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Nix pen, paper; 'Crosswords DS' crosses over to computers
If you have ever aspired to doing The New York Times crossword puzzle in one sitting, a new video game may be able to help you attain your dream. "Crosswords DS" packs more than 1,000 crosswords into the hand-held Nintendo DS, offering the puzzles on four levels of difficulty.
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Reading, writing and recycling
To help curb the growing number of waste contributed by bottled water- and soda-drinkers at the schools, Madison County Recycling this year began providing bins for recycled plastic bottles and Highland Recycling agreed to pick up recycled plastic at schools. Plastic is an enormous source of waste along with the cardboard.
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Missing BlackBerry Surfaces
EXCLUSIVE: A couple shows 10 Investigates what appears to be the wireless device that had been reported stolen and is being sought by those investigating former attorney general Marc Dann.
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O'Fallon Wireless installation complete
On May 6, Fenton-based Network 1 Communications commemorated the rollout of its wireless network, O'Fallon Wireless, with a wire- and ribbon-cutting ceremony at O'Fallon City Hall.
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Features and Case Studies
Nicholas Negroponte is a man on a mission. As Chairman of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), he has big plans ahead of him: to help eliminate poverty through education, via US$100 laptops distributed to the world's poorest children.
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Charting the Tribe:
n ON DECK — Cleveland Indians at Chicago White Sox.n WHEN/WHERE — Tuesday, 8:11 p.m., U.S. Cellular Field.n TV/RADIO — STO; WFUN (AM-970).n ON THE MOUND — Right-hander Paul Byrd (2-3, 3.61) for Cleveland; right-hander Javier Vasquez (4-3, 2.53) for Chicago.n TRIBE INJURIES — OF Shin-Soo Choo (left elbow), RHP Joe Borowski (right triceps), RHP Jake Westbrook (left side) on the DL.n NOTEBOOK — The ...
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Appleton library construction to start in May
APPLETON — After more than five years of planning, construction on the new library is set to begin.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Jul 2007 22:45 UTC
Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to the desktop . Building on its co-founder Bill Gates' vision of a PC on every desk in every home, Microsoft will continue to focus on delivering desktop products.
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StoredIQ Information Management Platform Now Available Through EMC Select
StoredIQ Inc., a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management technologies, recently announced that its StoredIQ appliance is now available through EMC Select. Customers can purchase the StoredIQ appliance directly from EMC as part of the EMC eDiscovery Solution for Collection.
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Living computers best left Open Source, researcher says
Researchers are making headway in creating computers from genetically altered bacteria -- but don’t expect to see these “living computers” in the enterprise anytime soon.
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State hopes to increase access to high-speed Internet
A commission looks for areas lacking in service as a first step in an effort to bring broadband to most of Washington.
Everett Herald |
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Seagate Momentus comes to Dell laptops
Dell has become the first PC manufacturer to ship systems using Seagate's Momentus 7200.3 hard drive, which the vendor claims is the industry's first 7,200rpm 320GB hard drive for mobile computing..
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Telstra launches $0 laptop broadband bundles
Telstra is taking aim at cash-strapped small business owners with the launch of $0 upfront laptop packages that come bundled with the telco’s Next G broadband service.
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IBM takes pulse of green plans
IBM has used its Pulse conference in Orlando to make a number of announcements, ranging from new green ambitions to new systems management tools.
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Current Newswire:
"Draw is probably the most under-estimated of the OpenOffice.org applications. Either users seem to expect it to be equivalent to the GIMP or Visio, or they fail to see its desktop publishing possibilities--but in all cases they are disappointed.
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Courts test sound-recognition software
Prague, May 20 (CTK) - Czech courts are testing a new computer programme enabling to transcribe sound recordings from court proceedings into a written form, said Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil who presented the programme at the 79th Zofin forum Tuesday.
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Chambersburg's fourth- and fifth-graders learn how to safely surf the Web
The benefits of the Internet are numerous, but today's youth should be knowledgeable about the dangerous aspects of using the Internet as summer nears and time at home -- on the computer -- is bound to increase.
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Gas prices continue overnight increases
El Paso's average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline rose 1.4 cents overnight and set a record high at $3.648 on Monday morning, according to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report Web site.
El Paso Times |
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UQ strengthens business continuity planning with new data centre
UQ has opened a new data centre to better protect its most important computer systems, and has set a new standard in data centre design in the process.
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TVA: Vulnerable to Cyberattack
The GAO says the Tennessee Valley Authority must bolster its cybersecurity, citing risk that the power company's critical ops could be hacked
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Recent Original Stories
"Intel was surprisingly talkative when it came to future technologies and products this year. As a result, most of the technical audience is up to date regarding the upcoming micro architecture based on the 65 nm Merom design.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Aug 2007 22:10 UTC, submitted by anonymous
It is not too surprising that Ubuntu came in first in DesktopLinux.com's 2007 Desktop Linux Market Survey , or that Firefox was the topmost browser by far.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd May 2007 23:26 UTC
It's the original UMPC : Epson's HX-20, announced in 1981 - 25 years before Intel and Microsoft formally launched the ultra-mobile PC category, in April 2006. Epson's machine wasn't the first portable computer - that honour goes to the Osborne 1. But while the Osborne was a beast of a machine, designed more as a desktop you could take from place to place, the HX-20 was a truly a system for ...
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WCIT 2008: Cerf on surfing
KUALA LUMPUR : People will be living lives on the Internet in about three decades, said Google’s chief Internet evangelist Dr Vinton Cerf, who is also one of the Web’s founding fathers.
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Troops send greetings through Internet
With modern warfare comes modern communications. Gone are the days when letters were the only way soldiers could send news back home. Now, the choice is e-mail.
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