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Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity
MojoKid writes "Researchers at Ohio State University and the University of California, Irvine conducted a telephone study by randomly surveying individuals employed full-time who use computers in an office environment at least five hours per week. They netted 912 respondents, of which 29.8 percent claimed to use IM in the workplace "to keep connected with coworkers and clients." Neither ...
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We've gotten smart: Movie's spy gadgets do exist
(AP:LOS ANGELES) The shoe phone on TV's "Get Smart" wasn't just a sneaky spy gadget, it was a technological marvel: a wireless, portable telephone that could be used anywhere _ though it did require a dime to make a call.
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Google Co-Founder Books a Space Flight
Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station, plans to buy a Soyuz flight all its own in 2011, with the option of buying more.
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Andrew Keen on New Media
Rather than marching for international brotherhood, I celebrated a belated May Day this year by burying journalists. Fortunately, the dead hacks were all imaginary. I came to London for the Unesco World Press Freedom Day debate "Is New Media Killing Journalism?" And I drew the short straw. Unesco handed me the spade. It was my job to argue that the internet is killing journalists.
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Voice Control for Windows Media Center, iTunes and Skype Now Available at OfficeMax Retail Outlets Nationwide
LA JOLLA, Calif.----One Voice Technologies, Inc. , developer of 4th Generation voice solutions for the Telecom and Interactive Multimedia markets, announced today the availability of One Voice's Media Center Communicator™ 3.1 at OfficeMax retail outlets nationwide.
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Animal Welfare Group Battles Online Censorship of Rodeo Videos
Bogus Copyright Claims Used to Block YouTube Critique of Animal Mistreatment
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AJAX World RIA Conference News - Microsoft's Brad Abrams to Present on Silverlight 2
Many of today (and tomorrow’s) development projects lend themselves nicely to RIA application patterns. Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team at Microsoft, is giving a breakout session at the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference in October which will uses the 100% free Silverlight runtime and Visual Studio tools to show delegates how Silverlight offers a ...
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Security hole exposes critical utilities to Internet attack
Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported today.
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iFob(TM) 2.0 Real-Space Social Networking Developed for the Apple iPhone 3G
iCloseBy.com today announces the latest release of iFob, the popular real-space social networking software. As an accepted member of both the Apple Developer Network and Apple's iPhone Developer Program, iCloseBy.com has used the Apple iPhone SDK and has developed iFob 2.0 for Apple's consideration. iFob 2.0, including all of the functionality of the earlier versions of iFob , now has the ...
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Middleware Market Up IBM Maintains Lead
Gartner says the middleware market grew 13 percent in 2007 with IBM maintaining a big lead....
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Revolt dumps ACT waste cubes
Parliamentary officials have moved swiftly to nip a recycling uprising in the bud.
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State Track and Field Championships
Maps, Menus, Store hours, Coupons, and more... Wednesday, June 11 $3,000 SIGN ON EXPERIENCE OTR DRIVERS - 5% more paid miles. Choose your pay plan, van, flatbed, refrig, choose you ...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin invests in ticket to space
Sergey Brin has pumped £2.5m into a space tourism company and hopes to go into orbit himself within three years, US newspaper reports
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Classic Kids' Characters Get Facelifts
"An unusually large number of classic characters for children are being freshened up and reintroduced -- on store shelves, on the Internet and on television screens -- as their corporate owners try to cater to parents' nostalgia and children's YouTube-era sensibilities."
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Analyst Blames Microsoft For Red Ring Of Death
Bryan Lewis, the chief analyst at information technology research and advisory company Gartner has claimed that the infamous "red ring of death" hardware problem on the Xbox 360 was due to Microsoft's decision to design its own graphics chip, rather than use a third party. Speaking at the Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, California, Lewis asserts that the problem was due to Microsoft ...
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Computer expert testifies in hoax email case
The defense in the case of former spy boss, Billy Masetlha and his co-accused, former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) manager of electronic surveillance, Funokwakhe Madlala, and IT specialist Muzi Kunene, has questioned the integrity of the forensic evidence that was retrieved from Kunene's laptop computer in the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Tshwane.
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HubSpot the Marketing Choice of the Digital In-Crowd: Four 2008 MITX Technology Award Winners Powered by HubSpot ...
HubSpot, an Internet marketing software provider, was named a winner at the 5th annual MITX Awards. MITX awarded HubSpot an Impact Award for its "Innovative Business Strategy" in delivering technology. Nominated for its Internet Marketing System product, HubSpot was also a finalist in the Marketing/Customer Relationship Technologies category. The MITX Awards, presented by the Massachusetts ...
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Prosecutors said various defendants assisted Osman in different ways, from smuggling him out of London, to giving him accommodation, tending his injuries, washing his clothes, disposing of incriminating evidence and searching on the Internet to find out the state of the police investigation.
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"After member states filed four complaints against the standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Geneva have responded by postponing publication of the revised specification.
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New iPhone and High Gas Prices Drive Visual Networking
Most of us have likely been thinking of two things this last week: gas prices that are quickly reaching ridiculous levels and Apple’s new iPhone, which likely will change the way many of us communicate.
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Tractor Supply Selects Motorola to Provide a Nationwide Enterprise Wireless LAN to Enhance Mobility
SAN JOSE, Calif. , June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and PartnerSelect Business Partner Quest Solution and PartnerSelect Premier Independent Software Vendor (ISV) StepOne Systems, today announced that Tractor Supply, the largest retail farm and ranch chain in the United States , has deployed an end-to-end Motorola enterprise mobility ...
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GCI Expands Deployment of Turin's Traverse(R) Platform to Launch New Business Ethernet Services
PETALUMA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/11/08 -- Turin Networks , Inc., a leading global provider of innovative Wireless Backhaul , Carrier Ethernet and Converged Services solutions for wireline and wireless network operators, today announced that GCI, Alaska's largest telecommunications provider, has deployed the Traverse® Multiservice Transport Switch to launch flexible new business Ethernet ...
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Numara Software Receives a 2008 IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award from Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine
TAMPA, Fla., BUSINESS WIRE -- Numara Software, Inc., a leader in service desk management solutions for IT professionals, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine (www.cismag.com) has named Numara FootPrints 8 as a recipient of a 2008 IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award.
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Adobe has released a beta for Flash Player 9 for Linux .
"While we are still working out exactly how to distribute the final Player version to be as easy as possible for the typical end user, this beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages: one is for the Mozilla plugin and the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player.
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Cosmic Log: Google co-founder aims for space
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Google co-founder Sergei Brin has put down $5 million toward a trip to the international space station in 2011, according to advance reports.
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