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AMD Delivers Next-Gen Laptop Platform
AMD has announced the availability of its next-generation laptop platform. The platform features the company's new Turion X2 Ultra dual-core mobile processors with Radeon HD 3000 Series graphics. This next-generation AMD platform also serves as the foundation fo...
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Yahoo: Icahn ramps up pressure ahead of shareholder meeting
Carl Icahn has increased pressure on the beleaguered management of Yahoo today, issuing yet another open letter to the firm which questioned why it had allowed Google to "leave it in the dust". Gearing up for a potentially hostile takeover at Yahoo's annual shareholder meeting on August 1, a recent exchange of letters between the veteran corporate raider and Yahoo have become increasingly ...
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New iPhone will incorporate GPS
Apple's second generation iPhone will include a satellite positioning system, the Guardian has learned. Speculation about the gadget has reached fever pitch ahead of tonight's announcement, but one source who claims to have seen the new iPhone told the Guardian today that the device will include a higher speed 3G connection and GPS unit. Such a development would allow the iPhone to be used ...
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UF students can track buses with online service
University of Florida students can now surf the Web for help catching a bus.
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A few new tunes for the week
Hey, did you realize the new My Morning Jacket album is streaming at AOL? Evil Urges may have gotten a 4.7 review from Pitchfork (the horror!), but that only makes me want to hear it more. The P-fork reviewer chastises...
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MIKE WENDLAND: iPhone 2.0 - Faster and more powerful
Now there's iPhone 2.0, a much upgraded version of the trendy smartphone from Apple that forever changed the way mobile devices communicate when it was first introduced a year ago.
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Microsoft, Kaiser Pilot Integration of E-health Systems
Microsoft and health care insurance provider Kaiser Permanente unveiled Monday that they will be sharing data between their...
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Meet the world's fastest computer
Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
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Energy Dept says new Computer world's fastest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer designed to run virtual tests of U.S. nuclear weapons will be the world's fastest, making 1,000 trillion calculations per second, the U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday. ...
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Former store clerk gets 6 months for stadium attack hoax
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A former Wisconsin grocery clerk must serve six months in federal prison for making bogus Internet postings warning of terrorist attacks against NFL stadiums, a judge ruled today.
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Sometimes, It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief
News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Time for Tech to Throw Everything Into Energy Hollywood Frets Over Corruption Crackdown McCaw's Back to Remake the Wireless Landscape Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Apollo Robbins won't say whether he's ever stolen anything in his life, but it's clear he could if he wanted to. Having grown up in Missouri ...
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HP, Acer settle patent infringement claims
Computer maker Acer Inc. said Monday that it has settled a yearlong patent infringement battle with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. Details of the agreement with the American computer maker were "confidential," Acer said in a statement. Acer, based in Taiwan, said the agreement "resolves all claims asserted in three federal lawsuits and two United States International Trade Commission investigations ...
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TVs, Computers: Hazardous Waste Fills N.Ky.
Although the surge of TV purchases might be great for the economy, landfills are starting to feel the ache as the number of TVs thrown away grows.
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Sun CEO: Java's Always Been a RIA Platform
'Java's always been a RIA platform - before the world really wanted one,' claimed Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz recently, as he reflected on the reinvention of the Java platform as represented by JavaFX. 'What's a rich internet application?' Schwartz wrote. 'It depends on your perspective,' he continued, adding 'From mine, it's any network connected application that persists in front of a user, ...
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Evergreen Datacenter, From Concept to Implementation
Most enterprises today are facing the challenges of datacenter space, power, and performance. With increasing demand for 'more' while paying 'less', the IT industry is looking for new technologies, best methods, and practices to find solution to this problem. The Evergreen Datacenter framework is an architectural framework that formulates the best practices and methodologies along with latest ...
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The Missing Piece in Cloud Computing: Middleware Virtualization
To achieve the full potential of 'cloud computing' we need a broader definition of virtualization, and that is the complete de-coupling of the logical components of an application (represented by the software stack) and the physical resources. In the case of middleware, whether it is data access, messaging or the business logic, the physical location of the resources should not matter to the ...
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Bandwidth.com Announces Unlimited Calling, Flat Rate Voice & Data Business Service Bundles for Virtually All Phone ...
Bandwidth.com, the leader in providing the benefits of Internet Protocol communications to thousands of customers nationwide, today announced the BoxSet service bundles that feature nationwide availability of unlimited calling, bundled internet service, flat rate pricing, and the capability to work with virtually any phone system; all tailored specifically for the small-to-medium-sized business .
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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HP, Acer settle patent infringement claims
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Computer maker Acer said today that it has settled a yearlong patent infringement battle with rival Hewlett-Packard.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Tiny Cell Beats Intel Quad-core At Video
Taipei (Taiwan) - During Computex 2008 we had a chance to visit Corel's suite at the Grand Hyatt hotel, which featured, at least as far as we know, the first third party demonstration of Toshiba's SpursEngine 1000 (SE1000), an accelerator board based o
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JetBlue Advances In-Flight Messaging With Airfone Purchase
The service features use of Yahoo e-mail, Gmail, AOL Mail, Hotmail, Windows Live Mail, and Microsoft Exchange corporate accounts.
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Alabama Department of Human Resources Selects SouthernLINC Wireless for Jefferson County Pilot Program
SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO), today announced that it has been selected to provide service and phones to the Alabama Department of Human Resources as part of a pilot program for social workers in Jefferson County.
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Icahn Blasts Yahoo Again
The war of words between investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock continues, with Icahn blasting off yet another...
PC World |
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Blogs foretold knifings
The man suspected of killing seven people in a knifing rampage in Japan foretold the mayhem in a series of messages posted to the internet, including one just before the attack saying, "It's time," police and media reports said.
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YouTube Prank "In Your Face"
An alarming new fad among some teens culminates with the prank being posted on the Internet site YouTube. Called "Fire in the hole," restaurant and fast-food workers are being targeted with drinks they order that end up being hurled at their faces.
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Google, Yahoo Potential Deal Worries Heartland
The American Corn Growers Association asked John Conyers and Patrick Leahy to look closely at any potential search advertising tie-in with the top two search providers. read more
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