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Programmer Pops the Question on Girlfriend's Video Game
A computer programmer reprogrammed his girlfriend's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.
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JuiceCaster to Launch on T-Mobile
JuiceCaster, the multi-award winning mobile social-networking service, is set to launch on T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile is the largest US operator thus far to offer the powerful multimedia social-communications utility. The wireless carrier will make JuiceCaster version 6.0 available on 12 of its top handsets. T-Mobile joins Alltel, US Cellular and Cricket Wireless as the US operators who provide ...
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Brawn or Brains? Researchers Push the Limits of Legged Robots [Extreme Tech]
Editor's note: Legged robots have the ability to follow troops on long journeys across extremely difficult terrain. In our series on legged robotics, Scientific American Online explores the challenges such technology poses as well as two DARPA projects--BigDog and LittleDog--that have shown great promise [More]
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Papers tailor online content to increase audience, ad sales
With classified revenue dwindling, the news industry must get better at tailoring articles and display advertising to online readers, several newspaper executives said Tuesday. Papers must more aggressively "slice and dice" content to readers' particular...
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AOL Puts Transformation Into 'Context'
With Sphere, the realigning Web stalwart adds contextual matching technology and expands its network of publishers.
InternetNews.com |
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TV Choice and Competition Near for Residents of Village of Orchard Park, N.Y.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. , April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of the Village of Orchard Park in Erie County are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television service, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service, delivered over the most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Canada’s Top-Level Domain .ca Hits One Million Mark
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority ( CIRA ) has announced that Canadian Internet users have registered one million dot-ca (.ca) domains. Dot-ca ranks as the seventeenth largest Internet domain name registry when compared to generic domain names like dot-com and country specific domain names like dot-uk (United Kingdom). More...
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Papers tailor online content to increase audience, ad sales
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 (12:32 p.m.) With classified revenue dwindling, the news industry must get better at tailoring articles and display advertising to online readers, several newspaper executives said Tuesday.
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[ Thanks to sjvn for this link. ] "Everyone grumbles about Linux driver problems, but kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman actually did something about it. Kroah-Hartman created a program by which open-source developers would create drivers for hardware vendors even if their equipment was proprietary.
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Dave Johnson: Tax Internet Sales -- Just Like Local Stores
Have you ever bought something online, had a problem, and tried to reach the company's customer support line? Could you even find a phone number...
HuffingtonPost |
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BOXBOROUGH, Mass. ( Map ) - BOXBOROUGH, Mass. , April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in Middlesex County , Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Master Modder Ben Heck Does It Again
Modding maven Ben Heck has produced another masterpiece for marveling . This time, Ben has created an Apple IIGS laptop - built from the original hardware that powered the ancient 8-bit computer. Based on an original IIGS motherboard with RAM extension, this technological Frankenstein features a 15" LCD color screen, a CompactFlash unit used as a hard drive, built-in stereo speakers, and ...
Overclockers Club |
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Qt to be Supported on Maemo
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PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK , April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Corporation and Pando Networks, Inc. announced today they will lead an industry-wide effort to create a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" (BRR) for peer-to-peer (P2P) users and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
The San Francisco Examiner |
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WASHINGTON ( Map , News ) - With classified revenue dwindling, the news industry must get better at tailoring articles and display advertising to online readers, several newspaper executives said Tuesday.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Governor: No computer games for MT employees
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has ordered that all computer games be taken off the computers of state employees.
KPAX Missoula |
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Lenovo mulls Middle East buys in expansion drive
DUBAI, April 15 (Reuters) Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's fourth-largest computer maker, is considering acquisitions to expand outside Asia into markets including the Middle East and Turkey, an executive said on Tuesday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Nov 2007 19:49 UTC
Erstwhile bitter rivals Dell and Sun Microsystems are set to announce that Sun's Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems will be supported in all of Dell's servers . Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell and Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz plan to make the announcement during a joint appearance at the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 conference today.
New Mobile Computing |
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Balls Food Stores will beef up Hen House Web site
Balls Food Stores has hired a Vermont company to redesign its Hen House Market stores Web site and add interactive features.
The Business Journal of Kansas City |
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Google Technology Targets Child Pornographers
The technology being used to block copyrighted videos on YouTube is now helping to track down child predators.
KDKA Pittsburgh |
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Log in for their next concert, on YouTube
The next stage in performance is not the stage. It is YouTube. India’s young musicians, filmmakers and dancers are increasingly using the portal, described as one of the best innovations of this decade, to put the video of their performances online and get a global audience.
Hindustan Times |
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10gen, New Cloud Computing Company, Unveils Limited Alpha
10gen Inc., the sixth and latest addition to the AlleyCorp network of affiliated Internet companies, today unveiled a limited alpha of its new cloud computing platform.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Wavemaker Adds SOA Expert Roger Sippl to Its Board
WaveMaker announced the appointment of Roger Sippl to the Board of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in building and managing enterprise software companies, Sippl will help guide WaveMaker as it continues to expand its AJAX open source Web application development platform. The company also closed $4.5 million in funding this month which will help fuel the continued growth of the ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Compete: Microsoft Gains Share; Google Hits New High In Raw Searches
Having covered Hitwise stats yesterday , today I move on to the latest stats from Compete that for search engine share in the United States for March 2008. Unlike Hitwise, they show Google taking a very slight dip last month, with Microsoft getting a slight rise. But while Google's percentage share dropped, on a number of searches basis, it hit a new high. Click to continue ...
Search Engine Land |
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Lawmakers Complain That Google 'gamed' Auction
Three lawmakers complained Tuesday that Google "maneuvered" its way into an open wireless network without having to come up...
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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