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High oil prices linked to dot-com boom and bust
A rapid price increase, big investment inflows and a chorus of bullish analysts are just some of the characteristics of the oil market that have echoes of the Internet crash of 2000.
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Facebook has more friends than MySpace
Andrew Charlesworth, vnunet.com , Monday 23 June 2008 at 13:08:00 Worldwide figures put Murdoch's nose out of joint Facebook has overtaken arch rival MySpace in the battle for online popularity, according to the latest independent figures. Facebook attracted 123.9 million unique visitors and 50.6 billion page views in...
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NBC service will show Olympic events via computer
Fans select which sports they're interested in, and the program automatically downloads the coverage once it's available. Then they can watch the events without being online. The service, provided by Wavexpress, is free.
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VMware Helps World's Top Universities Cut Costs and Go Green
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that the top universities from the Times-QS World University Rankings have deployed VMware virtualization solutions to reduce capital and operating costs, increase application and system uptime, decrease power consumption and improve disaster preparedness.
Centre Daily Times |
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INTERNET INSITE: Find the best sites without searching
Do you have an interesting Web site you'd like to see featured on Internet InSITE? Email Web Manager Justin Piehowski, jpiehowski@kstp.com . Watch INTERNET InSITE each Monday at 6:30 on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS MORNING.
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Post Office blacklisting confirmed
Internet retailer Amazon.com has confirmed that it will not use the South African Post Office for door-to-door deliveries, citing the need for the postal utility to improve its customer services.
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Yahoo!'s Decker! defends! Goo-Hoo!
'It's our choice every day...' Yahoo! president Susan Decker has criticised the company’s naysayers, many of whom have protested against the fraught firm’s recent web search ad deal with Google.…
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Thin Client Firmware support Citrix XenDesktop standard.
IGEL Linux firmware lets Linux-based IGEL thin clients be switched, with one mouse click, from traditional IGEL Universal Desktop to tightly defined virtual PC using ICA to access Citrix XenDesktop. This ensures any compliant access device connected to Citrix XenDesktop behaves exactly as normal PC. Universal Desktop approach enables organizations to implement digital services in addition to ICA ...
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Expand Networks Takes Protection of All WAN Traffic to the Next Level
SLOUGH, England----Expand Networks, a leader in application acceleration over the wide area network and recently positioned in the Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers 2007 has announced the integration of standards-based IPSec implementation on all IP traffic within the latest edition of its Compass platform.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Saturday police news
In recognition of June as National Internet Safety Month, the Michigan State Police is reminding parents that the Internet can be a dangerous place for children without proper supervision.
Midland Daily News |
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TietoEnator ist das erste Microsoft Unified Communications Lighthouse
Signalwirkung für den Norden Europas
Portel.de |
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First Centrino 2 processors due by mid-July
Despite Intel's claims that Centrino 2's official appearance is due in August, some of the company's notebook processors and platform will appear in mid-July, according to reports. The chipmaker is now anticipated to launch all its mainstream mobile processors, including 2.53GHz and 2.8GHz full-power chips as well as 2.26GHz, 2.4GHz, and 2.53GHz l...
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Microsoft Re-releases Security Patch
Microsoft has re-released a security patch issued earlier this month after discovering that it fixed the flaw in Vista, but not XP.
DesignTechnica |
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Petra Nemcova's Happy Hearts Fund Gives More Than 150 Computers to Andrew H. Wilson Charter School of New Orleans
Petra Nemcova, supermodel, philanthropist and founder of The Happy Hearts Fund donated more than 150 computers and other educational technology equipment to The Andrew H. Wilson Charter Elementary School in the Broadmoor section of New Orleans.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Microsoft Re-releases Security Patch
Microsoft has re-released a security patch issued earlier this month after discovering that it fixed the flaw in Vista, but not XP.
DesignTechnica |
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Fewer students pursue computer-related degrees
Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs.
Chicago Tribune |
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TurnHere Sponsors 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival to Support Independent Filmmaker Community
LOS ANGELES, CA and EMERYVILLE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/23/08 -- TurnHere, Inc ., the leading online video platform, today announced that the company will be sponsoring the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival , and streaming all film trailers in the event's online film guide available at lafilmfest.com.
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George Carlin's Death Spikes Searches For His Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV
I was saddened to hear one of my favorite comedians, George Carlin, passed away Sunday. Clearly he touched many people. A quick look at Google Trends shows searches related to him have spiked up as well as for his famous "seven words you can't say on TV." Among the things people are seeking: Click to continue reading...
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Sweden passes monitoring law
Sweden has passed a law allowing all cross-border internet and telephone traffic to be monitored, despite public protests and opposition from civil rights groups.
TVNZ |
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Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic
Bulgaria applied to register an Internet domain name in Cyrillic script as part of efforts to boost national pride amid a growing influence of English.
TVNZ |
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Singapore gets flat-rate mobile IM
StarHub launches a service to tap user demand for mobile IM, which Gartner says is another application to cross over from the "fixed-line Internet". Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
ZDNet Asia |
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Fandango Buys Movies.com
Los Angeles-based movie website Fandango said this morning that it has acquired Movies.com, an online movie content site which was owned by Walt Disney Internet Group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Movies.com is an online web site which features information about showtimes, upcoming movies, and other movie-related information. According to Fandango, its advertising sales force ...
socalTech.com |
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Cutting the IT carbon footprint
Businesses, more than ever, need to assess how technologies such as application and desktop virtualization, can reduce carbon emissions.
ZDNet Asia |
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NBC service will show Olympic events via computer
NEW YORK- Fans will be able to catch up on the Beijing Olympics on their laptops during their commute this summer. That's the idea behind the NBC Olympics on the Go...
Boston Herald |
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Patni Life Sciences Launches PatniADEPT, a New Service to Streamline Drug Safety Reporting
THE DIA CONFERENCE--Patni Computer Systems, (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI), a leading global IT services provider, today announced the introduction of a new service that will perform adverse event case processing for pharmaceutical companies. PatniADEPT(TM), announced today at the 44th annual Drug Information Association (DIA) conference in Boston, addresses the challenges life ...
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