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Credit Crisis Driving Wall Street Shift Toward Risk Analysis and Use of High-Performance Computing Resources
NEW YORK , June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Driven by the credit crisis, Wall Street firms are increasingly conducting real-time and intra-day risk analysis and are leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) resources to assist with these tasks, according to a survey released today by Microsoft Corp. at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) 2008 Technology ...
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Envy 133 and MacBook Air duke it out in the flesh
Filed under: Laptops Sure, we've sized these two up t heoretically , but how well do Voodoo's Envy 133 and Apple's MacBook Air get along when sharing the same meatspace? There are certainly some striking similarities -- both have gargantuan trackpads, for instance, but Voodoo has taken things in an aesthetic direction all its own. We just hope these two decide to be friends instead of ...
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Brain-fitness software makes staying sharp fun
Brain-fitness software makes staying sharp fun I forget things. My mind is full of crazy, tech-related facts and acronyms—GPON, anyone? LTE? Femtocells? GPX?—but when my wife asks me, "Hon, did you put my phone back in my purse after you charged it?" I am without a clue.
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12:28 (BST), 10/06/2008 OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS FOR IMMEDIATE ...
– Turbine, Inc., a premier creator and operator of massive, persistent online worlds today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies.
gamesindustry.biz |
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12:32 (BST), 10/06/2008 GameTree Online Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS —TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V: TNG), ...
—TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V: TNG), announces the launch of GameTree Online, the company’s digital distribution portal for Mac video games providing consumers worldwide with the ability to purchase and download game titles from leading publishers, plus obtain game news, participate in promotional opportunities, and write game reviews.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Nova Notebook: Nardi's Lessons Still Resonate Among Former Mates
The Nova Notebook, by Villanova director of media relations Mike Sheridan, appears weekly during the fall and into the basketball season and periodically from May through August. In this entry we spend time with a recent Villanova graduate now making his way as a professional.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Oct 2007 21:23 UTC
Sun's starting to phase out mobile Java that's been the standard on cellphones and other small devices in favor of their standard edition, which are made for PCs everywhere.
OS News |
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Racy cell phone photos get 7 high school freshmen suspended
Officials say seven Pascack Valley High School freshmen distributed racy photos of middle school girls on cell phones and school-issued laptops.
Courier-Post |
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Internet Star Bares All to 'Extra'
She's single and ready to be downloaded! Internet sensation Cindy Margolis is opening up exclusively to "Extra" about being single at 42, plus her relationship with her ex-husband -- and having sex post-marriage.
Extra TV |
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An Inside Look at Y Combinator
3 year old seed fund Y Combinator has funded over 80 companies and seen a handful through to Series A round funding or successful exits. Given the amount of money that Y Combinator invests in each startup (in the order of $10-20k), it would be hard to classify their oft emulated model anything but a success. Though many of Y Combinator's alumni have blogged about their experiences, what ...
ReadWriteWeb |
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MediKeeper Forms Alliance With Microsoft's HealthVault
MediKeeper , a leading provider of enabling technologies for patient safety, adherence, and wellness, is pleased to announce the launch of its new HealthPage application built on the Microsoft HealthVault platform.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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CommVault Wins Top Honors in Eighth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards
CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) today announced that its Simpana(R) 7.0 software suite has been named the winner in the Storage Software category in the Eighth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards. According to the judges, "CommVault(R) Simpana 7.0 has every feature a company of virtually any size needs to institute a full-fledged enterprise storage system."
Centre Daily Times |
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Timberland Taps Changents to Launch Web 2.0 Experience
The Timberland Company and social media start-up Changents (www.changents.com) today unveiled a new online experience where ordinary people can team up with extraordinary environmental "Change Agents" from around the world to advance the green revolution together.
Centre Daily Times |
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Bango close to profit as revenues climb
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Bango , an agency that helps companies to measure the effectiveness of their mobile phone-based internet advertising campaigns, said it was close to breaking even on a monthly basis as it reported a sharp narrowing in pre-tax losses on higher revenues.
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Cloakware Appoints David Canellos as Chief Operating Officer and President
Cloakware Inc., the security solutions provider that makes security inseparable from software, announced today that David Canellos has been appointed chief operating officer and president of Cloakware. With this appointment, Canellos, a 20-year high tech industry veteran, also becomes a member of the Irdeto Group Senior Management Team, which is the organization that acquired Cloakware in ...
Centre Daily Times |
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CALLING ALL EARTHKEEPERS: Timberland Earthkeeper Network Inspires Consumers to Take Real Eco-Action
STRATHAM, N.H.----Today The Timberland Company announced the global launch of the Earthkeeper campaign, a movement to recruit one million people to become part of an online network designed to inspire real environmental behavior change.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Virtualization spec rides PCI Express
The PCI Special Interest Group has released a new standard that extends the capabilities of PCI Express for a range of computer and communication systems, opening the door to new ways to roll out shared networking capabilities for servers, and communications gear.
EETimes |
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Tech Data's AIS Division Partners with SteelEye Technology
The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) Division of Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD) today expanded its support for value-added resellers (VARs) deploying business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. The company announced that it is the exclusive distributor for SteelEye Technology Inc., offering VARs access to the vendor's data replication software for physical and virtual ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Lieberman Software Unveils Privileged Password Management Platform to Increase Security and Uptime of Enterprise ...
In response to threats posed by decrypted local passwords leading to peer-level network access, and the difficulty in thoroughly and rapidly updating every system with unique credentials, Lieberman Software Corporation today announced the availability of Enterprise Random Password Manager. Recent high profile security breaches, such as the TJX Companies attack, highlight the serious consequences ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Animoto Announces DVD-Quality Video Downloads & DVD Services
Animoto , the web application that lets users quickly and easily create personalized, professional-quality videos from their own photos and music, today released high-resolution options to their service.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Friending Now Part of IBM's Lotus Connections
IBM parroted MySpace and Facebook, adding friending, tagging, connections and more in version 2.0....
eWeek |
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Kerala bridges digital divide through Malayalam Computing
Kozhikode, June 10 : Kerala has launched a new initiative, Malayalam Computing, to help people across the state operate computers in their mother tongue and thereby bridge the digital divide.
New Kerala |
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Q& A: Pentavision's Lee Kyu Seok On Moving Beyond Rhythm Games
For several years, Korean developer Pentavision has been making rhythm games - and its core staff can claim experience in the genre going back even farther, when they created the arcade rhythm game EZ2DJ for Amuse World. Pentavision, which was acquired by Korean online giant Neowiz in 2006, is best known for its DJMAX series, which it brought to PSP as well as online via PC, but the studio is ...
Gamasutra |
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Yahoo compares its new service to Tata Nano
New Delhi, June 10 : Yahoo India head of audience Gopal Krishna has said the new local area information service the company launched Tuesday is like Tata Motors' small car Nano: "It will be well received by users because it satisfies the users' needs comprehensively."
New Kerala |
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WD Delivers 1-Tbyte Drive
LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- WD (NYSE:WDC) today launched its new line of WD Caviar(R) Black(TM) 7200 RPM 3.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives for high-performance desktop, workstation and multi- drive systems.
Byte and Switch |
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