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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 17:14 UTC
Ars reviews the Alienware Sentia m3200 , a 12" laptop which is not unlike Apple's iBook in case of features. Ars concludes: "The Sentia m3200 is small, light and fast enough to be a very good machine for many tasks.
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Military Supercomputer Sets Record
The new machine, which processed more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second, is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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From a Whistle-Blower to a Target
Joseph A. Ripp, the man who revealed financial troubles at AOL in 2001, is among several former AOL executives facing a civil lawsuit alleging financial fraud.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Films With Limited Release Find a Home on the Web
The Tribeca Film Institute is joining Amazon.com to create a digital marketplace for films and videos that have been unavailable through conventional retail and Web outlets.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Now Professors Get Their Star Rankings, Too
Social Science Research Network offers nearly 150,000 full-text documents for downloading and gives academics to see how popular their writings are online.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Icahn to Yahoo: Sell to Microsoft for $49.5 billion
NEW YORK, 6 JUNE 2008 - Carl Icahn and Yahoo's board traded barbs once again on Friday as the billionaire investor increased his pressure on Yahoo to make a deal with Microsoft, demanding that the company put itself up for sale to Microsoft for a little more than US$34 a share.
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Former Justice Promotes Web-Based Civics Lessons
Sandra Day O?Connor, the former Supreme Court justice, is helping develop a Web site and interactive civics curriculum for seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students.
New York Times |
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Acer sees Linux as key to low-cost laptops
TAIPEI, 6 JUNE 2008 - Acer, the world's third-largest PC maker, believes that Linux software is a key to the low-cost laptop computer movement and hopes to create a community around the devices, a top executive said.
Computerworld Singapore |
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No Nvidia chipset for Via yet, but watch this space
TAIPEI, 6 JUNE 2008 - The expected launch of a Nvidia chipset for Via Technologies' processor line didn't materialize at the Computex exhibition in Taipei.
Computerworld Singapore |
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Computer Glitch Spurred Bad Prices for Brazil Stocks (Update3)
June 6 (Bloomberg) -- A computer malfunction at Brazil's Bovespa Stock Exchange generated inaccurate closing prices yesterday and led to an underreporting of the benchmark index's daily gain, according to the exchange.
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Patient Web sites used for news, support in crisis
NEW YORK - When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later suffered brain damage.
GMA News |
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Hackers disable anti-crime website
Hackers have defaced one of the government’s websites to tackle crime in an attempt to steal the bank account details of up to 20milion people.
Contractor UK |
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Web site hopes to become news hub for campus
For journalists across the world, the Internet is a scary friend to have. It opens a line of communication and interaction that traditional print and broadcast news sources didn't have. Unfortunately, it adds pressure to create new ways to keep people interested.
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Lightspeed Internet services launched
MANAMA: Lightspeed, the Bahrain telecommunications operator, has launched a range of new Internet services based on Livebox.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Mar 2006 21:14 UTC, submitted by teigetje
"On this day ten years ago, the first prototype StrongARM processor card was powered up by Acorn engineers. The experimental kit managed to run at a cool 228MHz, running software nearly six times faster than the 40MHz ARM710 processors used in RiscPCs at the time.
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Recent Original Stories
BentUser takes a look at OS-level DRM in upcoming operating systems, particularly Windows Vista. Protected video path, PVP-UAB and PVP-OPM, have the potential to be really obnoxious, eclipsing any annoyances one experiences with current DRM technologies.
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Linked by Adam S on Sun 30th Oct 2005 23:54 UTC
From Distrowatch.com: " BeleniX is the first live CD based on the OpenSolaris source base that boots into a full graphical desktop (with XFce).
New Mobile Computing |
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Pitch striking ump gains infamy on Internet
One pitch.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Identity Theft: Interview with Jeremy Duffy
If the CEO of LifeLock can't prevent his ID from being stolen, who of us can avoid becoming a victim? With the recent news about the CEO of LifeLock having his identity stolen, I looked around the web searching for ways we could prevent ourselves from becoming a victim without having to pay monthly or annual fees. Luckily, most of what companies like LifeLock and Free Credit Report do can be ...
Blogcritics.org |
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A review of OpenSUSE 10.3 , which concludes:
"While openSUSE's efforts to simplify Linux or Window-fy Linux can be commended, the inconsistency in their implementation is its downfall. Opening applications quickly becomes a chore with the excessive amount of clicks needed to find the application you want.
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Business
Antagonistic investor Carl Icahn became a billionaire by bullying already distressed companies, but his harassment of Yahoo could leave him with a black eye — and a hole in his wallet — if he's wrong about Microsoft’s desire to buy the Internet pioneer.
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Q&A of the week
Online bullies are big threat to youths.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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The flop of the Flip: A cautionary tale
When something goes wrong with a digital consumer device that needs to be connected to a computer, no one can determine whether it's a problem with the computer or the consumer device. Manufacturers and retailers, maybe, should be paying a "refund" for the time and effort the buyer wastes trying to get the thing to work " all in vein. I joined the "refund" camp after buying a brand new Flip ...
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Artz keeps media center in order
Media Specialist Pam Rubisch said the Emma K. Doub Media Center has never been in such great shape. She gives the credit to Alan Artz II’s eagle eye for order and to his computer skills.
The Herald-Mail |
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NOTEBOOK: Unhappy end to Busch's trifecta weekend
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) -- Kyle Busch's historic trifecta skidded to a last-place ending. The Sprint Cup series points leader finished 43rd Sunday at the Pocono 500, set back by a wreck 47 laps into the race.
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