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Google pays for Affero ban
Others to test SaaS license Google's ban on projects licensed under the Affero GPL license has claimed its first victim. The ClipperZ online password manager has defected to rival code host SourceForge.…
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Yahoo Weighs Options as Microsoft Drama Continues
Yahoo is weighing its options to accept a buyout by Microsoft or consider tie-ups with other companies, in particular a...
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Small LCD TVs seeing surging demand: LG
The LCD TV market is seeing stronger-than-expected demand for smaller sets as consumers switch to sleeker TVs from bulky tubes at ever-faster rates, LG Display Company Chief Executive Officer Kwon Young-soo said.
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Yahoo board to pull all-nighter? Nope
Yahoo's board of directors have left the decision of who to negotiate a deal with for another day, leaving the question of a Microsoft merger "undecided," according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
CNET |
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AMD says CTO Phil Hester has resigned
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the second-largest maker of computer processors after Intel Corp., said Phil Hester, the company's chief technology officer, had resigned and that it did not plan to fill that position.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Jul 2006 09:24 UTC, submitted by george
The Debian GNU/Linux project today admitted a hacker had compromised one of its internal servers . "Early this morning we discovered that someone had managed to compromise gluck.debian.org," Debian developer James Troup wrote in an e-mail to the Debian community.
New Mobile Computing |
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Pico-ITX to "go stackable"
— Apr. 03, 2008 — Via's Pico-ITX motherboard form factor may be bound for glory.
WindowsForDevices |
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Meet Facebook's new number two
This is only day 13 on the job for Sheryl Sandberg, so forgive her if she doesn't have everything figured out just yet. She pulls her legs up beneath her into a white Eames chair.
CNN Money |
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Tools for your ultra-portable laptop
Our sister site, Linux.com, ran a great article this week about putting Puppeee Linux on an Eee PC. Author Dmitry Popov says that the lean, mean distro that’s based on Puppy Linux “provides an excellent combination of Puppy Linux’s nifty features and solid support for Eee PC hardware.” The article made me wonder what neat projects are being hosted at SourceForge that are aimed at ultra-portable ...
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Rotary Group Study Exchange participants return from Philippines
They were greeted like celebrities at Manila Airport - cameras flashing, people shouting, `just one more' or `look over here.' And, with music being played everywhere, particularly tunes from the 1970s and 1980s, the group may have felt like characters in a film with an oldies soundtrack.
Boothbay Register |
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Windows Worries, Visa Caps, Malware Spreads
Windows is in danger of "collapsing" under the weight of all its code and needs a serious overhaul, according to Gartner...
PC World |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Jun 2006 12:17 UTC, submitted by fish
Google has released a beta version of Google Earth 4, which runs on all the three major platforms . "We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of Google Earth that we decided to celebrate a bit early.
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Recent Original Stories
This is an interesting comparison of OpenOffice 2.0 Calc and MS Office 2003 Excel. The author found that OOo is slow in some operations and takes a lot of RAM & CPU.
OS News |
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Appcelerator Integrates Rich Internet Application Platform with Google App Engine
Appcelerator, the leader in open source rich Internet applications (RIA), today announced that it has updated its platform to allow applications built using Appcelerator to be seamlessly deployed to the free new Google App Engine. Used together, the offerings give developers a fast route to developing, deploying, managing and scaling their applications.
Centre Daily Times |
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Man suspected of again downloading porn
A Carlisle man jailed in 2002 after he was convicted of downloading child pornography from the Internet is headed back to prison after a judge found probable cause that he repeated the offense.
The Patriot-News |
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CORRECTING and REPLACING Gateway Extends FX Line with New Notebook Models; Takes 64-Bit Computing Mobile
Please replace the release (dated April 11, 2008) with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.
Centre Daily Times |
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Ten Weirdest Types of Computers
An anonymous reader writes to mention that New Scientist has a quick round-up of what they consider to be the ten weirdest types of computers. The list includes everything from quantum computers, to slime molds, to pails of water. "Perhaps the most unlikely place to see computing power is in the ripples in a tank of water. Using a ripple tank and an overhead camera, Chrisantha Fernando and ...
Slashdot |
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'Appcelerating' Development For Google's App Engine
First tools emerge for simplifying deployment to Google's closely watched application-hosting platform.
InternetNews.com |
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Editorial - Microsoft Retail Stores Would Fail
Rumors are floating around that Microsoft is considering retail stores, like Apple's, to showcase its products. The problem is, there's nothing to showcase, and while Apple understands the retail store paradigm and has products to back it up, Microsoft does not
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Rumor Mill: What you should be saving up for
Howdy. It's Jake, Jason's evil, rumor-mongering twin. It's Friday, which means that it's time for a peek at the current raft of Apple rumors: iPhone 3G †This one is getting more persistant, so it's probably getting closer to being real. The latest word...
ZDNet |
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Internet users are more open to tracking when web sites adopt privacy polic
Most U.S. adults are leery about web sites examining their past Internet activity in order to offer personalized content, such as ads based on their interests, a new Harris Interactive study finds. However, that hesitation lessens if a web site adopts and advertises privacy and security policies.
InternetRetailer.com |
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New ad network targets online shoppers on purchase and browsing behavior
After two years of collecting anonymous data about 140 million online shoppers from 375 retail and manufacturer web sites, aCerno launched this week as a pay-per-action network that selects which banner ads to display much as Google chooses which paid ads appear on search pages: by how much the advertiser is willing to pay and how likely an ad is to lead to a sale.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Nov 2006 18:54 UTC, submitted by Jimmy M
"Microsoft is pushing Visual Basic 2005 Express as the best language for hobbyists and novices, and are offering it free of charge from the Microsoft Visual Basic Express website . Since the price is right, and I fall into the hobbyist category, I decided to give it a try . This review is intended for amateur programmers, students and hobbyists who are interested in programming their computers."
New Mobile Computing |
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Following in Google’s footsteps, Coremetrics offers free e-commerce benchma
Suddenly, online retailers have free access to benchmark e-commerce data from two major industry players.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Windows Worries, Visa Caps, Malware Spreads
Windows is in danger of "collapsing" under the weight of all its code and needs a serious overhaul, according to Gartner...
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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