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Recent Original Stories
Read Write Web has an interesting article on the concept of the contextual user interface. A contextual user interface - as the name implies - is an interface which adapts to the current wishes of its users, the context.
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Exclusive: Command vessel USS Mount Whitney posted opposite Lebanon
DEBKA file ’s military sources report that Saturday, May 17, the USS Mount Whitney , considered the US Navy’s most advanced command, control, communications, computer and intelligence vessel, took up position opposite Lebanese shores for an “unscheduled mission.”
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20% of U.S. Has Never Sent E-mail
A survey finds that almost a third of households get along fine without Internet access.
PC World |
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Low-cost laptops to get XP
The One Laptop Per Child project will install Windows XP on its low-cost laptops for students in developing countries, according to a joint announcement.
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Cut the chatter - my ears are ringing
If you were to Google search the words 'sports controversies' a lot of material would be brought up on your screen. The sad part about this isn't the fact that there is much controversy in sports, but rather, the type of controversy that exists.
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Future looks bright for Dayton students
DAYTON -A salesman offers to give you your own laptop if you influence your company to buy its computers from him. What do you do? That's one of the questions Dayton High School students Vikkye Fetters and David Nygren considered during the Oregon Future Business Leaders of America conference.
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The Mac Guy: Dial-up user seeks modem for iMac
Hey Mac Guy: I read your column on Mac computers and just purchased an iMac.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Jan 2007 23:16 UTC
Two new important ports to MINIX3 have been released . First and foremost, the Equinox Desktop Environment : "Equinox Desktop Environment (shortly EDE) is small desktop environment, built to be simple and fast. It is based on modified FLTK library (called extended FLTK or just eFLTK).
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Spain arrests 5 suspected of hacking US sites
By DANIEL WOOLLS MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of hacking into or outright disabling thousands of Internet pages, some of them run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, authorities said Saturday.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Review (Best. Notebook. Ever.)
We can't keep it. Our eval loan has run out and we have to return this Lenovo ThinkPad X300 review unit next week. But that's all right. We'll find a way. We can follow it back to Lenovo's address in North Carolina. We can stalk it. Someday it'll be in our arms again and we can tell it how we feel.
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5 computer hackers arrested in Spain, accused of disabling gov't Web pages
Spanish police have arrested five young computer hackers who allegedly disabled Internet pages run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia.
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A Brief History of AJAX
On April 30, 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free for anyone to use and the Web took off, jumping from 130 Web sites in 1993, to over 100,000 in 1996, to 11.5 billion sites in 2005. The main protocol used on the Web is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It's a patented open Internet request/response protocol intended to publish and receive HTML pages.
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Recent Original Stories
Mandriva has made a formal statement of its position regarding the recent Microsoft deals by other Linux vendors. "Up to now, there has been absolutely no hard evidence from any of the FUD propagators that Linux and open source applications are in breach of any patents.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st Oct 2007 20:06 UTC
"A new trojan horse designed specifically for Mac OS X systems has been discovered on several pornography websites that can hijack Web traffic, according to security firm Intego.
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Couple plans to broadcast wedding on Internet radio
MONCTON, N.B. -- While most grooms spend the day before their wedding double-checking their tuxedo, Serge Cormier was making sure his radio cables were in good working order.
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South Burlington officials probe Facebook threat
Associated Press - May 17, 2008 10:35 AM ET SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Police and school officials in South Burlington are continuing to investigate a threat made on the Internet social...
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Computer, television collection coming up
The Ottawa-Sandusky-Seneca Joint Solid Waste District is sponsoring a computer and television recycling collection Saturday, May 31. The event is open to Ottawa, Sandusky and Seneca County residents. This includes all residents in Bellevue and Fostoria. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to noon at the following locations:
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Jan 2008 23:05 UTC
Lenovo is undertaking an Olympic-size effort to establish itself as a consumer PC brand . The Chinese PC maker has found great success with the iconic ThinkPad brand of commercial laptops, a business it purchased from IBM. And now it's taking the world stage with a new line of consumer-focused notebooks called IdeaPad.
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Recent Original Stories
"All software has security defects," insists Michael Howard, senior security program manager at Microsoft. "You either do something about it, or you don't."
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South Burlington officials probe Facebook threat
Police and school officials in South Burlington are continuing to investigate a threat made on the Internet social networking site, but say they believe it was a false alarm.
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Divorces
Final divorce applications filed with the clerk of the circuit court in Bartow for the period of Feb. 1 29, 2008.McDaniels, Lurel Dell from WilliamMiller, Debbie from Charles LewisRodriguez, Maribelle from AlfredDionne, Michelle Kaiser from Peter CharlesMelton, Susan Victoria from Doyle Wayne
The Lakeland Ledger |
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The iPhone connection
A VIBRANT ecosystem of hackers, software developers and accessory retailers has sprung up to support a growing Apple iPhone user base in Singapore. This is amazing, given that the most talked-about cellphone is not even officially available here yet.
Straits Times |
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CBS to buy CNET, boost Internet presence
CBS has announced plans to buy Internet news and entertainment firm CNET Networks for $1,8-billion in cash.
Independent Online |
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Spain arrests 5 suspected of hacking US sites
Sat, May 17, 2008 (7:27 a.m.) Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of hacking into or outright disabling thousands of Internet pages, some of them run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, authorities said Saturday.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Washington DC
MADRID, Spain ( Map , News ) - Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of hacking into or outright disabling thousands of Internet pages, some of them run by government agencies in the U.S.
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