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Fewer students entering computer science programs
SHREVEPORT, La. -- After a 45-minute discussion about computer programming with a group of high school students, the sales pitch begins.
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IT professional relives his ordeal
BANGALORE: He was one among the thousands of youth in Bangalore engaged in the software sector. His life revolved around his work at an IT major, and his interest in cricket. But Lakshman Kailash’s small world came crashing ...
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WELCOME GUEST! A man in Australia who was selling his "life" over the Internet -- including his home, job and the chance to meet his friends -- said Sunday he had sold the lot for 399,000 dollars (383,230 US).
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AP Interview: Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars
Former Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove has a knack for sensing when circumstances should force changes at a company or an industry _ and how to respond. He even has coined a term for it: the "strategic inflection point." Now the retired chairman of the world'...
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Sony Vaio FW and SR series show up on Circuit City
Filed under: Laptops We'd already heard the Vaio FW and SR series were due in short order , but they've since apparently shown up on Circuit City's site. The pages are down now, but the shots of the 16-inch FW (which looks pretty reminiscent of the old school Vaio Z-series) and 13.3-inch SR are still live, indicating model designations VGN-FW140EH and VGN-SR140EB. We'll keep you in ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Feb 2007 18:55 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras.
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by hraq (2.28) on Thu 6th Jul 2006 10:53 UTC
As we can see, a better OS than Windows for desktop use, of course not as easy to manage when problems happen but it's ok we can learn. Now to the real problem, why linux is not ready for desktops?!
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When pickup sales dived, automakers changed plans
Every morning, just after getting coffee, Mark Fields fires up his laptop to pore over a computer model showing real-time U.S. auto sales figures.
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open source is the driver behind its rebirth ."
"Jonathan Schwartz is a man on a mission. While at Linuxworld today, I took an hour to visit with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems.
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Cell Phones Tracking Nightlife Activity
Roland Piquepaille writes "A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software, named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town. Citysense 'uses advanced machine learning techniques to ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Jan 2007 19:04 UTC
At the MacWorld conference in San Francisco, After the usual words of praise about the iPod+iTunes and the smoothness of the transition to Intel, Apple announced several new products. Surprisingly, nothing was said about new Macs or Leopard.
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When pickup sales dived, automakers changed plans
Every morning, just after getting coffee, Mark Fields fires up his laptop to pore over a computer model showing real-time U.S. auto sales figures. On this morning in the middle of May, the man who heads Ford Motor Co.'s Americas operations has seen enough....
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The Internet Can Help Control Your Blood Pressure
A medical study finds Internet-based care is an effective tool for some patients.
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Start Page MySurfPad Attempts To Swim With Big Fish
Start pages come in all shapes and sizes. There is the very simple and straightforward Google.com that many Web users maintain. Others prefer the more general-purpose Yahoo.com domain. Some segments, though, enjoy customizable, widgeted palettes like Netvibes, PageFlakes, iGoogle. That last pick was especially popular with the Mashable crowd, in fact, winning top honors at [...]
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The Transaction of a "Lifetime"
eCommerce has come a long way over the years. You can buy or sell just about anything online. You can buy DVDs, cars, digital music, real estate, and brides. You can sell televisions, cosmetics, hand-made crafts, and even your skin as ad-space . You can apparently even sell your entire life - in a manner of speaking anyway. A 44-year-old man by the name of Ian Usher recently put his up on ...
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AP Interview: Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars
(AP) -- Former Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove has a knack for sensing when circumstances should force changes at a company or an industry - and how to respond.
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An exchange for broadband capacity?
Hamadoun Touré, secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union, said companies could improve efficiency and reduce prices by trading the excess capacity of their networks.
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Global PC COU shipments slowed in Q1 2008 to â€9.2%
Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments slowed notably in Q1 2008, resulting in sequential growth of -9.2% over Q4 2007. In YOY comparisons, overall unit shipments and market revenue grew by 25.7% and 15.9% respectively, according to IDC. Shipments of processors for desktop PCs led the slowdown in Q1 2008, with sequential...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Sep 2006 19:54 UTC
Mark Shuttleworth writes on his blog: "I'm of the opinion that Ubuntu could not exist without Debian . So it's absolutely my intention to see that Ubuntu is a constructive part of the broader Debian landscape.
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CPU market shares in Q1 2008: Intel - 78.9%, AMD - 20.9%
In terms of processor vendor shares, Intel experienced a small gain over AMD in Q1 2008. On an overall unit basis, Intel earned 78.9% market share, a gain of 2.2%. AMD earned 20.9% market share, a loss of 2.2%, according to IDC. Similar shifts in market share were evident by...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 21st Jul 2007 20:58 UTC
"Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
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No criminal charges for illegal land division in Box Elder County
Posted: 12:56 PM- BRIGHAM CITY - Box Elder County's prosecutor won't file charges against the developers who illegally subdivided land in western Box Elder county and sold it online last year.
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Ballmer becomes lone voice at Microsoft's helm
Steve Ballmer has been CEO at Microsoft Corp for eight years, but he will finally get to move into the corner office vacated by Bill Gates, the college friend who brought him to the company nearly three decades ago.
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When pickup sales dived, automakers changed plans
Every morning, just after getting coffee, Mark Fields fires up his laptop to pore over a computer model showing real-time U.S. auto sales figures. On this morning in the middle of May, the man who heads Ford Motor Co.'s Americas operations has seen enough. The line on a chart showing subcompact car sales for the first two weeks of the month goes almost straight up. The one for pickup ...
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Computer recycling plan proves popular
The first truckload of discarded computers, televisions and other electronic goods was hauled away from the Caldwell County Recycling Center this week.
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