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Fidelity Ventures on hunt for next online treasure
Fidelity Ventures is hunting for the next eBay.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Mar 2007 22:27 UTC
"Although the .NET vs. Java war is basically over for control of the Windows desktop, where .NET is sure to become the managed language of choice for new Windows desktop applications, there is a new battle brewing.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 19:59 UTC
"Windows Vista brings with it a new era of DRM and restrictive license agreements that aren't going to sit well with even your basic power user and some are looking for an escape route. These changes are making some users question their commitment to Microsoft.
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Police given hand-held computers
Details of a £50m scheme to provide police forces with 10,000 hand-held computers are unveiled.
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Government funds 10,000 mobile police computers
The funds are being distributed through the National Policing Improvement Agency, which evaluated the bids from forces. The 10,000 computers have to be in operation by March 2009.
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Software Notebook: Searching for new strategy
Microsoft's plan to return cash to people who buy products using its Live Search engine reflects a fundamental shift in its strategy as it struggles to become a credible rival to search leader Google.
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Facebook slams door on Google
NEW YORK -- Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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'Indiana Jones' graphics meant to go unnoticed
The computer-generated images created by Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic for latest Indy movie were meant to subtly reflect the older prequels.
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'In the right place at the right time'
YouTube's co-founder and chief executive talks to Owen Gibson about the challenge of raising ad revenue, harnessing Google's power to improve the site - and why passion, not wealth, drives his ambition
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Jaci Stephen: Gordon Brown, my screen idol
Jaci Stephen on Internet TV: Gordon Brown's YouTube performances make me want to go to his soirees
Guardian Unlimited |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Dec 2007 21:42 UTC
It's the time of year again, folks. "The year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in these two operating systems, I've compiled all the security flaws in Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista and placed them side by side.
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Yao shaken by tragic earthquake in homeland
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Yao Ming wakes up each morning and immediately heads for the computer to get the latest on the earthquake that devastated China.
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Mozilla: Final Firefox 3 expected in June
Firefox fans looking for a major update to the open-source Web browser probably will get a final version of it next month.
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German couple offer to sell their baby on eBay
A seven-month-old baby has been taken into care in Germany after his parents offered to sell him for one Euro (80 pence) on an internet auction site.
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The art of copying
There is a story doing the rounds on the internet about a young monk who arrives at a monastery and is asked to help...
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Japan pledges $560 million to the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Japan on Friday announced that it had pledged $560 million to the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, AFP/Google.com reports.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2008 21:25 UTC
And more Haiku news; Ars took a short look at Haiku . "As an open source enthusiast and former BeOS zealot, I'm very excited to see Haiku reach this level of usability.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Oct 2007 12:38 UTC
Last week, Stardock released version 6 of WindowBlinds , their Windows skinning suite, which is the first version to include full support for Windows Vista. Stardock was kind enough to provide OSNews with a copy of WindowBlinds 6.0. Read on for some findings.
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XBRL 'It's like a bar code for financial data'
Shareholders and financial analysts, welcome to your own version of Google. Since its creation in 1998, XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) has been touted as the up-and-coming 21st-century business data solution for accountants, financial executives and laymen alike.
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Microsoft last week said it has now sold 6.5 million licenses of its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) client-level virtualization software, more than double the total of 3 million licenses that it had sold as of January.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Mar 2006 21:44 UTC
While Microsoft faces a host of challenges in maintaining its market share numbers and persuading customers to upgrade to its 2007 Office System suite of products when released in the second half of this year, its competitors face an equally daunting task of winning users away from Office 2007 and growing their numbers.
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Hackers Replace Library's Children's Tale With X-Rated Message
Police are investigating how an X-rated recording detailing a dog and a pig's intimate relationship ended up on a public library's dial-a-story service.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 25th Feb 2007 21:23 UTC
"A current mania is to exile yourself for a certain period of time into the rival desktop environment, to see how bad (or not) you would feel: a KDE fan would use GNOME, while a GNOME guy would use KDE. I have undertaken the challenge myself, and it wasn't bad at all."
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Recent Original Stories
Longtime Windows development chief James Allchin wrote in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder Bill Gates that the software vendor had "lost sight" of customers' needs and said he would buy a Mac if he wasn't working for Microsoft . "In my view, we lost our way," Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft's platform and services division, wrote in an e-mail ...
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Reporter's Notebook: Stephen Peacock
The planned delivery of 90 heavy-duty trucks to Bolivia related to the attempted escalation of U.S. counternarcotics and crop-eradication initiatives has been abruptly suspended by the State Dept. According to an amended contracting notice dated May 19, it appears that a previous agreement between the government of Bolivia and the State Dept. Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) has been rendered ...
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