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Quincy suffers a setback as a server-farm center
Quincy, a Central Washington farming community that had notable success attracting internet data centers, is seeing much of its momentum ebb away amid a stalemate over corporate tax breaks and growing competition from other states.
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802.11n Equipment Sales Show Continued Momentum One Year After Wi-Fi Alliance(R) Certification Begins
Just one year after the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced 802.11n draft 2.0 certification, the upward trajectory of this next-generation Wi-Fi technology continues unabated. Nearly 50 percent of Wi-Fi chipsets sold this year are expected to adhere to the new superfast draft standard -- double the number from 2007.
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Livescribe Pulse(TM) Smartpen Makes Nationwide Retail Debut
OAKLAND, Calif.----Livescribe Inc. today announced its national retail rollout for the Pulse™ smartpen, with availability at Target, Target.com, Amazon.com, and major college and university bookstores supported by Douglas Stewart.
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Sony Launches Lower-energy Bravia LCD TV
Sony is adding to its Bravia LCD TV range with a new 32-inch model that consumes 25 percent less power on average than...
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City pol slams cyberhooking on Craigslist
Alarmed over hookers working the corners of cyberspace, a city councilman called Sunday for a crackdown on Internet flesh peddlers.
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Disabled feel left out by Web tools / Congress considers requiring enhanced phone, video access
Olivia Norman's fingers fly across her laptop keyboard, dexterously tapping out instant messages to friends and entering Google searches without committing a single typo. A minute later, she's listening intently to the voice cues that help her read e-mail and...
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Free photo-sharing sites offer flashy features
Q: I recently got a new digital camera and want to share photos with friends and family. I've asked around and received recommendations for a number of photo-sharing Web sites. Which of the free sites do you think is best? A: The best online photo-sharing...
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Recent Original Stories
An open-source alternative, Beagle provides fast indexing and searching of all your files. Kevin of the LinuxForums.org content development team has used it, abused it and reviewed it.
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Rebuilding AOL's Online Advertising On the Fly
Tech Post, which looks at people and ideas driving the local technology industry, is back. It runs Friday on the WashBiz Blog, at washingtonpost.com/washbizblog.
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Book fair at CSUSB has hands-on approach
SAN BERNARDINO - Eight scattered tombstones at Cal State San Bernardino marked the deaths of Southern California bookstores that no longer serve readers.
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Report: Google Faces Android Handset Delays
Google's new mobile phone software, Android, faces delays, the Wall Street Journal reports
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 23rd Oct 2005 03:27 UTC
Novell is expected to initiate a major round of layoffs that could cut 1000 or more jobs in an attempt to restore the server software company's financial strength, according to employees familiar with the plan.
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Sony Launches Lower-energy Bravia LCD TV
Sony is adding to its Bravia LCD TV range with a new 32-inch model that consumes 25 percent less power on average than...
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Net Effect: Expert Sitings: Howard Rheingold
seesmic.com Seesmic is a fascinating, time-consuming, and amusing technology that is pioneering online threaded-video conversations. In the same manner that chat boards work, users will be able to start their own video threads and respond to others.
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Net Effect: Caught in the Net: Google
When Google recently handed over the identity of 22-year-old Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid to Indian authorities, the company said it was complying with the “valid legal process” of a democracy. But some Net-freedom advocates disagree.
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Net Effect: Red Revival
The Soviet Union is dead! Long live the cyber-Soviets! Although the battle to build a socialist future is long over, the fight to keep the Soviet Union alive on the Internet is just heating up.
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The Virtual World of Nations
The Soviet Union isn’t the only defunct nation to live on online. Former nations East Timor and Yugoslavia can still be found on the Web, too. And North Korea may have the smallest domain of all. Check out what you’ll find there—and on some of the Internet’s other most far-flung destinations.
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Milwaukee Wi-Fi is a no-go for now
Plans for wireless Internet access blanketing Milwaukee have stalled and won’t be completed unless major financial sponsors step forward — something that doesn’t seem likely, city officials say, as similar systems are failing. For al...
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Philanthropist Giving Millions to Two Schools of Journalism
Leonard Tow is pledging $5 million to Columbia University and the City University of New York to examine how the troubled newspaper business can succeed online.
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Ad Leaders See Web’s Threat and Promise
Ad executives are expressing a growing fear that Web powerhouses like Google and Microsoft want to extend their reach into traditional advertising.
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Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue
The flow of advertising dollars to Web sites from print has picked up speed.
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Delaying News in the Era of the Internet
The lesson from the death of NBC News host Tim Russert seems to be this: as long as there is news, people will try to share it. And new technology makes that easier.
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Once an Internet Giant, InfoSpace Dismantles Itself
The company’s share of the search industry does not even reach 1 percent, and its name joins the scrap heap of once-formidable Internet brands, like AltaVista.
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More Time Spent With Online Videos
The number of Internet users watching videos on YouTube and other Web sites rose only slightly in the last year. But each user is watching far more video than before.
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ABC Moves to Expand Its Reach on Video Web Sites
Full episodes of ABC shows and ESPN highlights will join user clips on Veoh.
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