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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP Monday
Move comes despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista
The Globe and Mail |
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Jones Beach theater steps up storm-tracking efforts
After a close call with a lightning strike at the R.E.M. concert at the Jones Beach theater three weeks ago, state parks officials are installing computers there so staff can better track approaching storms.
Newsday |
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Fresh Air For Windows?
jmcbain writes "The NY Times has an opinion piece on how the next Windows could be designed (even through Microsoft has already laid plans for Windows 7). The author suggests 'A monolithic operating system like Windows perpetuates an obsolete design. We don't need to load up our machines with bloated layers we won't use.' He also brings up the example of Apple breaking ties with its legacy OS ...
Slashdot |
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want...
WSYR 9 Syracuse |
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How I travel: Dave Gibson
Do you travel light or heavy? As heavy as I can, as long as everything has wheels on it. I even have a carry-on bag with wheels because a laptop in a shoulder strap-type satchel gets pretty heavy, pretty quick.
The New Zealand Herald |
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It Ain't Just PC 30 Jun 2008, 0104 hrs IST
The phenomenon of the personal computer has probably seen no parallel in recent history. Mass marketed from sometime in the late 1970s it's taken a mere three decades to reach the one billion mark last week, roughly equating to one PC for every seven people on Earth.
The Times of India |
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Google taps 'Family Guy' guy for Web series
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane plans to create an original animated series for Google that will be distributed on the AdSense advertising system, according to a report in the New York Times.
CNET |
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white papers
A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software. That, Bill Gates has often said, is the vision on which he and Paul Allen founded their software company in 1975. There's debate over when the mantra was first articulated--the earliest known instances go back only to the mid-1980s--but this much is undeniable: Microsoft made that audacious goal a reality.
IT World |
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
Associated Press - June 29, 2008 8:15 PM ET REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday,...
KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities |
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Europeans switching off fixed-lines for mobiles, online calling-survey
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) Europeans are increasingly shunning fixed phone lines for mobile phones and online calling, according to a European Union survey.
telecomasia.net |
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NBC offers wide online access for Beijing Olympics
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) 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.
telecomasia.net |
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Music firms tune into new deals
UK music firms see a growing share of revenues from activities other than selling CDs and digital downloads.
BBC News |
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US witnesses death of the SUV
Every morning, just after getting coffee, Mark Fields fires up his laptop to pore over a computer model showing real-time US auto sales figures. On this morning in the middle of May, the man who heads Ford's Americas operations has seen enough.
Otago Daily Times |
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Mechanic loses laptop and cash
KUALA TERENGGANU: A 31-year-old mechanic lost a laptop and some cash when his workshop in Jalan Bukit Kecil was broken into on Saturday. The victim from Kampung Wakaf Beruas here found the back door of the premises forced open and the office ransacked when he arrived there at 9am.
The New Straits Times |
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'Review clamp on sectarianism'
HUMAN rights groups have accused the government of going "too far" in its crackdown on sectarianism. The Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) described a clamp on allegedly sectarian websites and Internet forums as a violation of human rights.
Gulf Daily News |
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Quick And Easy Questions And Answers With Defuddle
The volume of sites and services on the Web doing their thing on the Q&A circuit is quite extensive. There is Yahoo Answers of course. Yedda is another. TickerHound is one which is geared exclusively to financial queries. LinkedIn Answers is a quality forum, too. (Let’s not forget Shouldi, either.) But say you want to [...]
Mashable |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 9th Oct 2006 19:53 UTC
These two really interesting videos ( 1 , 2 ) at YouTube document the beginnings of NeXT Computers. We can assume that these videos were shot either late 1985 or early 1986.
OS News |
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Picture password for PCs and phones
New technology aimed at people who struggle to remember passwords and personal identification numbers is to go on show. New software has been developed for the latest mobile phones and handheld computers which uses pictures instead of letters and numbers for security codes.
Channel 4 |
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Google taps 'Family Guy' guy for Web series
Web search giant Google has enlisted Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to create an original animated series that it will distribute on the Web via its AdSense advertising system, according to a report in the New York Times .
CNET via Yahoo! News |
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The broader picture
At last, local and international TV channels have hit the online scene here.
The Star |
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Virtualisation to drive staff-owned PCs at work
Virtualisation's ability to separate the operating system from hardware will give companies the choice to let staff run their own devices at work, according to analysts — but security remains problematic today.
ZDNet Australia |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 17:02 UTC, submitted by Wilf Codran
"We sat here watching Ben Goodger doing a talk about Firefox at EuroOSCON, it got me thinking about this concept of taking a huge and bloated project (such as Netscape) and cutting it down to the core and releasing a spin-off project such as Firefox.
OS News |
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Features and Case Studies
Kimmo Alkio takes stock of the current state of hackers, attackers, dot-bank domains and mobile phone viruses. Google's Vint Cerf shares his thoughts on the limitless possibilities of the Internet.
ZDNet Australia |
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That’s the way I like it
THE majority of the current generation listen to music through digital means, be it via the ubiquitous compact disc or downloads.
The Star |
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Wapakoneta Youth Group Hopping On the Youtube Train - 6/29/2008
With an endless amount of videos and entertainment the popular internet website Youtube has become commonplace among today’s youth.
WLIO NBC Lima |
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