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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th Jun 2006 19:19 UTC, submitted by Yadav Ji
"Over the years, I've had a number of people asking me what I believe the problem was with further migration over to Linux by the public at large. To be frank, I don't believe that there is a simple answer to this.
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Germany Online Gambling Community Swells
Eins, zwei drei... Count to 2.2 million and you have the number of Germans who play and gamble online on a regular basis. The German Forsa research group's study found that the number of Germans who gamble regularly online is beyond anyone's expectations.
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Foreign players have damaged England team, says Sir David
LONDON: Too many foreign players in English clubs have damaged the England national team, said Premier League chairman Sir David Richards in the Guardian newspaper internet site on Tuesday.
The Star |
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Backpacker with child porn escapes jail
A German backpacker who entered Australia carrying hundreds of child pornography images on a computer hard drive has escaped further jail time. However Steffen Wieczorek, 23, is to be placed in immigration detention, pending his deportation.
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Bahrain: Batelco launches broad-band offer
12 June 2008 Bahrain Telecommunications Company has announced an extra-special offer as part of its broadband personal-computer package, offering PCs and laptops on an interest-free instalment deal over 24 months.
Zawya |
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Govt to give computers to 896 schools
Students in almost 900 Australian secondary schools will be the first to receive computers as part of the federal government's "digital education revolution".
AAP via Yahoo!7 News |
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Litigation and Arbitration
On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its eagerly awaited decision in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. L.G. Electronics, Inc., U.S. Supreme Court No. 06-937 (June 9, 2008). In a unanimous decision delivered by Justice Thomas, the Court reversed the Federal Circuit's decision below and held that an authorized sale of components that are later combined with other components to form a patented ...
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Carphone Warehouse Full-Year Profit Rises 76% on New Clients
June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Carphone Warehouse Group Plc , Europe's largest mobile-phone retailer, reported full-year profit rose 76 percent after adding wireless and broadband subscribers.
Bloomberg.com |
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Rollout of computers to schools starts
STUDENTS in almost 900 Australian secondary schools will be the first to receive computers promised by the Federal Government as part of what it calls its digital education revolution.
Herald Sun |
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Judge's Internet sex photos halts obscenity trial
A long-awaited obscenity trial opened and was promptly put on hold, after revelations that the top federal judge hearing the case had posted sexually explicit material on the Internet.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Judge's Internet sex photos halts obscenity trial
A long-awaited obscenity trial opened and was promptly put on hold, after revelations that the top federal judge hearing the case had posted sexually explicit material on the Internet.
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Advances in science will surpass human intellect
In 1965, Intel co-founder George E. Moore noted a trend. He observed that the number of transistors that could fit onto an integrated circuit was doubling every two years and predicted that such a trend would last for another decade.
University of South Florida Oracle |
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Worry-Free security solutions
BANGALORE: Trend Micro Inc , a global leader in Internet content security, has announced the enhancement of its flagship Worry-Free security solutions in India.
CIOL |
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Backpacker with child porn escapes jail
A German backpacker who entered Australia carrying hundreds of child pornography images on a computer hard drive has escaped further jail time.
AAP via Yahoo!7 News |
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Wolf says Chinese hacked data
WASHINGTON -- Two congressional critics of human-rights abuses in China said yesterday their government computers were attacked by hackers from inside the communist country.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Are SMBs getting enough?
There is plenty of ‘hubbub’ in many countries around whether customers are getting the broadband speeds advertised by their internet service providers (ISPs); highlighted again most recently in the UK with a series of populist news items.
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The skills shortage in a computer-literate age....
Regularly, we seem to get scare stores about the skills shortage in IT (for example, in Computer Weekly for 10 June 2008 we read that "the number of computing student numbers in universities and colleges has dropped nearly 50% since 2001 to below 1996 levels".
IT-Analysis |
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Justin Palk Military Intelligence — USAMRIID makes The Onion?
A recent video by satire website theonion.com includes a picture of what it claims to be the headquarters of computer game maker Blizzard Entertainment.
The Frederick News-Post |
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Some gadgets in 'Get Smart' rooted in reality
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. Today, almost everyone has a pocket-sized version that also takes photos, shoots video, sends e-mail and surfs the Internet. About the only thing it doesn't do is protect your feet.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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France gets closer to 'three strikes' downloader web ban
International war on pirates part deux The globalisation of internet law continues apace, as French legislators press ahead next week with the " loi Hadopi ". The purpose of this proposed law is twofold: to clamp down on internet piracy, and to shift the responsibility for this clampdown firmly on to the shoulders of ISP’s.…
The Register |
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SCORE: Web site must be fast, flexible
Web sites have become as important to today's small businesses as business cards and brochures.
Cape Cod Times |
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Southwick's VesCor receiver prepares for office auction
The receiver of Val E. Southwick's failed VesCor Capital companies is preparing to auction off what remains of the enterprise. Members of an accounting firm on Wednesday carried boxes of records and computers out of the company's Ogden offices so that furniture, printers and
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ANDREW Futral wants to be your friend. And not just MySpace friends; those counter numbers are nothing more than notches in a cyber bedpost. In fact, he doesn't really care about being online buddies -- Facebook, Twitter or otherwise.
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by (Staff) on Thu 15th Dec 2005 00:37 UTC
Even if every single manufacturer refused to preload a copy of Windows on each boot drive on a new computer, it would still take a very long time for Microsoft to have a real reason to worry. One word says it all: inertia.
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McAfee banks on mobile data protection
SECURITY software vendor McAfee has unveiled anti-theft product that allows people to secure private data stored on mobile devices.
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