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Recent Original Stories
Will Microsoft's forthcoming Vista OS support legacy applications written in VB6? Microsoft plans to answer that question in detail about a month from now, a timeframe that happens to coincide with the one-year anniversary of a petition from developers asking for better support of the traditional VB environment during the emerging .NET era.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Apr 2006 22:07 UTC
Apple Computer faced tough questioning Thursday in its bid to gain access to electronic records of Mac enthusiast sites that published leaked details of an unreleased product.
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Internet video shows man's 13,000-foot flight on lawn chair, balloons
American gas station owner Kent Couch is no couch potato--you might call him a "couch flyer" instead, although he used a lawn chair the last time he flew. Couch flew 13,000 feet on July 7, 2007 riding a lawn chair attached to 105 helium balloons.
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Catwalks and comic book heroes
How the internet has opened the artistic work of a fashion designer and a comic book convention to the world.
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Canada launches privacy probe into Facebook
By The Associated Press TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after four students complained that the popular Web site violates Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without proper consent.
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Recent Original Stories
"Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP?
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th May 2008 16:20
Back in 2001, there was a company who thought they could launch a sustainable business model around a file manager. They wrote the file manager itself, and figured they could profit from offering online services delivered through the file manager.
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Copyright quiz limits music file sharing at Mo. college
ROLLA, Mo. (AP) — A tech-savvy university near the Missouri Ozarks is resorting to an old standby to reduce illegal music downloads by students: the pop quiz.
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Manufacturing Doctors
Can Canada's medical schools really cure our physician shortage? By 8 a.m. on May 15, 2007, Ryerson engineering grad Shawn Mondoux was at the computer, waiting to find out if he'd made it into med school.
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Truth is still out there
HOLLYWOOD – The cast and crew of the upcoming “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” were just a few weeks into filming in Vancouver, British Columbia, when Frank Spotnitz, the co-writer and co-producer with creator-director Chris Carter, called star David Duchovny over to a laptop computer to watch a fan-made video on YouTube.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Magna Vista: 'Strive for excellence'
Excitement filled the evening air as 251 graduates marched onto the Magna Vista High School football field on Friday. Andrew E. Hopkins did not hide his feelings about earning his high school diploma.
Martinsville Bulletin |
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Canada launches privacy probe into Facebook
TORONTO - Canada's federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after four students complained that the popular Web site violates Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without proper consent.
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Atheros XSPAN Enhances Home Networking with Smart, High-Capacity Routing Platform
COMPUTEX -- Atheros Communications, Inc. , a leading developer of advanced semiconductor system solutions for wireless and wired communications, today announced the XSPAN® AR9002AP, the industry's first single-board, dual-radio router platform featuring single-chip 802.11n technology.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Oct 2005 15:45 UTC
The notion of "business intelligence," or easy access to critical company data, is one of the key areas for improvement that the company has identified for the next version of its flagship desktop software.
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Washington DC
Canada 's federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after four students complained that the popular Web site violates Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without proper consent.
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Apple Computer Store Features ‘Must Have’ Core Design
By Jeff Stein The goal of product design is to create an object that is so elegant, so useful and so desirable that a potential customer can only say: “I must have it!”
Banker & Tradesman |
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Fri 29th Jul 2005 16:30 UTC, submitted by
Registration has begun for those wanting to attend the first Open Source Desktop Workshop to be held on October 13th and 14th in San Diego, California!
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Oct 2005 17:36 UTC
At a special press event Apple unveiled several new products today. They updated the entire iMac line , equipping them with 1.9 to 2.1 Ghz G5 processors, iPod-like 6-button remote control , built-in iSight and thinner enclosures . Apple also introduced new iPods , capable of playing 320x240 MPEG4/H.264 video, and it has a video-OUT. iTunes 6 is available now , and already there are 2000 music ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Apr 2006 17:11 UTC, submitted by Dhanesh
InformationWeek compares the latest IE7 beta to Firefox 1.5 , and concludes: "On a straight, feature-for-feature comparison, IE7 stacks up well against Firefox.
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Fighting the Web Bullying That Led to a Suicide
The mother of a 13-year-old who committed suicide as a result of Internet bullying has dedicated herself to raising awareness of the issue and helping victims.
The Florence Times-Daily |
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Phoenix to Earthlings: I’ve Landed! Awesome!
A NASA spacecraft has been sending pithy updates from the surface of Mars to users of Twitter, a Web microblogging service — with the help of a human.
The Florence Times-Daily |
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Communities grapple with public access
With Gov. John Lynch expected to sign off on changes to the state's Right to Know Law (RSA91A) in upcoming weeks, some communities are already wondering how the changes will affect their policies and procedures regarding emails and other forms of electronic communication between public officials while other municipalities say the changes won't affect them.
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Bach Khoa updates virus package
HCM CITY — Bach Khoa Internet Security Centre (Bkis) has unveiled BkavEnterprise, the latest full anti-virus package developed by Vietnamese IT and communication experts. It will provide enterprises with the most up-to-date, extensive and continuous protection for their network and computers.
Việt Nam News |
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Downloads of fun
The E3 Media & Business Summit, the video-game industry's biggest North American event, is two months away. While a few companies -- including Vivendi and Activision -- have bailed out of this year's show, most game publishers are planning their parties and getting their booths ready.
Calgary Sun |
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Medical records now online
Want to know your lab test results at the click of a mouse, without having to wait for a phone call from your doctor? Now, you can.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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