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Hewlett-Packard recalls fax machines
WASHINGTON - HEWLETT-PACKARD is recalling about 450,000 fax machines that may overheat and cause burns or catch fire, United States officials said. The recall involves HP Fax 1010 and HP Fax 1010xi models manufactured from November 2002 through September 2004. The products were made in China.
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Bill Gates third act a story of redemption for the fallen geek hero? [Exits]
Microsoft co-founder, former CEO and executive chairman Bill Gates should be just about wrapping up his last day as a full-time employee of Microsoft and moving on to head up the Bill and Melinda... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Au revoir, Mr. Bill
It's been ALL over the news this week, but today is Bill Gates' last day of full-time employment at Microsoft. He'll still be plenty involved in the company, and he's busy as ever with the Gates Foundation in Seattle, which is doing wide-ranging work to solve a variety of the world's ills.
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Internet Giant Forcing Small Business Under Big Hat To Change Name
There's a controversy brewing over the name of an East Texas coffee franchise. Yahooz, known for their iconic big hats, might have to change their name. The similarity between Yahooz and an internet giant is why they need your help.
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Speed Up Your Code and Save Time Doing It! Sponsored by AMD Newest release of AMD CodeAnalyst TM Performance Analyzer integrates into Microsoft® Visual® Studio, so you can gain deeper insight into your code's performance at the click of a mouse.
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Bosch and Samsung Join Forces on Hybrid Batteries
SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung SDI and Robert Bosch have formed a hybrid-vehicle battery joint venture that will begin operation this September.
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Want free Wi-FI? Avoid staying in posh hotels
Want free Wi-Fi? Avoid posh hotels Fewer hotels are offering free breakfasts, more are charging for late cancellations, and more are offering free in-room wireless Internet access. Ironically, the more you pay for your room, the less likely you are to get...
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As hotels squeeze cleaning staff, guests get caught in the middle / How to make sure your housekeeping needs get met
While Wilma Smith was vacationing with her grandchildren in Orlando, she returned from one of the theme parks one afternoon to find the door to her room at the Days Inn propped wide open. "We had cameras and laptops in there," says Smith, a retiree who lives...
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Training Surgeons From The Video Game Generation - Study To See If Using Computer Animation Can Make Young Surgeons ...
The first generation of kids who grew up playing video games aren't kids anymore. Today, they're the backbone of the American workforce, and all that time playing games as kids, may be helping them now as adults. In fact, researchers hope to use computer animation to not only help train the next generation of surgeons, but to see how good they can really be.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st Aug 2006 18:31 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The 4th international GPLv3 conference is being held at Bangalore and Richard Stallman is one of the prominent delegates. This is a transcript of the interview with RMS where he is asked a couple of questions related to GPLv3 and free software in general.
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This Week's Best Posts [Highlights]
Remember kids, if Lifehacker's hitting your newsreader a little too hard, you can trim the fat and see only a handful of our best posts using the Top stories feed. This week's most popular posts...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Sep 2005 17:01 UTC
The company is launching a "community technology preview" program for Vista, offering interim updates of the operating system in between its official beta releases. Microsoft has increasingly been using such previews as a way to offer more frequent test builds to developers.
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Recent Original Stories
It's been two months since Steve Jobs announced that Apple Computer was going with Intel processors, and in that time, Apple's transition toolkit has made its way into the hands of the Macintosh cognoscenti.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Mar 2007 19:32 UTC
"The Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools you need to develop applications that run on Windows. This release of the SDK supplies updated compilers and documentation.
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Even in retirement, Gates still carries great influence in China
To some Chinese, Bill Gates, who retired on Friday, is more than a billionaire and president of computer software giant Microsoft. In a way, he has changed the perception of many people. Chinese began getting familiar with his nam ...
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19-year-old 'fast flux' botnet pioneer agrees to plea guilty
'Nugache was mine' The author of a Trojan that broke new ground in botnet circles has agreed to plead guilty to secretly infecting thousands of victims' machines so that he could steal their personal data and launch attacks on websites.…
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The lighter side of Bill Gates
As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...
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Managing data in the social graph
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook describes how the company manages data within its social network, and how its archiving and indexing structure differs from Google. by Andrew Mager
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ICANN and IANA Sites Hacked, Redirected
A Turkish hacking group calling itself NetDevilz on Friday temporarily took control of the websites of two of the world's leading internet regulatory bodies, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
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Yahoo Investors Unsure If They Will Support Icahn
The billionaire investor is seeking to revive buyout talks between Yahoo and Microsoft.
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Hewlett-Packard Recalls Fax Machines
The fax machines were sold at electronic, computer and camera stores nationwide, and also via Internet retailers, for between $130 and $150.
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PC PLUS
Main » Computers » Nowadays, it has become more practical to shop online when you need to upgrade or buy supplies for your computers. Visiting Online Computer Stores is indeed a lot more convenient than going from one computer store to another.
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Goods worth lakhs destroyed in fire
Goods and property worth lakhs were destroyed in a fire that broke out in a complex situated near IT college crossing on Friday morning.
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donga.com[English donga]
“Intelligence stays out of human mind. Human thinking does not take place in brain.” It is the provocative statement from written by Richard Ogle. The author takes the example of technology.
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donga.com[English donga]
A recent survey revealed that Daum’s online discussion forum Agora, often described as the “holy land of discussion” by the left-wing media, is dominated by a small number of netizens.
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