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WD Unleashes Caviar Black HDDs
Western Digital (WD) has launched its new line of Caviar Black hard disk drives (HDD). The drive spins at 7200rpm and uses a 3.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) connection for high performance desktop, workstation and multi-drive systems. Available in capacities of 750GB...
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Jamestown police add anti-predator Web link
JAMESTOWN -- In order to beat online child predators, the Jamestown Police Department joined an Internet social networking site Tuesday, Jamestown Police Chief Rexford H. Rater announced.
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New business would give Chelmsford a boost
CHELMSFORD -- A shot in the arm for Chelmsford's economy. That's the way Town Manager Paul Cohen sees a possible deal with computer-security company, Arbor Network, Inc. By offering Arbor a tax-increment financing agreement (TIF), town officials hope to bring in about 125 new high-tech jobs.
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TransGaming announces online Mac games portal
TransGaming has introduced GameTree Online , a digital distribution portal for Mac games offering a global shop for titles from numerous publishers. The games portal will also offer gaming news, promotions and user-generated game reviews.
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3 Internet providers agree to block child porn
Posted: Jun. 10 11:02 a.m. Updated: Jun. 10 12:53 p.m. ALBANY, N.Y. — Internet providers Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to child pornography and eliminate the material from their servers, New York's attorney general said Tuesday.
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Social Software Frequently Lacking in System / Administrative Services
CMS Watch research finds rapid development of rich features not alwaysmatched by back-end strength. (PRWeb Jun 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1016724.htm
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Patni completes first-ever SAP ERP implementation
IT services provider, Patni Computer Systems, today said that it has successfully completed the first-ever SAP ERP implementation for a temple trust in the country.
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Hot career opportunities in IT
Want to know what IT has in store for your future and avenues that specific technologies such as Java and .NET have come up with? Here's a career guide to make you conversant of the upcoming opportunities
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Nortel and Alvarion Combine Strengths in a Strategic WiMAX(TM) Agreement
Nortel(1)(NYSE: NT) and Alvarion(2)® Ltd. entered into a joint strategic WiMAX agreement to create an end-to-end WiMAX solution to meet the needs of the evolving wireless broadband market.
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Firefox 3 new features walkthrough
Firefox continues to prove with release after release why it's the best browser on the market. With Firefox 3 coming out soon (it's been in beta for about eight months now), the development team was nice enough to put together a short video showing off the new features that will appear in Firefox 3 when the final version ships sometime this month. If you're a Firefox user, take a spin ...
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Microsoft to delist Xbox Live Arcade titles based on bad reviews
Who says critics have no power? According to Microsoft Xbox Live exec Marc Whitten, the company will begin dropping titles from its increasingly crowded Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace if they have a Metacritic score below 65 percent and a conversion rate of less than 6 percent. The conversion rate refers to the percentage of people who download the demo of the game and then purchase the ...
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 problems continue
Sporadic complaints have been emerging of late regarding Windows XP's recently-released Service Pack 3. As you may recall, SP3 was originally delayed after a major incompatibility problem was revealed with Microsoft's Retail Management System. One of the major problems that has emerged was from users of Symantec's Norton security products. One component of recent version of Norton is ...
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Google's Android: News and rumor roundup
On the eve (literally) of the Apple iPhone's second coming, why not take a break from looking at fake photo after fake photo of what is surely not the next iPhone and cuddle up with the latest news and conjecture about what's going on with the Google's Android operating system? After all, if anything's going to put a dent in Apple's hype, it's Google's entry into the market, right? Here's ...
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Toshiba hoping to breathe new life into DVD with better upscaling
I've said it before and I'll say it again : Blu-ray's real fight wasn't with HD DVD, which it crushed handily, but with standard DVD, which enjoys a 95% market share in the optical video disc market vs. Blu-ray's puny 5%. Now Blu-ray may have another battle on its hands. Bruised from its HD DVD beatdown, Toshiba is reportedly striking back with a new method for upscaling DVDs, ostensibly ...
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A young start-up created by UK internet pioneer and serial entrepreneur, Peter Dawe has been placed on life-support after the venture failed to attract funding or channel partners.
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Going, going, gone: Online auctions fading away
Thirteen years after eBay was formed, the novelty of online auctions may finally be wearing off , according to BusinessWeek. It's not just a move away from eBay in general: Even inside eBay's walls, the move away from variable pricing and towards fixed prices is well underway. Today, auctions makeup just 58 percent of the site's revenues, and that portion is shrinking. The reason seems to ...
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Microsoft posts June security fixes
Microsoft has issued seven security bulletins covering 10 vulnerabilities in components of Windows and Internet Explorer. The monthly Patch Tuesday release includes three fixes rated 'critical', Microsoft's highest security alert level.
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Google Finance launches real-time stock quotes
Getting real-time stock quotes used to mean subscribing to premium services for $10 or $20 a month. Now, Google Finance is making real-time quotes accessible to everyone, for free. The service launched this week and covers only NASDAQ-traded stocks. (NYSE stock quotes are still delayed 20 minutes.) Just visit the Google Finance page for any NASDAQ stock ( like this one ) and you'll now see ...
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Intel waiting for a hit product to get MID market rolling
SINGAPORE, 11 JUNE 2008 - Intel is counting on the emergence of a hit product to kick-start demand for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and spur sales of its Centrino Atom chip platform.
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PURCHASE OF LAPTOPS FOR ASSEMBLYMEN POSTPONED
PENANG, June 11 (Bernama) -- The state government has postponed the purchase of 41 laptop computers and printers worth RM300,000 for state assemblymen and the State Assembly Speaker.
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Veritas fuses Xen with storage mangement
And makes backup virtual. Symantec's storage arm, Veritas, has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems' Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualisation platform.
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Kiosk charges you a small fee for a Wi-Fi connection
What do you with all that loose change in your pocket? Besides feeding it to parking meters or soda machines, you could soon be accessing a Wi-Fi signal thanks to Handlink's Wi-Fi Kiosk machine. The coin-operated Wi-Fi station works like this: drop a few coins into the machine, wait for it to print a ticket with an access code, and log in to your temporary account. After your time has ...
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Track your Facebook buddies with Sniff
Tracking your friend's whereabouts with cell phone based tracking systems is nothing new, but a new service called Sniff, which stands for 'Social Network Integrated Friend Finder' will help you track your Facebook buddies once they've given your permission. Sniff is a closed network so only people you know are able to track you. You and your friends have to sign up for the service to ...
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Repetitive Strain Injuries have increased thanks to mobile devices
Here on Yahoo! Tech, we've written extensively about ergonomics to help you avoid Repetitive Strain Injuries. Unfortunately, RSI continues to be pain in the neck for office workers, and injury cases have soared 30 percent since last year costing employers almost $500 million in lost working hours, according to research from Microsoft. Part of the problem is office workers are taking ...
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Polaroid introduces pocket-sized printer
Still got last year's photos trapped in your cell phone? Who doesn't? Before I had an iPhone, I almost always forgot or had trouble saving the snapshots stored in my phone to my computer. At times, I just wished my phone had a tiny printer or a Flickr option that would automatically upload my pictures to the photo-sharing site (anyone know of something like this?). While phones with ...
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