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Intuit Cuts Jobs
Business and financial software company Intuit has announced plans to cut 7% of its workforce, 575 jobs, as part of a reallocation of resources to key growth areas as part of its Connected Services strategy announced in April.
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McAfee Analyses Increase In Spam Attacks
People would receive more than 70 spam e-mails every day without protecting their computers, a study has found.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Sep 2006 18:53 UTC, submitted by teigetje
"The new Acorn Computers Limited have sneaked the first details of their range of notebooks onto their website. The new Nottingham-based company will be assembling notebooks locally using current Intel and AMD x86 mobile processors.
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by Sean Parsons (2.08) on Fri 16th Sep 2005 01:22 UTC
We've all allowed ourselves to be taken a little off track by a cheesy flamefest, It's time to get back to the interview. Rickford Grant is the author of one of my favorite tech books (Linux For Non-Geeks).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Nov 2006 22:56 UTC
"Often cast as the peacemaker in free software disputes, Bruce Perens is on the warpath . When we caught up with him, he wasn't in a mood to be charitable to Novell.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 21:28 UTC
We've already said quite a few words on this one already, so we are going to leave it at a short announcement today. Today, Monday 30 June 2008, marks the last day of sales for Windows XP , the seven year old operating system a lot of people really don't want to let go.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Oct 2006 14:12 UTC
Recent high-profile security problems with Internet Explorer have done little to dent its market share - or maybe not, according to conflicting reports on web browser use . Web analytics firm OneStat.com reckons that IE's global usage share is 85.85 per cent, an increase of 2.8 per cent since July 2006. Mozilla Firefox's open source browser claims second place with a share of 11.49 per cent, a ...
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Find nearby printers easily
I was reading on10 a few days ago and came across a brilliant post. Xerox have created a driver which plugs straight into Windows, and searches for printers close to your physical location. For the life of me, I can't work out how it does it, but...
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Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web
Adobe Flash Technology Enhances Search Results for Dynamic Content and Rich Internet Applications
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Summer session numbers heat up
Kendra Stokes sat in the grass, kicked off her flip-flops and squinted at her laptop. The sky over the Memorial Union Quad was brilliant blue, and the sun reflected off her computer screen, making it hard to read.
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No 'Street View' for Madison County
The sedan with the Google logo and the mounted periscope cameras was probably trolling area streets in the fall, maybe earlier. The process of capturing thousands of 360-degree images over and over probably took a few weeks, maybe longer. And it almost certainly took several cars, maybe more, over a couple of passes.
Edwardsville Journal |
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Dhaka mulls submarine Internet cable
Our Correspondent DHAKA: Bangladesh is considering to install an alternative submarine cable to take the Internet to the rural areas.
Gulf Times |
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How cyberbullies threaten children
Are laws needed to curb online bullying?
The News & Observer |
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Bag Helps Laptop Pass Air Security
New laptop bags approved by the Transportation Security Administration make it possible to go through X-ray inspection without having to take the laptop out.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Yahoo Makes New Pitch to Shareholders as Stock Drops Further
Yahoo once again made the case to shareholders that its existing directors are better equipped to lead the company forward than an alternate slate proposed by Carl C. Icahn.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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EBay Ordered to Pay $61 Million in Sale of Counterfeit Goods
The luxury giant LVMH for the second time successfully challenged eBay in a French court, arguing that 90 percent of the Louis Vuitton bags and Dior perfumes sold on eBay are fakes.
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP today
REDMOND, Wash. -- 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 to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
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eBay fined for selling fake Louis Vuitton goods online
PARIS: A French court has ordered online auctioneer eBay to pay nearly 40mn euros in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods, in a ruling cheered as a victory for copyright protection.
Gulf Times |
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SUVs face apocalypse
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.
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CARD seeks barn-builders
Close your laptop, turn off the television and take a brief respite from work.
Collinsville Herald |
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Google Now Crawling and Indexing Flash Content
Historically, search engines have been unable to extract content, such as text and links, from Flash (SWF) files. Subsequently, much of the Flash-based content on the web has been unavailable in search results. This situation has been frustrating for web developers, who have tried to come up with workarounds to help get search engines to index and rank their Flash pages. This situation ...
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LVMH wins compensation from eBay over counterfeits
A French court ordered eBay to pay 38.6 million euros (US$61 million) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing the sale of fake merchandise, in a ruling immediately appealed by the online auction website.
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Hollywood studio, Google forge new ground on Web
A major Hollywood studio and online search engine Google unveiled separate moves on Monday to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching customers.
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Yahoo questions how serious Microsoft was on deals
Yahoo on Monday sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy battle with billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist investor had an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the Internet company.
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Hollywood studio, Google forge new ground on Web
A major Hollywood studio and online search engine Google Inc on unveiled separate moves on Monday to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching customers.
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