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Nutritional information via phone a good call
Dieters curious about how many calories are in their favorite restaurants' pizza, taco or hazelnut latte won't have to wait for pending state legislation to find out, provided they have a cell phone or computer.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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T-Systems Q1 revenue declines
For the first quarter, revenue from computing and desktop services was down 13.5% at 869m euros ($1.3bn), while revenue from system integration declined 0.2% to 414m euros ($640m). Revenue from telecommunications declined 11.2% to 1.3bn euros ($2bn).
Computer Business Review |
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Sun forms RIA alliance with Kaazing
The platform will combine Kaazing's Enterprise Comet real-time RIA with Sun's open source Java EE application server Glassfish.
Computer Business Review |
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Service coming back in fashion
WASHINGTON – Tom Maguire, Verizon Communications’ new Customer Care Czar, is one tough customer. When served chicken tacos without the chicken recently, he first complained to his waitress, then went online to the restaurant’s Web site to fill out a survey with scathing remarks about his experience.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 23rd Nov 2005 18:54 UTC
The GIMP toolkit (GTK+) matures to include yet another platform. This project aims to bring native GTK+ support to the Apple Mac OS X platform. The basic implementation is sponsored by Imendio AB and the work so far has been done by Anders Carlsson (of Imendio).
New Mobile Computing |
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Nvidia Q1 profit rises
During the quarter, it shipped its first Hybrid SLI DX10 motherboard GPUs, the GeForce 8000 GPU series.
Computer Business Review |
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Microsoft woos Facebook
The Redmond giant already took a $240m stake in social networking site Facebook in October, which it valued at $15bn.
Computer Business Review |
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Networks In Motion Issued U.S. Patent for Social Networking Applications Using GPS-Enabled Wireless Device
Networks In Motion (NIM), the award-winning wireless navigation, hyper local search, and location-based
wallstreet:online AG |
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Whimsical Workplace Inspires Google Workers
It's the first question Google employees here must resolve when they want to go to the cafeteria or game room Stairs, slide or fireman's pole The next dilemma for so called Zooglers homemade pastry or exotic fruit juice It's all part of three free meals a day, with regular snacks, that Google serves at its new European tech center.
The Lakeland Ledger |
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Apple to Take IPhone Nonexclusive in Australia and India
Apple's iPhone will be available from more than one mobile operator in Australia and India later this year, further signs that...
PC World |
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Taking stock - More, bigger wireless deals needed before MOSAID breakthrough
MOSAID's stock has hit several peaks and troughs over the past few months, dropping from more than $19 at the beginning of November 2007 to a low of $15.26 on Nov. 26. It's perhaps to be expected in a financial market fraught with difficulties – along with pending potential changes in U.S. patent law – but things are looking up following the signing of several new deals, including MOSAID's first ...
Ottawa Business Journal |
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Windows XP SP3 devastates some PCs with endless reboots
A Microsoft report forum is trying to hone in on the source of the problem that prevents some users from loading Windows after installing the upgrade.
ITBusiness.ca |
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Can Sun rejuvenate Java?
Sun Microsystems is trying to rejuvenate Java, using the JavaOne conference last week to position the 13-year-old Java platform as a foundation for next-generation technologies in such spaces as rich Internet applications and cloud-based services. Sun reiterated intentions first expressed at last year's JavaOne to catapult Java more into the rich Internet application space via its ...
InfoWorld |
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Sony Trademarking 'Qore' For Online Games Mag; Future Involved?
Sony is planning to launch its own online PS3/PSP games magazine, filling a gap in official online news for its consoles. Sony Computer Entertainment America last week applied for the trademark on "Qore" - an "interactive online magazine and entertainment services in the field of video games".
paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance |
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Moms get thanks from women in IT
It's still generally a man's world, but women in IT credit their mothers for encouraging them to succeed in the male-dominated high-tech industry.
ITBusiness.ca |
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Trio joins together to seed new ideas for the BlackBerry
Three of Canada's biggest companies have joined forces to make the BlackBerry a greater business threat to the laptop computer, with Research In Motion Ltd.
The Globe and Mail |
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Zune overtakes Creative as Microsoft hits 2 million MP3 player sales
Much like John Terry, Bill Gates may be taken to hospital today with a dislocated arm from trying to give himself a pat on the back after the Zune hit 2 million sales, taking a 4% share of the MP3 player market, double that of rivals Creative.
Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Mac-nappers Nabbed
Woman used built-in camera to snap photos of laptop thieves. more
WKRG News 5 Mobile |
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Microsoft's IM Blocks, Then Unblocks YouTube; No Conspiracy
Twitter buzzed over the weekend with reports Microsoft's (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows Live Messenger IM service was blocking people from sending YouTube links to contacts. Could it have been a tactic designed to limit traffic to the leading video site, a competitor to MSN Video? Nope, it was just a mistake in the process it uses to protect users from "harmful URLs". A Microsoft spokesperson told me: ...
CBS News |
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Sony: Microsoft 'Completely Wrong' on Figures
12 May 2008: Give us hard numbers!
Spong |
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Remote access app catches crook
Two thieves have been arrested after the owner of an Apple laptop used a remote access technology to identify the culprits.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Facebook takes out $100m server loan
Facebook has borrowed $100m (£51m) as part of plans to expand its core infrastructure.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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First look: Google's high-flying cloud for Python code
One of the joys of being a Web programmer is heading to a dinner party, a haircut, or a reunion and fielding the pitches for everyone's dream for a brilliant Web application. Everyone is always happy to cut you in for 5, 10, maybe even 15 percent of the equity if you just build out the Web site that's sort of like a combination of Twitter, AltaVista, Eliza, TurboTax, and the corner pharmacy, ...
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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Can Sun rejuvenate Java?
Sun Microsystems is trying to rejuvenate Java, using the JavaOne conference last week to position the 13-year-old Java platform as a foundation for next-generation technologies in such spaces as rich Internet applications and cloud-based services.
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News |
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Empower Technologies Signs $40 Million Sales Agreement
Empower Technologies has landed its first significant sale - a 5 year volume Purchase Order from Advantec Computer Systems, LLC under certain terms and conditions to supply industrial handheld computers to their Value Added Resellers .
CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance |
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