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SGI to Supply NASA's Next Major Supercomputer
NASA has chosen SGI to supply its next major supercomputer, a 20,480-core SGI® Altix® ICE system, after a competitive evaluation the space agency launched last year.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Startup Targets Angry eBayers
The founders of a new startup called Wigix are calling eBay old school, and don't hesitate to target boycotting sellers incensed by recently imposed eBay seller fees. The name is short for WantItGotIt Exchange, and is modeled after the stock market rather than the competitive bid auction model. read more
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Nasdaq 100 Leaders & Laggards: AKAM LEAP
Shares of Web services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. rose Tuesday, making the largest gains on the Nasdaq 100 index.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Bill Gates cuts stake in Pacific Ethanol to 18.5 percent
(AP:NEW YORK) Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has cut his stake in Pacific Ethanol Inc. to 18.5 percent, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.
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Evans & Sutherland Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation (E&S) (NASDAQ: ESCC) today reported financial results in its Form 10-Q filing for the first quarter ended March 28, 2008.
Centre Daily Times |
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Iconfactory Announces Indiana Jones Celebration for Mac
In celebration of the new Indiana Jones movie, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Iconfactory announced on Tuesday that it has set up a page that will include Leopard (and Vista) resources: icons, custom dock for Mac, and desktop pictures.
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Global Telecom & Technology Announces First Quarter Earnings Date and Conference Call Schedule
Global Telecom & Technology, Inc. ("GTT"), (OTCBB:GTLT), a leading global Multi-Network Operator (MNO), announced today its plans to release results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 after the market closes. In conjunction with the release, GTT has scheduled a conference call, which will also be broadcast live over the Internet, on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at ...
Centre Daily Times |
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PlayStation Home Hands-On [PlayStation 3]
We check out Home's game-launching features during Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's PlayStation Day event in London.
GameSpot |
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
This is my favorite time of year.
The Narco News Bulletin |
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Sprint, Clearwire set to announce $12 billion deal: report
Seven months after Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. ended an effort to build a high-speed wireless Internet-access network, the two companies are reportedly set to announce a new $12 billion joint venture to get the WiMax network up and running.
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Killer Competition: Neurons Duke It Out for Survival
The developing nervous system makes far more nerve cells than are needed to ensure target organs and tissues are properly connected to the nervous system. As nerves connect to target organs, they somehow compete with each other resulting in some living and some dying. Now, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered how the target tissue helps newly connected peripheral nerve cells ...
Newswise |
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Bill Gates lauds internet shifts
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said there will be a vast shift in internet technology over the next decade as he met with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
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How shall we talk toa computer in 2020?
What will human- computer Interaction (HCI) be like in the year 2020? That’s the focus of a Microsoft Research report, Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the year 2020, recently released.
Deccan Herald |
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Cast away children amidst mounting scraps of dead PCs
Children are dying to clear up the developed worlds discarded computers.
Deccan Herald |
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Nasdaq 100 Leaders & Laggards: AKAM LEAP
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of Web services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. rose Tuesday, making the largest gains on the Nasdaq 100 index. The Nasdaq 100, which includes 100 of the largest nonfinancial securities trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, rose 10.77 points to 1,418.26 Tuesday.
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Does Online Counseling Really Click?
Trying To Save Marriages With Internet Therapy The online dating site eHarmony.com has finally managed to get those singles hitched, claiming its scientific system is responsible for 118 marriages a day.
Hartford Courant |
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Microsoft's Bill Gates talks tech, Web in South Korea
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, traveling through Asia, met Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and championed his vision of the future of high tech and the Internet.
Seattle Times |
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Chandler athletic store 1st for Nike-Apple partnership
The store will sell Nike Plus technology, in which a computer chip in a running shoe records a runner's time, pace, distance and calories burned.
The Arizona Republic |
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 6, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Search Month: April 2008 Search News, In Review Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It's also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our ...
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Employers pulling the plug on Facebook
All that superpoking wastes a lot of time at the office — and could be costing companies billions in lost productivity. Why a growing number of employers are banning Facebook.
MSNBC |
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Hot Flashes - Occupation: Pigeon Lady
That's what my next tax form might read. That is, if I get more disgusted with what it takes to afford food, clothing, shelter and gas. My budget is evaporating into thin air faster than the poles are melting into the seas.
The Prairie Advocate |
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How System Administrators Can Be Heroes -- Daily
Corporate computer users are most of the time blissfully unaware of how hard IT personnel work to keep a system up and smoothly running daily. For some reason, it's only in the time of emergency or catastrophe that IT shows up on a user's radar -- and an opinion of all IT people everywhere is usually formed upon the result of that emergency or catastrophe.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Jun 2007 20:12 UTC
Apple's first Windows beta release of Safari had some nasty bugs, most importantly one where bold text wouldn't render on non-English versions of Windows.
OS News |
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Canton man arrested on Federal child porn charges
05/06/08 Man arrested after FBI agents allegedly downloaded child porn from his computer via P2P network...
WWTI Watertown |
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Report: Sprint in $12 billion WiMax deal with Clearwire, Intel, Google, others
Sprint and Clearwire have agreed to a $12 billion deal to build out a nationwide high-speed wireless network. The newspaper reported that the deal, which could be announced Wednesday, calls for Sprint to merge its wireless broadband operations with Kirkland, Wash.,-based Clearwire.
The Kansas City Star |
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