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Sun stretches for Flash dance
SSD option in every server by 2010 Sun Microsystems is completely smitten by Flash memory technology. The company today has vowed to start rolling out Flash-based products by the second quarter of 2008, and plans to offer SSDs in its entire server lineup in only two years time.…
The Register |
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World realizes Google home page is 'illegal'
Beauty is advertising, advertising beauty Five years later, an army of privacy-minded watchdogs has suddenly realized the Google home page is illegal.…
The Register |
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Top cable companies try reining in heavy web use
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. cable operators Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc will begin testing ways this week to limit individual subscribers who use the largest amount of Internet capacity in an effort to protect their high-speed networks.
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Over 800 jobs face axe as computer chip plant set for closure
MORE than 800 jobs are set to be lost at a computer chip factory in East Kilbride, its owners admitted last night.
The Scotsman |
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VIDEO: High-Tech Turtles Return to Sea
After being rescued by fishers in Italy, five sea turtles were equipped with mini-computers to help study behavior, then set free.
National Geographic |
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Sports
The NBA Finals are here, and for once they might not be met with apathy from casual basketball fans. Instead of the boring San Antonio Spurs and a pathetic punching bag from the East, this year's Finals has flash, star power and -- we can all hope -- parity.
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Oklahoma City unveils government Wi-Fi network
When Oklahoma City firefighters received a report that a body had been buried in a shallow grave at Lake Overholser, they consulted detailed topographical maps from the field as they pinpointed where to look.
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has narrowed the release window for the second beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to sometime in August.
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Ritescript Introduces ritePen 3.0 with Enhanced Handwritten Text Input and Key New Features
Ritescript's Popular Handwriting Recognition Software Adds Handwritten Shortcuts, Custom Dictionary Building, and Support for Italian Language
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SmugMug to Enable Powerful Syncing
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----Online photo sharing site SmugMug announced tools today to make safe backup of photos simple. Now adding or modifying photos in one location, such as a desktop, can automatically add or modify them in many diverse locations and applications, such as SmugMug's online photo albums, laptops and handhelds.
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Recent Original Stories
"iXsystems announced today a distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics whereby all Fry's stores nationwide will carry PC-BSD Version 1.4, Da Vinci Edition. The agreement marks the first time that the PC-BSD operating system is made available for purchase at Fry's Electronics.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Nov 2005 23:17 UTC, submitted by Josh
Suse co-founder and kernel team member Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell, the server software company that acquired the German Linux company in 2004. Mantel announced the move on a Suse Linux mailing list Tuesday, and Novell confirmed the move Wednesday.
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Yahoo planned to reject Microsoft months before bid
Court documents reveal lengths internet company went to in its attempts to avoid being swallowed up
Guardian Unlimited |
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Intel's Tiny Chip To Ride Portable PC Wave
The chipmaker has already said that it sees four market opportunities for Atom that could be worth $40 billion by 2012, including so-called netbooks.
InformationWeek |
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Republican Headquarters Broken Into
KENT COUNTY (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Political bickering may have inspired an act of vandalism at the Kent County Republican Headquarters. Someone broke into the building last week and stole a laptop then trashed some other equipment.
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Mobile Web Users Want More Customization
IBM study reveals mobile device users want cheaper services and more choice.
InternetNews.com |
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Start Paying Your Auto Insurance 6/3/08 Bill Warren CBS 7 News June 3, 2008
Odessa, TX - “Trust, but verify.” It was the slogan of nuclear disarmament in the eighties. Now it's become the motto of a new computer system for Texas lawmen.
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Smith will seek changes to SPL fixture list
Gordon Smith, chief executive of the Scottish FA, believes Scotland's chances of qualifying for the next World Cup could be jeopardised by the unpredictability of the Scottish Premier League's fixtures computer.
The Herald |
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Comcast testing protocol-agnostic traffic management
Comcast is ready to test bandwidth-throttling that is protocol agnostic, and simply based on bandwidth use. It's a significant change from the company's practice of singling out P2P traffic for attention. Read More...
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Philly news anchor target in FBI probe of scandal
PHILADELPHIA — An evening news anchor is under federal investigation and off the air after his fired co-anchor complained that someone may have hacked into her e-mails and leaked them to gossip columnists.
Johnson City Press |
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Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. The official rollout on Tuesday of IBM's Lotus Symphony suite of productivity applications along with the launch yesterday of the official beta version of Acrobat.com from Adobe has all the experts asking the same well-worn questions: Now that Adobe, IBM, ...
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Report: Icahn more determined to oust Yahoo board
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) Outraged by new details about Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to complicate Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid, activist investor Carl Icahn says he believes Yahoo's board will have to be fired to lure Microsoft back to the bargaining table.
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Does Yang Bleed Purple? Carl Icahn Aims to Find Out
I bleed purple, I bleed Yahoo." --Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Talk about prescient comments. Last Wednesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang told the D6 audience, "I'll probably never be a CEO again," and here we are not a week later and Carl Icahn is telling him that he's probably right.
AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance |
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Newsletter Subscription
Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. We've all experienced it: that sense of frustration whenever the disk drive LED on your laptop turns solid green for a seemingly interminable period.
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Top cable companies try reining in heavy web use
NEW YORK - Top U.S. cable operators Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc will begin testing ways this week to limit individual subscribers who use the largest amount of Internet capacity in an effort to protect their high-speed networks.
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News |
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