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Google helps advertisers figure out website demographics
A woman walks past the logo of Internet search engine giant Google at a trade fair. Google on Tuesday introduced a tool that lets advertisers figure out which websites their ideal customers are inclined to visit.
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Popular Websites Addictive?
Just about everybody knows about Myspace and Facebook, but what might come as a surprise is how much our kids are using these social networking web-sites and why some are calling it addictive.
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Nokia buys Symbian, will open Symbian OS
Symbian, the company behind the popular proprietary mobile/embedded operating system of the same name, just turned 10, but it won't see its next birthday. Nokia, which had long owned a substantial portion of Symbian, announced today that it would be buying the rest of the company, 52% for about &euro264 million, or approximately $410 million. In addition to purchasing Symbian, Nokia says it will ...
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American to test in-flight Internet access
Passengers will be able to check e-mail, instant message and download video from wireless devices.
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Methanol Fuel Cell Powers Military Laptops
The US Military awarded further funding for a 25 watt fuel cell to power its laptops and electronics in the field.
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Ashley Alexandra Dupré approves your friend request! [Ashley Dupre]
The internet's favorite escort, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, wants to apologize for taking so long to approve your Friend Request on MySpace. "All of my pending friend requests from 3/12 through now were... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Popular business directory searches
CAD DRAFTER CAD DRAFTER Must Have 2 Years Auto Cad Exp Located In Weatherford Civil Engineering Contact Nic ... >MORE RECEPTIONIST Receptionist Needed for Busy Doctors Office. Needs to have some Exp. in Insurance.
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Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
This doesn't come as a huge surprise, insofar as Princeton was among the first academic presses (that I know of anyway) routinely making sample chapters of its books available online.
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Online service offers one stop shop for all utilities
Rowlett residents no longer have to trek across town to turn on their utilities when they move into the community. In about three minutes, a new resident can eliminate that moving chore.
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Charter drops plans to track users' Web usage
ST. LOUIS - Charter Communications is dropping plans to track the Web usage of some high-speed Internet subscribers, citing concerns raised by customers, the company said today.
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Thieves steal phones, laptops from moving truck
Six Romanians have been arrested on allegations they stole mobile phones and laptops from the back of a tractor-trailer as they followed it down a German autobahn at 60 miles per hour, Dortmund police said Tuesday.
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George Lucas Calls for 'Third Internet'
George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars franchise and head of a non-profit group designed to encourage innovation in schools, called on lawmakers Tuesday to create a free, "third Internet" that would be used solely for educational use.
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Comparing hospitals online
Choosing the right doctor could be as easy as a click of the mouse.
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Tumbleweed Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2008 Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. , an industry leader in managed file transfer and email security, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the newly released “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer,” .
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After Bill Gates, Five Possible Futures for Microsoft
Bill Gates' Impending Retirement Comes at a Major Crossroads for the Company. InfoWorld Sketches Out Five Paths the Software Giant May Take
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Windows XP Retirement a 'Non-Issue' for Corporate Customers
They?ll Still Be Able to Get Their Hands on It Even Though Consumers Soon Won?t
PC World |
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Kenya: When Digital Evidence is Admissible in Court
Digital/ electronic evidence is probative information stored in digital form that a party may use at trial. It includes computer print outs, emails, digital photographs, ATM transaction logs, spread sheets and others.
AllAfrica.com |
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Legs are key to any good golf swing
In response to J Rawlins (Fans with Laptops, June 24), he obviously does not understand the fundamentals of the golf swing.
The Herald |
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Kenya: Bookshop Launches Online Retail Store
The reading culture - long bemoaned as having died in Kenya - is rising from the ashes riding on technological advancement that is bringing the bookshop to customers' offices and homes.
AllAfrica.com |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Dec 2006 22:31 UTC
"Linux file manager ontogeny encapsulates the history of GNU/Linux. File managers began as command-line and generic graphical tools and progressed to desktop-specific ones, gaining sophistication along the way, with mouse controls, for example, replacing buttons.
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Recent Original Stories
"Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Public License and the Microsoft Reciprocal License . The decision to approve was informed by the overwhelming (though not unanimous) consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the Open Source definition, and should therefore be approved."
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Microsoft promises to support Windows XP until 2014
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops It may finally be starting to move down the availability ladder with computer manufacturers ( netbooks and the like aside), but it looks like Microsoft is going to be standing by Windows XP for a good while yet, with it now pledging to support the tried and true OS through 2014. According to Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte, that support will include ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Mar 2007 22:24 UTC
Sun Microsystems has launched a new business unit to sell its Sparc processors , a return to an idea it had dropped years ago.
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Reuters Technology Summary
Microsoft said slow to fix document glitches WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp was criticized on Tuesday for being slow to resolve problems in the technical documentation it was required to provide to rival software makers as part of its 2001 antitrust settlement. The problems were a major part of discussions at a hearing held to review Microsoft's compliance with the pact that ...
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Linked by David Adams on Mon 27th Aug 2007 03:47 UTC
The earliest OSNews articles and news postings have not been available online in many years, as they were mostly static HTML, and when we made the switch over to our v1 CMS, I just filed it away on my hard drive.
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