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Mini laptops show global promise
n As millions enter digital world for the first time, computer industry looks to cash in on a new generation of mini-laptops
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Government Computer News
The chance of downloading malicious code from a Web site has increased 41 percent in the past year, according to a recent study of malignant sites by McAfee Inc.
Government Computer News |
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Adobe Acrobat update adds video, multimedia
n San Jose software maker looking to expand into online conferencing, other Web-hosted services
Contra Costa Times |
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Amazon U.S. Web site down
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said its U.S. website was down for about 2 hours on Friday and it was unclear when service would be restored in full.
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Amazon Site Sees Costly Downtime
June 6, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Several hours of downtime experienced Friday might have cost Internet retail giant Amazon millions in lost sales.
Web Host Industry Review |
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Google Launches Gmail Labs To Test Extensions
Google moved Thursday to convert its popular Gmail application from a proprietary service into a platform that developers can extend. Its launch of Gmail Labs provides a way to write and deploy modules for the e-mail and chat program.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
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Apple Expected to Address IT Concerns at WWDC
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference next week in San Francisco is widely expected to serve as the forum for Apple CEO Steve Jobs' unveiling of a new 3G iPhone.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
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Microsoft Looks To Improve Windows Mobile Music
Looking to take on the iPhone, a Microsoft exec said mobile music will be a huge business opportunity.
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Virtual Walt Disney World Added To Google Earth
Disney World is going virtual. On Thursday, Disney and Google announced Walt Disney World Resort in 3-D.
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News |
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Serving up Life in an Online World
Thomas John Watson Sr. was the president of IBM during its years of spectacular growth in the 1920s through the 1950s. It was...
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School graduation ceremonies to be broadcast on Web
On June 14, Craven County schools will broadcast live video on the Internet of the system's three high school graduations.
New Bern Sun Journal |
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Tech Roundup: Verizon Wireless buying Alltel
Verizon Wireless grabbed headlines this week after it agreed to buy Alltel Corp. for $5.9 billion in a deal that would oust AT&T Inc. as the largest U.S. cell phone service provider.
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Avian acceptance
About a week ago, I returned home from work to find a pigeon, a nest and one small, white egg on my balcony. Now, I'm not a fan of pigeons, so I immediately went to search the Internet for ways to relocate the nest.
Salina Journal |
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Icahn recommends Yahoo set a $49.5B sale price
Hoping to negotiate a compromise, activist investor Carl Icahn urged Yahoo Inc. to declare it is willing to accept a takeover offer of $49.5 billion -- about $2 billion above Microsoft Corp.'s last bid for the Internet pioneer.
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FTC opens formal probe of Intel
Fri, Jun 6, 2008 (1:27 p.m.) Escalating the world's largest computer chip maker's legal woes, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal probe into Intel Corp.'s sales tactics, a victory for its much smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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Apple's 3G iPhone may be announced at developer event
With anticipation at a fever pitch, Apple may release its new 3G iPhone and officially announce a new software platform for the phone when CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference Monday. The new iPhone will feature GPS (Global Positioning System) services and a thinner form factor, wrote Shaw Wu, an analyst at American Technology Research, in a ...
InfoWorld |
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Amazon.com goes down for about 2 hours
Fri, Jun 6, 2008 (1:27 p.m.) Online retailer Amazon.com's Web site went down for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Symantec Moves To Open Distribution After Dropping Arrow
Symantec embraces the open distribution model after dropping Arrow as a distributor.
ChannelWeb |
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Register for a chance to win a boarding pass to the Bud Light® Party Cruise Launch Party!
Email your name, address, zip code, age, day and evening telephone numbers and email address to contests@free-times.com for a chance to win a boarding pass to the Bud Light Cruise Launch Party!
Free Times |
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Widow charged in 2005 murder of Canadian investor
The widow of a wealthy Canadian real estate investor and Internet gambling executive has been charged with planning her husband's 2005 murder in Puerto Rico, U.S. authorities said on Friday.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Podcast: Restoring an American film classic
Amazon.com suffers an outage, and Warner Bros. gives a digital makeover to The Godfather.
CNET |
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Yahoo's Yang issues letter to the company troops
Amid a volley of barbs between the Internet company and billionaire investor Carl Icahn, CEO Jerry Yang sends an explainer e-mail to employees.
CNET |
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Bradley Will, freelance October 27, 2006, Santa Lucía del Camino, Oaxaca
Bradley Roland Will, 36, an independent documentary filmmaker and a reporter for the New York-based Web site Indymedia , was videotaping antigovernment protesters in Santa Lucía del Camino, a municipality outside the state capital, Oaxaca, when a street battle erupted between demonstrators and plainclothes men believed to be working for the embattled governor.
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Weather cancels cyberbullying bill signing
Associated Press - June 6, 2008 4:24 PM ET O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) - Bad weather forces cancellation of Gov. Matt Blunt's plan to sign a bill outlawing cyberbullying.
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Credit Where Credit is Due
Yesterday, The Scientific Activist blog (part of the ScienceBlogs.com community) carried a keen-eyed piece of media criticism, turning the rating scheme of The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” blog back on the paper itself.
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