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The Buzz On Business
HIGH-TECH BAR TABLE: Microsoft Corp. and Harrah's Entertainment Inc. introduced a high-tech interactive bar table Wednesday that lets patrons order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen games and flirt with each other. For Harrah's, which wooed Wall Street years ago, in part because of its innovative customer rewards program, the tables offer a new way to track customers' habits and ...
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HP rolls out touch-screen PCs
HP has unveiled 16 new notebook models along with a line of touch-screen PCs. The TouchSmart PCs are designed to function as "post-traditional computers" and multimedia devices.
Infomatics |
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Google CEO: 'Moral imperative' to help newspapers
(AP) -- Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that the Internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service DoubleClick will aid newspapers as they struggle to corral more online revenue.
PhysOrg |
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My Pharmiweb.com
Resources Features How to Enter the cyberspace recru... Caution: Your CV is your personal data. My advice as a recruiter, with many years experience in the clinical research industry, would be to take care where you send your CV and make sure your data is treated with the respect it deserves!
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Proposed ordinance would bring e-ban to city council meetings
E-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, blogging and cell phone text-messaging would all be banned during public meetings under a new ordinance being considered by the Rapid City Council.
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Capitol computers hacked by Chinese
WASHINGTON (AP) - Multiple congressional computers have been hacked by people working from inside China, lawmakers said Wednesday, suggesting the Chinese were seeking lists of dissidents.
Mohave Valley Daily News |
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Coke & MSN in footie sticker deal
Coca-Cola has signed a deal with sticker-book publisher Panini and MSN for a major campaign, including social media, around a European-wide online sticker book timed to coincide with the European Championships.
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Business decision-makers ‘drowning in communication’
Marketers have been warned not to spend all their advertising budgets on email marketing as business people are drowning in communication, according to a new report.
Mad.co.uk |
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Olympic story DV works collection started
The opening ceremony for the "Gandong100 - Olympic story DV works collection," held at the China National Film Museum, is sponsored by the China National Film Museum, with support from the Beijing Internet publicity management office and th ...
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Bright's Blog
Alistair Darling was once the safest pair of hands in the government. A year after becoming Chancellor, our political editor, Martin Bright, asks him where it all went wrong
The New Statesman |
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My Pharmiweb.com
Your cv is one of the most important documents you will ever write, particularly in the new internet era of recruitment. With job application becoming easier it follows that more applications are goin
PharmiWeb |
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Carphone shares hit by cautious outlook
Europe's biggest independent mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse , is cautious about the year ahead due to falling broadband demand, it said on Thursday, hammering its shares down an initial 18 percent.
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Whitehall official suspended for leaving Middle East files on train
Highly classified intelligence documents relating to al-Qaida and Iraq found on a seat.
Guardian Unlimited |
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USB 3.0 host controller spec will be free, Intel says
Intel will make USB 3.0 host controller specification freely available during the second half of this year, the company has said. Following up USB 1.1. and USB 2.0, USB 3.0 is the next-generation high-speed connection standard due to reach market next year.
Macworld UK |
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Sydney Interpol conference wraps up
International cooperation is essential in combating crimes against children amid an "explosion" of online child pornography, federal Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus says.
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Breaking the email addiction
"Engagement Marketing: Strategies for Conversion and Ongoing Customer Retention" is what it said in the programme. It sounded safe enough, but as I delivered this presentation at Internet World last month, I wondered if the subject headings on Lines, Crunch, Breaking Habits and a 7 Step Programme (combined with some slightly edgy last minute PowerPoint images) were starting to make ...
e-Consultancy |
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Google Co-Founder Books a Space Flight
Space Adventures plans to buy a Soyuz flight in 2011, with the option of buying more. One of the passengers will likely be Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin.
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Mackinac Bridge dimming lights to save energy
ST. IGNACE -- Operators of the Mackinac Bridge say they'll reduce energy costs by 11 percent a year under a new conservation plan. The Mackinac Bridge Authority says it will power down computers at night and on weekends.
The Muskegon Chronicle |
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Green is the new gold in IT world
High tech companies are falling all over themselves to show how green they are, with Dell claiming to be making inroads as the greenest company on earth.
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AOP speaker interview: Nancy Cruickshank, VideoJug
On 18 June, AOP is hosting a sold out forum on the changing role of online video. We caught up with one of the event’s speakers, Nancy Cruickshank, Global CEO of VideoJug, to discuss how online video consumption is changing.
Netimperative |
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MCIS Zurich outsources PC deployment to CSA
CSA (M) Sdn Bhd has signed an agreement to provide MCIS Zurich Insurance Bhd with 650 Hewlett-Packard desktop and notebook PCs, as well as day-to-day software and infrastructure support. The RM3mil, five-year agreement covers PCs for MCIS Zurich staff at 27 offices all over the country.
The Star |
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Carphone Warehouse shares sink on darkening outlook
Shares of Carphone Warehouse fell as much as 19% in London on Thursday after Europe’s largest independent phone retailer said broadband revenue may be lower than anticipated this year, as markets dismissed the group’s 76% increase in annual profit.
Market Watch |
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Hesed House fundraising tops $500K
A donation from a local Internet company has pushed Hesed House's fundraising campaign past the $500,000 mark -- halfway to the $1 million needed to open a new building.
The Beacon News |
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Japan and France Agree to Closer Ties on Cybercrime
Japanese and French government ministers agreed at a meeting in Tokyo on Thursday to work more closely on cybercrime.
PC World |
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Sergey Brin books trip to space
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has made a down payment of $5m to book a trip to the International Space Station. Brin has joined with commercial space flight company Space Adventures in a new programme in which individuals reserve a spot on a future orbital flight.
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