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Poor weather gives lift to John Lewis sales
John Lewis said sales of televisions and computers rose sharply last week after the poor weather boosted interest in indoor products. (11/04/2008 10:01:19)
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jun 2006 11:22 UTC, submitted by Dylan
The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2007 08:08 UTC
Geeks.com sent us in one of their consumer electronics , the Linux-based Archos 604 PMP for a whirl, and we surely gave it one. This 30 GB PMP is the fourth generation video product from Archos, one of the biggest names in that market.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft planned this week to announce that it was broadening the virtualization rights for Windows Vista, but decided at the last minute to reverse course and stick with existing limits.
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Storm surge fries computers
A week after thunderstorms battered the metro area, many residents regaining power are finding problems with their computers - providing repair shops with weeks worth of work.
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AT&T's downtown Wi-Fi network turned on
In one square mile of downtown St. Louis, AT&T's wireless Internet network is up and running. Don't expect to see a citywide system any time soon, though.
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Close to home
He's a 45-year-old Frederick man who'd been at it since 2004. By February of last year, he had downloaded more than 2,000 images and 75 videos to his work-issued laptop.
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Election 2008: Mehlville School Board
Karl Frank Jr. Age: 32 City: Oakville Occupation: technology consultant Employer: Karl Frank Jr. Computers Incumbent: Yes Political experience: I was first elected to the Mehlville Board of Education in 2005 for a three-year term.
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Google to open suspect Orkut albums to Brazil police
'You only had to ask' Google is to give Brazilian police access to 3,261 private photo albums on social networking website Orkut, which may contain child pornography.…
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Oct 2007 16:55 UTC
This is the second article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [ part I ]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law , and more.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Nov 2006 22:56 UTC
"Often cast as the peacemaker in free software disputes, Bruce Perens is on the warpath . When we caught up with him, he wasn't in a mood to be charitable to Novell.
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Microsoft prefers solo Yahoo bid among options: Source
Microsoft wants to stick with its original takeover offer for Yahoo Inc, but is not ruling out options including News Corp joining its bid, a source close to the company said.
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Let Visions put vital research in your hands, or on your desktop
Engineering students construct their own Formula One-style racing car from scratch. Forestry researchers discover a gene in trees that affects the strength of the timber. Health professionals complete a study into the link between positive allergy tests on toddlers and eczema...
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"When Firefox launched in beta release five years ago, it burst on the open-source browser scene like a young Elvis Presley - slim, sexy and dangerous.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Nov 2005 11:50 UTC
UNIX was a terrific workhorse for its time, but eventually the old nag needs to be put out to pasture. David Chisnall argues that it's time to retire UNIX in favor of modern systems with a lot more horsepower.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Jun 2006 13:43 UTC, submitted by Neal Freemen
Microsoft has taken another step in its effort to bring Windows in the world of supercomputing, having finished development of its computer cluster operating system.
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Reuters Technology Summary
Microsoft prefers own Yahoo bid among options: source
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Jun 2006 17:52 UTC
"Apple extended the courtesy of meeting with me one day after my column on the closing of the OS X x86 kernel source code was published online.
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Windows INI files and its registry have both advantages and limitations, particularly from a developer's viewpoint. In this DevSource article , Peter Aitken explains what they are, and explains how .NET's isolated storage works: it provides a location on your drive that only a specific application can find and use.
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Tenable Earns NIST SCAP Tool Validation for Federal Desktop Core . Configuration (FDCC) Audits
Configuration (FDCC) Audits 11/04/2008 19:34:00 Business Wire US6447221002 Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in unified security monitoring and creator of the popular and award-winning Nessus vulnerability scanner, announced today that Tenable s Security Center has been validated by NIST to perform Security Content Automation (SCAP) FDCC Compliance Auditing for the Microsoft XP and ...
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Tibetan website hacked
NEW DELHI: Unknown hackers yesterday blocked access to the official website of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Tibetan officials said. The website, www.tibet.net , offered “blank” as a message or drew Internet surfers to other Tibet-related sites through the Google search engine.
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A review of OpenSUSE 10.3 , which concludes: "While openSUSE's efforts to simplify Linux or Window-fy Linux can be commended, the inconsistency in their implementation is its downfall.
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Kids and their parents will love the Z2 messaging device
When it comes to kids on computers, the most frequently used application aside from game playing is communication. Kids will spend hours a day sending instant messages (IM) to each other. On cellphones, texting is proving to be more popular with the small set than making calls.
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The PC Guy:Surf globally, but shop locally
I'm a big fan of local stores. In this era of Internet shopping, where great deals on virtually anything from microchips to automobiles can be found online, we sometimes forget that the community where we live should come first.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Jun 2006 21:57 UTC
Microsoft plans to make several significant tweaks to the next beta of Windows Vista to make a key security feature less annoying to users.
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