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Can-Am League Teamline Direct Players Of The Week
DURHAM, NC - The Can-Am League's official statistician, PA-Sportsticker, has selected New Jersey Jackals INF Chris Kelly and Quebec Capitales RHP Luis Valdez as the Teamline Direct Batter and Pitcher of the Week.
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American Association Teamline Direct Players Of The Week
DURHAM, NC - The American Association's official statistician, PA-Sportsticker, has selected Shreveport Sports OF Terrence McClain and Sioux Falls Canaries RHP Travis Kane as the Teamline Direct Batter and Pitcher of the Week.
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South Africa: Exclusive Sneak Preview of M&G Online
The Mail & Guardian Online set the bar for innovation by being the first news website on the African continent to launch as far back as 1994. Now, in 2008, the M&G Online will launch its completely renovated website, packed with features and enhancements, sometime this week and Bizcommunity.com has an exclusive sneak preview.
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New NVIDIA Tesla Doubles the Performance for Thousands of CUDA Developers Worldwide
DRESDEN, Germany , June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- From video encoding to oil and gas exploration and from medical imaging to scientific research, thousands of CUDA developers in the high performance computing (HPC) community are leveraging a revolutionary GPU computing platform that was announced just one year ago.
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AT&T Introduces New Social Networking and Mobile Media Applications From Juice Wireless and Buzzwire
SAN ANTONIO , June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Want to stay connected to many of your favorite online social destination sites while you're on the go this summer?
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how did they end up with it ?"
"It's amazing how many people who have Microsoft Windows everywhere look flummoxed when asked whether Windows is their "standard" for desktop computing. The reason they are thrown by this question is typically because they haven't thought about it that way before.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 17:40
Any minute now, the Mozilla Foundation will officially release the third incarnation of their successful Firefox web browser - the browser that cracked Internet Explorer's monopoly and forced Microsoft to improve IE. Mozilla aims to set a world record in most software downloaded in 24 hours with Firefox 3.
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Judge's wife calls Web porn story 'outright lies'
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD A federal appeals court judge under scrutiny for sexually explicit videos and photos posted on a personal Web site is the victim of distortions and "outright lies" published by the Los Angeles Times, his wife charged Monday. Marcy Jane Tiffany, wife of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, described some of the material stored on the home computer as ...
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Canadian Human Rights Commission Launches Independent Review on Hate Messaging on the Internet
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has launched a comprehensive policy review of how best to address hate messages on the Internet. Leading constitutional law expert Professor Richard Moon of the University of Windsor will conduct an independent study as an important part of this review.
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TV sales help Best Buy beat quarterly expectations
Consumer electronics giant Best Buy today reported a 7 percent decline in profit, though the Richfield retailer did better than analysts had expected with strong sales of higher-ticket items, such as flat-panel TVs, video gaming consoles, notebook computers and GPS devices.
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Wife Beat Husband With Hammer, Coroner Says
Investigators say a Piedmont woman hit her husband in the head with a hammer while he was sitting at his computer desk on Monday.
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
** South Korea's POSCO <005490.KS>, the world's fourth-largest steel maker, is considering investing in Australian mining firm Macarthur Coal as part of its plan to boost mining assets, the company said on Tuesday.[ID:nSEO91290 ] ** Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd <010140.KS>, the world's No.2 shipbuilder, said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy a 10 percent stake in Brazil's ...
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Adobe: iPhone Flash in early development
An iPhone version of Adobe's ubiquitous Flash plug-in is still early into development, the company has admitted. In an earnings call for Adobe's second financial quarter, CEO Shantanu Narayen has responded to questions on if and when Flash will be ready for the iPhone 3G, which itself is only expected to ship on July 11th. Apple has long blocked ...
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Toshiba brings first 128GB SSD notebook to US
A second announcement from Toshiba sees the US release of what it says is the first notebook with a 128GB solid-state drive. The Portégé R500-S5007V exploits the company's in-house 128GB drive to double the storage available in a very thin ultraportable while still keeping the incidental benefits of an SSD, such as very quick response times as wel...
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Online Journalism News
Northcliffe Media has today rolled out ten revamped websites, signaling the start of a major phase of redevelopment across its regional news network. The remodeled sites are part of plans to revamp 55 existing sites and to add 35 new regional websites under Northcliffe's 'thisis' brand.
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Tellabs Drives Fiber Forward
Users demand faster and faster Internet speeds, driven by the desire to download and upload high-definition video. In fact, YouTube, a video sharing Web site, consumed more bandwidth in 2007 than the entire Internet did in 2000.
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ASSET is First to Support Intel's New Nehalem Micro-Architecture and Tolapai SOC with CPU Emulation Test and Diagnostics
RICHARDSON, Texas----The MicroMaster system from ASSET® InterTech is the first CPU emulation-based test and diagnostic system to support Intel®'s new multi-core Nehalem micro-architecture as well as its new system-on-a-chip technology, Tolapai.
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Conway Corporation launches free, paperless eBill service
Conway Corporation has launched a paperless eBill service that will allow customers to receive their monthly statements by e-mail and pay their bills online. The new service is free.
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Hynix to acquire 9.5% of ProMOS in $168-M deal
SEOUL/TAIPEI -- Hynix Semiconductor, Inc., the world's no. 2 memory chip maker, said yesterday it would buy about 9.5% of ProMOS Technologies for $168 million, expanding a strategic partnership with its Taiwan rival.
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Philippine Silicon Valley -- By Dennis Posadas: Artists and the Web; Facebook
One of the artists I am currently listening to these days is Chinese-American Vienna Teng. Teng is a Stanford-trained computer scientist and former Cisco engineer who was also at the same time a musician. A few years ago, she self-released her own album, which contained the title track, The Tower, which you can hear at her Web site, http://viennateng.com.
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MorphLabs expects investment returns
CEBU-BASED software developer Morph-Labs expects to start making money in the next few months as its investments in research and development pays off.
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marina?
Since BT Openzone announced its acquisition of Square Mile marina in March, bringing high speed wireless internet (Wi-Fi) access to 39 coastal and inland marinas in the UK and Jersey, use of the wireless network among the sailing community has been steadily increasing.
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Microsoft Surface computers hit Las Vegas party scene
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft's touchscreen Surface computers debuted in a Las Vegas casino bar on Wednesday, giving Sin City partiers high-tech tools for flirting and concocting cocktails.
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Research In Motion well positioned to weather iPhone hype
TORONTO -- Unlike last year, Research In Motion investors kept their cool this week as smartphone rival Apple held court to deliver the much-hyped new version of its iPhone.
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Carl Icahn and shareholders raise pressure on Yahoo board
NEW YORK -- Yahoo, Inc.'s board of directors came under increasing pressure over an employee severance plan on Tuesday, with shareholders suing the company demanding a swift trial and investor Carl Icahn threatening to hold the board "personally liable" for approving it.
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