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Wiiware kicks off with six titles
Nintendo has rolled out the red carpet for its long-awaited Wiiware service, which allows users to download "bite-sized" games made exclusively for the Wii. Six titles are now available through the new Nintendo digital download service, including a new Final Fantasy game from Square Enix and Frontier's LostWinds.
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Recent Original Stories
Outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin posted a blog entry Friday apologizing for the confusion surrounding comments he made to reporters Wednesday about being so confident in Windows Vista's security that his seven-year-old son's PC had no antivirus software installed.
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Children to receive free laptops in poor, rural schools
About 500 elementary and pre-kindergarten students in one of South Carolina's poorest areas will begin receiving free laptop computers next week. The first laptops will be distributed May 20 to parents of 4- and 5-year-olds in Marion School District 7. An elementary school in Gresham and an early childhood center in Mullins are pilot sites for the program, called One Laptop per Child South ...
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Facebook ordered to turn over info about fake page
INDIANAPOLIS — A judge has ordered the social networking site Facebook to turn over information identifying the person who set up a fake profile in the name of a high school dean.
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Powerset takes on Google with Wiki search tool
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as Google.
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Children to receive free laptops in poor, rural schools
About 500 elementary and pre-kindergarten students in one of South Carolina's poorest areas will begin receiving free laptop computers next week. The first laptops will be distributed May 20 to parents of 4- and 5-year-olds in Marion School District 7. An elementary school in Gresham and an early childhood center in Mullins are pilot sites for the program, called One Laptop per Child South ...
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Aricent, Aircell pact for inflight broadband
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Communications software company Aricent has tie up with Aircell to develop key software and processing components for the company's inflight broadband systems.
CIOL |
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Megabank's new system flops
A glitch in the new computer system at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ blocked about 20,000 ATM transactions on Monday. The embarrassing blunder--blamed on a programming error--came as the megabank booted up a new computer network integrating systems used by its two predecessor banks.
Asahi.com |
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Bloggers Get Boost From Dickie Scruggs Case
More people are blogging about the Dickie Scruggs case.
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Washington DC
LANSING, Mich. ( Map ) - LANSING, Mich. , May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- More consumers and businesses across the Lansing area have or soon will have access to Verizon High Speed Internet, allowing them to quickly download movies, share photos or video with friends and family, and create their own Internet content.
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MedApps Selected as Dell-NFIB 2008 Business Excellence Award Finalist
MedApps announced today, that it has been selected as one of the nation's 10 most innovative companies as part of Dell's 2008 Global Small Business Excellence Award.
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Job Description:
Compiles and maintains manual or computerized records concerned with cycle counts and storing and issuing of material. · Be able to run cycle count reports every day, locate and count parts and update data in JDE,SAP,IMARKS system after approval of count.
Rigzone |
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Using ultra-mobile Linux with a Nokia Internet Tablet (video)
I'm on the go all the time, and sometimes that makes it hard to stay connected. I could carry my laptop with me everywhere, but that can be a pain, especially when I am on my bike. To meet the demands of my daily life I have constructed a lightweight, ultra-portable, Linux-based computing solution. I use a Nokia 770 tethered to a Nokia N75 mobile phone (when Wi-Fi is not available) and a ...
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Internet Captures Market Share From Traditional Agents in Purchase of Auto Insurance Policies
comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results of The 2008 comScore Online Automobile Insurance Report, which provides insights into the online auto insurance market and the behaviors and attitudes of auto insurance consumers.
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Hackers create their own social network
Hackers now have their own social network, backed by GnuCitizen, a high-profile "ethical hacking" group. The network, called House of Hackers, has signed up more than 1,000 members since its launch earlier this week, according to the site. GnuCitizen set up the network in order to promote collaboration among security researchers. The site's founders said they use "hacker" in the ...
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Kate Ritter to address business forum
Kate Ritter of Gloucester-based PC9LIVES, a computer repair company, will be the guest speaker at the North Shore Business Forum on Friday, May 16, at 7:30 a.m. at the Danversport Yacht Club (Route 62 East) in Beverly.
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Ex-Orange CEO pushes developing world broadband
Sanjiv Ahuja left his role as CEO of Orange, the mobile phone and Internet access subsidiary of France Télécom, last year in order to seek a new challenge. With his new company Augere, he is now focused on rolling out broadband Internet access in parts of the world where penetration today is almost nonexistent -- and sees a need for desktop, not laptop, computers in developing countries. ...
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Gunning for the 'Gaptop'
Consumers love notebook PCs and cell phones. Will they now love a middle child?
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db4o Open Source Object-Oriented Database Supports LINQ
db4objects has announced that its db4o object database is now optimized for Microsoft's LINQ. With the new support, developers can choose an object-oriented optimized engine without changing the API or compromising performance. db4object's db4o database offers a persistence solution to store objects of any complexity natively with a single line of code.
SYS-CON Media |
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Government Computer News
The Environmental Protection Agency is working to develop an Energy Star rating system for data centers. The problem is the agency doesn’t have any data on which to base recommendations. So EPA is asking public and private data center operators to submit energy data for the effort.
Government Computer News |
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Government Computer News
They're small and easy to create. They multiply like rabbits. The best become immensely popular very quickly and are forgotten just as fast. And they are changing the face of application development.
Government Computer News |
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SOA Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014
Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. According to the report, IBM is the de-facto industry standard market leader in SOA. IBM dominates SOA with 64% of the market, the rest of market is divided between 12 other participants with measurable market share, ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Current Newswire:
" I heard two different computer industry executives make the following comments. One is, how do you have a software industry if there's open source? And the other is, open source lowers revenues for everybody. How would you respond to those?
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Hiring the Wrong IT Staff to Achieve Your Goals?
Are you having problems with alignment? Is your IT staff unable to provide the business with the support it needs? Does it seem like your IT staff just doesn't understand the business? Perhaps they don't.
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Earnings roundup: Sprint Nextel, Gerdau Ameristeel
Among the earnings stories for Monday, May 12, from AP Financial News: Top stories: OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday it had a larger first-quarter deficit as revenue fell, it lost more than a million subscribers and it absorbed charges for severance and other costs.
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