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West at Home Launches the Industry's First Remote Locked-Down Desktop Security Environment for Home-Based Agent Programs
West at Home, LLC, one of the largest and most respected providers of home-based customer contact solutions in the world, today launches the West at Home Locked-Down Desktop Security Environment. The West at Home Locked-Down Desktop is the industry's first known comprehensive solution for successfully managing security within home-based agent workforces through the agent's existing computer.
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Some employees buy own laptops, phones for work
Many employees - frustrated that their companies are unwilling to pay for the laptops, cellphones and other electronic devices that they want on the road - are spending their own money to get them.
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Software houses must declare patents in standard-setting process: Commission
Stealth tech-forcing not kosher Software companies involved in setting technical standards should be forced to declare their intellectual property in the area and fix maximum fees for the standard's use of it before the standard is set, according to the European Commission.…
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by halfmanhalfamazing (3.44) on Sun 25th Jun 2006 22:03 UTC
performance. I'm sure there's security reasons, disk size reasons, as well as other reasons that people would be considering. But there's many a techie like myself who look at the hard drive as the "lagging indicator" if you will. That's the slowest part.
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Camp McNabb for a week
Eagles star visits the Montco summer retreat for children with diabetes. On Father's Day, it's a charity close to his heart. A dozen little girls circled around Donovan McNabb with disposable cameras flashing.
The Morning Call |
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Trusera Health Network Matches, Based on Amazon Recommendations
Trusera’s health social network launches today, and many that check out the new site will wonder how Trusera is different from most other health-related communities out there, such as DailyStrength and RevolutionHealth. It was the first question that came to my mind, and asked Trusera founder Keith Schorsch about some of the site’s differentiating [...]
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Pixies album for Rock Band next week News by
MTV has lined-up "Doolittle" by The Pixies as the third downloadable album for Rock Band. It'll be out next Tuesday on Xbox Live Marketplace, and a couple of days later on the PlayStation Store - in the US, where the game is actually out on PS3.
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Ministry undertakes education reforms
In a bid to improve the education sector, the Ministry of Education and Training is carrying out work to reform financial management and improve use of IT at educational institutions.
Việt Nam News |
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Toyota hybrid battery outpaced by demand
TOKYO -- Toyota is struggling to keep up with booming demand for hybrid vehicles because it's unable to make enough batteries that are key parts in the hit "green" cars, a senior executive said Monday.
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Recent Original Stories
Jasjeet Sekhon benchmarked Linux and MacOS X on the MacBook Pro using his statistical software , and finds that "Linux is found to be much faster than Apple's OS X for statistical computing. For example, in one benchmark Linux is more than twice as fast."
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Big Brother hovers over your MP3 player
Proposed legislation is going to make Canada a nation of criminals. Last week, Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced changes to the federal copyright act that will make it illegal to download music or movies from the Internet without paying for them. On the heels of this announcement [...]
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Recent Original Stories
Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. [However,] Novell is making one large strategic change . The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES and Novell Linux Desktop line.
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Yahoo's Google & Microsoft Deals, Side-By-Side
I was off most of Friday when the Google-Yahoo deal was announced -- and then details of Microsoft's last proposal to Yahoo also came out. Today was catch-up, and I wanted to put the deals next to each other in chart form. Google-Yahoo doesn't seem as bad as some are making out. I may do a longer post on all this later in the week. No doubt, Google got a sweet deal here. But I wouldn't say ...
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Internet Suicide case moves to center stage in Los Angeles
Associated Press - June 16, 2008 6:44 AM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Missouri woman's scheduled appearance in federal court today moves the venue of her high profile case to the Los Angeles home...
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ConCom 'best option' says agency
A publicly funded scheme to provide wireless broadband is to be rolled out despite meeting local opposition.
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Lips karaoke title from Microsoft
VG247 are this week reporting that 'Lips', a title originally linked to Microsoft's Gamer's Day back in May, but unannounced, could be a karaoke title that will see the Xbox 360 give SingStar some competition.
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Microsoft plan Xbox Live Avatars?
Microsoft's answer to Nintendo's Mii system of cutesy in-game representations could have entered the limelight over the weekend in the shape of the Avatar system mooted online .
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Greenfield Online Enters into Definitive Agreement to be Acquired by Quadrangle
Greenfield Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRVY) ("Greenfield Online" or the "Company") today announced that it has entered into a merger agreement to be acquired by an entity affiliated with Quadrangle Group LLC (together with its affiliates "Quadrangle"), a private investment firm focused on the media and communications industries. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Quadrangle will acquire all of ...
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LXE Introduces Two New Mobile Computers With Ultra-Bright Active Matrix Displays For Either Indoor Or Outdoor Use
LXE Inc., the mobile logistics business of EMS Technologies, Inc. , recently announced the introduction of the new MX3Plus and VX3Plus mobile computers.
DataCollectionOnline |
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Icahn Considering Merits Of Yahoo, Google Pact
While it doesn't represent a quick exit from his holdings in Yahoo with a tidy profit, billionaire investor Carl Icahn did not dismiss the ad deal between the two search advertising companies. read more
WebProNews |
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Quark plans to regain lost ground
PUBLISHING software company Quark has vowed to abandon the "arrogance" that led to its decline and rebuild its business.
Australian IT |
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Symantec net warning
SYMANTEC chief executive John Thompson has warned the Government against trying to regulate the internet by filtering content.
Australian IT |
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PC security warning for banking online
Banks may not always pick up the bill
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Bye-bye, BlackBerry? Not so fast
Will Apple iPhone's "greatest show on Earth" sway Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry's business faithful? Hint: Bet on the BlackBerry for business. Sure, the iPhone's browser bailiwick and coolness factor will appeal to slick, image-conscious execs. Yet the vast majority of the business segment proper won't give up their BlackBerrys -- which have pretty much become a lifeline to their ...
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Firefox 3 launching tomorrow, but does it beat Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera?
With the official release of Firefox 3 tomorrow, everyone's attentions have been turned onto what you're looking at right now - browsers. Lifehacker has reviewed the four major browsers - Firefox 3 release candidate 3, Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9.5,and Safari for Windows 3.1.1, and discovered that Firefox, Safari and Opera all fared better than, um, Internet Explorer. We could've told them that.
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