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Rising Fuel Prices Prompt Students to Call for Greater Adoption of Lecture Capture
MADISON, Wis. , June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With gas prices pushing past $4 per gallon, distance-education programs are seeing a boost in enrollment as more students are opting to view lectures online instead of driving to class.
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Highway 'pirates' steal electronics from rolling rigs
BERLIN — 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.
The Trucker |
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Timeline: Lost child benefit records
Key events that led to the loss of computer discs containing 25 million child benefit records
Guardian Unlimited |
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Malicious Spam Triples In One Week
The volume of malicious spam in circulation has more than tripled in one week, according to new research from Marshal's TRACE team. This sharp increase can be largely attributed to the Srizbi botnet, which is currently responsible for 46% of all spam sent. Malic...
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SKorea, Iraqi Kurdistan sign oil exploration deal
SEOUL, June 25, 2008 (AFP) - A South Korean consortium has forged a deal to explore eight oilfields in Iraqi Kurdistan in return for major construction projects in the region, officials said Wednesday.
Zawya |
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Microsoft promises to deliver interoperability documents by March 2009
Microsoft now says it will take until March 2009 to deliver documents it promised a half-decade ago. Whom does Microsoft think this hurts?
CNET |
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Critics: Microsoft Slow with Fixes
The problems were brought up during hearings regarding the 2001 antitrust settlement....
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Flexible working still a stigma, say techies
IT departments living in the Victorian era...
Silicon.com |
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AP NewsAlert
Durable goods orders unchanged in May as aircraft and computers offset weakness elsewhere.
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AP NewsAlert
Durable goods orders unchanged in May as aircraft and computers offset weakness elsewhere.
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Google Sued for $1 Billion in Software Stealing Dispute
Google is the target of a one billion dollar lawsuit by LimitNone, a software company which claims Google has taken trade secrets from the company and violated consumer fraud law. Apparently, LimitNone developed a tool which allows users to move Microsoft Office calendar info and email to the Google GMail application. LimitNone, according to a report [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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PR Newswire Offers Profiles of Organizations Exhibiting at the 29th Annual National Educational Computing Conference
As the exclusive official breaking news service of The 29th Annual National Educational Computing Conference , PR Newswire is featuring profiles of the exhibiting organizations. To read these profiles, please see below.
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Loopt Lets Verizon Wireless Customers Easily Navigate Their Mobile Lifestyles and Stay Connected to People and Places ...
Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless service provider, and Loopt® announced today that Verizon Wireless customers can now access Loopt's interoperable location-based service.
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SonicWALL Takes on Non Delivery Report (NDR) Spam Surge
SonicWALL, Inc. , a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced SonicWALL Email Security 6.2, which features the Bounce-Address-Tag-Validation specification to combat an increase in Non-Delivery Report spam or backscatter messages.
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SouthPeak Interactive Expands Distribution of Roogoo to Windows PC
MIDLOTHIAN, Va.----SouthPeak Interactive Corporation today announced that its puzzle game Roogoo is now available for Windows PC. Roogoo, which was previously released on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft, features 45 levels as well as two-player split screen.
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Nirvanix Announces Beta for Software That Turns 1U Server into Multi-Petabyte NAS
SAN DIEGO----Nirvanix, the premier “Cloud Storage” platform provider optimized for media and large files, today announced the beta of a groundbreaking new set of products that attaches the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network to a local network as a Windows or Linux filer using standard industry networking protocols.
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New Vegas Movie Studio 9 from Sony Provides Tools for Producing Hollywood Quality Movies at Home
MADISON, Wis.----Sony Creative Software, a leading worldwide provider of professional video and audio production applications, today announced new versions of its award-winning Vegas Movie Studio consumer video production software.
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European Tech Tour Association Names alfabet One of the Top 25 Most Promising Technology Companies in Germany
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----alfabet Inc., the leading software provider in strategic IT planning and management, today announced that The European Tech Tour Association, an independent, non-profit organization, has named it one of the top 25 most promising technology companies in Germany.
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Bill Gates On Microsoft: Damn, Our Usability Sucks
Todd Bishop has published a 2003 e-mail from Bill Gates to some Microsoft developers. It’s basically Bill complaining about certain Windows features not working, and others being so convoluted that it’s irrational to expect a rational person to go through this hell to get an update or a piece of free software. Read Bill’s entire e-mail [...]
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Smart Shopping ... Online
(Family Features) - It's out there, it's easy and, believe it or not, it saves you money.
Leesburg Today |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Sep 2007 20:01 UTC
Just weeks ahead of its public launch, Apple has updated the minimum system requirements for its next-generation Leopard operating system to exclude 800MHz PowerPC-based Macs, AppleInsider has learned.
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American Airlines set to test in-flight Web access
DALLAS (AP) -- American Airlines says customers will be able to test in-flight Internet access on two flights beginning Wednesday, with broader servic ...
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Recent Original Stories
If you live in the United States, you are probably affected by a law passed by Congress in 2005 which turned the daylight savings system upside-down. Computers are, obviously, affected by this as well.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Nov 2006 18:26 UTC
"Someone just asked me whether, now that Novell's become buddies with Microsoft, I'll be turning away from Novell/SUSE as one of my favorite Linux distributions. My answer is no. I'm sticking with SUSE Linux on both my desktops and servers.
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Nokia plays catch up in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nokia Corp will add public wireless LAN access to its handsets in Japan in a bid to keep pace with smaller Japanese rivals that already provide such network connections.
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