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IBM, Intel take steps in solar
Big business is officially going solar.
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Games Profitability Top Priority For Sony's Stringer
Sony chairman Howard Stringer has claimed that restoring profitability to the company's television and video games business is his top management priority. Speaking at Sony's annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo, Springer reiterated predictions that Sony Computer Entertainment will post its first annual profit since the introduction of the PlayStation 3. Sony's video games unit has lost $3.4 ...
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Lecture: What The PC Gaming Alliance Can Do For You
People are sick and tired of buying PC games. Why? Because when they show up at a consumer retail store and purchase a game, there's no guarantee that their machine will be able to run it. It sounds like a problem that only affects parents who buy games for their children, or "lite" computer users. But even hardcore gamers don't always know offhand which version of which graphics card is in ...
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Digital Music Sales Increase
Music sales dropped to their lowest level in a decade even though there was an increase in digital sales but it did not make up for falling CD sales according to a report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Worldwide music sales fell 8 percent to $19.4 billion in 2007. Sales of CDs dropped 13 percent to $15.9 billion. Sales of downloaded songs and mobile ...
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California scientist to get Kyoto Prize
A California-based computer scientist, a philosophy professor and a molecular biologist will each receive $460,000 after being selected Friday as winners of this year's Kyoto Prizes for achievement in the arts and sciences.
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VMploy.com, the First of its Kind, Visual and Interactive Online Employment Community Launches in Beta. VMploy.com ...
VMploy.com, the first of its kind, visual and interactive online employment community launches in Beta.
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Sovereign Goes Live with SS&C's TradeDesk.WEB(TM) Software
WINDSOR, Conn.----SS&C Technologies, Inc. , a global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced Sovereign is live on the TradeDesk.WEB module of SS&C's Lightning™ software suite.
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Recent Original Stories
Over the past few years SATA has become a standard interface on hard drives and is starting to show up in many peripheral devices. Today we're taking a look at two similar hard drives to see if there's a performance difference between SATA and the older Parallel IDE standard.
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T-Mobile to cut roaming rates
Dave Bailey, IT Week , Friday 20 June 2008 at 14:17:00 T-Mobile promises 80 per cent cut in roaming rates T-Mobile has announced that it will cut data roaming charges by 80 per cent from 1 July, and the cost of sending texts from EU countries by 30 per cent...
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Linked by Adam S on Sat 30th Dec 2006 16:32 UTC
Since it's year end, I thought I'd post one more "fun piece" for everybody. After Thom posted an article on his customized KDE desktop , I thought it might be interesting to compare desktop screengrabs and see what other OSNews'ers desktops look like. Are you cluttered or clean? Are you minialist?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Aug 2005 17:44 UTC
Paul Thurrot (there he is again) compares Vista Beta 1 to Tiger : "For Windows enthusiasts, Windows Vista Beta 1 is a much-needed demonstration that Microsoft can still churn out valuable Windows releases, after years of doubt.
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Recent Original Stories
While the history of wireless computer networks dates back to the 1970 with the University of Hawaii's ALOHAnet (I wish we retained that name instead of 802.11x), it has only been during the past, say, 10 years that the technology started to make serious inroads into the consumer market - your home.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Jan 2007 00:37 UTC
Sales of Windows Vista to businesses were stronger than expected during the operating system's debut month, according to a report from NPD Group. The sales outpaced the first month's tally for Windows 2000 and only slightly trailed that for Windows XP, the market researcher said Thursday.
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Recent Original Stories
While the history of wireless computer networks dates back to the 1970 with the University of Hawaii's ALOHAnet (I wish we retained that name instead of 802.11x), it has only been during the past, say, 10 years that the technology started to make serious inroads into the consumer market - your home.
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Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough bite
Western Digital has revamped the Raptor line of 10,000RPM high-performance hard drives by unleashing the VelociRaptor. But does the performance boost justify the cost? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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Triant Receives Order for New Raw Wafer Production Application of ModelWare
Triant Holdings Inc. reports that it has received an order from a new customer in Southeast Asia for the implementation of its ModelWare FDC software to a raw wafer production application.
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Recent Original Stories
While the history of wireless computer networks dates back to the 1970 with the University of Hawaii's ALOHAnet (I wish we retained that name instead of 802.11x), it has only been during the past, say, 10 years that the technology started to make serious inroads into the consumer market - your home.
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Bloomberg defends Obama before Jewish audience
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is urging Jewish voters to denounce the online whisper campaign that for months has pushed the false rumor that Democrat Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. Bloomberg is speaking to members of a Jewish group in Boca Raton, Fla. He's warning them that the attempt to portray Obama as a shadowy Muslim with a hidden agenda often targets Jewish voters online and with ...
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IBM, Intel take steps in solar
Big business is officially going solar.
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Microsoft acquires Chet Kanojia founded Navic Networks
Type verification code in the box and submit. Washington: Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Navic Networks, a leading provider of television advertising solutions founded by Chet Kanojia, who is also the CEO of the company.
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Does She Have A Recipe For Humble Pie?
Bloggers called foul on Cindy McCains "home style" recipes after finding that they were copied from a cooking show star. While the recipes may not have originally been hers, nobody bothered to even tweak them a little before saying th...
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Karnataka to boost IT growth in rural areas
Type verification code in the box and submit. Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka will soon come out with a policy to take the benefits of information technology to people in the countryside.
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Is unrestricted Net telephony round the corner?
Type verification code in the box and submit. New Delhi: Indian telephone customers may soon be able to make cheaper telephone calls within the country using the Internet infrastructure.
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Testing programs, with eye on saving lives
A soldier scans a digital map of America and zooms in through satellite to the flooded areas of Iowa. Through Agile Client, the state-of-the-art computer program he is using, Spc. Joseph Jackson is "on the ground" tracking the rescue efforts.
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Democrats, GOP Agree To Telecom Immunity Deal
House and Senate leaders have agreed to a compromise surveillance bill that would effectively shield from civil lawsuits the telecommunications companies that helped the government wiretap phone and computer lines after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks without court permission.
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