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Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off
Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience. WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft's research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space...
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Goal is to get laptops to school kids
Thousands of South Carolina children have limited access to computers, but education officials hope to change that through a statewide campaign launched Monday. The goal of the One Laptop per Child/South Carolina initiative is to put laptop computers in the hands of elementary-age students statewide.
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On the Web
To learn more about One Laptop per Child/South Carolina, go to www.onelaptopsc.org. ...
The Post and Courier |
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HP has eye on IBM as it discusses EDS acquisition
Having seized the lead in personal computer sales worldwide, Hewlett-Packard Co. is stalking the technology services market for its next conquest.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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Logged in: Basbeall title comes to Elon
ELON -- Give some members of the Elon University baseball team a couple of weekend nights off and they turn into computer geeks. And champions. "We were watching Game Tracker all weekend," senior second baseman Donny Jobe said Monday, referring to on-line accounts of Southern Conference games.
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Broadband Content Bits: Microsoft; Oprah-XM; Complex Media; Few Get Their TV Online: Poll
-- Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launches video on Messenger Users will now be able to watch video clips with their network of friends while chatting via Windows Live Messenger, reports Reuters. Messenger TV will offer content from MSN Video including MTV shows and music clips from providers such as Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG. Launched in 20 countries, including many European countries, New Zealand, ...
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Special Report: The Newest Breed of Bully, the Cyberbully
Imagine getting harassed online by someone you may not even know. It's not something anyone wants to go through. Sam Provenzano joins us with a "Special Assignment" on how today's teens are being bullied in a new way.
WBKO Bowling Green |
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Tencent Shares Rise on Inclusion in Hang Seng Index (Update1)
May 13 (Bloomberg) -- Tencent Holdings Ltd. , China's biggest provider of Internet-chat services, rose to a four-month high in Hong Kong trading after the stock was named for inclusion in the city's benchmark Hang Seng Index.
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Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off
Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience. WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft's research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Computer users can browse through the galaxy on their ...
The State |
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope blasts off
Mon, May 12, 2008 (9:22 p.m.) Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.
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HP has eye on IBM as it discusses EDS acquisition
Mon, May 12, 2008 (9:22 p.m.) Having seized the lead in personal computer sales worldwide, Hewlett-Packard Co. is stalking the technology services market for its next conquest.
Las Vegas Sun |
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HP in 'advanced discussions' to buy EDS
Hewlett-Packard Co said it is in advanced discussions with Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) regarding a possible tie-up involving the two companies.
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BlackBerry creator makes Bold move
Research In Motion unveiled the latest version of its BlackBerry on Monday, with enhancements aimed at protecting the popular device’s market share against competitors such as Apple’s iPhone. Called the BlackBerry Bold, the new device: • Runs on high-speed 3G wireless networks that carriers are rolling out to handle media-rich features. • Has added processing power, which allows it to run ...
The State |
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Online stores sell out of Apple iPhone
Apple says its online stores in the United States and United Kingdom are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device’s next generation that will feature faster Internet surfing speeds. The company has confirmed that the iPhone is out of stock online, but added that brick-and-mortar stores run by Apple and iPhone carriers including AT&T still might ...
The State |
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Gates picks Microsoft chief to run his charity
Bill Gates consolidated the role of Microsoft in his philanthropic activities on Monday by making a top executive from the software company head of his $37bn foundation.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Jul 2005 12:01 UTC
Microsoft surprised many of the attendees at its annual worldwide partner show here this weekend by allowing a third party to present a "hands-on lab" that allowed attendees to play with a range of Linux desktop software.
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into the GNU General Public License
Sun has talked a lot about putting Java into an open-source license. Now it's ready to move. The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile and standard editions of the Java platform , with the Java Enterprise Edition and GlassFish reference implementation (currently open-sourced under Sun's Common Development and Distribution License, or CDDL) to follow, several industry ...
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Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it.
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Ed Zore Reconciles Prudence and Opportunism in Northwestern Mutual’s Technology Investment By Anthony O'Donnell
Northwestern Mutual CEO Ed Zore applies a test of relevance to technologies, which has allowed the carrier to exercise healthy skepticism of dot-com promises while being a leader in social networking technologies in support of the carrier’s relationship-based sales model.
Finance Technology Network |
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Fedora 9: Linux Desktop Alive and Well at Red Hat
Latest Red Hat community release offers users new features that will help both server and desktop users.
InternetNews.com |
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Gang intimidation blamed for young girl's death
TRENTON -- Ten-year-old Qua-Daishai Hopkins wasn't a threat to anyone. She was a cheerful, straight-A fourth-grader at Trenton's P.J. Hill Elementary School who loved computers and joked that her favorite subject in school was lunch.
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High Growth Forecasted for the Mobile search 2008-2013: Profiting From Information and Advertising on the Move
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Wireless industry is available in its catalogue.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Buena Vista University
Cited among Yahoo's Top 10 Most Wired Small Campuses, Buena Vista University is a leader in technology and distance learning for higher education.
BellaOnline |
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Office Party Survival Guide
Make a good impression with our office party survival guide Have you heard the one about the computer technician who inadvertently insulted his supervisor’s wife at the office party? He was fired the next day for “low productivity.”
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Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
Google joins the data portability crowd with 'Friend Connect' allowing users to bring their data from social networks. The programming-free network is said to even incorporate Web sites that are not socially-enabled.
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