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Intel, Via Face off Over Low-cost Laptops
As demand for small, low-cost laptops grows, Intel increasingly finds itself competing against Via instead of AMD.
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Recent Original Stories
"Novell's SLED 10 is a decent business desktop operating system as-is. However, it does not appropriately meet the needs of a large portion of business professionals.
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Recent Original Stories
"The OSDL's Desktop Linux Working Group has published its first year-end report on the state of the overall desktop Linux ecosystem . The report provides insight into the year's key accomplishments in terms of functionality, standards, applications, distributions, market penetration, and more."
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Casio Shares Gain After Nomura Raises Recommendation to `Buy'
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Casio Computer Co. gained in Tokyo trading after Nomura Securities Co. raised its investment rating on the stock to ``buy.'' The maker of G-Shock digital watches added 1.2 percent to 1,409 yen as of 9:41 a.m. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, after jumping as much as 4.5 percent.
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Store employee thwarts computer theft
A Circuit City employee helped catch a thief Friday night when he called police after a man brought a stolen laptop computer to the store and asked the employee to erase the passwords.
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Low internet usage means online growth
Wotif.com, an online accommodation sales provider, sees large room to expand its business in Asia due to relatively low e-commerce and internet penetration rates.
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Cops Probe Possible Manhattan Murder-Suicide
A 26-year-old Chelsea woman was hacked to death in her apartment and police believe her boyfriend killed her -- and then himself. Margaux Powers was found dismembered in her bathtub with each body part wrapped in a green blanket, detectives said.
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Lincoln's train misses its stop at the ghost hunter's station
As midnight approached, a grassy field where the old train depot once stood pulsed with activity. About 90 people tiptoed around, night-vision cameras atop tiny silver tripods and dodged remote sensors connected to a computerised surveillance system.
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news |
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College Alumni Magazines Struggle to Compete With Facebook
The advent of social networking Web sites has created a quandary for alumni magazines, which have been slow to embrace the Web.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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The Human Hands Behind the Google Money Machine
Nicholas Fox is among a small group of Google employees who keep a watchful eye on the vital signs of one of the most successful and profitable businesses on the Internet.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
The country has joined South Africa in appealing the ISO decision to ratify Office Open XML as ISO/IEC DIS 29500. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
ZDNet Asia |
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REGION: Plastic-bag recycling law clears Assembly, heads for Senate
In a little more than two years, shoppers could find themselves paying a quarter for every plastic or paper bag they use to bag groceries.
North County Times |
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Canada launches privacy probe into Facebook
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) 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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PCCW’s restructure
PCCW announced on May 29 that it will consolidate its quad-play offering, including fixed line, broadband, internet, TV and mobile, under a new firm called HKT Group Holdings Ltd and seek investors for the acquisition of up to 45% of the new company.
telecomasia.net |
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Priest: Clinton remarks brought threats
A Catholic priest who apologized lasst week for mocking presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton from a Chicago pulpit says he has received threats.The Rev. Michael Pfleger came to national prominence after a video of his rant was circulated on the Internet and aired by TV news shows. He said he has received thousands of hate threats, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Sunday.They want to kill me, ...
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Recent Original Stories
The first beta of OpenSUSE Linux 10.1 has been released . Yoo can get it for PPC, x86 and x86-64 architectures; each release consists of a whopping 5 CDs. This beta comes with (CVS versions of) glibc 2.4 and GCC 4.1, X.org 6.9, KDE 3.5, GNOME 2.12.2 and the 2.6.15 Linux kernel.
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CNet compares Acer's TravelMate 8200 to apple's MacBook Pro
, and concludes the Acer wins; but only by a small margin. "The Acer pulled ahead with ample features and superior performance and battery life, then sealed the deal with its lower sticker price.
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Recent Original Stories
"The top two browsing programs of net users got a big update this month as Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla unleashed Firefox 2.0. Here we take a quick spin through some of the features to be seen in the new versions."
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City With Private Roads Gets Deleted from Google Maps
A Minnesota city of 4,500 residents has demanded that Google Maps remove images of its homes from the website's Street View feature, where any Internet user can glimpse a home from the nearest road.
GigaLaw.com |
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GCT Semiconductor and ASUS Demonstrate Notebooks with Built-in Mobile WiMAX Capability at WiMAX Expo Taipei
GCT Semiconductor, a leading supplier of Mobile WiMAX solutions to the global market, today announced
wallstreet:online AG |
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Canada launches privacy probe into Facebook
Canada's federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after four students complained that the popular website violates Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without proper consent.
USA Today |
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Dimension Data, La Trobe University and Windows Server 2008 partner to improve compliance
Cisco's new rack-mounted Mobility Services Engine (MSE) hosts software programs that manage specific mobile "services" -- such as intrusion prevention, location fixing and mobile client management -- for enterprise WLANs (and other networks in the future).
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Linked by Anton Klotz on Mon 19th Feb 2007 17:52 UTC
After MacOSX and Linux start to become viable alternatives to Windows on the desktop, more and more applications are developed to be cross- platform; all potential users can run them on their platform of choice.
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Recent Original Stories
In part 1 of this two-part series, ExtremeTech examines the performance of Windows XP Pro x64 and 32-bit Windows on a dual-core CPU. This part features the AMD Athlon 64 model on both operating systems. The next part will feature Intel's best dual-core offering.
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Recent Original Stories
The first snapshot release of Komodo , a next-generation Linux/.NET-based operating system, is now available. "A new desktop environment codenamed Dagon is now being developed with [D-Bus, Composite, Linux 2.6] to bring a new face of Linux to users.
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