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Subscribing to the podcast if you don't already have iTunes If you subscribe, your computer will download the latest podcast every time you log on to the internet. First you first need iTunes to organise all the audio files on your computer, and it's free.
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Blockbuster strikes deal with PayPal
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Wednesday 25 June 2008 at 01:09:00 Online accounts can be used for video subscriptions Video rental chain Blockbuster has struck a deal with online payment service PayPal. The new partnership will allow users to purchase subscriptions for Blockbuster's online movie rental service....
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Breakthrough in Trend Micro/Barracuda showdown
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Wednesday 25 June 2008 at 01:05:00 Prior art could break Trend's patent case A search through the open source community has provided a breakthrough that could settle the ongoing patent dispute between Trend Micro and Barracuda Networks....
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 3rd May 2006 22:19 UTC
Xandros Corporation has announced the availability of Xandros Server, the company's inaugural release of a high-end server distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux: "Xandros becomes the first Linux platform to provide a 'Debian Enterprise' end-to-end desktop and server platform."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Jan 2006 17:53 UTC
The very first Apple computers, distributed nationwide in 1977, had a hood you could pry off to reveal the CPU, the memory, and the motherboard. But almost three decades later, the company that pioneered "open architecture" with the Apple II, even with thousands of admirers looking on, was reluctant to pry the back panel off its new Intel Core Duo-based iMacs and MacBook Pro portables.
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"I first demoed Versora Progression Desktop at LinuxWorld Boston in February of 2005, and was impressed by what it could do. Basically it takes all of your essential data and program settings (and even some decidedly nonessential settings) and transfers them to GNU/Linux.
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Mayor says 14,000 XO laptops ordered
The remaining 14,000 XO laptops have been ordered and will arrive for Birmingham elementary students in mid-July, Mayor Larry Langford told the Board of Education on Tuesday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jun 2008 06:15 UTC
The Symbian OS was a team effort between Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Panasonic, Samsung and Siemens. Reports said , that in the eve of the 10th year anniversary from the creation of Symbian, Nokia has bought the 8.4% Siemens stake for 70 million Euros ($108.6 million) and will now have over 56% of controlling interest in the group, but the press release says that Nokia takes it all . This could ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jun 2008 22:40 UTC, submitted by Michael
Canonical has released Ubuntu 8.04 Mobile Internet Device Edition, a version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution geared towards netbooks, mobile internet devices, UMPCs, subnotebooks, or whatever they're called this day of the week.
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The Mail & Guardian Online , previously known as the Electronic Mail & Guardian or the Daily Mail & Guardian , was founded in the mid-Nineties by Irwin Manoim and Bruce Cohen. It is one of the world's oldest news websites and among the first news sites on the African continent.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jun 2008 22:40 UTC, submitted by Michael
Canonical has released Ubuntu 8.04 Mobile Internet Device Edition, a version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution geared towards netbooks, mobile internet devices, UMPCs, subnotebooks, or whatever they're called this day of the week.
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A brief history
The Mail & Guardian Online was the first internet-based news publications in Africa. Launched in early 1994, it is one of South Africa's and Africa's major news publishers and is reputed internationally for its quality content.
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Canonical releases Ubuntu MID Edition
Ubuntu's commercial sponsor has released the first publicly available developer edition of the Linux distribution for mobile internet devices
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Bachus defends Net gambling ban
WASHINGTON - Rep. Spencer Bachus two years ago helped enact a federal ban on Internet gambling, but that was nowhere near the end of the debate.
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Aha! You've come to the right place! If you want to stay in touch with the news all day, every day, and have breaking news delivered automatically and directly to your desktop, then you need to download the Mail & Guardian Online 's NewsFlash .
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YouTube home to nearly half web clips watched in UK, comScore reveals
YouTube accounted for almost 50% of the 3.5bn video clips viewed by UK web users in March, well ahead of the 1.2% share of the BBC and its iPlayer service, according to research firm comScore. Google, driven almost entirely by the popularity of its video-sharing website YouTube, attracted a 48% share of UK online video traffic - 1.68bn views - in March, according to comScore Video Metrix. ...
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Remember me? The new version of the Firefox browser was downloaded more than eight million times in its first 24 hours of release. 0 comments
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Renewed respect as geisha make a comeback - and take to cyberspace
Miehina has barely taken a dozen steps along a Kyoto street before the audio backdrop to her every public move comes to life. In the fading light of an early summer evening, the metronomic clip-clop of her platform okobo sandals is accompanied by the clicking of shutters, as a gaggle of amateur photographers seeks the perfect snapshot of one of Japan's most venerated women. They stay with ...
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Nokia buys British software company to take on Google
Nokia moved to counter the growing threat of Apple and Google in the race to supply the next generation of mobile phones by taking control of the British software company Symbian yesterday and announcing plans to make its mobile phone software free of charge. Symbian, which Nokia helped create with the UK-based Psion 10 years ago, makes the operating system software that sits on so-called ...
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Welcome to the shiny new M&G Online!
The M&G Online set the bar for innovation by being one of the first news websites to launch worldwide as far back as 1994. Now, in 2008, we continue to innovate by launching a completely renovated website, packed with features and enhancements.
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FIRED IN PHILLY
PHILADELPHIA news anchor Larry Mendte has been fired by CBS amid the FBI probe into allegations he hacked into former co-anchor Alycia Lane's computer and leaked embarrassing stories about her to Page Six. KYW-TV's ax fell days after Lane, who was...
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T-Mobile goes nationwide with landline service
NEW YORK - Cell phone company T-Mobile USA is set to launch a nationwide service that lets customers place unlimited domestic calls with their landline phones over a broadband connection.
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IBM layoffs leave work force at lowest level in 20 years
Big Blue cuts 180 jobs at its Essex Junction microelectronics plant; 5,400 employees remain. More coverage: --Gubernatorial candidates react --Layoffs rekindle union effort
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Eastern delight
Remember me? 0 comments The new version of the Firefox browser was downloaded more than eight million times in its first 24 hours of release. 0 comments São Paulo puts on a display of Japanese culture for visiting Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito.
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