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JACKSON - Although there are few, if any, dogs in Jackson that can read, a list of rules and regulations for dogs and their owners has been placed at the community's new offleash dog park and on Jackson's Internet Web site at www.jacksontwpnj. net.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 26th Feb 2006 19:44 UTC
I used to really like skinning my desktops to make them look like another operating system. I stopped doing that years ago; and not necessarily because I wanted to do something more useful with my time. I stopped doing it because I somehow saw how utterly pointless it was.
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Hello NASty: DroboShare Storage, HP's Media Vault 2120 Reviewed
Not all NAS systems are boring. We pit Drobo's newest storage device against HP's upstart Media Vault to see which media server comes out on top and which one gets served.
Wired News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Dec 2005 17:07 UTC
Intel's chairman chided plans by rival AMD and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build a $100 laptop for the developing world. At a press conference in Sri Lanka on Friday, Craig Barrett said that potential computer users would scoff at the computer's lack of features.
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Motley Fool: 26.3B reasons Microsoft is lying
I would love to play a hand or two of poker with Microsoft's Bill Gates. It's just way too easy to tell when the guy is bluffing.
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Big first week for video game
Grand Theft Auto IV raked in more than $A530 million in its first week in stores, selling more than six million units worldwide. The highly anticipated title from Take-Two Interactive Software has received stellar ratings along with criticism for its violent content.
The West Australian |
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WiMax Player Intel Nears Own Rollout
WiMax, which brings fast wireless Internet communications, is finally coming -- but the long-promised advance might find competing technology LTE stealing some of its thunder.
Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News |
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WiMax Player Intel Nears Own Rollout
WiMax, which brings fast wireless Internet communications, is finally coming -- but the long-promised advance might find competing technology LTE...
Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance |
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Features and Case Studies
Google's product experts share their favourite features that often don't get the limelight or that people simply don't know about.
ZDNet Australia |
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Jury still out on internet shopping
One of the fastest growing sectors of the Australian economy is internet retailing, which has gone from being worth nothing to more than $14 billion a year in just over a decade.
ABC via Yahoo!7 Finance |
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Sprint-Clearwire WiMax Effort Gets $3.2 Bil, Big Partners
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire breathed new life into their wireless broadband alliance Wednesday, securing $3.2 billion in much-needed financing from three cable TV companies, Web search firm Google and chipmaker Intel.
Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News |
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Sprint-Clearwire WiMax Effort Gets $3.2 Bil, Big Partners
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire breathed new life into their wireless broadband alliance Wednesday, securing $3.2 billion in much-needed financing...
Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance |
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Clearwire, Sprint merge wireless broadband ops
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are planning to merge their wireless broadband units to create a new $14.55 billion wireless communications company.
The Economic Times |
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Great Plains Energy Announces First Quarter Financial Results
Great Plains Energy Incorporated (NYSE:GXP) today announced first quarter 2008 reported earnings of $47.1 million or $0.55 per share, compared to first quarter 2007 reported earnings of $23.0 million or $0.28 per share. Core earnings, which exclude net mark-to-market gains and losses on energy contracts and other items, were $13.0 million or $0.15 per share for the first quarter 2008, compared ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Internet Archive Challenges F.B.I.?s Secret Records Demand
The F.B.I. has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive provide the agency with a user?s personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court.
New York Times |
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Clearnet - Let the games begin
TelstraClear has today launched Clearnet.co.nz, a new online destination for digital content. Clearnet.co.nz includes news, sport, video and weather, with an initial focus on gaming.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Facebook users willing to let employers see profiles
TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - While many Facebook users may be secretly surfing the social networking site on the job, many Canadians say they are willing to let their employer look at their profiles, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
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Sun Adds Comprehensive Video Capabilities to Ubiquitous Java Platform with On2 Technologies
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA), today announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies (AMEX:ONT) to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX(TM), a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content across all the "screens of your life". For more ...
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Acer confident of beating world PC markets
Acer , the world’s third-largest computer vendor, expects to ship up to a third more computers this year than in 2007, a bullish outlook which, if met, would mean that the Taiwanese company would strongly outperform the world market.
Financial Times |
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Asustek warns of Intel chip shortage
Asustek , the fledgling Taiwanese PC vendor, says it expects industry efforts to ship millions of low-cost small notebook computers will be hampered by a severe shortage of Intel’s new Atom processor this summer.
Financial Times |
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Pricing pressures hit laptop makers
Until recently, people buying rice and people buying computers seemed to be living in two different worlds.
Financial Times |
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Laptop retail price set to rise
Retail prices for laptop computers are poised to rise as manufacturers increase prices for the first time amid soaring raw material and assembly costs.
Financial Times |
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Linked by Adam S on Sat 30th Dec 2006 16:32 UTC
Since it's year end, I thought I'd post one more "fun piece" for everybody. After Thom posted an article on his customized KDE desktop , I thought it might be interesting to compare desktop screengrabs and see what other OSNews'ers desktops look like. Are you cluttered or clean? Are you minialist?
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
"Windows Vista Beta 2 includes a new defense against buffer overrun exploits called address space layout randomization. Not only is it in Beta 2, it's on by default too.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 21:17 UTC, submitted by meianoite
"The 10.4.6 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies: login and authentication in a variety of network environments; file access and byte range locking with AFP file sharing; network access when using proxy server automatic configuration files; searching iWork '06 and Microsoft ...
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