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Most sales end today for Windows XP
Microsoft is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer manufacturers today, despite protests...
Seattle Times |
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South Africa: Online Memorial Wall Keeps the Departed a Click Away
A SMALL hi-tech company that develops technologies for community use has set up a memorial website so that people can commemorate their loved ones.
AllAfrica.com |
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Device puts steering at the tip of the tongue
A new device that uses a tiny magnet can help disabled people steer a wheelchair or operate a computer using only the tip of the tongue, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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New wave of Internet domain names coming
NEW YORK — The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules last week to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.
The Tennessean |
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RealNetworks opening up DRM-free online music store
After years of encouraging people to rent rather than buy music, RealNetworks today is changing its strategy and opening an online music...
Seattle Times |
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Users rave, Web sites fear ad blockers
Fans see them as wonderful tools, but site owners say they could have a devastating effect on the availability of content on the Web.
Seattle Times |
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High hopes for mini-laptops
The next billion computer users can be found in places like Nguyen Du Secondary School. On a recent spring afternoon, sixth-graders fixed...
Seattle Times |
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The bulletin board may outlast Facebook
It's amazing, this social networking. Total strangers drawn by common interest — or the burden of surplus junk, or the need for that...
Seattle Times |
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Tussle cemented Microsoft duo
In Bill Gates' send-off from full-time work at Microsoft on Friday, Steve Ballmer and Gates reminisced about their friendship, careers and...
Seattle Times |
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Bligh 'happy to negotiate' computers in schools program
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says she is happy to keep negotiating with the Commonwealth over its computers in schools program.
ABC via Yahoo!7 News |
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Patni makes appointment to meet demand in Europe
Mumbai-based mid-sized IT solutions and services firm Patni Computer Systems, announced the appointment of Kimmo Solla, as vice-president and head of Patni's Product Engineering Services (PES) practice for the EMEA region.
Business Standard India |
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The New Sights In Sound
Innovative Designs Take Speakers' Look Beyond Box If so many music players and laptops have style, isn't it about time that speakers got some, too?
Hartford Courant |
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Defining Experience
Researchers Work On Computerized Dictionary Of Sign Language Even though Joan Nash has been using American Sign Language for most of her life and has made a career of teaching deaf and hearing-impaired children, she is sometimes stumped when she encounters a sign she has never seen.
Hartford Courant |
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Cherry Hill's recyclers can earn rewards
Township residents will receive incentives for recycling starting today.
Courier-Post |
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New device adds option for Web movies
The Netflix Player by Roku is the latest effort to bring Internet movies to the masses.
Sun-Sentinel |
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Glouco Library System offers video downloads
The Gloucester County Library System is offering free video downloads on a daily basis.
Courier-Post |
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Raasch: Politics – It's all local, local, local
NEW YORK - With all of its online innovation and hype, the election of 2008 may be less about broadcast politics' last hurrah and more about the normalization of a more potent brand of local politics.
Tucson Citizen |
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RACISTS HACK INTO HIP HOP WEB SITES: AllHipHop, SOHH forced to shut down temporarily last week.
*Hip Hop was under attack in cyberspace late last week by racists who hacked into the sites of AllHipHop.com and SOHH.com and swapped out the usual rap-related articles with fake headlines and racial slurs.
Eurweb |
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"The PS3's hard drive
'will be 60GB big, be completely upgradeable, and support Linux OS ' plus ' will act as a home server and allow users to store various forms of media to be pulled up elsewhere.
New Mobile Computing |
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A footnote to my career
Thanks to the popularity of my column "This is Sparta!-Facebook Prank or Political Statement?" I am now a footnote in Wikipedia. I have written about the Advanced Placement program for more than twenty years, yet this is the first column to create any buzz.
The Washington Examiner |
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911 systems grapple with wireless phone service
Getting Phase II capable takes time, money and coordination with cellular companies.
The Shreveport Times |
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Operators Beware: Teen Mobile Market Running Out of Steam as Subscribers Reach the Saturation Point, According to ...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.----The US 12-17 teen cellular subscribers surpassed 16 million in 2007, according to market research and consultancy firm MultiMedia Intelligence . This is up 12% from 2006.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Mobile advertising hits South Africa
Californian advertising network AdMob plans to capitalise on the local base of cellular internet users.
Independent Online |
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When pickup sales dived, automakers changed plans
DEARBORN, Mich. — 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.
Southeast Missourian |
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Laptops for good grades: offer they can't refuse?
Freshmen at Sunnyside and Desert View high schools will get a big incentive when they begin classes in August - a promise of a laptop computer.
Tucson Citizen |
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