line of CE products -- based on people's answers to questions like these -- under its new 'Blue Label" program.
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Digital Realty Trust Announces New Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) Lease Agreement With IBM in Paris
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. , the leading owner and manager of corporate and Internet gateway datacentres, has completed a Turn-Key Datacentre lease agreement with IBM. Under this agreement, IBM will establish a new hosting datacentre in Digital Realty Trust's property located in suburban Paris.
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Salesforce.com Chief Financial Officer to Present at New York Investor Luncheon
Salesforce.com , the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service today announced that Graham Smith, Chief Financial Officer of salesforce.com, will present at a New York Investor Luncheon on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 11:45am / 8:45am , in New York.
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Digital Realty Trust Announces New Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) Lease Agreement With IBM in Paris
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. , the leading owner and manager of corporate and Internet gateway datacentres, has completed a Turn-Key Datacentre lease agreement with IBM. Under this agreement, IBM will establish a new hosting datacentre in Digital Realty Trust's property located in suburban Paris.
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Innovative Silicon Unveils Z-RAM Memory Technology Breakthroughs at 2008 IEEE International SOI Conference
NEW PALTZ, N.Y.----Innovative Silicon, Inc. , developer of the Z-RAM® zero-capacitor floating body memory technology, demonstrated here that its Z-RAM memory technology continues to show considerable advantages over DRAM implementations and other proposed floating body memory designs.
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2 Detroit-area students among 3 accused of stealing electronics at Bowling Green
Three Defiance College students, including two from the Detroit area were arrested Friday by Bowling Green State University police who found stolen items, including laptop computers and iPods taken from two BGSU residence halls.
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Computer data breach at South Tahoe High School
A South Tahoe High School student has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the school's computer system, school officials said. Read comments
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Web Technology Cuts Mobile Calling Fees - Mobile and Wireless
The cost of talking on the go is coming down, thanks to an increasing number of options for using Internet calling services on mobile phones as an alternative to traditional cellular service plans.
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Boom in virtual playgrounds for kids
The craze in online virtual worlds among children and teenagers has started a stampede of companies trying to cash in.
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Battle of the Tricked-Out Computer Desktops [Lifehacker Faceoff]
Ever since we started the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell group on Flickr, readers have been contributing and explaining their computer desktop settings in droves. A few times a week we pick out one...
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Convergence Helps Companies Be 45% More Productive
The latest ERP benchmark report "Do More with Less: Merging Enterprise Applications with Desktop Tools" found that top performing companies are integrating enterprise and desktop applications, and as a result, are seeing significant improvements in corporate productivity and profitability.
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Review: Tiny flash drives improve their security
Thu, Oct 9, 2008 (12:45 p.m.) Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road.
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Intel event lobbies for unified 60-GHz spec
Intel Corp. hosted a gathering of about 120 researchers this week as part of an effort to drive toward a standard for 60-GHz wireless networks that could serve a broad range of computer and consumer systems.
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Absolute Announces Preliminary First Quarter Results and Revises Outlook for Fiscal Year 2009
Absolute Software Corporation , announces preliminary financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 , ended September 30, 2008. The Company also introduces fiscal 2009 guidance for Sales Contracts and cash from operations and announces a normal course issuer bid application.
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Editorial - High Stakes for Apple on October 14
Now that we know Apple plans to turn its spotlight on notebooks on October 14, it's time to consider just how much is at stake for Apple with its new notebook line
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Navarre Corporation Announces FUNimation Entertainment Agreement With Joost(TM)
Navarre Corporation announced today that it's wholly-owned subsidiary, FUNimation Entertainment, has entered into an agreement with Joost to bring its catalog of anime video content to the online video service.
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Laptop stolen from garage
A laptop valued at $1,000 was stolen out of a work vehicle parked in an garage in an Eden Prairie home in the 8000 block of Lancaster Court Sept. 17 9:15 to 11:15 p.m. The laptop belonged to Restronics Northland of Minnetonka.
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Voice Over WiFi in the Enterprise: Making Better, Faster Decisions
In the newly released benchmark report "Voice Over WiFi in the Enterprise: No Wires, No Bars, No Problem," Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, found that Best-in-Class organizations achieved a 51% increase in workforce productivity by deploying voice solutions over their wireless network.
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Brand and Domain at Risk -- Undetected Zombies and Data Loss Threaten Mission-Critical App
A new report from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, sheds light on the escalating dangers facing organizations that don't take adequate steps to safeguard their data, their computers, their brand and even individuals who are becoming victims of targeted, individualized attacks.
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2 Detroit-area students among 3 accused of stealing electronics at Bowling Green
Three Defiance College students, including two from the Detroit area were arrested Friday by Bowling Green State University police who found stolen items, including laptop computers and iPods taken from two BGSU residence halls.
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