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At Google, Slow Growth in News Site
Six years after its start, Google News is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that the company has in other areas.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer
In a Florida trial, Google data will be used to argue that explicit material doesn’t violate community values.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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The Times and I.H.T. Study Web Merger
The New York Times Company said that it was developing plans to merge the Web site of the International Herald Tribune with that of The New York Times.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Guilty Plea Expected in Broadcom Case
A plea agreement filed Monday said that Henry Samueli, a founder of the computer chip maker, would plead guilty to lying to the S.E.C. during a inquiry into the backdating of stock options.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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London Mayor Points Finger At Violent Videogames
Boris Johnson also believes computer games rot the brain.
1up.com |
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Yahoo licenses neighborhood map data
Urban Mapping's neighborhood boundary data is expected to improve geographic-related search results on Yahoo.
ZDNet Asia |
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Lack Of Awareness Contributes To Brunei’s High Piracy Rate
Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei Darussalam is the only outlier with a high per capita GDP as well as high piracy rates among Asia-Pacific countries, according to a study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) revealed yesterday.
BruDirect.com |
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UK Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
The British government has drafted in a former blue chip CEO to help slash the US$25.6 billion spent on public sector IT each year.
ZDNet Asia |
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66% Of Software In Brunei PCs Pirated
Bandar Seri Begawan - Two out of three software installed on personal computers (PCs) in Brunei Darussalam last year were pirated, according to a study released yesterday aimed at pinning down the sultanate's piracy rate for the first time as part of a global piracy study.
BruDirect.com |
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The State Department Confronts the Synergy Crisis
The Internet won't solve the U.S. government's "synergy crisis."
Strategy Page |
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Axl Sics FBI On GNR Leaker
The FBI took a break from investigating terrorist and criminals to go after a blogger who leaked some songs from the allegedly forthcoming Guns N' Roses album. Rolling Stone has the story
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Searchme Adds New Features - Stacks and Media Search
Searchme, the visual search engine has recently launched two new features - Stacks and media search. Stacks enables users to intuitively save search results and make them shareable. The results can be mailed, added to blogs or added to FaceBook, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon or MySpace. Creating stacks of results is easy. Just drag the search result [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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Video: Bill Gates' last day
At CES 2008, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates and some of his closest friends debuted a comical look at what life would be like as Bill's last day approaches.
ZDNet Australia |
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Sydney stops again
Sydney travellers hit again as computer failure shuts M5 tunnel for five hours, and more Qantas flights axed.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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Mineral County Sheriff’s Department gets grant for six additional laptops
Mineral County Chief Deputy Paul Sabin presented “good news” to the County Commissioners during the regular meeting of the county’s governing body.
Mineral Daily News-Tribune |
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Virgin Mobile USA to buy SK Telecom's U.S. unit: report
SEOUL (Reuters) - Virgin Mobile USA is set to acquire a U.S. mobile arm of South Korea's SK Telecom Co as both sides agreed to combine their struggling businesses, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
EARTHtimes.org |
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Judge Rules New State Sex Offender Law Unconstitutional
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge has struck down a new state law that would allow police to search the computers of convicted sex offenders long after their sentences had been served.
Indiana's NewsCenter |
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Recent Original Stories
"Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony says his company is opening up its CNR software download and management service to other Linux distributions because "Linux really needs an easier way to find and install software, regardless of which flavor of Linux you're using."
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Sep 2007 18:43 UTC
Two interesting bits of news from the Haiku front. First, Haiku now has basic support for FireWire , thanks to GSOC student JiSheng Zhang. You cannot connect a FireWire hard drive just yet, though.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. [However,] Novell is making one large strategic change . The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES and Novell Linux Desktop line.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Oct 2005 13:16 UTC
This week, Microsoft announced that, with the next version of Office, it will support saving files to Adobe's Portable Document Format, or PDF. While logical, the move raises questions about how the PDF support will coexist with Windows Vista's move to its own page description format, known as Metro.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Dec 2005 17:51 UTC
Google has apparently won the battle to retain AOL's affections, edging out a bid from Microsoft. But the cost is high, and establishes several precedents for the Mountain View company that might have been unthinkable a couple of years ago.
OS News |
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Pilot Cable Ad Program On Hold
A national cable TV company with operations in Connecticut planned to collect information on its customers' online surfing habits and direct them to third-party advertisers.
Hartford Courant |
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ESPN Rolls Out 'Ultimate' Remote
Sometimes you have to wonder whether adding another gadget to one's ever-expanding digital toolbox is necessary. That occurred to me as I updated my Facebook "status" with a new remote control for my TV.
Hartford Courant |
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UW-Madison professor bans laptops
When first-year UW-Madison law students arrived in Anuj Desai's constitutional law class last semester, he told them to shut their laptop computers and next time, leave them at home. The directive may have come as a surprise to students who are used to having a keyboard — and the Internet — at their fingertips in class. Whether to outlaw laptops in college classes is a question many professors ...
Wisconsin State Journal |
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