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HMV profit up 25 percent
LONDON (Reuters) - HMV met forecasts with a 25 percent rise in annual profit, boosted by computer games where it said it was continuing to take market share, but its stock fell on mounting gloom over consumer spending.
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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.
The Hendersonville Times-News |
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Metro Briefing
Alabama's largest Web site — al.com — has grown larger with its announcement of a 17 percent year-to-year rise in visitors.
Mobile Press-Register |
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VistaJet Completes Acquisition of Bombardier Skyjet ...
VistaJet Holding SA (VistaJet) and Bombardier Aerospace today announced that the companies have signed definitive agreements under which, for an undisclosed sum, VistaJet has acquired Skyjet International, a leading business aviation company with offices in London, Hong Kong and Dubai.
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A pessimistic mood is still visible on the Warsaw bourse, as the WIG index fell yesterday to hit a two year low
Not only was this the worst June in the history of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) in terms of losing value, but also the whole of H1 which has experienced slump of 26%. Such losses were not even incurred in the first six months of 2001 during the previous bear market related to the internet bubble.
Warsaw Business Journal |
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UK is the favourite target for Nigerian spam
UK web users are the most likely to be targeted by fraudulent spam emails from Nigeria, according to a survey by McAfee.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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PanGenex (PGXC) Launches Blog at www.ManageCholesterolNaturally.com and Begins Next Phase in Sales and Distribution ...
TAMPA, Fla.----PanGenex Corporation announces the successful launch of a corporate blog at www.ManageCholesterolNaturally.com. The new blog highlights the importance of Omega-3s and Omega-3 fish oils from fatty fish such as sardines and anchovies and that they have been proven to lower triglycerides and reduce the risk of sudden death by cardiac arrest by between 50-70% per the American Heart ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Banks supporting alternative distribution channels
As opening a new branch can cost between 100,000 and 300,000 Euro, banks are looking for cheaper ways to expand services. With the rising competition, banks are looking into alternative channels for distribution, such as Internet banking, brokerage, and opening franchises.
Bucharest Business Week |
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"Microsoft deliberately damaging PC gaming?"
The PC isn't primarily a gaming platform, whereas the 360 doesn't do anything else. It makes perfect sense to bias games sales in favour of the 360 in some way.
EuroGamer |
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Mohave Valley Daily News |
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Microsoft to keep staggering PC and Xbox 360 releases News by
Microsoft Game Studios has said it will keep staggering PC and Xbox 360 releases so that desktop users have a reason to keep buying console titles.
EuroGamer |
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Banks supporting alternative distribution channels
As opening a new branch can cost between 100,000 and 300,000 Euro, banks are looking for cheaper ways to expand services. With the rising competition, banks are looking into alternative channels for distribution, such as Internet banking, brokerage, and opening franchises.
Bucharest Business Week |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Sep 2007 04:14 UTC
Here is an interview with Richard Stallman about a range of free software topics including GPLv3 and comment on the Microsoft patent issue. Stallman has a go at Linus Torvalds even suggesting that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds.
New Mobile Computing |
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Banks supporting alternative distribution channels
As opening a new branch can cost between 100,000 and 300,000 Euro, banks are looking for cheaper ways to expand services. With the rising competition, banks are looking into alternative channels for distribution, such as Internet banking, brokerage, and opening franchises.
Bucharest Business Week |
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Avocent to cut 110 jobs, shift work to Huntsville
Avocent is cutting 110 jobs worldwide as the Huntsville-based company seeks to pare costs and shift its investments to higher-growth areas. The company, which specializes in computer infrastructure management, said the cuts represent about 5 percent of its work force.
The Huntsville Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Jul 2006 17:44 UTC, submitted by BSD_User
Dru Lavigne explains the basics of DesktopBSD . "DesktopBSD provides many features that will allow a complete Unix novice to start using the operating system immediately."
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Recent Original Stories
Dell has confirmed plans to offer Linux pre-installed on systems beyond their existing servers and Precision workstation line.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Sep 2007 20:01 UTC, submitted by highwayman
"It's over. The magic is gone. The dream is dead. The egg has fallen off the wall and no amount of 'sudo' super glue can put his pieces back together again. I'm referring, of course, to the not-so-recent departure of Con Kolivas from the Linux kernel development community.
OS News |
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Desktop supercomputing
Ordinary PCs could be used to solve complex engineering and science problems, 'supercomputer- style', by harnessing the power of graphics processing
the Engineer |
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eBay fined $63m over fake luxury goods
A Paris court has ordered eBay to pay $63 million damages to luxury goods company LVMH for allowing copies of its goods to be sold on the Web auction site.
CNN.com |
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HMV profit up 25 percent
HMV met forecasts with a 25 percent rise in annual profit, boosted by computer games where it said it was continuing to take market share, but its stock fell on mounting gloom over consumer spending.
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Inside the OS X 1.5.4 update
The most significant thing about what’s changed in OS X 10.5.4 may be what hasn’t changed with Monday’s release of the OS X update. The ARDAgent security hole - discovered just a few weeks ago - remains unplugged.
Macworld UK |
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Computer Slowing Down? What to Do About It
(ARA) - Is your computer getting bogged down? Does it often hang on the hour glass for several minutes at a time?
Carteret County News-Times |
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News to know: Apple patches; Adobe; XP-Vista; Yahoo
Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities. David Morgenstern: Apple releases Leopard 10.5.4 update Apple update notice. Robin Harris: Why computers fail Adobe: Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web ...
ZDNet |
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Adobe Makes Flash Searchable - The Holy Grail of Website Usability?
For years the big problem with Flash-based websites is that they could not be properly indexed by search engines. Flash websites have been favored by marketers and advertisers for a long time, because of the ability to create rich, interactive Web experiences. However for most other businesses, particularly those with a lot of information on their website (let's face it, that's everyone ...
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