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Mass. Education Plan: Longer Says, Summer Classes
Low-cost home computers, intensive summer classes and longer school days are among the last batch of education initiatives being unveiled by Gov. Deval Patrick.
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Gates Foundation Follows New Paths
Tom Paulson--Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Out of a Laurelhurst basement and a garlic-scented room above a Redmond pizza joint, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has emerged in little more than a decade as the world's largest philanthropy.
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Current Newswire:
"Cooperative Linux (coLinux for short) occupies a unique niche in the field of virtualization--that of running GNU/Linux natively in Windows.
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Subsidy Puts Apple's iPhone Margin Above 50 Percent
Two weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the much-anticipated iPhone 3G. Now iSuppli is sharing how much it costs Apple to build the mobile device -- and the company's profit.
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E3 To Mark PS3 Trophies Launch??? [News]
Online reports suggest that the upcoming event may see the launch of the next jump for the PS3's firmware...
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Breakthrough printing capabilities in HP’s new printing supplies technologies
Google adds Gmail Labs to Gmail Google recently introduced Gmail Labs, a new tab on the Gmail Settings page that offers a selection of experimental Gmail features for users to evaluate.
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Bush: Tech workers won't be hurt by visa extension
In papers filed in court Monday, the Bush administration says its student visa extension won't hurt U.S. tech workers and argues that it's not a backdoor H-1B increase. The administration was responding to a lawsuit filed in May by the Immigration Reform Institute, The Programmers Guild and other groups challenging the extension of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) provision from one ...
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Recent Original Stories
US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched , defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.
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Nanaimoites won't cast ballots online
Nanaimo has put aside plans to allow people to vote by phone or computer during the next civic election, and opponents are relieved. City council passed a motion in May allowing city staff to make electronic voting part of the Nov. 15 election.
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BabyEarth Unveils World's First Demo-On-Demand Shopping Service
BabyEarth, a baby products retailer and specialty store with an eco-friendly flair, announced today the launch of BabyEarthLIVE, a free interactive shopping service utilizing the latest in webcam technology giving online customers an in-store experience, even if they are thousands of miles away.
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Windows Price Ruling Not Enough, Says French Consumer Group
A Paris court ruled that an electronics retailer must display separately the price of computers and of the software bundled.
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Cox Tracks Field Techs With TOA’s Software
Philadelphia—Cox Communications will deploy customer-appointment and mobile workforce management systems from TOA Technologies to schedule, route and manage its nearly 6,000 field service technicians.
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American Airlines to test broadband connectivity on Wednesday flights
The Dallas Morning News reports that American Airlines passengers traveling between New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles Wednesday will have the opportunity to browse the Internet along the way in a dress rehearsal for inflight broadband provided by American and technology provider Aircell LLC.
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SoftRAID 3.6.7 fixes Leopard problems
SoftRAID has upgraded its Mac RAID software to 3.6.7, in response to compatibility problems with Leopard. The main feature of the upgrade is a new driver mechanism that stores two copies of the RAID header information. Leopard users on Intel-based Macs were experiencing occasional RAID header corruption, which led to SoftRAID engineers having to re...
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Idol winner Appleby fulfills life-long dream
Winning the title of Newton Idol means more to Lonnie Appleby than just the opportunity to sing at the Iowa Speedway.
Newton Daily News |
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Sybase adds antivirus and firewall to mobile management suite
Sybase iAnywhere is adding antivirus and firewall protection to its Afaria mobile management and security suite.
SearchMobileComputing.com |
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MyECheck granted US patent
MyECheck (OTC BB:MYEC.OB), an electronic transaction processor and provider of alternative payment solutions, is pleased to announce that the United ...
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Government outlines e-safety for kids
The UK government has today published plans to make video games and the internet safer for children. The Action Plan outlines government proposals for appointing an executive board of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety.
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Interactive Advertising's Coming Out Party
News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Who Killed the Economy? You Decide Vulture Investors and Third World Debt Do You Know Beans About Coffee? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Consider this: A viral online video phenomenon won a Grand Prix at the Cannes International Advertising Festival that was usually reserved for only the best in ...
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Thieves Steal Electronics From Truck at 60 MPH on Autobahn
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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RadiSys Announces New Speech Capabilities for Convedia Media Server Family
RadiSys(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), the leading independent provider of open, standards-based media server platforms and advanced embedded solutions, today announced that its market-leading Convedia(R) media server family now supports automatic speech recognition (ASR), or converting human speech to computer data, and text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities in multiple languages for IP contact ...
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Pixar director surfs from sea to space
An interview with WALL-E ’s Andrew Stanton... By Curt Holman.When Pixar Animation Studios created Toy Story for Disney in 1994, film executives wondered whether an audience would sit still for 75 minutes to watch an entirely computer-animated film. Roughly 14 years later, executives cut from the same cloth wonder if audiences will sit still for cartoon features that aren't animated on ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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WALL-E: Popular mechanics
Pixar does the robot... By Curt Holman.Like works of art, machines are not alive. Appliances, gadgets and tools only contain as much heart, or the appearance thereof, as human beings put into them. A robot that contains an inexplicable soul stars in the title role of WALL-E, the latest film from Pixar, which has inspired an assembly line of computer-animated splendor. WALL-E the robot, not ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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Wanted
An overdose on flash... By Curt Holman.GENRE: Souped-up shoot-'em-up THE PITCH: Miserable young accountant Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) discovers that his long-lost father belonged to a 1,000-year-old group of assassins called the Fraternity, whose members, including the alluring Fox (Angelina Jolie) and avuncular Sloan (Morgan Freeman), have magic hitman powers, such as making bullets curve ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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In-Flight Web Access Gets Off The Ground
Customers on two American Airlines flights will be able to test in-flight Internet access -- beginning tomorrow.
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