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Hands on: new Microsoft Live Maps improvements impressive
Microsoft's Live Maps team has rolled out a number of improvements to the mapping service this week, including newly-improved 3D view for some cities, GPS file export, RSS feeds for neighborhoods, improved traffic mapping, and more. Google Maps should take note. Read More...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Sep 2005 20:04 UTC
Apple has seeded build 8B1027 to Apple Developer Platform owners. This build brings Transition Kit systems up to version 10.4.2, and in-sync with the current released version of Mac OS X for 'ordinary' Macs. This build includes new tactics to prevent piracy of Mac OS X .
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Yahoo's Minimum Bid Change Happening Next Week
As expected Yahoo told me that you can expect some of your minimum bids to change as soon as early next week. So if you are running ad campaigns on Yahoo Search Marketing, and your quality is not up to Yahoo's level, then your minimum bid may spike up. Yahoo informed us of this change back in late February . For more details on the specifics, please see my write up from then. I will report ...
Search Engine Land |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 20:39 UTC
"In a fairly short time, Novell has transformed itself from a firm that had next to nothing to do with Linux into one of the Penguin's most visible and aggressive flag-bearers.
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Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnight
Boy this Windows collapsing under its own weight argument has some legs. A few points about this Gartner presentation two days ago, which has raised quite a ruckus on Techmeme. The analysts argued Wednesday morning that Windows was collapsing under its own weight because the code...
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E-Commerce Seen as Bright Spot in Retailing
USA TODAY/Associated Press report that online spending is expected to jump 17 percent this year, despite a sluggish economy that has hurt many brick-based retailers, according to an annual survey released Tuesday.
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AMD's chief technology officer resigns following delays
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s top technology executive is stepping down as the world's No. 2 microprocessor maker tries to recover from a sales slump triggered by prolonged product delays and tougher competition. The Sunnyvale-based company said Friday that...
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Mumbai, Apr 11 Software giant Microsoft Corporation today said it has made a fair offer to acquire internet major Yahoo!. "We believe we have made a very fair offer to Yahoo!.
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Get Your Computer Back in the Fast Lane
(ARA) - Does your computer take forever to load programs or change pages when you're surfing the Internet? Have you ever been in the middle of writing an e-mail and it freezes, forcing you to reboot and lose all your work?
Richfield Reaper |
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Tibetan government-in-exile website crashes
Dharamsala, April 11 : The Tibetan government-in-exile's official website crashed Friday. Some suspect it has been hacked.
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Recent Original Stories
SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu.
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Town revamps Web site
Little Elm officials hope the facelift performed on the town’s Web site make for a more invigorating experience. The Town of Little Elm launched the new Web site March 14. The previous Web site design had been in use since about 2001.
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South Korea's Pandora Video Sharer Eyeing Internationalization
Many of us look to South Korea for what's next in broadband media, so what's next? Pandora TV, a video sharing site launched there in 2004, has just launched in English, Chinese and Japanese and unveiled "HD" support, Pandora's Nathan Lee told us. Which is to say, it added the higher-quality H.264 codec now being taken to by the likes of Dailymotion. That's not necessarily what a filmmaker would ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Jun 2007 23:00 UTC
The Etoile project has released a release candiate for the 0.2 version of their live CD. "The Etoile project aims to produce a document-centric desktop and post-desktop environment.
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Howard University Coach In Court For Soliciting Teenager
The case against a Howard University soccer coach accused of soliciting a Virginia teen online is moving forward. A judge certified the charges against Joseph Okoh Thursday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Sep 2005 11:56 UTC
Intel, AMD, IBM and all other chipmakers are doomed. In any case, that's the case if you were to believe the claims made by the Atom Chip Corporation, "which maintains it will show off a 2TB diskless notebook based on a 6.8GHz 'quantum-optical' microprocessor at next January's Consumer Electronics Show." Pictures of the notebook and various parts are available.
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Police seize computers to determine if boy accessed child pornography
Little Elm police officers confiscated two computers from a 14-year-old boy who is suspected of accessing child pornography on his computer.
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City Web site goes to verison 2.0
After a few months delay, the city should have its new Web site up and running by early May. When the original Web site was redesigned in 2003, department staff representatives took the lead, which caused navigation and design to vary from site to site.
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Reports of Windows' demise are greatly exaggerated
I was planning to avoid posting about Gartner's "Windows will collapse under its own weight" presentation from earlier this week because I felt it was a bunch of hype that didn't provide any new insights or conclusions. But given how many others are riffing -- and riffing...
ZDNet |
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Software to locate stolen laptops launched
Mumbai, April 11 : Mumbai based Micro technologies have launched India's first laptop tracking system to locate stolen laptops.
New Kerala |
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AMD's chief technology officer resigns
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s top technology executive is stepping down as the world's No. 2 microprocessor maker tries to recover from a sales slump triggered by prolonged product delays and tougher competition.
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BW: Apple's OS Edge is a Threat to Microsoft
The incremental improvements to Mac OS X, virtualization and the iPhone SDK show that Apple is positioning itself to challenge Microsoft for computing dominance, according to BusinessWeek on Friday. In contrast, Microsoft has clung to a bloated OS that has saddled Vista users with an average computer
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Microsoft Calls On Net Advertisers To Adopt Privacy Standards
The company told the FTC that Internet advertising companies should adopt a five-tiered system of standards to protect consumer privacy.
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Samsung Chief Hints at Resignation
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful tycoon who runs South Korea's biggest business empire said Friday that the corruption scandal shaking the conglomerate could lead to a major change in leadership, and possibly his own resignation.
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Recent Original Stories
Jeff Jones has published another one of his vulnerability scorecards comparing various operating system offerings. As always, these figures just list the patched vulnerabilities over the designated period of time; they do not take into account any unfixed or undisclosed vulnerabilities.
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