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Leaders Of No. 2 Union OK Hollywood Labor Contract
Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work _ an issue that sparked a crippling writers' strike this year.
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WWDC08: Steve Jobs Keynote live blog
Here we go with Steve Jobs' Keynote Speech at Apple's WWDC08 in San Francisco.
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2K Games Announces Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization(TM) for Games for Windows(R)
NEW YORK----2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. , announced today that Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization™, the next offering in the award-winning Civilization IV® universe, is currently in development at 2K's world-renowned Firaxis Games development studio.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Apr 2006 16:57 UTC
"I recently received an iPod Nano as a gift. My Nano is amazingly small, contains a gigabyte of storage, and sounds very good through its ear buds. It didn't take long for me to learn that folks have been putting Linux on iPods for a couple of years now, courtesy of the iPodLinux Project.
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Lufkin Police Report - 6/09/08
BURGLARY/HABITATION: 1300 BLOCK OF ELM. Complainant reported that a DVD player, a VCR and a laptop computer were stolen in a residential burglary that occurred Sunday.
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ASUS TW300-E5 Workstation Announced
ASUS's latest offering is an unusual departure for the Taiwanese company. Indeed, this nex box isn't a shiny laptop, PDA, graphics card or even SFF PC - it's a high-end workstation for advanced users. It's not in the least shiny! According to the company, the TW...
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Man in Japanese Stabbing Rampage Posted Internet Messages
(AP) - The man suspected of killing seven people in a rampage in Tokyo reportedly posted a series of messages on the Internet, including one just before the attack saying, "It's time."
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Blogging Now Good for You, Still Bad for Some
Several users have alerted us to a May Scientific American article that has been getting some attention more recently. Apparently, blogging is now good for you and, at least in this context, is the suggested reason for the explosion of blogging. This is quite the departure from some of the results we have seen in practice for more prolific bloggers. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...
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Government Computer News
A National Nuclear Security Administration supercomputer has achieved an operational rate of 1,000 trillion calculations per second — or 1 petaflop — making the Roadrunner the world’s fastest computer, the agency announced today.
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UK unix beardies appeal for $cash
THE UK UNIX USER Group may have to drop its legal challenge to Microsoft's controversial international document standard because it doesn't have the money to see it through.
The Inquirer |
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LANL Will Have World's Fastest Supercomputer
Los Alamos National Laboratory will be home to the world's fastest supercomputer.
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Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft to team on online medical records access
Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Corp. unveiled a partnership Monday to share consumer health data. (GOOG) (MSFT)
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Icahn blasts Yahoo again
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn continued his epistolary shouting match with Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock on Monday with a letter in which he urges Bostock to justify his director compensation by releasing his time sheets and accuses him of purposefully not answering questions.
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@ WWDC: Announces MobileMe, "Exchange For The Rest Of Us."
Apple is now saying it's launching MobileMe, which is described as "Exchange for the rest of us." The Web app allows you to get push calendar, contacts and email on all of your devices and PCs.
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Analysis: WWDC '08 the most significant in years
With Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) only days away, industry analysts are putting this year's conference on a par with the release of Mac OS X and the Intel transition in terms of importance for the company.
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Chinese phone designs run Linux
— Jun. 02, 2008 — Shenzhen, China-based smartphone design company Tranzda Technologies is marketing five phone designs that use its NewPlus Linux phone application stack.
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J.D. Power: Smartphones – and prices – on the rise
According to J.D. Power and Associates's "2008 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study, Volume 1," smartphone sales have increased to 6.3 percent of the overall handset market share, up from 1.7 percent at the start of 2007. The study was based on interviews with 18,093 wireless users conducted in September 2007 and January 2008, the McGraw-Hill owned research firm said.
Linux Devices |
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Silverlight e-learning videos worth watching
I thought I'd write some more "senseless low-quality crap that regularly fills ZDNet and that's only designed to draw readers in". I thank "kouzen" for his insight, but you Sir, are an idiot. Moving along... Technology-oriented students have long used the power of the Internet to make...
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Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft collaborate on online health records
Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Corp. announced Monday that they will join forces in a pilot program that will allow Kaiser members to store their personal health data securely in an online site run by Microsoft. (GOOG) (MSFT)
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Amazon.com Web site having more trouble Monday
Amazon.com Inc. had more trouble with its Web site Monday, just days after unspecified system issues knocked the online retailer offline for more than two hours. The extent and duration of the latest outage isn't yet known, though the site seemed to be functioning by mid-afternoon, based on tests by The Associated Press from three U.S. locations. Amazon officials did not immediately return a ...
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Sector Roundup: Airlines, Internet
NEW YORK (AP) _ Airline stocks fell Monday as a widespread fare increase by several large carriers failed to soothe the sting of soaring oil prices.
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The Next Generation Coherent Network
While the next-generation data center has begun to take shape, the promise of true dynamic computing has so far eluded today's resource, bandwidth and power constrained enterprises. Now however, key advancements in network and processor technologies are converging to lift the remaining barriers and enable truly dynamic computing. In this presentation, IT professionals will learn why this ...
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3G iPhone coming to Canada
Jobs says device will be in 22 countries starting July 11 at a cost of $199 for 8GB model, $299 for 16 GB model; Apple also showcases new business-centric software
The Globe and Mail |
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Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software Collaborates with Sun Microsystems to Develop Integrated Claims Solution
Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software today announced it has entered an alliance with Sun Microsystems Inc to provide insurance companies with an integrated management solution for the quick and efficient handling of non-life and life insurance claims. As a key member of the Open Claims Alliance (OCA), Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software and its partners have developed a solution that enables insurance ...
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'Suicide Watch' Software Application for Prisons, Jails Announced by Mobile BIS for Public Safety Suite
Mobile BIS, leading developer of software devices for mobile devices, today announced a "Suicide Watch" application designed to prevent self-inflicted fatal injuries by prison and jail inmates. The turn-key software product is the newest addition to a suite of applications specifically designed for public safety and employed by law enforcement agencies across the country to track and apprehend ...
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