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Computer error prices gas at $1.40 at Ohio station
A computer error caused a Cincinnati area service station to sell gas for $1.40 instead of $4.10, leading to a major traffic jam. Vehicles clogged the area around a Marathon station in suburban Sycamore Township while the bargain was available for roughly three hours on Tuesday, until Hamilton County sheriff's deputies persuaded the station to shut down. Tiffany Smith waited in line for two ...
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VIDITalk Launches VIDI Presenter for Microsoft PowerPoint
VIDITalk Corporation, a leading provider of video applications for corporate and government markets, announced today that it is launching VIDI Presenter, a new video tool for adding video narration to Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and digital images.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Computer error causes Ohio station to sell gas for $1.40 instead of $4.10
CINCINNATI - A computer error caused a Cincinnati area service station to sell gas for $1.40 instead of $4.10, leading to a major traffic jam.
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Seven things you need to know about Nokia-Symbian deal
MANHASSET, N.Y. — The world's largest handset vendor's announcement on Tuesday (June 25) that it plans to buy the rest of Symbian, the OS company holding two thirds of the global smart phone market, has generated a flurry of favorable press, much of it praising Nokia's "bold" move.
Electronics Supply and Manufacturing |
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Sarkozy lays out plan for Internet tax
Internet, phone and commercial-broadcasting companies would be taxed to replace the funding lost when a prime-time television advertising ban goes into effect.
International Herald Tribune |
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Senate Hears Arguments on Search of Laptops at U.S. Border
The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has the authority to search, copy contents or seize a notebook computer or mobile phone when travelers re-enter the U.S. Various groups have sought scrutiny of the practice in order to protect corporate private data and are also concerned about the economic impact. The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on Wednesday
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:59 UTC
"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle.
New Mobile Computing |
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Charter Scraps User-Tracking Plan After Privacy Outcry
Cable and high-speed ISP Charter Communications will not move forward with plans to test a service that automatically targets users with advertising based on their online surfing activity after it sparked privacy concerns. In May, Charter announced it would launch a pilot program with partner NebuAd in which deep packet inspection technology would be utilized to serve ads that would be more ...
E-Commerce Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Jun 2007 21:41 UTC
Asus and Intel have teamed up to develop a USD 199 notebook PC , the companies announced here on June 5. In a keynote address given by Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel and chief marketing and sales officer, Jonney Shih, chairman and chief executive of Asus, was invited on stage to unveil the 'Eee PC', an inexpensive laptop designed to help spread computing to poorer regions.
New Mobile Computing |
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INTERNET, PHONE TAX TO HELP FUND FRENCH PUBLIC TV: SARKOZY
PARIS, June 25, 2008 (AFP) - President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed Wednesday his government will tax Internet and telephone providers to offset lost revenue after it scraps advertising on French public television next year.
The Tocqueville Connection |
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Recent Original Stories
DTrace has been ported to QNX . "The initial port to Neutrino that Colin and I have done is slightly different from the other OS ports. Since Neutrino is a micro-kernel, we wanted to see how far we could go keeping the dtrace module out of the kernel...
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Whitepaper detail
When replacing or consolidating systems and meeting constantly increasing capacity needs, data must be migrated from one place to another; it’s become a routine task in most IT departments.
IT World |
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2003 Bill Gates email reveals frustrations with Windows XP
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops While Bill Gates' imminent retirement from Microsoft is understandably a cause for some quiet moments of reflection for some, it's also given folks an excuse to dig up some tidbits from Gates' tenure that have somehow gone unnoticed or unheralded in the past few years, one of the juiciest of which comes in the form of a 2003 email that Todd Bishop of the ...
Engadget |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th May 2006 19:15 UTC
Intel has decided to borrow the sequential naming scheme it used for its famous Pentium brand and apply it to the new Core line of chips, the company is expected to announce Sunday.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Jul 2006 11:37 UTC
eWeek reviews IIS 7 Beta . "Versions of IIS prior to 6 were the main points of attack for major worms and viruses such as Nimda. With IIS 6, Microsoft moved the Web server to a default profile that was much more secure.
OS News |
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Chrysler: Surf the Web in Your Car
The automaker plans to offer wireless Internet access in 2009 models, the Los Angeles Times reports.
TheStreet.com |
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France's Sarkozy proposes tax on Internet providers
(AP:PARIS) French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a new tax on profits of Internet providers and telephone companies Wednesday to offset revenue lost as advertising on public television and radio goes off the air.
INO News |
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Amusing Read: Bill Gates Disappointed with Windows Usability?
One of our friends pointed us to this article on seattlepi.com that turned out to be an amusing read. The article included an internal email Bill Gates sent to his Windows team on how hard it is to download ...
PDA Buyer's Guide |
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Tribune's new Web site will launch this afternoon
Area 51 is a remote military airfield in Nevada that is considered one of the most secretive places in the world.
Greeley Tribune |
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Bill Gates' Immortalizing Characters from Film, TV and Song [Bill Gates Retirement Party]
newVideoPlayer("/gatescharacters.flv", 475, 376,""); So what does Bill Gates really have to show for his years of hard work? Sure he built a software empire, and yea he has been known as the richest...
Gizmodo |
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Shaolin temple kick starts online store
China's Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu and the star of many martial arts films, has set up an online store to flog its wares. SHANGHAI--China's Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu and the star of many martial arts films, has set up an online store to...
ZDNet |
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Next New Networks Becomes Leading Video Superdistribution Network
Latest Series of Distribution Partners Includes Yahoo!, Hulu, and Metacafe Putting Next New Networks Content On The Major Distribution Destinations Next New Networks Named Number One In Online Video Syndication By...
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Charter Scraps User-Tracking Plan After Privacy Outcry
Cable and high-speed ISP Charter Communications will not move forward with plans to test a service that automatically targets users with advertising based on their online surfing activity after it sparked privacy concerns. In May, Charter announced it would launch a pilot program with partner NebuAd in which deep packet inspection technology would be utilized to serve ads that would be more ...
TechNewsWorld.com |
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Tribune's new Web site will launch this afternoon
Area 51 is a remote military airfield in Nevada that is considered one of the most secretive places in the world.
Greeley Tribune |
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Parallels Debuts Bundled Desktop Virtualization Solution
Web hosting server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, has launched with Quest Software, a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) bundle, designed to offer a centralized Windows desktop deployment and management platform. The end-to-end stack is hoped to reduce the management and security headache of desktop computing, and reduces the investment required in hardware and ...
SYS-CON Media |
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