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Asus speaks out on UK Eee PC 900 battery issue
Caveat emptor Asus today offered little solace for British Eee PC 900 buyers who've found that the machine packs a lower-capacity battery here than it does in some other countries.…
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'Indiana Jones' and the computer-generated jungle
(AP) -- In these hallowed halls, Indiana Jones almost seems out of place. A banner with a two-dimensional cutout of the swashbuckling archaeologist swings through the lobby of Industrial Light and Magic, where life-size replicas of Darth Vader and Bobba Fett from "Star Wars" stand guard.
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Child porn images seized
A 68-year-old Barrie man is facing child porn charges after a month-long investigation resulted in his arrest Tuesday. Investigators with Ontario Provincial Police's Child Sexual Exploitation Section (Project "P"), in conjunction with Barrie police, executed a search warrant on a residence and seized one desktop computer, a digital camera and [...]
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Check Point offers secure virtual browser
ForceField isolates Internet from OS. Check Point has plans to develop an enterprise edition of a new browser sandbox that protects computers from Internet-borne attacks.
TechWorld |
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Yahoo brings paid-search to Philippines
Internet company unveils sponsored-search service, Panama, in the country and promises to deliver localized content for the domestic market. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
ZDNet Asia |
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New Kids On The Block Are Rock?
"Must every rock band reunite?," AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen asked in a feature story on Yahoo News Wednesday which was accompanied by a photo of middle-aged boyband popsters New Kids on the Block.
antiMUSIC |
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Cisco patches routers following SANS warning
New exploits could be on the way Cisco has issued three security patches, fixing bugs that could crash its products and drawing a warning from the SANS Internet Storm Center.
PC Advisor |
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Diesel-tainted creek water at toxic levels, cleaning could take weeks
Category: Local News Topics: (none) The water in Hacker Creek is still at toxic levels and clean-up crews don’t have an expected finish date following last week’s discovery of a spilled diesel tank authorities believe was used for a marijuana grow operation, a news release stated.
The Eureka Reporter |
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Microsoft Live Search Engine To Offer Cash Back To Shoppers
Microsoft is seeking to challenge Google's dominance of web searches by paying people who use their revamped search engine for shopping.
SKY News |
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Let Dad Customize His Father's Day Gift with chumby!
SAN DIEGO, BUSINESS WIRE -- If you're looking for unique, user-friendly products for Father's Day gift guides this year, consider the chumby. The recently launched chumby device allows Dad to spend time with his family at home while staying connected to his Internet life.
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Russia's Internet portal Mail.ru set for IPO - paper
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Internet company Mail.ru is preparing to hold an initial public offering and hopes to place shares in advance of Russian web search engine Yandex, business daily Vedomosti reported on Thursday.
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Open-Source File Format Is to Be a Part of Microsoft Office
Under pressure from European regulators and others, Microsoft is to say it will give customers the ability to use documents in Open Document Format — the main rival to the Microsoft Word format.
The Hendersonville Times-News |
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IT companies now largest sector in S&P 500
Posted: May. 21 4:41 p.m. Updated: 13 minutes ago NEW YORK — Is the Internet boom back? No, but information technology companies have again overtaken the financial industry as the largest sector in the S&P 500 index, Standard & Poor's said Wednesday.
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Hotel Doorman More Reliable Than Google Maps Mobile informationweek.com
As I was preparing to leave Chicago today, I needed to find the nearest subway stop to my hotel. I fired up Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps Mobile on my phone and attempted to find one. Let's just say that the charming locals working the doors of Chicago's finest hotels outperformed Google Maps.
Hospitality Net |
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Review: Netflix delivers Internet movies to TV
NEW YORK — It's the big horse race in the gadget market this year: Who's going to win consumers' hearts with a box that brings Internet movie downloads to the TV set? Now, we have a tiny box that deserves to be a winner.
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Web 2.0, Demystifying The Newest "It" Term
It seems like the new "it" word in the business world whether you are in travel and tourism or other industries is Web 2.0. This mysterious term that is used as a topic of conversation, discussion, and debate, is rarely defined or explained in a manner that one can understand and/or put to use.
Hospitality Net |
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Microsoft Offers Rebates to Shoppers Using Its Search
Microsoft is taking a new approach to jump-starting its search engine: offering rebates to people who use it to find and buy some products.
The Tuscaloosa News |
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June 2 the deadline for permit applications
The deadline to apply for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks' special license drawings for elk, deer and antelope licenses and special permits is June 2. Hunters can apply in minutes for special big-game hunting permits and licenses on the Internet by g ...
Billings Gazette |
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Getting the Light Switches of the World to Chat Amongst Themselves
ARM Holdings, a company that designs microprocessors, wants to add processing power and wireless communication to objects ranging from refrigerators to light switches.
The Hendersonville Times-News |
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Lenovo Profit Beats Estimates on Europe, Asset Sale (Update1)
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Lenovo Group Ltd. , China's biggest maker of personal computers, reported profit that beat analysts' estimates on increased sales in Europe and a one-time gain from selling its mobile-phone unit.
Bloomberg.com |
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Recent Original Stories
"InformationWeek recently interviewed Bill Hilf , Microsoft's leading light on open source issues. Since coming to Microsoft from IBM in 2003, Hilf has been inextricably involved with Microsoft's strategy for dealing with Linux.
OS News |
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Flash Survivor protects those photos, maps
Though outdoorsy types might pretend otherwise, we live in a digital world. Photos, maps, documents, trail guides and GPS coordinates now by and large reside as virtual media, just zeros and ones of binary code, magnetic blips on a disk or a drive som ...
Billings Gazette |
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Recent Original Stories
In a recent interview with the online edition of the Austrian daily Newspaper Der Standard, Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for a cooperation between Mono and Microsoft's .Net : "I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration."
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Recent Original Stories
Google has released a new tool which allows users to synchronize their Cookies, Saved Passwords, Bookmarks, History and tabs from their last session for the Firefox web browser.
New Mobile Computing |
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Cybercrime to surpass drugs
It's not nearly as visible or tangible as a bank robbery or gangland shooting but the profits of fast-growing cybercrime are on their way to overtaking what crooks glean in the drug trade, says Calgary police Chief Rick Hanson.
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