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US firm's NI boost before conference
US company CyberSource has announced plans to set up a research and development centre in Belfast with the creation of 56 jobs in software development.
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China to probe Google 'breach of state secrecy laws'
London, May 7 : China has announced that it will probe the alleged breaching of state secrecy laws and showing "illegal" maps of the country by the Internet search engine Google and other websites.
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New supercomputers would be able to improve global climate predictions
Washington, May 7 : A team of three researchers has proposed the development of a new class of supercomputers that would help in improving global climate predictions.
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Blue Coat Outlines Plans to Revitalize Packeteer PacketShaper Product After Acquisition
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced its initial plans to sell, support, and enhance the PacketShaper(R) product once it completes the expected acquisition of Packeteer, Inc. (Nasdaq:PKTR). Blue Coat announced its intent to acquire Packeteer on April 21, 2008 and commenced its tender offer for the acquisition on ...
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International Transport Giant DSV Announces Roll Out of Salesforce to 4,300 Employees
salesforce.com Dreamforce Europe user conference -- Salesforce.com , the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service , today announced that DSV [OMX: DSV ], an international transportation and logistics company headquartered in Copenhagen, has chosen Salesforce Software-as-a-Service to meet its global CRM needs in one unified solution across 4,300 global ...
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Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano
The losers of yesterday's referendum vote in Venezuela are not accepting the results that, according to official numbers, give a landslide mandate to President Hugo Chávez to push on with his Bolivarian revolution.
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Gates: Microsoft Going 'Independent'
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said the company isn't pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo
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Technologies Are Improving NHS Care In The UK
Some of the UK's leading experts in location technologies confirmed this week that applications such as RFID in hospitals are already improving the efficiency and quality of patient care. But they also warn that compatibility problems between hardware and software applications, and a lack of joined up thinking from technology companies mean that the NHS is not benefiting as much as it could.
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Reporter's Notebook: Alex Satanovsky
The Implications and Explanation of Venezuela's Recall Election. Everyone around the world who knew about the ongoing crisis in the Bolivarian Republic understood full well that this election was going to be a big event.
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HP Labs calls for university proposals
Hewlett Packard is looking for a few good university researchers with hot ideas that need funding as the computer giant officially releases a call for proposals from academia, a new process in the restructuring on the company's storied R&D division.
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Sprint Nextel, Google and Intel plan U.S. wireless network
The consortium expects the network to be built in as little as two years, but there is no timetable on when it will be available to users.
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Cisco quarterly results top expectations
Cisco Systems Inc. reported stronger-than-expected quarterly profits as rising Internet traffic fueled sales of its network equipment, despite concerns of a slowing U.S. economy.
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Small victory for Microsoft's Zune over iPod
Microsoft said the Zune Marketplace would begin selling TV shows, including many programs from NBC, which pulled its shows from iTunes over Apple's unwillingness to set different prices for TV shows.
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Internet entrepreneurs seek their fortune in San Francisco
British internet startups struggle to get funding and are having to go cap in hand to the US
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Sprint, Clearwire, cablecos start WiMAX firm
Sprint and Clearwire today announced the unification of their two WiMAX Internet services into a single company that they hope will drive the 4G wireless standard. Simply titled Clearwire, the business will share the services of both the old Clearwire and Sprint's Xohm network in a single national WiMAX provider and is said to help promote the con...
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Wikipedia goes to court to defend defamation immunity
It needs a win Wikipedia, the free, user-generated online encyclopedia, faces a court battle to protect itself from liability for everything that users post on the site. The company behind the site will argue that it should be granted immunity under US law.…
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Weird electrons could lead to slimmer laptops, mp3 players
Melbourne, May 7 : An Australian researcher has claimed that a new class of materials invented by his team will make future gadgets work better and faster by tapping into the power of electrons.
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Q&A: Dailymotion's Kate Burns on monetising UGC
Kate Burns was recently appointed UK MD of video sharing site Dailymotion as the French start-up looks to expand internationally. We asked the former Google exec about the challenges of monetising user generated content and how she is planning to build up the site's appeal to users and brands.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Dec 2007 21:42 UTC
It's the time of year again, folks. "The year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in these two operating systems, I've compiled all the security flaws in Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista and placed them side by side.
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Vienna Teng - "City Hall"
Vienna Teng performs "City Hall" from Dreaming Through The Noise for the Sun Studio Sessions series. Vienna Teng is one multi-talented lady. First, she earned a degree in computer science from no less than Stanford University and used all that knowledge working for a couple years at one of the leading tech companies in the world. As impressive as that is for most of us, Ms. Teng knew she had ...
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Linda Keenan: Dear Amma: I'm Here, I'm Queer, Get Used To It.
Sarav is an Indian mama's dream. Handsome, well-spoken in Tamil and English, well-educated at top American universities, well-paid as a computer engineer at a top...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Nov 2006 22:05 UTC, submitted by anonymous
At a press conference in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to announce a new partnership between Microsoft and Novell . The unprecedented deal will have Microsoft offering a degree of sales support for Novell's SUSE Linux while both companies work towards better interoperability between their respective operating systems.
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Salesforce tool a key part of platform push
Visualforce, used to build application user interfaces, is a key part of the CRM specialist's expansion into the cloud-computing business.
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Aus eBay sellers find porn loophole
Peddlers of pornography are using loopholes in eBay to sell their products over the internet. A report by website ninemsn.com.au, has shown how easy it is for anyone to purchase pornography through online auction website eBay.
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Adecco Recruits Salesforce.com for Global CRM
Salesforce.com Dreamforce Europe Conference -- Salesforce.com , the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service, today announced that HR solutions giant Adecco has chosen Salesforce Software-as-a-Service CRM to streamline customer relationship data across its diverse global markets.
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