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Samsung ACE from Bell is a smartphone for the global traveler
Bell today announced the exclusive availability of the Samsung ACE, a Windows Mobile-based smartphone that offers both global voice and data service and access to the fastest and largest mobile data network across North America.
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Mongolia's Incomnet Selects Gilat's SkyEdge Broadband Satellite Network for Nationwide Telephony and Data Connectivity
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) today announced it will provide Incomnet with a Gilat SkyEdge broadband satellite communications network to serve end users throughout Mongolia. Incomnet is one of Mongolia's largest telecommunications service providers.
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Buyer's Guide to Powered Trolleys
Times have changed dramatically in the past four or five years - not only for me as a convert to the powered golf trolley but for thousands of golfers who have discovered that you don't have to be of the female gender or aged over 50 to gain the benefit of transporting your clubs on a trolley driven by a battery.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft has apologised for serving malware via its websites and Windows Live Messenger software. APC reader Jackie Murphy reported the problem: "With Microsoft launching Vista along with their Defender software to protect users from viruses and spyware, it seems therefore to be an oxymoron that they have started to putting paid changing banner advertisements for malware, on the popular MSN ...
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New Process May Convert Toxic Computer Waste Into Safe Products
Discarded computer parts could one day wind up fueling your car. That's because researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly raw materials for use in fuel, plastic, and other useful consumer products.
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Apple set to open first Boston store on Wednesday
Apple has confirmed that its first retail store in Boston will finally be opening this Thursday, May 15th. The store is located at 815 Boylston Street, and will throw open its doors at 6PM Eastern. As a promotional tool, some of the first customers to arrive will receive special-edition T-shirts and "other surprises." The first workshops are not...
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Recent Original Stories
Rafael J. Wysocki (a suspend maintainer) has written an article speaking about the current status of suspend and hibernation support in Linux , its design, know problems, and future development.
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Survey says no to Webwise
Dinah Greek, Computeract!ve , Monday 12 May 2008 at 15:02:00 Phorm's web ad monitoring system seen as spyware The Webwise ad monitoring system "is not acceptable" to most people, an online survey has revealed. More than half of the people interviewed for the ISPreview survey said they would... > Read the full article
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Google Introduces "FriendConnect" Social Widgets For Site Owners
Contrary to some earlier reports, Google's new FriendConnect , launching today, is not focused on data portability or a direct answer to MySpace "Data Availability" or the new Facebook Connect . While there's a data portability dimension, it's focused on the flip side of the equation: site owners who want to make their sites more "social." Click to continue reading... ...
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Some global climate analyses are in error
BOULDER, Colo., May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have discovered computer analyses of global climate have been consistently overstating warming in Antarctica.
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Microsoft and RIM to Bring Windows Live Services to BlackBerry Smartphones
Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on BlackBerry smartphones. As a result of this collaboration, BlackBerry smartphone customers will enjoy easy mobile access to Windows Live Messenger and an ...
PDA Buyer's Guide |
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The MathWorks Simplifies Development of Parallel Applications in MATLAB
The MathWorks today announced the integration of its Parallel Computing Toolbox with its widely used
wallstreet:online AG |
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Microsoft and RIM jump into bed together, offer Windows Live services for BlackBerry phones
Research In Motion has been extremely busy this balmy day, first announcing the Bold 9000 smartphone, and now a collaboration with Microsoft allowing for Windows Live services to be used on BlackBerry handsets.
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BlackBerry Gets 'Bold' With New High-End 3G Smartphone
BlackBerry Bold from Research In Motion is the latest smartphone to beat Apple's iPhone to 3G networks.
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Updated Macbook Pro gets touchy feely
APPLE HAS QUIETLY updated its Macbook Pro laptop range while no-one was looking. There wasn't even a press release.
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U.S. Navy Selects Mikros Wireless Network Design Tools for Two New Shipboard Networks
Mikros Systems Corporation , announced today that it was recently awarded two new U.S. Navy contracts.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Survey says no to Webwise
The Webwise ad monitoring system "is not acceptable" to most people, an online survey has revealed. Webwise has caused a storm of controversy after it was announced that a number of UK ISPs were considering using it.
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Some XP SP3 Users Experience Crashes, Mostly Due to OEM Problems
A wide variety of boot problems have been reported with Windows XP SP3, fortunately many of them are very fixable...
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AutoWired - Automotive news and information. Live
If you drive a white car you might not like Mondays, according to a new analysis of figures from the Police National Computer released by the Royal Automobile Club Foundation and Retainagroup today.
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Is Network-Linking Frowned Upon?
A High Rankings Forum member talks about how he has a variety of sites that are all networked on the same server with the same owner. They're not related topically, but there are some subpages where adding links may be of value to search engines and visitors. Would it be bad to link to pages in the same link network? Are there any risks? It depends, actually. If you're trying to hide the ...
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Opening Glance: Web software, services stocks dip
Internet software and services stocks traded mostly lower Monday morning, though the overall market rose somewhat as oil prices declined and the dollar gained.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Univision.com Named #1 Most-Visited Spanish-Language Website among U.S. Hispanics(1) for the 7th Year in a Row(2)
NEW YORK----Univision Online, Inc., the interactive subsidiary of Univision Communications Inc., the nation's leading Spanish-language media company, today announced the results from a custom nationwide study conducted by Forrester Consulting, Inc. , an independent technology and market research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and ...
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Move Over Facebook and MySpace, Here Comes Google Friend Connect
As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google beating the two social networks with its Google Friend Connect features.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Nov 2007 21:43 UTC
Microsoft has released a preview release candidate for Windows Vista SP1 to a large group of beta testers. The RC preview beta [ ed. note: release candidate preview beta?]
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TSX positive as EnCana announces plan to split in two; N.Y. also positive
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market moved higher Monday morning amid plans by EnCana Corp. to split into two separate companies while Research In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) announced a new variant of its BlackBerry and new software ventures.
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