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A year later, Hamas rule deepens in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip—A year into Hamas' rule in the Gaza Strip, courts are meting out justice, police are arresting thieves, motorists are paying for licenses and authorities are blocking Internet porn sites.
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Sponsors sure of Olympic boost despite protests
(AP:BEIJING) As protests flared along the Olympic torch route, games sponsor BHP Billiton Ltd. set up a very different clash of its own: A basketball game against one of the Australian miner's key Chinese customers.
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Visual Task Tips 3.3
Whereas Microsoft and Apple spend time developing new technologies for their forthcoming operating system, third-party developers emulate these technologies for previous operating systems. Sometimes they can be successful, but often the software generated has mixed results.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 11th Jan 2006 18:04 UTC
Tests at Microsoft's Linux lab show that counting the raw number of security updates required by the various operating system flavors is not as meaningful as examining the efficiency of the update process.
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A new national pastime: Predicting Apple’s next move
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Predicting the new gadgets that Apple might concoct next is a favorite parlor game of the technology industry, Wall Street and the blogosphere. The latest chatter is that company CEO Steve Jobs will reveal at a developer conference beginning June 9 a new version of the iPhone that can surf the Web over fast 3G wireless networks.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 7th Sep 2006 04:17 UTC
Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. If you previously registered for the Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program 2 and received a product key (PID), that key will work for the Windows Vista RC1 release as well.
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by blitze (2.88) on Mon 13th Aug 2007 23:37 UTC
Ain't the draw card everyone thinks. On some DirectX titles that are both 9c and 10, there is hardly any visual difference. Couple that with MS making 10 redundant with Vista SP1 by releasing DirectX 10.1 and also every hard core gamers DirectX10 capable card and you have a lot of people pissed off.
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Recent Original Stories
"I have noticed these days that the computer market is either falling into some sort of dictatorship or some other power of influence that is forcing the computer market into a no choice market where the choice is handpicked by either some monopoly or by a misperception made by the wrong decision makers in today's computer industry.
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Recent Original Stories
Phoronix takes a look at nVIDIA's SLI and nVIDIA's efforts to support alternative operating systems , such as Linux, BSD, and Solaris, and how HP fits into all that.
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Now Ram Gopal Varma starts own blog
By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, June 1 : After actors Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan, it is now the turn of ace director Ram Gopal Varma to be bitten by the blog bug.
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Low-Power PCs Eyed for Developing Nations
Computer Aid is testing energy-efficient systems fro use in Africa.
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Low-priced laptops a theme at Asia's biggest computer fair
A teenager looks upward while walking past a huge billboard advertising Asia's biggest computer trade fair, erected outside the Taipei World Trade Centre.
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Collection of sales tax on Internet purchases starts today
Today, New York state starts requiring retailers to collect sales tax on Internet sales. You were supposed to pay sales tax on Internet sales, but the tax wasn't collected by retailers so many people didn't pay. Now, the online retailers are required to collect the sales tax for the state.
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Low-priced laptops a theme at Asia's biggest computer fair
Computer makers are expected to showcase the latest of their lines of low-cost PCs in the Taipei computer trade fair -- the biggest computer show in Asia -- when it opens this week.
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Attempt to detail injuries online
An Internet user with a Dunedin computer address has repeatedly tried to put suppressed details of Sophie Elliott's wounds on a blog site during the past two months, the domain's founder says.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft continues to gain share in the web server market , chipping away at Apache's commanding lead. The number of hostnames on Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month.
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Virtual worlds with a Kiwi flavour
You might think you live in a small world, but thanks to Auckland software development company Outsmart you can now do just that in its 3D virtual world SmallWorlds.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Oct 2005 11:12 UTC, submitted by Dave
Intel is showing off a future technology called Robson that could cut that annoying boot-up time . With Robson, a PC pulls data and applications off an add-in flash memory card and Intel software, rather than the PC's hard drive.
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Minnesota Town Opts-Out Of Google StreetView
I got a chuckle out of this one. It seems that Google sent their cars that do StreetView photography for Google Maps into a private neighborhood in Minnesota. That neighborhood, North Oaks, demanded that Google remove all the images. As the roads are private, Google potentially trespassed to take the pictures. Google's complied. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune article about the case: ...
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Low-Power PCs Eyed for Developing Nations
Computer Aid is testing energy-efficient systems fro use in Africa.
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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Some Texas inmates can now receive e-mails
AUSTIN -- Inmates in about a dozen Texas jails can receive e-mails from the outside world even though they don't have Internet access. Since late last year, the jails are taking...
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Current TV and its interactive Web site are getting attention
By CARY DARLING Before Current TV hit the air in late summer 2005, programming president David Neuman heard rumblings of an approaching apocalypse from all corners. No way could a fledgling network, even one with a famous co-founder named Al Gore, be constructed on the unreliable, shifting sands of viewer-generated content. The thinking went something like this: Cute cats, dancing babies and ...
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Some Texas inmates can now receive e-mails
Inmates in about a dozen Texas jails can receive e-mails from the outside world even though they don't have Internet access.
Houston Chronicle |
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O.C. company named among top American innovators
WiSpry makes radio frequency products for cell phones and laptops
Orange County Register |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Oct 2005 14:07 UTC
Time Warner and Microsoft have restarted discussions about forming an alliance of their Internet units, AOL and MSN, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.
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