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Knuth Interview Posted
Submitted by Andrew Binstock on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 15:08. Tags: - why Knuth doesn't believe in designing code for reuse - he's most unconvinced of multithreading and multicore on the desktop - discussion of the tools he uses to program and write (including Ubuntu) - etc.
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Opening Glance: Most Internet software, services stocks dip
Internet software and services stocks mostly declined Wednesday morning with the overall market. The market slipped as the National Association of Realtors reported pending sales of existing homes declined by 1 percent in March.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Sprint, Clearwire form $14.5 billion WiMax venture
Sprint Nextel Corp and Clearwire Corp are planning a $14.5 billion venture to build a wireless high-speed Internet network based on the emerging WiMax technology.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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AP sources give inside look at Microsoft's raised Yahoo bid
(AP) -- Just how serious was Microsoft Corp. about raising its bid to $47.5 billion for slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.? The answer is taking on greater importance as more outraged Yahoo shareholders threaten to sue the company's board - or try to replace the 10 directors - for the way they responded to Microsoft's sweetened offer.
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Sprint, Clearwire in $14.5B WiMAX Pact
The emerging wireless technology gets another massive vote of confidence, while Comcast, Time Warner, Google and Intel sign on as backers.
InternetNews.com |
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BeyondTrust Extends Vista Security
Latest version of Privilege Manager aims to make implementing Vista security easier, transparent to end-users.
InternetNews.com |
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Bill Gates says Microsoft going 'independent' way
(AP) -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn't pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo.
PhysOrg |
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Global Piracy Rampant -- But You Can Fight Back
Piracy is running rampant, according to a report from the U.S. government. Not the kind of pirates with eye patches and parrots on their shoulders, but rather the kind that downloads content illegally from the Internet, counterfeits products, and generally hijacks the profits of pharmaceuticals, electronics, software, and other goods. China and Russia were singled out in particular for their ...
Enterprise Security Today |
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How To Avoid Cons that Can Lead to Identity Theft
When most people think about Internet security problems, they focus on viruses and spyware -- technological attacks that usually can be mitigated by technological defenses. But the most insidious Internet security problems today rely on human gullibility, not tricky software. Although technological defenses can help you fend off these newer types of attacks, your best weapons against them are ...
Enterprise Security Today |
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Staying One Step Ahead of Password Thieves
Creating and remembering strong passwords -- like backing up our computers' contents -- is something many of us know we should do, but don't. And can you blame us? Having to come up with user names and passwords for virtually everything we do on a computer is enough to make anyone use "Magic123" over and over. I've even heard of people who keep lists of passwords taped to their computer ...
Enterprise Security Today |
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Opacity 1.1 brings in SVG graphics
Like Thought has released Opacity 1.1, which it calls a "major update" to its illustration application. The software is exclusively used to design images for websites and desktop software, such as launch icons. It relies on both Quartz and Core Animation technology, and has vector, layer, and filtering tools. New in v1.1 is support for SVG, whic...
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King & Spalding Advises Sprint Nextel on Merger of Its WiMAX Business With Clearwire and $3.2 Billion Investment by ...
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that it is representing Sprint Nextel Corporation in its agreement with Clearwire Corporation to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Hacker Kept On NDS Payroll After Accused Of Piracy
A high-ranking News Corp. official testified 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.
InformationWeek |
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Upgrading a website? Four key SEO tips for web design firms
As many web design firms take on the remit of upgrading a client’s website, it is important to integrate best practice SEO techniques into the web design process . This will ensure that your client both maintains and benefits from the free rankings available in the organic listings of the major search engines.
e-Consultancy |
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FBLA students advance to nationals
Tyler Bell does not consider himself a “computer nerd.” The sophomore at Lee’s Summit North High School said he can work a computer, manage the basic operations, but the in-depth technological details aren’t best left to somebody else.
Lee's Summit Journal |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 20th Aug 2006 03:08 UTC
"If we want open source software to take off on the desktop, we need to reduce the amount of choice and concentrate our efforts into a single app for each purpose.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Apr 2006 20:29 UTC
Microsoft on Monday detailed innovations coming in Windows Vista that the company believes makes the operating system superior in the delivery of multimedia.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Nov 2005 21:42 UTC
"Genesi is pleased to announce the development of the 4U2 sub-laptop based on the EFIKA 5K2 reference design and the Freescale MPC5200B . The 4U2 will be produced in Asia and be available in Q2 2006. The 4U2 board can be deployed in a variety of configurations and uses and includes both mobile and WIFI wireless capability."
New Mobile Computing |
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Voters could cast votes online
Nanaimo voters could vote from the comfort of home in the next civic election. Or even from another city or country. City council gave staff the go-ahead to further explore giving residents the option to vote over the Internet or by telephone in November.
Nanaimo Daily News |
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Clearwire, Sprint Nextel to form $14.55B wireless company
Clearwire will focus on rolling out mobile WiMAX network
Corpus Christi Caller-Times |
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From My Inbox: Some Search Tools To Checkout
After Yahoo-Microsoft madness , a bit of a lull. So I'm cleaning out my inbox and wanted to mention a few items that might be of interest. Below, a way to quickly search blogs & social media sites all at once, a new video search tool, a study into automatic search queries, an awesome Twitter search tool, a way to track search rankings over time and a compilation of Google help info for site ...
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Recent Original Stories
CNet compares Acer's TravelMate 8200 to apple's MacBook Pro , and concludes the Acer wins; but only by a small margin. "The Acer pulled ahead with ample features and superior performance and battery life, then sealed the deal with its lower sticker price.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st May 2006 22:31 UTC
"The next version of Firefox will come out of the virtual box with Google's anti-phishing tools built in. While the Googlified security services have been available through use of the Google Toolbar for either Firefox or IE6 for quite some time already, this marks the first default installation.
OS News |
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Secrets of online shopping discounts
Retailers crack down as consumers attempt to save money online
ABC 13 Houston |
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft released Vista Beta 2 for public consumption. It does not require a Key but will expire on June 1 2007. You can download the 3GB ISOs (or from here ) for 32bit and 64bit architectures.
OS News |
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