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Dreams of a wireless Web worldwide
An entrepreneur, Martin Varsavsky, is trying to cover the Earth with Web access, one hot spot at a time. But his big idea is encountering equally big obstacles.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th May 2007 20:23 UTC
We usually don't report on games, but I would like to make an exception today. Blizzard Entertainment has announced the sequel to what many see as the best realtime strategy game ever made: they announced StarCraft II . The original StarCraft, released in 1998, tops many best-games-of-all-times lists, and has sold over 9 million copies worldwide; it is still one of the most popular online games, ...
New Mobile Computing |
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Reporter's Notebook: Stephen Peacock
The U.S. Dept. of the Interior earlier this week issued a call for bids to build a fence along the border with Mexico, preceding House passage of legislation on Wednesday and Senate approval just a few hours ago (May 18) to erect 370 miles of such border-protection fencing.
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Real Deal: Wayne Colonial for under $600,000
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Indie Films, Coming to a Small Screen Near You
A new business aims to act as a sales agent for independent filmmakers not picked up by Hollywood — with an eye to distribute content on the Web or on other on-demand services.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Global Dreams for a Wireless Web
An entrepreneur is trying to cover the Earth with Web access, one hot spot at a time. But his big idea is encountering equally big obstacles
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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German police say parents tried to sell baby on eBay
Authorities in southern Germany have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, or about $1.60, police said.
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NEW ALBANY: Tape reveals teacher’s verbal abuse
Sitting at the computer with his friend, 5-year-old Gabriel Ross played and smiled.When it came time for him to talk about his experience in kindergarten at S. Ellen Jones Elementary, his demeanor changed to reserved and frowning.
The Evening News and the Tribune |
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POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Burmaster: He’s still a ‘popular’ guy
It’s a been awhile since so many people seated in the gallery inside the Legislative Chambers at the Niagara County Courthouse got up and left en masse so quickly.
Tonawanda News |
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HIGHER EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: Staff honored at NCCC, NU
Niagara County Community College associate professor of nursing Julie Woodworth was honored with the “Sharing Innovations in Teaching” award recently for a case study she implemented in her classes during the spring 2008 semester.
Tonawanda News |
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Chill Owner Smiling As Explosion Lose 126-134 In Edmonton
Monroe Washington - Edmonton Chill owner Troy Barns comes away smiling as the Chill defeated the Explosion 134-126 and Snohomish County Explosion owner Nathan Mumm now owes a carton of Washington Best Apples to be shipped out to the Chill office along with wearing the Chills uniform during the Western Conference Playoff's.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd May 2006 19:34 UTC
"Just because you use a Macintosh, don't think you're any more secure than a Wintel user. A sharp increase in the number of flaws being discovered in Mac OS X suggests that the Apple operating system may soon be every bit as prone to malicious attacks as Windows systems, according to a report from the SANS Institute, a security training and research firm."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Apr 2006 16:23 UTC
Virtualization software that's all the rage today - chiefly VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Xen - lets a single computer run multiple operating systems.
OS News |
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Dell has given an overview of what customers can expect from their initial Ubuntu offering .
"The default software from the Ubuntu media will be installed on the system, including kernel and applications. The peripheral options offered with Ubuntu will be a subset of what is offered with other operating systems.
OS News |
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The need for speed
When it comes to Internet access, your bandwidth can never be too fat or too fast. Consider the headaches of the St. Paul Public Schools.
Pioneer Press |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jul 2007 09:11 UTC, submitted by Tim Alson
Dell has taken the unusual step - for a PC vendor of its size - of toning down its sales pitch for Microsoft's Vista operating system and warning businesses of the migration challenges that lie ahead for them.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
ReactOS has just released version 0.3.0 RC2 of their open source Microsoft Windows-compatible operating system. They are also now 94% finished with the code audit.
New Mobile Computing |
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Exxon retailers at mercy of oil giant
WASHINGTON — Every time Sohaila Rezazadeh rings up a sale at her Exxon station in Fairfax, Va., her cash register sends the information to Exxon Mobil's central computers. If she raises the price of gasoline a couple of pennies, chances are that Exxon will raise the wholesale price she pays by the same amount.
Pioneer Press |
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Officials debate whether to reboot Lake government's computer provider
CROWN POINT Workers still were feeding floppy disks into Commodore 64 personal computers and the Internet was just a rumor in 1992, the year Lake County officials hired Cenifax Management Services as its data processor.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Profile portability requires eroding data walls
NEW YORK — 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
Connecticut Post |
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