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Recent Original Stories
In a recent interview with the British Sunday Observer, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, claimed that "it's the next billion [internet users] who will change the way we think" . Such a big claim deserves some critical house room. Will the internet really change the way we think?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jun 2008 11:13 UTC
On OSNews, we try to steer away from speaking of specific security incidents, trojans, or viruses, unless they are in one way or the other special, or very influential.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Sep 2006 17:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Is Browser Security getting better? That is tough to say but Firefox is definitely not leading the way . Despite all the hype, despite all the Myths, Firefox 1.x has a worse security record so far in 2006 than Internet Explorer 6.x."
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Recent Original Stories
We're really on the subject of software installation issues on OSNews lately, and this story, making its rounds on the internet, fits in quite well. Back in the day, during the antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft, Microsoft had to make a whole slew of corporate email public.
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Recent Original Stories
In a recent interview with the British Sunday Observer, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, claimed that "it's the next billion [internet users] who will change the way we think" . Such a big claim deserves some critical house room. Will the internet really change the way we think?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jun 2008 11:13 UTC
On OSNews, we try to steer away from speaking of specific security incidents, trojans, or viruses, unless they are in one way or the other special, or very influential.
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'Guitar Hero' Fans to Get 'Warcraft' Songs
'Warcraft' creators will offer downloadable tracks for the popular guitar game.
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Yahoo trumpets reorganization
Under fire from angry shareholders and rocked by a stream of high-profile executive departures, embattled Yahoo on Thursday announced another reorganization, its latest attempt to snap out of its years-long technology and financial funk.
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Cuba says few citizens have phones and computers
Forget iPods, BlackBerries and other electronic gadgets, most Cubans are still waiting for telephones and less than five percent have a computer, the government reported Thursday.
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Get ready for .smith, .sports or .love on the Web
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet regulators on Thursday voted to relax rules on domain names like .com or .edu, which could pave the way for companies or individuals to create an array of new addresses for the Web.
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Yahoo reorganizes in effort to restore order
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is setting up a new chain of command in hopes of restoring order after it snubbed of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid.
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Jumpgate Evolution BETA Sign-Ups Now Live!
Codemasters Online & NetDevil are pleased to announce that BETA signups for their hotly anticipated
wallstreet:online AG |
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Yahoo! Shakes Up Top Management
The Internet giant announces a major reorganization amid a recent departure of senior executives.
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Survey: Internet access lags among Calif. Hispanics
California's Hispanics and low-income residents are lagging far behind other groups in Internet access, according to a survey.
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Estate Feeds Listings to Cyberhomes, Google Base and Oodle Affiliate Listings Now Display on Nine Real Estate and Search
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 26, 2008--Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., a Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) company, today flowed at least 140,000 for-sale property listings to Internet hot spots Cyberhomes.com, Google Base(TM) and Oodle.
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XP on the XO in the wild
Back in May we wrote about XP coming to the XO laptop. At the time there was only speculation about how it would truly operate. Earlier this week, our favorite analyst, Michael Gartenberg, posted a piece on his blog about the XO running XP. The most interesting thing about his post though, [...]
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tw telecom Launches July 1, 2008
tw telecom inc. , a leading provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions for businesses locally and across the country, launches July 1, 2008.
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OWC first with 320GB, 7,200RPM portable drive
Other World Computing says it has set a newer record with the launch of the Mercury On-the-Go 320GB 7200RPM drive. The disk uses a newer 2.5-inch Hitachi TravelStar drive that makes it the largest-capacity portable drive to spin at the same 7,200RPM speed as desktop models; the 320GB of space is 60 percent more than current 200GB disks at the same...
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Poultry processor puts 1,600-job project on hold
Sanderson Farms on Thursday announced that it is delaying the construction of a $126.5 million poultry processing plant in Kinston due to the rising price of corn and soybeans.
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ICANN haz unlimited domain suffixes? [Icann]
Soon the days of just .com and .org and .net will be replaced with .whatevs and .moar as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved a proposal to allow the creation of unlimited... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Bill Gates, Dr Toure discuss ICT development goals
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates met with ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré along with a high-level ITU delegation, including the Director of the ITU Standardization Bureau, Malcolm Johnson, Director of the Development Bureau, Sami Al Basheer, and Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Chief of Strategic Planning and Membership.
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NFL, ESPN Offer to Kick Off White-Spaces Testing
The NFL and ESPN renewed their offer to let the FCC test unlicensed wireless devices under the real-world conditions of the 2008-09 football season.
Broadcasting and Cable |
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The best local albums of the year (so far)
One was No. 5 in Billboard. Another was dismissed by bloggers. They all stand up at the half-year mark.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Daily Debrief: Defusing a P2P crisis before it starts
One of the Internet's pioneers is floating an interesting idea about how to fix network overload caused by peer-to-peer file transfers.
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Sting involving Marine is 4th arrest in 3 months for online sheriff's department
An online sex sting by the jasper county sheriff's department claims a u.s. Marine staff sergent was initiating sexual conversations with a detective posing as a 13-year-old girl. The sting is not anything new for the jasper county sheriff's department.
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