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Bevy of Browsers Give Firefox a Run for Its Money
With all the recent attention on the new Firefox 3 Internet browser, it's easy to miss two strong, innovative rivals. Add it all up, and Microsoft's market-leading Internet Explorer has some impressive challengers. Opera 9.5, for instance, lets you share bookmarked Web pages and notes among several computers.
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Fired Director of IT acused of destroying organ donor information of former company
Here's a story that will make you absolutely sick. I used to live in Houston, time to time I still check out the Houston Chronicle... which I did this morning. I was interested in reading more about the altercation between the Astros pitcher and general manager, but then I stumbled...
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Popular business directory searches
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Bill Gates: The legacy of Microsoft's co-founder
Bill Gates has always divided opinion. Compared for his arrogance to Napoleon by a US judge, the billionaire has been more recently noted for his philanthropy.
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TapRoot Systems, Inc. Adds Industry Leading Sales & Marketing Expert to Executive Staff
TapRoot Systems Inc., a leading developer of software for the smartphone market, announces Sean O'Leary has joined TapRoot Systems' executive team as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Carrier Technologies. Sean will lead TapRoot's WalkingHotSpot business development and marketing efforts into mobile operators.
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Fresh start for age 45-plus job seekers
Operation A.B.L.E. of Greater Boston is once again recruiting mature job seekers for the next cycle of its Operation EmployABLE computer and office skills training program. Set to begin July 21, the 480-hour, instructor-led training gives participants the computer (MS Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook) and job search skills they need to find and keep full-time, benefit-paying ...
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30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions
We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason. We cover everything from useful tools to social bookmarking [...]
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ADV Films to Auction Surplus Office Supplies
Chris Johnson, a former editor of A.D. Vision 's Newtype USA magazine, points out on the AnimeOnDVD forums that A.D. Vision is holding a consolidation auction of "oak, walnut & Ikea style office furniture, computers, servers, phones," and other surplus office supplies at its warehouse today.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 17th Mar 2007 00:26 UTC
During my 8 years of Linux on and off usage I have tried more distros than I have chocolate bars. Each one of my previous encounters meant that I had to spend at least 2 days configuring before I have a desktop that I was somewhat comfortable with.
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Recent Original Stories
To celebrate the 1000th article of the magazine Obligement , Carl Sassenrath returns through this long interview on its origins at Amiga Inc. in the 1980's (Manager of AmigaOS and Amiga CDTV system development, among others), the bankruptcy of Commodore, its passages at Apple Computer and Viscorp, Amiga NG, or on its new revolutionary language REBOL . A classic name in the Silicon Valley!
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Jan 2008 23:05 UTC
Lenovo is undertaking an Olympic-size effort to establish itself as a consumer PC brand . The Chinese PC maker has found great success with the iconic ThinkPad brand of commercial laptops, a business it purchased from IBM. And now it's taking the world stage with a new line of consumer-focused notebooks called IdeaPad.
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Recent Original Stories
A Computerworld blog post reads: "You gotta love it. Microsoft has decided that it will ho ahead and kill off easy access to XP on June 30th. On behalf of desktop Linux users everywhere, and our first cousins, the Mac fans, thanks.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Jun 2006 21:26 UTC
Linux isn't a threat to Windows on the desktop and is losing steam on the server as customers separate the operating system from the development model, according to Microsoft's chief platform strategist.
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Dell to employees: kick the habit
Dell Inc. is giving its U.S. employees who smoke a deadline to quit--at least at work.
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British Man Jailed for Life Over Killing of Wife, Child in U.S.
June 26 (Bloomberg) -- Neil Entwistle, a U.K. computer engineer, was jailed for life without possibility of parole for murdering his American wife and their baby daughter in 2006.
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Never talk on family vacations again: Chrysler's in-car WiFi
No space is space from the Internet, it seems, as Chrysler announces a mobile WiFi router/cellular modem that turns any vehicle into an Internet hotspot. Read More...
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Expanding the Internet Well Beyond .com
An Internet oversight agency is considering the first sweeping changes in the network’s addressing system since its creation 25 years ago.
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Chrysler to turn vehicles into wireless hotspots
(AP:DETROIT) Chrysler LLC said Thursday that people who buy its vehicles next year will have the option of turning their cars and trucks into wireless Internet hotspots.
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Gates leaves Microsoft to focus on philanthropy
Sensing the start of a personal computer revolution Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 to start Microsoft Corp and pursue a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home
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E-waste, battery collection set at Ferndale High
The Humboldt Waste Management Authority will hold a free electronic waste and battery collection event at Ferndale High School on June 28. Teaming with Fresno-based Electronic Recyclers International, the agency will be letting households and businesses recycle their old computers, televisions, VCRs, microwave, fax machines and other electronics that contain circuit boards, digital clocks, or ...
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Internet names shake-up agreed
The internet's key ruling body today agreed to allow potentially thousands of new domain names to be used instead of ".com" in the first sweeping changes in its 25-year history.
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Trustees approve police computer purchase
Fairfield Twp. Police Department will receive two more replacement laptop computers for in-car use during the next stage in a series of upgrades. The department began to replace computers last year after several units began to fall into disrepair, said Police Chief Richard St. John.
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Wyse Technology Nominated for SYS-CON's "Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards"
Specifically created for Citrix XenDesktop and with knowledge workers in mind, the all-new Wyse Viance high performance desktop appliances are designed to both maximize the user experience and minimize administration across a virtualized infrastructure. Wyse Viance desktop appliances immediately connect to Citrix XenDesktop sessions, delivering their users rich multimedia (such as smooth video ...
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Crunch vote to rule on Internet domain name
PARIS - Web regulators were poised Thursday to usher in one of the biggest shake-ups in the Internet's brief history in a crunch vote on allowing millions of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi.
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Obama Vs. McCain As Mac Vs. PC
The race between Obama and McCain can be likened to the popular Mac vs. PC commercials, with McCain representing the older PC user and Obama as the young, cool Mac guy, says National Review Online .
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