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In Search of Perfect Harmony, Through Software
A new software promises to correct harmonic mistakes in music, as easily as other software now fixes the red eyes in digital photographs.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Success Story 2
How Steve Jobs used his Apple millions to turn Pixar into the most important movie studio of our time.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Monroe police using new data computers
When 19 Monroe patrol officers hit the streets, last week they had a new tool at their disposal to help them work more efficiently— mobile data computers.
The Pulse-Journal |
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Fiji claims NZ diplomat interfering in Govt
A key official in Fiji's coup regime claims she has email written by a senior New Zealand diplomat showing secret interference in Fiji's internal affairs.
Stuff |
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Blogger leaks new Guns N' Roses songs
A U.S. Internet blogger has leaked portions of the highly anticipated new Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy, a British newspaper reports.The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday that nine tracks from the album, which Roses lead singer Axl Rose has been working on for 14 years, have appeared on the Web site Antiquiet.com.The Internet blogger, identified only as Skwerl, said the posting was ...
Moldova.org |
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Internet killed the (digital) radio star
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio — which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres . Station ID, current song, artist and other information were displayed, and the broad reach of the satellite meant it worked even in the most rural areas.
ZDNet Australia |
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Photos: New features in Firefox 3
Firefox 3 aimed for 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its release, and smashed all expectations achieving more than 8 million downloads . This photo gallery takes you inside the new features this recording breaking browser.
ZDNet Australia |
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The 3,000 Mile Oil Change Myth Debunked [Saving Money]
The commonly-held belief that your car's oil needs changed every 3,000 miles is a myth, according to Yahoo Autos, and it's costing you money and hurting the environment.It's been a misconception for...
Lifehacker |
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The sixth development release of the OpenSolaris-based, desktop-oriented Nexenta OS has been released :
"Nexenta OS Alpha 6 is now available.
New Mobile Computing |
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Sonia smear campaign: One more held 22 Jun 2008, 0209 hrs IST,TNN
PUNE: The cyber cell of the Pune police on Saturday arrested one more suspect for allegedly uploading obscene and derogatory text about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on a social networking site.
The Times of India |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 1st Oct 2005 20:06 UTC
Microsoft and Intel last week tried to swing the computing, consumer electronics and entertainment industry toward HD DVD in a format war to establish a higher-capacity successor to today's DVD.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
Konfabulator, the application whose concept was "borrowed" for the Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard system (and yes, we know that Konfabulator itself was inspired by many other apps, including Apple's Desktop Accessories), has been acquired by Yahoo and is now available for free.
OS News |
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Aussie scientists create computer wire
A team of Australian scientists have succeeded in making a silicon-coated wire just a few atoms wide, laying the groundwork for the next generation of computers.
The West Australian |
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New computer network to link Indiana's colleges
A new ultra high-speed Internet connection that already links many Indiana colleges and universities could be available statewide by the end of the year.
WTHR Indianapolis |
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I-94 eastbound jammed; alternate route suggested
Although I-94 between Lake Mills and Johnson Creek is now open, there is only one lane of traffic in each direction and drivers could face delays, especially during peak commute times. People traveling from Madison to Milwaukee -- especially those headed to Saturday's Brewers game -- may want to consider an alternate route. Here is a link to one possibility, running thorugh Watertown. Google ...
The Capital Times |
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Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity
Khalid Baheyeldin writes in with a CBC interview with the CEO of Sandvine, Dave Caputo (bio here). Sandvine is the Waterloo, Ontario-based company that provides the technology that Comcast and other ISPs use to overrule Net neutrality by, for example, injecting RST packets to disrupt Bittorrent traffic. Caputo says, among other things, that Internet monitoring is a necessity. Some of the ...
Slashdot |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Sep 2006 23:14 UTC
Quad-core processors are only the beginning of what a revitalized Intel has to offer, the company's top executives said here Sept. 26. The chip maker will deliver in November its first quad-core processors - chips that incorporate four processors each - for both desktops and servers, said CEO Paul Otellini here, in an opening keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
"Remember the 1980s worries about how the 'forking' of Unix could hurt that operating system's chances for adoption? That was nothing compared to the mess we've got today with Linux , where upwards of 300 distributions vie for the attention of computer users seeking an alternative to Windows."
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Jan 2007 23:28 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"A well-illustrated technical paper comparing RTLinux, RTAI, and VRTXsa has been published by two Italian computer science students. Emanuele Mattei and Andrea Ludiciani conclude that the RTOSes offer comparable predictability, while RTLinux is the least variable and RTAI the most efficient."
OS News |
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Aussie scientists create computer wire
Australian scientists have succeeded in making a silicon-coated wire just a few atoms wide, laying the groundwork for the next generation of computers.
AAP via Yahoo!7 News |
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Office heist in business hub
Calcutta, June 21: Burglars broke into several offices on the seventh floor of Marshall House on Strand Road last night and left with over Rs 60,000 and a laptop among other items.
The Telegraph |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 18th Nov 2005 23:24 UTC
Channel9 recently visited the Vista Print team and learned about the new Print stack in Vista and took a tour of the team and the lab where print testing happens. The 1-hour WMV video is 228 MB.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Apr 2006 18:33 UTC
"Steve Wozniak says he never intended to change the world. That was the other Steve, Steve Jobs. He just wanted to build computers. Oh, and he really - really - wanted to spend his career as an HP engineer, a position he reluctantly left.
OS News |
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Recent Original Stories
DistroWatch has brought to light an apparant fraud by Freespire. "Several readers have emailed us to let us know that Linspire has launched what can only be classified as an attempt to tamper with our page hit ranking statistics by trying to artificially inflate the page hit ranking figures for its new community distribution - Freespire.
OS News |
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Help File
Q Are there any laptops made for use outdoors? My screen keeps washing out in sunlight.
Washington Post |
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