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Quebecor faces distinct challenge getting content onto Internet in Quebec
MONTREAL - When it comes to adjusting to declining readership, Canada's largest newspaper publisher is learning the hard way that Quebec is distinct.
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American Heart Association Offers Heart Attack Risk Assessment Tool on Google Health
The American Heart Association is making it easier for you to evaluate your 10-year risk of having a heart attack and keep track of medical information to reduce your risk and better manage your health by offering the heart attack risk assessment tool on Google Health.
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JumpTV spurns bid from MySpace founder
TORONTO - Internet broadcaster JumpTV Inc. (TSX:JTV) is rejecting a proposal from MySpace founder Brad Greenspan and proceeding with its planned merger with U.S. online TV service NeuLion Inc.
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Microsoft confirms Windows 7 release date
Guy Dixon, vnunet.com , Friday 27 June 2008 at 15:43:00 Vista sucessor due January 2010 (probably) Microsoft has given its clearest indication yet that Windows 7 will be with us sooner rather than later. The software giant has offered an approximate launch date of January 2010...
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China Orders Phone, Internet Moratorium
Beijing says phone companies must stop adding new customers in August in order to ensure prime network conditions for the Olympic Games
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Nov 2005 19:18 UTC
Linux desktops have always faced an uphill battle against Windows desktops. Now, OSDL is calling together architects from over two-dozen key desktop-oriented Linux projects to a Dec. 1-2 meeting at its headquarters to set strategic directions and standards, and find synergies amongst Desktop Linux organizations.
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Linked by David Adams on Fri 27th Jun 2008 05:10 UTC, submitted by Ager Ignis
For any given release of Windows, there are companies that choose to skip it. But when the company is Intel, it's a big deal. Intel's IT department "found no compelling case" for upgrading to Windows Vista.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Mar 2006 17:04 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"SCTP is a reliable, general-purpose transport layer protocol for use on IP networks.
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Customized Domains May Not Help Businesses Much
ICANN on Thursday moved closer to allowing a range of customized domains to become part of the Internet's addressing system. Web addresses like ABCCompany.dealer, though, won't happen overnight.
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Recent Original Stories
After yesterday's unconfirmed rumour about Ubuntu being pre-installed on Dell machines, it has now become official. In a joint statement released today, Dell and Canonical announced that Dell will now offer laptops and desktop computers pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux 7.04 . The computers will be sold via Dell's web site, said Canonical's director of operations Jane Silber.
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Bill Gates Retires From Microsoft
One of the richest men in the world is getting a new job.
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Woman dies after buying banned slimming pills on the internet
A woman desperate to lose weight died after poisoning herself with unlicensed slimming pills which were banned in Britain 70 years ago. Selena Walrond, 26 bought a batch of DNP slimming pills from a Chinese website.
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As Gates strides into the future, we wallow in the past
OS/2: The final insult Some of you may have noticed that Bill Gates is hanging up his Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference 1998 briefcase for good today.…
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Europeans picking mobiles over landlines
Europeans are increasingly shunning landlines for mobile phones and online calling, according to a European Union survey released Friday.
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Report Buyer: Sponsored Blogging is an Emerging Opportunity for Online Marketeers, Says New Report
Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has now added a report investigating the emerging sponsored-blogging market.
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Company Profile for Planet Make-Over
Planet Make-Over is a social network anchored by an ongoing 60-minute Internet TV-Show and electronic magazine featuring Celebrities, music, and dialogue - aimed to reverse Global Warming.
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Delays hit Google's mobile phone plans
NEW YORK - New mobile phones being developed by Google Inc. and more than 30 partners based on software called Android will arrive in the fourth quarter, a schedule that some cellular carriers and program makers are struggling to meet, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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JumpTV spurns bid from MySpace founder, proceeds with NeuLion merger
TORONTO - Internet broadcaster JumpTV Inc. (TSX:JTV) is rejecting a proposal from MySpace founder Brad Greenspan and proceeding with its planned merger with U.S. online TV service NeuLion Inc.
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Bill Gates Calls It A Day, But Microsoft Moves On
It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure Friday as Microsoft's leader.
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Bill Gates Calls It A Day, But Microsoft Moves On
It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure Friday as Microsoft's leader.
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Bill Gates Calls It A Day, But Microsoft Moves On
It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure Friday as Microsoft's leader.
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Creating DVD subtitles using Linux tools
My mother is completely deaf without her cochlear implant, so closed captions and subtitles on DVDs are standard fare in our house. However, when I make a home movie, I haven't always had a way to subtitle it for her. You can make a video with captions that are part of the video itself, but I could find no way to turn them off -- until I found SRT files and learned how to author a DVD with them ...
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American Community School in Athens, Greece Selects Skyward
Skyward, the industry-leading K-12 school management system announced today the selection of their solution by their fifth international customer. American Community Schools in Athens, Greece will join over 1,200 school districts throughout the world using Skyward as their administrative software provider.
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Ahead of the Bell: Jefferies ups Novell to 'Buy'
Shares of Novell Inc. advanced in premarket electronic Friday trading after a Jefferies analyst upgraded the business software maker, saying it is well-insulated from the weaker economy.
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New Rules Could Mean Hundreds of New Domains
A relaxation of rules by the internet's oversight agency means that .com and .net may soon be joined by a slew of new domain names. What's behind it? Like most things, money.
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