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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Aug 2006 05:05 UTC
"We've been talking, meeting, and arguing over GPL 3 for nearly two years. Recently, the second draft of the long-awaited rewrite of the popular free-software license arrived.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Mar 2006 22:00 UTC
Microsoft has delayed a special slimmed-down version of Windows XP for legacy PCs, which is based on the Windows Embedded code base. The Redmond company had expected to make the operating system available to Software Assurance customers this month, but now says Windows Fundamentals will ship 'in late 2006.' Windows Fundamentals can run on older machines that do not support XP while providing the ...
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Recent Original Stories
AnandTech takes a look at AMD's new Phenom . "If you were looking for a changing of the guard today it's just not going to happen. Phenom is, clock for clock, slower than Core 2 and the chips aren't yet yielding well enough to boost clock speeds above what Intel is capable of.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Aug 2006 19:03 UTC
"The OpenDocument Format is an emerging file format standard for electronic office documents. Representing a triumph of common sense over the methods conceived before the rise of the Internet, ODF's goals are both exciting and controversial.
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Black activists go blogging in challenging the status quo
HOUSTON—The first time Eddie Griffin set out to fight for civil rights, back in 1972, he joined the Black Panthers, picked up a gun and robbed a bank in Ft. Worth. The crime landed him in federal prison for 12 years.
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Supreme Court takes on fantasy baseball
Justices deciding whether to take up a billion-dollar dispute over whether for-profit, fantasy games on the Internet have a free-speech right to use the names and performance statistics of famous athletes.
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Intel Ready to Show Centrino 2 Laptops With WiMax
Intel plans to show laptops based on its upcoming Centrino 2 platform at the Computex exhibition this week.
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O2 staff abuse iPhone discount
Staff at O2 abused their entitlement to discount on Apple’s iPhone by buying the handset at the reduced rate to later sell it on at a price over the internet.
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Letters: IT alternatives for the health service
The latest failure in delivery of the Connecting for Health programme of electronic patient records (NHS bosses may not replace contractor after Fujitsu's walkout, May 30) will awaken schadenfreude and Luddism, according to the temperament of its habitual critics. But it is rarely noted that the essentials of Connecting for Health (CfH) - a record of diagnoses, care and test results - have ...
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Industry's Lowest-Power Full HD H.264 Codecs With the Broadest Feature Set Unveiled by Qpixel
TAIPEI, Taiwan----Qpixel Technology, a Silicon Valley, USA-based innovator in video compression silicon and software solutions, today unveiled at Computex, its High Definition QL303 and QL305 codecs, the latest members of its industry-leading, low-power, H.264 codec family.
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Cities get into the broadband business to bolster their economies
Internet traffic is growing faster than at any time since the boom of the late 1990s. Places like Chattanooga are trying hard not to get stuck in the slow lane.
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Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM
by the end of this year, despite strong ongoing demand for the OS. Analysts and computer makers are wondering if the move is premature given Vista's ongoing performance and compatibility issues.
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Dell finds success in Web as two-way link
The Web giveth, and the Web taketh away.
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Amazon.Com Tops Businessweek's 10th Annual Infotech 100
Number of U.S. Companies on the List Falls to 33, From 75 a Decade ago
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Global Invest to launch online trading platform
The financial investment service company (SSIF) Bucharest Global Invest will launch in the coming days an online trading platform for the clients who invest on the stock exchange, according to the representatives of the company, Rompres informs.
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Features and Case Studies
In 2007 leading industry watchers speculated on the trends affecting the market, and while some proved right, others proved otherwise. Discovers how expert predictions fared on Vista, low-cost laptops and outsourcing.
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Features and Case Studies
Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.
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Features and Case Studies
At its Winning Edge event in Beijing, HP took the wraps off several new printers including large-format Designjets, a new document scanner and it's latest and greatest, Edgeline, an inkjet designed to replace high-volume office photocopiers.
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Letters: IT alternatives for the health service
Letters: The latest failure in delivery of the Connecting for Health programme of electronic patient records will awaken schadenfreude and Luddism, according to the temperament of its habitual critics
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"The beta version of IE7 released today by Microsoft is meant for developers and tech enthusiasts, and it's a good thing. This is not (yet) a browser for the faint of heart ; in fact, if you've become accustomed to the minimalist approach of alternative browsers like Firefox, IE7 might actually feel like a step backward.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Dec 2007 19:56 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"AMD is on the heels of releasing the next set of GPU programming documentation to aide in the development of the open-source R500/600 drivers (xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Jul 2006 19:19 UTC
Apple has decided to not appeal a recent Court of Appeals decision that barred the company from issuing a subpoena to online journalists, bloggers, and their ISPs. Apple had nearly 40 days to file an appeal, but recently filed a case management statement officially saying that it did not appeal.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-06-02 00:03 Japan's NTT DoCoMo to take stake in group Internet company - report
TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Japan's biggest cellular phone service operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to invest around 10 billion yen ($94.8 million) in NTT Resonant Inc. to increase fixed-line Internet services that can be tapped by its cell phone service subscribers, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday without citing sources.
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Are ads on children's social networking sites harmless child's play or virtual insanity?
As social networking spreads to users as young as five, makers of toys and TV shows are making the most of new opportunities to reach children online. But with more than 100 youth-focused virtual worlds now either up and running or about to launch – over half of which are aimed at under-sevens, according to one estimate – regulators and parents are struggling to keep up.
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