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Recent Original Stories
Solaris Express 4/06 has been released. You can click here to download this release. There have been some minor bugfixes and some relatively noteworthy additions in this release (including PostgreSQL and PCIe support).
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NBC Dramatically Ups Online Olympics Coverage
NBC is making more than 2,200 hours of live competition from Beijing available online, giving Olympic junkies more action than they could ever devour in a day. After barely tipping its toe in the digital world during past Olympics, the network will dive into the deep end: live Web logging, 3,000 hours of highlights on demand, daily recaps and analysis, and even fantasy-league gaming. That's in ...
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Ballmer becomes lone voice at Microsofts 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...
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Recent Original Stories
Castle and RISC OS Open discuss there plans for the gradual unveiling of an open source RISC OS over the next twelve months. They explain their reasoning behind some of the source code restrictions in their licence.
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Hacking The Facebook Platform For Data Portability
The following guest post was written by Dan Birdwhistell, founder of people directory Bigsight (reviewed here) and creator of Hacking Facebook, a website that teaches developers how to pull user data out of Facebook. There’s one thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that it’s a walled garden. Quite the contrary, [...]
TechCrunch |
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Computers in schools: Underfunding 'exposed'
The Federal Opposition says the underfunding in the Federal Government's computers in schools program has now been exposed.
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CCID notes steady growth of China IC industry in '07
Amid the slow growth of the global semiconductor market and the slow down of China's IT industry, the country's IC industry has posted steady growth in 2007 with sales revenue of $18.23 billion, up 24.3 percent over 2006.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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Violence Is Golden: Timur Bekmambetov's Wanted
As part of the Russian promotional campaign for Universal’s big-budget summer action picture Wanted , director Timur Bekmambetov and his team unleashed on the Internet a two-minute video featuring a manager laying waste to his office.
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Elpida rolls 'first' 512Mbit DDR2 SDRAM with x32-bit I/O
Elpida Memory Inc. has developed what it claimed to be the first 512Mbit DDR2 SDRAM with x32-bit I/O configuration.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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Will wireless STBs take off?
Wireless is set to invade cable TV STB. But which wireless and when is still not clear.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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NRI behind Yahoo's restructuring
An Indian-origin man has been given a key role in the restructuring at Yahoo. The new structure consolidates responsibility around two senior executives, Ash Patel and Hilary Schneider.
The Times of India |
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Zenith to enter Europe by year-end
Zenith Computers, one of the major PC and laptop manufacturers, is planning to enter the European market with their products by the end of 2008.
Express India |
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The meaning of Bill Gates
When Bill Gates helped to found Microsoft 33 years ago there was a company rule that no employees should work for a boss who wrote worse computer code than they did.
Express India |
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Recent Original Stories
Creating a surprise twist in the portable music wars, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple's application to patent its method of using hierarchical menus to navigate through the iPod's contents.
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Tara Wheeler crowned Miss Virginia 2008 in Roanoke
ROANOKE(AP) -- Now Tara Wheeler will find a new fact about herself when she types her name into Google: She's Miss Virginia 2008. This year's Miss Arlington admitted to Googling herself last week before the competition. Now she will represent Virginia at next year's Miss America pageant.
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It could be the killer application to promote broadband
VoIP or internet telephony is a value added service to make a voice call to other countries, using internet/broadband as a medium.
Express India |
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Let them pay an entry fee and acquire a UAS licence first
Internet service providers (ISPs) should not be permitted to provide internet telephony services to PSTN/PLMN within India.
Express India |
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Computing sustainability
How much computing can mankind afford? That is a question the computer and telecoms industries hate to hear.
Express India |
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Creative's Zen X-Fi to Enter Ring Dominated by iPod Touch, Zune [Zen X-Fi]
New details have been leaked about Creative's answer to the iPod touch and Zune, a wireless music player with Wi-Fi media sharing capabilities called the Zen X-Fi. Pictures show the device sporting a...
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Why Your Brain Is Unreliable
"The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer's hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man's curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there.
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Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Buffalo Corp introduces new USB memories, featuring popular characters Ultraman and Rei Ayanami from Evangelion. The 2G USB memories can be connected directly to computers or through extension cables. Their original icons show up when connected. For Windows and Macintosh OS.
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Iwakuma continues winning streak as Eagles clip Hawks' wings
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) Hisashi Iwakuma pitched seven scintillating innings to win his eighth-straight start Sunday and got loads of run support as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles trampled over the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 15-2. Iwakuma (12-2), the winningest pitcher in Japanese baseball, struck out four with no walks retiring 16 in a row in one stretch at Yahoo Dome. Rakuten set a club record with 20 ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Apr 2006 18:31 UTC
As Apple moves from IBM's and Freescale's PowerPC RISC architecture to Intel processors, developers must rebuild their products to support both platforms, into what Apple calls a UB (Universal Binary).
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white papers
NEC will acquire NetCracker, a U.S. software vendor focused on helping communication network providers roll out new services, for about US $300 million, the companies announced Friday.
IT World |
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NEC to acquire NetCracker for $300 million
NEC will acquire NetCracker , a U.S. software vendor focused on helping communication network providers roll out new services, for about US $300 million, the companies announced Friday.
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