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Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Windows XP
As of today, Microsoft will stop selling copies of Windows XP to retailers and major computer manufacturers. Some computer users protested the move and even went as far to create an online petition, but apparently Microsoft didn't feel the number of protester were large enough to keep Windows XP on shelves. Here at OCC, the acceptance of Vista has grown in recent months, as we rarely see the ...
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Sex diseases shoot up in older Britons
Number of STDs in people over 45 more than doubles in less than decade, report says, blaming Internet dating, erection aids
The Globe and Mail |
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Lovelace hospitals offering wireless Internet
Lovelace Health System has installed a wireless Internet system in all of its hospitals.
BizJournals |
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News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
Hats off to Fedora 9 — May 13, 2008 — The Fedora project today released a new version of its completely free and redistributable Linux distribution.
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"Intrepid Ibex" plucks up courage for alpha release
The next release of Ubuntu Linux began alpha testing today, about three weeks late. Destined to ship in five months as Ubuntu 8.10, "Intrepid Ibex" reportedly folds in changes from the upstream Debian Linux project, and moves to a pre-release version of the Linux 2.6.26 kernel.
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OOXML Projects Bolster Microsoft's Interoperability Efforts
Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats as part...
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Web sites in Lithuania attacked
About 300 Web sites were defaced with Soviet symbols and anti-Lithuanian slogans.
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Microsoft Releases Interop Docs: Is This What Data Portability Looks Like?
Microsoft is announcing this morning the release of thousands of pages of technical documents concerning its most prized software, with the stated goals of facilitating interoperability and data portability. Office, Sharepoint and Exchange are all covered in the documentation, which should make it easier for 3rd parties to write applications that can extract, read, write to and transform ...
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Getting in Shape to Watch the Games: A Five-Week Plan for the Intellectually Curious Mouse Potato
Assuming that people heading to Beijing have already been getting ready mentally, this regimen is for those who want to be informed consumers of Olympic broadcasts.
HuffingtonPost |
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LVMH wins $63M in eBay counterfeit lawsuit
Luxury-goods maker LVMH claimed in the lawsuit that eBay, the world's largest Internet auctioneer, has a heightened responsibility to prevent fraud.
National Jeweler |
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Amplifications and corrections
ImageSpan software can be used by Google developers but is not Google’s content licensing system of choice, as stated in the story “Investers put $11 million into ImageSpan,” [June 23, p. 1].
North Bay Business Journal |
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Google Apps Hacks
stoolpigeon writes "It seems that it wasn't long ago that Google was just a search company. The number of on-line products that fly under the Google moniker, today, is impressive. Google has moved well beyond its office-suite-like applications and excelled with everything from mapping to blogging to 3-D drawing. Google Apps Hacks is a new book from O'Reilly, published in conjunction with their ...
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Honolulu online job ads up in June
Advertised jobs on the Internet fell last month across most of the nation, but such advertising in Honolulu was up nearly 12 percent, according to a report by The Conference Board released Monday.
Pacific Business News |
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure Friday as Microsoft's leader," Jessica Mintz reports for The Associated Press.
Mac Daily News |
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Epicurious.com Hosts Third Annual Wine.Dine.Donate. Dinner Series to Benefit America's Hungry
How can eating a delicious meal prepared by some of the country's top chefs, using local ingredients, lead to more food for the neediest families? Epicurious.com, the award-winning food Web site, created Wine.Dine.Donate. to answer that question.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Congress to look at laptop seizures
Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold wants to restrict search and seizures of laptops and other digital devices at U.S. borders.The Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and property rights, called for laws to protect against this gross violation of privacy after a recent hearing on customs searches of digital technology such as laptop computers, ...
Moldova.org |
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Minnesota Pays $65,000 in Legal Fees to Video Game Industry
JUNE 30, 2008 – Washington, DC – The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that the state of Minnesota paid $65,000 in attorney fees and expenses incurred as a result of their successful challenge to Minnesota's unconstitutional video game law.
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Yahoo meets shareholders to make case for board
Mon, Jun 30, 2008 (11:03 a.m.) Yahoo Inc. began pressing a case to major shareholders Monday that its board and management deserve a chance to prove they made the right move when they rejected a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Yahoo board sharpens attack on Icahn
Yahoo’s board on Monday intensified an attack on Carl Icahn, the activist investor, questioning his investment record and describing his plans for the internet company as ill-defined.
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Wis. Justice Department Settles Web Fraud Lawsuit
MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Department of Justice has settled a lawsuit against a California company accused of fraudulently charging businesses for Internet services.
WISC-TV Madison |
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Paul Thurrot writes about Windows XP SP3:
"If you were looking for any glimpse into the mind of Microsoft, this is it: the company has completely abandoned Windows XP, and it has absolutely no plans to ever ship an XP SP3 . My guess is that Microsoft will do what it did with the final Windows 2000 Service Pack: claim years later that it's no longer needed and just ship a final security patch roll-up.
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MCE Ships Recordable Blu-ray For Mac: $499
MCE Technologies, LLC announced the immediate availability of its 6X Blu-ray recordable drive for PowerMac and Mac Pro on Monday. Unlike previous drives, it is natively recordable with Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later and can record data directly from the Finder with no additional software required
The Mac Observer |
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Mindjet Extends Power of Visual Collaboration
Mindjet Extends Power of Visual Collaboration -- MindManager 7 is now available via subscription over the web so you can collaborate remotely in real-time with all the members of your team.
Intranet Journal |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 25th Jul 2007 22:52 UTC
PureMobile sent us in for a review one of Nokia's newest and most powerful handsets: the E90 . The E90 is a Communicator-class device and very popular among businessmen, but also among system administrators too (one of our friends, sysadmin at Google, is using Nokia's qwerty/wifi devices specifically for SSH access).
OS News |
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DJ DGAP-Adhoc: Changes in the Executive Board of OnVista AG
OnVista AG / Change of Personnel 30.06.2008 Release of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG.
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