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EarthLink's Wi-Fi network folds in Philadelphia
EarthLink Inc. is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in...
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ARM Enables Rapid Deployment Of Microsoft Windows Embedded CE On ARM Processors With RealView ICE
ARM recently announced that working in collaboration with Microsoft, the ARM RealView ICE tool, a member of the RealView family of development tools, will enable enhanced hardware-assisted debug for the Microsoft Visual Studio software development tool
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Analysis: Cybercrooks get credit card data
by Shaun Waterman Washington (UPI) May 13, 2008 Three men who hacked into the cash register network of the Dave and Busters restaurant chain and stole its customers' credit card data face federal fraud and conspiracy charges in documents unsealed by U.S. prosecutors Monday.
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Softball: Most teams aren't worried about state tournament opponents
Kittatinny coach Heather Mate has no plans to be chained to her computer Thursday, frantically clicking the refresh button on her internet browser. She'll check for her team's seeding in the North I, Group II sectional once that night. If it isn't available, she prefers to wait until Friday morning.
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Facebook Releases Site in Polish
Facebook today announced another step towards enabling anyone in the world to communicate and share information with the people they know, regardless where they live or what language they speak, by releasing the site in Polish.
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Study Finds Software Piracy Falling in Many Countries, but Challenge Shifting to Emerging, High-Growth Markets
WASHINGTON----Although piracy of software on personal computers declined in many countries in 2007, fast growing PC markets in some of the world's highest piracy nations caused overall numbers to worsen--a trend that is expected to continue.
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'Twitters' beat media in reporting China earthquake
SAN FRANCISCO--The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what was being touted Tuesday as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news.
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Giant Cell phones are the new Trend in Korea
We all look to Korea to see what the future in mobile phones is. Now the latest trend seems to be going towards huge cell phones that are bigger than notebooks. Yes, of course this is not true, there are no giant cell phones in our future. Korean SK T...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 29th Oct 2006 06:00 UTC
"Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface (API) was first introduced in 1995. DirectX was designed to make life easier for software developers by providing a standard platform developers could use to easily make multimedia software and game programming for the Windows Platform."
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Recent Original Stories
Engadget posted a batch of old BBS entries from 1985 . Some quotes: "We still think this Macintosh thing is an overrated, underpowered poor stepchild to the Lisa." On Microsoft: "We don't really know how they think they can take on the Macintosh user interface, though, so don't be surprised if the little Arizona startup that could, well, can't."
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Jumsoft offers Aperture Web Themes, Pages Templates 2
Jumsoft has recently released new Aperture Web Themes and Pages Templates 2.0 for iWork, which includes 40 high-quality and professional templates. The new Aperture themes include five separate designs: The Frames Gray Theme produces pictures that have a photo frame, with shadows that imitate the real 3D look of the photo; Grid Black Theme offers a...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Dec 2005 11:29 UTC
Microsoft is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine.
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Facebook's New Friends Abroad
The social network is adding more language capability, further proof that growth outside the U.S. is vital for Facebook and MySpace
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MySpace wins $234 million antispam judgment
So-called spam king Sanford Wallace is on the losing end of what is believed to be the largest award ever under the Can-Spam Act.
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National Business Briefs
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has purchased a 50 million-share stake in Yahoo and is considering a proxy battle to unseat at least part of the internet titan's board, a person familiar with the situation told the Wall Street Journal, which reported the news on its website late yesterday.
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Bigger Clothing Options Available for Shorter Men
Specialty stores and the Internet have made it easier for men under 5 feet 8 inches to find clothing that fits them
BusinessWeek |
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HP risks recent gains on latest merger
SAN FRANCISCO -- Riding a hot streak that has doubled its stock price in the past three years, Hewlett-Packard is rolling the dice on a $13.2 billion acquisition of technology services provider Electronic Data Systems.
The Star-Ledger |
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Emergency officials take on Internet threats
ATLANTA - Add Internet dangers to the list of possible calamities to which state emergency officials are training Georgians to respond.
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MySpace wins $230 million anti-spam judgment
(AP:NEW YORK) A notorious "Spam King" and his partner now owe MySpace about $230 million in damages after a federal judge awarded the popular online hangout what is believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment ever.
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New software opens up online world to the blind
Microsoft is helping to launch new software that will make it much easier to create documents accessible to blind and print-disabled people.
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EDS to cut jobs, stay in Plano under Hewlett-Packard
Even though Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp., EDS isn't going to disappear in a $13.9 billion puff of smoke. H-P's outsourcing division will be renamed "EDS – an HP company" and EDS will remain headquartered at its offices in Plano.
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"The first time I played with Zenity, I recognized several potential uses for it. While I'm pretty comfortable with interacting with computers with a command line interface, I know many people are not. Zenity creates GUI widgets from a simple command line and can be used from any shell script.
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Record-searching expected to take big bite on crime
Law-enforcement officials announced an information-sharing program yesterday that will allow investigators to search crime and incident records in other jurisdictions and agencies. The N.C. Law Enforcement Information Exchange, known as LInK, is similar to the Google search engine, and is searchable by key words. It will be up and running by mid-July, organizers said. "This system will make as ...
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NCAA lax, late to act on Mayo
Myles Brand announced Tuesday that the NCAA has "new information" on the recruitment, purchase and pimping of O.J. Mayo. So do we. It's called cable television, because ESPN made a deal out of it last weekend. It's also called the Internet, because...
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Mercury Computer Systems Unveils Ultra-Compact Rugged Computer That Puts More Than 100 GFLOPS Of Processing Power In ...
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. , a leading provider of specialized, high-performance computing solutions for complex applications, unveiled its smallest embedded system yesterday at an exclusive event in conjunction with the Critical Embedded Systems (CES) MediaFest 2008, which commenced recently at the Hilton Scottsdale Resort and Villas in Scottsdale, AZ
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