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AMD Introduces Energy-Efficient Server Chips
Advanced Micro Devices has taken the wraps off its first energy-efficient x86 server chips featuring four processing cores and a low 55-watt thermal envelope. The five new Opteron HE processors for blade and rack systems are all targeted at the enterprise data center, noted Randy Allen, AMD's server and workstation division manager. "These new processors, which feature AMD's advanced power ...
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Macbook User Helps Collar Laptop Thieves
When thieves broke into an apartment and made off with over $5,000 in electronics and other items, the victims probably thought they would never see their items again. What the thieves weren't counting on however was that one of the purloined items was a Mac laptop and its owner, Kait Duplaga, was an Apple store employee. After a friend called her up after the burglary to report her machine ...
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Research In Motion to Start Selling Faster BlackBerry (Update2)
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd. introduced a BlackBerry phone with quicker Web browsing and more room for songs and videos, getting a jump on a faster iPhone that analysts expect next month.
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For many, texting replaces talking
Before Keith Snoop leaves his Marion home for work early in the morning, he logs onto his computer and sends his sleeping wife, Angela, an e-mail letting her know when he may be home and what he’s got going on in the day. Later, when Angela Snoop reads the e-mail, she’ll reply with any updates she may have or schedule changes for the couple’s two boys. If there’s something they need to talk ...
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Montreal police search home of man arrested on sex charges
Montreal police have searched the home of Richard Doucet, a teacher at an exclusive Montreal private boy’s school, as he continues to be investigated for allegedly distributing child pornography and attempting to lure a minor over the Internet.
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iMac makes me mad
Apple can be infuriating at times. Take the new iMac. It is, without doubt, the most stylish desktop computer you can buy. It's no slouch either, starting at 2.4GHz and powering up to 3.06GHz with up to 4GB of RAM it's the next Mac on my personal shopping list.
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Eye-Fi introduces new products
Eye-Fi on Monday announced the expansion of their product line up to include a new memory cards that add geolocation tags, simplify sharing online and to share files at home. All of the new products are Mac and PC-compatible.
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Lift off coming soon
On May 12, after a months-long countdown, the students of the Richmond Hill One Stop Community Center’s Computer Technology and Videoconferencing Program will finally get their chance to “downlink,” or videoconference live, with American astronaut Garrett Reisman aboard the International Space Station (ISS). After nearly half a year of arduous training, the students’ curiosity is piqued.
Queens Courier |
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Changing Economic Conditions Destabilize World Food Supply
The globe’s worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America’s great grain exchanges. At first, it seemed like little more than a bout of bad weather.
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Behold Auckland's beauty - and the beast (+photos)
Nothing is so horrendous that a lick of paint won't soon fix it, the manager of Auckland's worst building reckons. Yesterday, Trish Miles was soaking up the ignominious honour awarded by an online survey of 2500 people to find the city's best and worst buildings.
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Windows XP SP3 update causing endless reboots in AMD machines
An issue with how the Service Pack 3 update handles AMD chips will cause some Windows XP computers to continuously reboot. Microsoft says it is investigating.
BetaNews |
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TMO Appearances - TMO's Dave Hamilton to Speak at Seacoast MUG
TMO's Mac Geek Gab host Dave Hamilton will be speaking at the Seacoast MUG in Rye, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, May 13. Dave will be presenting his "Running Your Mac Lean, Clean & Mean" session from Macworld Expo 2008 in a more personal setting. Additional information about the Seacoast Mac User Group is available at the group's Web site
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TMO Appearances - TMO's Dave Hamilton to Speak at Seacoast MUG
TMO's Mac Geek Gab host Dave Hamilton will be speaking at the Seacoast MUG in Rye, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, May 13. Dave will be presenting his "Running Your Mac Lean, Clean & Mean" session from Macworld Expo 2008 in a more personal setting. Additional information about the Seacoast Mac User Group is available at the group's Web site .
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Northern police forces fit education laptops with tracking devices
Janie Davies, Computing , Monday 12 May 2008 at 17:25:00 Real time tracking will pinpoint the location of stolen laptops in the north of England West Yorkshire and Merseyside police forces are distributing laptop tracking technology to teachers and pupils. The Security Guardian devices, from tracking supplier ExactTrak, have been developed in consultation with several... > ...
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Border delays the result of computer glitch
A computer glitch was the cause of nationwide delays at U.S. border crossings on Monday morning, says U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Windsor Star |
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Washington DC
FAIRFAX, Va. ( Map ) - FAIRFAX, Va. , May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a five-year, $27 million contract for performance-based logistics support of mission computers in Navy F/A-18 Hornet and AV-8B Harrier aircraft.
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Another Laptop Stolen from Pfizer, Employee Information Compromised
About 13,000 employees at Pfizer Inc., including about 5,000 from Connecticut, had their personal information compromised when a company laptop and flash drive were stolen,
New London Day |
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How To Protect Your Laptop From Prying Eyes With a Privacy Filter
While attending the RSA Conference show last month in San Francisco, we met a lot of people and talked with a number of companies. We brought home a large list of gadgets, mainly different security-ce...
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Montreal police search home of man arrested on sex charges
MONTREAL — Montreal police have searched the home of Richard Doucet, a teacher at an exclusive Montreal private boy’s school, as he continues to be investigated for allegedly distributing child pornography and attempting to lure a minor over the Internet.
GlobalTV Ontario |
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Is Your Computer Slower Than When You Bought It?
(ARA) - Is your PC slower now than when you bought it? Do you get error messages when you try to un-install software? Do you have desktop icons that aren't working?
Carteret County News-Times |
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AMD Introduces Energy-Efficient Server Chips
Advanced Micro Devices has taken the wraps off its first energy-efficient x86 server chips featuring four processing cores and a low 55-watt thermal envelope. The five new Opteron HE processors for blade and rack systems are all targeted at the enterprise data center, noted Randy Allen, AMD's server and workstation division manager.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
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How to survive your teenager: The Internet and your teen
Raising a teen? Here's some advice on your teen's internet usage from the book "How to Survive Your Teenager" (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $13.95), straight from people who've done it:
Centre Daily Times |
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Fortune 's Stanley Bing: Stupid People of 2008 #241: "Postcard" Malware Hoaxers
I understand the purveyors of malware, sort of, the same way I get why people spraypaint walls or put chewing gum where people can step...
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Music industry hopes upgrades boost mobile sector
Perhaps no single device has had more impact on mobile music than Apple's iPhone. While only 6.7 percent of overall mobile customers use their phone to listen to music, rising to 27.9 percent for smartphone users, a full 74.1 percent of iPhone owners reported using the device as an MP3 player, according to M:Metrics. According to Reuters reports, the majority of this music, however, is ...
Moldova.org |
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Android Developer Challenge Award Goes to HandWx(TM) Location-Based Mobile Weather Application
Pinpoint Forecasts and High Resolution Radar Promise "Follow Me" Weather for Millions of Mobile Users (PRWeb May 12, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Google/Android/prweb936134.htm
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