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Forrester's IT Forum Concludes With Attendance Up Nearly Twenty Percent
LAS VEGAS----Forrester Research, Inc. announced today that more than 1,400 IT and business professionals -- spanning organizational roles such as CIO, Information & Knowledge Management professionals, Application Development & Program Management professionals, Technology Product Management & Marketing professionals, and Enterprise Architecture professionals -- attended Forrester's IT Forum at ...
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St. James schools changes to new phones, adding technology and saving money
LUTCHER, LA – The St. James Parish School Board is changing the phone systems by implementing the new Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) system.
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New Internet icons lift Silicon Valley from skepticism
"Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham. 294 pages. $26), by Sarah Lacy: Silicon Valley, that high-tech hub of innovation and occasional hubris, is rising again, driven by a new generation of idea men who learned from the dot-com crash or came of age after it.
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Under the name Sun ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office, Sun has released its import/export filter for the OpenDocument format , which the ISO has recognized as a standard, for versions 2000, XP, and 2003 of Microsoft's Office suite; the plug-in can be downloaded via our software repository.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th May 2006 10:06 UTC, submitted by Mica Schunarez
A top Microsoft engineer has thrown out a weekend challenge to the Windows Vista team: find and fix a bug in the current code and earn US$100. The employee who installs the latest Vista build at home and squashes the most bugs before Monday will get an extra US$500. Brian Valentine issued the challenge Friday in an e-mail to members of the team working on Vista, the next update of the company's ...
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Microsoft Office's ODF support might change the EC's mind
Given the fact that the next changes to Microsoft Office will enable consumers to choose which native format it uses, the European Commission may find itself with no alternative but to reconsider its investigation into unfair competition allegations.
BetaNews |
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Piper Jaffray Analyst Forecasts WWDC Keynote
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has posted a note to investors on Friday about what to expect from Steve Jobs during his WWDC keynote address on June 9th: an iPhone 3G, but otherwise looking the same, and possibly new MacBooks
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 13th Aug 2005 20:24 UTC
GTK+ 2.8.0 has been released . You can download it from here , and read the release notes here . GTK+ 2.8.0 depends on the Cairo vector graphics library for rendering most of the GTK+ widgets, bringing graphics capabilities as antialiased shapes, alpha blending, and gradients.
New Mobile Computing |
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Yahoo buy not a strategy in itself: Microsoft CEO
MOSCOW, May 23 (Reuters) Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Friday that buying Yahoo was not a strategy in itself, and dropping the bid meant it now had $50 billion to spend on other acquisitions.
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Yahoo Postpones Shareholder Meeting to Get Its Ducks in a Row
Yahoo has postponed its annual shareholders' meeting, which had been originally scheduled to take place on July 3. Now, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, that meeting will take place at the end of July in order to give regulators time to review paperwork related to the proxy challenge one of its shareholders has launched.
E-Commerce Times |
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Yahoo Battles with Icahn
Yahoo Inc. on Thursday postponed a looming showdown for control of its board, giving itself more time to prepare a defense - or negotiate a sale to Microsoft Corp. that would cause activist investor Carl Icahn to call off the mutiny
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The Future of the Web: An Old-Fashioned Debate With a Social Media Twist
On June 11, leading authorities on the World Wide Web will gather at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for an old-fashioned debate with a social media twist. The questions for discussion will be shaped and selected by the collective wisdom of Web users from around the world.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News |
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Got Bell's Number
To the casual net surfer it might seem that Bell’s newly launched online video store is just another way the telecommunications giant is competing with rampant P2P file-sharers.
Torontoist |
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Judge orders county to release election databases to Democrats
Pima County failed to prove its contention that the release of all electronic election databases to the Pima County Democratic Party would jeopardize the integrity of future elections and must release those computer records from past and future elections, a Superior Court judge has ruled.
Tucson Citizen |
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Yahoo buys more time, puts off meet to checkmate Icahn
Yahoo on Thursday postponed a looming showdown for control of its board, giving itself more time to prepare a defence - or negotiate a sale to Microsoft that would cause activist investor Carl Icahn to call off the mutiny.
The Economic Times |
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Online communities open but still limit movement
By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK (AP) -- Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you'll have to rebuild your profile from scratch.
Bay News 9 Tampa Bay |
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A startup on Tuesday unveiled plans at the Apple Expo here to build a distributed supercomputer cluster that could use some thousands of Apple's Xserve servers. The high-performance network will be installed along Europe's internet backbone, startup Omneta said.
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A look inside Google's new do-it-yourself intranet creator
What began as paid Wiki hosting service JotSpot, was bought by Google in 2006 and re-launched a year and a half later as Google Sites. Finally, this service is open to the public, not just subscribers.
BetaNews |
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NASA names planets after award-winning Lebanese
The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Intel Company and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have named two newly discovered planets in the honor of two Lebanese students. The planets, "Sana" and "Dina," are named after Sana Abdel-Halim Zaidan and Dina Wafik Kaddoura, both from the coastal city of Sidon.
The Daily Star Lebannon |
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California Insurance Department Encouraging Residents To Use Online Personal Health Records
Not enough California residents are using online personal health records offered by insurers and managed care groups in the state, according to a report released on Tuesday by the state Department of Insurance, the Sacramento Bee reports. The report was based on a survey of California's major insurers.
Medical News Today |
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Microsoft frees poor children from Linux struggles
— May 16, 2008 — Microsoft has announced an agreement with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that will make Windows XP available on the non-profit's low-cost laptops for third-world children.
Linux Devices |
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New Internet icons lift Silicon Valley from skepticism
"Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham. 294 pages. $26), by Sarah Lacy: Silicon Valley, that high-tech hub of innovation and occasional hubris, is rising again, driven by a new generation of idea...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Search engines - Part 1: What you should know
The following article is provided monthly by the Business Advisory Group (BAG), a local non-profit organization staffed by volunteers, retired professionals and entrepreneurs.
Burlington Post |
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Unmarked chopper patrols NY city from high above
Fri, May 23, 2008 (12:02 p.m.) On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty. A dramatic close-up of Lady Liberty's frozen gaze fills one of three flat-screen computer monitors mounted on a console.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Online communities open but still limit movement
Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you'll have to rebuild your profile from scratch. That's like having to get a new driver's license for...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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