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Paper museum's laptop stolen during public event
LIVERMORE FALLS - A laptop computer that has kept paper museum visitors enthralled as it played videos telling historic stories about papermakers, community members, towns and mills has been stolen.
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Financial Mail - Rivals looking good
Telkom last week said it would raise its prices by an average of 2,4% on August 1. That seems fair, given high inflation. But it has missed the opportunity to slash its broadband prices and now runs the real risk of ceding the broadband market to its rivals.
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Best of the Politics Blogs
Strange revelations about an Oxfordshire town. Plus David Icke's political ambitions and Morgan Tsvangirai's wisdom
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Facial Expression Recognition Research To Make Robots More Effective Teachers
A computer science Ph.D. student can turn his face into a remote control that speeds and slows video playback. The proof-of-concept demonstration is part of a larger project to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers.Jacob Whitehill, a computer science Ph.D. student from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, is leading this project.
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Online Journalism News
The rapid growth in the number of online news sites should not mean that the UK relaxes its laws on media ownership, according to a House of Lords report.
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Dell launches high-end Studio notebooks
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 27 June 2008 at 00:59:00 Laptops designed 'for today's digital nomad' Dell has released a new line of notebooks aimed at high-end multimedia creators and viewers. The Studio laptops will sport a number of features designed for high-end multimedia users, such...
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Recent Original Stories
by JrezIN (2.96) on Tue 11th Mar 2008 14:38 UTC in reply to " Java? " Question : what can you do with silverlight that can't be done with java? I mean in term of results. I know you can use several languages, but what's the point?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Oct 2006 20:54 UTC
Ars reviews Firefox 2 RC2 , and concludes: "I personally never managed to get any of the third party spellcheck extensions to work right, and the availability of spellcheck support alone was enough to convince me to use 2.0 pre-releases rather than the 1.5.0.7 build that comes with Ubuntu.
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Easily Track Search Engine Rankings
RAGE Software, has announced that immediate availability of RAGE SERank 1.7.
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You thought
the IT industry liked jargon? Try telecommunications! The number of acronyms and abbreviations used by cellular operators in their marketing material is enough to make one's head spin: GPRS, UMTS, W-CDMA, EV-DO, HSDPA, HSUPA...
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ICANN relaxes domain-name rules
The organisation has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address
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DemoWolf Partners with VoiceWalk.net
DemoWolf, leading provider of tutorials for the web hosting industry has announced a new strategic partnership with VoiceWalk ( www.voicewalk.net ), a full-service production company dedicated to creating high-impact demos.
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ICANN Relaxes Rules on TLD’s
Soon, there might be a .sex or .hotel vying for Internet space with the more conservative .org, .com, or .net.
Web Host Directory |
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Bill Gates to dive deeper into philanthropy
Bill Gates steps down from the daily duties at Microsoft, the famous company he founded 33 years ago, according to media reports Friday. He planned to spend more time guiding the world's richest philanthropy, the 38 billion dollar B ...
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RIVALS LOOKING GOOD
By DUNCAN McLEOD Internet users were disappointed when Telkom announced it would not change its broadband subscription rates while hiking the cost of basic telephone line rental by 11%, effectively making it more expensive to subscribe to its high-speed digital s...
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Gates memos Microsoft is #1
Bill Gates takes a moment to celebrate Microsoft passing Lotus to become the No. 1 software company in 1987.
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Sainsbury's Logistics Turns To BCS Global For IP Visual Communications Across The UK
In order to reduce the amount of time spent travelling to and from meetings and enable colleagues to be more productive with their time, Sainsbury's Logistics Division, has selected BCS Global to supply the very latest visual communications technology.
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Gates memos 'Sea change' brings Opportunity
Bill Gates identifies a "Sea change" toward integrated Office software in a 1994 e-mail to top Microsoft executives.
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Gates memos The Internet Services Disruption
Bill Gates wrote the introduction to this 2005 memo on the shift in computing toward Internet services. Ray Ozzie, one of two Microsoft executives replacing Gates, wrote the main piece.
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Company news
Ö Connie O'Brien was elected senior vice president of Internet Strategy & Development for AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. O'Brien joined AXA Equitable in April 2007 as vice president and head of the company's newly-created Internet strategy and development business team charged with creating consistent and integrated brand, interface and platform architecture standards for all AXA-based ...
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Domain big bang approved
Web regulators voted to open up the web to hundreds of new domain names, such as .paris or .pepsi.
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Ham radio people always at the ready
WORCESTER - Most people today communicate with distant friends and family by telephone or through the Internet, but members of the Worcester Emergency Communications Team swear by the airwaves.
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Cancer appointments delayed as Barts struggles with Care Records System
Patients with suspected cancer have had urgent appointments with specialists delayed after Barts and The London NHS Trust went live with systems under the £12.7bn national IT scheme, Computer Weekly has learned.
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Internet agency paves way for new domains
NEW YORK - The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules yesterday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.
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Dell launches high-end Studio notebooks
Dell has released a new line of notebooks aimed at high-end multimedia creators and viewers.
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