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May the green force be with you
With Bums On The Saddle, two software engineers from Bangalore have a proven way for you to beat the surging petroleum prices. It is politically very correct to exclaim that you want to pedal your way to work every day, but it is open to debate how long you maintain that zealous drive.
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This & That: Online Auction Roundup
Reminder: AuctionBytes-Update does not endorse the products and services featured in the "This & That" column, which often features new Web sites. (Anyone can set up a Web site.)
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Sep 2005 11:17 UTC
At PrepCom3, a dramatic last-minute deal drawn up by the EU may mark the end of the US government's control of the internet . In essence, [the EU called for] a new version of the current overseeing body ICANN and an end to the US government's overall control of the DNS. The US was scathing about the proposals, within minutes telling delegates that it "can't in any way allow any changes" that ...
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EcommBytes - Let's Talk Storefronts
Online storefronts come in many flavors. Some businesses simply use an online site as "brochure-ware" to point people to their marketplace listings or physical locations. Other merchants use sophisticated web-hosting solutions to create a true retail presence.
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Flex is strong because of Java
I've got an email stating that AOL finally abandoned the ugly Java applet that was used in the ICQ2Go , the Web version of hugely popular (about 30M users) instant messaging system. The person who sent me this email also wrote, 'IMO this was the last popular Java applet. Now the king is dead.'
SYS-CON Media |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Jul 2005 19:25 UTC
Some third-party applications are encountering problems introduced by the cumulative Windows 2000 Update Rollup that Microsoft introduced in late June.
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From the Editor
This week I'm headed to the eBay Developer's Conference and eBay Live, where sellers continue to cope with a new eBay under new management. Users will be able to hear from President and CEO John Donahoe directly at the keynote address at 9 am (central) on Friday morning.
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Recent Original Stories
In the past, SELinux has been critized for being too dificult to configure. To solve this, the SELinux policy editor was created: A GUI-oriented editor with a simplified policy description language (ala Apparmor).
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Pier Luigi Fiorini is the lead developer of Mockup
. Mockup is an open source effort to create a modern desktop operating system. It is based on Linux 2.6 and supports native POSIX threading, hardware detection, automatic device creation and automatic network configuration.
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Kids and Money: Social network Web site links college students with lenders
His name is Bill, and he needs $7,800 in student loans.
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Delle Donne Saga Shows Media Needs To Aim Higher
And so the rumors began. She's mad at her teammates. They're mad at her. Homesick. This from one source. That from
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 21st Jan 2006 22:40 UTC
"The combination of Mono, Gtk#, C#, Glade, Glade# and Monodevelop will get you knocking out desktop and Web apps like a pro in no time.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st May 2006 22:30 UTC
After a year in beta testing, Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off Windows Live OneCare , its all-in-one security and PC care subscription service. That package includes antivirus, anti-spyware and PC tuning and backup tools, along with free support for $49.95 USD per year.
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Visualize a pocket computer that also makes calls
Cell phone-wise, it's a great time to be alive. Things are coming together, but also just beginning. Cell phone technology is getting more disruptive, and our lives are changing around it. Sixteen percent of households have given up their land lines, due at least in part to advances in cell phone technology.
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The Search
The Icelandic computer game company CCP, which produces the EVE online multiplayer game with over 230.000 players, has now published the first novel to be based on the game.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th May 2007 22:55 UTC
Nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold in the first 100 days following its release, more than twice the sales of Windows XP over the same time period, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in his opening keynote here at the 15th annual WinHEC.
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MySpace: My Portal?
Just as Yahoo gets one competitor off its back by quitting merger discussions with Microsoft, the Web portal may soon find itself going head-to-head with a new rival. Starting June 18, News Corp.'s social network MySpace is introducing design changes it hopes will make it look and feel a lot more like Yahoo.
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RECORD PIGS SOAR IN CYBERSPACE
The music is fabulous vintage rock 'n' roll — only you probably never heard it.
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Advertisers Invite Web Judgment
For Billy Bloom, advertising with StumbleUpon was a bit like stepping into the Coliseum in ancient Rome: If StumbleUpon users liked Zunafish.com -- Bloom's site for trading CDs, DVDs, video games and books -- they could endorse it by clicking a "thumbs up" icon. A few thousand of those might make Zunafish.com a hit as word spread among StumbleUpon users and, perhaps, their friends.
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Tantrums shouldn't be tolerated after age 3
An Atlanta pediatrician sent me an article from the February issue of Pediatric News describing research recently conducted concerning tantrums in children ages 3 to 6. I spent some time on the Internet reading other accounts of the study. I even left several messages for the primary author but haven't heard back from him yet.
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New England Briefs
TD Banknorth warns of e-mail scam MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- TD Banknorth is warning customers about an e-mail scam that could infect computers. The e-mail messages say they are from TD Banknorth President and Chief Executive Officer Bharat Masrani.
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How Firefox Outran the Hounds
It has been a wild first decade for Mozilla. Despite having had a staff of fewer than 100 for most of its existence, the grassroots organization managed to break Microsoft's lock on the Web browser market. If not for Mozilla's popular Firefox browser, Microsoft's software might have come to dominate the Internet the way it does computers.
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Recent Original Stories
A free Gnome-based Linux distribution for mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs has achieved a major release. OpenedHand's Poky Linux 3.0 ("Blinky") is based on X11, GTK+, and the Matchbox window manager, much like the Nokia-sponsored Maemo.org project.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft's latest release of Internet Explorer will drive demand for internationalized domain names , according to industry experts who are predicting a sharp increase in sales of foreign language domain names.
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