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eBay Puffs Up PayPal With Fraud Protection Upgrade
In its latest effort to increase user confidence in its e-commerce platform -- and to boost use of its PayPal payment service -- eBay will offer full protection against fraud to purchases made with PayPal. eBay buyers who complete eligible transactions with PayPal will be able to get 100 percent of their purchase price back, with no price cap.
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Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $500M for patents
A U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Microsoft Corp. will have to pay Alcatel-Lucent more than $500 million for infringing on two patents.
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Recent Original Stories
"With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Apr 2006 14:20 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Vista will run on just about any PC available today, but it will only show its true colors on about half of them , according to a new report from Gartner.
New Mobile Computing |
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by Gone fishing (3.4) on Mon 21st Aug 2006 17:08 UTC
The driver thing is worrying me. I understand why Linux distros can't include closed source drivers, I can see why binary blobs aren't desirable and why GPL fundis want to preserve GPL etc, etc.
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Free Internet is part of new FCC airwaves auction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without pornography.
Reuters |
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ASSEMBLY PUTTING IT TOGETHER IN PHILLY
PHILADELPHIA - Production/post production company Assembly (www.assemblypix.tv) has opened in the Philadelphia area, offering concept-to-completion solutions, as well as a la carte services such as video editing, compression, DVD authoring, motion graphics and animation. The studio also specializes in producing content tailored specifically for the Internet, as well as re-purposing clients' ...
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EBay Expands PayPal Protections
EBay hopes to attract more online traders by expanding the protections available to people who use its PayPal payment service for transactions on eBay’s Internet marketplaces.
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At Yahoo, the Exodus Continues
The trickle of departing senior executives has turned into a flood since Yahoo’s talks with Microsoft ended and it signed a search deal with Google.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Apps: Logo Design Studio Pro, Composer FX
Logo Design Studio Pro 1.8 ($60) logo design software brings together a full vector editor with pre-designed conceptual logo templates and objects. The new update to Logo Design Studio Pro now includes increased support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files; over 1300 pre-designed SVG objects that anyone can fully edit; a new browser that allows...
MacNN |
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Sony Ericsson Launches HSPA Modems
Sony Ericsson has lifted the lid on the MD400 and MD400g, the company's first HSPA (tri-band 850/1900/2100MHz) USB modems. Not only do the gizmos (70x28x15mm, 28g) provide high-speed broadband but they also offer a combined M2 Memory Stick Micro and a microSD sl...
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Don't obsess over online home value estimates
Consider it among the unintended consequences of the national housing bust: Homeowners radiating every shade of anxiety after repeatedly visiting online real estate sites that conjure up instant home value estimates. These Web sites, like Zillow.com,...
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Download these developer resources today! Sybase Download: SQL Anywhere Developer Edition
SQL Anywhere provides data management and exchange technologies designed for database-powered applications that operate in frontline environments without onsite IT support, and it's offered at no cost for development and testing.
Linux Today |
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Nvidia video: No quad-core chip needed for extreme PC
Nvidia builds extreme gaming PC without Intel quad-core processor.
CNET |
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SOLo Lounge Table
You and your guests don't need to be the only ones soaking up the sun at your next barbeque or pool party. Put a SOLo Lounge Table in your yard and it'll guzzle the sun's rays so you can deejay your next shindig from your stereo, laptop or iPod using nothing but clean solar power.
UGO - UnderGroundOnline |
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Don't obsess over online home value estimates
Consider it among the unintended consequences of the national housing bust: Homeowners radiating every shade of anxiety after repeatedly visiting online real estate sites that conjure up instant home value estimates.
Merced Sun-Star |
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Malone gives poor reception to free online TV
John Malone, the billionaire US media mogul, warned on Friday that moves by television networks to make programmes available for free on the internet were doomed to fail.
Financial Times |
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Toti gran’s killers nabbed
The killers of 89-year-old Delia Graham — the Amanzimtoti pensioner who was robbed and strangled to death in her granny flat — have been arrested. Graham, a popular Warner Beach resident, was tied up and robbed of her television and computer.
The Natal Witness Group |
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Linked by David Adams on Wed 17th Aug 2005 17:31 UTC
Security vendors have reported several new variants of the worm infecting PCs running Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system. Groups of virus writers are competing to cause the most damage, according to one security company, although the worm appears less severe than some first feared.
New Mobile Computing |
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Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $500M for patents
Associated Press - June 20, 2008 5:15 PM ET REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - A U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Microsoft Corp. will have to pay Alcatel-Lucent more than $500...
KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities |
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The first beta of PC-BSD 1.4 has been released .
"After months of hard work, the PC-BSD team is pleased to make available the 1.4 BETA release. This version includes many exciting new features and software, such as 3D desktop support via Beryl, KDE 3.5.7, FreeBSD 6.2, Xorg 7.2, new GUI tools & utilities, and much more ." Get it from the download page .
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Recent Original Stories
"The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. At the Mix '07 conference on Monday, Microsoft touted the ability to write Silverlight Web applications that run on Internet Explorer, Firefox and the Safari browser on Mac OS. Next up for Silverlight is an edition for mobile devices, ...
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Free Internet is part of new FCC airwaves auction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without pornography.
Reuters.co.uk |
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The government yesterday confirmed that it has dropped plans to build two Type 45 destroyers on the Clyde.
The Calman Commission on the future of Scottish home rule fears public meetings and its internet site are vulnerable to "hijack" by Nationalists and other critics.
The Herald |
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Brazil creates new Indian reservation
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5 million hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest's logging frontier. The Bau reservation in Para state had been sought by the Kayapo Indians in their ancestral territory since 1994. But resistance from settlers and loggers slowed its official creation. "We are advancing little by little, but ...
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