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IBM's Roadrunner flies at one petaflop
IBM is building what it claims is the world's fastest super computer, capable of operating at one petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second).
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Technology ''Transports'' Dell, NFIB Small Business Award Winner to International Growth
WASHINGTON----Steve Mattie, founder and president of Transport Designs, Inc., a manufacturer of highly customized enclosed trailers and truck conversion motor homes in Montoursville, Pa., remembers when he and his colleagues saw little use for a computer, as the trailer and motor home industry was decidedly low-tech.
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Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser
Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of rich Internet applications that leverage the company’s Silverlight browser plug-in technology.
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Microsoft Denies Xbox Blu-ray, Zune Phone
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Microsoft's Robbie Bach again puts down speculation of a Zune phone and the Xbox 360 getting a Blu-ray drive.
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Britannica to Embrace Content from...Users?
Wikipedia might bask in the online reference limelight - now the stalwart Encyclopedia Britannica wants to fight back with...user-generated content?
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Recent Original Stories
As the final runup to Vista RTM continues, Microsoft has announced that the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX) has RTMed and is available on Microsoft Downloads.
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BW)(CA-INTEL/ALCATEL/CISCO)(INTC.NASDAQ)(ALU.BOURSE)(ALU.NYSE)(C CO.NASDAQ)(CLWR.NASDAQ)(S.NYSE) Open Patent Alliance ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 09, 2008--To accelerate the widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel Corporation, Samsung Electronics and Sprint today announced the formation of the Open Patent Alliance (OPA). The OPA will advance a competitive and open intellectual property rights model, thus stimulating a larger ...
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DJ DGAP-Adhoc: Roth & Rau takes over specialist software provider AIS Automation Dresden GmbH
Roth & Rau AG / Acquisition 09.06.2008 Release of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Cops nab youth with stolen laptop
An 18-year-old youth has been arrested for being in possession of a stolen laptop in Colbyn, Pretoria, police said on Monday. Police spokesperson Malose Mashiane said the youth was suspected to be a member of a smash and grab gang operating in the area.
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Tell me by the way I walk
Biometrics is commonly associated retinal scans, iris recognition and DNA databases, but researchers in India are working on another form of biometrics that could allow law enforcement agencies and airport security to recognize suspects based on the way they were, their characteristic gait. The team reveals details of a comprehensive framework for gait recognition by computer in the inaugural ...
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Online Business Essentials
In this techno savvy era, what has become the integral part of our lives, both personal and business? Your guess is as right as mine - INTERNET. It's difficult to comprehend that online shopping has totally transformed consumer buying habits.
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Faster-web iPhone expected to be introduced today
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to introduce iPhone 2.0 at the start of the company's Worldwide Developers Conference today.
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Live Blog: Steve Jobs Keynote at WWDC
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at 10 a.m. Pacific time, Wired.com will be there to bring you the latest news as it happens. We'll bring you photographs, too, just as fast as we can upload them via Sprint's EVDO network.
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Get Free Updates by Email
Did you know that you can get free email updates to many of the features here at About Web Search? For instance: Free Newsletters: Every Monday morning, I send out...
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Hard drive withstands fire and water
Most small businesses and consumers do not have elaborate disaster recovery plans in place, which means that their data may be at risk, especially if backups are stored nearby. Fire and water can wipe out at least portions of the contents stored on hard drives in a matter of seconds. ioSafe announced new hard drives that promise to withstand fire and water and offer a type of product for all ...
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Government Computer News
DESPITE ALL THE technology advancements that enable distribution of information via the Internet, most people’s primary source of up-to-the-second news is still TV.
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Government Computer News
It's hard to overstate the explosive impact Web applications have had on the way we work, conduct business and stay informed. Likewise the economic value they have created.
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Government Computer News
William Jackson System security: Who’s responsible? AS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY systems become increasingly sophisticated and interactive, they create unexpected ecosystems that are more complex than the sum of their parts.
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Homeless man who posed as record producer faces arraignment
SOUDERTON, Pa. (AP) - A homeless man accused of duping 13 women he met on an Internet dating service is scheduled to make his first appearance in a Montgomery County courtroom.
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Government Computer News
William Crews, chief of security at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, doesn’t like taking unnecessary chances.
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CA Extends Identity Management, Compliance Offerings
Vendor also debuts software for tracking software assets and license compliance.
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Curl Announces Public Beta Availability of Eclipse-Based RIA Development Tools
Curl is executing on the next phase in its Eclipse strategy with the availability of the beta versions of the new Eclipse-based Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) development tools. The first release of the Curl Development tools for Eclipse (CDE) and newest release of the Curl Runtime Environment (RTE), Version 6.0.4, provide enterprise developers with the tools to build and deploy their ...
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Government Computer News
When NASA signed a 20-year lease in September on an unused hangar in Palmdale, Calif., to house two specialized research aircraft, the man charged with protecting those planes faced a serious challenge.
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VeriSign spent almost $450K lobbying in 1Q
(AP:WASHINGTON) VeriSign Inc., which runs many of the Internet's core directory systems, spent nearly $450,000 in the first quarter to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure report.
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Government Computer News
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library encompasses thousands of pages of guidance designed to boost an organization’s efficiency. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, one of the first agencies to use ITIL, has opted to turn the pages just a few at a time.
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