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Off diary: NHS plan to net offline audience
NHS launches new digital awareness campaign to help people excluded from digital health information to get online
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Apple seeking engineers with the right touch
A sign that multi-touch input could be moving across Apple's product lines are its many job postings for touch engineers and managers. From my search of Apple's Job Opportunities site, I could see a growing team to handle the company's touch technology. There were postings for hardware...
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Ted Nugent - Nugents Drummer Dead
Rocker TED NUGENT's former drummer has been found dead in his Atlanta, Georgia home. Internet reports suggest Clifford Davies, 59, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound ...
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Jeremy White, co-founder and CEO of CodeWeavers, talked about how Wine might make IT professionals a lot merrier. For those wanting to save money on desktops by using Linux, but feel trapped into Windows because of the need to run Windows apps, Wine can help.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Sep 2005 20:49 UTC
On Monday, the Free Standards Group released the latest version of the Linux Standard Base, Version 3.0, and announced that Red Hat, Novell, the Debian Common Core Alliance and Asianux are all certifying their latest operating systems versions to it.
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Intel's first-quarter net income drops
SAN FRANCISCO, 15 APRIL 2008 - Intel on Tuesday reported that its first-quarter net income fell 12 percent year-over-year, although revenue was in line with analyst expectations.
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Microsoft releases remaining Vista SP1 language packs
FRAMINGHAM, 15 APRIL 2008 - Microsoft Tuesday released the remaining 31 language editions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows Update.
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New battery prototype may mean the end of exploding laptops
The string of laptop battery fires from 2006 is already fading out of memory, but the batteries in most of our devices could still catch fire under the right conditions. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC have a new prototype, however, that uses no flammable materials and could even compete with traditional car batteries one day. Read More... ...
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Brief: Online game code posted to torrents
Online game code posted to torrents
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Intel firm on margin target for year
Intel Corp has affirmed its profit-margin target for 2008, reassuring investors concerned about falling memory chip prices and the impact of a weak US economy, sending its stock up 8 per cent.
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Signs of strength from Intel
Its flash memory business aside, the chipmaker posts a solid first quarter and says that global PC demand appears healthy. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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Features and Case Studies
You may not always want Microsoft Excel to automatically create hyperlinks as you enter them into a cell. Disabling this feature in Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel 2003 can be accomplished by changing AutoCorrect settings or with a VBA macro.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 12th Dec 2006 00:24 UTC
This article discusses resolution independence while this article illustrates the per-application volume settings in Vista. Additionally, Microsoft released today the XNA Game Studio Express .
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Google trains indexing bots to fill HTML forms
Google's ever active search bots, which scour the Web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of their indexing jobs.
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At Paris Review Revel, James Lipton Decries Internet, Fiercely Guards Canapés
“I only like to come to these th ings if I’ve recently published a book,” said Richard Price , author of the recently released and highly praised novel Lush Life, standing among fellow authors and editors at the Paris Review Spring Revel gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on the evening of Monday, April 14. read more »
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Microsoft makes Mundie responsible for Unlimited Potential
Microsoft has moved its Unlimited Potential Group (UPG) to Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie's organization and confirmed leadership changes to the group, which oversees Microsoft's efforts to provide technology and education in developing countries.
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Case of Brash's stolen emails closes
The case of former National Leader Don Brash and his stolen e-mails looks set to remain a mystery after Wellington Police closed their investigation saying they have not been able to find the culprits.
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iSoftPhone 2.2 shows missed calls in dock, more
Xnet Communications today unveiled iSoftPhone 2.2 for Mac, a free update to its telephony application that allows users to place phone calls over the internet, introducing a few new features and bug fixes. The new version uses a new Dock icon that indicates when a call was missed, and also prompts users before quitting. A major crash was resolved f...
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Otago University in hacker probe
A hacker has sparked an email scandal at the University of Otago, breaking into its computer system and sending out hundreds of private messages allegedly written by a department head.
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Location Spoofing Possible With WiFi Devices: Positioning System Used By IPhone/iPod Breached
Apple iPhone and iPod (touch) support a new self-localization feature that uses known locations of wireless access points as well as the device's own ability to detect access points. Now researchers have demonstrated that positions displayed by the devices using this system can be falsified, making the use of this self-localization system unsuitable in a number of security- and safety-critical ...
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Buddy Media raises $6.5 million, launches ad network
The company responsible for putting Pirates vs. Ninjas all over your Facebook news feed raises funding from Softbank Capital with contributions from Ron Conway, the European Founders Fund, and others.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th May 2006 22:14 UTC
Microsoft has said that the version of IE7 for Vista will differ slightly from the one for XP and down.
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Top Local Stories
Here are the top local stories at this hour: Not enough members show up to debate two bills to create the Public Management Authority that would help in the Jeffco sewer bond crisis, the District One seat controversy continues as the deadline nears for Governor Riley to seek approval from the Justice Department, a six-year-old is the first to receive an XO Laptop, one of many that will go to ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Nov 2005 14:47 UTC
If Microsoft makes good on its self-destructive threat to pull Windows from the South Korean market rather than accede to local damands to un-bundle its proprietary media and IM apps, there's a safe harbour waiting in the form of blanket, country-wide licenses for the OS formerly known as Lindows.
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Recent Original Stories
"I came away from the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with mixed feelings . I mean, it's hard not to support the group that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the poster-boy project for free and open source software.
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