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Computer speeds up college work
Cardiff University hopes to put Wales on the research map with its new high performance computer.
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Google, WSJ, CNBC get real-time Nasdaq stock quotes on the Web
Several significant financial Web sites now are able to display Nasdaq stock trades in real time, not with a 15-minute delay.
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Microsoft inks HP search deal; How many consumers will change the default?
Hewlett-Packard will make Microsoft's Live Search the default search engine on every consumer PC shipped in 2009 and the deal may be a hit if you assume that most folks are too lazy to change browser settings. Can Microsoft buy its way to being a search player?...
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The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
The crime-fighting IT chief on the frontline...
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Overstock.com Challenges NY Online Sales Tax
Online retailer joins Amazon in questioning constitutionality of controversial new law....
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Court Rules Lawsuit Challenging Google's AdWords Billing Practices May Proceed
On May 14, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied, in part, Google's motion for summary judgment, and determined that a lawsuit challenging, among other things, Google's practice of charging AdWords advertisers more than an advertiser's specified per day "daily budget" may proceed.
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Spell-check run amok changes names in Pa. yearbook
A computer spell-checker run amok christened several Pennsylvania high school students with new - and in some cases unflattering - last names. Middletown Area High School's yearbook listed Max Zupanovic as "Max Supernova," Kathy Carbaugh as "Kathy Airbag" and Alessandra Ippolito as "Alexandria Impolite," just to name a few. "It was kind of funny, but kind of rude at the same time," Ippolito ...
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Best Buy Tests Free Electronics Recycling Program in 117 Stores
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) has launched a test of its newest electronics recycling program to in 117 U.S. stores, a complementary addition to the existing programs offered by Best Buy stores to help consumers take environmentally-responsible action with their old electronics.
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CarTango Partners with DivineCaroline and Real Girls Media Network to Help Women Successfully Navigate the Car Buying ...
CarTango, the Internet's first female-centric vehicle matchmaking service, announces a partnership with Real Girls Media (RGM(TM)), a leading network for women by women whose flagship site, DivineCaroline.com, nets 2.0 million unique visitors a month. The partnership enables CarTango.com to contribute female-focused vehicle buying tools, helpful tips and advice, and educational information to ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Blogging Success 101: Achieving Financial Freedom Online
THERE'S no denying financial independence is what every one of us hopes to achieve but only very few are lucky to achieve it. It's simply financial freedom that seems very hard to achieve for many dreamers around the world.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft last week said that it is pushing back the next major service pack for Windows XP until the first half of 2008. The news came just ahead of reports that Vista's RTM is being pushed back once again, from late October to early November, complicating matters for PC makers.
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Washington DC
A computer spell-checker run amok christened several Pennsylvania high school students with new - and in some cases unflattering - last names. "It was kind of funny, but kind of rude at the same time," Ippolito said.
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Dell's Good News Gets Buried
The company's quarter contained promising signs for investors that the media missed.
TheStreet.com |
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Online Savings Rates Look Good Right Now
HSBC announced a boost in its rate, and other banks have competitive offerings, too.
TheStreet.com |
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17:07 (BST), 02/06/2008 Ted Price interview Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS : Eurogamer Network and Sony ...
: Eurogamer Network and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe are happy to announce that Ted Price, President and CEO of Resistance 2 developer Insomniac Games, will face questions from Eurogamer.net readers on Wednesday, 4th June from 5pm BST (UK time) / 6pm CET.
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Smartphones 'bigger security risk' than laptops
Smartphones are seen as a more of a security risk than laptops and mobile storage devices, according to new research. Some 94 percent of senior IT staff fear PDAs present a security risk, just above the 88 percent who highlighted mobile storage devices as a worry. Nearly eight in 10 said laptops were an issue. Only four in 10 had encrypted data on their laptops, and the remainder said ...
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Venezuela joins line appealing OOXML standard approval
Venezuela has joined the list of countries that have lodged appeals against the adoption of an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), one of two standards bodies responsible for the committee that approved the standard, is applying a generous interpretation of its rules to accept appeals. ...
InfoWorld |
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Alereon Announces Worldwide Wireless USB Solutions for Home and Office
AUSTIN, Texas & TAIPEI, Taiwan----Alereon, Inc., the Certified Wireless USB technology leader for Ultra Wideband WiMedia solutions, today announced a full range of high performance worldwide reference designs for Wireless USB applications.
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New, flexible computers use displays with any shape
The shape of things to come in the computer world will be anything but flat, predicts Queen's University Computing professor Roel Vertegaal, who is now developing prototypes of these new "non-planar" devices in his Human Media Laboratory.
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Microsoft signs search distribution deal with HP
(AP:SEATTLE) In a bid to boost its Web search traffic, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a deal that will make its Live Search the default on Hewlett-Packard Co. personal computers shipped in the U.S. and Canada, starting in January.
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Apple Scores a Price-Target Increase on Rising Mac Market Share
Despite a price-target boost from Thomas Weisel Partners, Apple (AAPL: sentiment, chart, options) shares have succumbed to broad-market selling pressure as midday approaches...( Read More )
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NHN To Publish MMO FPS Huxley In Europe, U.S.
Publisher NHN USA, a subsidiary of Korean internet company NHN, has announced that it has secured the rights to publish the PC release of MMO first-person shooter Huxley in North America and Western Europe in late 2008. The title will arrive via gaming portal ijji.com. Details for publishing the Xbox 360 release were not revealed. Developed by Seoul-based studio Webzen, Huxley combines the ...
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Current Newswire:
"Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy 'It's easier to get forgiveness than permission' (not to mention 'It's easier to do it with open-source tools than to get an IT budget').
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R&S Tests With Sequans
MUNICH and PARIS -- SEQUANS Communications, a leading supplier and developer of fixed and mobile WiMAX TM semiconductor solutions, is collaborating with Rohde & Schwarz, a global leader in wireless communications test and measurement, to enable WiMAX large scale deployments, by taking manufacturing test of Sequans Wave 2 chipsets to the next stage.
Unstrung.com |
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June Edition of the Wonder of Wireless Webcast
WASHINGTON----CTIA-The Wireless Association® is now making available the June edition of the Wonder of Wireless webcast. The webcast, which can be accessed at www.ctia.org, includes several video segments that highlight a variety of wireless safety-related topics involving the mobile enterprise, emergency rescues, significant public policy milestones, and much more.
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