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On the day after Thanksgiving, Xandros will be giving business Linux users an early holiday present: Xandros Desktop Professional version 4.0 . This new version of this well-regarded Debian-based desktop is designed to work in both Linux- and Windows-based office networks.
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Facebook Adds Another $100 Million In Venture Lending, For More Servers
Facebook has raised another $100 million in funding, to add to its previous chest of $360 million raised in the last six months, reports BW. This latest money will be used "entirely for servers," Facebook CFO Gideon Yu told BW.
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Trapped by Web loan with the 842% interest rate
Rochelle Parker needed money for Christmas gifts and medicine, so she went online and found a Web site promising easy money. After a few key punches she was zapped a $300 loan -- but there was a catch.
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"Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Public License and the ...
. The decision to approve was informed by the overwhelming (though not unanimous) consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the Open Source definition, and should therefore be approved."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Oct 2006 14:38 UTC
"We've gotten some questions here today about public reports claiming there's a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7. These reports are technically inaccurate : the issue concerned in these reports is not in Internet Explorer 7 (or any other version) at all.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th Jun 2006 19:19 UTC, submitted by Yadav Ji
"Over the years, I've had a number of people asking me what I believe the problem was with further migration over to Linux by the public at large. To be frank, I don't believe that there is a simple answer to this.
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" Hyperion Entertainment and ACube Systems are pleased to announce that they have entered into a strategic partnership
following a recent two day meeting of representatives of both companies in Brussels, Belgium. Within the framework of the partnership ACube will act as a worldwide distributor of Hyperion's Amiga OS 4.0 operating system for a range of PPC hardware platforms including AmigaOne (MicroA1, SE/XE) and Classic Amiga.
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"We often wonder if we are getting the most out of our computers, especially as we sit drumming our fingers waiting for some process to begin or end. But what can you do get the system into shape and keep it that way?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 20th Jan 2007 21:55 UTC
"A conversation has cropped up since the recent publication of a paper scrutinizing how Windows handles digital rights management , especially for HD video.
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Stolent laptop at Honoka'a High School
Big Island police are asking for the public's help in identifying the person who stole a laptop from a Special Education classroom at Honokaa High School.
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Microsoft Decides To Take On Linux On Low-Cost PCs
e5rebel writes "Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs. It is an effort to stop Linux dominating this market but Microsoft is insisting on limiting the hardware specs of these devices." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Novell has partnered with the Software Freedom Law Center to ensure that its partnership with Microsoft does not violate any terms of the General Public Licence.
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"When DirectX 10 rocks your PC with the release of Windows Vista early next year, it will come courtesy of a trio of forces: The graphics card companies obviously play a huge role, as do the game developers, but DirectX is Microsoft's baby.
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"Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced ! We accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications. All the mentoring organizations that will participate in Google Summer of Code 2007 are listed.
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Clackity-Tap-Tap: The Sound of A City Computing
In many ways, we are a region of typists. Have been for some time.
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Victorian 'supercomputer' is reborn
The world's first computer was designed more than 150 years ago but never built. Thanks to a tech millionaire one of two machines is now on display in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 19th Aug 2007 18:56 UTC
"Can you imagine a computer history museum that has to be packed up and put away each winter and then unpacked each summer, and which has three potbellied pigs as its mascot?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 18:30 UTC
At the 2006 WWDC in San Fransisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced several new products during his opening keynote speech. Read more for a chronological summary of the keynote-- including the much-debated preview of Mac OS 10.5, Leopard , which, according to Steve Jobs, will ship this spring.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 12:03 UTC
Microsoft's new operating system won't be out until late 2006, but here 's a look at some of the new security features expected. This includes less kernel-level code, IE7 in restricted mode, and more.
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Canada on the Web
Canada has a strong presence on the internet.These websites are a great place to start if you're gathering information about Canada, or simply searching for great Canadian content on the Internet.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Sep 2006 19:49 UTC
Usually, we do not report on .mp3 players. However, sometimes we cannot go around them. Today is one of those times: Microsoft has launched its supposed iPod killer , the Zune.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jun 2007 15:58 UTC, submitted by Jeremy Fox
Carbon will not be 64bit in Leopard . "At last year's keynote, Apple had claimed that both Carbon and Cocoa would be 64-bit, adding to the 64-bit fundamentals that Tiger had laid.
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The Singularity team at Microsoft has recently published a new article concerning their research OS. It is a concise introduction to the Singularity project. It summarizes research in Singularity 1.0 and highlights ongoing research for Singularity 2.0.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Jan 2006 12:55 UTC
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Micheal Dell was asked what he would do to fix Apple. Dell replied: "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
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Dutch want banks help to fight illegal Web casinos
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities intend to crack down on illegal online casinos and are calling on banks to stop providing financial services to them, a Justice Ministry spokeswoman said on Saturday.
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