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WiMax deal could open the door to wireless revolution
The deal announced Wednesday between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. to combine their high-speed wireless businesses points the way toward a future of phones, computers and other devices getting connected to the Internet wherever they are.
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CDNetworks Acquires Japanese Hit Pops - Adds MSN Video, Sony, Fuji Japan Sites to Customer List
SEOUL, South Korea & SAN JOSE, Calif.----CDNetworks a top-three global, full-service content delivery network , today announced the closing of its strategic acquisition of the Hit Pops Division of Japan's Space Communications Corporation.
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SKorea may seek changes to U.S. beef pact amid mad cow fears
SEOUL (Thomson Financial) - South Korea's government, under pressure from protesters fearful of mad cow disease, said Thursday it would demand changes to its U.S. beef import agreement if other nations secure better health safeguards.
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Saturday it's time to take out the trash in Charleston
CHARLESTON — The city’s annual spring cleanup and a Coles County electronics recycling day are both scheduled for Saturday in Charleston.
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Mililani Electronic Enticement Suspect Indicted
HONOLULU (KHNL) -- A Mililani man accused of trying to entice children over the Internet has been indicted. On Tuesday, an Oahu grand jury determined there's enough evidence to send Eric Shiroma's case to trial. He's accused of electronic enticement, possessing child pornography and drug offenses.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 10:40 UTC
Yesterday we reported on ' Ten Reasons Not to Get Vista ', featuring two rebuttals. APCMag, the publisher of the first article, now also published a rebuttal . "I've been running Vista at APC since the earliest leaked builds, and witnessed its extraordinary evolution as Microsoft meandered its way towards the final product.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Nov 2005 09:54 UTC, submitted by anonmyous
"After much digging online for an effective way to stop this pesky application that is highly de-centralised and a big pain to blocked, I finally found a way to do it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 26th May 2007 22:16 UTC
After years of delivering faster and faster chips that can easily boost the performance of most desktop software, Intel says the free ride is over. Already, chipmakers like Intel and AMD are delivering processors that have multiple brains, or cores, rather than single brains that run ever faster.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2006 17:50 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
"After a lot of hacking behind the scenes, a new initiative to improve KDE's interaction with network and hardware devices has been launched. Solid will provide a robust basis for the dynamic modern desktop in KDE, which needs to be aware of available hardware and networks, paving the way for innovative functionality.
New Mobile Computing |
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Windows Mobile to get pumped up on Nvidia
Nvidia's Windows Mobile platform goes far beyond the staid, ho-hum Windows running on small mobile devices to date.
CNET |
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Analysis: A network open to choices
NEW YORK -- Sprint Nextel Corp. has finally rounded up the financial backing it needs to build a faster wireless network. But for consumers and the electronics industry, speed may be the least important thing about the new network.
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Prison for underaged sex
A Christchurch man has been sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with underaged girls he groomed on the internet.
Stuff |
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Coming Soon To The Endangered Species List: Online Ad Sales Teams?
The self-serve ads option has been all the rage for search ads the last few years. Increasingly, now, do-it-yourself is becoming similarly popular for the display ad space. Over the past several months, a number of companies have come up with DIY offerings: Fox Interactive Media began testing a self-serve option for its local TV websites and on MySpace, as Facebook's DIY program has been ...
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Apple inks Latin American deal for iPhone
In another step in the worldwide march of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inked a deal to bring the multimedia gadget to more than a dozen countries starting later this year. America Movil SAB, controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said it plans to bring the iPhone to all of its Latin American operations but didn't offer ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th May 2006 22:14 UTC
Microsoft has said that the version of IE7 for Vista will differ slightly from the one for XP and down.
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Recent Original Stories
For those of you who just can't get enough Mighty Mouse news, here are a couple of tidbits: An intrepid tinkerer bought a MM, only to take it apart for all the internet to see.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Oct 2005 12:20 UTC
"A feature mimicking Apple's 'widgets' scheduled to appear in Microsoft's Windows Vista will also show in the current Windows XP operating system , a Vista product manager said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Sep 2005 12:00 UTC
In his latest column, , Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that Microsoft Vista is going to be so expensive that it's going to make users think hard about switching to Linux instead. "Desktop Linux is never going to have a better chance than it will in the next eighteen months," he says.
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Features and Case Studies
When you're in charge of buying 2,000 desktops should you go for an assortment of vendors, or stick to just one? City of Melbourne's desktop services manager, Ashe Potter, says using a single supplier is cheaper, easier and less hassle to manage.
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Dish Network seeks big bucks in battle
Dish Network Corp. told jurors they may award the satellite-TV company as much as $1 billion in damages over claims that News Corp.'s NDS Group subsidiary used hackers to crack its access- card codes.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Onetime Radio Host Ward Expected To Change Plea
Former radio talk show host Bernie Ward is expected to enter a change of plea to Internet child pornography charges at a federal court hearing in San Francisco on Thursday, according to his lawyer.
KRXI-TV Reno |
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Life after winning it all? No rest for Self
You might think that after the blur that has been Kansas coach Bill Self’s life the past few months, he would find time to unwind and reboot the computer, so to speak.
The Kansas City Star |
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Indian-origin cousins hit gold at Oxford
The two have overnight become millionaires after a free online service they started for students was sold for 2.5 million pounds within months after its launch.
The Times of India |
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Can words alone lead to a conviction?
The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday as to whether someone can be convicted of enticing a minor based on his or her words alone.At issue is whether Utah's Internet Enticement statute is unconstitutional in stating that a person engaged in sexual speech over the Internet need only believe they are chatting with a minor in order to be convicted.Attorney Ann Taliaferro said her client ...
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