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Cable Ops Form Wireless Broadband JV
It may have taken a bit longer than expected, but Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are expected to pull the trigger on a long-awaited wireless broadband joint venture on Wednesday, fueled in part by a $3.1 billion investment by a handful of cable operators, Intel and Google.
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Whimsy Spurs Creativity
5/7/2008 - ZURICH, Switzerland — It’s the first question Google employees here must resolve when they want to go to the cafeteria or game room: Stairs, slide or fireman’s pole?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Oct 2005 11:12 UTC, submitted by Witek Wasilewski
OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been silently released to servers. It can be found here . OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
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Everyone loves the Eee
I spent the day at a conference sponsored by our SIS developer. The food was excellent, which is always a solid barometer for conference success and I learned that I've forgotten too much java (X2's Aspen SIS largely uses java to interact with the relational database that sits on...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Feb 2006 23:53 UTC
Fighting for icon space on the desktop is so 2001. The new frontier on a virgin PC is the browser, and Internet companies like Google are jostling for space on the browsers of new PCs.
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Recent Original Stories
"In days gone by, the personification of Linux might have conjured up the image of a hotshot college kid full of half-baked ideas and sharp edges. But that college kid has now graduated into the business world , and unleashed his furious entrepreneurial spirit.
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Hacker kept on NDS payroll after accused of piracy
SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - A high-ranking News Corp official testified on Tuesday that he kept two hackers on the payroll for years after one of them was accused of infiltrating the security system of rival satellite television company DISH Network.
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Comscore Ranks The Top Japanese Web Sites For March 2008
(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) MEDIA RELEASE PR30146 comScore Ranks the Top Japanese Web Sites for March 2008 TOKYO, May 7 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- End of School Year Prompts Visits to Travel and Entertainment SitesYahoo! Sites Maintains Commanding Lead in Japanese Market comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its March 2008 ...
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Microsoft adds TV shows to Zune players
SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft began making television shows available for viewing on its Zune MP3 players on Tuesday as it continues a campaign to wrest market share from Apple's globally popular iPods.
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Schlafly's honorary degree draws criticism
The decision by Washington University in St. Louis to bestow an honorary degree on conservative Phyllis Schlafly has drawn the ire of some students and faculty.Opponents of the school's intention to honor Schlafly, a St. Louis native, have organized a group on the Internet social-networking site Facebook, and had more than 1,000 members as of Monday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported ...
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Schlafly's honorary degree draws criticism
Washington University's decision to bestow an honorary degree on conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has drawn the ire of some students and faculty.Opponents of the school's intention to honor Schlafly, a St. Louis native, have organized a group on the Internet social-networking site Facebook, and had more than 1,000 members as of Monday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday.The ...
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911 dispatchers warn of internet phone service
Emergency dispatchers in New Mexico are warning customers who use the internet as their phone to make sure their phone company has their correct address.
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Qualcomm, Foxlink Open Plant
SAN DIEGO and TAIPEI -- Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - message board ), and Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd., "Foxlink" (TSE: 2392 - message board ), a leading developer and manufacturer of communications devices, computers and consumer electronics, today announced an agreement to bring a new, dedicated fabrication plant ...
Unstrung.com |
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Cuba refuses to give blogger visa to collect prize
HAVANA (AFP) - Cuban authorities have refused to give a travel visa to Cuban blogger to who was to have flown to Spain to received a top journalism award, the writer told AFP Tuesday.
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Cuba refuses to give blogger visa to collect prize
Cuban authorities have refused to give a travel visa to Cuban blogger to who was to have flown to Spain to received a top journalism award, the writer told AFP Tuesday.
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Man behind 21
Student turned software ace who took on casinos
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Readdle developing native iPhone, Touch app
Readdle on Tuesday announced plans to unveil an iPhone 2.0 application of its as-of-now web service, allowing users to read documents on their iPod touch or iPhone when offline. The company also claims the native application will enhance the service's functionality, citing seamless storage, page-by-page reading, bookmarks, and optimized PDF renderi...
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Taiwan stocks open up, DRAM shares jump on price gains
Taiwan stocks opened up 0.71 per cent on Wednesday, led by tech stocks including shares of DRAM makers after media reported the sector is logging stronger-than-expected price gains for May.
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Telecom Companies to Join Forces on Wireless Networks
The consortium, which included Sprint Nextel and Google, will announce a $12 billion venture to build a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks.
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Wireless Installment News Conference
The City of Bowling Green will be holding a news conference to announce the start of a wireless network on Thursday, May 8, 2008.
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1998 Ford Puma from UK and Ireland - Comments
Me and my wife have just bought a 1998 1.7 puma, I took it up to the car wash on bank hol Monday, gave it a good clean on the outside only when I finnished got in to start it and no power AA came and couldn't sort it he tried to jump start it failed he tried by hitting the starter motor failed tried to bump start failed, he towed it to the garage they changed the battery and then pluged it in to ...
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Recent Original Stories
A recent blog post on ZDNet contends that Firefox is not as secure as promised by counting exploits. Joseph Huang contends that severity and the number of unpatched vulnerabilites matters, not just the number of exploits discovered.
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Blackfoot launches new internet package for rural areas
Blackfoot Telecommunications Group has launched a new business package, named BizBundles, which is designed to fit the needs of its rural business owners located in 22 Western Montana communities in the US.
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Recent Original Stories
"Google is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun's Solaris operating system as a possible long-term prelude to replacing its massive global network of Linux servers, according to sources.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jan 2006 18:45 UTC
Apple's Steve Jobs has announced several new products today during his keynote at MacWorld ( photos ). After the usual chit-chat about the success of the retail stores and iTunes, Jobs got to the meat of the matter. He announced an FM-tuner with remote-control for the Nano/Video iPod.
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