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Microsoft Zune Goes On Sale at Best Buy Canada
Canadians have been left out in the cold when it comes to Microsoft-branded portable music players, but that changed today when the Zune made its official debut in the land of maple syrup and hockey.
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Cox Gets Voice In IP Communications Forum
Cox Business announced Tuesday that it is the first cable operator to join the SIP Forum, a consortium of IP communications companies.
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Judge refuses request for early Yahoo trial date
Associated Press - June 17, 2008 2:44 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Delaware judge has denied a request to hold a trial that could have complicated Yahoo's efforts to thwart a shareholder...
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MA Mother & Baby Dead: Jury Can Hear About Entwistle's Internet Searches
A judge has ruled that the jury in the trial of a British man accused of killing his wife and baby can hear evidence that he allegedly trolled the Internet looking for sex in the days before the slayings.
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CodeWeavers Ships CrossOver 7 Virtualization Software
CodeWeavers announced the release of CrossOver Mac 7.0 and CrossOver Linux 7.0. Both version of CrossOver 7.0 will include support for Microsoft Office 2007 (including Outlook 2007), newer versions of Quicken, and the Adobe CS and CS2 line of products, particularly Photoshop.
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Investors to run Philadelphia's shuttered WiFi
PHILADELPHIA - Local investors are taking over Philadelphia's wireless Internet network and plan to offer access free to individuals and for a fee to area businesses.
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Firefox 3 Released, but Demand Crashes Servers
Firefox 3 was released at 10 AM Pacific Time on Tuesday, but the attempt to set a download record and the corresponding demand has apparently left the Mozilla servers overwhelmed
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Yesmail Becomes Official Referral Partner of Sender Score Certification Program
Yesmail(TM) (an infoGROUP company)(NASDAQ: IUSA), a recognized industry-leading provider of permission-based online email marketing solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Return Path to become a referral partner for their Sender Score Certification program.
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Facebook's foreign clones
International sites that closely mimic the popular social network's design and features are already enjoying success
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Mom Pleads Not Guilty To MySpace Harassment Charges
Lori Drew is under federal indictment for using the social networking site illegally to bully suicide victim Megan Meier.
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Yahoo inks Asia deals as Yang nears CEO anniversary
As its CEO prepared to mark his first year in the corner office, Yahoo Inc. signed search and advertising deals with mobile telecom operators in India, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan and Malaysia. (YHOO) (MSFT)
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Infineon Introduces World's First 1.8V Broadband Low Noise Amplifier to Support Portable TV and Mobile TV Systems
Today at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2008, Infineon Technologies AG (Frankfurt: IFX) announced the availability of the company's new low noise amplifier, one of the industry's smallest broadband LNAs for portable and mobile TV applications.
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Explore the Vietnam Wall online
The Washington Times has partnered with the Internet company Footnote.com on a new project that transforms Washington's Vietnam war memorial wall into an interactive, personal journey on the Web. The Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial allows you to search the names on the wall and to drill down into the government's official war records to learn details about each of the 58,000-plus heroes ...
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NBC contractor broke Tim Russert death on Wikipedia first [Media]
A half-hour before the news broadcast on NBC, a Wikipedia user hailing from IP address 66.187.200.74 updated NBC's Tim Russert's page to report the newsman's death. Scooped by the world's most... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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AK Steel announces earnings call
WEST CHESTER TWP. — AK Steel Corp. has announced it plans to release its second quarter 2008 earnings July 22 at approximately 8:30 a.m. Company officials said they will also provide live listening access on the Internet to its earnings conference call on that date at 11 a.m.
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JBoss joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2
Red Hat made its JBoss Java middleware available through Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service on Tuesday, eight months after it gave customers access to its Enterprise Linux on its technology partner's computing infrastructure. Red Hat is charging a fixed subscription rate of $119 per month for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform or a variable fee starting at $1.21 per ...
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Prosys Announces an Issue of Shares for Debt
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA-- - Prosys-Tech Corporation , announces today that, pursuant to what was announced on April 7, 2008 and May 9, 2008, it has issued 8,333,333 common shares at a price of $0.24 per share pursuant to an agreement reached with the Business Development Bank of Canada to convert $2,000,000 of a $3,000,000 subordinated loan of its subsidiary Prosys-Tec Computers Inc. into ...
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FDA warns about fraudulent cancer treatments
The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on teas, supplements, creams and other products that falsely claim to cure, treat or prevent cancer even though they are not agency-approved drugs. All are available for sale on the Internet. The agency has sent 25 warning letters to companies and individuals marketing these products, FDA officials said Tuesday. Twenty-three of the letters went ...
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BMC scoops up ITM
BMC has bought ITM Software, which makes applications for managing the business-related aspects of IT operations, it announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ITM's Business Suite product consists of a number of modules that focus on CIO-centric topics such as financial resource management, vendor relationship management and staffing. One observer said ITM's technology ...
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Child luring case involving Deer Island teacher adjourned until August
A New Brunswick teacher charged with luring a child over the Internet will be back in court in August.
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Prosys Announces an Issue of Shares for Debt
Prosys-Tech Corporation(TSX-V: POZ), announces today that, pursuant to what was announced on April 7, 2008 and May 9, 2008, it has issued 8,333,333 common shares at a price of $0.24 per share pursuant to an agreement reached with the Business Development Bank of Canada to convert $2,000,000 of a $3,000,000 subordinated loan of its subsidiary Prosys-Tec Computers Inc. into common shares of Prosys.
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How Toshiba's 128GB SSD-equipped Portégé R500 stacks up
Toshiba has released what it says is the first laptop with a 128GB SSD. Technically, the 17-inch Alienware Area-51 m9750 can be configured with two 64GB SSDs, but Toshiba gets credit for shipping the first laptop equipped with a 128GB SSD that you'd actually want to carry anywhere. ...
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FDA warns about fraudulent cancer treatments
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on teas, supplements, creams and other products that falsely claim to cure, treat or prevent cancer even though they are not agency-approved drugs. All are available for sale on the Internet. The agency has sent 25 warning letters to companies and individuals marketing these products, FDA officials said today. Twenty-three of the ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Jun 2006 14:27 UTC
Earlier this year, Apple, after a long wait, updated its pro line of laptops by introducing the MacBook Pro, the Intel-powered equivalent of the PowerBook.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Sep 2005 12:00 UTC
In his latest column, , Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that Microsoft Vista is going to be so expensive that it's going to make users think hard about switching to Linux instead. "Desktop Linux is never going to have a better chance than it will in the next eighteen months," he says.
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